And the Wii can be Linuxed, if you get creative enough. Source: former roommate did it

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

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.

What they said

Last time I went to a new-to-me grocery store that I didn’t have a loyalty card for, I just used [local area code]-867-5309. Jenny hasn’t failed me yet.

I found someone else’s tracker-- https://progressivereform.org/tracking-trump-2/project-2025-executive-action-tracker/ . They have a really detailed Google spreadsheet.

Online glasses places are pretty cheap and good quality, if you know your pupillary distance and your prescription isn’t complicated. ⭐Encouragement⭐

Is there a reason you’ve split the page up into the categories you’ve used, instead of using the sections in the Project 2025 pdf? If you get enough people interested in keeping this updated, it might make sense to divide the work up by section (I take 3.10, the department of agriculture, for example) instead of hoping to catch everything in the 900 page document.

The owner of each section could split it out into action items, then watch for if those action items are acted on. Put it in a sortable table by topic/section.subsection/blurb/page#. If I find time and motivation, I’ll go claim a section and do that in the github as a proof of concept.

It wasn’t that uncommon at the time. Take a look at this 2005 study the US GAO did on the issue: Social Security Numbers: Federal and State Laws Restrict Use of SSNs, yet Gaps Remain Also, this news article on the trend.

My college ID used to be my social security number, so maybe it was something like that? Iirc that’s no longer allowed in the US.

The app openvibe does that for Mastodon and Bluesky. You have to have an account on both, though. I think they’re adding in other services eventually.

I just had a successful transaction on Craigslist today. Don’t give up the dream!

It’s worth noting you’re only allowed to insultingly say someone has a mental illness in relation to their gender or sexual orientation.

Do not post … Insults, including those about: … Mental characteristics, including but not limited to allegations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, and unsupported comparisons between PC groups on the basis of inherent intellectual capacity. We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non-serious usage of words like “weird.”

Source: https://transparency.meta.com/policies/community-standards/hateful-conduct/

Edit: and the changelog is a hoot.

Would she use one of those little password-keeper books? It’s not as secure as a password manager, but it might help get her self-sufficient.

You could start not knowing how to do things, give slower answers, just give bad customer service. Or ask her if whatever she’s trying to do can wait until she gets home to get computer.

I know the feeling of wanting to help, it’s part of why I became a librarian. I also know the pain of old folks coming in and asking the same questions. I had one lady, really sweet, that would come in and ask for the phone numbers to maybe 3 businesses a day. Like, we’d show her how to look it up, we’d walk her through it on a public terminal, she’d still ask us again the next day. It gets frustrating and you pick your battles.

At least I could go home after a shift and stop being the tech-knower. It doesn’t sound like you get to and that sucks.

America elected Andrew Jackson and we learned our lesson. /s

Oooh. I’ve not upgraded yet, but that looks exciting.

Shout-out to Beyond Compare! It makes my life as a many-hatted systems librarian much easier.

Ditto. SDF feels very nerdy and comfortable.