“[After the pandemic] suddenly people were used to working from home and in many cases I don’t think there was that same desire to have their child in school while they were at home,” he said.
I assume this is asserted without any evidence. Clearly this person never tried to work from home with children around.
I use the WordPress Redirection plugin (https://wordpress.com/plugins/redirection) to manage redirects on our production site.
One of the more annoying things I deal with is random crappy bots that just crawl the site occasionally. Because they crawl so rarely (and inexpertly) they often look for ancient pages, or use ridiculous URL parameters (if anyone knows why they do this can you let me know in the comments?)
Rather than treat these as valid 404s, I think it’s best to ignore them completely. However, matching a user agent string in Redirection is not straight forward. To this end I wrote a Regex to match three of the most annoying culprits: MojeekBot, SeekportBot & Barkrowler.
Maybe it’ll help you too.
Ash · Trailer · Song · 1994
Jack Names the Planets by Ash
It’s nice to know that, even though I’m not based in an office anymore, I can still “fix people’s computers” by (metaphorically) standing behind them and watching them.
A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
Wanted to watch this since I was, frankly, terrified by the remake in the early 00s (I was young).
However, turns out that most of the scares only really work the first time round and the psychic flashbacks feel painfully contrived.
Oh, and it’s a very short “guh”, not a “goo”. If you’re calling it “Ringoo”, you’re a tit.
★★★
I made myself a “Mastodon” account a while back (@dtw). Since then I’ve ActivityPub enabled my website (@rubyquartglassess@rubyquartzglasses.me.uk) (yeah, I need to shorten that).
Now, I want to start using #pixelfed. I can create “Pixelfed” account from scratch, or by “authenticating” with one of my existing accounts, right? However, I think, anyone can follow my @dtw or @rubyquartglassess@rubyquartzglasses.me.uk feed from pixelfed anyway… so, I don’t need an account on a pixelfed server?
And then I wonder, if any fedi app can read any ActivityPub feed, why are there different apps?
Pretty much speechless at the damage caused by #HS2 to the countryside in Buckinghamshire. I don’t even live there and it’s heart breaking.
Still, we had to find some way of getting the money out of the public coffers and into someone’s pockets. God knows we couldn’t just spend it on people that need it.
Entombed · Wolverine Blues · Song · 1993
It’s fucked to hear one idiot’s words
But worse to see others believe it
Fucked up minds in fucked up times
It’s up to you to foresee it
Never though the metal I loved when I was kid would still be relevant today…
It takes 6 clicks to report one account as spam on #instagram
