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Hannah Montana Linux is supposedly for youth outreach but the theming is so outdated that almost no actual children today will understand the reference. Therefore I propose a new solution to the youth outreach issue in FOSS operating system communities: SkibidiBSD,

Because I just deployed a new version of iocaine, I figured I'll look into how the cookie monster guard is working out.

Filtering out my own requests, there were a total of 617 requests made towards my forge that the monster did not eat (out of about 78k my passive identification didn't route into the maze).

Those 617 requests came from 194 unique ips, and 28 unique user agents, and hit 164 unique URIs, most of which are CSS, JS, and various images.

I do see.... a number of suspicious URIs hit, though! Stuff like /archive/HumpY/pulls?assignee=1&labels=389,388&milestone=0&poster=0&project=0&q=&sort=&state=open&type=all. That is very likely not a human.

Looks like we have a JS-capable bot! Lets dig in.

#AIStatsPorn

Here’s a fun SVG trick I just learned. If you set the fill or stroke properties to currentColor using CSS, your SVG will be the color of the text around it.

This is great for auto-changing light and dark modes because it means you don’t need multiple images – the SVG will just change color appropriately.

Click on the permalink for this note for a demo :D

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#coding, #webdev

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Why is it that websites refused to understand the only reason we're using ad blockers is because they upped the number of ads, blasted them everywhere, with pop-ups and sound, and movement, and flashing lights, and God knows what else.

A couple of static ads has never been a problem.

I run uBlock Origin or other ad-blockers in every browser I use.

Sometimes I get the "hey, you're blocking ads, we can't make money" popups. From otherwise agreeable news sites.

Then I think to myself, if you just ran the ads yourself, from your own site, without the adsystem trackers involving Meta/Google/Amazon, then the ads would probably get through.

The ads themselves aren't the problem. It's that publishers want to send all the data and most of the revenue to someone else.

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if you'll be in Berlin for @localfirstconf.com and are sticking around after... the Userandagents.com community is hosting a casual space for #localfirst people to hang / hack / chat for the Thurs/Fri after the conference! registration and more info: lu.ma/v457jxp2

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Great article, “How a Biofilm’s Strange Shape Emerges From Cellular Geometry” in Quanta Magazine.

Here are biofilms grown by researcher Lars Dietrich, all from the same bacterium, fed different nutrients.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-a-biofilms-strange-shape-emerges-from-cellular-geometry-20250421/