nostr:npub1ygrf5pf0ahkyyyrngv3twymqcz7pav6ssymrhdj90luscm9llszq56cg6z That might be a default tbh but it is effective and terse!

I recently got into using my web server configs to redirect known bad user-agent strings and paths (like wp-login.php when I’m not using Wordpress) to a CGI script that prints about a gig of text.

As I’m typing this though, I’m finally working on a more robust CAPTCHA solution. I found a module that takes a number and returns a unicode Roman numeral, so I’m thinkin “What number does this Roman numeral represent?” kinda challenge (idk how to phrase that more intelligently rn)

nostr:npub1ygrf5pf0ahkyyyrngv3twymqcz7pav6ssymrhdj90luscm9llszq56cg6z At no point did I actually think to look at their robots.txt… Honestly this is a good ledger of ‘known bad crawlers’ lol.

I found out years ago that (at that time anyways) they had a bunch of regular expressions saved off somewhere to match known spammy/URL shortner URLs so I grabbed those to use to filter my guestbook spam lol