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Search results for tag #web

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[?]rustydev 🏳️‍🌈:femboy_flag:🦀🇵🇸🇺🇦 [he/him] » 🌐
@rustydev@tech.lgbt

It would be interesting if privacy respecting websites started detecting if a user isn't using an ad blocker, to then show the user a popup asking them to install one.

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    [?]Kuketz-Blog 🛡 » 🌐
    @kuketzblog@social.tchncs.de

    Mir vergeht zunehmend die Lust, in meinen Blogbeiträgen auf externe Quellen zu verlinken. Mein WordPress-Linkchecker prüft Links gerade einmal monatlich. Von aggressivem Crawling kann keine Rede sein. Trotzdem hagelt es 403-Fehler, oft wegen Bot-Schutzmechanismen wie Cloudflare.

    Jeder vermeintlich defekte Link landet im Dashboard und muss händisch geprüft werden. Im Browser funktioniert er natürlich.

    Die Konsequenz: Websites, die solche Prüfungen blockieren, verlinke ich künftig nicht mehr.

      [?]Rinaldo » 🌐
      @Rinaldo75@mastodon.social

      Blogue immobilier France et international: Liens utiles - Habitat kikori.fr/p/liens.html?spref=tw

        [?]Rinaldo » 🌐
        @Rinaldo75@mastodon.social

        Blogue de la Révolution Verte : Partenaires de Révolution Verte revolutionverte.fr/p/partenair

          [?]Rinaldo » 🌐
          @Rinaldo75@mastodon.social

          Blogue immobilier France et international
          kikori.fr/2013/04/blog-post.ht

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          [?]Tommi 🤯 [they/he] » 🌐
          @tommi@pan.rent

          Tor is not the “Dark Web”

          Silvio and @ggus from @torproject are coming to @xpub to host an introduction to Tor and Onion Services.

          🧅 They will be sharing the most critical issues of the Internet at all its layers, and how Tor addresses them.

          🗓️ Tuesday 13 October 2026 at h17:30 in the XPUB Studio, Rotterdam.

          ℹ️ All information and details here.

          #101

          Purple text on a light background, showing the illustration of a section of an onion. Caption: “It’s not the // Dark Web // Intro to Tor // and // Onion Services // Tue 13/10 h17:30 // XPUB Studio, Rotterdam”.

          Alt...Purple text on a light background, showing the illustration of a section of an onion. Caption: “It’s not the // Dark Web // Intro to Tor // and // Onion Services // Tue 13/10 h17:30 // XPUB Studio, Rotterdam”.

            [?]Rinaldo » 🌐
            @Rinaldo75@mastodon.social

            Blogue de la Révolution Verte : Partenaires de Révolution Verte revolutionverte.fr/p/partenair

              [?]Rinaldo » 🌐
              @Rinaldo75@mastodon.social

              Blogue immobilier France et international
              kikori.fr/2013/04/blog-post.ht

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              [?]Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog » 🤖 🌐
              @somebitslinks@tech.lgbt

              A timestamp of the Web: Project cryptographically timestamps 339B archived web pages (the history of the Common Crawl) and puts the hashes on the Bitcoin blockchain so we have a verifiable copy of the web that should last forever.
              projecttimestamper.org/blog/co
              :hackernews

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                [?]Lobsters » 🤖 🌐
                @lobsters@mastodon.social

                en-html.org is a Scam Site via @edwintorok lobste.rs/s/85k8am
                etbe.coker.com.au/2026/10/09/e

                  [?]Rinaldo » 🌐
                  @Rinaldo75@mastodon.social

                  Blogue de la Révolution Verte : Partenaires de Révolution Verte revolutionverte.fr/p/partenair

                    [?]Rinaldo » 🌐
                    @Rinaldo75@mastodon.social

                    Blogue immobilier France et international
                    kikori.fr/2012/06/bienvenue-su

                    [?]Rinaldo » 🌐
                    @Rinaldo75@mastodon.social

                    Blogue immobilier France et international: Liens utiles - Habitat kikori.fr/p/liens.html?spref=tw

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                      [?]Wendy [He/Him] » 🌐
                      @serigala_tropis@lgbtqia.space

                      "Kagi ends development of Orion Browser for Linux and Windows, with plans to open-source both versions and hand them over to the community."

                      linuxiac.com/kagi-ends-orion-b

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                        [?]Logan Magee » 🌐
                        @lberrymage@infosec.exchange

                        Today I learned that the PKCE extension for OAuth2 is officially pronounced "pixy"

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                          [?]Swati Lalwani » 🌐
                          @swatilalwani@privacysafe.social

                          A can look great and still not bring in leads. People may click around, but they do not stick. Growth can also stall. The reason is simple. design is not only about good colors and nice photos. It is also not just about placing a few blocks on a homepage.

                          Read More: foduu-45132282.hubspotpagebuil

                            [?]Rinaldo » 🌐
                            @Rinaldo75@mastodon.social

                            Blogue de la Révolution Verte : Partenaires de Révolution Verte revolutionverte.fr/p/partenair

                              [?]Rinaldo » 🌐
                              @Rinaldo75@mastodon.social

                              Blogue immobilier France et international
                              kikori.fr/2012/06/bienvenue-su

                              [?]Rinaldo » 🌐
                              @Rinaldo75@mastodon.social

                              Blogue immobilier France et international: Liens utiles - Habitat kikori.fr/p/liens.html?spref=tw

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                                [?]US » 🌐
                                @us@pubeurope.com

                                europesays.com/thestates/38400/ The Road Tripper’s Guide to Coastal Maine in Summer

                                The Road Tripper’s Guide to Coastal Maine in Summer

                                Alt...The Road Tripper’s Guide to Coastal Maine in Summer

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                                  [?]Dining and Cooking » 🌐
                                  @dc@vive.im

                                  Bread & Friends, Portland, Maine, United States — Restaurant Review diningandcooking.com/us/41396/

                                  Bread & Friends, Portland, Maine, United States — Restaurant Review

                                  Alt...Bread & Friends, Portland, Maine, United States — Restaurant Review

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                                    [?]Jon S. von Tetzchner » 🌐
                                    @jon@social.vivaldi.net

                                    Seeing a lot more messages like this. Sometimes multiple times on the same site during the same session. Also seeing more geo blocking of sites.

                                    The principle of the Web is in many ways global access, but that is eroding in some ways. AI is not helping there with harvesting of data. Too many bots.

                                    @w3c

                                    Robot or human check.

                                    Alt...Robot or human check.

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                                      [?]Farooq [Master Patata] » 🌐
                                      @farooqkz@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                      Yesterday we were talking with Viktor on Discord. I was thinking the bottleneck in crawling is bandwidth. Viktor said something else:

                                      The bottleneck is not BW, not most of the time. But the problem's that a) the crawler is polite. So I don't send so many requests to the same host concurrently. For instance, so many websites on wordpress.com, geocities, github.io and similar.

                                      And b) Too many open connections will drive the network switch mad and it'll be problematic.

                                      Since yesterday, I'm using to download websites for offline usage and later index them using . By default, wget is a polite crawler. I am fetching about ~10 websites concurrently. And the average BW usage is just 1MB/s. Fetching some websites is not done since yesterday till now...

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                                        [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                        @abucci@buc.ci

                                        I, an actual human, am repeatedly told that I failed to demonstrate that I am human by a non-human bot run by CloudFlare.


                                        CloudFlare "human verification" widget, with a "verification failed" error.

                                        Alt...CloudFlare "human verification" widget, with a "verification failed" error.

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                                          [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                          @abucci@buc.ci

                                          OK now what? Any reasonable legal regime dictates that an enterprise built on a theft should not be permitted to retain the fruits of that theft. Have we really entered a fully lawless era in the world of business?
                                          Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: Large language models are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.”
                                          Nice reporting from @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social https://www.404media.co/doom-loop-openai-and-microsoft-admits-llms-are-destroying-the-web-and-built-on-theft/


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                                            [?]epn4littlefedi » 🌐
                                            @epn4littlefedi@littleone.littlefedi.social

                                            Why Personal Websites Are Coming Back

                                            https://deadparrotbbs.com/why-personal-websites-are-coming-back/

                                            #web #websites

                                              [?]LUZZY [she/her 🏳️‍⚧️] » 🌐
                                              @meluzzy@woof.tech

                                              Web browser alignment chart.
                                              Criticism and comments are welcomed.
                                              (Links on replies)

                                              Screenshot of Firefox bookmarks tab showing a list of browsers categorized using the Dungeons and Dragons moral alignment system (Lawful-Good, Chaotic-Good etc.)

                                              Alt...Screenshot of Firefox bookmarks tab showing a list of browsers categorized using the Dungeons and Dragons moral alignment system (Lawful-Good, Chaotic-Good etc.)

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                                                [?]Mx Verda » 🌐
                                                @MxVerda@lgbtqia.space

                                                Yon blue skiers, sky blowers, sky bluers, blowskies, Blue Sky groupies: bsky.app/profile/mxverda.bsky.

                                                  [?]Aral Balkan » 🌐
                                                  @aral@mastodon.ar.al

                                                  🥳 Just released: Auto Encrypt¹ version 6.2.1

                                                  This isn’t what I ordered!

                                                  • An order/CSR identifier mismatch now fails fast and loud with an `Order.identifiersMismatchError`

                                                  If the ACME server offers to provision a different set of identifiers than the one that we requested, we now fail immediately. Previously, we were logging a warning and validating all remaining authorisations, only to fail at order finalisation with a `badCSR` error (RFC 8555 § 7.4).

                                                  Full change log: codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-e

                                                  Enjoy! 💕

                                                  ¹ Auto Encrypt automatically provisions and renews Let’s Encrypt TLS certificates on Node.js https servers. codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-e

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                                                    [?]Aral Balkan » 🌐
                                                    @aral@mastodon.ar.al

                                                    🥳 Just released: Auto Encrypt¹ version 6.2.0

                                                    If at first you don’t succeed…

                                                    • Transient ACME server failures are now retried up to four times and obey the Retry-After header, falling back to exponential back-off if one isn’t provided.
                                                    • Vastly improved error handling.
                                                    • Some bug fixes.

                                                    Basically, Auto Encrypt now does it’s very best to provision you that certificate even when things go wrong.

                                                    Full change log: codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-e

                                                    Enjoy! 💕

                                                    ¹ Auto Encrypt automatically provisions and renews Let’s Encrypt TLS certificates on Node.js https servers. codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-e

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                                                      [?]Ricardo Martín :bsdhead: » 🌐
                                                      @ricardo@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                      statichost.eu/docs/ 🤔

                                                        [?]Aral Balkan » 🌐
                                                        @aral@mastodon.ar.al

                                                        If you want a modern ImageOptim replacement that does WebP (including conversion to WebP), I’m just playing with the open source Alic macOS app and it’s working great.

                                                        github.com/blopker/alic

                                                        The screenshot shows my settings for having it convert whatever is dropped on it into lossless WebP and save it with the same file name but with a .webp extension.

                                                        Screenshot of Alic Settings: Enable lossy compression is off, Resize is off, Output is on: Allow overwrite: on. Keep Metadata: off. Preserve creation and modification dates: off. Add Postfix: off. Postfix: .min. Convert image: on. Convert format: WEBP.

                                                        Alt...Screenshot of Alic Settings: Enable lossy compression is off, Resize is off, Output is on: Allow overwrite: on. Keep Metadata: off. Preserve creation and modification dates: off. Add Postfix: off. Postfix: .min. Convert image: on. Convert format: WEBP.

                                                          [?]Aral Balkan » 🌐
                                                          @aral@mastodon.ar.al

                                                          What if I were to tell you that Trump could knock any (or all) of over 20 million¹ European web sites off the Web tomorrow by picking up the phone to one US organisation: Let’s Encrypt.

                                                          We desperately need an independent, not-for-profit ACME provider in the EU paid for by our taxes.

                                                          CC @EUCommission

                                                          ¹ This is just based on one firm’s analytics (trends.builtwith.com/websiteli). Others put LE use at 50-60% of all web sites.

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                                                            [?]Ricardo Martín :bsdhead: » 🌐
                                                            @ricardo@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                            Keeping an eye on github.com/tola-rs/tola-ssg

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                                                              [?]Ricardo Martín :bsdhead: » 🌐
                                                              @ricardo@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                              I love when people ask me about SSG every now and then, so I can recommend they check out this github.com/myles/awesome-stati

                                                                [?]Aral Balkan » 🌐
                                                                @aral@mastodon.ar.al

                                                                @EUCommission Right, well, I’ve registered small-web.eu and small-tech.eu as backups for now.

                                                                Thankfully, with what I’ve built this year, the Small Web doesn’t need TLDs to work (see ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/) but still, here’s hoping it doesn’t come to that because it will be a right hassle to move stuff over.

                                                                Buy, hey, better safe than sorry.

                                                                And I’m definitely reconsidering my choices when it comes to payment services/merchant of record for Catalyst (the free/open Small Web hosting app I’m building).

                                                                  [?]Mx. Chara Aznable of Pnictogen [They/Them] » 🌐
                                                                  @mxchara@cyberpunk.lol

                                                                  re: more "Methods of Rationality" burbling, the nature of "intelligence" [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                                  How does that make ANY sense? How can both be such a rare and frail blossom that only the most secretive and furtive of sites are fit places to discuss and nurture this "Western" notion of intelligence, AND something easily poured through an Internet connection?

                                                                  There's a hilarious tell, in the poker sense, in the high jabbering about AI.

                                                                  (ct'd)

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                                                                    [?]Swati Lalwani » 🌐
                                                                    @swatilalwani@privacysafe.social

                                                                    The modern is no longer just about attractive layouts, smooth navigation, or responsive pages. People now expect to kind of get them, answer their needs, and make every interaction feel, you know, meaningful.

                                                                    Read More: penzu.com/public/ab43756f3bbab

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                                                                      [?]Lobsters » 🤖 🌐
                                                                      @lobsters@mastodon.social

                                                                      Mastodon 5.0: Laying the foundation lobste.rs/s/m0okh1
                                                                      blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/

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                                                                        [?]Scott Wilson » 🌐
                                                                        @scottwilson@infosec.exchange

                                                                        If you have Extensions installed in your web browser, how do you organize them?

                                                                        (Pictured: Firefox with several extension haphazardly visible on the toolbar)

                                                                        I have them all visible all the time:0
                                                                        I keep some of them hidden and other shown (curated):3
                                                                        I have all my Extensions hidden so you can't see them:0
                                                                        LOL whatever nerd, I install 'em and don't touch 'em:0
                                                                        Just show the responses:0
                                                                        Firefox toolbar showing several Extensions, haphazardly organized.

                                                                        Alt...Firefox toolbar showing several Extensions, haphazardly organized.

                                                                          [?]lia :user_online: [she/they · sie/ihr oder es/deren/denen] » 🌐
                                                                          @lianna@micro.webgarden.click

                                                                          I should at some point get around to writing the specifications for the alternative web document markup language I've had in my head forever.

                                                                          HTML isn't bad, but it is definitely constrained by its position as the default markup language for the whole modern web. They need to cater to everyone, from super fancy corporate websites, massive web applications, social media, video sites, encyclopedias, personal homepages, art projects, hobbyists, to professional webdev engineers ...

                                                                          I really want something purpose-built for a more semantic, personal hypertext web aimed at enthusiasts.

                                                                          Perhaps it wouldn't be as versatile as HTML, but it doesn't need to fit all use cases of every possible target audience or be viable for businesses.

                                                                          I am thinking things like …

                                                                          • Styling should be handled exclusively by the browser based on semantic elements and application-level user preferences (perhaps minimal style recommendations/hints at best).
                                                                          • Differentiating types of hyperlinks; internal navigation links, important main links, optional context/rabbithole links etc.
                                                                          • More granular and specific semantic elements, like the uncoupling of times and dates, splitting address/contact elements into specific fields like e-mail and name, quotations with attributions, definitions etc.
                                                                          • Integration of other semantic data projects such as MusicBrainz, Wikidata or Wikipedia (holy link rot, but we'll see).
                                                                          • More obligatory metadata like authorship, tags, publishing/modification date etc.
                                                                          • Integration of non-search engine discoverability features like webrings, directly on a site level
                                                                          • Easier cross-document reusable elements, i. e. integrating the same header or footer on each site
                                                                          • Extensive entity-oriented data support with URIs, e. g. in-line fetching of things like names, pronouns or contact data from a central 'person' entity URL to automatically propagate things like name changes through the web.

                                                                          … and so on.

                                                                          I could even experiment with the markup tech itself; it doesn't need to be XML after all. It could even be something like a stand-off annotation document allowing the division of content writing from mark-up. Or something with a similarly simple syntax as Markdown, but with semantic instead of styling information.

                                                                          And then comes the arduous task of implementing a parser. :popcorn: I'm so excited.

                                                                          #web #webDev #markup #markupLanguages #html #hypertext #www #worldWideWeb #programming #tech

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                                                                            [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                            @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                            It is remarkable to me that you cannot directly copy-paste the text of an error message out of the Chrome web console. The advice I find about copying the "object" to a global variable and then stringifying, or variants of this, are insane. The web runs on text. The console is displaying text on my screen, which means the "object" was already converted to text. This is gratuitous bureaucracy. I have to fill out the appropriate form to access text I can see with eyes.

                                                                            Maybe I'll OCR it just to be like that?

                                                                            Edit: Yes, I'm aware that you can copy some of the text. However, no matter what I do not all the text comes along. Either way, adding right-click->Copy ought to be trivial.

                                                                            (This is not a request for advice; nor a pinboard for complaints about Google, Chrome, the web, or me; nor a place to opine about why such things might happen in complex pieces of software).


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                                                                              [?]Metin Seven » 🌐
                                                                              @metin@graphics.social

                                                                              If, like me, you love 1990s Web sites, back when the internet wasn't enshittified by Big Tech yet, have a look at Wiby, a Web 1.0 search engine.

                                                                              Click on "Surprise me…" for random discoveries, often personal Web pages about obscure niche subjects, but sometimes you find a hidden gem…

                                                                              wiby.org

                                                                                [?]Aral Balkan » 🌐
                                                                                @aral@mastodon.ar.al

                                                                                Hey folks, can you help me out with a little something: trying to come up with a good number of files limit for a file scan (for Kitten so you don’t hit heap memory limits if you run it from the wrong directory by mistake) and I’d love some statistics from real JavaScript/TypeScript Node.js projects of the number of files in them (excluding .git and node_modules).

                                                                                Would you be kind enough to run the following command in Terminal in your largest projects and let me know what number your get (along with a short description of the project):

                                                                                find . \( -name "node_modules" -o -name ".git" \) -prune -o -print | wc -l

                                                                                Thank you :)

                                                                                  [?]Marcus Rohrmoser 🌻 » 🌐
                                                                                  @mro@digitalcourage.social

                                                                                  wondering if is a good choice for long-term, low-maintenance, lightweight for -development? Downside is, shared web hosters rarely offer it and I'm not aware of a static Linux amd64 binary.

                                                                                  @lualang

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                                                                                    [?]David Megginson [He/him] » 🌐
                                                                                    @david_megginson@mstdn.ca

                                                                                    What's the best way for someone to discourage you from engaging with their online content?

                                                                                    Making a 10-min video where a 5-item list would have been sufficient:0
                                                                                    Promoting their quirky personal brand:0
                                                                                    Including a Patreon link:0
                                                                                    Making paid endorsements:0
                                                                                    Calling it "content":0
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                                                                                      [?]Steven Saus [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                                      @StevenSaus@faithcollapsing.com

                                                                                      uspol [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                                                      “Google and Reddit do not own the Internet,“ web scraper says after court win

                                                                                      Google’s and Reddit’s use of DMCA to fight web scraper is bizarre, expert says.

                                                                                      -scraping -search-engines -act -engine -scraping
                                                                                      arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

                                                                                      An image pulled automatically from the post for decorative purposes only.

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                                                                                        [?]Aral Balkan » 🌐
                                                                                        @aral@mastodon.ar.al

                                                                                        Two quick macros for Helix Editor that you can add to your configuration that are helpful during web dev:

                                                                                        ```toml
                                                                                        [keys.normal.m]
                                                                                        t = "@i<lt>🏷️<gt><esc>a<lt>/🏷️<gt><esc>b*vNc"
                                                                                        e = "@ctry {<ret><esc>Pji catch (error) {<ret><esc>"

                                                                                        [keys.select.m]
                                                                                        t = "@i<lt>🏷️<gt><esc>a<lt>/🏷️<gt><esc>b*vNc"
                                                                                        e = "@ctry {<ret><esc>Pji catch (error) {<ret><esc>"
                                                                                        ```

                                                                                        The first one, m → t, wraps your current selection in an HTML tag that you can begin writing the name of.

                                                                                        The second one, m → e, wraps your current selection in a JavaScript try/catch block and drops you into the catch.

                                                                                        If you have any you’ve written and use, do let me know :)

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                                                                                          [?]Grunkle Moose » 🌐
                                                                                          @RootMoose@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                                          Thinking about a new domain+project...

                                                                                          Anyone have the TL;DR; on self hosted fediverse software?

                                                                                          Mastodon vs Snac vs Pleroma vs ?

                                                                                          I'm looking for something that is super low maintenance and lightweight / easy on resources but as full featured as practical within those constraints.

                                                                                          Something easy to tune re: post lengths and media types would be cool too. A "text first" platform is desired.

                                                                                          I've run Mastodon in the past and it's like fishing with nukes for this use case.

                                                                                          What's out there?

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                                                                                            [?]𝕂𝚞𝚋𝚒𝚔ℙ𝚒𝚡𝚎𝚕™ » 🌐
                                                                                            @kubikpixel@chaos.social

                                                                                            «Meta verliert vor Gericht — Freunde-Finder-Funktion von Facebook ist rechtswidrig:
                                                                                            Das soziale Netzwerk Facebook darf keine Daten von Personen verarbeiten, die nicht Mitglied des Dienstes sind.»

                                                                                            Endlich mal nach sehr langer Zeit aber doch mMn zu spät und was ist mit den anderen Daten hungrigen Konzernen im Web?

                                                                                            🧑‍⚖️ golem.de/news/meta-verliert-vo

                                                                                              [?]𝕂𝚞𝚋𝚒𝚔ℙ𝚒𝚡𝚎𝚕™ » 🌐
                                                                                              @kubikpixel@chaos.social

                                                                                              🧵…weshalb und wieso nun die Suchmaschine MetaGer so plötzlich nur noch nicht freiwillig kostenpflichtig nutzbar ist (siehe oben), ist nun ausführlich erklärt.

                                                                                              «Fast 30 Jahre MetaGer: Über die Geschichte und aktuelle Entwicklungen.
                                                                                              Die datenschutzfreundliche Suchmaschine @MetaGer gibt es nach einer plötzlichen Kündigung von Yahoo erstmal nur noch kostenpflichtig. Wie es weitergehen soll»

                                                                                              😢 heise.de/hintergrund/Fast-30-J

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                                                                                                [?]𝕂𝚞𝚋𝚒𝚔ℙ𝚒𝚡𝚎𝚕™ » 🌐
                                                                                                @kubikpixel@chaos.social

                                                                                                🧵 …ich bin gegenüber Google so wie KI sehr skeptisch, denn die beeinflussen bewusst die Menschen umfangreich, deshalb auch ua diese Tootreihe.

                                                                                                »KI-Suchmaschinen–Wie Googles -Pläne das alte Internet töten:
                                                                                                Dass den Wandel zu KI- forciert, ist ein Zeitenbruch für das alte . 'n verteilen keine 's mehr, stattdessen liefern *KI-Dienste die :en & ein Schritt, der Konsequenzen hat, inwieweit „das alte stirbt?“«

                                                                                                🔎 computerbase.de/artikel/apps/k

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                                                                                                  [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                  @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                  Re: https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115587243049342870/statuses/116934718425134083

                                                                                                  I believe at this stage CloudFlare provides security in a way analogous to how a protection racket provides security.


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                                                                                                    [?]Farooq [Master Patata] » 🌐
                                                                                                    @farooqkz@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                                                    If you've got an English website, you can join to receive backlinks from other websites and also give backlinks to them.

                                                                                                    bchwebring.com

                                                                                                    So by joining the , all websites help each other go up.

                                                                                                    Also, there is a complementary crowdfunding campaign for the webring. Basically a stats page, some polish for the software behind it and technical maintenance for the rest of 2026.

                                                                                                    The campaign: fund.bchwebring.com

                                                                                                    If you want to repost the same posts on X:

                                                                                                    x.com/farooqkz0/status/2076596

                                                                                                    x.com/farooqkz0/status/2074492

                                                                                                      [?]Paolo Amoroso » 🌐
                                                                                                      @amoroso@oldbytes.space

                                                                                                      Paul on the enshittification of the web and the exploitation of users.

                                                                                                      It's about a way of thinking that's eaten the internet whole: the idea that nothing exists unless it's growing, and nothing grows unless it's measured, and nothing gets measured without someone, somewhere, harvesting your attention like it's a crop.

                                                                                                      grumpywelshman.com/the-interne

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                                                                                                        [?]𝕂𝚞𝚋𝚒𝚔ℙ𝚒𝚡𝚎𝚕™ » 🌐
                                                                                                        @kubikpixel@chaos.social

                                                                                                        «Open Source — Neues Firefox-Add-on umgeht Alterskontrollen:
                                                                                                        Aufgrund vorgeschriebener Altersprüfungen müssen sich immer mehr Nutzer bei Onlinediensten ausweisen. Ein neues Tool soll die Kontrollen austricksen.»

                                                                                                        Seit ihr nun auch schockiert wie simpel die Alterskontrolle per JavaScript umgangen werden kann?!?? Nun, es geht nicht um Alterskontrolle & Kinderschutz, sondern es ist Datensammelwut.

                                                                                                        🦊 golem.de/news/open-source-neue

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                                                                                                          [?]matthew - retroedge.tech » 🌐
                                                                                                          @matthew@social.retroedge.tech

                                                                                                          The problem is that all browsers have some objectionable baggage they tow along with them.

                                                                                                          Some people may find different things more or less objectionable.

                                                                                                          Brave is one of the browsers I use. I also still use Firefox (though I now find the Mozilla organization to be quite objectionable).

                                                                                                          #web #webBrowsers #Firefox #Mozilla #Brave

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                                                                                                            [?]C. » 🌐
                                                                                                            @cazabon@mindly.social

                                                                                                            I love how 95% of personal websites can still serve URLs first seen 30 years ago, but anything owned by a company bigger than "some guy in his basement" treats any URL older than 12 months as an unreadable runestone inscription, throws its hands in the air, and intones "404".

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                                                                                                              [?]Kevin Dominik Korte » 🌐
                                                                                                              @kdkorte@fosstodon.org

                                                                                                              To this day, American Express seems to be the only website where I've noticed it tells me it's honored my browser's global opt-out settings. Everyone else either still shows a cookie selection or doesn't let me know at all.

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                                                                                                                [?]feedle » 🌐
                                                                                                                @feedle@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                🔁 From our "Digital Crossroads" collection:

                                                                                                                Our brains aren't wired to handle this much bad news. But 'looking away is not the fix,' expert says. - livescience.com/human-behavior

                                                                                                                ---
                                                                                                                See other stories like this one here: feedle.world/digital-crossroads

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                                                                                                                  [?]Tommi 🤯 [they/he] » 🌐
                                                                                                                  @tommi@pan.rent

                                                                                                                  The Web We Want!

                                                                                                                  @heydon @pepelsbey

                                                                                                                  A black shirt with “HTML & CSS & JS & SVG” with JS crossed off and the caption “not you” next to it.

                                                                                                                  Alt...A black shirt with “HTML & CSS & JS & SVG” with JS crossed off and the caption “not you” next to it.

                                                                                                                    [?]Proto Himbo European » 🌐
                                                                                                                    @guyjantic@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                    Question for and type people: Is there a smoother, quicker way to blog on ? I am getting to know the platform, and I like it (but don't know much about alternatives, being a WordPress escapee). I have it set up as a on one domain. It takes around 5 minutes to post a blog entry, not including the time taken to write the entry. I don't use github, which seems to place me firmly in the minority of Hugo users. I also don't host this from my local machine; I have it on Opalstack (my no-nonsense webhost). My workflow right now is this:

                                                                                                                    1. Navigate into my local wwww/content directory
                                                                                                                    2. Create a .md file for the blog entry
                                                                                                                    3. Type the blog entry
                                                                                                                    4. Add any photos I might want to go with the entry, meaning resize & rename them, put them in the /images directory, and type the link in the blog entry
                                                                                                                    5. Preview [optional, probably not necessary without images]: hugo server -D then over to my browser at localhost:1313 to make sure the post looks OK. Adjust, repeat as necessary
                                                                                                                    6. Fire up Filezilla
                                                                                                                    7. Enable the site (the presets for logging in and loading local & remote directories)
                                                                                                                    8. Transfer everything from local to webhost (usually takes about 30s with "replace only if file is newer")
                                                                                                                    9. Go see if it looks OK

                                                                                                                    Step 8 (second-to-last) should theoretically be much faster with rsync but I'm getting error messages from Opalstack's server with that. I think I need their help, so maybe just assume step 8 could be simplified to an rsync command.

                                                                                                                    Are there Linux packages/functions that simplify some of this? Should I just ditch Hugo and use something simpler if I'm only blogging? Is this pretty much what the future looks like for me?

                                                                                                                    and ideas welcome.

                                                                                                                      [?]Aral Balkan » 🌐
                                                                                                                      @aral@mastodon.ar.al

                                                                                                                      Sharing this not because it’s about AI/LLMs but because it’s solid advice and the recommendations work equally well for *people* coding web applications (funny that, almost like these things were made by people for people or something).

                                                                                                                      TL;DR: Use web and platform standards; don’t reinvent the wheel.

                                                                                                                      jimmont.com/llm-style-token-co

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                                                                                                                        [?]➴➴➴Æ🜔Ɲ.Ƈꭚ⍴𝔥єɼ👩🏻‍💻 » 🌐
                                                                                                                        @AeonCypher@lgbtqia.space

                                                                                                                        People keep talking about saving the . Why? What about the is worth saving at this point?

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                                                                                                                          [?]CyberSecureFox :loading: » 🤖 🌐
                                                                                                                          @cybersecurefox@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                          Chrome Live Wallpaper Extensions Hid Ad Tracking Campaign

                                                                                                                          🔗 cybersecurefox.com/en/chrome-w

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                                                                                                                            [?]Grunkle Moose » 🌐
                                                                                                                            @RootMoose@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                                                                            If Vivaldi had uBlock Origin I'd probably use it more.

                                                                                                                            I have to use a Chromium based browser to access some sites (business services web sites) and on those rare occasions I'm always impressed by how "snappy" Vivaldi is compared to Firefox and derivatives.

                                                                                                                            Vivaldi is a much more useful experience on iOS than the iOS lobotomized Firefox in the Apple app store.

                                                                                                                            Because of the lack of ublock and other extensions like cookie auto-delete and whatnot, I don't do much casual web browsing or researching things on my iOS phone - just the daily routine sites where I understand that there are no adverts - and only when I'm "out and about", never at home where I have access to 'better' browsing platforms. I got rid of my iPad for similar reasons.

                                                                                                                            I still use Waterfox on Android because I can run uBlock and other extensions.

                                                                                                                            Sure, Vivaldi is not totally open source but... I hate to say it... I'm starting to care less when it comes to the hellscape that the web has turned into.

                                                                                                                            I'll still use a gecko based browser for most things.

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                                                                                                                              [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                              @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                              An organization I consult with uses Dropbox and so I've been using it again recently, for the first time in years. Holy smokes. Everything is pop up this, notification that, most trying to upsell features and services I don't want. I don't remember it being so much like a used car dealership.


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                                                                                                                                [?]Metin Seven » 🌐
                                                                                                                                @metin@graphics.social

                                                                                                                                Stop Killing The Internet

                                                                                                                                stopkillingtheinternet.com/

                                                                                                                                  [?]Rinaldo » 🌐
                                                                                                                                  @Rinaldo75@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                  Blogue de la Révolution Verte : Partenaires de Révolution Verte

                                                                                                                                  Plus :
                                                                                                                                  revolutionverte.fr/p/partenair

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                                                                                                                                    [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                    @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                    You have to robotically "prove" you're a human to a robot to read about the human rights costs of robots, apparently.


                                                                                                                                    CloudFlare challenge blocking access to Amnesty International report "Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI".

                                                                                                                                    Alt...CloudFlare challenge blocking access to Amnesty International report "Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI".

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                                                                                                                                      [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                      @FlashF1R3@pixelfed.social

                                                                                                                                      I know it’s #InsektenSamstag but if the council will permit I would like to submit this arachnid. The Spotted Orb-Weaver. It’s munching on some kind of fly. This spider was maybe 3-4mm tall.

                                                                                                                                      #photography #photo #fotografie #foto #nature #naturephotography #macrophotography #macro #closeup #arachnids #web #spooder #spider #lunch #fujifilm

                                                                                                                                      A macro closeup shot of a Spotted orb weaver spider which is mostly red and brown with little spotted markings on its butt. It has a smaller insect in its mouth and is hanging on its web which extends to the edge of the frame. The background is a soft green bokeh that fades to black.

                                                                                                                                      Alt...A macro closeup shot of a Spotted orb weaver spider which is mostly red and brown with little spotted markings on its butt. It has a smaller insect in its mouth and is hanging on its web which extends to the edge of the frame. The background is a soft green bokeh that fades to black.

                                                                                                                                        [?]Aral Balkan » 🌐
                                                                                                                                        @aral@mastodon.ar.al

                                                                                                                                        If you’re trying to register for a Bank of Ireland account and the form fails silently, don’t worry, it’s simple to find out what happened and fix it.

                                                                                                                                        1. Open up developer tools on your browser
                                                                                                                                        2. Copy the failed regular expression from the console
                                                                                                                                        3. Put it, and your generated password into Regexr (regexr.com)

                                                                                                                                        And voila, as you can see the problem with mine* was that it hit the 16 character limit which was, to keep things exciting, not mentioned on the page.

                                                                                                                                        Simples.

                                                                                                                                        What muppets!

                                                                                                                                        * Don’t worry, it’s a different one now.

                                                                                                                                        Screenshot of me debugging why the password my password manager generated was being silently rejected by Bank of Ireland’s registration form.

                                                                                                                                        Alt...Screenshot of me debugging why the password my password manager generated was being silently rejected by Bank of Ireland’s registration form.

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                                                                                                                                          [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                          @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                          In other words Ladybird is no longer a free and open source software project. It is, in an important sense, closed now.

                                                                                                                                          "Proprietary" means having owner(s). If the maintainers are the only ones allowed to introduce changes, they are establishing an ownership relationship over the codebase. I.e., it's a proprietary project, and that is the sense in which it's closed.

                                                                                                                                          This is the destiny of most projects that go AI, in my opinion.


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                                                                                                                                            [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                            @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                            One of the goals of accessibility ought to be to minimize cognitive load as much as possible, with a special emphasis on avoiding surprises that cause spikes in cognitive load.

                                                                                                                                            As a low-vision user I already have to lean heavily on my short-term memory to successfully navigate the web. I also constantly use screen magnifiers.

                                                                                                                                            When I select some text on a web page and hit "copy", then go to some other document and hit "paste", and what comes out is different from what I selected, my cognitive load suddenly spikes. The problem is compounded by the fact that I'm very likely zoomed so far into the desktop that I don't even see the text I thought I'd selected. Naturally I begin wondering whether I made a mistake, whether I selected more text than I intended, whether I didn't hit Ctrl-C enthusiastically enough for it to register, etc etc etc. What ought to be a simple and routine command turns into a mystery to solve. To me this feels like a hallmark of poor design.

                                                                                                                                            (Please note that I will probably block you if you respond with advice or fatalism; see above regarding causing spikes in cognitive load).


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                                                                                                                                              [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                              @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                              Mucking around with the contents of the clipboard, however well-intentioned, is an accessibility issue and should be avoided. Tons of ecommerce sites do this anyway.


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                                                                                                                                                [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                                Cloudflare just "verified" I'm a human four times in a row, and appears to be stuck in an infinite "verifying you're a human" loop. What a lovely service (/s).


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                                                                                                                                                  [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                  @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                                  Every time there's something in the news about Google search, Kagi zealots come out of the woodwork to troll you into submission if you dare say anything about Kagi that doesn't resonate with their view. It's weird and people should stop being weird about technology like this.

                                                                                                                                                  Kagi started as an AI company that wanted to slurp up the internet to provide a question "answering" service not unlike what Google is proposing to replace web search with. Perhaps they've toned this rhetoric down a bit on their blog recently but there's no evidence I'm aware of that the business has changed mission. All of this is still available on Kagi's own blog---including the fact that they used to be kagi.ai---yet somehow it's controversial to point it out. If you're looking for a web search engine that isn't likely to turn into a slop extruder, Kagi is probably not going to be the one. Try @Mojeek@mastodon.social or Marginalia. This list might be helpful too.


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                                                                                                                                                    [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                    @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                                    I wonder if there's a psychological price that a web developer has to overcome to make a non-trivial web page with no pop-ups of any kind. It seems like a compulsion.

                                                                                                                                                    At least in the way I use computers as a low vision person, pop-ups are extraordinarily anti-accessibility. Yes, even tooltips and alt-hovertext, depending on how they're done. Some websites are close to unusable because of these things.


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                                                                                                                                                      [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                      @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                                      Am I to understand from this that SearXNG is in the process of becoming AI poisoned?

                                                                                                                                                      The last issue hasn't been active since 2023 but the 1st one has been active recently and the middle one last summer.


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                                                                                                                                                        [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                        @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                                        Regarding last boost: "Firefox For Web Developers" is out here urging me to stop using Firefox.


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                                                                                                                                                          [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                          @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                                          Long post [SENSITIVE CONTENT]I've now had at least four people, two of whom self-identified as Mozilla employees, claim that the above list of AI features--which were suddenly and rapidly added over the last few releases of Firefox, and were "on" (true) by default--could easily be turned off by flipping one master kill switch. This is not true, but folks keep claiming it or suggesting it anyway.

                                                                                                                                                          Here's a post from an official Firefox Mastodon account suggesting such a master kill switch does not exist yet, but will be added in a future release:

                                                                                                                                                          https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500373677782

                                                                                                                                                          That's not as bad as it could be. It's bad they're stuffing AI into a perfectly good web browser for no apparent reason other than vibes or desperation. It's very bad if it's on by default; their dissembling post about it aside, opt-in has a reasonably clear meaning here: if there's a kill switch, then that kill switch should be off by default. But at least there will be a kill switch.

                                                                                                                                                          In any case, please stop responding to my post saying there's a master kill switch for Firefox's AI slop features. From the horse's mouth, and from user experience, there is not yet.

                                                                                                                                                          Furthermore, when there is a master kill switch, we don't know whether flipping it will maintain previous state of all the features it controls. In other words it's possible they'll have the master kill switch turn on all AI features when the switch is flipped to "on" or "true", rather than leaving them in whatever state you'd set them to previously. Perhaps you decide to turn the kill switch on because there are a handful of features you're comfortable with and you want to try them; will doing so mean that now all the AI features are on? We won't know till it's released and people try this. So, in the meantime, it's still good practice to keep an eye on all these configuration options if you want the AI off.


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                                                                                                                                                            [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                            @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                                            Slack is giving me a very stern, very red warning that my web browser will not be supported after November.


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                                                                                                                                                              [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                              @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                                              If Cloudflare really is "verifying" that I'm human with its obnoxious widget, why does it do this for multiple web sites and over and over again for a given web site? Shouldn't it be able to verify I'm human once and for all? What exactly are they doing with their sprawling control of all these web sites if not adding value through economy of scale?


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                                                                                                                                                                [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                                                Based on the answers to this StackOverflow question and this blog post, here are the 16 (!!!) AI-related settings in new versions of Firefox that you'll want to disable/set to false, and that might be turned back on with each update:

                                                                                                                                                                - browser.aiwindow.enabled
                                                                                                                                                                - browser.ml.chat.enabled
                                                                                                                                                                - browser.ml.chat.menu
                                                                                                                                                                - browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge
                                                                                                                                                                - browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge
                                                                                                                                                                - browser.ml.chat.page
                                                                                                                                                                - browser.ml.chat.shortcuts
                                                                                                                                                                - browser.ml.chat.sidebar
                                                                                                                                                                - browser.ml.enable
                                                                                                                                                                - browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled
                                                                                                                                                                - browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled
                                                                                                                                                                - browser.ml.smartAssist.enabled
                                                                                                                                                                - browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
                                                                                                                                                                - browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled
                                                                                                                                                                - extensions.ml.enabled
                                                                                                                                                                - sidebar.notification.badge.aichat 

                                                                                                                                                                Enter "about:config" in the browser bar and then search for each of these and disable them, turn them off, or set them to false as appropriate.

                                                                                                                                                                Depending on which version of Firefox you have you may not have all these configuration options.

                                                                                                                                                                Check your smartphone browsers too!


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                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                  @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                                                  I'm glad to add Firefox to the list of apps I have to constantly check to make sure they haven't turned back on all the anti-features I disabled.


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                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                    @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                                                    Maybe I'm being melodramatic, but the fact that you can't reliably use Downdetector to detect whether or not Cloudflare is down because it depends on Cloudflare is a microcosm of so much of what's wrong with modern digital life.


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                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                      @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                                                      Downdetector wants to issue a cloudlfare challenge, but cannot because of the current cloudflare outage. Instead of letting me through or supplying a useful error message, this is what it says. As if I, and my ad blocker, are to blame.


                                                                                                                                                                      Screenshot reads:

                                                                                                                                                                      downdetector.com
                                                                                                                                                                      Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed.


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                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                        @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                                                        A web site just blocked me because I solved one of those sliding jigsaw puzzle captchas too quickly.


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                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                          @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                                                          I closed around 70 browser tabs yesterday and my computer feels lighter.


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                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                            @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                                                            Meanwhile, LLM prompt injection attacks are everywhere, and easy to exploit. The companies responsible for them are not taking steps to close the glaring security holes. It may not be possible.

                                                                                                                                                                            Security theater. In fact I think "security" is really about control, and nowadays when I encounter a security challenge I think of it in terms of who is trying to control my behavior and to what ends. I think it's clear by now that many internet "security" controls, at least those deployed by large tech companies, are not good faith efforts to protect users; that's a secondary concern.


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                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                              @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                                                              In 2025 the web has more security checkpoints than an American airport.


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                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                                                                Once again blocked from using a website I've used regularly for years because of "unusual activity" from "your IP". After passing a captcha, no less.

                                                                                                                                                                                Somehow bot-detecting algorithms have been degrading over time.

                                                                                                                                                                                This is a troubling trend because people who aren't using the anointed access points of the internet struggle more and more to connect and interact. Large entities like CloudFlare choke off more and more avenues of access in the name of "security", enforcing digital checkpoints without any accountability to anyone.


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                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                  @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                                                                  Re: LB: time to move off Chrome.


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                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                    @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                                                                    Is it just me, or has the number of captcha challenges significantly increased over the past few months? Nowadays I feel like I'm being hit with captchas all day every day, where before it was relatively rare. It is especially noticeable on sites I visit frequently, have accounts with, and presumably have cookies for.


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                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                      @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                                                                      I just had to "prove" I am human to view a shop listing for a refrigerator.


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                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                        @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                                                                        Once again a fully automated, non-human system is denying me access to a resource on the internet because it has determined I am not human enough.


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                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                          @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                                                                          Is "agentic web" what they're calling the successor to web3?


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                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                            @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                                                                            It's fascinating to me that I'm literally going through the same steps to remove AI dark patterns from web apps as I go through to remove ads, auto-play videos, and other such stuff that mucks up the web. In my head these are in the same category ("potentially dangerous nuisance that interferes with what I want to do"), and I even use the same tools to clean them up.


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