behold the "HTML bomb"
it's a defensive counterattack on AI web-scrapers that persistently scrape and rescrape your web site, even when you tell them not to
the bomb file *looks* like a tiny HTML page, but when scraped -- or even requested by a regular browser ...
... it unpacks into a huge-ass 10-gig HTML page ...
... which quickly crashes any browser or scraper
Item #6 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read and subscribe to here: https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-37-wind-theft-an-html-bomb-and-the-rice/
What I heard from residents is that public transit is not too bad in the downtown core but gets worse the further out you go, and can be quite sparse in the lower-income areas in the northeast spread-out part
A great many Americans do indeed drive most of the time! Unless you’re in one of the older, denser cities, the towns are all set up so the residential areas have little-to-no-commercial options, and the roads are wide, fast, and unwalkable/hard to bike
What if this is still *early* stage capitalism?
What if it's still just hitting the clutch and, like, shifting into *second* gear?
o man
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Mad props for shredding on the guitar with no pick
Not a lot of rock folks who go that way
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Yeah! It's quite the mall
I really wish it had been math joke, though
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Yeah, precisely!
That shrieky little lead guitar riff; not the main solo, just that little high-up part
It sounds like a seabird being strangled
I just listened to Lindsey Buckingham's "Holiday Road" with headphones on
Never really listened to the song before, honestly, closely
That is a ... *weird* mix, really
Instrumentally, vocally
I like it
But it's freakin weird
(That is all I have to say, as you were)
It is really interesting, watching all these massive and centralized social networks brown out and start 404ing this morning, to see how comparatively stable my mastodon feed has been
Having a plurality of servers is inefficient, but it means there’s no single point of failure
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Isn't that analysis of Ellandorff's great?
Very useful for thinking about how things are changing
Canadian doctors do ballet dance moves in N95 masks to show it's easy to breathe, and breathe *heavily*, in them: https://boingboing.net/2023/09/19/canadian-doctor-dancers-demonstrate-how-easy-it-is-to-breathe-in-an-n95-mask-respirator.html
I co-sign! Back in the first nasty pre-vaccine summer of 2020, I cycled 100 miles in a day from NYC to Philadelphia, wearing a mask the entire way
It's actually a wonderful way to protect from gnarly traffic fumes!
And yeah, even with my heart rate up high most of the way, no trouble breathing
Behold "Tirazain", a new online archive of tatreez, traditional Palestinian stitchwork
Item #2 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read online here: https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-10/
nostr:npub1typ5we79rr527q30467hfz8ptfy0h8gxpmfn7j64ak6pk6pv4rfszzc8hh Just to clarify, the Tor piece identifies Milton as the first English _creative_ writer to use this sense; OED has examples from 85 years before Milton. And OED wouldn't have specifically sought early examples from creative writers, so this claim doesn't really amount to much, I'm afraid.
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Aha, thank you for that clarification!!
o hai there
here's a PDF copy of Pablo Neruda's wonderful volume of poetry, "The Book of Quetions": https://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/neruda-book-questions.pdf
nostr:npub1typ5we79rr527q30467hfz8ptfy0h8gxpmfn7j64ak6pk6pv4rfszzc8hh Cool. I'm going to try it today. Will set it up before I go work out this afternoon. Thanks!
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Let me know what your account is and I'll follow you!
I'm here: https://www.strava.com/athletes/70941167
nostr:npub1typ5we79rr527q30467hfz8ptfy0h8gxpmfn7j64ak6pk6pv4rfszzc8hh And you don't find it to be a time suck?
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No, quite the opposite -- because people only post when they actively do something, they don't post very *frequently*; at most, once a day
That means that even if I follow a lot of folks, the feed never gets very busy
I might ignore it for a few days, then check in to see what people have been doing and hit the "kudos" button on their adventures and look at their pictures
Very chill really
nostr:npub1typ5we79rr527q30467hfz8ptfy0h8gxpmfn7j64ak6pk6pv4rfszzc8hh Is there a fee to use it?
I had thought it was for bikers. Does it force you to put numbers in for weight?
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It's got a free level, so you can use it without paying anything
As for weight, I don't *think* it requires that, no!
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Yep, fingers crossed
It's been around nearly as long as Twitter -- founded in 2009 -- so I am hoping the creators/managers understand the value of what they've got
But who knows?