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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/35852706
Increasingly, I’m reminded of this: Paul Bunyan vs. the spam bot (or how Paul Bunyan triggered the singularity to win a bet). It’s a medium-length read from the old internet, but fun.
It's always a cat-n-mouse game.
Except previously bombarding another person's server for personal gain was illegal.
Eventually we'll have "defensive" and "offensive" llm's managing all kinds of electronic warfare automatically, effectively nullifying each other.
Question: those artificial stupidity bots want to steal the issues or want to steal the code? Because why they're wasting a lot of resources scraping millions of pages when they can steal everything via SSH (once a month, not 120 times a second)
I'm ashamed to say that I switched my DNS nameservers to CF just for their anti crawler service.
Knowing Cloudflare, god know how much longer it'll be free for.
For mbin I managed to kill the attack of the scrapers only using cloudflare managed challenge for all except to fediverse post endpoints, from fediverse ua agents on certain get endpoints. Managed challenge on everything else.
So far, they've not gotten past it. But, a matter of time.
man, you'd think they'd just use the actual activitypub protocol to inhale all that data at once and not bother with costly scraping.
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AI was never intelligent. It’s a marketing term, that’s all. It has absolutely no meaning.
