Replied to | Chris Aldrich by Chris AldrichChris Aldrich (boffosocko.com)

Having the best tools does you absolutely no good unless you’re going to use them. Collecting notebooks, fountain pens, or even typewriters is useless (other than their inherent beauty) without their use.

Loving your use of real life index cards.
  • Listened: How to talk about avoiding waste, with Keep Britain Tidy
    • Most people think recycling is all you need to do to prevent waste.
    • Reframe the message and move people’s consciousness up the waste hierarchy.
    • Buy Nothing New Month.
    • Really interesting discussion around societal norms and reuse (e.g. what happens when you give second-hand presents at kids’ birthday parties…)
  • ListenedBrian Merchant, “Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech”
  • Spam.
    • Our website is experiencing an uptick in spam over the last few days.
    • Incredibly irritating.
    • With comments like 1*if(now()=sysdate(),sleep(15),0).
    • We have Akismet and a honepot enabled. Adding a very noddy manual captcha (e.g. 4+8 = ?) helps. But if it continues, we’ll probably have to enable ReCaptcha. Which I’d prefer to avoid if possible.
    • Seemingly emanating from the same IP address.
    • The host lists an abuse@ address. But when I contact that address, the mailbox is reported as being full