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"Perplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app to sell ads." Yikes...I'm not sure I'd want to install this even to *test* it.
Maybe in a VM, but there's no way I'd run this as a daily driver for a few weeks like I've been doing with other browsers.

3 of their primary sauces are peanut-based and they just label *everything* as probably cross-contaminated.
On one hand I'm kind of annoyed, because the chain has been growing in my area and I wanted to try it, but on the other hand, I'm glad they say so up front!

"Sometimes you issue a `git commit --amend` only to realize that you didn't really mean to amend the previous commit."
In vi: `ESC :cq!` (quit without saving and report an error). In anything else: Delete the commit message, so git will complain about the missing message instead of continuing.

Yearly toward the end of April. Shop at your local indie bookstores this weekend!
If you have any, I mean. The 2000s and 2010s were not kind to the indie bookshop market, which is exactly what events like this are responding to. If you don't, shop on BookShop.org and pick an indie shop to give credit for your purchases.

"US hasn’t seen this many cases this early in a year since the 1990s before we hit “elimination.”…"
This is 100% due to the antivax movement. And that includes RFK Jr., no matter now he wants to couch it in "hesitancy" or "skepticism"

The only appropriate response to this bullshit is "fuck you, the world is bigger than you and always will be."
Sadly, I expect Wikimedia will have to waste time and money fighting this in court.

"This blogpost started life when I was asked to advise on the use of a popular open source web analytics tool."

"Track the AI agents browsing your website
Bots now use the internet as much as humans do. Harness traffic from crawlers, scrapers, and LLMs to grow your business."

Community-maintained list of AI crawlers including robots.txt rules to *tell* them not to crawl your site, and htaccess and Nginx rules to actually *block* them.
See also Dark Visitors. Found via GoToSocial docs.

Koen van Barneveld. Composite photo featuring:
- Milky Way - Zodiacal Light - a meteor - aurora - landscape - light trail from a flashlight - the photographer!