Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

zoom feature: overlay that shows you the total hourly wage (or equivalent for salaried jobs) of everyone in the meeting multiplied by how long the meeting has gone on

Trying hard not to be that pushy tech person, but also herding people towards the fedi.

Now is a great time to talk about your server. When I say "I help run a social media server" I worry it sounds like "I'm in charge of the CIA!" that *is* how it can sound.

No one has any idea what's going on out here in the free and open air.

Sabot in the Age of AI

A list of offensive methods & strategic approaches for facilitating (algorithmic) sabotage, framework disruption, & intentional data poisoning.

Selected Tools & Frameworks

Nepenthes — Endless crawler trap.
Babble — Standalone LLM crawler tarpit.
Markov Tarpit — Traps AI bots & feeds them useless data.
Sarracenia — Loops bots into fake pages.
Antlion — Express.js middleware for infinite sinkholes.
Infinite Slop — Garbage web page generator.
Poison the WeLLMs — Reverse proxy for LLM confusion.
Marko — Dissociated Press CLI/lib.
django-llm-poison — Serves poisoned content to crawlers.
konterfAI — Model-poisoner for LLMs.
Quixotic — Static site LLM confuser.
toxicAInt — Replaces text with slop.
Iocaine — Defense against unwanted scrapers.
Caddy Defender — Blocks bots & pollutes training data.
GzipChunk — Inserts compressed junk into live gzip streams.
Chunchunmaru — Go-based web scraper tarpit.
IED — ZIP bombs for web scrapers.
FakeJPEG — Endless fake JPEGs.
Pyison — AI crawler tarpit.
HalluciGen — WP plugin that scrambles content.
Spigot — Hierarchical Markov page generator.

This is a living resource — regularly updated to reflect the shifting terrain of collective techno-disobedience and algorithmic Luddism.

...I am waiting for a country to make the open proclamation of "We do not care if you are Trans, or a Furry, you are safe here" ...and them very shortly becoming the most secure country in terms of their computer systems.

And having the absolute best quality services.

Waiting for database migrations to finish always feels like this:

Yes. Even with tons of backups