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Disclosure: I am part of the mostly volunteer run OpenStreetMap ops team. Technically we able to block and restrict the scrapers after the initial request from an IP. We've seen 40…

Disclosure: I am part of the OpenStreetMap mostly-volunteer sysadmin team fighting this. The scrapers try hard to make themselves look like valid browsers, sending requests via res…

OpenStreetMap Slack https://slack.openstreetmap.us/ was forced to downgraded to the free edition earlier this year for similar reasons.

I help to run the OpenStreetMap infrastructure, and for many years the OSUOSL has generously hosted some of our servers. Without OSUOSL OpenStreetMap would be more difficult to hos…

https://protectli.com/ Good quality devices. Real serial consoles to allow recovery when you make a networking configuration mistake ;-)

Raspberry Pi's "Making a More Resilient File System" document https://pip.raspberrypi.com/categories/685-app-notes-guides-... has instructions on how to configure the eMMC on the C…

OpenStreetMap is now back up and running :-)

The new stack has some unique feature like the vector tiles being minutely updated directly from OSM mapping changes. There are still issues to fix as it is still only a technical …

We don't offer 2x raster tiles because we simply don't have the resources to do it while keeping the tiles minutely updated and open access. We serve around 60k req/sec on a tiny d…

OP here. The toot was my sarcastic response after having to rate-limit and block another set of abusive scrapers aggressively hitting our website and mapping API. robots.txt be dam…

Our data is already publish via torrent, see https://planet.openstreetmap.org Our data, including minutely updates is available via public S3 buckets (EU & US) supported by the AWS…

We publish a live stream of minutely updated OpenStreetMap data in ready do digest form on https://planet.openstreetmap.org/ and S3. Scraping of our data still happens. Our S3 buck…

FYI: https://github.com/mchehab/rasdaemon (replaced mcelog) is the daemon for watching for these ECC and other kernel reported "Reliability, Availability and Serviceability" errors…

Sub-domain takeover attack. The sub-domain was CNAME'ed to a S3 bucket and the S3 bucket had likely been deleted. The porn purveyor, re-created a new S3 bucket with pr0n. A scanner…

Wikipedia updates pending ;-)

The vandalism was reverted in 2 hours over 20 days ago. If Mapbox had stayed current with the diffs we publish, the vandalism would have been gone in a blink.

Yes, here is the changelog: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/61555047?node_page=3

Correct. The vandalism was reverted within 2 hours and a data update publish a minute or 2 later. Mapbox import the original vandalism change only today for some reason and there s…

Pretoria was mostly mapped by a single mapper very early in the project. There wasn't high quality aerial imagery available when he literally cycled every street in Pretoria. Becau…

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I hope I am mistaken... It is far from clear as an outsider. But the 10% or 3% limit respectively is per TAG (handle). HostEurope have multiple tags (HOSTEUROPE, 123-REG, WEBFUSION…

This isn't good news for the .uk domain space. Nominet (who run the .uk ccTLD) allocate votes proportionally to registrars based on how many domains they have registered. [1] GoDad…

It disables some of the network card's hardware offloading. Some have occasional faults, as low as every 4TB of data. The corrupt packets has valid TCP CRC. Commonly first spotted …

Seeing random data corruption over network, try: /sbin/ethtool -K ethX gso off tso off sg off gro off udev rule something like: SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", ATTRS{vendor}=="0x8…