Ist irgendwas im #Internet verhasster als #Captchas? Müssen ja was bringen, denkt man sich, sonst wären wir sie doch längst los. Denkste. #Bots lösen sie schneller und liegen öfter richtig:
Fast immer schneller, immer korrekter: Bots schlagen Menschen bei Captchas
Eigentlich wollte eine Forschungsgruppe ermitteln, wie lange Menschen für Captchas brauchen. Herausgekommen ist, dass Bots damit besser klarkommen.
I'm afraid it's time to look into having save/restore for my #Machiavelli#Fediverse#bot. If you're wondering why I've done everything to do without so far, the answer is (de)serialization.
Checked in the code which drives individual National Weather Service graphics and posts them to Mastodon here. You can adapt this bot to monitor any single image on the Internet and automatically post when it changes. #Mastodon#bot#softwarehttps://github.com/ai6yr/wxstory-single
Would you be interested in a bot account from Boiling Steam (separate account) that regularly tells you when there are good games on sale (discount) that happen to work very well on Linux / Steam Deck? #boilingsteam#bot#linux#linuxgaming#games#sales
Yesterday I tried to setup my own version of OCRbot@fedi.lynnesbian.space, which does #OCR on pictures attached to posts on the #Fediverse, which I find an intriguing idea. During the process to set this up I was lazy and asked #ChatGPT to guide me through the whole process, which is fairly easy to be honest, but I an playing around with this #AI for fun.
I wanted to run the OCR #bot on my own #Friendica server, because I like to run on my own tech too.
So I asked Chatty to guide me and it worked well, I logged in with the Python bot and wanted to start it and got an API error, it was only then when I told ChatGPT that I am actually trying this with Frienidca and that the API might have its limits.
I then looked up the API documentation of the Mastodon API that Friendica implemented and asked ChatGPT if there is any essential parts missing that are needed to run the bot.
ChatGPT 'read' the documentation of both, the bot and the Mastodon API of Friendica and explained:
"Since Friendica doesn't support the Mastodon streaming API, the OCRbot, which relies on these endpoints, may not be compatible with Friendica without significant modifications to either the bot or the Friendica server."
Just wanted to write a bit about this experience with Friendica, the bot and ChatGPT.
Maybe I will setup a #Pleroma instance for this, a single user instance for me and the bot, maybe better a Mastodon instance?
New (test) #disaster#bot at @disaster_bot -- currently just posting the PDF for the #FEMA Daily Operations briefing once a day (in theory...) -- alt text from the PDF, too. New "PDF-to-Mastodon" code I am writing, so report any bugs. I intend to wire any "disaster status" type PDFs/pages here, ie. UN, EU, other gov agencies still stuck in PDF land. cc @BakerRL75@geekaren
Someone appears to have implemented an interesting public service bot that may demonstrate a potential attack.
Overnight, someone opened an account on my server to advertise a gambling website. I suspend these account types every morning.
But, this morning I saw a report about the account, which surprised me, since the offending account hadn't posted anything. Why would anyone have seen it?
The report was placed by a bot, @mastodon.internal.
If this is a bot that finds scam/spam accounts, it is helpful. But, I didn't know bots could open reports and this is what bothers me.
Can a bot open countless reports as a DOS attack against a server?