Still worth the effort

ross misuse of other people’s work (aka slop) did not kill blogging and choosing to blog here again (on a frequent basis) has paid off. Hence, I will continue doing so for the foreseeable future.

In recent years there were whole months without any blog posts at all.

Why?

I blogged elsewhere.

But for personal matters and non-tech topics I might as well make better use of this platform. It’s still being read despite many people no longer using RSS readers.

We strive to cover what the media will not

was very serious when I said we’d take it up another notch after our long vacation. Right now I watch back as there are about 20 new blog posts since midnight (it’s only 5AM here). The headsup was based on the devotion of time, or based on the general allocation of resources. We now put foot on the metal/pedal, or push the pedal to the metal throughout the day today, as we expect more tactical intimidation and bullying from hired guns who are extremely rude. Yesterday tuxmachines.org served 665,042 Web requests and techrights.org served 479,275 (not the same as visits).

The sites’ reach only grew since the lawfare began 3 years ago (it was always Americans, it’s still only Americans).

still remember when this site was new more than 2 decades ago. In the summer of 2004 I think I was in London for a sort of “summer school” focused on computer vision. I’d log in to check AWStat after ‘classes’ (lectures rather) and be happy if this site got like 100 visitors in a day whilst I was away from home. To me, 100 people were already a good accomplishment and back then bots were easier to tell apart, hence estimating the number of daily visitors (real human visitors) was feasible.

Fast-forward many years and now I speak to millions, not hundreds. With exposure comes envy, however, and envy leads to litigiousness.

I’d rather choose the latter (with the price of litigiousness) than remain an obscure Ph.D. student who attends lectures.

No “manners” anymore

ots and scrapers are ruining the Internet, not just the Web. Today I read that Geminispace too is targeted by them (the LLM plagiarism engines). Earlier today they engaged in de facto DDoS against us, though it’s hard to know what those rogue bots are actually for and who runs them. Maybe their purpose is purely malicious.

Either way, Web traffic will become meaningless without some further context.

In today’s Web, like with E-mail, it is about merely surviving online (because of the many predators online).

Who will be left to clean up the mess?

Look ma, no Facebook!

allery has been installed in this site since 2012 or 2013. This past week it passed 8 million views for pertinent pages, now clocking at 8012k.

Gallery is hardly maintained anymore, so the gallery we have installed here will need format-shifting and exporting some day.

oday I published 13 posts here, which probably is an all-time high for this blog or “Weblog” that began in 2004. That’s despite the fact we were out for Rianne’s birthday, so at least the day of this record will be a memorable one (the date).

Tomorrow we’ll be back to normal, except still on vacation. No journeys across Town.

Personal stuff isolated:

HE other month (June or July) I began writing many more posts in my personal blog and I didn’t expect it to ramp up this quickly – to the point where today this is the twelfth blog post despite us being outside the home much of the day. The aim was to improve Signal-to-Noise (s/n) ratio in other blogs and it seems to have worked. Fewer but more focused articles elsewhere.

I’ve meanwhile noticed an increase in Geminispace activity, so maybe it’s time to set up a capsule again at home, this time for another site in incubation.