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DH Dev at Duke University Libraries.
Likes: Ancient / multilingual DH, Digital Preservation, TEI, Libraries, my brilliant colleagues, MUFC, UNC basketball, running.
Dislikes: talking to computers (does swear at them a *lot* though), mean people.
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A bridge too far.
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Also www.404media.co/ai-scraping-... (about the report).
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We just gave a talk locally about the history of the papyri.info project, so we dug up a bunch of this stuff. Bill Willis's first report (1984) on the use of the Ibycus for papyri is available at archive.org/details/pap-...
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Kids these days…
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Installed in 1982! There was an article about it in the Duke Chronicle repository.duke.edu/dc/dukechron... (page 1, bottom right).
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There's also diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/h..., about the impact on Wikimedia.
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Maybe thelibre.news/foss-infrast...? Or drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2... (which the above references).
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That does complicate things, but you can create allow lists of IPs / user agents so that they don’t get challenged.
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They’re clearly designed to hoover up content as fast as possible from big corporate operations which can stand up to the beating, when they get turned on your average academic content site, they turn it into a smoking crater.
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Basically, you have to do something to filter them, because they’re essentially a distributed denial of service attack at this point. Some folks have had success with Cloudflare Turnstile too.
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We’ve had some good results using Anubis (anubis.techaro.lol) to filter out this crap.
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And there was much rejoicing.
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If you set fire to yours, be sure to stand back. Maybe don’t do it in your driveway.
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It’s a hard lesson for very smart people who are good at constructing arguments to learn—your intellect simply won’t prevail against someone dumb who can shout louder and moreover can mute your mic.
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💯. You should under no circumstances ask Vito about his finger.
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Too bad I didn’t see this before. We just watched it. It’s no National Treasure.
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The only bit of good news is that there’s tons of room for improvement. 😬
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I’m pretty convinced they’d have been better off if they’d let Amorim finish the year at Sporting and had Ruud be interim for the rest of the season, but I don’t think Ineos have the patience for that sort of move.
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Reaching rock bottom? I hope. I don’t think, given the manager change, it was ever going to be anything other than bad.