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It isn't everyday when you read the name of an undergraduate professor whose class you took 10+ years ago mentioned in the foreward/awknowledgements of a book. s/o James Anderson at UIUC. Looking forward to reading this book.

In an article published at kernel DOT org, Creepy Crawlies, Ryabitsev, writes about how they fight AI web scrapers.

"...you'd think that something that pretends to be [AI] would use the most efficient way of using our data... Clone the repos, walk every commit...

But no, let's in fact choose the stupidest possible way of doing it — by rendering everything as HTML commit by commit and then parsing it."