Dear fedi, I am thinking of building-in some LLM scraper bot traps into my website.

One of the ideas is links down near the bottom of each blogpost or page that are hidden in CSS (so that no human would click them) that when clicked immediately put the client IP address on naughty list.

I want to understand better how CSS-hidden links work for #Blind visitors and others using screen readers or other assistive technologies.

The last thing I'd want is to inconvenience any human! 

OMG people if the illustration is AI-generated don't propagate that shit even if you agree with the message

you are making yourself part of the problem

Brits can sleep safely tonight, after the heroic work of the Metropolitan Police. The Reverend Sue Parfitt, 83, a retired priest, was arrested in Parliament Square for holding a sign which read:

“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”

Under British law, this now puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist. The courts may impose a prison sentence of up to 14 years, to protect the public against the existential threat posed by this very dangerous woman.

To whomever praises #Claude #LLM:

ClaudeBot has made 20k requests to bugs.gentoo.org today. 15k of them were repeatedly fetching robots.txt. That surely is a sign of great code quality.

#AI

Adobe is now processing all your PDFs in the cloud, by default. The setting to “Enable generative AI features in Acrobat” was on, and I didn’t know it until I opened a document and Adobe asked me if I wanted a document summary. It’s annoying to have to click “No,” so I opened settings to disable the prompt.

THE PROBLEM
I sign Non-Disclosure Agreements for many of my clients. Adobe is a potential leak of protected information. I don’t know what Adobe does with this information. I don’t know what they store, or for how long. I don’t know what country (or countries) the data is stored in. I don’t know what LLMs are trained with this data. And I don’t need to know. What I need to know is that they won’t use default opt-in as a legal excuse to wiretap my information.

I recommend that you check your Adobe settings on all devices, for all Adobe accounts.

#CallMeIfYouNeedMe #FIFONetworks

#cybersecurity

so i accidentally did work on a KiCad layout from two different machines and ended up having to merge the two commits. to a PCB layout. but you know what? it *somehow* just worked!

i was bracing myself for a horrible cleanup job, but somehow everything just worked. i'm impressed.