People keep asking me about my XMPP server getting shut down and yeah its gone

While talking about the `feed:` URI scheme I looked at the official IANA documents for URI schemes, and noticed how despite it being 20 years old now, it is STILL a provisional scheme, which triggered me to go to the Wikipedia article for it. Turns out, the work regarding its integeration has been essentially frozen since 2011, so it is not worth using it, despite plenty of indie sites still using it :/

I want to preserve RSS feed history, therefore I have turned it into a database stored thing, not a filesystem storage :) ... might do the same with statuses

had some time on my hands to dig into the quantum part of SSGs, and yeah, what i saw in i guess acredible sources was wrong - the security implications stay the same. will continue to update the https://ari.lt/shrines/ssgs page as i continue to discover

We began aggressively IP banning bots that are trying to train toasters to speak. Fuck them toaster chatbots and their parent companies. So far we've banned over 5000 IP addresses in matters of half an hour.

Added badges: she-her young-adult student trans-woman asexual autistic introvert intj virgo enneagram-1 enneagram-5 enneagram-6 lithuanian english-2 german coder tinkerer science plants cat-owner chocolate emo punk scene visual-kei dreamcore sanriocore pi-day valentines

This year I'm participating in Petra's 2nd Indie Web contest! Feel free to vote for 175 sites at https://petrapixel.neocities.org/contest - one of them is me! Be fair, I don't want frienship points. But if any of you are interested in the indieweb check it out :D Took me over an hour to rate all sites...