Mastodawn

James against the machine Sep 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

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Steven Heywood

@j
It's a pity it seems there's no means of redirecting them to scrape 10Gb (or more) of their own data, preferably recursively, so that their Large Language Model gets deranged by inbreeding.