I keep on seeing this come up where people want to support someone on Patreon but not be on the patron Discord. They’ll leave the Discord and then get automatically readded and it becomes incredibly frustrating. For years there was nothing you could do about this except either stop being a patron or ask the Discord in question to ban you (which could have other awful side effects, and make it much more difficult to rejoin if you actually want to).| busybee: General Articles
A question keeps on coming up on Mastodon (and the Fediverse in general), namely trying to figure out what the overall age distribution of the userbase is.| busybee: General Articles
Over the past several years, you’ve probably heard me or other web geeks talk about the IndieWeb, but just hearing about it doesn’t necessarily tell you what it actually is, exactly. The reality is that it’s both sort of complicated but also, at its core, really simple! If you do anything online with other people it’s definitely worth understanding and knowing more about.| busybee: General Articles
The Creative Commons initiative has been incredibly transformative for how people make things, and has been a huge boon to content creators the world around.| busybee: General Articles
Change is inevitable. Nothing is fixed, and that includes our understanding of things.| busybee: General Articles
Recently I finally set up a shopping site for me to sell some of my art and other merch. In doing so I evaluated a bunch of different shopping cart providers, and decided I should share my findings.| busybee: General Articles
A detailed look at how my streaming setup is put together, and some of the problems and potential solutions thereof.| busybee: General Articles
The spam DNSBL server at njabl.org went no-op in 2013 and dark in 2023, and starting at around 21:00 PST on January 1, 2024, was taken over by new controllers who began to inadvertently reject all email.| busybee: General Articles
Some of my Tundra Trackers have been having an issue recently where they’ll get stuck in a flashing red light mode and refuse to connect or turn off. This is a known issue from Tundra and they have provided a sequence of steps to fix it. For some reason they opted to make it as a video with no transcript, however, and this is both difficult to find and annoying to follow.| beesbuzz.biz
People often talk about how bad AI is for the environment, but only focus on the operation of the LLMs themselves. They seem to ignore the much larger impact of what the AI scrapers are doing: not only do those take massive amounts of energy and bandwidth to run, but they’re impacting every single website operator on the planet by increasing their server requirements and bandwidth utilizatoin as well. And this makes it everyone’s problem, since everyone ends up having to foot the bill. It...| beesbuzz.biz
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