Rivaclaw🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ @renbymon@computerfairi.es

From the outside, all kinds of AA batteries look about the same. But inside, they couldn’t be more different. From zinc & manganese dioxide, to nickel-metal hydride, to lithium-ion chemistry, a CT scanner lets us see the evolution of the AA.

The Electrical Handbook for Women combines empowerment with some fabulous Art Deco design: https://electrifyingwomen.org/the-electrical-handbook-for-women-a-transformative-20th-century-text/

In one hand: my root beer.

In the other hand: bottle of mayo.

We only get one shot at this, brain. Only one of these goes on my sandwich. I know you'll make the right choice.

if you don't love and treasure Renamon what the fuck are you even doing?

💻 Mozilla Thunderbird - The Failure of a Once Great Client 💻: https://prose.winterschon.com/2025/05/14/mozilla-thunderbird-the-failure-of.html

Thunderbird, wtf are you doing where you need 83% CPU plus ~50GB (virt) and 20G (res) of RAM allocated? You’re an email client. You handle IMAP. This has become absurd, the slow death of a once great product.

when the install instructions are just a docker container and you ask for actual install instructions

As part of a time-limited trial, yesterday we removed the www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com robots.txt "block" on *one* GenAI crawler.

Here's a graph of total daily requests from that 1 GenAI crawler by content-type. You'll note, they've retrieved ~460k web pages in ~16 hours, so a mean of ~28,750 web pages per hour. They'll likely pull ~690k pages today, ~32GB egress.

Whilst this is a drop in the ocean versus our other traffic, I can easily see how this could sink a smaller website.

#GenAI #WebDev