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1. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Sep-2025 00:38:54 EDT Hubert Chathi

   I've caught some AI crawlers aggressively crawling some of my sites, disregarding the robots.txt. Some of the sites are of little or no interest to any real person. So I've deployed iocaine (iocaine.madhouse-project.org/) on them, in a "always spew nonsense" mode, rather than the suggested "generate nonsense if it looks like a bot" mode. But I am not unfair. I've included a robots.txt there so that any bot that respects it will be spared from ingesting it.

   Unfortunately, I'm abandoning my self-hosted git repositories, but I didn't have much on there of interest any more. Most of what was there was old, and was also in my GitLab account.

   • Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Sep-2025 18:07:01 EDT Hubert Chathi

     in reply to

     As fun as it is to taunt the bot with random garbage, the idiots trying to crawl my git repo have pulled 2GB in less than 4 hours. Which should fit within my monthly limit for my VPS, but is just a stupid amount of data. So for now, I've set the hostname for my git repo to point to 127.0.0.1 instead. With any luck, the bot will try to DoS itself. But at the very least it will stop bothering me for a while. I might turn it back to iocaine at some point. I've left iocaine on the other sites.

     By the way, from the access logs, it hadn't even started crawling the garbage links that iocaine generated. It was only crawling links that it had before.

     In other news, you'd think that Google would understand about respecting robots.txt. Googlebot seems to do so, but GoogleOther does not.

2. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Sep-2025 09:47:11 EDT Hubert Chathi
   First, we had "Erlang: The Movie". Then, "Python: The Documentary". What will we get next? "JavaScript: The Parody"? "PHP: The Horror Movie"?
3. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 14:32:52 EDT Hubert Chathi
   Ugh. Why would you make a language where "val" and "var" are two different keywords?
4. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 22:56:00 EDT Hubert Chathi

   "Kitchener non-profit to head 'deeply affordable' housing project in Guelph" Rent is expected to be $500/mo. It's only 13 units, but 13 is better than 0. We need more of this type of thing.

   www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchen…

   • Bob Jonkman repeated this.
5. Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin@status.hackerposse.com)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jun-2025 08:39:32 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

   • New Hampshire
   9th annual !NH #Beer & #Bacon #Festival, this Saturday June 7 in #Merrimack: "celebrating greasy, fatty, savory bacon alongside the endless possibilities of incredible craft brews" & raising funds for the High Hopes Foundation to benefit chronically ill children: https://beerfests.com/events/nh-bacon-beer-festival #food
6. Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin@status.hackerposse.com)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jun-2025 08:29:08 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

   • New Hampshire
   Boards & Brews: a #boardgaming café in #Manchester, !NH — boasting the largest library of #boardgames in New England w/ almost 2000 games to play https://www.boardsandbrewsnh.com/
7. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Friday, 16-May-2025 09:47:08 EDT Hubert Chathi
   Ontarians: Let Doug Ford know that we don't like his attempts to get around environmental protections and indigenous rights ontarionature.good.do/bill-5-s…
   • Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Friday, 16-May-2025 09:50:57 EDT Hubert Chathi
     You can also submit a comment on the bill directly at ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-0391 (deadline: tomorrow!)
8. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Wednesday, 07-May-2025 19:48:22 EDT Brian Ó

   I've been meaning to put up a bee hotel for a while now, so I printed one. We'll see.

   #nature #insects #bees #pollinators #3dprinting
9. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 20:08:04 EDT Brian Ó

   I found #pedantle #1077 in 34 guesses!
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   https://pedantle.certitudes.org/
10. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Sunday, 27-Apr-2025 16:30:51 EDT Brian Ó

    I would have expected to get this one a lot sooner since it aligns with my interests.

    #pedantle I found #pedantle #1075 in 93 guesses!
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    https://pedantle.certitudes.org/
11. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 18:32:35 EDT Brian Ó

    Yikes. This one took too long.

    I found #pedantle #1073 in 124 guesses!
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    https://pedantle.certitudes.org/
12. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 11:11:19 EDT Brian Ó

    Galway, Ireland

    #photo #dogs #mywork #ireland
13. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 19:22:05 EDT Brian Ó

    #WhenTaken #421 (23.04.2025)

    I scored 839/1000🏅

    1️⃣📍56.2 km - 🗓️0 yrs - 🥇197/200
    2️⃣📍697 km - 🗓️3 yrs - 🥇176/200
    3️⃣📍2.0K km - 🗓️12 yrs - 🥈129/200
    4️⃣📍2.2K km - 🗓️2 yrs - 🥈146/200
    5️⃣📍144 km - 🗓️3 yrs - 🥇191/200

    https://whentaken.com
14. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 18:42:03 EDT Brian Ó

    Connemara, Ireland

    #photo #nature #mywork #ireland
15. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Apr-2025 17:46:36 EDT Brian Ó

    #WhenTaken #420 (22.04.2025)

    I scored 818/1000🏅

    1️⃣📍885 km - 🗓️0 yrs - 🥈173/200
    2️⃣📍2.6K km - 🗓️15 yrs - 🥉114/200
    3️⃣📍924 km - 🗓️11 yrs - 🥈154/200
    4️⃣📍572 km - 🗓️3 yrs - 🥇180/200
    5️⃣📍13.3 km - 🗓️2 yrs - 🥇197/200

    https://whentaken.com
16. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Apr-2025 16:11:58 EDT Brian Ó

    I found #pedantle #1070 in 36 guesses!
    🟩🟩🟧🟧🟧🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥
    https://pedantle.certitudes.org/
17. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Apr-2025 09:52:01 EDT Brian Ó

    Dún Aonghasa, Ireland

    #photo #nature #mywork #ireland
18. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 19:22:54 EDT Brian Ó

    I found #pedantle #1069 in 21 guesses!
    🟩🟩🟩🟧🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥
    https://pedantle.certitudes.org/
19. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 15:11:47 EDT Brian Ó

    Derryclare Lough, Ireland

    #photo #nature #mywork #ireland
20. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 18:47:45 EDT Brian Ó

    I found #pedantle #1068 in 10 guesses!
    🟩🟧🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥
    https://pedantle.certitudes.org/