[HN Gopher] Discover Kentucky Archaeology
___________________________________________________________________
Discover Kentucky Archaeology
Author : auditor_3d
Score : 52 points
Date : 2022-09-26 12:54 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (archaeology.ky.gov)
(TXT) w3m dump (archaeology.ky.gov)
| CSSer wrote:
| Wow! Very weird to find my home state and birthplace on HN this
| morning. Some of these places are even new to me. I hadn't heard
| of Crump's sink, for example, which seems to be a more recent
| find.
| kennend3 wrote:
| Got to love Geoblocking, especially this one.
|
| what would be accomplished by geoblocking a states's tourism
| site?
|
| Isn't the core point of state sites like this to attract
| tourists? Does geoblocking them help with this goal?
|
| Some years ago Arizona paid to put very large advertisements in
| downtown Toronto (Canada) to attract cold candians in the
| winter... things like that may work, geoblocking certainly wont.
| bcook wrote:
| > what would be accomplished by geoblocking a states's tourism
| site?
|
| Avoiding GDPR compliance problems?
| kennend3 wrote:
| A state tourism site complying with GDPR shoudn't be that
| challenging:
|
| The UK GDPR sets out seven key principles: - Lawfulness,
| fairness and transparency. - Purpose limitation. - Data
| minimisation. - Accuracy. - Storage limitation. - Integrity
| and confidentiality (security) - Accountability.
|
| Dont keep track of any user info and you should be OK?
|
| Many of the blocked countries dont have GDPR regulations, so
| there is that.
|
| There is also the vast majority of US government sites which
| are not geoblocked.
|
| https://kentucky.gov/Pages/home.aspx - works just fine from
| Canada?
| mod wrote:
| Would it be common for a local government within a country to
| confirm to the law of another country?
|
| Is there a compelling reason besides being friendly? Like
| treaties or something?
| chasd00 wrote:
| i bet you whoever wrote the rfp for the website copy/pasted
| most of it from some other rfp that listed "prevent login from
| outside the US" as a requirement since that's needed to comply
| with some regulations for apps storing data. Even though
| there's no login the contractor shrugged and "prevented
| _access_ from outside the US". I'll bet you lunch that's
| exactly what happened.
|
| edit: and i'll add that the team who put the site together is
| long gone and the people who maintain content (if any) have no
| idea what geoblocking even is. So don't bother sending them an
| email...
| kevmo wrote:
| Kentucky rules.
| dlyons wrote:
| Sitting in Louisville, KY hacking away on some Python and
| Typescript this morning. AMA.
| phlyingpenguin wrote:
| Which is better: Wick's or Danny Mac's?
| WorldMaker wrote:
| I don't think Wick's has ever been in the top spot in
| Louisville pizza. The last Impellizerri's just forever closed
| (in N'Albany), sadly, but Bearno's was always better than
| Wick's. (People are welcome to fight me on that. Wick's gets
| higher rated in people's heads sometimes simply because of
| its proximity to bars and usefulness as drunk food. Take off
| the drunk goggles and its not as good as you think.) Then
| there's all the recent up-and-comers like The Post.
| silisili wrote:
| You're right...Wick's has always been overrated(and
| overpriced).
|
| Bearno's is probably my favorite pizza ever. I've since
| moved all over the US, and haven't found a damn thing that
| comes close in taste or style. It's definitely a love/hate
| relationship...you either love a billion tiny meatballs, or
| don't.
| ducharmdev wrote:
| Never been to Wick's but Danny Mac's is heaven
| dpcx wrote:
| Also Louisvillian, Danny Macs imho.
| mrtranscendence wrote:
| By which factor greater than 1 is Lexington superior to
| Louisville? I'd say 5x but I'm curious to get a Louisville
| resident's opinion.
| phlyingpenguin wrote:
| They've got us on the beer factor and higher education. Not
| sports, but eff college sports anyway. Looking forward to
| going down for Lexington SC some though.
| dan353hehe wrote:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20220928125007/https://archaeolo...
|
| For anyone geoblocked
| virgulino wrote:
| Geoblocking? I am in Brazil and all I see is this:
| The request is blocked. 0kEE0YwAAAADSrOoEHVCAQrfsFyH
| 2VJaQR1JVMzBFREdFMDgyMQBjZTgwMzljZS04NTZjLTRkYzktYjgwZC02MzlhMDg1
| MmY4Mzk=
| jessaustin wrote:
| SoundsLikeAScam wrote:
| That response doesn't sound right, this reads more like a
| stereotype of Kentuckians. Can you back up your claims?
|
| I find it hard to believe a government official would respond
| so unprofessionally.
| rufusroflpunch wrote:
| > I know Kentuckians aren't the smartest
|
| This is more offensive than the obvious joke you're
| responding to. Unless you're participating in jokeception.
| mmmpop wrote:
| It's rude but it has a grain of truth. Now it's silly to
| think that Kentucky is incapable of producing mind-
| bogglingly talented people, but you're far less likely to
| encounter them outside of probably 3 concentrated
| population areas. I went to college in Lexington and
| there are a great deal of very smart, very motivated
| people and the average person you encounter daily can
| hold a reasonably intelligent conversation. But in
| fairness to the comment, head east and you run into
| populations where the average intelligence is a dramatic
| departure from the average population of your Madisons or
| Boulders of the world. How much is nature vs nurture is
| up for debate but I think you'd be kidding yourself if
| you claimed it was strictly one of the two and not some
| combination.
| SoundsLikeAScam wrote:
| Sorry, my comment wasn't helpful in the least.
| phlyingpenguin wrote:
| Please keep in mind that real people live in Kentucky and
| joke stereotyping it as you have is both unhelpful to
| progress and downright hurtful to those of us trying to make
| it a better place to live.
| rufusroflpunch wrote:
| I'm a proud Kentuckian, and I thought it was amusing.
| phlyingpenguin wrote:
| I agree that it's amusing as a joke made in context with
| friends over a beer. Not so much where the primary
| audience is the globe.
| jessaustin wrote:
| I live near my birthplace in the Ozarks of southern
| Missouri. I've spent a lot of time in Kentucky, as well.
| I'm not "punching down" ITT. One way to "make it a better
| place" would be to leave a comment on the form like I did.
| Kentucky residents probably have other options as well...
| mmmpop wrote:
| I'm from the hills of KY and I left for a reason, so I
| find this not-insulting especially if the teller of the
| joke is also from some backwoods.
|
| But I have a soft spot for the people whom I left
| obviously, and won't tolerate highbrow coast-dwellers
| being jerks for no good reason. These hill folks tend be
| victims of their own boredoms caused by an independent
| nature that was once a highly desirable trait when we
| talk about survival... but victims of inevitable progress
| and deserve help/pity instead of scorn. Except those who
| deserve scorn, ya know??
| robga wrote:
| Interesting that the apparent base64 encoding doesnt decode to
| anything sensible. Sort of thing you'd see on a CTF challenge
| ...
|
| What's the encoding and/or content all about?
| r0n22 wrote:
| Same getting blocked in Canada
| randlet wrote:
| Same. Too bad as I recently spent a couple of days
| motorcycling through Kentucky and there were some beautiful
| parts of that state.
| twic wrote:
| Brit here, also blocked, with a similar message, but to be
| fair, if that website had any good ancient artefacts on it i'd
| be over there to steal them in a flash, so maybe it's for the
| best.
| brudgers wrote:
| Since it is a government website, I suspect that foreign IP
| have a strong historical correlation with mischief.
|
| Particularly because mostly forgotten webpages like this one
| are an attractive nuisance for black hats, banning foreign IP's
| was probably a best-practice argument.
|
| There's also the possibility that a sudden uptick in activity
| (HN slashsot effect) triggered an internal mechanism.
|
| And politically, I suspect there wouldn't be a lot of pushback
| to any of it.
|
| But I could be wrong.
| kennend3 wrote:
| out of interest i tried the states main site
| https://kentucky.gov/Pages/home.aspx
|
| works just fine from Canada?
| brudgers wrote:
| Doesn't surprise me that the portal isn't geofenced because
| it is likely to be well maintained, monitored, and funded
| for business reasons.
|
| Stare Archeology websites don't have the same incentives
| for IT attention...I mean the one here isn't even very
| "Web2.0".
| Namari wrote:
| Or the UK
| kadenwolff wrote:
| Same
| ramesh31 wrote:
| Mammoth Cave, included in this list, also happens to be the
| longest known cave system in the world [0].
|
| [0] https://www.doi.gov/blog/mammoth-cave-explore-worlds-
| longest....
| sprkwd wrote:
| But watch out! Kentucky Cave Goblins!!
| https://www.andersondesigngroupstore.com/a/collections/61-am...
| glonq wrote:
| If the official slogan for Kentucky archaeology is not "go deeper
| with KY" then I am disappointed.
| mauvehaus wrote:
| If you're going to visit the Florence archaeological site[0], you
| may as well go see the famous water tower[1]:
|
| [0] https://archaeology.ky.gov/Find-a-Site/Pages/Florence.aspx
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Y'all_Water_Tower
| mrtranscendence wrote:
| I was born and raised in Florence. I've always been fascinated
| by how widely the water tower is known; as far away as Boston
| I've had someone remark on it upon learning that I'm from
| there.
|
| I'm not sure Florence has all that much else to recommend it,
| mind you. Of all the suburban towns surrounding Cincinnati,
| it's definitely one of them.
| eutropia wrote:
| Florence has one of my favorite roadside eateries: the Quaker
| Steak & Lube! (known for their chicken wings, lol)
|
| Any time we drive to the Ikea in Cinci from KY, we'll get hot
| wings on the way home.
| mauvehaus wrote:
| How do you have room for wings after eating the meatballs
| at IKEA?
| mod wrote:
| What makes the wings so good?
|
| (My business is known for its chicken wings as well, just
| comparing notes!)
| mauvehaus wrote:
| I would submit that they actually aren't that good on an
| absolute scale. Relative to other widely available chain
| wings, perhaps, and I suspect that's why they have such a
| strong following.
|
| Mind you, I haven't had them in years and now live almost
| 7 hours from the nearest Quaker Steak and Lube. My
| recollection may be flawed.
| mod wrote:
| Fair. I'm not a fan of any of the chain wings.
|
| Our recipe is simple: decent sized wings, deep fried
| naked, sauced and served. Good sauces matter, of course.
|
| Given how easy that is, it's amazing to me that almost
| nobody else has good wings (at least around here). I'm
| not sure what they're doing differently.
| OedipusRex wrote:
| Mammoth Cave is worth the visit if you're in the area.
| mod wrote:
| Went as a kid, it was badass.
| OedipusRex wrote:
| I was there a few years ago and the power went out for a few
| seconds and everyone just froze in place lol
| aklemm wrote:
| Would love to see a Google Map of the sites included.
| kathysgeek wrote:
| For geology lovers: https://kgs.uky.edu/kygeode/geomap/
|
| Two meteor craters are visible as "broken windows". Middlesboro
| crater in the extreme southeast and Jeptha Knob near Frankfort
| (north central).
| kadenwolff wrote:
| If you're interested in the magic of Kentucky:
|
| http://kentuckyroutezero.com/
| nulbyte wrote:
| This is such a fascinating and engaging game! I don't recall
| where I found it, but I definitely agree.
| WorldMaker wrote:
| Relatedly, the original Colossal Cave Adventure, often known
| simply as "Adventure", which was a very early videogame and
| inspired so many others that followed (including the Zork
| franchise and Kentucky Route Zero) was loosely inspired by the
| creators' caving expeditions in Kentucky's Mammoth Cave
| (National Park) and some of the rooms and room descriptions in
| Colossal Cave Adventure even match up with real Mammoth Cave
| rooms. (Though my attempts to use the magic word XYZZY to
| shortcut to find Dragon hoarded gold at the real Mammoth Cave
| seem to always fail.)
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure
| auditor_3d wrote:
| A new website that showcases 120 archaeologically significant
| sites in Kentucky,USA
| daveevad wrote:
| As someone who grew up in Kentucky but now works in the Bay Area,
| what is the tech scene like back home these days?
| throwaway168519 wrote:
| Also in Lexington doing remote work - don't know too much about
| the local tech scene. Seems rather limited and the best option
| is to work remotely for a higher wage and take advantage of the
| lower COL in the area.
| reportingsjr wrote:
| In northern KY it's about as you would expect. Limited, but
| there are a handful of companies doing interesting things.
| ducharmdev wrote:
| Lots of .NET
| silisili wrote:
| That's the whole Midwest, for some odd reason. As a Linux guy
| since childhood, I've always had to find remote work.
| primeradical wrote:
| Lex here, not bad for remote work, low cost of living, access
| to surrounding metro areas (Lou, Cinci), and Lex usually has
| something going on. Just got access to gigabit fiber so you're
| not disconnected from the rest of the world either.
| WorldMaker wrote:
| Same as it ever was: most local "big" tech employers (and VCs)
| still hugely (and sometimes myopically, looking at you local
| VCs) focused on Health Insurance or are otherwise Healthcare
| adjacent.
|
| But yeah, also still a lovely place for remote work, if you can
| get it, given the cost of living/quality of life.
___________________________________________________________________
(page generated 2022-09-28 23:01 UTC)