I was asked before (online). And yes, I do know (almost precisely) the bot to human ratio for my sites. My audience in the real is known and small, and online discovery limited (search engines). I don’t need to look at the metrics per se.

I’m not exactly fond of the .md but a long time ago, I added inconspicuous Markdown links to one of my blogs. I tend to get these funny hunches.

Do you really think humans are clicking the .md? My running theory is that browser agents are programmed to consume less tokens.

I run across sites where I wonder if a time travelling comedy bit is happening. Check the dates on those cards.

This article from the year 2057 was actually useful. I was messing around with Python the other day.

I recently heard about the Ladybird Browser. Those of you who are slightly younger or older may not have realized this.

But, the (secret) final step in making your browser boat float upright on the mainstream (after keeping up to spec speed) is crafting your very own anime. I wish I were joking, kind of (these are real):

• Internet Explorer
• Google Chrome

And, that’s how they got us in high school. Take and do note that Firefox and Safari are missing.

One of my favourite satirical scenes comes from My Fair Lady (Pygmalion). The Ascot Gavotte. What a frenzied moment that was.

Spoilers? In passing, I keep hearing about anime bans. I’ve been out the loop for years and glanced at some of what’s trending today.

I’ve never wanted to try this tricky oneliner. But, it happened anyway. The sudo chmod -R 777 /; better known as the (executive) cheat-mod recursive triple 7 root.

It’s like winning the lottery, like using pass as the word, deleting the anti in virus, setting the walls on fire, putting the security in obscurity, and then executing everything…

Have any of you ever heard of Reader Rabbit (embed)? I’ve been going through some old physical media. It was a simpler time.

I’ll be 502’ing my repositories for a bit. Use private or public mirrors in the mean time. Most of the stuff on there is in sloppy mode, so you won’t miss them.

I can eat goofy bot traffic, but my curiosity wants to be satisfied and I’m itching to do some data gathering and analysis. It turns out that sending a blanket 502 causes the metadata to arrive even faster (bots go crazy).

One of the glorious things about self hosting truly personal stuff, is that you can just turn off your server(s). There is no pressure to keep anything up.

I helped someone with a tmux config. It’s been a while since I’ve used tmux but I’ve since realized it’s better to copy paste tmux list-keys into tmux.conf and reset all shortcuts (for debugging).

tmux list-keys

The help menu (tmux list-keys -N) displays shortcuts with bind-key -N "description".

Turns out (rather gleefully) that I was proven wrong. Spooky competition did its thing and now I have two fiber links. One is symmetrical.

I think ISPs should compete more strategically with Starlink by looking into WISPs (fixed wireless + WiGig). Many of the out islands have limited to no banking. At home, everyone’s best friends with Starlink.