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idk im just stringing words together.. if you think about it im basically AI. why don't i get hyped

@researchfairy yep.. fucked up, so even the miserable techbro excuse for consent of "you should've just opted-out of scraping" doesn't work

don't know who wrote this shit more than a year ago (me) but i'm heavily considering just rewriting the project from a clean directory instead of a massive in-place refactoring

taking my caterpills to turn into a butterfly eventually

@researchfairy out of curiosity, and absolutely not in a victim-blaming way, does scholar.social set the global "opt out of search indexing" setting? wondering if they even respect that

@ff0000@chaos.social I quite like using npmjs.com/package/debug, seems to have decent browser console support too

@Cyborgneticz ah I found it yeah, that could theoretically be indexing all the public pages an instance provides, including people's profiles and the toots/threads shown there.

In this case posting followers-only would certainly prevent that from being included, as they'll only ever show up for logged in users that follow you.

Mastodon has a quite hidden "Opt-out of search engine indexing" setting under Preferences > Other, which *might* be respected by the Google data scraper at least. Instance admins can also set an instance-wide default for this

@Cyborgneticz hm, what's being scraped now, and why wouldn't that work?

The idea of a “real name” is fake. In fact, you should avoid having a true name if at all possible as a protection against the fae.

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nice sniff... would be a shame if someone... 

:flashbang::flashbang::flashbang:

@cketti oh it's there in the setting category headers. nice pink! good job

@cketti wait pink? i like pink, but I don't see any in my K-9?

@ahfrom it's bizarre how people just keep repeating it, probably harkens back to some individualist personal responsibility shit. I've seen videos of doctors explaining why this statement is false and still people just repeat it in the comments

but also the unfinished tasks fall off my monitor edge regularly because they aren't sticky enough, so maybe I need to device a different system that mounts non-sticky paper squares

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it's made of 6 finished tasks i wrote on post-its, but the post-its kinda suck for folding because of the glue strip

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uspol but in europe 

yesterday at uni i saw someone with a large Biden/Harris sticker on their laptop. what the fuck.
i can only pray to frog they were a US exchange student, but STILL

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