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Once again blocked from using a website I've used regularly for years because of "unusual activity" from "your IP". After passing a captcha, no less.

Somehow bot-detecting algorithms have been degrading over time.

This is a troubling trend because people who aren't using the anointed access points of the internet struggle more and more to connect and interact. Large entities like CloudFlare choke off more and more avenues of access in the name of "security", enforcing digital checkpoints without any accountability to anyone.

#dev #tech #web #bot #DarkPattern #security #infosec #cybersecurity #checkpoint

Via https://thecatapi.com
#Bot #CatsOfMastodon #Catstodon #Cat #Caturday #AltText

Open question for all the #bot builders: which is the better platform for building bots, Mastodon or Bluesky? They both have good APIs and there are some great bots on both platforms (e.g. @256 here, Retro Computing bot on Bluesky). But for bot devs, which is the better platform in your opinion — and why? For context on why bots can be useful and fun, see this interview I did with @darius a couple of years ago: https://thenewstack.io/why-developers-should-experiment-with-the-fediverse/

Via https://thecatapi.com
#Bot #CatsOfMastodon #Catstodon #Cat #AltText

Sorry, last one, I promise.

Built another @botkit bot, if you tag @tmnt w/ some text it will generate a TMNT logo for you using an API on a @glitchdotcom site:
https://tmnt-logo.glitch.me/.

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Glitch Logo Generator Source Code

I went to the movies last night to watch Companion. What can I say ?! Don't fu*k with your fu*kbot !! Highly recommended !! 🤖 ❤️

#Companion #Movie #Bot #Android #Friday #Cinema

At their very simplest, anarchist beliefs turn on to two elementary assumptions. The first is that human beings are, under ordinary circumstances, about as reasonable and decent as they are allowed to be, and can organize themselves and their communities without needing to be told how. The second is that power corrupts.
-- David Graeber

#anarchism #quote #bot

I was annoyed that the swiss government closed down their mastodon server, so I've made @swissgov that gets the RSS feed from https://news.admin.ch and posts it. It's all English
#switzerland #swiss #politics #news #government #bot

Oh no, not again.

#HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #quotes #quote #bot

#PSA
#Mastodon, nor the #Fediverse in general will never ask you to "verify" with payment details, especially not from a non-moderator account. If you get a message asking you to verify, it is a #Scam #Bot, and you should block and #report it to #moderation.

We are currently getting a wave of #spam from bots like this. Again, do not even click the link, just block and report.

- TechHub Moderation