- https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/115147291885663574
- https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/115147331909980717
They should put this in a FAQ on their website or something. The whole endeavor makes more sense when you look at it like this.
- https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/115147291885663574
- https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/115147331909980717
They should put this in a FAQ on their website or something. The whole endeavor makes more sense when you look at it like this.
@dce Glad you liked it. š
@dce Glad you liked it. š
gopher://uninformativ.de/0/phlog/2025/2025-09/2025-09-03--roophloch.txt
gopher://uninformativ.de/0/phlog/2025/2025-09/2025-09-03--roophloch.txt
Wandering through the woods for 8km ā¦ gopher://uninformativ.de/0/phlog/2025/2025-09/2025-09-03--roophloch.txt
Wandering through the woods for 8km ā¦ gopher://uninformativ.de/0/phlog/2025/2025-09/2025-09-03--roophloch.txt
https://uninformativ.de/projects/lariza/NetTracer-Scenes/GPUTracer/multipass/xlonitor/http-collect/getpw
That is obviously completely wrong. But I can explain it. Some *years* ago, I screwed up my nginx rewrite rules, and thatās how these broken URLs came to be.
It all redirects to
/git now, which is why that endpoint sees so much traffic lately.But what does that mean? Why do they start there? I can only speculate that this company bought an old database of web links and they use that to start crawling. And it was probably a cheap one, because these redirects have been fixed for quite a long time now.
https://uninformativ.de/projects/lariza/NetTracer-Scenes/GPUTracer/multipass/xlonitor/http-collect/getpw
That is obviously completely wrong. But I can explain it. Some *years* ago, I screwed up my nginx rewrite rules, and thatās how these broken URLs came to be.
It all redirects to
/git now, which is why that endpoint sees so much traffic lately.But what does that mean? Why do they start there? I can only speculate that this company bought an old database of web links and they use that to start crawling. And it was probably a cheap one, because these redirects have been fixed for quite a long time now.
Iāve now started blocking entire cloud hosters. Sorry, not sorry.
Iāve now started blocking entire cloud hosters. Sorry, not sorry.
Iāve read enough blog posts by other people to know that this is probably pointless. The bots have *so many* IPs/networks at their disposal ā¦
Iāve read enough blog posts by other people to know that this is probably pointless. The bots have *so many* IPs/networks at their disposal ā¦
Iām not looking forward to doing this on a regular basis. This is supposed to be a fun hobby ā and it was, for many years. Maybe that time is just over.
Iām not looking forward to doing this on a regular basis. This is supposed to be a fun hobby ā and it was, for many years. Maybe that time is just over.
Haha. As if they would care. They crawl everything they get their hands on.
Besides, thatās not true, the license states that the copyright notice must be retained. āAIā breaks that. They incorporate my code and my articles in their product and make it appear as if it was their work.
Haha. As if they would care. They crawl everything they get their hands on.
Besides, thatās not true, the license states that the copyright notice must be retained. āAIā breaks that. They incorporate my code and my articles in their product and make it appear as if it was their work.
1. The load will become a problem at some point.
2. These crawlers and the current āAIā in general are breaking the rules. *I* am supposed to be paying for every little thing, *I* get sued for āpiracyā. But apparently, these rules only apply to me. If I had more money, I could break them. Fuck that.
3. I simply donāt want it. Period.
1. The load will become a problem at some point.
2. These crawlers and the current āAIā in general are breaking the rules. *I* am supposed to be paying for every little thing, *I* get sued for āpiracyā. But apparently, these rules only apply to me. If I had more money, I could break them. Fuck that.
3. I simply donāt want it. Period.
Iāll keep an eye on it for a while. Maybe try to block some IPs.
Sooner or later, Iāll take the website down and shift everything to Gopher.
Iāll keep an eye on it for a while. Maybe try to block some IPs.
Sooner or later, Iāll take the website down and shift everything to Gopher.
They donāt cache anything, probably on purpose.
It comes in waves. I get about 100 hits (all at once) on that
/git endpoint, all from different IPs. Then it takes a moment until I get another wave of about 500-1000 requests (all at once) where they do HEAD requests on some of the paths below /git. I assume they did a GET earlier and are now checking if something has changed.
They donāt cache anything, probably on purpose.
It comes in waves. I get about 100 hits (all at once) on that
/git endpoint, all from different IPs. Then it takes a moment until I get another wave of about 500-1000 requests (all at once) where they do HEAD requests on some of the paths below /git. I assume they did a GET earlier and are now checking if something has changed.
It will die down eventually. I hope.
It will die down eventually. I hope.
Recreating the āEPSON Image Scan!ā logo with one of my Tux plushies. š
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Recreating the āEPSON Image Scan!ā logo with one of my Tux plushies. š
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From: Netflix
Subject: Hereās whatās leaving Netflix soon
From: Netflix
Subject: Hereās whatās leaving Netflix soon
My client supports that, if you set multiple
url = fields in your feedās metadata (the top-most one must be the āmainā URL, that one is used for hashing).But yeah, multi-protocol feeds can be problematic and some have considered it a mistake to support them. š¤
My client supports that, if you set multiple
url = fields in your feedās metadata (the top-most one must be the āmainā URL, that one is used for hashing).But yeah, multi-protocol feeds can be problematic and some have considered it a mistake to support them. š¤
(18/29) upgrading firefox
New optional dependencies for firefox
onnxruntime: Local machine learning features such as smart tab groups
(18/29) upgrading firefox
New optional dependencies for firefox
onnxruntime: Local machine learning features such as smart tab groups
The printer isnāt that loud ā at least not for a dot matrix printer. š Itās been ~30 years since Iāve last seen them in person, but I remembered these things to be louder. Iām typing on my Model M, maybe that contributes to the perceived noise on this video. Hereās an isolated recording of that keyboard: https://movq.de/v/ddc98b03d8/2022-02-21--model-m-goes-brrr.ogg š¤£ It really sounds like that when youāre typing fast. Brrrrt.~
The printer isnāt that loud ā at least not for a dot matrix printer. š Itās been ~30 years since Iāve last seen them in person, but I remembered these things to be louder. Iām typing on my Model M, maybe that contributes to the perceived noise on this video. Hereās an isolated recording of that keyboard: https://movq.de/v/ddc98b03d8/2022-02-21--model-m-goes-brrr.ogg š¤£ It really sounds like that when youāre typing fast. Brrrrt.~
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https://movq.de/v/235c1eabac/MVI_8810.MOV.mp4
The biiiiiiiiiig problem is that the print head and plastic cover make it impossible to see whatās currently being printed, because this is not a *typewriter*. This means: In order to see what I just entered, I have to feed the paper back and forth and back and forth ā¦ itās not ideal.
I got that idea of moving back/forth from Drew DeVault, who ā as it turned out ā did something similar a few years back. (I tried hard to read as little as possible of his blog post, because figuring things out myself is more fun. But that could mean I missed a great idea here or there.)
But hey, at least this is running on my Pentium 133 on SuSE Linux 6.4, printer connected with a parallel cable. š
(Also, yes, you can see the printouts of earlier tests and, yes, I used
ed(1) wrong at one point. š¤Ŗ And ls insisted on using colors ā¦)
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https://movq.de/v/235c1eabac/MVI_8810.MOV.mp4
The biiiiiiiiiig problem is that the print head and plastic cover make it impossible to see whatās currently being printed, because this is not a *typewriter*. This means: In order to see what I just entered, I have to feed the paper back and forth and back and forth ā¦ itās not ideal.
I got that idea of moving back/forth from Drew DeVault, who ā as it turned out ā did something similar a few years back. (I tried hard to read as little as possible of his blog post, because figuring things out myself is more fun. But that could mean I missed a great idea here or there.)
But hey, at least this is running on my Pentium 133 on SuSE Linux 6.4, printer connected with a parallel cable. š
(Also, yes, you can see the printouts of earlier tests and, yes, I used
ed(1) wrong at one point. š¤Ŗ And ls insisted on using colors ā¦)
Itās not unique, itās not new. Boiling the frog alive.
Weāre heading towards this: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
Itās not unique, itās not new. Boiling the frog alive.
Weāre heading towards this: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/25/android-apps-developer-verification/
Since nobody is going to push back on this (I donāt even know if that would be possible), this is going to be a reality on every platform sooner or later.
Iād guess in 20, 30 years, there wonāt be āPCsā anymore. No more home computing, no more āI just write my own softwareā. You wonāt own devices anymore, itāll all be rented and the landlord will tell you what you can do with it.
I hope that Iām wrong, but given where we are today, I donāt think that I will be.
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/25/android-apps-developer-verification/
Since nobody is going to push back on this (I donāt even know if that would be possible), this is going to be a reality on every platform sooner or later.
Iād guess in 20, 30 years, there wonāt be āPCsā anymore. No more home computing, no more āI just write my own softwareā. You wonāt own devices anymore, itāll all be rented and the landlord will tell you what you can do with it.
I hope that Iām wrong, but given where we are today, I donāt think that I will be.
I mean, what do you want to do with it? If you want to use this as an actual printer for daily use, Iād get a laser printer instead, because theyāre very reliable and the print quality is top notch.
I got my dot matrix printer mostly for experiments and nostalgia, so I wouldnāt want to pay something like 300-400ā¬ for it.
I mean, what do you want to do with it? If you want to use this as an actual printer for daily use, Iād get a laser printer instead, because theyāre very reliable and the print quality is top notch.
I got my dot matrix printer mostly for experiments and nostalgia, so I wouldnāt want to pay something like 300-400ā¬ for it.
$n bytes are part of a bitmap imageā, and then this gets printed at whatever the current position is (somewhat similar to SIXEL in a terminal).Itās just that the *units* are a bit weird, because this is all done in bloody inch. š
$n bytes are part of a bitmap imageā, and then this gets printed at whatever the current position is (somewhat similar to SIXEL in a terminal).Itās just that the *units* are a bit weird, because this is all done in bloody inch. š
All I can say is, when I go to big stores like Amazon, then I have trouble finding ātraditionalā dot matrix printers for use at home. š Epson still sells them, but theyāre more expensive than my laser printer was. So yeah, they still exist, just expensive, by the looks of it.
All I can say is, when I go to big stores like Amazon, then I have trouble finding ātraditionalā dot matrix printers for use at home. š Epson still sells them, but theyāre more expensive than my laser printer was. So yeah, they still exist, just expensive, by the looks of it.
FWIW, I have an OKI Microline 3390eco. Good thing is, you can still buy new cartridges for it.
If you want to buy a new device, check if it supports the āESC/Pā standard. Thatās very widely supported.
FWIW, I have an OKI Microline 3390eco. Good thing is, you can still buy new cartridges for it.
If you want to buy a new device, check if it supports the āESC/Pā standard. Thatās very widely supported.
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