Post B3HVdsvipDwHO8cHoG by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
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 (DIR) Post #B3HV7XI1kPqp0Pcm4e by gabrielesvelto@mas.to
       2026-02-13T10:18:07Z
       
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       When talking about the energy consumed by LLMs don't be fooled by arguments focusing solely on the direct power consumption of these models, because they are externalizing a lot of it. Browsers are now doing proof-of-work calculations to access many websites, because websites need to protect themselves from AI scrapers. That takes power! Let that sink in: every computer, tablet or phone on earth is now consuming more power *every time it accesses a webpage* because of "AI".
       
 (DIR) Post #B3HV7YZQzBMwygmBqS by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
       2026-02-13T14:27:30.683267Z
       
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       @gabrielesvelto Proof of Waste does absolutely nothing to stop LLM and other kind of pretend intelligence scrapers - as the attackers have racks and racks and racks or servers with plenty of processing power.It happens to mitigate poorly programmed scrapers, but those can be identified and bombed in other ways.Rather than attack the users with proprietary malware to achieve nothing, every last site host should rather feed as much slop and as many GNUzip bombs as possible to such scrapers, therefore putting an end to such scraping (it will be no longer be useful to scrape the whole internet, when all you get is slop).
       
 (DIR) Post #B3HVAMSMTx6EH8nzyi by Zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith
       2026-02-13T14:28:27.370565Z
       
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       @Suiseiseki @gabrielesvelto >because websites need to protect themselves from AI scrapers[disputed claim]
       
 (DIR) Post #B3HVdsvipDwHO8cHoG by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
       2026-02-13T14:33:58.479215Z
       
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       @Zergling_man @gabrielesvelto If you have a website that is actually used (for example, it hosts a software mirror), you will be hammered by LLM scrapers day and night until you start serving GNUzip bombs and then the scraping slows down somewhat.
       
 (DIR) Post #B3HVvATQqqH0ipcpXs by Zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith
       2026-02-13T14:36:46.983524Z
       
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       @Suiseiseki @gabrielesvelto I still think just sending them into a mirror maze is a more reliable trick.>you will be hammered by LLM scrapers day and nightI had a bunch of them crawling over my gitea site for a while, indexing all sorts of weird intermediate objects that I didn't even know existed. I only noticed because I also got some 4k sign-ups, so after dealing with that I decided to fuck with them:if ($http_user_agent ~* "(claudebot|amazonbot|gptbot)"){return 418 "~.:|:;~";}
       
 (DIR) Post #B3HWTtkD2hy6yL286i by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
       2026-02-13T14:43:22.763760Z
       
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       @Zergling_man @gabrielesvelto What does "~.:|:;~" do?