I do not understand this, why AI bots are hitting Wikipedia's bandwidth. You can just download the whole of Wikipedia as a data dump, if you want. Why would you need to spider it?
NEW: AI bots caused Wikipedia's bandwidth costs to increase by 50 percent last year, and are still growing exponentially. I wrote about its plan to fight back — and whether it will be enough. platformer.news/wikipedia-ai-b…
oh but then maybe you don't have the latest data dump, and downloading a new snapshot every night is worse.
I mean, you can use all sorts of silly arguments, but the ultimate one is about knowingly making the commons pay for shit like this.
I don't know where my Wikipedia donation went, but I hate to think that it went to pay for these anti-social AI shits, building their shit products out of purely egoistic motives. I hope they completely block AI, gonna check out the post, thanks!
It's not really the text that's the problem, but the images and (especially) video. There isn't a way to get that other than downloading it, and the scrapers do it repeatedly because they don't implement things like conditional requests or reasonable scraping rates.
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a statement by 36+ mayors of European cities, incl. #Paris & #Berlin:
"...We, European mayors, condemn in the strongest possible terms the arrest of our colleague Ekrem Imamoğlu, Mayor of #Istanbul, and of local elected representatives in #Turkey.
We denounce his arbitrary imprisonment and... the repeated attacks on fundamental rights and municipal freedoms. These arrests ... mark a new stage in the violation of democratic principles in Turkey..."
The following statement in support of Ekrem İmamoğlu, Mayor of Istanbul, translated into English, was originally prepared by the city of Paris on the initiative of Mayor Anne Hidalgo: We, European mayors, condemn in the strongest possible terms the a…
RHS develops ‘robust lawn’ that works for people, pollinators and pets theguardian.com/environment/20… Full of clovers and dandelions, with a hard-wearing rye grass, the approach is environmentally friendly and usable
#Russia says it cannot accept US peace plan for #Ukraine ‘in its current form’ - theguardian.com/world/2025/apr… so much for #trump's promise to end the war on day one. he's all mouth and no trousers...
In this video I briefly discuss the fountain pens and the inks I will be using in April 2025.I show each pen, have a look at the ink and then do a brief writ...
Back to drystone after a break. And it's not a bad view from the banker*. I have my Merlin Bird App on and a pair of binoculars nearby. Dreamy, really.
@rooftopjaxx Depends how far you're going, but today, one person with very strong arms (not me) and a sack trolley! It can take being thrown around a bit, we built it to last!
Thanks for the mention of the bird app. I've been struggling to recognise songs this spring and had a look for something just yesterday. This looks great.
Trump continues to eviscerate the US economy, with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta estimating a GDP contraction of -3.7% for 2025, the worst since COVID or the 2008 financial crisis.
In Europa kommen Roboterhunde vor allem in Polizei, Militär und Industrie zum Einsatz. Sie sind für autonome Aufgaben in risikoreichen Situationen konzipiert, doch in der Praxis gibt es nur wenige Einsatzszenarien, in denen sie ohne menschliche Aufsicht agieren können.
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Congrats to @johnonolan and the team at Ghost, which today announced a public beta for users to connect their publications to the fediverse. If you're in their beta, you'll be able to find, follow and interact with people and publications on platforms including Ghost, WordPress, Threads, Mastodon, BlueSky, Flipboard and more. Get details in the blogpost here. If you want to know more about Ghost's approach to decentralization and the open social web, check out John's DotSocial conversation with @mike at the second link.
"Terror supporters, antisemites and extremists" could have their German citizenship revoked — if they hold a second nationality, according to planning documents. Critics of the move say it will lead to unequal treatment.
So kann's gehen, wenn die Bevölkerung rechts wählt: Benevit wollte 10 Millionen Euro investieren Doch der Traum von der großen Kita zu günstigen Konditionen ist geplatzt. Als Grund hierfür nennt OB Roland Tralmer die jüngsten Wahlergebnisse: „Schaut man auf die Ergebnisse zweier Onstmettinger Wahllokale, so liegen die Stimmen für die #AfD bei 33 und 37 Prozent.“ Ergebnisse, die den privaten Investor veranlasst haben, sein Vorhaben nicht in die Tat umzusetzen schwaebische.de/regional/zolle…
Kein Geld in der Haushaltskasse, aber dennoch eine große, neue Kita. Dieser Traum hätte für die Stadt fast wahr werden können – wäre da nicht das Wahlergebnis. Was den Investor sonst noch frustriert.
I designed a new version of my keypad adapter for the RC2014. The second circuit diagram is more detailed and mimics the layout of my breadboard.
Parts: four 10k resistors, 100nF capacitor, four diodes (e.g. 1N4448), 7495, 74125, 74138, matrix keypad with 4*4 buttons.
To read one row of the keypad: 1) Write 1, 2, 4 or 8 to any I/O port between 0x00-0x1f. 2) Read a byte from any of those I/O ports. The 4 least significant bits correspond to buttons on that keypad row. #RC2014
... dass Schottlands Brennereien eine Unmenge an Fässern benötigen, ist klar. Steht man jedoch vor einem solchen Lager, ist der Anblick doch recht verblüffend, um nicht zu sagen: fass-zinierend.
Today might be the day Donald Trump slaps tariffs on UK goods — because he thinks VAT is a tariff. Yes, he's wrong. But the reason *why* he's wrong is fun.
So here's a 🧵 on the nerdy detail of VAT: via Jaffa Cakes and an economic theorem from 1936.
Koos van den Hout PE4KH
in reply to Jenny List • • •Benjamin Balder Bach
in reply to Jenny List • • •oh but then maybe you don't have the latest data dump, and downloading a new snapshot every night is worse.
I mean, you can use all sorts of silly arguments, but the ultimate one is about knowingly making the commons pay for shit like this.
I don't know where my Wikipedia donation went, but I hate to think that it went to pay for these anti-social AI shits, building their shit products out of purely egoistic motives. I hope they completely block AI, gonna check out the post, thanks!
AntiComposite
in reply to Jenny List • • •gasman
in reply to Jenny List • • •Because it's not just Wikipedia - every site on the web is being hit by this crap.
(I've had to put Demozoo behind Cloudflare, with all traffic from China being served a CAPTCHA. Current pass rate is 0.01%.)
Jenny List
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