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heya, i remember you posted something about robots.txt earlier -- that's mostly a convention with no guarantee anyone on the web will follow it. you can request x-bot not to crawl your site but they still can if they want to.
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sorbier 3 months ago

i'm sure you already know! but i just wanted to leave the note! openai seems to be ignoring it for example: https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-anthropic-ai-ignore-rule-scraping-web-contect-robotstxt

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colexdev 3 months ago

Yeah it is very unfortunate that they will not follow it. I know this doesn't apply to neocities, but for people that host their own sites I recently heard cloudflare released a feature to block AI bots.

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mikegrindle 3 months ago

Absolutely, all the robots file does is state that you do not consent - whether companies listen to that (often, they don't) is another matter. I think it's worth doing, but I didn't mean to create a false sense of security.

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in light of all the crappy generative ai stuff that's coming out, allow me to direct you toward this wonderful post (https://mrgan.com/ai-email-from-a-friend) and (undoubtedly preach to the choir as I) say: TECHNOLOGY IS ONLY GOOD WHEN IT BRINGS US CLOSER TOGETHER
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murid 4 months ago

The problem I have with modern western salads is that they are mostly some sort of Brassica. There are so many other types of interesting edible leaves in this world, why do you choose to only eat variations of one boring leaf?

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sorbier 4 months ago

true! more leaves!!! (also i dislike cabbage for the most part)

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mikegrindle 4 months ago

Your recent post about capturing tone and choosing interesting topics is all too relatable. For what it' s worth, though, I think your personality comes through well in your writing.

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sorbier 4 months ago

wow, thanks for the feedback, means a lot coming from you!

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I love your writing! most recently read your essay on revision, which really spoke to me, and I'm enjoying slowly getting through your other stuff
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ghostscape 5 months ago

also, I am so jealous of/into whatever you've done with your footnotes: still in the process of establishing my own format for longform writing but I need to get some capacity for foot/endnotes in

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sorbier 5 months ago

wow, thank you! obviously feel free to inspect source for the footnotes! good luck with your phd (:

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nohappynonsense 5 months ago

just wanted to say i really enjoy your site design and the philosophy behind it

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sorbier 5 months ago

how to centre text with css

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murid 5 months ago

I was joking in the previous comment, but now I realise that I've been doing it wrong all along. This is a very useful tutorial.

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hi, thanks for the follow! love your writing, so funny (your about me... your gundam list... your harry potter page... tbh, pretty impressive how much you got right) -- looking forward to your (occasional) content
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murid 5 months ago

Thanks. I like your writing too and I'm looking forward to going through your website. Though I'm a bit disappointed that your "Centring text" is not a guide on how to center text in css. I can never remember how to do that properly.

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sorbier 5 months ago

LOL! i will write a blog post about literally centring text. can i mention you in the post?

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murid 5 months ago

Yeah, sure go ahead.

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