Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🖼️ xkcd: EPIRBs #3169

  • 🔤SpellBinding: WBCKPRA Wordo: AMYLS

  • Re (gef): i have nothing to offer Thee

    I loved the way that gef expresses, the part of "Why would I take everything so personal, when it's all a *current*, coming in from all directions.". Lately, I haven't really given much thought to the "being a *current*"... I am unsure if I ever gave proper importance to this superb thought.

  • “Our kids can't play and we will not be able to walk due to traffic”

    That 77-acre site (which is nothing but dense tropical trees) is right behind Chez Boca (and 32 other homes). This is not new—it's been something that the City of Boca has been threatening us with for the better part of fifteen years. And then yesterday, again on our door, we found another flyer, with largely the same information but with “Please attend it is urgent” and “Our kids can't play and we will not be able to walk due to traffic” scrawled in the margins.

    Well, how can I pass that up?

    At 6:00 P.M I found myself sitting in the Boca Raton Community Center Annex Building with about 50 other people. As the meeting began, it became apparent that this will happen. Maybe not next year, but eventually. Also, this meeting was to approve the architecture and landscaping only! No mention of traffic or noise would be brokered, nor would questions during the presentation of the architectural and landscaping firm. Afterwards, yes. But not during.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Unfiltered: Slack is a Sauna

    Work stress reaching a local peak. Maybe it'll chill out with the holidays? But if it keeps up I need to reinstitute some sanity-maintenance routines. The best one is inspired by the maxim (not my invention):

    "SLACK IS A SAUNA"

    That is to say, Slack is ok and pleasant and possibly healthful for short periods, but if you stay in there too long you will dehydrate and fall over and require your friends to resucitate you with ice water and gentle calming words of encouragement.

  • “Thanks for calling that out. That was bad advice on my part.”

    For reasons, I noticed that ClaudeBot (and I'd link to the information page for it, but, and this is my shocked face, they forgot to include a proper link!) was repeatedly requesting the same file over and over again—/sitemap.xml. My bad! I neglected to configure my web server to return “410 Gone” for that page. I went to the main site of the bot and found a “call to sign up!” but sadly, no obvious link to stopping their bot.

    So I figured, I might as well try this LLM thing once more. The last last [1] few [2] times I tried, it didn't go well. Maybe third time's a charm?

    Maybe?

    Sean: How do I stop your XXXXX­XX webbot from crawling my website?

    Claude: [Thinks hard for a few minutes.]