That makes sense. The region sometimes known as Poland changed hands a lot, including during the 1900s. I’d expect it to go Austria --> Poland, though. But I’m also an ignorant American.

TIL my ancestors weren’t Polish, they were Ukrainian. Or maybe they were both or neither, as neither country existed when they emigrated. They spoke Polish but emigrated from Galicia. /s

She’s in a grey hoodie and red/pink skirt (image ends above her knees, so you don’t see much of the skirt). She would look at home in a children’s animated series. “Unprofessional”, but not scandalous.

Agreed re: the logo. And she has a maple leaf symbol on her white hat because she’s Canadian.

The creator also has a paid version where you can change the logo. The creator is a chill person.

Agreed. The current situation seems to be a gazillion bots each making a single request. I’ve had some luck blocking whole ASNs (Alibaba, I’m glaring at you), and Anubis. I’ve had pretty good uptime the last few months.

Someone asks “what’s up?”

Answer: “the cross-product of forward and left”

(the popularity of this joke in engineering school trained me to never ask “what’s up?”)

I dreamed my small elderly terrier jumped into a wide stream and sank to the bottom and didn’t come up as soon as I expected him to. I jumped in, found him tangled in water weeds at the bottom, and pulled him out. I held him upside down to let water stream out of him. He coughed up a silver-green frog.

My dog IRL hates water.

Lady in front of me at the checkout line took forever, had very precise ideas of how things should be bagged, waited until the end of the transaction to pull up the store’s app, was upset she couldn’t use X, Y, or Z discount, in general made it all take much longer than it should. I kid you not it took her 20 minutes to check out. (I would have moved lines, except I’d already unloaded my cart and it kept looking like she was almost done.)

She ended with a schpiel about how sometimes it’s good to take a break, slow down, we don’t have anything to rush for.

At this point, I pulled out my phone and showed the clerk “here’s my pup waiting for me at home”. She seemed appreciative of a distraction/someone recognizing the absurdity of the first person, so I told her about my pup and was pointedly cheerful about seeing him soon.

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I was at a conference for librarians and I had a great time. Venders loaded me down with swag (books, totes, stickers, pens, chopsticks) and I attended several eye-opening sessions. We might implement a Library of Things at my library, I’m looking into a vender that simplifies statistics-gathering and -presentation, and I’m generally happy seeing all my fellow library folks.

Oh yeah, I was teasing about the php. From what I’ve read it’s wicked hard to real-world implement an attack using it.

Scrapers, I’d believe. They’ve been fierce lately.

So you’re saying this might all be because of AI (which found the security flaw in PHP, which caused the maintenance, which happened sometime around when the server went down). Sounds fair to me.

💕 Seriously, thanks for the update and I know sysadmining can be a stressy job. Take care of yourself.