mini link roundup: AO3 bots, Mona Lisa artists

AO3 stuff:

“PSA: there’s a negative comment bot active right now […] Mark them as spam so that AO3 can start filtering them out.“

Cloudflare does a retrospective on last year’s DDOS attacks: “Within three hours of applying to Project Galileo, the OTW was accepted into the project, configured their nameservers to point to Cloudflare, and successfully got the AO3 site back online. According to the systems chair, “The impact was immediate.””

Digital artist stuff:

“One of the reasons why social media is so popular is that it gives us the impression that we’re working hard, while avoiding exposing ourselves emotionally in the same way we do in 1–to–1 communication.” Ways to get clients in 2024 that aren’t social media.

Hey, who wants some exciting cutting-edge blockchain news? “Wacom Yuify is a service, in beta for Adobe, that enables digital artists and photographers to permanently record ownership of their work on [an unspecified blockchain].”

Wait, did I say cutting-edge news? I meant a stale rehash of the same “use cases” people were pitching in 2018. (With the slight tweak that they have…uh…reinvented the watermark. Maybe one of these years they’ll even catch up to where DeviantArt Protect was in 2018.)

And how did the blockchain-ownership-record plan work out in 2018, you ask…? “Long story short, I convinced them that I painted the Mona Lisa.”