It would be funnier if he said “robotes eunt domus”, like in Life of Brian. But no, he had to use correct Latin!
Serious now. If I had a website I’d probably try Nepenthes or Iocaine; poisoning those fuckers seems to be way more fun than just restricting their access. I’m glad the guy found a good solution for his problem with the tools at hand.
Now, before checking HN comments, let me guess: at least one will defend those big businesses DDoS-ing the internet for the sake of their models.
You don’t have to fend off anything, you just have to fix your server to support this modest amount of traffic. // Everyone else is visiting your site for entirely self-serving purposes, too. // I don’t understand why people are ok with Google scraping their site (when it is called indexing), fine with users scraping their site (when it is called RSS reading), but suddenly not ok with AI startups scraping their site. // If you publish data to the public, expect the public to access it. If you don’t want the public (this includes AI startups) to access it, don’t publish it.
It would be funnier if he said “robotes eunt domus”, like in Life of Brian. But no, he had to use correct Latin!
Serious now. If I had a website I’d probably try Nepenthes or Iocaine; poisoning those fuckers seems to be way more fun than just restricting their access. I’m glad the guy found a good solution for his problem with the tools at hand.
Now, before checking HN comments, let me guess: at least one will defend those big businesses DDoS-ing the internet for the sake of their models.
BINGO!