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[yeiyeisj]

Supreme Court: Consent of adopter's children required in adoption petitions

The Supreme Court on Wednesday reiterated that the consent of the adopter’s legitimate children aged at least 10 years old is required in adoptions. In a 10-page decision, the SC Third Division denied the petition for review on certiorari filed by Nena Bagcat-Gullas challenging the ruling of the Court of Appeals (CA), which in turn affirmed a decision of a regional trial court (RTC) that set…

[brit90]

The Tangible Limits

Oh how we love to spend our days chasing the wind… chasing the things in which limit shall catch up to. Men chase beautiful girls who will one day turn into old women who’s beauty will fade. Women chase strong and wealthy men who will someday wither in strength, good looks and who’s wealth cannot buy back either. We chase the novelty of the car, the fame, the fashions, the homes, the career,…

[ourpageblog]

Visit the page if you're a novel freak! Check out my personal reviews, see if you like the books, don't forget to subscribe!

[jonahyawi]

10 Best WordPress Blog Themes That Are Most Popular in 2024

Are you looking for a best WordPress blog theme that are lightweight and fastest for your website? There are thousands out there, making it hard for beginners to choose between all the different varieties.   But Here’s Our best Pick for Your Sites and Also, Handpicked by Famous WordPress Bloggers in 2024 Your free theme needs to be reliable and easily customizable, and well designed. Right? And…

[problogtips]

Ahrefs' Free Keyword Research Tools

Ahrefs' Free Keyword Research Tools

Ahrefs' Free Keyword Research Tools

Introduction:

Keyword research is an essential aspect of optimizing websites for search engines and driving organic traffic. Ahrefs, a renowned SEO toolset, provides a range of powerful features to support businesses in their SEO endeavors. While Ahrefs predominantly operates as a paid platform, it also offers valuable free keyword research tools. In this article, we will delve into Ahrefs' free keyword research tools, exploring how they can provide actionable SEO insights.

1. Ahrefs Keyword Generator:

The Ahrefs Keyword Generator is an invaluable free tool for uncovering relevant keywords. By leveraging this tool and inputting a seed keyword, users can generate a list of keyword ideas, accompanied by essential metrics like search volume and keyword difficulty. This functionality enables users to explore new keyword opportunities and target niche-specific terms, ultimately attracting highly relevant traffic to their websites.

2. Ahrefs Keyword Explorer:

Even for free users, Ahrefs Keyword Explorer offers insightful metrics and data. This tool empowers users to enter a keyword and access valuable information, including search volume, keyword difficulty, and click metrics. By utilizing this tool, users can assess keyword competitiveness and identify high-potential targets for their SEO strategies.

3. Ahrefs Keyword Rank Checker:

The Ahrefs Keyword Rank Checker allows users to track their target keywords' rankings in search engine result pages (SERPs). Although the free version has limitations on the number of keywords that can be tracked, it still provides users with essential information regarding their website's performance for specific keywords over time. This tool proves invaluable for monitoring SEO progress and identifying areas that require improvement.

4. Ahrefs SEO Toolbar:

The Ahrefs SEO Toolbar is a free browser extension that offers users valuable SEO insights while browsing the web. By installing this extension, users gain access to key metrics, including Domain Rating (DR), URL Rating (UR), and backlink numbers for visited websites. With this information at their fingertips, users can perform competitor analysis, evaluate potential link-building opportunities, and gauge the authority of encountered websites.

5. Ahrefs Webmaster Tools:

Included in Ahrefs' free offerings is the Webmaster Tools feature, providing users with data and insights regarding their website's performance. This feature encompasses a Site Audit tool for scanning websites for technical SEO issues, a Backlink Checker for analyzing a website's backlink profile, and a Site Explorer for accessing valuable information about any website's backlink profile, organic traffic, and top-performing pages. These tools are indispensable for identifying and resolving issues that may impact a website's visibility and search engine rankings.

Conclusion:

Although Ahrefs primarily operates as a paid platform, its free keyword research tools offer users valuable insights and data to optimize their SEO performance. The Ahrefs Keyword Generator and Keyword Explorer empower users to uncover relevant keywords and evaluate their potential. The Keyword Rank Checker facilitates the monitoring of keyword rankings over time, while the SEO Toolbar provides on-the-go SEO metrics. The Webmaster Tools feature allows for comprehensive website analysis, uncovering technical SEO

[lifeofawarrior]

Warriors, know your TRIGGERS!

Hey guys!!! It’s been 2weeks plus since I’ve been away from this space and you guys. I’ve been having ‘writers block’ (I guess that’s what it’s called) for a while now, I have also been sick and with this current Nigerian weather, it’s not making my body feel any better. Also, just taking care of me, my health and focusing on family, hopefully I don’t get to stay too long away from you guys next…

[miaesaan]

The Popularity of Social Media Writers (3/3)

Social media has become the conscience of the digital age.  The popularity of social media writers has made it possible for every kind of poet to contribute to the shared conscience of the internet.  Critics would say that this popularity was curated, or designed, to improve the statistics of followers.  It is more of a game than an art form.  But hopeless romantics would say that the underlying narrative of poetry became popular because the writer was still trying to win back a lost love.  

The writer is still in love.  

The writer never fell in love again.  

The writer is still hoping that their ex is reading this, knowing it’s for them.  

And the writer is still trying to make things work, trying to be less immature and to be less jealous, if possible.  But no, there is never a response from the right person, even if the comments section is flooded with ‘But I love you too’.  

The narrative that writers like to work with often returns to the past.  Does it make their narrative less relevant, even if it is popular to write poetry about falling in love and being lost in the confusion of it?  It often is part of the literary cycle for a writer to revisit their past narratives in search of some kind of inspiration.  However, reliving the past through current writing is what makes the romanticism work.  Written with the present understanding, the terrible breakup becomes romantic.  Knowing how things turned out and why it didn’t work makes the poem even stronger.  

I love you and you didn’t love me back.  How could you?  Knowing that I loved you even more?  But I still want to forgive you, even if I can’t forgive myself for letting you go.  And now, you won’t even follow me on social media anymore.  I don’t know what to do if you won’t admit that I’m talking to you.

It isn’t popular to talk to people like this in real life.  But somehow, the romance comes alive on social media and our collective conscience has become popular because of it.

Written by miae

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irresponsible, baseless allegation wednesday: i think those incorrect quotes blogs you always see on the trending page even though they never break 1k are matt mullenweg sideblogs. i know it sounds preposterous but hear me out: he has no taste, he can't write, and he doesn't know what's funny, but he desperately wants to be well-liked, so he has to copy and paste jokes and hamhandle them into being related to some fandom thing. it may sound like a lot of effort, perhaps a prohibitive amount of effort, to build out a whole second dash for "popular" posts just to put your own posts on it -- except that's basically the exact thing he just did singlehandedly pushing a news update to the wordpress dash to slander a so-called competitor who won't pay him licensing fees to use an untrademarked phrase in an open source software community. stealing jokes is somewhat reminiscent of stealing overtime hours from his mom's personal assistant by misclassifying her as a contractor and then lying to her about salary vs hourly. and also call of duty REALLY fucking sucks. if it was n64 goldeneye or tomb raider or doom or something i wouldn't have said anything

[canmom]

Hypothetical Decentralised Social Media Protocol Stack

if we were to dream up the Next Social Media from first principles we face three problems. one is scaling hosting, the second is discovery/aggregation, the third is moderation.

hosting

hosting for millions of users is very very expensive. you have to have a network of datacentres around the world and mechanisms to sync the data between them. you probably use something like AWS, and they will charge you an eye-watering amount of money for it. since it's so expensive, there's no way to break even except by either charging users to access your service (which people generally hate to do) or selling ads, the ability to intrude on their attention to the highest bidder (which people also hate, and go out of their way to filter out). unless you have a lot of money to burn, this is a major barrier.

the traditional internet hosts everything on different servers, and you use addresses that point you to that server. the problem with this is that it responds poorly to sudden spikes in attention. if you self-host your blog, you can get DDOSed entirely by accident. you can use a service like cloudflare to protect you but that's $$$. you can host a blog on a service like wordpress, or a static site on a service like Github Pages or Neocities, often for free, but that broadly limits interaction to people leaving comments on your blog and doesn't have the off-the-cuff passing-thought sort of interaction that social media does.

the middle ground is forums, which used to be the primary form of social interaction before social media eclipsed them, typically running on one or a few servers with a database + frontend. these are viable enough, often they can be run with fairly minimal ads or by user subscriptions (the SomethingAwful model), but they can't scale indefinitely, and each one is a separate bubble. mastodon is a semi-return to this model, with the addition of a means to use your account on one bubble to interact with another ('federation').

the issue with everything so far is that it's an all-eggs-in-one-basket approach. you depend on the forum, instance, or service paying its bills to stay up. if it goes down, it's just gone. and database-backend models often interact poorly with the internet archive's scraping, so huge chunks won't be preserved.

scaling hosting could theoretically be solved by a model like torrents or IPFS, in which every user becomes a 'server' for all the posts they download, and you look up files using hashes of the content. if a post gets popular, it also gets better seeded! an issue with that design is archival: there is no guarantee that stuff will stay on the network, so if nobody is downloading a post, it is likely to get flushed out by newer stuff. it's like link rot, but it happens automatically.

IPFS solves this by 'pinning': you order an IPFS node (e.g. your server) not to flush a certain file so it will always be available from at least one source. they've sadly mixed this up in cryptocurrency, with 'pinning services' which will take payment in crypto to pin your data. my distaste for a technology designed around red queen races aside, I don't know how pinning costs compare to regular hosting costs.

theoretically you could build a social network on a backbone of content-based addressing. it would come with some drawbacks (posts would be immutable, unless you use some indirection to a traditional address-based hosting) but i think you could make it work (a mix of location-based addressing for low-bandwidth stuff like text, and content-based addressing for inline media). in fact, IPFS has the ability to mix in a bit of address-based lookup into its content-based approach, used for hosting blogs and the like.

as for videos - well, BitTorrent is great for distributing video files. though I don't know how well that scales to something like Youtube. you'd need a lot of hard drive space to handle the amount of Youtube that people typically watch and continue seeding it.

aggregation/discovery

the next problem is aggregation/discovery. social media sites approach this problem in various ways. early social media sites like LiveJournal had a somewhat newsgroup-like approach, you'd join a 'community' and people would post stuff to that community. this got replaced by the subscription model of sites like Twitter and Tumblr, where every user is simultaneously an author and a curator, and you subscribe to someone to see what posts they want to share.

this in turn got replaced by neural network-driven algorithms which attempt to guess what you'll want to see and show you stuff that's popular with whatever it thinks your demographic is. that's gotta go, or at least not be an intrinsic part of the social network anymore.

it would be easy enough to replicate the 'subscribe to see someone's recommended stuff' model, you just need a protocol for pointing people at stuff. (getting analytics such as like/reblog counts would be more difficult!) it would probably look similar to RSS feeds: you upload a list of suitably formatted data, and programs which speak that protocol can download it.

the problem of discovery - ways to find strangers who are interested in the same stuff you are - is more tricky. if we're trying to design this as a fully decentralised, censorship-resistant network, we face the spam problem. any means you use to broadcast 'hi, i exist and i like to talk about this thing, come interact with me' can be subverted by spammers. either you restrict yourself entirely to spreading across a network of curated recommendations, or you have to have moderation.

moderation

moderation is one of the hardest problems of social networks as they currently exist. it's both a problem of spam (the posts that users want to see getting swamped by porn bots or whatever) and legality (they're obliged to remove child porn, beheading videos and the like). the usual solution is a combination of AI shit - does the robot think this looks like a naked person - and outsourcing it to poorly paid workers in (typically) African countries, whose job is to look at reports of the most traumatic shit humans can come up with all day and confirm whether it's bad or not.

for our purposes, the hypothetical decentralised network is a protocol to help computers find stuff, not a platform. we can't control how people use it, and if we're not hosting any of the bad shit, it's not on us. but spam moderation is a problem any time that people can insert content you did not request into your feed.

possibly this is where you could have something like Mastodon instances, with their own moderation rules, but crucially, which don't host the content they aggregate. so instead of having 'an account on an instance', you have a stable address on the network, and you submit it to various directories so people can find you. by keeping each one limited in scale, it makes moderation more feasible. this is basically Reddit's model: you have topic-based hubs which people can subscribe to, and submit stuff to.

the other moderation issue is that there is no mechanism in this design to protect from mass harassment. if someone put you on the K*w*f*rms List of Degenerate Trannies To Suicidebait, there'd be fuck all you can do except refuse to receive contact from strangers. though... that's kind of already true of the internet as it stands. nobody has solved this problem.

to sum up

primarily static sites 'hosted' partly or fully on IPFS and BitTorrent

a protocol for sharing content you want to promote, similar to RSS, that you can aggregate into a 'feed'

directories you can submit posts to which handle their own moderation

no ads, nobody makes money off this

honestly, the biggest problem with all this is mostly just... getting it going in the first place. because let's be real, who but tech nerds is going to use a system that requires you to understand fuckin IPFS? until it's already up and running, this idea's got about as much hope as getting people to sign each others' GPG keys. it would have to have the sharp edges sanded down, so it's as easy to get on the Hypothetical Decentralised Social Network Protocol Stack as it is to register an account on tumblr.

but running over it like this... I don't think it's actually impossible in principle. a lot of the technical hurdles have already been solved. and that's what I want the Next Place to look like.

[yeiyeisj]

A Reason To Rise and Shine

Father, sometimes it feels easier for me to stay in bed and hide under the covers than it is to get up and face the day. Sometimes it feels like even though I know I should rise and shine, I have no “shine” left to give. Thank You for the reminder that, because of Your sacrifice, I have every reason to rejoice! My circumstances may not be what I want, but wrapped in Your robes of salvation, I…

[anneapocalypse]

I am actually going to use the Dragon Age fandom's predictable reheating of stale wank from ten years ago like it's brand new to remind people to crosspost and archive your meta. I'm serious. Crosspost and archive and back up your fanworks generally, but I think meta is a particular place where people don't bother or think it's not worth the trouble.

Part of the reason fandom seems to have such a miserably short memory is that the centralization of it on social media platforms causes information decay at a staggering rate. Twitter is one of the worst offenders, as it's basically useless for any kind of archiving and near impossible to find something that was posted ten days ago, never mind months or years. But tumblr has its own problems, with the ease of changing urls making link rot almost inevitable. Unless a post is still in active circulation or someone is doing a tag dive on an old fan's blog, posts from when Inquisition was fresh out and we didn't even have Trespasser yet (for example) might as well be at the bottom of the sea.

Did you know you can post meta on AO3? You can. There are tags for it and everything ("nonfiction" and "meta" being two popular ones). Dreamwidth exists and isn't a bad place for archiving. Hell, set up a Wordpress blog if that's more your speed.

Maybe you want to help preserve access to other people's meta posts! Consider a meta rec list. Reblog their posts and include links to the reblog as well as the original in case of deletion or link rot.

These are just a few ideas. I just want to encourage fellow fans, at a time when fandom and information online generally moves so fast and things get buried so quickly, to give some thought to archiving and preservation. Ten years from now, will our fandoms remember what we were talking about today?

[shortformblog]

More on the Automattic mess from my pals at 404 Media:

We still do not know the answers to all of these questions, because Automattic has repeatedly ignored our detailed questions, will not get on the phone with us, and has instead chosen to frame a new opt-out feature as “protecting user choice.” We are at the point where individual Automattic employees are posting clarifications on their personal Mastodon accounts about what data is and is not included.  The truth is that Automattic has been selling access to this “firehose” of posts for years, for a variety of purposes. This includes selling access to self-hosted blogs and websites that use a popular plugin called Jetpack; Automattic edited its original “protecting user choice” statement this week to say it will exclude Jetpack from its deals with “select AI companies.” These posts have been directly available via a data partner called SocialGist, which markets its services to “social listening” companies, marketing insights firms, and, increasingly, AI companies. Tumblr has its own Firehose, and Tumblr posts are available via SocialGist as well.  Almost every platform has some sort of post “firehose,” API, or way of accessing huge amounts of user posts. Famously, Twitter and Reddit used to give these away for free. Now they do not, and charging access for these posts has become big business for those companies. This is just to say that the existence of Automattic’s firehose is not anomalous in an internet ecosystem that trades on data. But this firehose also means that the average user doesn’t and can’t know what companies are getting direct access to their posts, and what they’re being used for.

This story goes deeper than the current situation.

[oldwebtrash]

This is a good moment to encourage all of you to make your own shitty website! Neocities is free and SadgrlOnline has a theme creator so you don't have to code a single thing.

You can also create a forum, Wiki or blog in WordPress or similar. They can't ban you there and since the downfall of Twitter and Reddit they are becoming popular again.

Let it be shitty, but let it be yours.

Don't let your web and everything you've worked for be destroyed the moment the web owners wants to make a bit more money than they already make.

[dunavision]

About me

10/09/2024: If you visit this page often enough, you'll realize that I moved from Wordpress to Tumblr. Although I'm going to miss the flexibility of the Wordpress designs, Tumblr is a perfectly suitable tool for my portfolio and my blog, as it has been since 2010 when I first landed on this site.

About QuietDuna

I'm QuietDuna, aka Nuria Espinoza. I'm a +40 old Spanish artist. I love to create about my hiperfixations and to create illustrations for my work at Médecins Sans Frontières.

I began creating comics, fanfictions and illustrations very early as a child, but in 2013 I did a big step by learning digital art and beginning to sell some of my designs as merchandising because someone at the Internet asked me to.

Since then:

I had several designs featured at Shirtpunch (and other websites I don't remember the names) over the years

I've created several online stores, being my Etsy store the most popular of them. Sadly it was banned due to copyright infringement in 2022. I still keep a Redbubble, Teepublic and a Neatoshop store.

I had a Patreon for almost 2 years with a bunch of amazing people all over the world that followed my rambles and weekly publications. I closed it at 2022 due to personal reasons.

I've published more than 1100 pages of comics dedicated to Escaflowne and created since 2011. I have received messages from people telling me how my stories touched them. That's my most important achievement in my artist career.

I've created several fanzines /doujinshis. I have 7 issues of my own "Escaflowne Tales". But my most popular one and the one that has sold a lot of digital copies is my Dr.Stone Senhaku story that you can find here.

Of course, I had many of my designs printed as tshirts, buttons and magnets, and also showed at exhibitions at my job for internal events. You can check it here.

My LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/quietduna

[topoet]

recap August 2024

The WP map shows my hits have come from  20 countries around the world! No surprises in the top ten though with Canada still holding the lead. Two of the most popular posts were the alphabet picture blogs. With the review of Stratford’s London Assurance near the top. Watched some interesting movies including Across To Singapore a 1928 silent starring Ramon Novarro & Joan Crawford. TCM digs deep…