Onno (VK6FLAB)

Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.

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  • While this is idiotic and counter productive long term, the thing to remember, it’s not just one scraper, it’s hundreds of them, simultaneously trying to outscrape the other, each trying to hoover up as much as possible as fast as possible.

    If that’s not enough, the Facebook scrapers hit the same URL over and over again, even when that URL returns an error. Their approach to web scraping is essentially: “Fuck you, deal with it”, even if the website is run by a small business that cannot financially justify more bandwidth or server capacity.

    I’ve seen this process bring sites down, to the point of actively having to block all non-human requests, just to be able to serve customers. This of course doesn’t work long term because the bots continue to probe and morph.













  • On September 11, 2001, nineteen terrorists who were members of al-Qaeda, an Islamist extremist network, hijacked four California-bound commercial airplanes shortly after their departures from airports in Boston, Massachusetts; Newark, New Jersey; and Washington, D.C. In a coordinated attack that transformed the planes into weapons, the hijackers intentionally flew two of the planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, and another into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Learning about the other hijackings through telephone calls, passengers and crew members on the fourth plane launched a counterattack. When the passengers attempted to breach the cockpit, the hijacker pilot, who had changed course toward the nation’s capital, crashed the plane into a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, near the town of Shanksville.

    Nearly 3,000 people were killed on that day, the single largest loss of life resulting from a foreign attack on American soil, and the greatest single loss of rescue personnel in American history. Approximately two billion people, almost one third of the world’s population, are estimated to have witnessed these horrific events directly or via television, radio, and Internet broadcasts that day.