Irenes (many)this feels like a nice afternoon to just watch incoming traffic in the system log, flowing by quietly
it's interesting how the pace can be faster or slower. relaxing.
most of this is legit traffic, even if we have minor capacity issues from it. that feels good. the "default" situation with any self-hosting scenario is that most traffic is malicious.
Hatkirby@ireneista for reallll, meta's bot and gptbot have been DoSing my website so much I had to take it down for a while and then install anubis
@starlight yeah. we're trying hard to avoid installing a proof-of-waste tool, though we are really super glad that Anubis exists because it's a grassroots approach (cloudlfare are the amoral mercenaries of our age)
we're learning a lot from the process of exploring other mitigations, so that's worth it to us
@ireneista yeah, it was pretty frustrating that when I was researching what to do about this situation, pretty much everyone online was saying to use cloudflare. no thanks! I'm happy your mitigations are working!
@starlight thank you! we do have more computational resources we can afford to spend on this than most self-hosters, but still it's really nice to have our head above water with it
devon|meow|alice@ireneista i like anubis’ default preact challenge, it tests for javascript without any proof-of-work component
@fractal oh! good! we didn't realize that
Klay@[email protected] @ireneista ooh how does that work? is it just like "render this div, then check if it was rendered?"