Moved to @crussel!
Game dev since 2004, currently working on a casual iOS game about archaeology. A game that really needs a name!
Posts about #gamedev, #archaeology, #caturday, and a fair amount of ill-advised top-of-mind nonsense.
| Blog | https://crussel.net |
| Pronouns | He/him |
Tonight my car decided it wanted to call breakdown assistance, while I was driving. After the first ring it hung up. Then it called again, then hung up. I couldn’t prevent it. It carried on like this for half an hour, before finally giving up.
At least it was breakdown and not emergency services. I would not want to have to explain that.
@reidrac Yep it's becoming a huge problem! The Git forge I run for Merveilles is often under attack by AI bots, and they completely hammer the server when they do.
Like you say, having dynamic content is a problem (also https://www.heise.de/en/news/AI-bots-paralyze-Linux-news-site-and-others-10252162.html ) and for me Forgejo forks off at least one git process every time, so it's particularly heavy.
I'm glad this is getting discussed more and more, it'll help push back on attitudes saying we're naïve for trying to fight back (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/trap-naughty-web-crawlers-in-digestive-juices-with-nepenthes/#comment-8087717).
Great post, @alex!
If you're in the Greater Manchester, UK area, the Science and Industry Museum are looking for volunteers to help with their Power Up! gaming exhibition: https://www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/power-up
If you're interested, they have an application form at https://ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC179GF.open?WVID=4862949WXp
It’s so nice when “support” is an actual helpful human. Filled the feedback comments with effusive praise and a polite suggestion they deserve a pay rise.
Resisted the urge to add “of course, when you inevitably get bought out by a megacorp it’ll all go to heck” 🤐
Andy Alderwick
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