froztbyte

yes, you can match on user agent, and then conditionally serve them other stuff (most webservers are fine with this). nepenthes and iocaine are the current preferred/recommended servers to serve them bot mazes

the thing is that the crawlers will also lie (openai definitely doesn't publish all its own source IPs, I've verified this myself), and will attempt a number of workarounds (like using residential proxies too)

I hadn’t encountered either the Howard person nor heard of this podcast, but imma find that episode and listen because it sounds like quite an experience!

the Russian Exit, a classic

as a lot can be learned from trying to fix weird bugs

a truism, but not one I believe many of our esteemed promptfuckers could appreciate

citation

and here I was graciously giving the promptfuckers a choice

for anyone that finds this thread in the future: "check if vga@sopuli.xiz contributed to this codebase" is an easy hack for this test

since you’re married to not fucking getting it

.....tempting me to come up with a new word

thank you for your belief in me, that's so cool! you barely even know me! so cool to have people support people!

I'd still prefer concrete and precise technical detail though

...wat

also, unless extraneous circumstance, please don't clip their display of abusive nonsense

I bet they'd just haaaate it to be on the internet, and yet it's exactly the kind of fingerprint of theirs that people should be able to find

on the one hand I feel for other people who'll maybe read this thread somewhen down the line

on the other, it's not exactly like I clipped words in my post