#security

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Miasma - a Poison Pill for Scrapers

Miasma is a new project in Rust that creates a maze of twisty passages, all alike, for AI scrapers. It's got documentation to protect "good" scrapers, and creates nonsense for "bad" scrapers, but the problem isn't as simple as "punish AI for existing."

Kotauth: a Self-hosted Authentication Platform

Anderson Fariña tagged a release candidate of Kotauth, a "docker-oriented full authentication service inspired by keycloak." It could fulfill a very real gap: authorization and authentication services tend to be very low-ceiling until they're not. If you've had to wrestle with Keycloak or are dreading the Auth0 renewal quote, this project might be very interesting.

ByteCode.news UI design concerns

I've been trying to think about access control and data access patterns for ByteCode.news. One of the initial designs was based around having pluggable UIs. The actual app is a set of REST endpoints...