#indieweb 2026-01-06
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simpleauthority Hmm maybe ~18 hours or so, not sure exactly
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fnhipster_ Ekul: Awesome!
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# Hello1 Hello
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# zachary.kai And welcome Piya! Good to have you!
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# [Al_Abut] Wow, that's a gorgeous site Ekul
# [Al_Abut] Ekul++ for the videogame-like HUD design
# [Al_Abut] [tantek] I got my first year end recap from Letterboxd a few days ago. It wasn't much use, just some overall stats. Not sure how much meaningful data it could've given me, I just barely started using it last year and only in sporadic bursts.
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "Turn a list into a web feed" https://jamesg.blog/2026/01/03/turn-a-list-into-a-web-feed/
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capjamesg I wrote a blog post about the new citation preferences section on some of my blog posts: https://jamesg.blog/2026/01/06/citation-preferences
# capjamesg [edit] I wrote a blog post about the new citation preferences section on some of my blog posts: https://jamesg.blog/2026/01/06/citation-preferences
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# tg8749 I come from an audio-heavy background and moved deep into generative AI. My focus is **making models useful for sound, voice, and media production**, not just chat.
# tg8749 Prompted + tool-driven agents for editing decisions
# tg8749 Speech understanding → structured actions
# tg8749 **AI / LLM Work**
# tg8749 ```LLMs as controllers for audio pipelines
# tg8749 RAG over transcripts, stems, sound libraries```**Audio & Voice**
# tg8749 ```STT: Whisper, long-form transcription, speaker labeling
# tg8749 TTS: custom voices, narration, character voices
# tg8749 Audio analysis: loudness, silence detection, scene boundaries
# tg8749 Voice transformation, cleanup, and enhancement```**Generative Media**
# tg8749 ```Text-to-image for thumbnails & creative assets
# tg8749 Text-to-video for short-form and explainers
# tg8749 Multimodal workflows (audio + frames + text)
# tg8749 ```**Engineering Stack**
# tg8749 ```FastAPI, Python, Node
# tg8749 FFmpeg-heavy pipelines
# tg8749 Cloud jobs, queues, storage, embeddings```
# tg8749 **If you’re working on audio tools, podcasts, media automation, or voice products, feel free contact me**
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# simpleauthority capjamesg, that's an awesome idea! I might do something similar.
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# [tantek]2 Are any IndieWeb Movie Club participants writing a year in review of the films they watched?
# [morgan] I have a half-written review of the first movie I saw in a theater in like 5 years which was Knives Out:Wake up dead man. Its a journal right now of that whole experience and a review of the whimsy of going to a random afternoon movie as much as the movie itself
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# 
winnerwind Hi all! ive been hosting my own website from my own home since may 2025! nice to meet you all!
# winnerwind note that i have iocaine setup so you might be blcked if you use a fingerprint resistor / happen to be part of facebook's ASN (what???)
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# [morgan] Winnerwind, you have Obsidian note graph installed? that feature was most interesting. your notes about crawlers and resisting them seem very on brand with a lot of peoples discussion here. The website did load for me but it did seem to lag a big loading the website. Welcome!
# [morgan] bit* loading the website heh
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# winnerwind [artlung] yeah apparantly the blocker i'm using, Iocaine, doesn't work on safari thanks to apple's fingerprint resisting, sorry!
# winnerwind no easy way to get around it other than use chrome
# winnerwind [morgan] i'm using quartz! it's probably lagging because of the huge amount of botspam that's still happening
# winnerwind you can only imagine how much worse it was before
# [morgan] I looked at your Github too - you contribute to the godot project?
# winnerwind i do!
# winnerwind other than all the githubs for running my website (all private), i do contribute to the godot project
# winnerwind i actually write their newsletter too
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[artlung] disappointing. same behavior on my phone. https://indieweb.org/large_language_model_traffic has some other schemes for dealing with malicious traffic.
# winnerwind (we'll send the december one shortly :') )
# winnerwind [artlung]: unfortunately the bots that i complained about in my blog post, MJ12Bot was not respecting robots.txt which is why i completely gave up on that avnue
# winnerwind im writing another blog post on how i tackled the bot problem
# winnerwind recently, network use has been around 20MiB/Day whcih is so much better than the previous 200GiB/Hour at some points
# [morgan] Nice. Well welcome, seems like you are experimenting with some interesting stuff. Do you think you get hit with this bot traffic because your a godot developer or something? Something odd for sure
# winnerwind to be honest i dont mind 2 - 3 GiB/Day, 50 - 100 GiB/Day for brief periods but sustained? hell no
# winnerwind [morgan]: i dont think that's the case, i mentioned in my blog that i think its from my file server
# winnerwind my file server has about 1TiB of all sorts of media
# winnerwind im pretty sure the bots are scraping that
# winnerwind i wouldn't have put 1TiB if i didnt want to share it but i want to share it with humans not bots
# [morgan] oh and btw there are a variety of channels around the place to check out btw, people like to keep the tech discussion in #indieweb-dev sometimes so maybe if you want to keep on that if it gets too much about the bots 😄. Interesting situation, trying to load a file server online to run quartz and stuff sounds interesting and tricky
# [morgan] I havent considered sharing a big file server but theres lots of reasons to want to do it I guess for sure !
# winnerwind honestly a file server only exists "for the lols" to be honest
# winnerwind "for the lols" meaning, i kind of adored the old web where people shared files freely
# winnerwind ..... i wasnt alive for the old web but i still like the idea of having a niche file server in a corner of the internet
# winnerwind so i thought, why not have my own
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# winnerwind i might join this place from IRC instead of discord tbh
# [morgan] Thats many peoples preferred method 🙂
# winnerwind yeah, and i can actually DM people i find cool, haha
# [morgan] Your github notes you are a teenager also - you seem to show a very bright spark for technology and a bit of a good hacker ethos - just keep in mind a bunch of us are basically seniors in terms of the web, and might give you advice based on some experience
# winnerwind I would love to! I am a teenager actually, 2nd to last year of high school
# winnerwind though I want to get into the electronics (VLSI) field as i dont think software will be fun in the long run
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# winnerwind OK i just joined via IRC, gonna connect myself to this channel and say hi
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# WinnerWind hiya!
# WinnerWind unfortunately thunderbird is being kind of finnicky with IRC so i'm on libera chat for now
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# WinnerWind-IRC scratch that lol
# WinnerWind-IRC okay this is gonna be awkward hmm
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# [morgan] Is there something on your website that describes how you got so involved in godot? thats cool, that will likely help you strongly find work in whatever direction you go after graduation. Ive heard of Linux projects having little ageism towards contributors basically who are talented before, like thats cool its gonna help you find work
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# WinnerWind OK, i'm back for reals. Finally set up IRC.
# WinnerWind Ekul, webrings are cool! I wish i could join more haha
# WinnerWind [morgan], no there's nothing on my website but the long story short version is i like coding, but i hate coding stuff like databases and websites; i take more fun in coding video games and fun stuff like that
# WinnerWind linux projects are cool but i dont see myself joining any tbh
# [morgan] I just mentioned Linux because some distributions of it are made by teenagers and like people of all ages find a lot of use out of some of their work in some cases. Some cool stories of people finding work doing stuff they like from early experience doing stuff like that
# [morgan] 🫡 keep on coding the stuff you like
# WinnerWind Thanks!
# WinnerWind i wanted to get into gamedev too but tbh that's kinda hard and industry sucks rn
# WinnerWind my mom and dad are in the chip design field so i have a really decent chance of making it in, esp with their help and guidance
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# WinnerWind sorry! got disconnected
# WinnerWind truth be told ive never used IRC in the past, and yet somehow i have a libera chat account
# WinnerWind apparantly past me logged in back in march? i can't remember why though
# WinnerWind Ekul: fair, haha
# WinnerWind i'm just afraid ill miss messages
# WinnerWind oh i'm using mozilla thunderbird, the email client, because i can't be bothered to get a new client
# WinnerWind oh wow, halloy is gorgeous indeed
# WinnerWind Somehow despte being a chronic coder, i could never get into rust, partly because i don't really have much of a need for it?
# WinnerWind i mean tbh despite what my github profile says, i don't code THAT chronically. i mean i do code a lot, its just that i code very few projects at a time, or they're just me modifying server config stuff
# [morgan] Im not a mod but ☝️ check the channel descriptions in whatever platform available for a little guide. people typically like to keep the tech discussion in the #indieweb-dev channel
# [morgan] This one is mainly about content on websites - theres a lot of tech around just mostly this channel is for websites
# WinnerWind oh, sorry! i didn't realize this was too technical haha, moving there Ekul
# [morgan] No worries, just a gentle nudge in the right direction 😄
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Ekul WinnerWind - this is the link as discussed. https://ekul.me
# WinnerWind OH! you're the one who made the monster energy heatmap, i think i was looking at it half an hour ago
# WinnerWind it's really pretty, how do you track monsters though? do you have an app or something you made?
# WinnerWind hey that's a wonderful idea, though I wonder if there could be a way to automate it
# WinnerWind oh sweet, that's actually a really elegant way. i was already drafting up a godot app in my brain haha
# WinnerWind anyway, i need to log out, it's late. Talk soon!
# winnerwind but hiya! im WinnerWind over IRC too
# winnerwind hiya! my discord account is here only for the text logs lol
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# gl0ri0us_purp0se 👽
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[tantek] capjamesg, you've been linked from Molly White! ICYMI: https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/115849700936008208
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gRegor Welcome, winnerwind! We have logs on https://chat.indieweb.org too :)
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# Loqi A redirect is a way to send both users and search engines to a different URL from the one they originally requested https://indieweb.org/wiki_redirect
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# [tantek]3 Did anyone save their Swarm Year in Review? I'm looking for it and can't find it in the UI any more
# [tantek]3 looks like it came via email. ok I'll see if I can document the bread crumbs
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# [tantek] found it and added "How to find" to the wiki: https://indieweb.org/Swarm#How_to_find_year_in_review
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# BB_ROOK Greetings!
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# BB_ROOK Hello madude
# madude hello
# BB_ROOK As a matter of fact I do! do you wish the URL?
# BB_ROOK Wish to have the URL even.
# BB_ROOK trundlerspath.neocities.com
# BB_ROOK When I found out there was a successor to geocities I just jumped for joy!
# BB_ROOK I love to make sites that you can even look at using an old e-reader!
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# BB_ROOK Hello Ehmet
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