what?

Can you post it somewhere that isn’t catbox? They block random people from their domain.

They will see a long string of base64 that takes a quarter of a second longer to load then a regular page. If it’s important to you, you can make the base64 string invisible and add some HTML to make it appear as a normal 404 page.

Critics debating Nepenthes’ utility on Hacker News suggested that most AI crawlers could easily avoid tarpits like Nepenthes, with one commenter describing the attack as being “very crawler 101.” Aaron said that was his “favorite comment” because if tarpits are considered elementary attacks, he has “2 million lines of access log that show that Google didn’t graduate.”

You assume incorrectly that bots, scrapers and drive-by malware attacks are made by competent people. I have years worth of stories I’m not going to post on the open internet that says otherwise. I also have months worth of access logs that say otherwise. AhrefsBot in particular is completely unable to deal with anything you throw at it. It spent weeks in a tarpit I made very similar to the one in the article, looping links, until I finally put it out of its misery.

idk what to tell you.

ls -lha
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data  14M Jan 14 23:05 error-hole.php

I use Apache2 and PHP, here’s what I did:

in .htaccess you can set ErrorDocument 404 /error-hole.php https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/custom-error.html

in error-hole.php,

<?php
http_response_code(200);
?>
<p>*paste a string that is 13 megabytes long*</p>

For the string, I used dd to generate 13 MBs of noise from /dev/urandom and then I converted that to base64 so it would paste into error-hole.php

You should probably hide some invisible dead links around your website as honeypots for the bots that normal users can’t see.

I can save you a lot of trouble, actually. You don’t need all of this!

Just make a custom 404 page that returns 13 MBs of junk along with status code 200 and has a few dead links (404, so it just goes to itself)

There are no bots on the domain I do this on anymore. From swarming to zero in under a week.

You don’t need tar pits or heuristics or anything else fancy. Just make your website so expensive to crawl that it’s not worth it so they filter themselves.

Baseball cap and sunglasses shields me pretty well, to be honest.

The misunderstanding seems to be between software and hardware. It is good to reboot Windows and some other operating systems because they accumulate errors and quirks. It is not good to powercycle your hardware, though. It increases wear.

I’m not on an OS that needs to be rebooted, I count my uptime in months.

I don’t want you to pick up a new anxiety about rebooting your PC, though. Components are built to last, generally speaking. Even if you powercycled your PC 5 times daily you’d most likely upgrade your hardware long before it wears out.

Powercycling is not healthy lol

To me, the appeal is that my workflow depends less on my computer and more on my ability to connect to a server that handles everything for me. Workstation, laptop or phone? Doesn’t matter, just connect to the right IPs and get working. Linux is, of course, the holy grail of interoperability, and I’m all Linux. With a little bit of set up, I can make a lot of things talk to each other seamlessly. SMB on Windows is a nightmare but on Linux if I set up SSH keys then I can just open a file manager and type sftp://<hostname> and now I’m browsing that machine as if it was a local folder. I can do a lot of work from my genuinely-trash laptop because it’s the server that’s doing the heavy lifting

TL;DR -

My workflow becomes “client agnostic” and I value that a lot

Why?

Glad I didn’t switch, I guess

How is Matrix enshittifying? I’m not paying attention to it because I can’t selfhost it so I wouldn’t know.

My list in order of desperation, lowest first

• Soulseek
• Public torrent trackers
• Private torrent trackers
• Spotify rippers (they come and go like waves on a beach)
• yt-dlp youtube rip (please god have mercy on my bit-crushed soul)

I know where you’re getting that from but I think it’s a stretch.

First, fourth and fifth are shot by hand. Second is on a tripod, see attached image. Third was resting the camera on a wall.

The lens I use has a really good and aggressive stabilizer https://www.amazon.de/-/en/gp/product/B003YUBTIU

I like to think I’ve mastered the long-range close-up; it’s kinda my thing. A 70-300 mm lens is my default and it spends more time at 300 than 70. I started on a fixed 500mm cassegrain-style manual lens 8 years ago and I just fell in love with it.

• https://p.drkt.eu/2024/Givskud_July_25/_MG_5773.jpg
• https://p.drkt.eu/2024/_MG_5250.jpg
• https://p.drkt.eu/2023/IMG_2954.jpg
• https://p.drkt.eu/2023/IMG_3314.jpg
• https://p.drkt.eu/2023/IMG_2341.jpg

1200 Locations on the Map

look at map

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I’m sure there’s ways to do it, but I can’t do it and it’s not something I’m keen to learn given that I’ve already kind of solved the problem :p