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monsieuricon

K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

So, the aggressive crawler that pretends to be b4 in the user-agent is back hitting lore full force, this time hitting EU instead of APAC.

Thankfully, knowing a thing or two about b4, I can easily tell fake b4 traffic from real b4 traffic. Enjoy a ton of 404's, jerk.
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monsieuricon

K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

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and if you want to feed lore to your shitty AI learning system, JUST CLONE THE DAMN GIT REPOS. IT'S NOT LIKE WE DON'T MAKE IT ALL EASY TO MIRROR.
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nirik@fosstodon.org

nirik fedora redhat

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@monsieuricon I have thought of changing the 403's we are sending the scrapers to 406's...

https://http.cat/406

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becomingwisest@hachyderm.io

Christopher Evans

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Edited 22 hours ago

@nirik @monsieuricon I’d get a giggle telling them payment is required.

https://http.cat/status/402

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theraspb@aus.social

raspberry

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@monsieuricon this is the most infuriating part about the scraping, straight up just dumb

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Logical_Error@fosstodon.org

LogicalErzor

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@monsieuricon @monsieuricon instead of 404’ing them, send them a fork bomb :D

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gnomon@mastodon.social

Ben Zanin

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@monsieuricon hey, on the topic of "just clone the repos": does that happen very often? I ask because I've been paying close attention to the development of git server side advertising of static repo packfiles via bundle-uri¹ and where Eric might hook into that in the public-inbox infrastructure, and I was wondering whether optimizing that path is even worthwhile given how often or rarely it happens in the wild.

¹: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/tree/Documentation/technical/bundle-uri.adoc

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