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We need to develop good practices for bots and crawlers that are acceptable for all parties involved. Otherwise AI will suffocate the open web.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/keeping-web-under-weight-ai-crawlers

Keeping the Web Up Under the Weight of AI Crawlers
If you run a site on the open web, chances are you've noticed a big increase in traffic over the past few months, whether or not your site has been getting more viewers, and you're not alone. Operators everywhere have observed a drastic increase in automated traffic—bots—and in most cases attribute...

50 years ago today, sunday in the park with garcia & saunders, back in palo alto with kingfish & the rowan bros., benefit for the institute for the study of nonviolence, founded by ira sandperl, once a literal benefactor when he ran the nearby peace center, crash zone for garcia & hunter circa 1961. 1st garcia/weir shared bill outside the dead? audience tape:

"Jag upplever att grunden står svagare än den gjorde när jag började", säger FN:s avgående flyktingchef Filippo Grandi.
"Att utkräva ansvar för brott mot de mänskliga rättigheterna är väldigt svårt att vidmakthålla ... men om det inte sker så försvagas hela systemet mer och mer." https://www.

FN-toppen: Säkerhetsrådet fungerar inte
Rasande krig och flagranta krigsbrott skakar FN i dess grundvalar. Något smulas sönder när principer politiseras och ingen förmår sätta ned foten, säger FN:s avgående flyktingchef Filippo Grandi till TT:

In one of the more painful purchases I've done in a bit: just ordered 3 kits of Crucial DDR5 RAM for the MS-A2 servers. This will take them from 32GB -> 96GB which should work out a bit better for Proxmox. Unfortunately, my wallet is crying. If everything goes well, the RAM should get here just before the servers do.
#homelab

Sources - Cachemire de Mongolie : Enquête sur la face cachée de nos vêtements - Regarder le documentaire complet | ARTE
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Sources - Cachemire de Mongolie : Enquête sur la face cachée de nos vêtements - Regarder le documentaire complet | ARTE
C’est la reine des laines. Le cachemire. Mais l’afflux sur le marché mondial de pulls plus abordables a des conséquences sur tout un pays… Que font les marques pour limiter leur impact ?

Series D, Episode 07 - Assassin
AVON: [V.O.] Scorpio, come in Scorpio.
TARRANT: Avon, what's happening?
AVON: [V.O.] Never mind what's happening. Just get me up as quickly as you can. [Cut to Domo]
NEBROX: You promised! You promised! [Back to Scorpio]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/407/181

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Hi there, it’s Ryan Busse.
I’ve spent my life protecting public lands.
I’ve hunted them, hiked them, raised my kids on them.
And now, I’m watching a MAGA-backed billionaire wrecking crew try to sell them off.
Donald Trump is back. And with the help of Congressional Republicans, he’s letting Elon Musk and DOGE gut protections and auction off your land to oil companies and developers.
𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆—𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗳𝘁. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝗻𝗲, 𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝗻𝗲.
That’s why I…

I just gave to Public Land Warriors Fund (501c4)!
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🔍 KI-Chatbots & Online-Kataloge?
24. April, 09:00–13:00
🧠 Tillmann Scheel (AboutSomethinK/ASK) & Moritz Mutter (VÖBB) erklären:
- Wie RAG Sprachmodelle mit externen Wissensquellen (Bibliothekskatalogen) verknüpft
- Technologiegrenzen: Kontextignoranz, Widersprüche, unpräzise Daten
- KI-Praxistauglichkeit für Datensammlungen
-„Meta-Prompting“-Strategien zur Optimierung von Chatbots
🎯

Today I had a 1h meeting followed by 2h of code reading and DB forensics which resulted in a rather simple SQL query that, when run daily via cron, should remove the need for a manual step that an operator had to do regularily (and maybe did not do properly, but instread wasted an hour on dumb clicking instead).

Series B, Episode 07 - Killer
JENNA: A missile?
BLAKE: No, it can't be. They can't have spotted Liberator. We've got the blind down. [launch appears on screen]
JENNA: There it is, look, just leaving the ionosphere.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/207/33 B7B6…

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