●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, August 29, 2023 ●● ● Aug 29 [00:53] *GNUmoon2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Aug 29 [01:38] *GNUmoon2 (~GNUmoon@yk58f7khufeyg.irc) has joined #techbytes [01:39] *MinceR gives voice to GNUmoon2 ● Aug 29 [02:08] *schestowitz-TR2 (~acer-box@freenode/user/schestowitz) has joined #techbytes [02:08] *schestowitz-TR has quit (Quit: Konversation term) [02:08] *schestowitz-TR2 has quit (Quit: Konversation term) [02:08] *asusbox has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [02:08] *acer-box (~acer-box@3stvfjh5iuw88.irc) has joined #techbytes [02:08] *asusbox (~rianne@3stvfjh5iuw88.irc) has joined #techbytes [02:08] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [02:08] *acer-box has quit (Quit: Konversation term) [02:08] *acer-box (~acer-box@3stvfjh5iuw88.irc) has joined #techbytes [02:08] *schestowitz-TR2 (~acer-box@freenode/user/schestowitz) has joined #techbytes [02:08] *asusbox has quit (connection closed) [02:08] *liberty_box_ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [02:08] *schestowitz-TR2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [02:08] *rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [02:08] *asusbox (~rianne@3stvfjh5iuw88.irc) has joined #techbytes [02:09] *rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [02:13] *MinceR gives voice to asusbox acer-box [02:38] schestowitz > > Just Gagan Mishra, I am not a part of it. [02:38] schestowitz > [02:38] schestowitz > To give you a bit more context, we worked in past. [02:38] schestowitz > [02:38] schestowitz > > We can run articles for you as a guest author if that's what you [02:38] schestowitz > are after. [02:38] schestowitz > Sure, [02:38] schestowitz > [02:38] schestowitz > > Can even link to your original to attribute. [02:38] schestowitz > [02:38] schestowitz > I apologize for any confusion; I did not fully understood what you saying. [02:38] schestowitz When you have an article that is not a howto (we put these in Daily Links), it can be published in full in http://techrights.org & http://tuxmachines.org. [02:38] schestowitz Your site recently wrote several non-howto articles. [02:38] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Resolving timed out after 10520 milliseconds ( status 0 @ http://techrights.org ) [02:38] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.tuxmachines.org | Welcome to Tux Machines [02:58] schestowitz Re: Tuxmachines: Broken Gemini links in Techrights news feed [02:58] schestowitz > Hello. [02:58] schestowitz > [02:58] schestowitz > The "Gemini Links" section of the Techrights news feed on Tuxmachines [02:58] schestowitz > has broken links. It links to Gemini posts with HTTP instead of Gemini, [02:58] schestowitz > because the protocol part of the URL (gemini://) has been removed. Those [02:58] schestowitz > broken links lead to search engines like Google adding http:// by [02:58] schestowitz > themselves, which creates pages not found errors in logs and alerts in [02:58] schestowitz > Google Search Console for the respective domains. [02:58] schestowitz > [02:58] schestowitz > The Gemini links on the Techrights page itself are correct. [02:58] schestowitz > [02:58] schestowitz > Example: [02:58] schestowitz > [02:58] schestowitz > http://www.tuxmachines.org/aggregator/sources/48#m2622344501 [02:58] schestowitz > [02:58] schestowitz > [02:58] schestowitz > Search for "Gemini* and Gopher" on the page, because the in-page linking [02:58] schestowitz > (#m2622344501) doesn't work. For Saturday 26th of August 2023, there are [02:58] schestowitz > some non-working links to: [02:58] schestowitz > [02:58] schestowitz > //bbs.geminispace.org/s/discuss/4753 [02:58] schestowitz > [02:58] schestowitz > //tilde.cafe/~stack/gemlog/2023-07-18.woke.gmi [02:58] schestowitz > [02:58] schestowitz > //zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/talking-about-the-weather.gmi [02:58] schestowitz > [02:58] schestowitz > They all don't work, because the missing protocol will be completed to [02:58] schestowitz > http, but the pages don't exist on the web, they only exist on Gemini. [02:58] schestowitz > Search engines follow those links to no avail, but will try so for [02:58] schestowitz > months or even years to come, because after they found the link, they [02:58] schestowitz > won't give up easily. [02:58] schestowitz > [02:58] schestowitz > It would be good idea to fix this and re-add the gemini: protocol part [02:58] schestowitz > or to not publish those links at all. [02:58] schestowitz > [02:58] schestowitz > Because even if those links are fixed, some Gemini capsules explicitly [02:58] schestowitz > state in their robots.txt, that they don't want web proxies to expose [02:58] schestowitz > their content to the World Wide Web. An example with content of the [02:58] schestowitz > fictitional gemini://example.com/robots.txt : [02:58] schestowitz > [02:58] schestowitz > User-agent: webproxy [02:58] schestowitz > Disallow: / [02:58] schestowitz > [02:58] schestowitz > This states clearly, that nothing of this capsule should be available on [02:58] schestowitz > the web. [02:58] schestowitz > [02:58] schestowitz > Further info about robots.txt on Wikipedia: [02:58] schestowitz > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt [02:58] schestowitz > [02:58] schestowitz > Further info about Gemini's robots.txt variant: [02:58] schestowitz > gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/companion/robots.gmi [02:58] schestowitz > [02:58] schestowitz > [02:58] schestowitz > Thanks. [02:58] schestowitz > [02:58] schestowitz > (A person who's annoyed by search engines crawling non-existing links on [02:58] schestowitz > their website and being spammed by Google's Search Console because of [02:58] schestowitz > that, even though their robots.txt clearly forbids publishing their [02:58] schestowitz > stuff on the web) [02:58] schestowitz Hi, [02:58] schestowitz I've just taken a look. This boils down to a buddy Drupal extension, which isn't just old but does not know how to deal with gemini protocol. The good news is, we'll be retiring the Drupal site (a year ago we already made a replacement), so no more links such as these will exist. Patching software for something we're already deprecating would be a lot of work. [02:59] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Could not resolve host: by; Unknown error ( status 0 @ http:// by ) [02:59] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.tuxmachines.org | Techrights | Tux Machines [02:59] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 404 @ https://bbs.geminispace.org/s/discuss/4753 ) [02:59] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 404 @ https://tilde.cafe/~stack/gemlog/2023-07-18.woke.gmi ) [02:59] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 404 @ https://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/talking-about-the-weather.gmi ) ● Aug 29 [03:00] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 404 @ http://example.com/robots.txt ) [03:00] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-en.wikipedia.org | robots.txt - Wikipedia [03:00] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-gemini.circumlunar.space | robots.txt for Gemini ● Aug 29 [04:20] schestowitz Maybe the lawyer knows a plumber. [04:20] schestowitz :P [04:20] schestowitz Ariadne is talking to Matthew on his Also Shitter (Mastodon). [04:20] schestowitz I shut GULAG up for a while by banning part of Noisytoot's name. [04:20] schestowitz I'll take it off in a bit. [04:20] schestowitz It's the middle of the night so he's hopped up on drugs harassing me about what phone plan Sprint put me on. 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