FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

In the office, in Bristol.

Just popped out to stretch my legs, and I was approached by a young lady who had just exited the train station.

With *the* most comprehensively French accent I have *ever* heard, she said, “excuse me. Could you please direct me to the abyss?”

Excuse me?

“The abyss. Could you direct me please?”

Umm?..

“Sorry, my English is not too good. I’m looking for the abyss, could you help me?”

Your English is excellent. But you’re looking for the abyss?

“Oui. The abyss. The abyss hotel. It should be nearby”.

The abyss hotel?..
Whoah, hang on! You mean the IBIS hotel!?

“Oui. Oui. The abyss hotel. Oui!”

Oh, right, yeah. Just straight down here, across that footbridge and you’ll see it straight in front of you 😊

🤦‍♂️🤣

ah, the incompetent AI scraper plague finally came for us…

I was wondering why the PHP sites on our VPS were responding so slowly, and then I discovered there's an endless series of timing out requests for slow MediaWiki query endpoints (RecentChanges w/ date span), that'd do it