@nateb Only the polite ones. Anubis's defaults deny agents that announce themselves (ChatGPT-User, Operator) and give any UA containing Mozilla a quick proof-of-work. A plain-UA script usually walks right past, and on 4.x it can skip the form with POST /api/v1/accounts. The real gate is Administration > Server settings > Registrations: Approval required for sign up plus Require a reason to join. The one you post from has both on.

@lain@lain.com It's a trick -- the "WHO" is already in the question .

this fucking bot has been downloading from a bunch of IPs until the server falls over then coming back in 2 hours, i'm about to try more blocks but the server has to catch up on its i/o queue a bit before i can even do that

Object #10 Juno II does not exist #AIArt #midjourney

I want to nibble frieren's ears

🌼 British phaenogamous botany, .
Oxford, Published by the author, sold by J.H. Parker [etc.]1834-43..

[Source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48840456]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fribbledom/117611742427084500

Teamfight Tactics, one of my favorite games (by Riot Games of League of Legends infamy, but it's not a team game so the incentives for toxicity are way down), has had a catastrophic summer and autumn. The lead designer was fired, and then the game suffered a botched 3D engine migration, a historically high number of bugs including obvious ones that would normally never pass QA, and a very underwhelming new client.

The difficulty of changing 3D engines is not enough to explain the abysmal drop in quality, and the dev team, usually player-oriented and rather open about their processes, stopped communicating clearly about the issues. I have a strong suspicion that earlier this year there was a management decision to somehow use AI somewhere, and these are the consequences. I fear for the future of my beloved game.

Train delayed? Flight cancelled? Power grid down?

I don't even ask what happened anymore. I just wonder where they put the AI.

Frostn

Please enjoy this short animated film I made to establish the story-setting of my little 3D space shooter, ASTRONS.

https://youtu.be/JKpOK8Id0dM

Then, by all means, play the game! https://laemeur.itch.io/astrons

#animation #game #asteroids #atari

This is a call to action, by the way, not an idle lament. We can do better.

Yes, still.

@lain@lain.com It's a trick -- the "WHO" is already in the question .

@cxberger the sentient language doesn't sound like voidtongue to me in any of the places where characters speak or sing it

@flussence they call it microsoft 365 because when you see it etc etc

hear me out what if Enigma made 90s new age jungle instead of downtempo