Rivaclaw 🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ @renbymon@computerfairi.es

Update sent out by me just now via the Indie Compliance Newsletter - which you can also sign up to in case of interest https://buttondown.com/indie-and-community-web-compliance-/archive/3-lunchtime-qa-with-ofcom-12-feb-2025/

please share with anyone who might find this useful!

If you run a low-risk community site in the UK and have questions about your duties under the Online Safety Act, lunchtime Q&A session with Ofcom on 12 Feb - sign up here https://lu.ma/qijpvfnl

If you had the bingo square "Renby changes her name to Riveclaw" you may now mark it.

In seriousness being a werewolf woman is such a strong and powerful feeling in me that I am fully embracing it, and Renby is now an OC that I play from time to time (and am still VERY fond of!) 💜🐺🏳️‍⚧️

VRChat doodles for 1/22/2025

This seems like very important things for USians to know.

Looking forward to receiving chat's gremlin energy and breaking TTS again!

Starting up in about 2 hours, we got a crystal star to collect
https://www.twitch.tv/flinty_paws

This is Genesys:
For years it was possibly the most sophisticated radio playout system, & the backbone of UK commercial radio.
Until recently, Absolute, Capital, Heart, Smooth & Radio X used it thanks to its ability to play different audio at once in different places!
Its design was… idiosyncratic.

To all of those people running, moderating, and maintaining #Mastodon, #Pixelfed, and other #Fediverse instances, no matter how small:

Thank you

Looking down the river valley. Doesn't look that cold!

the UK Online Safety Act covers GitHub Issues, Pull Requests, and Discussions too.

I'm suddenly wondering how Microsoft intend to moderate the world of OSS discussions, because that has always been rife with "harmful but not illegal" content such as sexism, racism, transphobia, ableism. I'm not even sure it's a stretch to say that some individuals have groomed vulnerable people on there.

the OSA is incredibly far reaching.

The enshittification of Spotify continues.

You signed up to pay $10 a month to hear your favourite artists.

After taking your money, they began slowly substituting real artists with muzak.

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-ugly-truth-about-spotify-is-finally?r=1licy&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

#music #Spotify #enshittification

Playing about with Procreate as a way to distract myself from... *gestures broadly*
And yeah, living with Garr is kinda like this :P

#furry #furryart

i like to go back and watch alice the rat's auction vids. if you ever feel like you're not a "real artist" because you draw furry art just keep in mind that people bought these on public television all the way back in 1992

https://youtu.be/oRIyw-pJkUk

Sabot in the Age of AI

Here is a curated list of strategies, offensive methods, and tactics for (algorithmic) sabotage, disruption, and deliberate poisoning.

🔻 iocaine
The deadliest AI poison—iocaine generates garbage rather than slowing crawlers.
🔗 https://git.madhouse-project.org/algernon/iocaine

🔻 Nepenthes
A tarpit designed to catch web crawlers, especially those scraping for LLMs. It devours anything that gets too close. @aaron
🔗 https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/

🔻 Quixotic
Feeds fake content to bots and robots.txt-ignoring #LLM scrapers. @marcusb
🔗 https://marcusb.org/hacks/quixotic.html

🔻 Poison the WeLLMs
A reverse-proxy that serves diassociated-press style reimaginings of your upstream pages, poisoning any LLMs that scrape your content. @mike
🔗 https://codeberg.org/MikeCoats/poison-the-wellms

🔻 Django-llm-poison
A django app that poisons content when served to #AI bots. @Fingel
🔗 https://github.com/Fingel/django-llm-poison

🔻 KonterfAI
A model poisoner that generates nonsense content to degenerate LLMs.
🔗 https://codeberg.org/konterfai/konterfai

Call the Nurse, I escaped & went out on a Tuesday. Shouldn’t be allowed

Came home with a Jukebox that ran on CDi Discs

Never even knew they made such a thing

I’m assuming it’s a Standard, BGM, Green Book, 8 Band, CD Interactive Disc

With the RMJ Unit converting Button Presses to Track/Title.

I shall investigate & report back.