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Have you heard the story of the Hell Cats?
In WWI, “Hell Cats” was a name for the first women who joined the U.S. Marine Corps.
They were trailblazers who served with determination and broke barriers before they even had the right to vote.
Now, I’m part of a group of Democratic women veterans who are running to flip red seats blue and win back the House together.
We’re calling ourselves “The Hell Cats” and Politico says we
“could be the answer to Democrats’ tr…

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Fehlende Kontaktmöglichkeit: Deutschland verschläft Sicherheit per security.txt
Nur 1,8 Prozent der deutschen Webseiten bieten eine standardisierte security.txt an. Das BSI warnt vor den Risiken und verweist auf kommende Meldepflichten.

Fehlende Kontaktmöglichkeit: Deutschland verschläft Sicherheit per security.txt
Nur 1,8 Prozent der deutschen Webseiten bieten eine standardisierte security.txt an. Das BSI warnt vor den Risiken und verweist auf kommende Meldepflichten.

TollBit: median AI scrapes were 4x higher on European sites than North American ones, with local news sites hard hit, as demand for non-English content rises (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/european-publishers-are-getti…

Lindsey Graham is getting chauffeured around in cars that cost more than most families make in a year.
-- I drive around town in a SUV that needs to be vacuumed and is full of kids’ sports equipment.
Lindsey Graham is eating fancy dinners with lobbyists and selling out our Democracy to the highest bidder.
-- I cook dinner for my three kids every night.
Lindsey Graham is a career politician and corporate sell out.
-- I’m a pediatrician who got mad enough to run b…

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I will also point out that, if you are accessing a system illegally then you have no recourse if someone exploits vulnerabilities in your scraping infrastructure via illegally exfiltrated data.
I do vulnerability research against AI systems for fun, and I use things like robots.txt as a warning. Fail to respect it at your own peril. You have been warned.

Claude says it can't resolve a FQDN to an IP address, because robots.txt forbids it.
#claudeSonnet5 #hallucination

2026 ist schneller zuende als wir dachten!
https://datacenter.iers.org/data/latestVersion/bulletinC.txt

You Maniacs! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
<twitching ensues>

from my link log —
Thoughts on FORTH programming.
http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/articles/forth.txt
saved 2022-05-29 h…

shoutouts to the person who tried to do sql injection on my flat file, just-a-bunch-of-txt-files-in-a-folder database

shoutouts to the person who tried to do sql injection on my flat file, just-a-bunch-of-txt-files-in-a-folder database

Deutsche Webseiten sind wie ein Haus mit offenem Kellerfenster, drei Warnschildern im Vorgarten und keiner Klingel. Wer Bescheid sagen will, dass da wer reinklettern könnte, steht ratlos davor und ruft in den Briefkasten. 🔔
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11402…

Claude chats showed in Google and Bing search results, despite Anthropic's robots.txt saying not to crawl them, likely because the pages lacked a "noindex" tag (Maddy Varner/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/private-claude-chats-expo…

Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results
The screwup shows how tricky it can be to stop web crawlers from making ostensibly private conversations with AI chatbots entirely too public.

How many entries (A/AAAA, not counting PTR/MX/TXT etc) are in your home DNS zone file?

@DNSresolver
paris.now.weather.dyn.bortzmeyer.fr TXT

¡Nueva edición de las Criptored Cyber Talks en la URJC Campus de Fuenlabrada el 18 septiembre!
https://www.criptored.es/criptoredtalks/
¿Quieres dar una charla? CFP abierto:

OK, a •lot• of replies need this reponse:
Yes, of •course• they will start ignoring robots.txt etc as soon as they think it hurts their business. Of course.
It is important to •force that fight•, rather than just capitulating in advance.

Ich stelle gerade fest, dass es nicht mehr möglich ist, die RFCs als .txt-Datei aufzurufen/runterzuladen.
Aber erfreulicherweise habe ich bei meiner Linux-Distribution die RFC-Pakete (Stand 2023) entdeckt und gleich installiert. Da ist die Text-Form weiterhin enthalten.
Vor vielen Jahren gab es mal die Idee vom „digitalen Radiergummi im Netz“, aber wieder und wieder finde ich diese Idee blöd. Ich verstehe auch nicht, wie man hier im Fediverse eine Auto-Delete-Funktion nutzen kann. Das Netz löst sich sowieso stückweise von selber auf und man sollte froh über alles, was bleibt, sein.

Ein automatisierter Crawler von OpenAI hat für wenige Stunden Kundendaten der Versicherung Universa abgegriffen: Namen, Adressen, Bankverbindungen, Vertragsnummern. Maximilian Sachse zeigt in der FAZ (€), wie löchrig der Umgang mit robots.txt in der Praxis wirklich ist – rechtlich bindend ist das Protokoll nämlich nicht. #KI

Universa: Wie Open AI an deutsche Versichertendaten gelangte
Um Trainingsdaten zu sammeln, durchforsten KI-Anbieter permanent das Netz. Open AI ist jetzt durch eine Sicherheitslücke an sensible Daten deutscher Versicherter gelangt. Das weckt neue Sorgen vor dem Missbrauch von KI.

I have just published a new bug fixes minor release for #Diaphora, version 3.4.1.
https://github.com/joxeankoret/diaphora/releases/tag/3.4.1

Release Diaphora 3.4.1 · joxeankoret/diaphora
This is a minor bug fixes release. MISC: Added requirements.txt BUG: Both quick_ratio and real_quick_ratio were wrongly checking buf1 and buf2, issue #354. BUG: Project specific Python scripts were...

Im Vortrag "Umarme deinen Feind: Datenbestände von Kulturerbeeinrichtungen für AI-Algorithmen öffnen, ohne die Kontrolle zu verlieren" sagt @… , das System der robots.txt sei tot und für die aktuellen Herausforderungen im Hinblick auf massenhafte Abfragen durch KI-Bots gescheitert.
Das stimmt wohl leider, und der einzige Grund dafür i…

@… Yeah I see he updated 15.0 as well so I should probably upgrade… again. 😆
https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/ChangeLog.txt…

If I was as bad at my job as Lindsey Graham is – I would be fired and children would die.
I’m Dr. Annie Andrews – a mom of 3, a pediatrician, and I’m running for US Senate in South Carolina to send far-right Trump apologist Lindsey Graham packing.
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@DNSresolver
montreal.now.weather.dyn.bortzmeyer.fr TXT

Looking into why amazon[.]com was randomly failing SPF checks, and it turns out the apex for that domain contains so many junk TXT records that it was occasionally being truncated.

@… Are any hosting providers in your hall of fame located in North America? Or do I have to click each one to try to figure it out? https://internet.nl/halloffame/hosters/

Going with meta noindex for now. My thinking is that this actively tells Google to yank already-crawled content from their index, whereas they might take a robots.txt entry to mean “do not update, but keep showing last fetched.”

Stephen Miller is the biggest piece of sh*t in this country.
This is Robert Garcia,
the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee.
Donald Trump’s Administration is committing crimes on a weekly basis.
And I’m not afraid to call them out for it.
During an interview on Pod Save America,
I called out Stephen Miller for the way he dehumanizes immigrants.
If Democrats take back the majority this November,
and I become the ranking member on the H…

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@…
montreal.now.weather.dyn.bortzmeyer.fr TXT

Quick strategy discussion, for those who understand Google indexing and SEO:
If I want to yank a web site out of Google’s now-fully-extractive search, should I (1) disallow googlebot in robots.txt or (2) add `<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex">` to all the page headers?
The goal here is not just to remove my contributions to the commons from Google’s results, but to •make Google aware• that sites are pulling consent. What will best do that?
2/2

@DNSresolver
montreal.now.weather.dyn.bortzmeyer.fr TXT

It’s Arizona Senator Mark Kelly.
AZ-06 is a dogfight we can’t afford to lose. That’s why I’m stepping up
to help
Jo Mendoza and her team launch Mendoza Victory fund
so she has the resources she needs to win.
I’m not exaggerating when I say this is a tight race.
Polling shows this race as a dead-heat again, but I know Jo is ready to step up and win in a race this close.
She’s a retired U.S. Marine Corps Drill Instructor who served 3 combat tours in…

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So I wanted to unbundle #uChardet from #cChardet #Python package.
It didn't build against system uchardet 0.0.8. So I've checked, and it turns out cchardet is using some old patched fork of uchardet. Ugh.
Fortunately, upstream added the "missing" function too, with a different API (that's not really a problem), but they didn't make a release in 4 years. Ugh.
I could at least replace the old patched uchardet with upstream uchardet, right? Except now I'm getting test failures over misdetected encodings. 0.0.8 works fine there. Though the particular test doesn't look very realistic (note all the repetitions):
#Gentoo