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Written by Aaron on 2025-01-14 at 22:58

• KICKS DOOR DOWN*

Hey everyone! Hate AI web crawlers? Have some spare CPU cycles you want to use to punish them?

Meet Nepenthes!

https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes

This little guy runs nicely on low power hardware, and generates an infinite maze of what appear to be static files with no exit links. Web crawlers will merrily hop right in and just .... get stuck in there! Optional randomized delay to waste their time and conserve your CPU, optional markovbabble to poison large language models.

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Written by Teknikal_Domain on 2025-01-15 at 03:48

@aaron should call it the ashtray...

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Written by Aaron on 2025-01-15 at 03:51

@tek_dmn I am proud of my work and named it after beautiful living things that help me clean up my kitchen when I've forgotten to take out the trash for too long and get a drain fly infestation.

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Written by hanno on 2025-01-15 at 08:52

@aaron

I think that is a reference to the "Ashtray Maze" in the video game Control. It is a pretty climactic scene in the game, so it would be a positive reference.

@tek_dmn

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Written by Teknikal_Domain on 2025-01-15 at 10:59

@hanno @aaron that's exactly what it is!

Is Control actually that unknown?

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Toot

Written by Aaron on 2025-01-15 at 14:44

@tek_dmn It's definitely unknown to me. Excluding the once every few years OpenTTD kick I haven't really been a gamer in decades; I think the last thing I really completed was the first Max Payne in 2001. @hanno

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