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Anonymous Coward · 3mo

What's your connection to EGI 2? Are you involved in the production or are you just a super fan?

No production involvement, just a fan. Although I've been on a couple times! Friend of the show, friend of the Robby.

Anonymous Coward · 3mo

Are you going to change to a different Q&A website, with Retrospring shutting down March 2025?

Anonymous Coward · 4mo

Hey Gio! You should make it so that your link to your tumblr blog on your site links to the username.tumblr format vs the .com/username format, since that second format forces you to a login screen if you browse logged out. Enshittification climbs ever forward, it seems.

Anonymous Coward · 6mo

hi i like your blog but the rss feed is really weird and my feed reader hates it https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https://blog.giovanh.com/feeds/atom.xml

Good catch, looking into it. What feed reader are you using? I'd like to see what's breaking

Anonymous Coward · 6mo

Hi! By what means were the timestamps for the unofficial HS collection acquired? How reliable are them?

The timestamps in the collection came from the original site, so they're as reliable as whatever Andrew was using.

Anonymous Coward · 8mo

Opinion on tsunderes?

totally incompatible. if you even hint that you're not desperately in love with me already I will give up so fast it'll make your head spin

Anonymous Coward · 8mo

do you feel so sigma??

Anonymous Coward · 11mo

Hi! I'm on a school computer and have no access to discord, twitter, or anything else that I could use to tell you this. I'm trying to read Homestuck while in school, but they have it blocked. I found your web port of the Unofficial Homestuck Collection which, I guess, isn't blocked. Anyhow, I wanted to report a bug where the panels don't show up and only the text does. If you see this, thank you! You're the best.

Almost certainly what's happening is that some of the domains it uses for media are blocked. Sorry!

Anonymous Coward · 1y

Do you have any recommendation on tools to set up a blog similar to yours? (similar in the sense that you have tags, comment sections, i.e. the blog features) Was it all done in Pelican?

Yes, my blog is all done in pelican, but unfortunately I don't have a great offhand recommendation for an easy service this. My goto used to be Wordpress, but I haven't looked at that in a while. I've also seen Ghost as a "modern" option. Blogspot hasn't been workable for a long time. You could also make a static site using pelican and host it using something like Glitch or Neocities.

Anonymous Coward · 1y

Hello,
given your recent series of blogposts about IP abuses, what do you think about Tom Scott's video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU) about YouTube's copyright system and how it became to what it is now?

I watched it when it came out and I remember thinking it was good. I agree with his general thesis that YouTube is contorting around a copyright system not designed for the internet, and a lot of the problems with YouTube's system coming from the fact that it's a "layer" between the individual and the law. I think my response would be that a copyright system more like the one I describe in https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2023/10/25/youve-never-seen-copyright/ would fit "The Internet" better, as a side-effect of fitting the whole world better in general.

Anonymous Coward · 1y

Heyo,
how do you decide whether to post your thoughts on Bluesky, Mastodon or Twitter?

Generally speaking, I try to crosspost to both Bluesky and Mastodon. I'm trying to phase out Twitter, and I'm also posting (slightly) longer statuses to Tumblr again

Anonymous Coward · 1y

Hey Gio,
I have the impression that you are around the Internet for a very long time yet your oldest blog posts is from 2020. What did you do before the blog, and how did you come to start the blog in the first place?

I don’t have any other blog-style writing online. I’ve been on Twitter, Tumblr, and before that a number of different forums (MSPAF represent) and IRC. A lot of what would now be called “indieweb”.
How I came to start the blog is a longer topic I don’t really have a good answer to. I wanted to have a good space for longform writing, and I didn’t care if blogs were going out of style if they were still the best tool for the job.

Anonymous Coward · 1y

Is your website the official location of the unofficial collection webapp or is it just there now for testing?

Anonymous Coward · 1y

Hello!
You have a presence on Twitter, their hot up-and-coming alternatives Mastodon and Bluesky and Tumblr. But interestingly, CoHost is missing. Why is that the case?

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