#indieweb 2026-10-06
2026-10-06 UTC
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kensanata I half remember there being some markup to add to my search box such that browsers will offer users to 'install' this as a search engine. Does anybody recall something like it? I looked at https://indieweb.org/search and couldn't find it.
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[capjamesg] kensanata I think you are looking for opensearch.xml
# [capjamesg] Oops, yes, we can continue this in #indieweb-dev!
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# [capjamesg] https://bookfeed.io/ is a cool idea!
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# fafau06 can't wait for george orwell's new release!!
# offeringofpie I was gonna say, but Douglas Adams 🥲
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[KevinMarks] Kindle is way ahead of you there
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# zuby_duby Hi, I am zuby, i am making my personal website
# zuby_duby i just wanted too show some people
# [capjamesg] Welcome!
# [capjamesg] Please do share your website here!
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# zuby_duby https://zubyduby.neocities.org/
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# [capjamesg] Your site looks great!
# offeringofpie Looking good 🙂
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# zuby_duby [capjamesg]: thank you!
# zuby_duby offeringofpie[d]: this was completely hand crafted. I also realised webp are really useful. The images went from 8mb to 4mb
# [capjamesg] webp is great for images.
# thamara_k zuby_duby[d] welcome! cool site
# zuby_duby thamara_k[d]: thank you! btw is the person above you an llm? why is he an app?
# thamara_k This chat is bridged across Discord, Slack, and IRC. Users outside Discord get an "app" badge next to their names
# thamara_k what is discuss?
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Loqi 💬 Join #indieweb discussions via Discord, Slack, web chat, or IRC, (they are all bridged!) with focused channels for developers, events, meta topics, and WordPress — please keep chats brief and relevant to the IndieWeb community across all indieweb chat channels https://indieweb.org/discuss
# thamara_k ^^ more info here
# zuby_duby thamara_k[d]: cool
# [capjamesg] Yes, to clarify I am not a bot 😄
# zuby_duby 👋
# offeringofpie Hmm, exactly what a bot would say 🤔
# offeringofpie jk 😄
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# kensanata capjamesg: I recently saw a post on fedi that I can't seem to forget: "Websites have been asking me for so long whether I am a human or a bot, I'm actually no longer sure…" 🤔 (paragraphrasing from memory)
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# kensanata That reminds me, I think I have a pretty good defence setup against AI scraper bots, so if anybody here needs pointers, I might be able to help. The pretty dense and technical description is here: https://transjovian.org/view/fight-bots/index
# offeringofpie oooh ty kensanata. I was thinking about obfuscating pages with lorem ipsum upon requests that did not pass. many agents try to fretch text/markdown before trying html, so it could be a trivial switch 😄
# offeringofpie I give your article a proper read
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# kensanata Feel free to ask questions.
# offeringofpie "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."
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petermolnar kensanata: that's a rather convoluted setup
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# petermolnar careful with ASN level blocking, once microsoft, google, etc falls into that you log your site/server out of indieweb tools, mail servers, and so on
# petermolnar (yes, I've been there)
# kensanata petermolnar: That is true, of course. And I'm basically blocking them most of the time. Since I use fail2ban, these bans are ephemeral but they always manage to ban themselves again.
# kensanata petermolnar: current ASN blocks in the weekly block list: https://alexschroeder.ch/share/1w-ban-asn.txt
# petermolnar my writeup on the topic is here:
# kensanata petermolnar: But it was either that or get help from the one US company that seems to control access to half the web these days, Cloudflare.
# kensanata petermolnar: nice, I'll keep those links for reference
# kensanata "130k open connection" ... oof
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# fafau06 offeringofpie[d]: the butlerian jihad.,.,,
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# [KevinMarks] Tomorrow is new top level domain reveal day. Some. Background from wired https://archive.ph/20261006143321/https://www.wired.com/story/icann-top-level-domains-meow/
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# offeringofpie I remember that tld! https://witchsky.app/profile/did:plc:glgaiwhklx63ovajguvpxm2q/post/3msuz7ppmuk22
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# Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "human.json" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "human.json is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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jone42 human.json is a protocol to assert human authorship and vouch for the humanity of others. https://codeberg.org/robida/human.json
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[tantek] maybe as a variant of https://indieweb.org/well-known#humans.txt ?
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# zincgmd uo
# zincgmd yo
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# [capjamesg] Oooh, a new Sorkin production!
# Loqi There are 12 HWC events coming up soon:
Homebrew Website Club Europe/London on Oct 7 at 19:00 +01:00 https://events.indieweb.org/s3mQ20pGoGII
Homebrew Website Club - Eastern in 1 day https://events.indieweb.org/e10weToJMkoR
Homebrew Website Club - Asia Pacific in 7 days https://events.indieweb.org/BZioBJA97ftL
More HWC events: https://events.indieweb.org/
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# 0_tripwire_0 I am Omacha, and I write personal essays regarding many topics, such as psychosis and mental health, and fiction about alien mermaids. I share my site with five others.
# IWDiscord <0_tripwire_0>
# 0_tripwire_0 Warm greetings! There's a little pop up telling me to post an introduction here, so I shall.
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# 0_tripwire_0 gRegor: Thank you! :-)
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