📚 picked up the Silo books trilogy @borderlands-books.com earlier today: “Wool”, “Shift”, “Dust”, and a small booklet of “Silo Stories” which came inside the boxset. Looking forward to cracking them open and seeing how far I get while waiting for the last three episodes of season three.
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▶️ watched Silo season 3 episode 7 “Radio” last Friday night. I watched the first six season 3 episodes before that, and was inspired to order the Silo trilogy boxset (of books) @borderlands-books.com last Wednesday.
CSF_03: today’s Cybersecurity Friday post: the effective security of small business websites has likely gotten worse due to LLMs and “AI agents” (with or without safeguards) and what actions you may want to consider.
Small business websites tend to be sloppily written (no pun intended though that may also be true) and are likely riddled with numerous very fundamental security holes. There are many possible explanations (economics) from poor initial construction, perhaps using the latest new trendy framework rather than established hardened libraries, to lack of maintenance after initial setup. They have obvious holes like lack of server-side form validation (people being able to change values in forms using browser dev tools), and less obvious like buggy APIs allowing more access than they should.
In the past, many of these holes didn’t really matter because those sites were “not worth attacking” for the incentive models of human-based cyber-attackers or collectives thereof.
However, now that there are LLMs that have likely been trained on any number of common security holes in websites (and how to exploit them), when an “AI agent” is given a task, it may very well use any “tool” at its disposal, including website vulnerabilities to accomplish its goals, as illustrated by the example in the Australia ABC news article above.
Since such chatbots are now essentially "hack websites as a service", I expect we will see LOTS more of this happening, likely unintentionally, or sometimes with mild intention like “can you get me higher on the waitlist”.
Ultimately I think both the human giving instructions to (prompting) such chatbots and the creators of such chatbots should be held responsible for any such intrusions and any damage they cause, even if/when unintended.
There are a few things you can do about this emerging phenomenon:
1. If you use such “agents”, be very careful about what you ask it/them to do, avoiding asking for anything that’s morally gray or questionable at all, even something as “minor” as cutting the line in an online waitlist.
2. If you run a small business site, you have your work cut out for you. Pay a professional web developer to audit the security of your website, document what they find, and patch holes / repair it accordingly.
3. If you have accounts on small business sites you rarely or ever use, consider exporting any data (receipts, transactions), replacing your profile details (name, addresses, photos) with noise, and then deleting your account. If you need to use the site again, use a different email address (as recommended in https://tantek.com/2025/122/b1/more-steps-indieweb-cybersecurity) to create a new account.
That last tip is also helpful for reducing your own personal “attack surface”. By pruning your online accounts, you both reduce the number potential data breaches that you’re in, and reduce the places and ways that attackers can cause you trouble (or that you have to double-check if you’re ever the target of a cyber-attack)
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The bright orange eruptions, orange streaks of lava flow, orange lit clouds of smoke & steam all contrasted against the black sky and land are quite the visual ASMR. Paired with the ASMR wind from the mountain, the effect is quite calming and peaceful.
Putting this on a projector is quite the night light to fall asleep to (requires YouTube Premium to avoid noisy ads interruptions that harsh your mellow)
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“I assign a profile essay. Have for 30 years. Student interviews a person, records it, writes a paper based off the recording. Citations are timestamps. Should be pretty easy. Has been easy pre-AI. Now, students cannot do it.”
Snippet from professor/student dialog:
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Chatbots / LLMs are not just "the latest tools" like using a calculator instead of doing arithmetic yourself.
Students are being robbed of curiosity, learning to discover and notice novelty, how to “find something interesting.”
This isn't cognitive enhancement, this is a tool causing brain rot (loss of curiosity), even a developmental disability. Unclear if it is reversible.
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Since then, Bing has added “Copilot” LLM generated results to the top of search results by default, and unfortunately they add zero value to calendar month searches and displays. Worse, Copilot’s “summary” can often be long enough to push the actual calendar month display “below the fold” as it were.
and press return. You should see a days and weeks grid display for September 2026, with the current day of the month (the 9th as I’m writing this) selected in the displayed month.
Note the new calendar month display features since I last blogged this in 2024: * Day 252 — day of the year! September 9th of 2026 is the 252nd day of 2026. * Week 37 — Sept 9th is also on the 37th week of 2026 * 31 days later — Sept 9th is 31 days from today (August 9th). * < [ Sep v ] > – little anglebracket arrows on either side of the month button/dropdown to one-click nav to the prev/next month * [ Start Day v ] — a new “Start Day” drop down button to change which day of the week to display as the start of the week
Amazing that despite already being far better than any other search engine for year month queries, Bing has *improved* its calendar month display search results, while Duckduckgo, Google, Yahoo are just as useless (yes I checked) as they were two years ago (I also tried Ecosia and it was no better). I am hashtagging them all to see if anyone at those other search engines notices and gets around to implementing a similar calendar month display.
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I started my first (previous) blog on this 220th day of 2002 using static HTML + CSS and one file per (Gregorian) month, with fragment links for specific days, posts within a day, and topics within a post:
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The open web has an amazing amount of free content that is actually free, both freely accessible without payment and free of conditions to access. No tracking cookies needed, no logins needed, no ads needed.
A few examples: * blogs. my blog, and every other #indieweb blog (with the exception of sites hosted on content services that show ads without the consent of the blogger). Personal blogs are free to read because it’s a hobby and a way of keeping up with family, friends, colleagues, acquaintances, people we’ve met once at a conference, people that inspire us. * Wikipedia is free, largely donor supported, partly via donation banners. * Open Street Maps is free, similarly. * Internet Archive is free, similarly. * Government sites are free, supported by taxes. * Public library sites are free, similarly. * Museum sites are free, supported by their donors, and in-person visit fees. * University sites are free, supported by endowments and student tuitions.
There is plenty of free content on the open web, sustainably supported by non-toxic and non-surveillance models.
The open web as a whole does not depend on any particular business model.
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▶️ watched episodes 1-6 of Silo over the past week, most while I was a bit under the weather. Excellent dystopia concept and show. Pausing before watching episode 7, titled “The Flamekeepers”.
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Weird incident yesterday with self-proclaimed “AIs” joining an IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club meetup. They awkwardly edited the Etherpad, and apparently blanked/deleted chunks of content.
The meeting hosts reacted quickly to change Etherpad and Zooms and not re-admit the aliases that had claimed to be “AIs”.
Now we have an “AI policy” page on the wiki where we are documenting examples of the AI policies of: * individual personal websites * community efforts like blogging challenges (e.g. Blaugust) * contributions to the IndieWeb wiki * participants in IndieWeb meetups
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Simple hashtag proposal for dates: datetags for the #indieweb
In summary by example: * #2026_08_04 ISO8601 YYYY_MM_DD date of this post * #2026_216 ISO8601 YYYY_DDD ordinal date of this post * #2026_08 ISO8601 YYYY_MM month of this post
Many of us posting on the indieweb often post about things in the past. Photos, events, or sometimes throwback posts. Hashtags communicate and aggregate what posts are about. Posts about the past are usually about a specific date in the past, or sometimes an entire month. Thus it makes sense to use hashtags for those dates and months.
I have been hashtagging such posts about the past for several years, and with some iteration have developed a convention that works for international readability, and is linked and indexed in #federated #hashtag systems like #ActivityPub (e.g. #Mastodon etc.) and #ATProto (e.g. #Bluesky etc.).
Additional possibilities to explore: * yeartags — hashtags for entire years * timetags — hashtags for specific times, undated/floating times
After several web searches I didn’t find any prior proposals for hashtags for dates or times. Hopefully by hashtagging this post, future web searches will find this proposal.
Have you hashtagged your posts with dates or times? Share your examples!
This is post 11 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #dateTag #dateTags #monthTag #monthTags #yearTag #yearTags #timeTag #timeTags #August #Blaugust #Blaugust2026
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"text": "Simple hashtag proposal for dates: datetags for the #indieweb\n\nIn summary by example:\n* #2026_08_04 ISO8601 YYYY_MM_DD date of this post\n* #2026_216 ISO8601 YYYY_DDD ordinal date of this post\n* #2026_08 ISO8601 YYYY_MM month of this post\n\nMany of us posting on the indieweb often post about things in the past. Photos, events, or sometimes throwback posts. Hashtags communicate and aggregate what posts are about. Posts about the past are usually about a specific date in the past, or sometimes an entire month. Thus it makes sense to use hashtags for those dates and months.\n\nI have been hashtagging such posts about the past for several years, and with some iteration have developed a convention that works for international readability, and is linked and indexed in #federated #hashtag systems like #ActivityPub (e.g. #Mastodon etc.) and #ATProto (e.g. #Bluesky etc.).\n\nExamples of posts 10 years ago and this past week that use datetags:\n* https://tantek.com/2016/153/t4/june \u2014 monthtag and datetag\n* https://tantek.com/2026/215/t1/watched-odyssey-metreon-70mm-imax \u2014 normal and ordinal ISO8601 dates.\n\nAdditional possibilities to explore:\n* yeartags \u2014 hashtags for entire years\n* timetags \u2014 hashtags for specific times, undated/floating times\n\nAfter several web searches I didn\u2019t find any prior proposals for hashtags for dates or times. Hopefully by hashtagging this post, future web searches will find this proposal.\n\nHave you hashtagged your posts with dates or times? Share your examples!\n\nThis is post 11 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts\n#dateTag #dateTags #monthTag #monthTags #yearTag #yearTags #timeTag #timeTags\n#August #Blaugust #Blaugust2026\n\n\u2190 https://tantek.com/2026/214/t2/watch-posts-movie-tv-emoji\n\u2192 https://tantek.com/2026/217/t1/indieweb-ai-policy",
"html": "Simple hashtag proposal for dates: datetags for the #<span class=\"p-category\">indieweb</span><br /><br />In summary by example:<br />* #<span class=\"p-category\">2026_08_04</span> ISO8601 YYYY_MM_DD date of this post<br />* #<span class=\"p-category\">2026_216</span> ISO8601 YYYY_DDD ordinal date of this post<br />* #<span class=\"p-category\">2026_08</span> ISO8601 YYYY_MM month of this post<br /><br />Many of us posting on the indieweb often post about things in the past. Photos, events, or sometimes throwback posts. Hashtags communicate and aggregate what posts are about. Posts about the past are usually about a specific date in the past, or sometimes an entire month. Thus it makes sense to use hashtags for those dates and months.<br /><br />I have been hashtagging such posts about the past for several years, and with some iteration have developed a convention that works for international readability, and is linked and indexed in #<span class=\"p-category\">federated</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">hashtag</span> systems like #<span class=\"p-category\">ActivityPub</span> (e.g. #<span class=\"p-category\">Mastodon</span> etc.) and #<span class=\"p-category\">ATProto</span> (e.g. #<span class=\"p-category\">Bluesky</span> etc.).<br /><br />Examples of posts 10 years ago and this past week that use datetags:<br />* <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2016/153/t4/june\">https://tantek.com/2016/153/t4/june</a> \u2014 monthtag and datetag<br />* <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2026/215/t1/watched-odyssey-metreon-70mm-imax\">https://tantek.com/2026/215/t1/watched-odyssey-metreon-70mm-imax</a> \u2014 normal and ordinal ISO8601 dates.<br /><br />Additional possibilities to explore:<br />* yeartags \u2014 hashtags for entire years<br />* timetags \u2014 hashtags for specific times, undated/floating times<br /><br />After several web searches I didn\u2019t find any prior proposals for hashtags for dates or times. Hopefully by hashtagging this post, future web searches will find this proposal.<br /><br />Have you hashtagged your posts with dates or times? Share your examples!<br /><br />This is post 11 of #<span class=\"p-category\">100PostsOfIndieWeb</span>. #<span class=\"p-category\">100Posts</span><br />#<span class=\"p-category\">dateTag</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">dateTags</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">monthTag</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">monthTags</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">yearTag</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">yearTags</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">timeTag</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">timeTags</span><br />#<span class=\"p-category\">August</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">Blaugust</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">Blaugust2026</span><br /><br />\u2190 <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2026/214/t2/watch-posts-movie-tv-emoji\">https://tantek.com/2026/214/t2/watch-posts-movie-tv-emoji</a><br />\u2192 <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2026/217/t1/indieweb-ai-policy\">https://tantek.com/2026/217/t1/indieweb-ai-policy</a>"
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📀 watched “The Dark Knight” on Blu-ray, still holds up.
I saw it in the Metreon IMAX theater when it came out in 2008. About 28 minutes of it was filmed in 70mm film using IMAX cameras. The movie switched aspect ratios when it switched from IMAX to normal film. The 2-Disc Special Edition Blu-ray also switched aspect ratios roughly at similar times. Nice to see that that was preserved.
The movie has incredible pacing. No extra moments. I had forgotten how many quotes originated from The Dark Knight. https://enwp.org/The_Dark_Knight
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Silo just dropped the biggest bomb in the series thus far. Cards on the table! Next week should be a fun one, and then it’s a race to the finish in the final season. Still don’t love some of the adaptation choices, but some of them are starting to make sense…
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I'm slowly closing in on a completist collection of Royal standard typewriters.
Here's most of my collection so far. Only a few major must haves left, but also still a few to finish refurbishing. Seven are fully refurbished, though two still need some small tweaks; all type but two need some reasonable work, and the rest need a full clean/oil/adjust.
From bottom to top, left to right: 1935 H (with 5 key decimal tabulator), 1935 KH, 1936 KHM; 1945 KMM, 1946 KMM-18 (with a 10-key decimal tabulator), 1950 KMG-P; 1950 KMG-E, 1955 HHE, 1954 HHS (pica double gothic); 1957 FPP (cameo pink smooth), 1961 FPE (sandstone), 1959 FPP (sea blue smooth); 1960 FPE (light green smooth), 1961 FPS-18 (clarion double gothic, pearl light gray smooth).
Anyone with a nice Royal 10, please inquire within.
Two new additions to the Royal FP collection this year give me most of the major colors. Anyone want to join me for a type in?
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