Profile for adele
- Display name
- Adële 🐁
- Username
- @adele@social.pollux.casa
- Role
- admin
About adele
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- Smolweb
- https://smolweb.org/
- Static hosting
- https://pages.casa/
- Gemini hosting
- https://pollux.casa/
- Email/XMPP hosting
- https://message.casa/
Bio
aka 아델
#French 🇫🇷 #PHP / #JavaScript and #Java developer
#Korean 🇰🇷 ancestry (but I don’t speak the language)
Into #SmolWeb, #GeminiProtocol, #Smolnet, #LowTech
#ArchLinux / #Debian user
#Markdown 🇲⬇️ enthusiast
Instance running #GotToSocial 🦥
fr / en
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I’m not trying to go viral.
I’m trying to be useful.
To someone.
Somewhere.
That’s enough.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/notes-from-the-exit-why-i-left-the-attention-economy/
Block non-human crawlers with lighttpd
2025-04-20 19:05
Recently, I've put a copy of some ZIM files online with kiwix-server. I posted the url of this site on the Fediverse and, a few days later, the little server was a bit overloaded. The logs showed that the site was being crawled by search engines and AI training bots. There was no reason to let them. A robots.txt file calmed some, but not others.
Analysing user agents and IP addresses is not the answer, because, everything is done to make it complicated (randomisation, many datacenter origins). I thought about Cloudflare protection, Google captcha or the open source solution Anubis. All of them require javascript to be enabled on the human browsers.
After several tests, I have found a simple method to stop these crawlers.
The principle
When a connection arrives on the web server, it checks to see if the request comes with a cookie. If it does not, the web server redirects the browser to an HTML form that asks the user to tick a checkbox and submit. If the user submits the form correctly, he or she receives a cookie and is redirected to the previously requested page. The new request is made with a cookie. So, the web server does its job and send the expected content.
I think I've managed to curb AI crawlers with a simple HTML form that drops a cookie.
I'll see if it holds up and make a post about it.
It protect my #kiwix server
w is the preferred subdomain for smolweb sites
A simple way for a website to indicate that it adheres to the smolweb guidelines is to use the subdomain w instead of www.
This short subdomain is very much in the spirit of smolweb.
This is not a requirement, just a suggestion.
w.example.org is visually different from www.example.org or example.org.
@adele Has someone suggested also using w as a subdomain to signify that it’s lightweight ? I believe that would make sense.
I mean like w.sm0l.org instead of www.sm0l.org .
New smolweb symbol could be <w> in monospaced font
The angle brackets < and > recall HTML tags, giving a nod to the DIY, hand-coded nature of many smolweb sites. It signals that the web can be understandable and writeable by humans, not just something consumed through complex platforms. It carries the scent of rawness and control, not abstraction and obfuscation.
A single, lowercase w stands in for "web" in a modest, almost shy way. It’s not the grand "www" of the mainstream web, but a small w, lowercase and self-aware. It hints at an alternative web, not the bloated, surveillance-driven one, but a quieter, slower, more intimate one.
<w> is compact, echoing the idea that less is more. That brevity is not a compromise but a strength. It suggests that meaning and value can come in small, lightweight package, just like a well-crafted static HTML page.
The whole symbol feels like something you might type into a terminal or a text editor. It invites tinkering. It feels like the smolweb: accessible, understandable, and remixable.
So yeah, <w> quietly says a lot: it’s webby, small, and stripped-down, no frills, all signal. Perfect shorthand for the smolweb !
We exist! See the press release announcing such: https://www.thecvefoundation.org/
Bravo to SourceHut for making noise about this. No, site operators should not just "handle this volume of traffic". Foisting rising resource requirements on site operators will centralize the web.
https://sourcehut.org/blog/2025-04-15-you-cannot-have-our-users-data/
We need more people on the streets to fight the fascist takeover we're dealing with. If you have time this weekend, find a protest and join in. They're happening everywhere.
www.findaprotest.info?radius=15
find a protest - Find protests...
Giving pages.casa https://pages.casa/ a try. Thanks to @adelesocial@pollux.casa for getting things quickly set up on the server. Switching my DNS from @hover was quick and I'm up and running. Pages.casa also has a method that lets you publish markdown directly with out having to build things yourself (https://pages.casa/posts/publish-markdown-files-easily/ ) #smolweb #indieweb
Gajim 2.1.1 has been released 🥳
This release brings layout improvements to Gajim’s Start Chat dialog, an improved message search, and includes fixes for some issues with Message Displayed Synchronization.
Thank you for all your contributions! ❤️
Support Gajim's development: https://liberapay.com/Gajim
Which browsers do you use?
• Multiple choice to account for various usage and any device (pro & perso)
• You may boost to enlarge the sample
#browsers #poll #browserPoll #compartmentalization #compartments #Safari #SafariBrowser #Firefox #Librewolf #Chrome #Vivaldi #VivaldiBrowser #Edge #EdgeBrowser #ungoogledChromium #ungoogled #Chromium #Brave #BraveBrowser
If you run a single user #GoToSocial instance, maybe you would like to get more toots about a specific subject in your timeline.
#FediBuzz relay could help you. You can subscribe to a specific hashtag fake-account and then receive toots it re-toots.
more info here https://relay.fedi.buzz/
For example, you can follow @tag-gotosocial
Microsoft Confirms Classic Outlook CPU Usage Spikes, Offers No Fix https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/04/16/2021236/microsoft-confirms-classic-outlook-cpu-usage-spikes-offers-no-fix?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
On yet another devastating day for the #Trans community, particularly in the UK, please know that all of us in BPI love who you are and will never stop fighting for a world where everyone is free to live as their true selves. 🏳️⚧️🧑🦯🌈
How long until the rest of the world needs to worry about the US-controlled Intel Management Engine?
Also, there's a rush of running away from #WhatsApp because of #Meta and the US government.
But #Signal is also US-based, runs on US infrastructure (#Amazon cloud), is dependent on US government funding. Most importantly, they can decide to completely change any aspect of their service at any point in time.
Out of the frying pan into the fire.
Meanwhile, people are happily building and hosting the #XMPP ecosystem
I'm looking for a new symbol for the #smolweb
On smolweb.org, I use a small w between brackets : (w)
But I find it ugly, it seems to be a failed batman logo ^^
I think about ~w~, because tilde is part of smolweb community, and it is used for user directory on UNIX systems and web server. But it is not very fun. There are other possibilities: sw~, ~w, w~...
What would you use to symbolize smolweb?
I've a huge problem with the concept of digital "sovereignty", because it evokes (and in fact push) some very reactionary political ideas.
I prefer to talk about #DigitalAutonomy or independence from Big Tech.
I have to say, 98% of me being confronted with spam in the Fediverse is other people talking about it. This comes down to excellent moderation of my old main account. But what delights me even more is how quiet it is on my own private server, with no moderation at all.
Of course this is a really small account and everything, but if you don't enable open sign-ups and require to approve follow requests, a big part of the problem is covered.
I see people complaining -- and guess what? 9 out of 10 are on mastodon.social. I totally get that not everyone wants or is able to host their own server. That's fine. But if you're joining the Fediverse on mastodon.social, then complain that Mastodon or even the Fediverse is bad because of spam, without every trying another server, you kinda missed the point.