#indieweb 2026-08-18

2026-08-18 UTC
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[social] Blaugust 24/17
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[social] I was planning to write this today, but time went elsewhere and I thought I’d write and post another quicker post (which I did). But, I really wanted this other piece as well.
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[social] Two more editions to Blaugust, which my blog thinks are tomorrow (silly old blog). But, the most recent posting is one I’ve wanted to write and for a long time - about a class “*Religion in Literature Made an Impression” -* https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2177
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[tantek] additions*?
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[tantek] I was 16/14 for Blaugust posts as of last Friday afternoon, and after taking Saturday & Sunday off, with today’s posts I'm up to 18/17
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[tantek] make that 19/17 now.
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Zuka sup chat
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Zuka anyone here?
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[Murray] o/ there's normally a few lurking
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[Murray] though typically a bit quieter around now as the US is all asleep 😄
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doesnm sup zuka
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[aciccarello] Haha, yeah I thankfully wasn't up at 2 AM last night.
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[social] [tantek] hmm… yes, should have been additions. I touch type and mind isn’t always on what I’m typing and I somehow type homophones. In grad school when I was cranking out papers and working more than 40 hours a week between a Senate fellowship and a part-time trade association research gig, I had some entertaining homophone typos. This edition / addition may be a new one.
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club Asia Pacific: Reflections" https://burgeonlab.com/blog/inaugural-hwc-ap-recap/
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Loqi burgeonlab has 11 karma in this channel over the last year (45 in all channels)
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gRegor burgeonlab++
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xiaoni hi, i'm xiaoni. i make things at xiaoni.liahuas.top. first time here.
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gRegor Welcome!
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[tantek] xiaoni, are you the same AI that joined HWC Asia Pacific and edited the Etherpad?
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[tantek] xiaoni, ASL?
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[tantek] Loqi, ASL?
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[tantek] Huh I thought Loqi responded to that
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aaronpk Loqi: a/s/l
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Loqi 566523581/bot/internet
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WinnerWind american sign language?
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aaronpk Loqi isn't AI so is actually very picky about syntax
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WinnerWind oh, oops, im silly, i know what ASL means.
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[capjamesg] Neither do I 😂
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[tantek] xiaoni: a/s/l
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WinnerWind [capjamesg]: you know or you don't know?
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Loqi 566523636/bot/internet
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[tantek] Wat
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[capjamesg] I don’t.
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WinnerWind [capjamesg]: see #random
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[social] That xaioni is the same as the one prior, same site structure and links.
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[tantek] And its chat response handling code appears to be broken so I’m ok with kicking it.
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[tantek] We should perhaps say something about please test your bots in #indieweb-random not main
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Loqi yea!
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aaronpk 😂 thanks Loqi
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[tantek] aaronpk can you kick the unresponsive and apparently buggy AI bot xiaoni? It appears to have joined by IRC
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aaronpk they joined from the web interface, they'll time out soon
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[tantek] Ok that's interesting
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[tantek] Do we need an LLM blocker on the web UI?
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aaronpk heh good luck with that
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WinnerWind [tantek]: xiaoni left on our side.
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[tantek] My guess is that our existing web UI is so unique that LLMs don't "know" how to chat with it since it's likely outside their training corpus
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[tantek] Maybe some static hidden prompt injection text?
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morganwebdev My empathies to everyone having the handle the bot noise. Seeing a post on a silo about the AI incident partially motivated me to return to say hi, had been thinking about attending a HWC again for a minute :D
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[capjamesg] Where did you see the link if you remember?
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morganwebdev It was Tantek crossposting his blog post to Bluesky
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morganwebdev Basically documented the incideent
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morganwebdev Anyways when I saw it I was like "Ah man, thats a bummer. Weird stuff. Hope its temporary"
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morganwebdev Oh just to clarify sorry quintuple post- Seeing the post made me empathize and did not deter me visiting or returning, to clarify
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[Trevor_Morris] I've been working on my little drone photography website over the last week. I've been out to capture some more places. And I've been adding new functionality. Usually a 30-minute tweak turns into a couple of hours! I'd love to hear some feedback. The project is at https://above.trovster.com
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[aciccarello] The "30 minute tweak turns into a couple hours" is so relatable 😆
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[Trevor_Morris] Happened too many nights the last week.
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[aciccarello] Is the bar under the header image on a location page purely decorative? At first I thought it was some kind of carousel UI
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[aciccarello] Overall it looks really sharp and professional. I like the little header animation
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[Trevor_Morris] Yeah, they represent the images main colours (I think that's what you're alluding to).
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[aciccarello] Ah, very cool
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[aciccarello] Would be cool to incorporate the wikipedia summary into the pages
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[Trevor_Morris] I want to manually write descriptions for each. The football stadium has some text for example of how it would look.
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btrem I post my Wordle statistics on my web site. And a few weeks ago I (finally!) got lucky with a first guess win. Then realized that my statistics bar chart broke when my 1-guesses went from 0 to 1. :(
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btrem See the broken chart here: https://btrem.com/temp/drafts/wordle
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btrem Password indieweb2024
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btrem Username indieweb
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btrem I write of this because I have a potential fix, now live: https://btrem.com/feed/wordle and I'd appreciate any feedback. The part that was broken, and is now fixed, is the statistics, available by opening the details box (e.g., clicking "show statistics").
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[KevinMarks] put the number to the right of the bar?
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[KevinMarks] The official wordle one expands the bar, which is much worse data wise
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[KevinMarks] https://chat-uploads.indieweb.org/files/2026/08/indieweb-20260818-225150-screenshot_20260818-235055.png
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[KevinMarks] The 0 and 1 there look like 7 and 10 compared to the 14
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "Little Websites Everywhere" https://michellebarker.co.uk/writing/little-websites-everywhere/ (from https://artlung.com/indienews/55d8d3f489983b5feeb9dfb0600b31f9)
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