Github has really turned to shit. Almost every time I try to search for something I get the too many requests error even if it’s the first time I’ve visited the site in a week.
It would be nice if people could self host something like Forgejo, but the damn AI crawlers will just hammer your server until it crashes. The crawlers are really hard to block without relying on another big tech company like Cloudflare.
It’s hard to host anything public without relying on something like cloudflare.
But, what makes you say it’s “ai crawlers” rather than conventional botnets and so on? Very few organisations have the resources to train large ai models, but the resources needed to run a botnet or something are much lower.
The botnets usually try to login to SSH and pages like phpmyadmin & wp-admin looking for something they can infect rather than scraping every single page on a website frequently. Unless you do something to become the target of a DDoS attack or don’t secure your server, they usually aren’t much more than a source of log spam.
Github has really turned to shit. Almost every time I try to search for something I get the too many requests error even if it’s the first time I’ve visited the site in a week.
It would be nice if people could self host something like Forgejo, but the damn AI crawlers will just hammer your server until it crashes. The crawlers are really hard to block without relying on another big tech company like Cloudflare.
It’s hard to host anything public without relying on something like cloudflare.
But, what makes you say it’s “ai crawlers” rather than conventional botnets and so on? Very few organisations have the resources to train large ai models, but the resources needed to run a botnet or something are much lower.
The botnets usually try to login to SSH and pages like phpmyadmin & wp-admin looking for something they can infect rather than scraping every single page on a website frequently. Unless you do something to become the target of a DDoS attack or don’t secure your server, they usually aren’t much more than a source of log spam.
He just repeats what he heard elsewhere, he doesn’t really understand what the words mean, just fancy text prediction