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wow, attending #cvqcon2023 and the hotel is so incompetent. first they announce that everyone has to move to the room whose number is one higher than our current room number, the next day they tell us to move to the room whose number is twice our current room number. what's next, moving us from room n to the n-th triangular number?

im going to do kitchen nightmares but i visit instance servers and i rag about them having poor moderation and no backups

the three-body problem 

“I would never have thought that actual fucking aliens would be involved!”

I CANN buy yet another domain i don't need, right?

Fediblock, meta 

If you can't do the simple basics of crediting @CaribenxMarciaX n @gingerrroot for fediblock you truly are part of the problem

updated list, as a few switched from ipv4 to v6 and vice-versa :")

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right, of course PIA just doesn't give a fuck about abuse through their vpn's

I have a separate instance that doesn't really federate, and it's been quite 'interesting' to monitor the logs for all these scrapers.

Also Friendica is very noisy for some reason? requesting a bunch of endpoints on discovery even tho you don't really federate with them

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@angilly @f0x text search that bypasses blocks (i.e. literally anything that scrapes fedi into a centralized data store) is an enabler for harassment and is therefore a massive red flag

just because the data is there and the use is permissible doesn't mean it's ethical

Assorted list of Fediverse scrapers you might want to block on the network level (some more malicious than others)

git.pixie.town/f0x/nixos/src/b

another scraper by an (ex-?)twitter employee, running without recognizable user-agent (uses the typhoeus library with defaults)

creating some full-text search federation wide search... macaw.social/@angilly/10959740

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fediverse.network scrapes a whole range of endpoints, but the site it refers to is just a parked domain

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another scraper in my logs, "fedimapper" by hachyderm.io/@tedivm/109569119

not sure why it needs to scrape my domain_blocks with that stated purpose

maybe i should try writing happy poetry lol, but then it's easy to get sappy? can't win huh (and can't write, anyways)

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im completely sober but in a car ride so you all have to deal with my bad thoughts cause I have nothing better to do

not sure if that's always a bad thing though, it reminds me of vibes over plot. aesthetics can still be meaningful?

youtu.be/_YTRVKCiO_4

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