I mean, I have an nginx revproxy in front of *everything* I could just create a rule that drops a lot of user agents and IP ranges.
That would solve the actual problem I have more efficiently than tarpitting (I'm annoyed about bots being present, yes, on philosophical grounds, yes, but the problem's *urgency* comes from the load placed on the server)
Patch Arcana
npub1vn…vj9ar
2026-03-25 21:23:41 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…wvc3
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