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Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1178/license-update-ai-derivation-prohibited-on-all-my-art-lore-stories-and-comics

Normally I reserve my vitriol for the slopbros for my personal blog, but this has become extremely DNA Lounge-related of late, as I shall explain. (This counts…

Country names aren’t always unique in the world. Look on a world map and you’ll see 2 Koreas, 2 Congos, and a full 4 Guineas. But there are some examples that…

Philocoffea is a coffee shop founded by Tetsu Kasuya, winner of the 2016 World Brewers Cup. Even if you haven't heard of him, you may have heard of his famous…

I've had lots of hobbies over the years. To name a few off the top of my head, there's been fish keeping, guitar, harmonica, fountain pens, watches,…

Cameras spotted during a house inspection I’ve mentioned before that I would love to see some more photos on blogs. Even if text is the main thing on your…

There’s a special breed of internet weirdo who spends so much time staring at a screen that their brain has completely turned to mush. To them, the entire…

I can't believe it's been a year since I was laid off from my previous job.

I have been wondering why the past couple of years have been so much harder on me even than Trump’s first presidency, and this is exactly why. There is just so…

I posted the above on Threads, and some folks questioned whether this could actually be true. So let me run you through the math. Granted, some of these…

I joined the Green Party of England and Wales in 2014.

So this is a little unprecedented. I wrote this post and sent it on to Ben as a heads-up. I’ve included a summary of his excellent, well-reasoned reply and…

Kids be like: Email everyone in the world and ask them for a dollar. To their AI agent. I wonder how any AI agents got/read this email and what they did with…

Bringing receipts for xkcd.com/2347. adactio.com/links/22794

Raspberry Pis are like iPads and other tablets for me: I like the idea of them, but then I get them and immediately regret it. Then sufficient time passes, I…

I just realized that I don't know what hypertext actually is. Like I know HTML and I build HTTP APIs for a living, both of which have hypertext in their names,…

Merriam-Webster: An organism living in, on, or with another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or…

I wanted to share my open-source solution on Reddit. I created an account, found a community where people post links to their projects, and posted a link to my…

Git is used everywhere in software development. And this very blog is also stored in Git. Obviously, I use Git a lot. I even have a regularly updated blog post…

Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1177/malicious-compliance

Today I wanted to try and find an extension for iOS that would automatically block the google AI results on searches. I know you can type in -ai and have them…

Modify the 'about:config'

My work’s slack is filled with messages that start with “here is what my Claude said” followed by a long vomit of text. This is a cry to stop it, please. There…

In which Kami extols the virtue of static sites while telling cloudflare to fuck off.

In infrastructure, “boring” is often a compliment. Mature tools, stable protocols, and predictable systems may lack novelty, but decades of accumulated…

Here’s what happens when you try to update your Android phone if it’s low on battery (even if it’s connected to a charger): It’s a pretty cheap error UI, a…

I have a bunch of scripts that I have written over the past many years that deal with tabular data. Even though libraries are available to read and write to…