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grysbok

@ grysbok @lemmy.sdf.org

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I'm a systems librarian in an academic library. I moved over the Lemmy after Rexxit 2023. I've had an account on sdf.org since 2009 (under a different username), and so I chose this instance out of a sense of nostalgia. I do all sorts of fiber arts (knitting, cross stitch, sewing) and love dogs.

  • Trump quietly abandons all-caps tirades after Newsom's trolling spree

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  • "I'm not saying I'm running for president but I'm not not saying that, if you know what I mean"

    (haven't seen the clip, just postulating)

  • TIL Amtrak will let you attach your own private car to one of their trains and they charge you per a mile

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  • I'm with Great Aunt whomever. Flying sucks.

    Plus, you could make it an event or party car. Imagine a traveling bachelorette party with a murder mystery dinner, karaoke, no flying, no driving, and you end up somewhere cool and can nap on the way back.

    (100% of the pre-wedding parties I've been to have had karaoke and a murder mystery dinner. Sample set of one.)

  • Why are so many of the young people I still see wearing masks queer?

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  • My dad died of COVID a month before he was eligible for the vaccine. I'm still sore about that. I don't want to be the disease vector that leads to someone's death.

    My partner's girlfriend's boyfriend is immunocompromised. My partner has a history of illness that might make him more susceptible to COVID. At the beginning of the pandemic, we negotiated that we would both mask outside the home and we've renegotiated that I'll not mask in some low-risk settings, but stores are still on the "must mask" list.

  • weird questions

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  • My new doctor's office is the first I've had that didn't ask. It's so refreshing. Like, I'm coming in because I suspect I have hEDS. I can bend my limbs weird. Menstruation doesn't come into it.

  • Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit

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  • I've never owned a printer, but have always had a job where I could print personal stuff. Highly recommend. My current job, I have a personal laser printer and it's awesome. I use it to print letters, notes for doctor's visits, and craft patterns.

    and there's no way I'd trust my phone enough to not print travel tickets. Paper backups ftw.

  • Mmmm soup

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  • Hmmm. Extra moist insides.

  • Help.

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  • I'm a fan of sharing as much as the next person but I'm not sharing my toothbrush.

  • Byeeeeeee

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  • When it eventually lands, they're in for a hike.

  • Help.

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  • I don't remember where I read it, but there's a concept of private property vs personal property. Personal property is your stuff you use, like your bracelet or your bowl. Private property is your apartment building.

  • lads

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  • I mean, I enjoy linux sysadmining, but fighting bots takes time, experimentation, and research, and there's other stuff I should be doing. For example, accessibility updates to our websites. But, accessibility doesn't matter a lick if you can't access the website anyway due to timeouts.

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  • Yep, they'll just burn taxpayer resources (me and my poor servers) because it's not like they pay taxes anyway (assuming they are either a corporation or not based in the same locality as I am).

    There's only one of me and if I'm working on keeping the servers bare minimum functional today I'm not working on making something more awesome for tomorrow. "Linux sysadmin" is only supposed to be up to 30% of my job.

  • Nobody uses the white emojis

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  • Fair! Yellow as anonymizer makes sense. I tend to use emojis in forms of communication where people already know me, like on discord and professional channels.

  • lads

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  • Like I said, [edit: at one point] Facebook requested my robots.txt multiple times a second. You've not convinced me that bot writers care about efficiency.

    [edit: they've since stopped, possibly because now I give a 404 to anything claiming to be from facebook]

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  • I just looked at my log for this morning. 23% of my total requests were from the useragent GoogleOther. Other visitors include GPTBot, SemanticScholarBot, and Turnitin. That's the crawlers that are still trying after I've had Anubis on the site for over a month. It was much, much worse before, when they could crawl the site, instead of being blocked.

    That doesn't include the bots that lie about being bots. Looking back at an older screenshot of a monitors---I don't have the logs themselves anymore---I seriously doubt I had 43,000 unique visitors using Windows per day in March.

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  • Timing and request patterns. The increase in traffic coincided with the increase in AI in the marketplace. Before, we'd get hit by bots in waves and we'd just suck it up for a day. Now it's constant. The request patterns are deep deep solr requests, with far more filters than any human would ever use. These are expensive requests and the results aren't any more informative that just scooping up the nicely formatted EAD/XML finding aids we provide.

    And, TBH, I don't care if it's AI. I care that it's rude. If the bots respected robots.txt then I'd be fine with them. They don't and they break stuff for actual researchers.

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  • You're right. AI didn't just triple the traffic to my tiny archive's site. It way more than tripled it. After implementing Anubis, we went from 3000 'unique' visitors down to 20 in a half-day. Twenty is a much more expected number for a small college archive in the summer. That's before I did any fine-tuning to Anubis, just the default settings.

    I was getting constant outage reports. Now I'm not.

    For us, it's not about protecting our IP. We want folks to get to find out information. That's why we write finding aids, scan it, accession it. But, allowing bots to siphon it all up inefficiently was denying everyone access to it.

    And if you think bots aren't inefficient, explain why Facebook requests my robots.txt 10 times a second.

  • Nobody uses the white emojis

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  • I use them because I want to push back against the assumption that white is the default. If not-white people pick a skin tone and white people stay yellow, then yellow gets read as white, not color-neutral.

    And yes, it felt so awkward to choose the white emoji at first.

  • how the rocks turn

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  • Yes, it's a þorn.

  • Air Canada flight attendants intend to strike this weekend, union says

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  • I'll cry all the way to the bank and doctor, what with my retroactive pay raise, my pretty awesome health insurance, and my liberal time off. We even got hazard pay during the early pandemic (if we were in a position where we had to see people in person).

    My union (AFSCME) bargains alongside the state cops. You might say it's a union of unions. ACAB, but they get good benefits and never have a pay reduction. You can't say that about most librarians.

    Edit: oops, just noticed which community I'm in. I'm in the USA and I'm not happy about our politics. Sorry to be an ugly American and assume that if your coworkers were anti-union you must be USAian.