Netlify warning that I’ve chewed up half of my bandwidth allowance for the month while Plausible analytics don’t even show a minor uptick. So I’m guessing some “AI” scrapers finally showed up. Anybody have any experience blocking bots on Netlify or will I have to finally move hosts for this?

Kinda looking forward to this series

For sale: strong opinions; never published:

For sale: strong opinions; never published

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

For sale: strong opinions; never published

For sale: strong opinions; never published

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

In lieu of saying something constructive

“Acorn 8.3 With Liquid Glass”

Acorn 8.3 With Liquid Glass

When I was on the Mac, Acorn was my go-to for image work. Affinity's shift to free and Apple's purchase of Pixelmator can’t be good for them so if you're a Mac user check it out.

Because the software industry doesn’t really monitor usability, defects, or anything resembling “quality”, there’s a non-zero risk that once the bubble pops most of them will just swap out shitty expensive US LLMs for shitty-but-cheaper Chinese LLMs and carry on regardless, because they’ll still believe it’s the future

I see “AI spurred the creation of massive amounts of power generation and so does tremendous good even if it fails” is the new party line from the “it’s not a bubble or a broken tech if I personally benefit” crowd No mention of the fact that it’s mostly coal, gas, or turbines or that the nuclear stuff is either sci-fi fiction or propping up outdated plant that should have been wound down