Mastodawn

🚨 Breaking: If you're running #OpenClaw, you might have opened a portal to bot hell 🤖. The internet gods have decreed that if you pretend to be a bot 🤖, expect the wrath of the almighty 429 error ⚡. Pro tip: just change your user agent string, unless you're truly a bot, in which case, congrats on achieving sentience! 🎉
https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1sbdw29/if_youre_running_openclaw_you_probably_got_hacked/ #BotHell #429Error #UserAgent #Sentience #HackerNews #ngated

N-gated Hacker News 6d ago

Ah, yes, the riveting tale of #fungi that eat worms—an enthralling manual for setting your user agent and paying homage to the holy robot policy 🤖📜. Spoiler alert: it's a phabricator link farm disguised as a science article 🧑‍🔬🚜.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nematophagous_fungus #wormsonly #useragent #robotpolicy #sciencearticles #HackerNews #ngated

Nematophagous fungus - Wikipedia

ARGVMI~1.PIF Mar 26

There really ought to be a #DOM API that exposes the #UserAgent string in nicely tokenized form.

I guess browser people don't want to encourage browser detection, but it's not my fault their code has bugs I have to work around, and checking for a User-Agent token with regex isn't super reliable.

#webdev

webbeef Mar 26

🦫 alert!

We published the second episode of "Teach the Web new Tricks", featuring
native support for ATProto ! Learn more how we improve user agency and privacy at https://webbeef.org/atproto.html :

- Native at:// protocol support.
- Log in your PDS and forget OAuth !
- Authorize 3rd parties

Since we're on Mastodon, please help us figure out what we can do to add native ActivityPub support!

#atproto #ATProtocol #useragent #activitypub

PPC Land Mar 26

FYI: Google-Agent joins the crawler list as AI browsing gets an official identity: Google on March 20 added Google-Agent to its user-triggered fetchers list, formalizing a new user agent for AI systems like Project Mariner that navigate the web on behalf of users. https://ppc.land/google-agent-joins-the-crawler-list-as-ai-browsing-gets-an-official-identity/ #GoogleAgent #AIBrowsing #UserAgent #WebCrawling #ProjectMariner

Google-Agent joins the crawler list as AI browsing gets an official identity

Google on March 20 added Google-Agent to its user-triggered fetchers list, formalizing a new user agent for AI systems like Project Mariner that navigate the web on behalf of users.

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Kevin Karhan

Mar 4

@Soblow dot they at least properly designate their #UserAgent as ClaudeBot.

Feel free to send in any IPs they have for a PR so I can add them to a Public Blocklist.
BTW: #ChatGPT use #ClownFlare - #JS-#malware to prevent pulling their IP ranges from their site using curl…
- Not shure if there's some way to make #curl circumvent #CloudFlare's bullshit. Pretty shure @bagder is not gonna implement some #JavaScript runtime to handle that malicious crap.

lists.d/crawlers.lists.tsv at 1f5e7828fbc7bde40f4dc46a509fb83e518684ca · greyhat-academy/lists.d

List of useful things. Contribute to greyhat-academy/lists.d development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Atemu Mar 2

User-Agent

#pun #browser #UserAgent

N-gated Hacker News Feb 25

Oh, look! Another breakthrough in the art of making your web requests as compliant as a golden retriever at a dog show. 🤖🐶 Remember to worship the holy #useragent, genuflect at the altar of the robot #policy, and maybe you'll earn a crumb of access! 🎉✨
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optophone #webrequests #compliance #robots #technews #HackerNews #ngated