I just started poking around at my account at Opendesktop Org for the first time (was migrated from some former website) and stumbled over the ocs-site-verification “feature” in the profile.

Frankly I am bamboozled that this is not using “simple” XFN rel=me as it is used by many others including Github, Gitlab, Mastodon, GamingOnLinux, WordPress and is an existing standard for open web to tell profile equivalence for a decade?

Can someone explain this to me or even better tell me where to put this as an improvement suggestion?

This approach reminds me of tracking features like Google Analytics does it and frankly I find it sort of invasive to require custom “code” instead of relying on a more generic and open approach especially when keeping the background of Opendesktop Org in mind.

But I’m like a fish out of water, down here on the farm by ShawshankShawshank (voidifremoved.net)
So first things first. I’m about 8.5 hours late on this post, but I’ll get to that. Yesterday we drove into SlightlyBiggerTown so I could take my written test to start the process to get my drivers license Long story short, with a quick transaction to my local (USA local DMV), I got my license t...

Shawshank is doing manly things, I see 😜

Medieval Realms 0.1.7 (medievalrealms.co.uk)
The Medieval Realms world is created by you – the player. Without doubt our world is now massive. Collectively we surpassed the four-year milestone last month. A truly amazing feat. When I launched the server back in 2017, I had no idea the server and our community would grow like this – in fact...

Assasin's Fate by Robin HobbRobin Hobb
Assassin's Fate is the third book in the epic fantasy trilogy Fitz and the Fool

I finally finished the recent (last?) trilogy of The Realm of the Elderlings with the book Assasin’s Fate by Robin Hobb. I don’t really recall how the first one (Assassin’s Apprentice, 1995) made it onto my shelf but I really enjoyed the ride. Kinda slow paced sometimes and mayhap a little bit strong on the self-loathing and moaning side this series really delivered an epic journey full of magic, dragons, murder, more magic, beasts and ships(!).

In fact I think I liked The Rain Wild Chronicles most due to the very interesting setting and it was really nice to come back to this part of the realms in this final book. The chronicles influenced me that much that the machine hosting this very blog is named “Paragon” for some years by now 😀

Not sure what to make of the end especially without spoiling the read but I guess it could be worse. I’m… okay with it. Ish.