For-profit US tech boycott club!

Fascism on the rise? Better get their list making and person finding mechanisms sorted out for them in advance.

-liberals everywhere

It’s more like, a blog is a personal thing. Using some off the shelf solutions removes that sense of personality to me I guess. It kind of makes the act of publishing the post feel like I’ve cheated somehow, when, all I’m really doing is putting text on the internet and I’m perfectly capable of doing that myself from a technical POV.

I get this with game dev as well, I’m much happier with games where I feel like I’ve worked with lower level tooling than a pre made engine. Sort of a personal not made here syndrome thing I suppose.

I’ve had a few hosted ones but I kind of hate them. I think I’ll build and self host a solution at some point because I just like things that I’ve made myself better.

They were pretty well optimised, frequently sharpened and they had an angled blade with a decent amount of weight behind it. This means that there’s reduced surface area at the point of contact so higher penetration. Guillotines don’t miss as they’ve got a guide, unlike axes which were known for occasionally gouging the victim’s back, because executioners did miss!

I guess it depends too much on the nature of the crawler. Does it actually extract links from robots.txt or is it merely ignoring them? If the crawlers are distributed, do page hits come from the same IP that the robots.txt was hit from?

It gets harder and harder to get away from CDNs and captchas, which are not exactly good things from an open source POV for the most part.

our regional monopoly water companies are world leaders in turning actual sewage (that they put there) into something that the average brit thinks of as potable water

We never got rid of lead water service pipes to existing houses and have a fetish for old properties. A cautionary tale really.

“Lights out” factories have been an industry goal for a while. It does seem like it’s finally within reach. Honestly what I don’t understand is why western nations with relatively high labour costs and an increasing desire for autonomy and skilled job creation haven’t been pursuing this.

Configuring CORS 😭