Subj : Re: Nifty desktop compari
To   : Mike Powell
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Sun Mar 30 2025 15:05:00

MIKE POWELL wrote:
>>> That's probably the reason: I have also noticed this week a few of my
>>> regular sites taking longer to load.
> 
>> See "The Linux Experiment" channel on YT today. He talks about how
>> recently the AI crawlers are clogging up the works, to the point of
>> being a giant internet-wide DDOS attack. One outfit had to block all of
>> Brazil to shut down the excessive traffic. It's knocked some Gitlab
>> repositories offline, and is costing everyone a lot in bandwidth.
> 
> I have also read headlines about how AI crawlers are hogging resources and
> causing trouble.  :(  That is ok, though, as soon they will be our
> overlords and we won't be allowed to access the internet anymore.  :O
> 

Almost there, ain't it.

AI crawlers are also ignoring robots.txt, so they get into everywhere.


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This sounds like AI wrote it. <g>
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