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A programmer makes a scraping bot. Makes it opt-out. The tool floods numerous websites with aggressive bandwidth requests.

When asked to change how the bot works, he tells the people complaining—led by well-known developer Terence Eden—that they’re getting in the way of progress and that his bot should be treated like a person.

Can we talk about how incredibly awful this behavior is?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3vmx/an-ai-scraping-tool-is-overwhelming-websites-with-traffic

—@ernie

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iOS Shortcuts. Darcy Burnard, from the Maccessibility podcast, did a 10 part series on understanding and using shortcuts. If you are interested in iOS shortcuts, I would highly recommend checking out this series! You can find it on the ACB Community podcast. You can either join the podcast through your favorite podcast app, or go to the website link at the end. Now there is many different things posted to this podcast feed. But just do a search for Understanding Shorcuts, and this will filter them out. The series ran from January 23rd to April 10th. Thanks to Darcy for putting in the time and doing this series! I personally listen to them through my podcast app, but here is the website link if you want it. https://acb-community.pinecast.co. #iOS #Shortcuts #Tip #UnderstandingShortcuts #Blind #Voiceover @DHSDarcy

—@ChrisChaffin

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The hip new game all the kids are playing, coast to coast and all around the world, is something they call “Chess”. It’s pretty fun.

Deep Green was one of the iPhone apps I considered impeccable when it came out. I played it for years and years. On and off. As is my life long dalliance with chess.

I’m thrilled to see it return to iPhone! I’ve been fortunate enough to have beta tested it and it’s now available publicly. Check it!

https://deepgreen.app/

—@Gte

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** Ten years ago today, I posted my first MicroSFF story on Twitter. Four thousand stories later, I’m still writing them. Who’d a thunk it?

Many thanks to all of you, for reading, sharing, liking, and commenting.

Here’s that first story:
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God finally stopped the planet to let people off, but hardly anyone left. We watched the sun speed away and felt very silly.
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I have collected the most popular story from each year in a blog post here:
https://microsff.com/a-decade-of-microfiction
**

—@MicroSFF

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Still remember this time I was looking out the window at the place I worked and was watching someone use a traffic cone to try and scrape the ice off their windshield.

My coworker just mumbled “that’s not how you install VLC on windows” to himself as he walked by looking and nobody will ever tell a better joke than that.

—@rgegriff

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@anildash

There’s a really clear way to cooperate, which is to implement the open standards developed at the W3C.

Jack has known about AP and AS2 since Blue Sky was founded. He could have built on top of that standard, and instead decided to be incompatible.

It’s not our job to keep making yet another and another metastandard to try to invite BS in.

Incompatibility is their goal.

—@evan

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Greetings!

If ya so desire, you can now follow me among the #misskey side of the #fediverse by visiting

http://fediverse.projectftm.com/@queenslight/

For mobile clients that maybe friendly to the #Blind, check out #MilkTea for Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.panta.misskeyandroidclient
Milktea – Misskey App – Apps on Google Play
, and #Misscat for IOS
https://apps.apple.com/app/id1505059993

—@queenslight