@glyph I hate that they have also taken the phrase "model collapse" from us. That should only be used to describe what happens when you party too hard with Duran Duran. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSMbOuNBV0s

Today my server is getting slammed by a very wide botnet that is really interested in such hits as

/var/www/jwz/..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2fetc%2fpasswd/emacs-timeline.html

Not an AI training bot! How quaint! How retro!

It seems to be associated with something called "bxss dot me" and to them I would like to sincerely say, I hate you please die.

@dejantesicnaarm *plonk*

@zzt @davidgerard @firefoxwebdevs What Mozilla needs now is an "AI kill switch" that can actually kill.

@zzt @davidgerard @firefoxwebdevs Mozilla spent 25 years being unable to get the "don't use tabs" preference to work and I'm supposed to believe their "turn off AI" preference will work?

@firefoxwebdevs Poll is missing a radio button for "fuck you and the horse you rode in on"

@KraftTea And we're done here *plonk*

@KraftTea No, we absolutely have not "all" been reduced to this.

You made a choice.

Do not ever reply to me with AI slop again.

If someone didn't bother to write it, there's no reason to bother to read it.

@not3ottersinacoat Why don't you go piss up a flagpole? *plonk*

Since yesterday my server has again been getting absolutely obliterated by AI scrapers. This time, though, load is below 1, but I'm getting up to 10 requests a second and all of my Apache workers are in state "R". What levers do I have to pull on this? ...

UPDATE:

Please do not hit reply to tell me about robots.txt or the first shit you googled. I had specific technical questions and would like specific technical answers, not vibes.

https://jwz.org/b/yk0T