No idea how Mistborn can be adapted into one movie. That’s a lot to fit into a couple of hours, even it just depicts the first book. I expected a TV series with 8-10 episodes per book! Maybe two movies per book? Eventually you’re going to run into The Hobbit problems.
at MTA Subway - 42nd St/Times Square/Port Authority Bus Terminal (A/C/E/N/Q/R/W/S/1/2/3/7)
I am trying out a method to reduce bot attempts on forms like on my contact page based on fluffy’s example.
On select pages, I now check for a specific cookie. If it is not found or is more than 24 hours old, then the browser redirects to the “Sentience Check” page. That page is a minimal form with a button to indicate “Yes, I am a hooman.” Submitting the form sets the expected cookie and redirects back to the original page. If Javascript is enabled, it will submit the form as soon as the page loads, so most hooman visitors will only see the intermediate page for a second and should be able to continue without issues.
Also at fluffy’s suggestion, the sentience check page returns a response code of 429: Too Many Requests with a header that indicates: retry after one hour. I have no high expectation of the bots respecting that, but maybe the lack of successful response codes will cause some to back off.
The last thing I did was add a noindex meta tag on the page, so search engines should ignore it.
If you’d like to view the page, I recommend turning Javascript off temporarily and then visiting: gregorlove.com/sentience-check/.
I am interested to see how much this will reduce bot attempts on the contact and public sign-in pages. I have had CSRF and honeypot form field protections on both for quite a while, but of course I still see a lot of attempts on them.
Depending how this goes, I might expand its usage to the “send a webmention” form and explore using it to block LLM bots.
I did consider using “I am a meat popsicle” on the button, but not everyone might get The Fifth Element reference.
Hosting a dinner tomorrow. Just put an 8 pound bone-in pork shoulder on the Big Green Egg with my trusty (old) Stoker BBQ controller. I shot the URL to the monitoring page over to my OpenClaw agent and they’re gonna keep an eye on it while I sleep. My first AI monitored BBQ!
That was such a fun race! So happy for Kimi, and my boy Charles had the most impressive drive. George has an objectively faster car, and still got his ass beat for 20 laps. #F1v
This is one of the better examples of how much luck influences an #F1 race. And it’s not over yet. I have a feeling there may be another safety car…
Ollie! No!! 💔 #F1
Okay, I’m no longer appending permalinks to my syndicated microblog posts. Been meaning to get around to it, and today is the day thanks to OpenClaw 🦞🤖
Finally home after long week of travel. Buffalo NY, Detroit, Washington DC… I’m exhausted.