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Big thanks to #Sharkey team for patching quickly so we could get back up and running before I had to go to bed!

We're up and running on the new 2025.4.7 version now.

"I dyed my hair sage because Missy Higgins told me so"

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Hey fedi-frienderines - Ada and I are getting back into EVE online and are starting up our wormhole corp. We were wondering if there's any EVE players of yore out there that were thinking about playing again (or any new EVE players looking for a nice corp to join and learn the ropes) who'd like to come along? o7

Feliz Navidad a todas nuestras amigas/amigos/amiges de Blåhaj.zone!

A Happy Christmas time to all our friends here at Blåhaj.zone!

Just saying, I made bangers and mash for dinner tonight and added flour, salt and a bit of tomato sauce.

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This post is directly addressing the recently disclosed activity by Meta AI. That they disregarded crawler instructions and just took what they wanted, because they "can".

When uploading your content, and in your profile, you have the ability to specify whether you want that data indexed, crawlable or used for AI training.

We specify your preferences by returning headers in the HTML pages that list what the content can be used for. These protocols are well defined, and establish a trust between you, the content producers, and them, the content consumers. It was designed to allow you the right to specify what they can do with your data.

Now because one big company decides they they want to disregard well established protocols for determining what content they are allowed to spider and just take whatever they damn well please, we're left in this situation where I can't let them take anything.

Blåhaj.zone has taken the step of implementing ACTIVE anti-bot / scraper counter-measures on our CDN servers to curb all detected scraping by known bots/crawlers. When our CDN detects activity directly for any hosted content from a bot or scraper, it will now block access to that request via a 403 PROHIBITED response.

I'm sorry that I have had to take this action, and remove your ability to specify a preference for your content to be indexable, but the protection of those that do not want to have their content indexed must take priority.

Frankly I am strongly disappointed that it comes to pass like this, that big companies resort to stealing data. It's not my data. It's your data. Data that you entrusted to us, and I let them steal it from our pockets. I feel angry and misled, and I'm sorry.

OMG, I love the Veronicas sisters. They're so cool, and Brissie girls too! ❤️

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So, post editing has been in use for about 12 hours now, and several users have been using with success and without the sky falling, so I think it is reasonably safe to say that it's probably a good idea to get more users testing it now.

Please feel free to give it a try if you have any posts that need to be edited.

RE: https://blahaj.zone/notes/9ed0ta8rh1

Blåhaj zone's software has been updated and had the latest Calckey 13.2 beta merged into our fork.

As part of this code update, the post threading has been changed to the new code designed by @freeplay@bz.pawdev.me, with the Blåhaj appearance settings retrofitted into it.

This results in a change to the look and feel of the threaded notes page, however colorized borders, backgrounds, compact mode, auto show content warnings and auto expand posts still work, they just look a little differently.

We should also have the ability to use more third-party mobile and desktop apps thanks to the new Mastodon compatibility APIs.

I hope you enjoy the new features.

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Please let us know if you notice any glitches via the Talk to the Admins channel.

Hi fellow Blåhajers,

I've been working on the issues with the CW/NSFW/read more/image/video/audio buttons not working properly, and navigating users to another page.

As of now, I believe that I have caught all edge cases and you can now recklessly expand and contract, show and hide things in the existing pages without an extra navigation step.

Let me know if you notice any cases that I have missed!

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Blåhaj zone instance has been upgraded!

I've merged in the updates from Calckey 13.1.4 into our instance, as well as added new configuration settings to control what types of notifications appear in your sidebar/menu.

The new settings are in Settings/Appearance right at the bottom. You can control which sections you do and do not want to see the unread indicator for separately.

Hi everyone, we're getting a few new accounts and migrations at the moment which is hitting the server CPU a bit and causing page loading lag.

I'll be restarting the server and upgrading it so we can deal with the influx without affecting existing users.

Restart planned for about 20 minutes at 04:00 UTC (14:00 AEST. 15:00 AEDT)