If LLM/AI companies could maybe stop DDoS-ing git forges from open-source communities for five minutes, that would be just amazing.
@carl we literally had to put a proof-of-work reverse proxy in front of the GNOME gitlab instance to mitigate AI scrapers leaving about 10% of the available resources to the people actually using gitlab. It's a disaster.
@Conan_Kudo @ebassi @carl is there a blog post explaining this? I'm collecting resources on what seems to be a global abuse trend, in the context of @forgejo
Forgejo: Beyond coding. We Forge.Crawlers hitting Forgejo instances - global abuse trendCodeberg and the Forgejo infrastructure (which are entirely separate) were both targeted by [excessive crawling and/or DDoS](https://codeberg.org/forgejo/discussions/issues/297). The frequency of such problems seem to be increasing in 2025 and may be part of a global abuse trend.
Although there...
@earlwarren @ebassi @carl @forgejo
For Fedora, @nirik has been posting about it as he's been dealing with it on his account and he's got a blog post about it too: https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2025/03/15/mid-march-infra-bits-2025/
Kevin's musings · Mid March infra bits 2025AI Scraper scourge
The AI scraper (I can only assume thats what they are) scourge continued,
and intensified in the last week. This time they were hitting pagure.io
really quite hard. We blocked a bun