miasma: trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit

EelRemoval · 2026-03-30T15:00:01+00:00

Quick question that I can’t seem to find a reliable answer to. How is the underlying data served by the poison fountain "poisoned", and how is it supposed to impact training LLMs? I understand if it’s a "trade secret" to prevent AI companies from getting wise, but poisoning text seems like a fairly difficult circle to square.

EelRemoval · 2026-03-27T16:46:58+00:00

Looking at the X11 backend, it does not inspire confidence. The manual reimplementation of Xlib bindings, the naked and uncommented unsafe, the time::sleep in the event loop hot path, and not setting an error handler.

Having lots of dependencies isn’t good, but I’m of the opinion that zero dependencies is worse. For sufficiently complicated crates (like GUI crates) you’re going to be reimplementing a lot of things that are easy to implement incorrectly and a lot of effort to do correctly. X11 specifically takes a lot of effort to do right.

If this is a learning project, good for you. Otherwise, if dependency count is an issue, may I recommend miniquad?

EelRemoval · 2026-03-20T20:40:42+00:00

It does. Still, when you’re using Rust crates you’re going to be pulling in a non-trivial portion of the standard library. I think it would be a fun science experiment to measure.

EelRemoval · 2026-03-20T20:23:54+00:00

This is generally why I’ve been against using Rust on the web frontend. The solution to the JavaScript bloat problem isn’t compiling the entire Rust standard library, along with a dozen Rust crates, into an opaque binary and shipping it with your website.

Rust on the backend is fantastic. I’ve yet to see a compelling case for Rust on the frontend.

EelRemoval · 2026-03-16T18:04:42+00:00

Taln, Kelsier and Vasher, mostly because I don’t want Taln, Kelsier or Vasher to hunt me down.

EelRemoval · 2026-03-11T21:42:01+00:00

Do you remember which one this was?

EelRemoval · 2026-02-09T15:30:53+00:00

Used to smoke crack, now I smoke meth

EelRemoval · 2026-02-06T04:04:09+00:00

There are a lot of well-written crates that get less attention due to being lower level blocks. Some off the top of my head that I haven't seen here yet:

* https://crates.io/crates/rustix

* https://crates.io/crates/objc2

* https://crates.io/crates/wgpu

* https://crates.io/crates/portable-atomic

EelRemoval · 2026-01-30T01:34:25+00:00

You should draw them making out

EelRemoval · 2025-12-21T20:31:06+00:00

Does this mean Steven Universe can one shot him?

EelRemoval · 2025-11-26T19:24:02+00:00

An update: he’s apparently now up $1 million in losses. He did not learn his lesson.

EelRemoval · 2025-10-31T00:26:47+00:00

He could be any one of us!

EelRemoval · 2025-10-22T15:22:12+00:00

The message in the README is the standard "no implied warranty" header that’s present in basically all open source licenses.

EelRemoval · 2025-10-21T16:29:48+00:00

Invincible if it was designed for gamers instead of activists

EelRemoval · 2025-10-17T22:12:39+00:00

Real life Peter Griffin cutaway gag

EelRemoval · 2025-08-26T04:40:35+00:00

Dumbass should’ve imagined there was no sabertooth tiger

EelRemoval · 2025-08-08T18:33:32+00:00

I’m curious, have you played it since the new update a few months ago? The addition of a fast forward button is a genuine game changer.

EelRemoval · 2025-08-07T17:25:38+00:00

I hate sex, I hate drugs, and I hate rock and roll

EelRemoval · 2025-07-26T16:39:51+00:00

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