grysbok @ grysbok @lemmy.sdf.org

I'm a systems librarian in an academic library. I moved over the Lemmy afte

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Bots lie about who they are, ignore robots.txt, and come from a gazillion different IPs.

Current plan is to borrow a Switch 2 from a friend in a couple years, to play the games we're really excited for.

Seeing that the "explore the Switch 2” game wasn't included with the system just pissed me off. I'm not paying to play an interactive manual.

I don't know what my dad's death certificate says, just that when the doctors removed him from the breathing machine he died. I blame Obamacare. /s

(And I haaaate when people ask me what "he really died of". Like, seriously. Do they hear themselves?)

Also that the COVID death numbers were inflated because COVID doesn't kill people, pneumonia and not breathing kills people.

I think it can be a (bad) cultural thing. When I told my mom I worried my cousin's new husband was abusive, my mom told me he was "a regular Kentucky man. They're just like that."

(My other cousin confirmed her sister's new husband was an abusive dick, but sister refused to leave him. Other cousin and I both went out of state for college, which helps break indoctrination. We were back in town for a funeral.)

The square hole? /tik-tok meme

TIL. I've bought freeze dried lamb lung for my pups (they love it), but didn't realize lung is banned for human consumption in the USA.

Hear me out: when you wear a dress, you don't have to pick out a top and a bottom. It's awesome.

What the other person said. You don't need fancy yeast or bottles, either. I did it with 2 liter soda bottles and bread yeast, back in college.

The one time I've found a dropped wallet, it had ID for like 5 different people in it. I dropped that off at the local police station and walked away.

My partner lost wallet at a bus stop. It got buried under snow for a season and when the snow melted a month later it was turned in to the police station, who called partner. All his (by then cancelled) cards were still in the wallet, plus what felt like the right amount of cash.

Odd. I just tried

curl https://www.scrapingcourse.com/cloudflare-challenge

and got

Enable JavaScript and cookies to continue

I'm clearly not on the same setup as you are, but my off-the-cuff guess is that your curl command was issued from a system that cloudflare already recognized (IP whitelist, cookies, I dunno).

Anyways, I'm reading through this blog post on using cURL with cloudflare-protected sites and I'm finding it interesting.

Last I checked, cloudflare requires the user to have JavaScript and cookies enabled. My institution doesn't want to require those because it would likely impact legitimate users as well as bots.

It's also a huge problem for library/archive/museum websites. We try so hard to make data available to everyone, then some rude bots come along and bring the site down. Adding more resources just uses more resources--the bots expand to fill the container.

I read it more as ignorant and rude than racist. Like, if I said "all y'all ought to do blah" and was questioned on it, I'd assume the questioner just hadn't been exposed to folks with that dialect.

Or like how my brother would make fun of people with a Boston accent while he was a tourist in Boston, getting directions from someone with a Boston accent. Ignorant and rude.

Of course, I'm white AF and my primary exposure to AAVE is online, so I might be totally missing subtext/context/supertext. Also my brother is an asshole.

Whoever has the most kings at the end wins. You're the one with kings 1 through (at least) 6 here, so I guess you're winning :)

I also love it. It was my go-to back when I had to walk inexperienced sysadmins through configuring stuff, in my tech support days. I really appreciate all the commands being listed at the bottom.

Unexpected polyamory?

Thanks for the thorough response. It makes sense that different groups do things differently and the group I was working with was less forward-thinking/forward-mandated.

Also, shout-out to Archives for doing the thankless task of storing, organizing, and making accessible everyone's collective history.

Specifically USAID classified files? I ask because I worked with a different segment of the US government during the Obama years and we sure as shit didn't have everything digitized.

It's like a weighted blanket for your head! So calming.