Would you consider setting up a proper blog outside of mastodon? I would sub to your so low-key travel cycling blog.

I started using the internet in 1997 when i was 7 years old. Back then it was all about the blogrings. I followed so many bloggers and made many internet friends, whom i got to meet in real life because of blogs.

I personally distain AI. I love what the fediverse is doing and am now a Fedi-Knight!

The dead internet is no theory and we gotta bring back rss!

Newsboat on Linux FTW!!!

https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/117124417323751599

@Sarahw @neil

Yes, this is exactly my view too.

If I publish something and no-one else reads it, I'm still happy because I wrote it for me.

If someone reads it, I'm thrilled.

If someone reads it and gets some value out of it, all the better.

It’s a free blog on Wordpress and every year they push more and more to make me use AI on there but it will be a cold day in hell before I do so.

They’ll pry my keyboard from my cold dead hand.

Of course it will bust. There's no possible way for it to be profitable. Let's not talk about environmental and labour impact. The goal of its creators is getting rid of human workers, which always complain and are too costly in their eyes. But they miss where value is from : human workers. LLMs try to mimic human produced value, but are deemed to fail. The best they can do is look like what they were trained with. Which is often stolen without consent by AI labs, btw...

@neil

Dear Friends of the indie, AI slop free web,

As we may know:

1) With no responsibility, comes big corp spidering CEO's
2) There is no business like sham/shame business
3) Our Actual Intelligence (AI) is real, changes and makes guesses - not money for the useless

For example try having a cup of tea with an AI companion. You would be better off with a dummy. (I knew I had a use)

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My personal blog site is getting daily #DDoS attacks by greedy #AI scrapers. Residential IPs, generic user agents, ignores robots.txt, I even caught a mercenary web scraper company joining in on the attack as well.

I had to upgrade my VPS plan, implement custom fail2ban rules, and null route entire subnets.

This is getting annoying. I pay for hosting and DNS, refuse to display ads, refuse sponsorship, and this is what I get for it? Stupid #clankers are #APTs ffs...

It hasn't really taken off, but I am determined to do it every week now. And once I am in the rythm of writing again and begin editing the next book, I will share snippets there. And art.