How the FSF sysadmins block botnets with reaction
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#2are scrapers attackers?
I get they're DDoS; but take the mask off, and arn't they just the AI monied interests that fund the FSF? and a lot of them are just active inference, eg, the user is trying to ask about something and the AI monied interests setup a web scraper to go and get that data.
Just seems like no one wants to call out the hand that feeds them in a human centipede that's best described as the torment nexus.
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#3are scrapers attackers? I get they're DDoS; but take the mask off, and arn't they just the AI monied interests that fund the FSF? and a lot of them are just active inference, eg, the user is trying to ask about something and the AI monied interests setup a web scraper to go and get that data. Just seems like no one wants to call out the hand that feeds them in a human centipede that's best described as the torment ne…
> AI monied interests that fund the FSF
Can you elaborate on who these interests are precisely?
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#4> We placed our regular expressions in fail2ban, and found that we were hitting the maximum rules that could be added to UFW firewall rules on our systems which showed degradation around 65,000 rules
Firewalld had a similar issue up until recently as well.
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#5are scrapers attackers? I get they're DDoS; but take the mask off, and arn't they just the AI monied interests that fund the FSF? and a lot of them are just active inference, eg, the user is trying to ask about something and the AI monied interests setup a web scraper to go and get that data. Just seems like no one wants to call out the hand that feeds them in a human centipede that's best described as the torment ne…
> AI monied interests that fund the FSF Can you elaborate on who these interests are precisely?
I tried: https://www.fsf.org/patrons; the last FY listed is 2020.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
> AI monied interests that fund the FSF Can you elaborate on who these interests are precisely?
I tried: https://www.fsf.org/patrons ; the last FY listed is 2020.
I'm not entirely sure how those companies are related to "AI-monied" after clicking on their websites.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not entirely sure how those companies are related to "AI-monied" after clicking on their websites.
the point is i tried to answer and the page is 6 years out of date....
The point is that it is presumed that you must've gotten the info somewhere in order to back up your claims. If not this outdated website, where then?
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#9are scrapers attackers? I get they're DDoS; but take the mask off, and arn't they just the AI monied interests that fund the FSF? and a lot of them are just active inference, eg, the user is trying to ask about something and the AI monied interests setup a web scraper to go and get that data. Just seems like no one wants to call out the hand that feeds them in a human centipede that's best described as the torment ne…
instead of scraping then, they could pay the fsf for a dump of the site or some API access or something, right? why overload the servers normally.
Re: How the FSF sysadmins block botnets with reaction
#10are scrapers attackers? I get they're DDoS; but take the mask off, and arn't they just the AI monied interests that fund the FSF? and a lot of them are just active inference, eg, the user is trying to ask about something and the AI monied interests setup a web scraper to go and get that data. Just seems like no one wants to call out the hand that feeds them in a human centipede that's best described as the torment ne…
instead of scraping then, they could pay the fsf for a dump of the site or some API access or something, right? why overload the servers normally.
That's what commoncrawl does.