<li>I exported the CCAFS and IITA communities, extracted just the country and region columns, then ran them through csv-metadata-quality to fix the regions</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Add a few more authors to my CSV with author names and ORCID identifiers and tag 283 items!</li>
<li>Replace “East Asia” with “Eastern Asia” region on CGSpace (UN M.49 region)</li>
</ul>
<ahref='https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/2022-12/'>Read more →</a>
<li>Last night I re-synced DSpace 7 Test from CGSpace
<ul>
<li>I also updated all my local <code>7_x-dev</code> branches on the latest upstreams</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>I spent some time updating the authorizations in Alliance collections
<ul>
<li>I want to make sure they use groups instead of individuals where possible!</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>I reverted the Cocoon autosave change because it was more of a nuissance that Peter can’t upload CSVs from the web interface and is a very low severity security issue</li>
</ul>
<ahref='https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/2022-11/'>Read more →</a>
<li>Yesterday I realized how to use <ahref="https://im4java.sourceforge.net/docs/dev-guide.html">GraphicsMagick with im4java</a> and I want to re-visit some of my thumbnail tests
<ul>
<li>I’m also interested in libvips support via jVips, though last time I checked it was only for Java 8</li>
<li>I filed <ahref="https://github.com/criteo/JVips/issues/141">an issue to ask about Java 11+ support</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ahref='https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/2022-10/'>Read more →</a>
<li>I learned how to use the Levenshtein functions in PostgreSQL
<ul>
<li>The thing is that there is a limit of 255 characters for these functions in PostgreSQL so you need to truncate the strings before comparing</li>
<li>Also, the trgm functions I’ve used before are case insensitive, but Levenshtein is not, so you need to make sure to lower case both strings first</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ahref='https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/2022-07/'>Read more →</a>
<li>I see 167,000 hits from a bunch of Microsoft IPs with reverse DNS “msnbot-” using the Solr query <code>dns:*msnbot* AND dns:*.msn.com</code></li>
<li>I purged these first so I could see the other “real” IPs in the Solr facets</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>I see 47,500 hits from 80.248.237.167 on a data center ISP in Sweden, using a normal user agent</li>
<li>I see 13,000 hits from 163.237.216.11 on a data center ISP in Australia, using a normal user agent</li>
<li>I see 7,300 hits from 208.185.238.57 from Britanica, using a normal user agent
<ul>
<li>There seem to be many more of these:</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ahref='https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/2022-06/'>Read more →</a>
<li>I found a few more IPs making requests using the shady Chrome 44 user agent in the last few days so I will add them to the block list too:
<ul>
<li>18.207.136.176</li>
<li>185.189.36.248</li>
<li>50.118.223.78</li>
<li>52.70.76.123</li>
<li>3.236.10.11</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Looking at the Solr statistics for 2022-04
<ul>
<li>52.191.137.59 is Microsoft, but they are using a normal user agent and making tens of thousands of requests</li>
<li>64.39.98.62 is owned by Qualys, and all their requests are probing for /etc/passwd etc</li>
<li>185.192.69.15 is in the Netherlands and is using a normal user agent, but making excessive automated HTTP requests to paths forbidden in robots.txt</li>
<li>157.55.39.159 is owned by Microsoft and identifies as bingbot so I don’t know why its requests were logged in Solr</li>
<li>52.233.67.176 is owned by Microsoft and uses a normal user agent, but making excessive automated HTTP requests</li>
<li>157.55.39.144 is owned by Microsoft and uses a normal user agent, but making excessive automated HTTP requests</li>
<li>207.46.13.177 is owned by Microsoft and identifies as bingbot so I don’t know why its requests were logged in Solr</li>
<li>If I query Solr for <code>time:2022-04* AND dns:*msnbot* AND dns:*.msn.com.</code> I see a handful of IPs that made 41,000 requests</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>I purged 93,974 hits from these IPs using my <code>check-spider-ip-hits.sh</code> script</li>
</ul>
<ahref='https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/2022-05/'>Read more →</a>
