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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.

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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.

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  • Oh, shiny. That could do.

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  • I'd love to replace it but I'm not sure I could deal with CRT whine anymore.

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  • My parents got rid of mine without asking when I went to college in the 2000s :(

  • TIL Washington State Is Preparing For a Powerful Megafire That Will Be Nearly Impossible To Fight

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  • Same here, except for me winter is at the bottom and summer is at the top.

  • Trump Says He’ll Fire Labor Statistics Head After Weak Jobs Data

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  • I charge twice whatever this guy charges, but I won't diagnose you with cancer. You can trust me because I don't sell cancer cures.

  • The Substack app sent a push notification promoting a Nazi newsletter to several users.

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  • You'd think that, but I've had the command "get a tan for God's sake you're transparent" used as an insult against me. You can be too white for white supremacists.

  • “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for”, President Trump says

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  • My library, you have to check out books on reserve from the circulation desk. They're for in-library use only, 3 or 6 hours at a time, and if you take it into a study room and scan the whole thing with your phone we saw nothing.

    We don't like the constant churn of textbooks, either. They eat into our budget. We really appreciate when a professor lends us their personal copies of a textbook for us to keep on reserve. We also try and steer instructions to Open Educational Resources (OER), which are available for free.

    Wealth disparity sucks and shouldn't result in different access to education.

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  • A clinic blames its closing on Trump’s Medicaid cuts. Patients don’t buy it.

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  • Thank you for clarifying. TBH I got who was saying what a tad mixed up in the thread.

    I can get behind not outright mocking folks that seem interested in leaving the cult. I just also think the sadistic and casually cruel folk are the norm rather than the outlier, based on experiences growing up in a Red State and visiting as an adult.

  • A clinic blames its closing on Trump’s Medicaid cuts. Patients don’t buy it.

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  • I'm not convinced that "showing empathy" is the way to court Republicans. It's just seen as weakness, and weakness is a joke to them.

    I'm thinking back to my grandmother's funeral in Appalachia. She had a small terrier as her companion in her final years. They were inseparable. Multiple of her male relatives made the joke "I thought we were just going to toss the dog in the grave and bury him with her". Hardy-har har. The dog was small and therefore weak and therefore a joke.

    There were similar scenes between my mom and her coworkers when my dad was in hospital dieing of COVID-19. I'm not going into them because I already done triggered myself.

    Anyways, that's how I ended up with a surprise dog to take back home to a blue state. He's still a good boy, even though he's now a grumpy teenager.

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  • [Lapsed] mechanical engineering gang checking in. I was also surprised. Though, tbh, I think it came down to personal preference of the professor more than field-wide consensus.

  • Trump's (Acting) FEMA Head Still Missing, Presumed Hiking Appalachian Trail

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  • My dog ate breakfast at a reasonable time this morning. This is notable because he ate yesterday's breakfast at 3am this morning.

    (Old dog, forgets to eat. Sometimes I have to jump-start his appetite by literally spoon feeding him, then he'll finish the rest of his super-smelly wet food himself)

  • DHS Cancels Extreme Weather Comms Grant While Bodies Still Being Recovered in Texas

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  • Exactly. I'll just go tell my teenaged cousin he needs to move and if he doesn't then any ills befall him are on his shoulders. I'm sure he has full control of his situation and has chosen to live in Texas. That's the choice I'd make if I was a trans teenager, for sure. /s (he knows I exist, am supportive, am queer, and am in a blue state, there's just... circumstances. He's racing towards graduation and college as fast as he can.)

  • Mattel introduces its first Barbie with Type 1 diabetes

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  • TBH, ADHD is a part of my identity and my ADHD coworkers clocked me, as did my boss whose daughter has ADHD. (Librarian-hood is not the realm of the neurotypical.)

    So, not something folks at the grocery store would notice and mileage varies as to what is part of someone's identity.

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  • Kids can be cruel.

    I'm glad this Barbie exists. Representation matters, and this toy is one way to show little kids it's ok to have T1D. If a kid knows that Barbie can wear CGM then maybe the kid won't be a jerk when they meet a new kid with a thing on their arm.

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  • TBH, I have a small personal massager I use for my face. Vibrating the sinuses helps make all the mucus and gunk move, like jiggling a ketchup bottle. It helps my sinus headaches.

    But yeah, they knew.