Problem

The Missouri Attorney General’s office maintained a page (html backup) for reporting “Transgender concerns” after the state passed legislation banning gender-affirming care.

Solution

An overzealous noise generator which probably got an IP filtered very quickly. Still, the form was taken down, so I’ll call that a victory.

Contribution

Localize the junk address data to Missouri by:

• finding a sufficiently large dataset of gps-valid missouri addresses and
• writing an original algorithm utilizing my 1337 programming skills:

• also a quick and dirty script for feasible missouri phone #s

Commentary

I was the first contributor! It kinda took off. The captcha bypass was pretty funny after they implemented it.

It’s weird to see a project complete its goal almost immediately. Hesitant to attribute the success to this script. I have a half-written test suite and a second branch to-be-tested for the other form to “report undocumented workers” but there is a very intimidating warning telling me not to submit junk data on that page, so I might just publish what I have eventually and then let some activist botnet deal with it.

I grabbed the 3-billion parameter bloomz model from huggingface to locally host LLM text generation to waste more resources, but we won before I even finished configuring it. I almost wish this lasted longer?