I've seen some stuff on tiktok where folks just ask ChatGPT leading questions about things that patently make no sense and it'll just feed into it and add exciting new details in an authoritative tone. Meanwhile people in the comments will start spewing their personal delusions and "conspiracy theories" to further rabbithole each other from reality.
It's actually so over.
You know what to do #Ontario
Discouraging voters is an intentional strategy. Vote anyway.
Bruh, it's snowy out there. I thought it'd be a casual stroll but came home with a few mm of snow on my head :P
We've got a new release (2.8.2) of Agregore Desktop which brings "font-based" syntax highlighting to all Code Blocks and TextArea inputs
https://github.com/AgregoreWeb/agregore-browser/releases/tag/v2.8.2
Eatin chickie tendies for lunch and doing some fun code in Agregore.
Got a PR for adding font level syntax highlighting so just doing some fixes before we release.
This'll be great because I've really wanted syntax highlighting in stuff like TextArea tags but didn't want to import heavy JavaScript deps.
For my #Ontario pals, remember to vote this Thursday! Even if you didn't register you can still show up with a valid piece of ID. Lets kick Ford out so we can stop having our social services gutted while he gives handouts to his millionaire pals.
Where does it get the URLs from?
Some of the URLs must be coming from external sources, because I have requests like: /tales/27-years-of-linux/ringe/disobligingly/agronomy/downweigh/toxicohemia/ultrarefined/. The first two parts are valid, real pages, but I never served them to this particular bot. So it must have seen a reference to it elsewhere, and entered the maze there. Most crawled URLs have parts that are made up from my wordlist, so... I guess those are coming from previous scans.
In any case, this strongly suggests that at least some of the bots keep track of URLs seen, and that's going to be very wasteful for them.
Another win!
Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.