NivagSwerdna
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There seems to be a spate of new joiners necro-ing old threads? Are we being invaded by AI bots?
Bots?
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Probably, it's hard to tell sometimes
kingtreelo
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if you click on current visitors, it tells you, bot probably only web crawling bots, ones that have created accounts should be dealt with by admin, i doubt very much that people have made bots to register that can reply to PMs...wink wink
They are bots, not accounts
kingtreelo
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i have already said this, you seem extremely hostile at times
i would suggest PMing the accounts you think may be bots, and see if they reply
I host a couple sites.. without lots of firewall rules etc bots are 90% of total traffic. AI scrapers looking to train on stuff.
The easiest way is Cloudflare- they paywall AI bots.
If you're running directly on linux I can share my ip blocklist that gets about 90% of them
The easiest way is Cloudflare- they paywall AI bots.
If you're running directly on linux I can share my ip blocklist that gets about 90% of them
I just watched this again this morning. 🙂
kingtreelo
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Shark Tale?
CMYKhazi-Dan
Saikyo Style 💪
Debbie does Dallas.
I am extremely hostile, wtaf
NivagSwerdna
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AI bots suck, they ignore robots.txt and just hammer servers. Actually this gives us a nice little trick to stop them.
On my own servers I have set up a "gzip bomb" in a special /norobots/ folder. robots.txt tells the bots that behave not to go there.. but everyone else gets 1mb file that they will decompress into 1-10GB. This crashes bot crawler threads.. so after the first couple of tries they leave me alone.
For geeks:
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=10 | gzip -c > 10GB.gz
This compresses to ~10Mb, and unzips into a file 10GB in size completely filled with zeroes. Feed it to a bot and it fills it's poor little tummy with garbage at basically zero cost to the sender..
Essentially "if you set an abusive program to hoover up everything on my web server, you're also going to find yourself busily digesting zip bombs"
On my own servers I have set up a "gzip bomb" in a special /norobots/ folder. robots.txt tells the bots that behave not to go there.. but everyone else gets 1mb file that they will decompress into 1-10GB. This crashes bot crawler threads.. so after the first couple of tries they leave me alone.
For geeks:
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=10 | gzip -c > 10GB.gz
This compresses to ~10Mb, and unzips into a file 10GB in size completely filled with zeroes. Feed it to a bot and it fills it's poor little tummy with garbage at basically zero cost to the sender..
Essentially "if you set an abusive program to hoover up everything on my web server, you're also going to find yourself busily digesting zip bombs"
Bumping this. Fucking bots and AI
AI has no morals, no emotional intelligence, no real life experience, no boundaries and yet people use it to interact with others. Nuts!
The world is an even more fucked up place than I thought it was. Bring back the 80s!
AI has no morals, no emotional intelligence, no real life experience, no boundaries and yet people use it to interact with others. Nuts!
The world is an even more fucked up place than I thought it was. Bring back the 80s!
Three billion human lives ended on August 29th, 2027. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day. They lived only to face a new nightmare: the war against the machines. The computer which controlled the machines, Skynet, sent two Terminators back through time.
Dave.
Dave.