@nprofile1q... I read http://scripting.com/2026/10/05.html#a165533 - regarding "blocking Google" - what are you trying to do, block the Googlebot? Or block Chrome?

To block the Googlebot, that's relatively trivial - https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/verify-google-requests

To block Chrome, then you're probably wanting to block anything with a useragent containing "Chrome/" from your website. Since you're hosted on Amazon S3, you can't without putting Cloudfront in front of the request (which would be cheaper for you anyway). Cloudfront's WAF would be able to block Chrome useragents.

I willingly went to https after seeing my local coffee shop literally replace the ad banners on a site I had produced with replacement ad banners that it earned money from, rather than me. That sort of thing - messing with your website's content - is impossible with https. Adding https also means that your ISP can't snoop on what page you're looking at (the only thing visible is the domain name). So it does have benefits. I totally understand your annoyance tho.

In a Libsyn RSS feed... this is nice. Um...

Hello @nprofile1q... - someone tells me the 24 hour view is broken (it’s not changing). Not checked it for myself, but worth a look?

I always forget to pack something. Today, I realised what this trip’s “thing I forgot” is. An EU power lead. Sigh. Annoying.

In Berlin. Enjoying, um, a currywurst poutine. I hope this is okay, @nprofile1q...

In the “non-EU queue” in Berlin airport. Watching the EU residents just click their way in without hindrance. A pox to the racist ignorants who voted for this bullshit. But at least we got blue passports, eh?

A dim realisation - advertising is shit now. No, let me explain.

https://james.cridland.net/blog/2026/advertising-is-shit-now/

Complicated story, which I hope I've explained clearly. But - if you were a company with a network of international content specialists, why would you throw all that knowledge and expertise away, and just Trust The Algorithm?

https://podnews.net/update/apple-podcasts-algorithmic-view

The studio for the Podnews Daily today - Fitzroy Square in central London. I stood facing this railing (it’s a private garden) since it’s a quiet square away from what Peter Sellers would call “traffics noise”. Now to go and mix/edit/publish.

Good morning from London. Looks pretty enough. #london #travel

In a podcast interview released today, Jeanine Wright from Inception Point AI gives a definition of AI slop. It's brilliant.

https://podnews.net/update/inception-point-pr-stunt

(Hit the "listen" button to hear the clip)

Fetch TV - an Aussie hybrid streaming/OTA television box - was bought by Telstra a little bit ago. Today, I'm told that in order to use the old box that I bought a while back, I now have to pay $29.99 in some form of blackmail payment. "Nice box. Shame if anything happened to it".