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Hi! Welcome to my little corner of the web, where I share my various creative output. About me Initial release: (time_t)266699460 Sex: neutrois Gender: nonbinary gal Pronouns: they/them or she/her Favorite colors: purple, red, sometimes blue Favorite pattern: buffalo plaid Furry: Yeah kind of?
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It’s been nearly a week since I removed Cloudflare from my sites. As a quick followup, I did get a slight surge in traffic that lasted for a day or so after a bunch of bots' DNS caches expired, but they seem to have all given up after...
About a year ago I set up Cloudflare as a fronting CDN for this site and my music site because it was the most expedient way of dealing with an AI bot onslaught. It helped a bit but the bots very quickly figured out how to get around all...
Ughhhh, this has been a heck of a week.As usual I’ve been full of pain. And my brief surge of enthusiasm for working on music got cut kind of short because of it. But I’m hoping that tomorrow feels better and I can go back to the...
I worry about where things are and how I’ll be affected by it. I feel like the dominoes are starting to fall. The entire world of “tech” has been broken for ages, and now it’s falling apart. The narrative about Amazon laying off so many...
Wellp, today I got yet another denial from social security, which tells me this ain’t gonna change any time soon.The previous denial came with a whole bunch of transphobia and also a claim that I am able to work, doing jobs which simply...
Wellp, I didn’t get a whole lot done on the TODO list but at least I Tried™. (I did call about the sleep study but they never returned my call and it slipped my mind to try calling again. Oh well, next week.) I did finally take the...
Back in the day, independent social media enthusiasts were building their own social spaces on RSS/Atom and self-hosted publishing. There was a huge ecosystem of feed readers and publishing software, where anyone could use their own...
Here are the things I need to take care of within the next week: Schedule a sleep study File my quarterly business taxes Edit background video for Saturday talk Set up projection mapping for Sunday show Start working on specification for...
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Lately there’s been a brewing culture war in the software community regarding the usage of LLM-based coding tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.), and I’m seeing a lot of hardline discourse on both sides, but especially from the anti-AI...
Login on this site has been a bit flaky for a while since in my never-ending fight against AI bots I had switched to a multiprocess configuration to give the site a bit more robustness, but which had the side effect of most logins only...
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And now it’s time for my traditional annual wrap-up post, and my hopes for next year. 2025 checkupHow did I do with my stated aspirations for this year? Music I indeed did a bunch of music for Strawberry Jam 9, and got a job as a result...
Time for another proverbial cheese sandwich post1. Thinking about the end of the year and what’s coming up for me.This isn’t my annual aspiration wrap-up post; that’ll come later. Mental stateI am currently very fatigued. I have a lot of...
Thou shalt not believe in that which cannot be demonstrated empirically Thou shalt not worship anyone, regardless of their social influence Thou shalt strive to improve the situation for everyone, including yourself Thou shalt allow...