🎉 I’m very glad to announce I have a new Betula instance:

🪵 @inmediasres
https://log.digitalwords.net

🍄 For anyone who is not familiar with Betula (@betula), it is a free federated self-hosted single-user bookmarking software for the independent web with archival support, which can be used for organising bookmarks, maintaining a linklog (my use) or making a personal web archive. It lacks some features (like profile images, notification of mentions and making the archive public), but it’s very nice and I enjoy it immensely.

#Betula #linklog #fediverse #selfHosting #self_hosting
🪵 lipu pini jan Maja

#TIL about @betula;

"... a free federated self-hosted single-user bookmarking software for the independent web. Use it to organize bookmarks or maintain a linklog."

https://betula.mycorrhiza.wiki/

#ActivityPub #LinkLog #Betula

Betula

Wonderful nerdy article about screensaver and their history. (via @macsparky)

#linklog #article

https://tedium.co/2025/01/12/screen-saver-history/

Screen Saver History: Why Boring Black Screens Won Out

Pondering the screen saver, a cultural artifact which means one of two things: Offbeat graphics and screens that automatically go dark. The difference matters.

Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.

Bukmark club

A collection of web pages from across the Internet that have a curated collection of bookmarks and/or links.

I'll apply.

#collection, #linklog

Homepage

A collection of web pages from across the Internet that have a curated collection of bookmarks and/or links.

BUKMARK.CLUB

“Easier Said Than Done” by Alan Page about growing as an individual contributor in software engineering:

> * Build relationships through small, visible wins.
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> * Invest in understanding your manager’s priorities and challenges.
>
> * Leverage your network for insights and alignment.

#linklog #article

https://angryweasel.substack.com/p/easier-said-than-done

Easier Said Than Done

some of my experiences on influencing without authority

The Weasel Speaks

Podcast: Bad productivity advice from Chris Baily:
> How to separate good productivity advice from bad.

- Rules of 3: Pick three things from your task list you wish to accomplish by the end of the day.
- Time tracking
- Time blocking

#linklog #podcast

https://chrisbailey.com/podcast-bad-productivity-advice/

Podcast: Bad productivity advice - Chris Bailey

How to separate good productivity advice from bad—and the golden rule of productivity advice.

Chris Bailey
I'm in the middle of cleaning up and reorganizing my #linklog. Still a way to go, but it's starting to feel manageable again: https://felix.plesoianu.ro/links/log/
Recent

A personal chronology of eye-catching news over the years.

Bounty of bookmarks
Blogged:
Weeknote 2024 W10
Keeping the weeknote as bucket of stuff approach #powerplatform #NHS #LinkLog
https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/note/2024/03/07/weeknote-2024-w10/
Weeknote 2024 W10 | Synesthesia

Keeping the weeknote as bucket of stuff approach

Synesthesia

Me apunto para revisar Dark Visitors, una página web que enumera agentes de usuario relacionados con scrapers y bots que se dedican a robar contenido de páginas web para alimentar inteligencias artificiales. En la lista completa se muestran agentes como Bytespider, el de TikTok, o GPTBot, el agente principal usado por OpenAI.

A través de Hacker News también leo a Cory proponiendo bloquear este tipo de bots metiéndolos en el robots.txt. En algunas de mis webs ya tengo bloqueados algunos bots en el robots.txt, pero esta lista me servirá para ponerla al día. Sin embargo, me pregunto cuál de estas soluciones es realmente más efectiva.

Por un lado, podríamos poner este tipo de bots en el robots.txt y asumir que lo van a respetar. robots.txt es un sistema de honor. Realmente no hay nada que impida a un bot ignorar el robots.txt e igualmente hacer scrapping de la página web para extraer su contenido.

Pero a la vez, por el otro, optaría por una solución que asuma que el bot va a ser malévolo y va a ignorar una petición de no escaneo del sitio web. Para esas situaciones, se podría optar por banear la IP del sitio web a nivel firewall. Esta es una solución que tengo implementada en mi servidor, por ejemplo, para algunos productos de inteligencia artificial que sí enumeran las direcciones IP que usan para hacer el escaneo. OpenAI las enumera, por ejemplo.

Por último, otra opción que se me ocurre es tirar por la vía de la confusión. Detectar en el servidor web cuándo una petición procede de un user-agent asociado a un bot, y en vez de servir un HTTP 403 o de tirar abajo la conexión mediante el firewall, servir en su lugar otra página web diferente con el código HTTP 200, para que el bot lo interprete como una página correcta, pero servir información falsa para contaminar el dataset. Estoy pensando en una página en blanco que tenga un par de frases como «los cerdos vuelan y las vacas dan chocolate», pero podría proponer burradas más grandes que puedan hacer daño.

Dark Visitors – A List of Known AI Agents on the Internet

Insight into the hidden ecosystem of autonomous chatbots and data scrapers crawling across the web

Dark Visitors

Neuer Blogpost: AI links, human notes #3

Lesedauer 2 Minuten

My bookmark list keeps growing. For this blog series, I spare you the tech books and tutorial videos I’m spending most of my time with and focusing on the broader picture. Let me know in the comments (or by answering this post on the fediverse) how you like my selection.

Text:

Podcast & Videos:

  • Maybe the most inspiring use of AI I have heard so far: The Earth Species Project is a non-profit dedicated to using AI to decode non-human communication. Yes, that means using AI to talk with animals. Here’s a podcast explaining more.
  • Writers are worried about the use of AI as well, specifically, the fact that their texts are being used to train AIs. The podcast „The Daily“ has more context.
  • I don’t like the hyperbole of calling this video podcast an emergency episode. However, this conversation with Mo Gawdat about the direction AI is taking is still interesting and thought-provoking.
  • Yuval Harari is probably one of the smartest thinkers we have and gave a keynote lecture called „AI and the future of humanity“ that is well worth your time.

#AI #studylog #linklog

#ai #english #linklog #studylog

https://taeglichkeiten.kopfstim.me/?p=562

Achtung:Direkt auf den Post gegebene Antworten tauchen evtl. auch als Kommentar im verlinkten Blogpost auf.

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