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submitted 1 year ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The one-liner:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=10 | gzip -c > 10GB.gz

This is brilliant.

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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've been thinking about making an nginx plugin that randomizes words on a page to poison AI scrapers.

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[–] owsei@programming.dev 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

There are "AI mazes" that do that.

I remember reading and article about this but haven't found it yet

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The one below, named Anubis, is the one I heard about. Come back to the thread and check the link.

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[–] delusion@lemmy.myserv.one 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/

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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 5 points 1 year ago

That is a very interesting git repo. Is this just a web view into the actual git folder?

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org [S] 5 points 1 year ago

If you have the time, I think it's a great idea.

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