the #kohails or #koha #rabbitmq server worker-output.log error messages re frames filled my server's hard drive so I had to restart rabbitmq-server and truncate worker-output.log to free up 4.8GB of disk space - it also shutdown #apache2 and #mysql and #postfix had write errors #disk #full

ByWater is reporting that scraper bots are inadvertently(?) DDoSing several systems.

So that's fun.

After the last time we set up Cloudflare captchas, but it's still causing slowness.

#Libraries #AI #LLM #DDoS #DirectDenialOfService #TourmaLibrarian #ByWaterSolutions #Koha

Studentische Hilfskraft (m/w/d) für unsere Bibliothek, Teilzeit, | https://jobs.is.mpg.de/jobposting/3d6c05227db6cf5d3a83658a59a97f4ef7a5ed270 | https://bibliojobs.eu/stellenangebote/114662/
#bibliojobs
#Koha #Spezialbibliothek

Hah - looks like RNZ NineToNoon this morning (at 9:35), will be interviewing my former colleague Chris Cormack about #Koha (https://koha-community.org/) - the NZ-founded, world-leading #libre / #FOSS library management software. Cool!

If you want to protect #koha from web crawlers take a look at https://blog.rot13.org/2025/04/protect-koha-from-web-crawlers.html

Time for a new ByWater Solutions' Question of the Week!

This week's question is: "What happens to claim return history on deleted items?"

The answer: https://zurl.co/CFjh6

#KohaILS #Koha #LibraryTechnology

Today, as an evening amusement, I fixed a very nast Bug in the #Koha test suite, that did not occure when running only the affected test file, but only when also running some other tests: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=39700

The root cause was a function returning a list, but the test calling the function in scalar context. Unfortunately a classic #Perl footgun :-(

Today I fought against AI bots that where scraping / DDoSing one of our customers library OPAC. The quick fix was to block all non-EU IP address. We don't have a good fix yet, but can draw on a lot of ideas that where discussed at #Koha Hackfest. #JohnConner

Time for a new Monday Minutes from the Team at ByWater Solutions.

This week, Nick and Jessie talk about holds on the staff side!

The video: https://zurl.co/goIk4

The blog: https://zurl.co/akenq

#KohaILS #OpenSource #Koha #Libraries

BibLibre était présent au symposium Koha 2025 à Nice 😀

Notre retour sur l'événement est disponible dans le billet ci-dessous 👇

https://www.biblibre.com/fr/blog/retour-sur-le-symposium-koha-2025/

#Koha #Kohala #Symposium #Nice

Time for another ByWater Solutions Question of the Week!

This week's question is: "How come I see different numbers between total checkouts and item's checkout history?"

Read the answer at https://zurl.co/tfaMM

#Koha #OpenSource #LibraryTechnology

Today I opened 5 "bugs" (in fact feature requests) regarding #Koha Elasticsearch, QA'ed a rather complex one and did a code review on #37020 (bulkmarcimport dieing on large files). And had a very nice last day at the Koha Hackfest!

Today I moderated a discussion about #Koha ElasticSearch bugs and improvement ideas. It was very helpful for me to get feedback from experienced Koha devs. I still need to set up bugs in Bugzilla, though.

#potd How many Koha devs does it take to block AI bots? Meeting at #Koha Hackfest about ways to prevent AI bots from killing our library services. (And you don't even see the remote attendees on the picture) http://domm.plix.at/potd/2025-04-02.html

Today I failed quite a few of joubus Perl Quiz questions at #Koha hackfest. I blame my brain for being mostly trained on sane Perl code to fail to recognize all the horrible corner cases he presented.

#Bibliomeme / #Memebibliotecario dedicado a tod@s l@s compas #bibliotecarias y #bibliotecarios que están sufriendo y padeciendo enfurecidamente la migración a #Koha en sus #bibliotecas 🦥😡👉🏻😏

Today at the first day of the #Koha Hackfest in Marseille I QA'ed a bunch of bugs. It took me a while to remember all the workflows...

Der Katalog des VDMT Archivs basiert auf #koha @KohaILS, es werden derzeit noch die Daten aufgebaut, UnterstützerInnen bei den Vereinen gesucht! Ziel ist es, hier einen Katalog für verschiedene Archive zu erstellen, auch die Daten in lokalen Museumsbahnarchiven sollen eingepflegt werden. #hilfegesucht #bibliothek #archiv

@elias #Koha para una gestión avanzada. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHav6PL_4Bo
#BiblioteQ para una implementación básica.
https://github.com/textbrowser/biblioteq