Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me

Post by viridian » Mon, Aug 25, 2025, 8:32 PM UTC

JohnFen wrote: post #306

socksy wrote: post #289

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Also baffled that three separate people came to that conclusion. Do they not run web servers on the open web or something? Script kiddies are constantly probing urls, and urls come up in your logs. Sure it would be bad if that was how your app was architected. But it's not how it's architected, it's how the skids hope your app is architected. It's not like if someone sends me a request for /wp-login.php that my rails…

> Do they not run web servers on the open web or something? Until AI crawlers chased me off of the web, I ran a couple of fairly popular websites. I just so rarely see anybody including passwords in the URLs anymore that I didn't really consider that as what the commenter was talking about.

Post by ronsor » Mon, Aug 25, 2025, 8:35 PM UTC

lukan wrote: post #254

sylware wrote: post #164

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I forgot about that: all the nice game binaries from them running directly on nearly all systems...

Huh? Who is them in this case?

Post by ronsor » Mon, Aug 25, 2025, 8:36 PM UTC

raffraffraff wrote: post #36

lxgr wrote: post #31

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Why stop there? Just block all non-US IPs! If it works for my health insurance company, essentially all streaming services (including not even being able to cancel service from abroad), and many banks, it’ll work for you as well. Surely bad actors wouldn’t use VPNs or botnets, and your customers never travel abroad?

And across the water, my wife has banned US IP addresses from her online shop once or twice. She runs a small business making products that don't travel well, and would cost a lot to ship to the US. It's a huge country with many people. Answering pointless queries, saying "No, I can't do that" in 50 different ways and eventually dealing with negative reviews from people you've never sold to and possibly even never ta…

Post by renewiltord » Mon, Aug 25, 2025, 8:49 PM UTC

flanbiscuit wrote: post #266

breve wrote: post #223

> Alex Schroeder's Butlerian Jihad That's Frank Herbert's Butlerian Jihad.

To be fair, he was referring to a post on Alex Schroeder's blog titled with the same name as the term from the Dune books. And that post correctly credits Dune/Herbert. But the post is not about Dune, it's about Spam bots so it's more related to what the original author's post is about. Speaking of the Butlerian Jihad, Frank Herbert's son (Brian) and another author named Kevin J Anderson co-wrote a few books in the D…

Post by egypturnash » Mon, Aug 25, 2025, 8:49 PM UTC

dkiebd wrote: post #317

bob1029 wrote: post #156

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Thousands of requests per hour? So, something like 1-3 per second? If this is actually impacting perceived QoS then I think a gitea bug report would be justified. Clearly there's been some kind of a performance regression. Just looking at the logs seems to be an infohazard for many people. I don't see why you'd want to inspect the septic tanks of the internet unless absolutely necessary.

I love the snark here. I work at a hosting company and the only customers who have issues with crawlers are those who have stupidly slow webpages. It’s hard to have any sympathy for them.