Having just started playing with web #bots

It is super hostile environment for automation.
Between robots.txt, JavaScript and dynamically generated content and air #tarpits its quite apparent why the Web 4.0 (?) / folks want to pour gasoline on the web and burn it down.

"Machines not welcome" on the front door.
Ah well, back to headless browsers, and stochastic "humans" for me 😁

It should also be said that I'm a big admirer of the @[email protected] preparators' signage and museum grounds warning cones (which alas, I didn't see until it was too late) #TarPits
Bummed that @[email protected] is temporarily closing for renovations, but excited to visit when it re-opens! I've loved this place since I was a kid, so it was an utter thrill to visit in 2017 as a science writer and get a glimpse of the excavation work (and almost lose a shoe in a patch of tar) #TarPits

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yvo2relyp4xledk3gjctl5gi/post/3mmhg5wwz4s26

🦌 Small but speedy! The Dwarf Pronghorn once darted across Ice Age Los Angeles, a tiny relative of today’s pronghorns that called the region home thousands of years ago.

Fossils found at the #TarPits help us uncover how these pint-sized runners thrived in a world of giants.

La Brea Tar Pits & Museum‬
‪@tarpits.org‬ #globalmuseum #IceAge #mammals

Wow, someone dragged a dinosaur telephone switch from the tar pits 🦖 of obsolescence, and now they’re penning their epic saga. Must be nice to have a spouse and sibling willing to indulge a mid-life crisis involving ancient telecom relics 📞.
http://kev009.com/wp/2024/07/Lucent-5ESS-Rescue/ #dinosaurtelephone #midlifecrisis #telecomrelics #technostalgia #tarpits #HackerNews #ngated
Lucent 7 R/E 5ESS Telephone Switch Rescue

I am still recovering from the fairly challenging logistical project of saving a Lucent 5ESS. This is a whale of a project and I am still in a state of disbelief that I have gotten to this point. Thanks to my wife, brother, and a few friends for their help …

Kev009.com

Growing up as a paleontology nerd, I read a lot about the La Brea tar pits. But until I ran into a random paper a few months ago, I don't think I've ever read anything about the many other tar pits around the Americas and the world, many of which are equals to La Brea in scientific importance. I certainly never heard the story of Pitch Lake in Trinidad, the tar pit that paved America.

This was a fun one to write.

#TarPits #Prehistory #NowThatsADireWolf

https://daily.jstor.org/la-brea-and-beyond/

La Brea and Beyond - JSTOR Daily

Pits and seeps full of tar and asphalt offer new insights into old ecosystems and cultures.

JSTOR Daily
@algernon I've seen #Iocaine and #Nephentes referred to as #TarPits.

Vignette - Ou comment empêcher le web de devenir un Panoptique
Avec Vignette, vous ne créez pas seulement des sites web, vous protégez votre contenu en ligne mais aussi internet et même la démocratie, rien que ça !

OpenAI et Anthropic ont ouverts la boite de pandore en ignorant les règles établies qui empêche les...
➡️ https://vignette.eco/actus/_g4s5v/fr
#tarpits #aipoisoning #democratie #artisticintelligence #internet #CNIL #souverainetenumerique #digitalgarden #webrevival #RGPD #IA #AI

Vignette - Ou comment empêcher le web de devenir un Panoptique

Avec Vignette, vous ne créez pas seulement des sites web, vous protégez votre contenu en ligne mais aussi internet et même la démocratie, rien que ça...

Digital Tar Pits - How to Fight Back Against A.I.

YouTube

Tarpitting AI scrapers stealing your data & bandwidth.
Good idea, but instead of feeding them nonsense garbage Markov chains, find the AI’s own outputs & feed it that, ouroborous-style. #AI #tarpits #scrapers

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.

Ars Technica