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I love how most big commercial websites - vendors or otherwise - have made it difficult or impossible to contact them to report problems with their websites.

They still screw up and deploy broken sites, but they don't want to hear from users because it's a hassle to deal with the false reports from people who don't actually know a problem they're experiencing is not due to the website itself.

Argh.

#rant#web#website

I'm happy to share that I’ve finished moving my landscape (and portrait) photography website to #ghost using the wonderful hosting service @hey. I really feel comfortable with Ghost now. 🥰

Next: adding more of my journeys to the website and a whole lot of portrait sessions I did in past years.

Excited to share: zielecki.com

Chris ZieleckiChris ZieleckiPhoto tours to epic nordic landscapes. Grab your camera and be ready to explore remote places, wild untouched landscapes and rough coastlines.

Woah, I wondered why I was getting a small influx of followers on #Neocities lately. Apparently, my blog is in the top spot in the Special Sauce section (which I've never been before)!

I'm honestly not sure what you have to do to even get on the Special Sauce list, but on Neocities, that's kinda a big deal!

Many years ago, I wrote greeting card poetry.

I was never able to sell any.

Would you all like me to create a simple site with some (or most) of this poetry that you could use?

Just use the attribution to use the poetry, on any card, whether an ecard you create, or adding it to a paper card.

#GreetingCard
#GreetingCardVerse
#Poetry
#WebSite

→ Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives
blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity

“We observed that #Perplexity [an AI-powered answer engine] uses not only their declared #user_agent, but also a generic browser intended to #impersonate Google Chrome on macOS when their declared crawler was blocked.”

“This activity was observed across tens of thousands of domains and millions of requests per day.”

The Cloudflare Blog · Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directivesPerplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.
#AI#evade#stealth