James against the machineSep 24, 2024

Giant Corporations™ are scraping my little git server to feed their ever-hungry, planet-destroying plagiarism machines.

So now, instead of getting my code, they get a 10GB treat.

Fucking THIEVES.

edit: This was inspired-by-and-based-on this post https://rknight.me/blog/blocking-bots-with-nginx/

Blocking Bots with Nginx

How I've automated updating the bot list to block access to my site

Show threadTim Lavoie
@j Zip bombs?
Sep 24, 2024 at 5:06amWeb
Show threadMerde stunder nuggetSep 24, 2024
@tim_lavoie @j I came here just to suggest this. I would imagine they pull anything it can and would try to open a zip file locally. At that point they have an issue.
Show threadTim LavoieSep 24, 2024
@stunder @j Sure, they'd need some sort of mechanism to limit the blast radius of time and space. A separate process could use something like ulimit, but I'd need more coffee before considering an in-process mechanism.