> It isn't you personally. Sourceware is seeing waves of AI scraperbot > attacks through residential proxies. Which means there are millions of > ip addresses hitting the server (often just fetching one or two items > and then disappearing). So it is really hard to properly throttle the > actual abusers. See also the lwn articles Fighting the AI scraperbot > scourge https://lwn.net/Articles/1008897/ and An update on the scraper > situation https://lwn.net/Articles/1080822/ and the sourceware > fediverse updates: https://fosstodon.org/@sourceware > > So there are a couple of ways around the nginx throttler we installed, > get a bugzilla account and use that through the ip you are cloning from > or get a developer account and git clone through ssh, use the git > protocol to clone git://sourceware.org/git/elfutils.git use the forge > https://forge.sourceware.org/elfutils/elfutils-mirror or sr.ht mirror > https://git.sr.ht/~sourceware/elfutils/
Yes I am definitely aware of the pain AI scraping is causing. I did not realize a bugzilla account would help but it makes sense. Thanks much!
