The Free Software Foundation's services face "ongoing (and increasing) distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks"
| "Some of the abuse is not unique to us, and it seems that the health of the web has some serious problems right now." https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/
Who would want to attack Free Open Source Software? It's dystopian and against freedom.
| I've read recently that AI scrapers a serious problem for self-hosted gitea and gitlab instances - to the point it is functionally DoS
| I hope all these scum companies jumping on the llm ai bubble lose billions when it bursts.
| >>1062634
Government agencies and companies alike*
>>1062624
There are ways to trap them into infinite folder labyrinths which I'm all for.
| >>1062636
Frontloading custom challenge with JS (NOT captcha) or zipbombing them seems to work btw
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| "Even though we are under active attack, gnu.org, ftp.gnu.org, and savannah.gnu.org are up with normal response times at the moment, and have been for the majority of this week"
"We've shielded these sites for almost a full year of intense attacks now, and we'll keep on fighting these attacks for as long as they continue."
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/06/1737253/the-fsf-faces-active-ongoing-and-increasing-ddos-attacks