@jake4480 I used that, Perlbuilder and Notepad to work through the dot-com bust before I hung it up for a different career. Now I just do it for fun. (BBEdit, mostly)
One last thing before I turn away to the afternoon's work: I see a lot of advice about using a robots.txt file to halt "AI"-scraper bots, which would be great if it worked.
Since I put the preferred verbiage in my own site's robots.txt, my firewall has stopped over 1800 "AI"-scraping attempts.
I love Mastodon but I do wish there were more active peeps here. Other sites seem so transactional. People want to friend me so they can tag me to advertise their own sites, or they want to know how I got ARCs and I tell them and then never hear from them again, Or they just want to complain about other book reviewers or publishers. Anyway if you see this it's probably because you are an awesome person! We need more awesome people here. @horror
@stina_marie@horror@Well_Worth_A_Read things like pushback on promoting their work, or things like alt text. angry folks explaining how things were here and how they were not twitter to the new people trying to find a new home.
i get some of it, as the Fediverse was being overwhelmed with Twitter folks and pushing back on that, but they pushed too hard and a lot of folks decided that's what this place was and left.
@stina_marie@Well_Worth_A_Read@horror unfortunately there was a negative experience to a lot of the horror folks when they came over during one of the twitter migrations. most of them have written off the fediverse because of it.
I was programming in #Perl last night, and it made me miss working with it. So many things have changed since I was a professional web programmer, but text manipulation is still the basis of so much of it.
Morning #HorrorFam! I made a thing! and it's for you, AND I need your help.
Sunday Morning Horror News! It pulls from the RSS feeds of horror writer and publisher blogs to make a nice list for you to read and your pace, not the pace of social media.
Check it out! and let me know what blogs I should add! The starting list is small, but I am going to always be adding things!
@stina_marie@horror I did think about that. I think for now, just the blogs. I see it as a way to try to read about releases and upcoming events, etc,
We have a few places that collect the open calls already like the submission grinder and Gwen Kiste’s blog that I’m not I want to jump into that sort of thing.
THAT SAID, if those posts are on blogs I don’t have, then we should add them! Those calls will show up in the list as they post them.
uninstalling my previous instance which was #Calckey. Thank you for being my home on the #Fediverse for a while. I will miss the cat ears and the silly reactions.
but, with the spam stuff recently, it is time to come down. (after a backup of course...)
I feel like the Bluesky bridge is waking people up to some of the realities of ActivityPub.
I will always think the open web is better than the corporate one we just left. But there should be a better way to inform people on how their data is used, stored and transmitted.
Because once you federate, you have no control over what another server does with your data. No server has to agree to the TOS of any other server. The only option you have is to block the server.
I have mostly thought that small or one person servers (like hosted email) is the future to give the user the most options. But now I can also see a rise of small closed servers that have a white list for federation rather than the block list as a way of better controlling user data.
