note on webmention spam

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+Yeah that sucks, I've also encountered spam like this, and it ain't all sourced via a Pingback, see https://brainbaking.com/post/2022/04/fighting-webmention-and-pingback-spam/. I "solved" this by blacklisting/whitelisting and a moderation queue but I have my own webmention server implementation. 
+I honestly always get a little upset when people say "just unplug pingbacks"---I've had a few genuinely good interactions through that, and every Wordpress user automatically has support for that as opposed to Webmentions. Disabling something does not fix the spammers.

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-June 2022 is no more---this marks yet another midpoint of yet another year. June is traditionally a month filled with exam/master thesis/course project preparation and grading work. It's the first time I've seen students' Android/Kotlin projects as this was the first year we've taught the heavily revised course ourselves, and I must say I'm quite impressed with most works. It's only a small course (`3` ECTS) and very practical, but the Android development lifecycle system combined with Kotlin's new syntax ensures the challenge level stays high. A few classic cases of _whoops-I-started-too-late-and-got-swamped-with-other-assignments_ aside, the results were encouraging to continue the trend for the next academic year. 
+June 2022 is no more---this marks yet another midpoint of yet another year. June is traditionally a month filled with exam/master thesis/course project preparation and grading work. It's the first time I've seen students' Android/Kotlin projects as this was the first year we've taught the heavily revised course ourselves, and I must say I'm quite impressed with most works. It's only a small course (`3` ECTS) and very practical, but the Android development lifecycle system combined with Kotlin's new syntax ensures the challenge level stays high. A few classic cases of _whoops-I-started-too-late-and-got-swamped-with-other-assignments_ aside, the results were encouraging enough to continue the trend for the next academic year. 
 
 The quick overseas excursion to ElixirConfEU was also the first hybrid conference which I attended physically and the first programming-oriented conference that wasn't rooted in academia where I'd need to prepare a presentation for my own research. It was refreshingly laid-back, and we've had great fun exploring London the day(s) after. This month, July, brings [the ITiCSE conference](https://iticse.acm.org/2022/conference-program/) (_Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education_), where I won't be able to go to in person, and I will have to present something. Oh well. Back to work.