Notices by dave (dthompson@toot.cat), page 4

the remaining 200 requests that I suspect are bots are very low volume, though, so I'm mostly happy for now. also added a /robots.txt in case that helps any polite bots not send requests in the first place.

woke up this morning
checked the server logs

more bots! blocked another user agent but there's at least one other that is spoofing their user agent. fuckers!

I used https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/blob/main/robots.json to generate some nginx config to block based on user agent and that did the trick for now. fuck off fuckers!

@vv yeah you're not kidding, it's really frustrating

@vv I'm working on adding a robots.txt and some nginx config to block by user agent since so far the bots are being transparent about what they are.

AI bots are scraping my git server and slowing things down I hate the future so much leave me alone no one uses scheme anyway you're wasting your time

@dpk debian users will be missing out then

@NGIZero

5. Empowering Mobilizon
Creating a governance structure to hit Mobilizon's most important goals and priorities. We really need an open, privacy respecting way to get people offline and building community now more than ever. Governance may not be sexy, but this will make a huge difference! to funding, planning and increasing the features and reach of Mobilizon!

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happy dew year hope it's a baja blast

new year, same old shit me

@pjotrprins glad you liked it :)

@danielittlewood they are *very* focused on seeds that perform well in the northern US but I can only imagine that there are European seed coops that are similar.

@Jetengineweasel I never ordered much from Johnny's, but my general impression is that Johnny's is focused on market gardeners/farmers and has a lot of hybrids/proprietary varieties whereas Fedco caters more to home gardeners and stocks more open-pollinated seeds from independent/small breeders. they have a bunch of hybrids, too, but not the vast selection that Johnny's has.

it's about time for me to order seeds. if you're in the northeast US there is no finer seed supplier than Fedco. they're a worker owned coop based in Maine with great ethics. great transparency as to where the seeds come from, lots of organic and open-pollinated seed, and a bunch of varieties from the open source seed initiative. I buy as much of my stuff from them as I possibly can. they have the best catalogs, too. full of amusing art, short essays, funny customer feedback, and touching tributes to people who have died. and unlike most seed companies they use newsprint for their catalogs so you can compost it or use it for fire starter later. I can't recommend them enough.

https://fedcoseeds.com/

(also do not order from baker creek I did once and when they sent me a catalog it had a lot of weird christian stuff in it)

a blog post I wrote in 2022 mostly as a note to myself about problems I've had with Guile's OOP system has been sitting on the HN front page for several hours and I just don't really understand why. like there's not really any comments so it's not triggering a lisp flamewar or anything I just don't get it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42529552

@josef Unfortunately every.org doesn't support donations less than $10, but you could make a one-time donation!

@touk I'm never gonna dance again

@Louisa happy birthday! typed this while eating pie

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@vv strange, I have the same interface and haven't had this problem. one time I had a similar issue with my tascam interface but otherwise has worked fine.