When working with Masto and BlueSky on a text based terminal it's kind of obvious not a lot of people use alt-text (to which I'm also very guilty of)
[IMAGE: No description] does make following a thread a non-starter.
Followed shortly after by my shitty code that truncates alt-text because of course : [image: An oil painting showing a large, pale yellow mask with a spiky, sun...
I've been running hot with go-away (https://git.gammaspectra.live/git/go-away) for a while now and I'm really starting to like the results.
I had to put a few massively violent rules for scrapers trying to smash my blog posts, which is doing the job at blocking fake users when the signaled bots find themselves locked at the door.
It's also very good at more fine rules to allow certain federated legitimate needs pass through.
I'm far from done at tweaking, however, the results of reducing non-genuine traffic from thousands an hour to 100 legitimate users every few days is a great show to see that I'm not wasting my resources on Sam's Plagiarism Machine
I keep on forgetting to disconnect from the modem, must remember to free up the line, internet is no longer unlimited
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I did a little change over to the old laptop and stuck it on the server shelf so I can VNC in. The downside is that I don't get the clack clack satisfaction of the keyboard, at the same time the mouse pad is broken from age, so I guess I improved the experience
I say this from experience, this video is a bad take because dudes like this will smash you in to another demention of existence and there will be zero regrets
I'm on a vibes day, phone somewhere else in the house, notifications shut down. Just existing in bed to relax
Instead of sleeping like a normal person, I had a crisis that I forgot to setup an appropriate UA for the projects and scripts I've been working on over the last week
Because of LLMs and the enshittification graced upon us by search engines (no I’m not paying for Kagi don’t try to pitch it), I’ve spent an hour not finding a news story I know that exists yet somehow being constantly fed Anna Delveney’s story because « it’s a close enough »
I feel like I got hit by a bus, instead I just got hit by the price of the bus
