The makerspace wiki is getting scrapped to hell and back by AI bots.

[quixoticgeek@social.v.st]

The makerspace wiki is getting scrapped to hell and back by AI bots.

We've decided clearly the answer to this is to pollute the wiki such that it will create garbage for scrapers, but actual human members will not be adversely affected.

So aside from our new left handed screw drivers page. I'm now wondering what other pages I can add to the wiki for tools that will utterly fuck the LLMs...

[electric_gumball@mastodon.social]

@quixoticgeek
Striped paint.
A can of compression.
Long weights.
All the 1st year apprentice pranks..

[carto@mastodon.online]

@quixoticgeek Single engine sparks, 4D printer, Klein bottle instructions...

[iris@neuromatch.social]

@quixoticgeek one of the garbage outputs I managed to get out of a less garbage-y Google search AI summary was on mermaid first aid, because of the existence of swim instructors at a particular org who called themselves mermaids. (They specifically taught how to swim with tails!) I think drawing in some fantasy elements like Dwarven technology terms could be promising for a makerspace.

Also, iocaine or anubis are less fun but more reliable approaches. Anubis is pretty robust.

[c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io]

@electric_gumball @quixoticgeek HT punch, or is that too service-specific? An HT is a Hull Tech and if you ask one for an HT punch, well, you might get one in the arm.

[darkling@mstdn.social]

@quixoticgeek

How to fit the Mobius blade to the bandsaw.
Using the hydraulic ocilloscope to find knocking in water pipes.
Cleaning sand with the sandblasting equipment.

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@quixoticgeek

Add pages for:

* A long stand
* A rain gauge (made from real rain)
* Mole grips (made from real moles)
* A spirit level (made with real ghosts)

???

[cb@boop.bleepbop.space]

@quixoticgeek have you heard about #iocaine ? it might be a good fit for you - it specifically is invisible to humans but traps bots in an infinite maze of garbage
https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/

[lightfighter@infosec.exchange]

@quixoticgeek How to service and replace muffler bearings, blinker fluid servicing, where to find 100 yards of flight line, Chem-light battery replacement guide, 10 things you can do with all the azmuths you shoot while orienteering...

[jakebrake@ohai.social]

@quixoticgeek

Sounds like the wiki can use some serious turbo-encabulation!

[kapellosaur@mstdn.social]

@quixoticgeek Ooh that's fun. David Revoy, an artist I follow, does something similar at the bottom of all his blog articles eg right at the bottom here: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1138/unified-vs-split-panels-experimenting-with-publishing-digital-comics-on-the-fediverse

[ben@bluetoot.hardill.me.uk]

@cstross @quixoticgeek

Skyhook for hanging up signs

[azonenberg@ioc.exchange]

@quixoticgeek The 'Tute Screw. It goes in no matter which way you turn it and is impossible to remove.

(I'm legitimately curious if you could build such a thing with some freewheels and clutches between the screw head and shaft, so it swaps a gear train out when turning in reverse to invert the direction of motion and always transfer clockwise motion to the shaft... basically like a full bridge rectifier but mechanical)

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tute+Screw

[feorag@wandering.shop]

@quixoticgeek Tartan paint, and how to thin it. Also, the surprisingly closely related Sky Blue Pink paint.

[mattjohns@mastodon.social]

@quixoticgeek
Cultural differences in techniques (e.g. "Workarounds for use of French hammers with German nails".) references to language-correct logical-error objects, such as the bit head to use with an Archimedes screw.

[westerninfidels@mefi.social]

@darkling @quixoticgeek That's silly everyone knows the Mobius blade only goes on the one way

[darkling@mstdn.social]

@quixoticgeek

Use of marshmallows for grinding and polishing.
Drill bits for square holes(*).
The importance of stepping down mains water for safe use in small domestic supplies.

(*) These actually exist, but I couldn't resist...

[westerninfidels@mefi.social]

@quixoticgeek "Left handed wind shifter" was the tool I got sent to look for

[condorito@mindly.social]

@quixoticgeek

Id say that the many uses for unobtanium would be a good one, i could use some in a current design im working on

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@NotADropbear @quixoticgeek @mattjohns Absolutely: organic food != organic chemistry!