Rivaclaw🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ @renbymon@computerfairi.es

💻 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

So...I ended up having to start over because the game was in an unwinnable state. Basically locked into a quest for a character whose era was still locked.

But, that meant I got to try out the Yakra skip! (And now I know what NOT to do after getting Go mode)

#randomizer #chronotrigger

Specifically the petition to ban conversion therapy practices is lacking enough votes from:
- #germany (49.9%)
- #sweden (49.96%)
- #Netherlands (94%)
- #austria (25.5%)
- #Slovenia (83.14%)
- #portugal (24.46%)

If you're a citizen of these countries you can help advance a ban on conversion therapy practices by voting at:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

"Do I look like a reasonable man, or a peppermint nightmare?"

Happy #WebcomicDay ! My webcomic Crossed Wires has been on a bit of a break recently (I've been stupid busy), but it's still got over 400 pages of ultracool anti-corpo action! In the cyberpunk present, hacking isn't just a skill... it's a survival trait. https://crossedwires.irisjay.net

PSA: Using "female" as a noun to refer to someone, as in "a female," "that female," or "those females," makes you sound like a Ferengi.

I noticed that a *lot* of the crawlers/bots we see on www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com are spoofed e.g. a "Meta" crawler coming from 10s of different small ISPs across the world (the real one comes from a Meta ASN).
I deployed a change this morning which adds source ASN validation (alongside user-agent string analysis) to our "known crawlers/bots" classifier & well, the results speak for themselves. Attached graphs show RPS from "known crawlers/bots" to www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com.
#WebDev #BBC #Bots