The web site of an outsider
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So I happened to be thinking about AI mass-scraping the internet to feed hungry LLMs, and I suddenly wondered... is my Neocities page available for those monsters? After a little reading online, and testing a search on Duckduckgo, I discovered (a) yes it probably is available to AI and (b) it is also available for search engines. Supposedly this code prevents it
Your site is very interesting to me because I can relate so much to what you say. I too have always felt like a black sheep, and I have never found my place in the modern internet, which I now feel is too distant and artificial. I don't have any social media accounts, and I'm really nostalgic for the old web, for the days when the web was more genuine and magical. That's why I love Neocities, a little time portal!
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anoutsider
5 months ago
Hi! Thank you for stopping by. What a wonderful comment :) Your site is lovely and the herbarium is a creative page. Following :)
Got a lovely message from theprophat in my guestbook. To answer your question, I've never owned a smartphone. Over the years I've gone through a few different dumbphones. I've used this Nokia phone for about a year now. The phone comes with some games (including Snake!). Before then, I used a cricket flip phone that sucked (had the KaiOS operating system - avoid if you can!) More info on my dumbphone tips page :)
Anyone ever embedded IRC into a neocities page? See https://kiwiirc.com/embedding
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Just discovered your site - so much to see! I do not know anything about marine biology but the ocean is a special place. I will have to poke around more on your site when I have a little time :)
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lankarta-project
5 months ago
One of the historical event that terrifies me was the dumping of tons of radioactive materials directly to Lake Karachay in 1950's, about 60km away from Chelyabinsk. It's worse than Chernobyl, but since it's too far away from Europe, no one noticed and no one made a HBO series about it. I mean, the whole carelessness of handling nuclear stuff during that era is shocking in today's perspecitve.
anoutsider
5 months ago
Hey Lankarta just saw your reply. I am nearly always interested in historical events so I will definitely have to check it out - thanks for the suggestion!
I have been busy in the "real world" though I'm considering updates to my page when I have time. Gladly taking suggestions for how to categorize the info in my "Links" page :)
Well it didn't let me post the code < meta name = " robots " content = " noindex , nofollow " > remove the spaces
Some great info on the code is available here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/meta/name/robots
ended up using noindex, nofollow, noarchive, nocache, noimageindex, nosnippet
This assumes someone hasn't done something as evil as this scumbag who publicly recommends feeding someone's raw html into a chatbot: https://medium.com/@datajournal/automate-web-scraping-with-chatgpt-685667e31f24
Refreshing article on the immorality of what AI is doing: https://epic.org/scraping-for-me-not-for-thee-large-language-models-web-data-and-privacy-problematic-paradigms