Lester's Rants

I'm making progress on a lot of fronts, but one area that is irritating is the way AI Bots are so utterly thick when it comes to crawling some types of website. GPTBot is currently 95% of my traffic, but all it is doing is trying every possible combination of search on my family tree in phpgedview. It has probably download essentially the same data many thousands of times to the point where I've currently switched off it's access via robots.txt. We will see how long it takes to co…

It has been a while since I actually wrote down my rants. Mainly due to fighting medical problems over the last several weeks. I've now got the problem with my left arm under control, but it's still giving a bit of jipp. Just need to keep things moving while it recovers and the GP physio was little help with that! But that is another rant for the health blog.

I decided as a new year 'resolution', although it's more of an old TODO item, to finally do something abo…

It would be nice if white actually meant white? I was getting to the end of the reel of white bg filament and so opened up the Geeetech white reel, which looks identical as a filament, but as soon as it started printing one saw a distinct grey colour as you will see from the picture. I've got two reels of this 'white', and have just tried to req…

End of the month and time to do my monthly banking checks. I've banked with HSBC since the time it was still Midlands, but never been happy with the really service. I did try a different bank for a while, but their service was even worse, so switched back to the 'best of a bad job'. Current annoyance is the problems of downloading bank statements. The business arm has no problem simply providing .csv copies which I simply upload to the yearly spreadsheet, but the personal accounts…

It's been a while since I had a rant, although I have had things to rant about, but this one definitly need documenting.

Not having mains power in the garage, I'd replaced a number of battery powered items over the last year, using Lidl's Parkside tools for consistency and the discounts. They are not the best quality tools, but given the low level of use, they should perform well. I'd be using the jigsaw with the blade that was fitted, but needed to switch to a metal…

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