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The Darkvisitors plugin now supports the new tracking feature. This way you can watch crawlers and bots on your site.
In recent days, I've noticed a surge in posts on my timeline complaining about bots and crawlers, wondering how to block them. A good opportunity to bring attention to the latest update of the Darkvisitors plugin.
I published this small plugin a few months ago. It delivers a robots.txt that can be used for various purposes:
ReadAs I'm writing these lines, an update from iTerm just popped up. iTerm is a terminal I use on my Mac. The big announcement in the update: We've now integrated ChatGPT!
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Subscribe Learn moreA few days ago, we got the news that Slack is now providing all data to OpenAI: chats, files, everything... It's creepy, and while I'm still writing plugins to block AI bots, the ground is being pulled out from under us almost everywhere.
Will we even be able to resist in the future, ensuring that everything we enter and store digitally doesn't become a training dataset?
ReadThis post is the thousandth post. Then again, that's a lie. But then again, it's not.
Of course, it's a bit silly to write that this is the thousandth post. Because it's not true. There probably are many more, perhaps fewer. It's complicated.
The reason is that many posts are no longer available, but a few can still be found in the web archive. Additionally, there’s the fact that I have an archive of the elbrauschen podcast available online here, which does not belong to this website.
It's a mess, but that doesn't matter. As I already wrote here, I think it's good to define milestones. It's a nice way to pat yourself on the back.
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