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An oak wooden post, discovered near Lith (Netherlands), was likely a pillar of a late Roman bridge across the Meuse. A milestone was also found nearby (breaking news!).
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It was part of the southern road from Nijmegen (Noviomagus) to Forum…
A preview of the new and responsive version of vici.org now at https://preview.vici.org/
#archaeology #roman
Steady progress on the vici.org redesign/ refactoring: https://github.com/renevoorburg/vici.org/tree/redesign
Vici.org is now on Codeberg:
https://codeberg.org/renevoorburg/vici.org
I made a donation too.
For now just a fork of GitHub, but the redesign I am working on will fully switch to Codeberg
#DigitalSovereignty
I’ve stopped relying on blocklists for ‘bad’ bots based on user-agent strings. They’re too easy to fake.
Further, proper robots.txt doesn’t mean much either — I keep one more out of principle than effect.
#bots #botdefense #enshitification
Some Vici.org users experience problems using the site. After clearing your browsers cache, or a shift-reload, everything should be fine again.
Users of dataservices should request a token to be able to get access.
#viciorg #dataservices
To reduce excessive automated traffic, anonymous access to vici.org is now rate-limited. Logged-in users are not affected.
Want full access? Create an account — it’s free.
#botdefense
Vici.org is experiencing large-scale distributed scraping, with bots fraudulently posing as regular users. Presumably harvested data is being used for AI training.
#AI #scraping #ethics
Access to vici.org data services now requires a token. Please get in touch if you need one.
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