Yeah, good luck with that. The Facebook bots are so bad, they literally hammer sites into the ground, to the point where they're actively being blocked.

Wow!

I'm guessing that WordPress will be forked soon ..

The only thing that's going to stop this particular type of hack is government regulation that prohibits the storage of personal information and heavy fines and jail time to enforce it.

Gotta say, this in my view hysterical reporting around hung government is just nuts.

I grew up in a country where this happened all the time and the end result was negotiated agreement, discourse, learning and enrichment.

This notion that we must have majority rule that appears to have swept the globe is not the only way to make progress.

Based on what you wrote, referencing burnout, I suspect that the issue isn't that you need a hobby, it's that you need to make time to do nothing at all.

Go for walks in nature, away from technology, walk alone or with friends, laugh, tell stories, share secrets and dreams.

The more you do, the more resilience builds up, the better you can cope with stress and work.

Only then might you find joy in a hobby. For me it was Amateur Radio, but it might be different for you.

Are the people who work at OpenAI smoking crack?

“Over the last year and a half there have been a lot of questions around what might happen if influence operations use generative AI,” Ben Nimmo, principal investigator on OpenAI’s Intelligence and Investigations team, told members of the media in a press briefing

Here's a clue, look around you.

ChatGPT isn't the only fish in the sea and state actors using a public service like it deserve to be caught. Running your own system privately, without scrutiny, without censorship, without constraints is so trivial that teenagers are doing this on their laptops, so much so that you can docker pull your way into any number of LLM images.

Seriously, this is so many levels of absurd that it's beyond comprehension...

The robots.txt construct is completely voluntary and some bots use it to specially target content.

In my opinion, anyone relying on this to protect their content has no business publishing anything online.

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt

There are many quotes that describe this phenomenon:

"Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short." -- Henry David Thoreau, 1857 [1]

I picked that version because it was short. In other words, it takes time to remove superfluous text, something that takes practice. Previously I found that Xitter character limit helped hone the skill.

I have written a weekly podcast article about the hobby of amateur radio for 13 years and I've learnt that the better you understand a topic, the more concise you can formulate your thoughts.

Einstein put it like this: "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." [2]

[1] Source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/
[2] Source: https://www.socratic-method.com/quote-meanings/albert-einstein-if-you-cant-explain-it-simply-you-dont-understand-it-well-enough

200 miles is long range now?

That doesn't even get you from Perth to Kalgoorlie, both in the same state..

Given that it reached number 2 in the charts, wouldn't the answer be: Billboard?

The solution is simple.

Fork the code and maintain your own fork.

.. or ..

You could say thank you and enjoy the fact that a person is being paid to write and maintain open source software.

If it all goes to shit, you can still fork the code.

That's a phrase I've never heard before: "too much of democracy".