Xavier

French distributed systems engineer and #FOSS maintainer. Temporarily-abled #NonBinary person trying to do some good.

#noai #nobot #noindex #nobridge #ConsentIsSexy

Pronouns: they/them
Black Lives: Matter
Trans Rights: are Human Rights
Blog: https://www.xvello.net

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2025-08-30 09:58:36 UTC

My [iocaine tarpit](https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/ ) for LLM scrapers has been serving almost 1M pages per day, mainly to openai and anthropic, but it has bandwidth to serve more!
It generates a maze of markov-generated content that poisons datasets, like https://io.xvello.net/2025/08/30 for example.
If you own unused domains that have good URL reputation (registered before 2023, had incoming links), I'd be happy to host them, to increase the amount of data served. If needed, I'm happy to host a static parking page served to non-bot users, like I do on https://letsblock.it/
Please boost and pass along!
#iocaine #selfhosting #fuckai

2025-08-12 11:26:45 UTC

I love that #Paris is continuing to tear away asphalt at a steady pace to return public space to the people. The rue René Mouchotte used to be a noisy and heavy-trafficked 45-meters-wide 6-lane stroad that was so dreadful to cross that they built an elevated pedestrian bridge above it.
It is currently renovated into a people-first walkable space:<li>from 6 lanes of car traffic + 2 lanes of surface parking and narrow walkways</li><li>to 2 lanes of car traffic + 1 lane of delivery parking + 2 bike lanes + <strong>wider walkways + a wide pedestrian central path with benches under 200 new trees</strong></li>
More info and photos [on paris.fr](https://www.paris.fr/pages/la-rue-du-commandant-rene-mouchotte-reamenagee-et-vegetalisee-pour-toutes-et-tous-30491 )
#Urbanism #Urbanisme #WarOnCars
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2025-01-07 21:37:09 UTC

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probably very cathartic and yet, mastodon.social is still federated with an instance that announced today they'll double down on hate speech.
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2024-07-31 09:45:49 UTC

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there are corrosive users on sr.ht-discuss keeping me away from the list, and [even unmoderated toxicity](https://lists.sr.ht/%7Esircmpwn/sr.ht-discuss/%3CZk3_ft5prvAJ845Y@localhost.my.domain%3E#%3CD1GAFN42EOVI.ZK8DFN8K8UQR@cepl.eu%3E ). Associating your brand with these people on fedi would be a pretty big risk in my opinion.

2024-07-31 09:25:20 UTC

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voted no as I think your limited resources would be more impactful if focused on the product than moderating / operating an instance, but do what makes sense for you!