New note: scaling back

Since the retronaut webring is down, its redirects don't work. I
replaced the redirection URLs myself.

content/notes/scaling-back.md

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+---
+title: "Scaling back"
+date: 2022-07-24T11:23:20-07:00
+---
+For personal reasons, I am stepping away from or reducing my involvement in some communities to better focus on other things. You will likely hear from me less.
+
+My site will probably update less frequently too. Some timed posts may fire, but I won't be actively writing much. I most likely won't [POSSE](https://indieweb.org/POSSE) those timed posts.
+
+I'll probably be back eventually, but not for a while.

content/posts/stylometric-fingerprinting-redux.gmi

@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ Let’s run it through Argos Open Translate’s English-Esperanto filter, and th
 
 > But it is evident that modern left-wing philosophers are not simply dehydrated logicians systematically analyzing the foundations of knowledge.
 
-“Dehydrated logicians” obviously isn’t the right term to use here. The fact that the translation algorithm mistook “cool-headed” for “dehydrated” indicates that “cool-headed” was an unusual choice of words to use in this context, and therefore a fingerprinting vector. A more common phrase like “detached” would be safer.
+“Dehydrated logicians” obviously isn’t the correct term to use. The fact that the translation algorithm mistook “cool-headed” for “dehydrated” indicates that “cool-headed” was an unusual choice of words to use in this context, and therefore a fingerprinting vector. A more common phrase like “detached” would be safer.
 
 (I didn't pick Esperanto for any particular reason)
 
@@ -152,6 +152,6 @@ If you wish to write anonymously, I recommend the following:
 
 4. Conform to an opinionated style-guide that you don’t normally use in your other writing.
 
-5. If, after doing the above, your anonymous work still has a reading level too similar to your non-anonymous writing: reduce the reading level by choosing simpler words.
+5. If, after doing the prior steps, your anonymous work still has a reading level too similar to your non-anonymous writing: reduce the reading level by choosing simpler words.
 
 Stay safe, everyone.

content/posts/stylometric-fingerprinting-redux.md

@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ Let's run it through Argos Open Translate's English-Esperanto filter,[^1] and th
 
 > But it is evident that modern left-wing philosophers are not simply <mark>dehydrated logicians</mark> systematically analyzing the foundations of knowledge.
 
-"Dehydrated logicians" obviously isn't the right term to use here. The fact that the translation algorithm mistook "cool-headed" for "dehydrated" indicates that "cool-headed" was an unusual choice of words to use in this context, and therefore a fingerprinting vector. A more common phrase like "detached" would be safer.
+"Dehydrated logicians" obviously isn't the correct term to use. The fact that the translation algorithm mistook "cool-headed" for "dehydrated" indicates that "cool-headed" was an unusual choice of words to use in this context, and therefore a fingerprinting vector. A more common phrase like "detached" would be safer.
 
 ### Extreme example: Mario
 
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ If you wish to write anonymously, I recommend the following:
 
 4. Conform to an opinionated style-guide that you don't normally use in your other writing.
 
-5. If, after doing the above, your anonymous work still has a reading level too similar to your non-anonymous writing: reduce the reading level by choosing simpler words.
+5. If, after doing the prior steps, your anonymous work still has a reading level too similar to your non-anonymous writing: reduce the reading level by choosing simpler words.
 
 Stay safe, everyone.
 

csv/webrings.base.csv

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ no js webring,https://nojs.sugarfi.dev/prev.php?url=https://seirdy.one,https://n
 Fediring,https://fediring.net/previous?host=seirdy.one,https://fediring.net/,https://fediring.net/next?host=seirdy.one,https://fediring.net/random
 Loop (JS),https://graycot.com/webring/loop-redirect.html?action=prev,https://graycot.com/webring/,https://graycot.com/webring/loop-redirect.html?action=next,https://graycot.com/webring/loop-redirect.html?action=rand
 YesterWeb,https://webring.yesterweb.org/noJS/index.php?d=prev&url=https://seirdy.one/,https://yesterweb.org/webring/,https://webring.yesterweb.org/noJS/index.php?d=next&url=https://seirdy.one/,https://webring.yesterweb.org/noJS/index.php?d=rand&url=https://seirdy.one/
-Retronaut,https://webring.dinhe.net/prev/https://seirdy.one,https://webring.dinhe.net/,https://webring.dinhe.net/next/https://seirdy.one,null
+Retronaut,https://tonicfunk.neocities.org/,https://webring.dinhe.net/,https://members.vistaserv.net/jrs/index.html,null
 Hotline,https://hotlinewebring.club/seirdy/previous,https://hotlinewebring.club,https://hotlinewebring.club/seirdy/next,null
 Bucket (JS),https://webring.bucketfish.me/redirect.html?to=prev&name=seirdy,https://webring.bucketfish.me/,https://webring.bucketfish.me/redirect.html?to=next&name=seirdy,null
 Devring,https://devring.club/sites/5/prev,https://devring.club,https://devring.club/sites/5/next,https://devring.club/random

linter-configs/htmltest.yml

@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ IgnoreURLs:
   - "https://seirdy.one/webmentions/"
   - "http://creativecommons.org/ns"
   - "https://seirdy.one/search/"
-  - "https://jacky.wtf/" # site is down i think
   - "https://fediring.net/(previous|next)" # redir
   - "https://forum.palemoon.org/" # manual check: blocks crawlers
   - "https://queue.acm.org/detail" # manual check: blocks crawlers