colin

from my limited experience, about half? i had to finally set up a robots.txt last month after Anthropic decided it would be OK to crawl my Wikipedia mirror from about a dozen different IP addresses simultaneously, non-stop, without any rate limiting, and bring it to its knees. fuck them for it, but at least it stopped once i added robots.txt.

Facebook, Amazon, and a few others are ignoring that robots.txt, on the other hand. they have the decency to do it slowly enough that i'd never notice unless i checked the logs, at least.

wow, way to devolve into the YouTube comments section, Lemmy. that's so not fetch.

breaking the fourth wall IRL? i think it's brilliant. my generation got halfway there with "meta": "chat" is just the next step past that.

Autechre counts, right? a more tame track if that's too much, a less tame track if it's too little.

as a NixOS-on-Pinephone user i 100% support funding upstreaming efforts 😉 that's the type of thing which can have really broad reach. you'd never know it unless you were specifically looking for it, but we've also got people maintaining those OpenEmbedded musl+systemd patches for our distro (along with way too many other non-musl systemd patches: like you point out, it's just not the type of thing that gets cleaned up without some focused effort like this).

i found CAD files for this here. i'm gonna try and CNC it later today 😄

GNU Terry Pratchett

this has been a thing for like five years, on sites as big as e.g. Youtube. do they not see it as a bug, somehow? or is it just way harder to fix than one would think for complicated computery reasons?

they exist! i have a pair from Gaiam, advertised as "grippy yoga socks". they ain't cheap though :(

grippy socks make life worth living during the season where it's too cold to walk around barefoot. trick your brain into thinking it's actually walking on dirt/rocks, with all them little bumps beneath your feet.

same

nixpkgs already has infrastructure to compile to wasi the same way you compile to other platforms like arm, darwin (macOS), musl, etc.

nix-build -A pkgsCross.wasi32.$pkg

i haven't found any $pkg there that actually builds though. coreutils depends on posix stuff, busybox tries to include a non-existent netdb.h file. even hello barfs inside i think some autotools-generated wrapper around fcntl.

i don't understand enough about wasm to know if it really is reasonable to think of it as a "system" the same was x86_64-linux or aarch64-multiplatform is a "system", but if so i'd love the equivalent of this blog post showing how to use (or fix) the wasi32 system!