On Wednesday, September 17th, 2025 at 09:11, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote:
> A forum related to laser show syatems I use from time to time was getting > hit by scrapers coming from 300,000 unique IP addresses. > > I hit a different issue, they were completing captcha and spamming wiki. The same thing happened to me at $dayjob. We wound up putting a bunch of our stuff (wiki, documentation repository, code forge) behind a VPN because the LLM crawler bots were eating up so much bandwidth we couldn't use them for day to day stuff. Which really sucks because they were supposed to be public to begin with. The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510] WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ Get thee down. Be thou funky.
