Status: 9M hits from AI crawlers, <0.1% human.
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My first server was Apache on Suse Linux, in yr 2000. I've since deployed numerous webservers, many high traffic

Never guessed I'd one day be deploying a web project almost entirely for bots.

This is a view under the hood; the web is now more bot than human.

Our ideas, expressions, work, are being stolen for simulation & profit by a handful of companies, & at a scale comparable to deep-sea trawling.

It is our moral imperative to fight back.

I'm not sure people realise, but trying to review code rather than doing it myself requires much more cognitive power, especially when my trust of the job getting done properly is extremely low.

Yes one must start somewhere, but I've got *extremely* boring tasks of auditing certain engine APIs that are accessible to basically anyone and nobody wants to do it.
When this would actually be more impactful than following my "lead", especially if it comes out of nowhere and not ask me if I want help.