Simon Benbow

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Twitter exile…
Fascinated by life, language, the 80's, Old Norse, geo-stuff and social networks - could get medieval on you! Brum85.
Works between Wien and Gloucester.
The decline in German at A level makes me so sad. My first degree was modern languages, and I love German. https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/aug/17/it-enriches-your-mind-in-every-way-the-fight-to-keep-the-uk-learning-german?CMP=share_btn_url
‘It enriches your mind in every way’: the fight to keep the UK learning German

With A-level entries for the language halving in a decade, a new initiative is hoping to save it from the academic scrapheap

The Guardian

What a person #Alcaraz is.
“I try to be friendly, warm, get on with everyone. It’s more important to be a good person than anything else. At the end of my career I’d like people to remember me, more than as a tennis player, as someone with good values. At the end of the day, you only spend a few hours a day on court, the rest of your life you’re off it. That’s why at those times I also try to use the manners that my parents taught me.”

https://www.atptour.com/en/news/alcaraz-feature-post-wimbledon-2023

Carlos Alcaraz, A Friend To All On Tour: 'He’s A Better Person Than He Is A Tennis Player' | ATP Tour | Tennis

Carlos Alcaraz has tasted success on court in the past month, winning his first Wimbledon title. Off the court the Spaniard is also winning, with the World No. 1 a huge hit with other players in the locker room.

ATP Tour
Tory talk of abandoning net zero measures in a desperate attempt to cling onto power, while we all burn.
The sheer malevolent short-termism of it.
#ClimateCrisis #GTTO
For the last two days, Elon Musk has been publicly freaking out about "EXTREME levels of data scraping," so added "temporary emergency measures" like blocking logged-out views and adding tight rate limits on viewing tweets. But, apparently noticed first here by @sysop408, a Javascript bug in the Twitter web app is self-DDOSing their servers, sending an endless loop of requests — which seems related to their scraping panic. https://waxy.org/2023/07/twitter-bug-causes-self-ddos-possibly-causing-elon-musks-emergency-blocks-and-rate-limits-its-amateur-hour/
Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits: "It's amateur hour" - Waxy.org

An "amateur hour" Javascript bug is self-DDOSing Twitter, sending infinite requests from users related to — or possibly even causing — Elon Musk's "temporary emergency measures" to stop web scraping.

Waxy.org

LOL this is not how you deal with "data scraping," this is how you deal with a catastrophic loss of system capacity.

You limit data scraping by blocking things a human user couldn't do, like access a thousand posts a minute. This is aimed directly at reducing normal activity across the whole system.

just another day in paradise

On twitter drama, one way to commit suicide, and I am betting not having enough engineers is why. So, for #Infosec folks…ah, one way to make the site useless and force people to buy blue checks. Ain’t happening Elon

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Well after the bird site’s limit error today (I neither scrape nor retweet more than 10s of msgs), the writing seems to be on the wall. More accts I follow and respect here…
Breaking: US Coast Guard detects “banging” noises from hermetically-sealed Twitter.