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Creepy crawlies (people.kernel.org)

submitted 1 week ago by poVoq@slrpnk.net to c/opensource@programming.dev

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[–] dumnezero@piefed.social 12 points 1 week ago

Enter... your TV?

Yes, I posted about this weeks ago. The fucking "IoT" can be a fucking botnet. I fucking hate it.

Today, git.kernel.org receives about 6M daily requests demanding to see random commits. Of these, 66% are still immediately batted away with the Anubis challenge, but 33% are now solving the math and getting through to the main site — because apparently what we have to offer is worth spending a ton of cycles to calculate the Anubis challenge.

sigh

In terms of what we're doing, we're turning off features to reduce the number of crawlable URLs and to gate off actions that are expensive for us to run. Expect to lose some functionality, at least when accessing our resources anonymously. Trust me, we hate it just as much as you, but at this point it's a necessity.

Yep, this is a good idea.