CyberFrog
that arell.ai website which was cloning mastodon users for AI training is running via github pages, anyone know how I can find the repository and username associated with a github pages website? there is no links in the HTML but the server IP addresses all belong to github, and the favicon 404 page is served by github (with GH branding)
Jul 19, 2025 at 7:24pmWeb
Show threadCyberFrogJul 19, 2025
I found the repository blonging to this org, the website is owned by a company in the state of Delaware, USA, named "Arell Inc", the github contributors are celeste-arell and cmenders (who uses GPG Key ID: B5690EEEBB952194 for commits)

just in case anyone wants to dig further

EDIT: this GPG key belongs to github and exists because the user created changes via the web interface at github.com, it DOES NOT belong to the user, just to avoid any confusion here
Show threadCyberFrogJul 19, 2025
oh also this organization is only one month old on github, so this is all very new, the GPG key for cmenders was verified with GH Jul 18, 2025

EDIT: this GPG key belongs to github and exists because the user created changes via the web interface at github.com, it DOES NOT belong to the user, just to avoid any confusion here
Show threadCyberFrogJul 19, 2025
cmenders has an account at https://github.com/cmenders

they appear to be a stanford student studying computer science, probably just dumb kids, they cloned a learning repository from stanford's CS153 intro course
cmenders - Overview

cmenders has one repository available. Follow their code on GitHub.

GitHub
Show threadCyberFrogJul 19, 2025
their SSH keys can be found via github here https://github.com/cmenders.keys

reproduced for historical reasons, and attached to the post as a TXT file note
Show threadCyberFrogJul 19, 2025
I could probably go further but I think it would be mean to the random university students behind this to bother them more, hopefully they understand not to fuck with people and clone their accounts for AI training like this next time
Show threadJohn Wq Jul 19, 2025

@froge Searching github for arell.ai turned up a likely candidate:

https://github.com/arell-ai/arell-ai.github.io

Show threadCyberFrogJul 19, 2025

@wq yeah seems likely, I guessed the URL https://arell.ai/README.md which contains

# arell-ai.github.ioso likely this is the correct repo, thanks

Show threadCyberFrogJul 19, 2025
@wq this text does match the README contained in that repo, it is an exact match for several files including the /terms/ directory which is not linked on the front page at all, 99% sure this is the repo
Show threadCyberFrogJul 19, 2025

@wq

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.lol, lmao

Show threadJohn Wq Jul 19, 2025
@froge Ooh, that was a good thought. I never considered checking for a ("hidden") README.md for GH-Pages-hosted sites.
Show threadCyberFrogJul 19, 2025
@wq yeah, I know that GH pages serves everything inside the repo, and most repos have a README file :)