Comment by 🐦 wasolili
Re: "FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies"
@HanzBrix if I read the article correctly, it's that the webscrapers used by some of the more egregious LLM companies are proxying through residential proxies (which i assume are offered by a botnet operator, given the nature of the residential proxy business)
though upon rereading I realize you were probably mentioning blocking cloud providers as a response to comments about blocking the crawlers of gemspace, not about the crawlers mentioned in the article, in which case, ignore me :)
2025-03-21 · 1 year ago
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❤️ smps · 2025-03-22 at 18:27:
Bumped into this today. Maybe useful? gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-03-21-defence-summary
That is irony,
sr.ht have js-less interface and their can't simply integrate Anubis PoW solution.
🦂 zzo38 · 2025-03-24 at 00:58:
I set up port knocking on the HTTP server. (Maybe I should specify which port number to use, in the gopher and/or scorpion server, which do not themself require port knocking. Note that if you use the wrong port number, you will be locked out (in some cases), in order to prevent being accessed by port scanning.)
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FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies — Is the era of anonymous browsing coming to an end?