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Notices by Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)

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

    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.

    In conversation about a day ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  2. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Sep-2025 00:38:54 EDT Hubert Chathi 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.

    In conversation about 2 days ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  3. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Sep-2025 09:47:11 EDT Hubert Chathi Hubert Chathi
    First, we had "Erlang: The Movie". Then, "Python: The Documentary". What will we get next? "JavaScript: The Parody"? "PHP: The Horror Movie"?
    In conversation about 8 days ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  4. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 14:32:52 EDT Hubert Chathi Hubert Chathi
    Ugh. Why would you make a language where "val" and "var" are two different keywords?
    In conversation about 9 days ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  5. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 22:56:00 EDT Hubert Chathi 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…

    In conversation about 2 months ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  6. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Friday, 16-May-2025 09:50:57 EDT Hubert Chathi Hubert Chathi
    • Hubert Chathi
    You can also submit a comment on the bill directly at ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-0391 (deadline: tomorrow!)
    In conversation about 4 months ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  7. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Friday, 16-May-2025 09:47:08 EDT Hubert Chathi 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…
    In conversation about 4 months ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  8. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 21:40:13 EST Hubert Chathi Hubert Chathi
    Trump says he's creating a task force to "halt all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government"? Maybe he can start by getting rid of all those who were targeting Bishop Budde.
    In conversation about 7 months ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  9. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 13:07:12 EST Hubert Chathi Hubert Chathi
    Wiarton Willie has predicted an early spring. I'm not really interested in whether we have 6 more weeks of winter or not. The important question is whether or not we have four more years of Doug Ford. Fingers crossed for "not".
    In conversation about 8 months ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  10. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 10:10:25 EST Hubert Chathi Hubert Chathi
    If you're have to make people pay even more to disable a "feature", maybe you shouldn't have developed the it in the first place.
    In conversation about 8 months ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  11. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 09:49:14 EST Hubert Chathi Hubert Chathi
    RIP Jimmy Carter
    In conversation about 9 months ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  12. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 16:59:46 EST Hubert Chathi Hubert Chathi
    I went to a couple stores today. One of them was still advertising Black Friday prices (over a week after Black Friday). The other was already into their Boxing Day sale. It is very confusing.
    In conversation about 9 months ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  13. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 22:30:15 EST Hubert Chathi Hubert Chathi

    Good to see some cities trying out free transit, and having good results with it.

    www.cbc.ca/news/business/free-…

    In conversation about 10 months ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  14. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 09:20:42 EST Hubert Chathi Hubert Chathi
    So many people voted against their own interests. Have y'all not been paying any attention to what's been going on?
    In conversation about 11 months ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  15. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 23:03:02 EDT Hubert Chathi Hubert Chathi
    in reply to
    • Hubert Chathi
    I've decided that when my bribery cheque comes in, I'll be sending it to the Green Party of Ontario. If Doug thinks that he can buy my vote, I'm going to use that money against him instead.
    In conversation about 11 months ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  16. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 11:19:49 EDT Hubert Chathi Hubert Chathi

    So, the Ontario Conservatives are resorting to bribery now.

    www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto…

    In conversation about a year ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  17. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 19:27:13 EDT Hubert Chathi Hubert Chathi
    Just found out (via infosec.exchange/@racheltobac/…) about LinkedIn automatically opting-in (almost) everyone to having their data used to train generative AI. Checked my settings to turn it off, and I also noticed that they had opted me into having my data used for "social, economic, and workplace research".
    In conversation about a year ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  18. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 10:35:23 EDT Hubert Chathi Hubert Chathi
    Wow, Poilievre. First he calls on the NDP to withdraw from their agreement with the Liberals, and then when they actually do it, he calls it a "stunt". I don't know why anyone would trust him.
    In conversation about a year ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  19. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2024 11:20:37 EDT Hubert Chathi Hubert Chathi

    Huh. I didn't expect "If you try out a streaming service for a month, the company is allowed to kill your wife" to be in my news feed today.

    www.newsday.com/long-island/na…

    In conversation about a year ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  20. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 22:35:43 EDT Hubert Chathi Hubert Chathi
    Good grief. Poilievre complains about a tax hike that "that disproportionately affects wealthy people and big corporations." And then says that a government led by him will reduce "the share of taxes paid by the poor and middle class". So he's saying that the rich shouldn't pay a greater share of taxes, but also, he wants the not-so-rich to pay a smaller share of taxes?
    I don't understand how anyone could think that Poilievre is the best leader for the country. I mean, I'm not that happy with Trudeau or Singh, but at this point, government-by-coin-flip looks like a saner choice than Poilievre.
    In conversation about a year ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
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