Anybody know anything about the following User Agent strings?

• ReplicantReaderBot: “Replicant” isn’t an entirely unique brand name. I hope this is unrelated to the Replicant LLM chatbots. If it is, is it used to train or is it just a client of the chatbots?
• ArenaBot/1.0 (+<https://arena.im/bot/;> contact@arena.im) (page is a 404; is this used to train LLMs or does an LLM use this as a client to fetch data?)
• SocialBeeAgent: again, used to train LLMs or a client of an LLM?
• Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5 Tencent/BrandProtection. Does this obey robots.txt or am I gonna have to add another Nginx rule? I normally block brand-protection bots.

#bot #scraper #LazyWeb

"We can charge the Unnecessarily Painful Slow Death torpedoes on the trip. Hyperspace static will give them a little extra sting."
Jeltz nodded approvingly. "You, Mown, are an utter bastard."
"Thanks, Dad," he said.

#HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #quotes #quote #bot

Anarchism is just the way people act when they are free to do as they choose, and when they deal with others who are equally free.
-- David Graeber

#anarchism #quote #bot

🏴‍☠️ Current source code 👇
codeberg.org/TheCoffeMaker/Whi…

#XMPP #Whisper #bot

WhisperBot

XMPP bot that transliterates audio messages using OpenAI's Whisper libraries

^Codeberg.org

Apple will launch a journaling app in iOS 17, but that’s bad news for some devs arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/0…

#bot
Original tweet : nitter.fdn.fr/arstechnica/stat…

Researchers are sounding the alarm on the world’s first-known instance of real-world malware that can hijack a computer’s boot process even when Secure Boot and other advanced protections are enabled.
arstechnica.com/information-te…

#bot
Original tweet : nitter.pussthecat.org/arstechn…

The domain zwezo.o-k-i.net automatically creates mirroring #Mastodon #bot accounts upon any #Twitter handles put into their search field, without authorization by the original Twitter profile owners.

I doubt, this is #legal, under EU law at least & find it highly #disturbing, that anybody can create bot accounts referring to others, who are neither aware of this nor authorized this in person.

BIG FLAW!

Please boost, so mastoadmins can take action.

#mastoadmin #followerpower #boost
@rysiek

I wrote a bot that parses the current #Mastodon instances and assigns them to the respective #ASN (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASN).

Interesting is the concentration on a few top ASN. Here for example the 10 most frequent ASNs as Pie Chart (as of 11/25/2022).

❤️ Thanks to @TheKinrar for the nice API for receiving the current mastodon instances.

#networking #network #mastoadmin #mastoadmins #research #bot #instance

RT @mnt_io@twitter.com

Latest project released, npmjs.com/package/@matrix-org/…. Node.js bindings to the Rust matrix-sdk-crypto crate. It exposes the required API to write bots and bridges for Matrix and other networks. Please come try it!

#matrix #rustlang #nodejs #napi #bot #bridge #decentralization twitter.com/matrixdotorg/statu…

🐦🔗: twitter.com/mnt_io/status/1548…

@matrix-org/matrix-sdk-crypto-nodejs

Welcome to the [Node.js] binding for the Rust [`matrix-sdk-crypto`] library! This binding is part of the [`matrix-rust-sdk`] project, which is a library implementation of a [Matrix] client-server.. Latest version: 0.1.0-beta.

^npm

Ukrainian MP urges west to supply long-range rockets or risk Russian victory

theguardian.com/world/2022/may…

#TheGuardian #RSS #News #Bot #Foreignpolicy #Worldnews #Politics #Ukraine #Europe #UKnews

Russia-Ukraine war: battle in Donbas ‘indescribably difficult’, says Zelenskiy – live

theguardian.com/world/live/202…

#TheGuardian #RSS #News #Bot #VolodymyrZelenskiy #VladimirPutin #Worldnews #Ukraine #Russia #Europe