Notices by Alien BOB (alien@fosstodon.org)

@mgorny it does not help pointing to people using LLMs for legitimate reasons. It's other people using those same tools but then for nefarious purposes.
I use user-agent filtering and put Anubis in front of the Slackware git infrastructure, and that has helped immensely.
I eventually got git.gentoo.org to render and gosh! That's a lot of repositories there. Would it be an idea to distribute the cgit interface over multiple front-end servers? Like, moving all user repos to a different server?

@GossiTheDog I don't know what web sites you are talking about? I can access my #MathWorks online #MATLAB resources just fine, for instance https://matlabacademy.mathworks.com/ or https://matlab.mathworks.com/

@pluralistic seems it is catching on after all these years. Front page of CNN: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/13/business/enshittification-internet-meta-nightcap/index.html

@pluralistic thanks for a terrific and in some ways also terrifying write-up!

@seanbala please stop doing these irrelevant polls using generic hashtags. You've done your homework already, you found four candidates. Well done! Now, just read all of them.

@libreoffice is here on Mastodon to spread the word on the awesome #libreoffice suite of applications. Use the available documentation (written by the community) to improve the quality of your writing, sheets and presentations.
If you are a #Slackware user, be sure to install the libreoffice package I provide for the 15.0 and -current distro versions. These packages are natively compiled on Slackware and fully tap into the power of the OS. Download them from
https://slackware.uk/people/alien/slackbuilds/libreoffice/ .