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New in AI: Not this site
Tumblr has pushed out a change to prevent OpenAI from scraping their content, and I’m duplicating what they’ve done here. OpenAI’s instructions for blocking GPTBot should discourage OpenAI, including ChatGPT. The solution is, thankfully, simple – just add the following to your site’s robots.txt file…
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GTA yourself using Midjourney
My good friend Barry Collins recently made use of Midjourney to generate GTA images of the PC Pro podcast crew. He’s since been good enough to show me how it was done, as well as creating some for myself too. All I’ll say is, you wouldn’t want to mess with me based on the results!
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How not to advertise in WordPress Plugins
Ask most users what they hate most about what WordPress plugins do and they’ll say “banner ads”. Drill down further, though, and you’ll find that it’s any kind of advertising within WP Admin. Used to up-sell an audience to a premium version of the product, it’s understandable. But what if it’s to a different product…
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Manchester Airport: Officially the worst
I really hate Manchester Airport. Everything from how slow they process booking in but, particularly, their security. It’s a rarity I get through without some kind of issue. But, hey, I’ve only been to a handful of UK airports, so I’m sure it’s not the worst. As it turns out, it is.
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Why WordPress developers shouldn’t restyle menu titles
Install enough plugins on a WordPress site and you’ll soon come across some that make various style changes to make themselves stand out in the menu. In this post I’m going to look at some examples of this, explore the reasoning behind it but also explain what the issues are with doing it.