(PHO) 025-10-22 Bots, again. I'm taking it personally.
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 (???) y auto-blocking of bots hasn’t needed much intervention in recent
 (???) eeks. The current average is 10,000 blocked IP ranges. If you're
       nterested, there's a a description of my setup.
 (???) ots of graphs but the important one is the yellow line that’s pretty
 (SND) table around 10k.
 (???) ah, I post the above and now load is 95 and the bots are at it.
 (???) hat I don’t like about Munin is that when it crashes (I assume it’s
 (???) he OOM reaper making the rounds), then it leaves behind a lock that
 (PNG) revents the graph from updating. Ugh.
 (???)  Munin graph showing maximum average load being 137.51 and now back
 (???) o 1.24.
 (IMG) f you like large language models (LLMs), know that they need regular
 (???) raining and the people training them are ruining the web for
 (???) verybody. You are part of this, as a consumer.
 (???) ost sites don’t have the defences required, or require the execution
 (???) f expensive JavaScript for the CO₂ god, or require placing all your
 (???) isitor’s browsing data into the hands of another company, most likely
 (???) loudFlare, in the USA. If you object to any of that, you must do your
 (DOC) uty and reject the use of LLMs as well. You can’t eat your cake and
 (???) laim to object to the rest. It would be a most incongruent position
 (???) o take.
 (???) nd since this kind of shit often happens while I’m on holidays, the
 (???) LM friends reading this are responsible, in a very small way, for
 (PNG) issing on me during my holidays. And I resent it.
 (IMG)  resent it very much.
 (???) oad going up to 80, again. And back down, again.
 (???) aking up in a hotel bed, opening the balcony doors, hearing the birds
 (SND) ing, switching on the phone and realising that load is over 100 and
 (???) othing works, switching off Emacs Wiki and Community Wiki, the
 (???) avourite targets of the AI scrapers and thinking of the people who
 (???) ike to use large language models.
 (IMG) t’s the same problem as always: drive a car, see the CO₂ in the world
 (GIF) o up, “but I need it!” – yeah, but we need an earth that supports
 (HTM) uman life too, idiots. Humans, where comfort is separated from
 (???) onsequences by time and space like to choose comfort. In this case,
 (???) he AI comfort leads to the shut down of the open web, the
 (???) entralisation of what remains, the installation of barriers, and ever
 (???) nd always: more control for fewer people. But of course, the
 (???) onsequences are separated by time and space from the comforts of AI
 (???) sers.
 (IMG) magine a goddess of destruction with a grim smile and a thousand
 (HTM) ands and each one of them is giving you a middle finger.
 (???) oad average: 142.25
 (IMG)  switched off Community Wiki and Emacs Wiki.
 (???) oming back after a day of excursions and things seem to be working
 (???) ine, if I don’t switch on those two sites. These two have been
 (???) navailable for a minimum of six hours and yet in the last two hours
 (???) macs Wiki still got 3537 requests.
 (TN3) ime to ban every network of every ASN that's still requesting Emacs
 (???) iki pages.
 (???)    2h-access-log \
 (???)    | grep '^www\.emacswiki\.org' \
 (???)    | log-ip \
 (???)    | asncounter --top 50 --no-prefixes 2>/dev/null \
 (???)    | awk '/^[1-9]/ && $1 >= 10 { print $3 }' \
 (???)    | xargs asn-networks \
 (???)    | xargs fail2ban-client set butlerian-jihad-week banip
 (IMG) f you're looking for the building blocks I'm using, see my collection
 (???) f admin scripts and shell functions.
 (???) ours later, I switched Emacs Wiki on for a minute and load
       mmediately rose from around 1 to nearly 4 and my SSH connection
 (???) ecame slow as molasses. It'll remain switched off for tonight and
 (PNG) robably tomorrow, too. It depends on the kind of wifi connection I
 (HTM) ave, tomorrow.
 (???) erhaps I should just hand Emacs Wiki off to somebody who's more into
       t.
 (???) witching off Community Wiki and two smaller sites as well, for now.
 (???) Butlerian_Jihad #Emacs
 (PHO) 025-10-22. On IRC, twb replied to my complaints about the Munin lock
 (???) eing left behind:
 (???)  if you have systemd, just set RuntimeDirectory=%p and systemd will
 (???)  clean it up
 (???) lso, he's running collection4 instead of Munin.
 (PHO) 025-10-23. Switching Emacs Wiki back on, about nine hours ago.
 (PHO) 025-10-29. @briankrebs@infosec.exchange writes:
 (???)  Aisuru, the botnet responsible for a series of record-smashing
 (???)  distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks this year, recently was
 (???)  overhauled to support a more low-key, lucrative and sustainable
 (???)  business: Renting hundreds of thousands of infected Internet of
 (???)  Things (IoT) devices to proxy services that help cybercriminals
 (???)  anonymize their traffic. Experts say a glut of proxies from Aisuru
 (???)  and other sources is fueling large-scale data harvesting efforts
 (???)  tied to various artificial intelligence (AI) projects, helping
 (???)  content scrapers evade detection by routing their traffic through
 (???)  residential connections that appear to be regular Internet users. --
 (???)  Aisuru Botnet Shifts from DDoS to Residential Proxies
 (PHO) 025-10-30. Bear blog is run by Herman and he's angry, too.
 (???)  The public internet is mostly bots, many of whom are bad netizens.
 (???)  It's the most hostile it's ever been, and it is because of this that
 (???)  I feel it's more important than ever to take good care of the spaces
 (???)  that make the internet worth visiting. -- Aggressive bots ruined my
 (???)  weekend