#WritersCoffeeClub 26. How culturally diverse do your casts tend to be?
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#WritersCoffeeClub 26. How culturally diverse do your casts tend to be?
It depends what corner of SF/F I'm writing in? In the Laundry Files I mainly try to mirror the diversity of 21st century British life, because that's where it's set. But sometimes I write SF in futures where the human species is extinct, or *our* humans are extinct and our descendants have speciated. And there's never just one religion or one nation or one form of government or one hair/skin colour or two binary genders ...
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#WritersCoffeeClub 26. How culturally diverse do your casts tend to be?
It depends what corner of SF/F I'm writing in? In the Laundry Files I mainly try to mirror the diversity of 21st century British life, because that's where it's set. But sometimes I write SF in futures where the human species is extinct, or *our* humans are extinct and our descendants have speciated. And there's never just one religion or one nation or one form of government or one hair/skin colour or two binary genders ...
Footnote: the space opera duology I'm currently writing is set so far in the future that humanity has speciated, and there's been a LOT of time for deliberate genetic modification.
One consequence is that non-UV catalyzed Vitamin D synthesis is normal: everyone is dark, for UV protection. (Also, many hominins have a vacuum-exposure reflex that opens the ductus arteriosis and bypasses the lungs, maintaining blood oxygen levels for a few minutes—time to get to safety.)
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@aeva thank you for your answer. I came to the same conclusion as you. I host via namecheap.com so probably it is that. I looked into it and on the file manager there are files that are not mine so probably have to disable it somewhere 🙃. Thanks and keep up the good work 😉
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@Ruckbank if you're using some kind of hosting service or framework, there's probably a setting somewhere you'd have to switch off to disable visitor metrics entirely. there's always the chance that some 3rd party component might also be phoning home. tbh modern web development sounds really awful to me because of stuff like this, so i just make webpages more or less the same way i did when i was twelve XD
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@Ruckbank my webpage is static html & css that I wrote entirely by hand. when i want to add something, i modify my offline copy and then upload it to my server using ssh which copies the new files over the old ones. it's very old school. i know it keeps absolutely no visitor metrics because i never wrote any, and never will.
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@aeva hey I'm pretty new here and want to be as much privacy focused as possible I have a site (ruckbank.com ((only half finished)) ) a personal portfolio. And I can track how many people see my site on what platform and for how long and so forth.. seems like I unintentionally collect data. My question now is can you see such metrics on your site, is this "normal" and can you do anything about it?
