The web site of an outsider
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Quick announcement - someone tried to follow my site who has a page admitting to being under 18 year of age. I immediately blocked the user. I apologize but I want no interactions with anyone under 18 and besides it's part of the terms of service. If you are under 18 years of age, please kindly leave the internet (there are thousands of other things to do with your time).
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
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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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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