incorrect celebration [TudbuT]

german malevolent fog that creates and roams.

i change
every
day
this bio was obsolete the moment it was written

to understand my political views you must know that time is an oppressive social construct

writer of
- selves at https://self.tudbut.de
- slabs of concrete (a story) at https://self.tudbut.de/soc
- music, mostly on reisnudel and nudelgrowth
- annoyances everywhere

i can code but i try not to.

Git: https://git.tudbut.de/tudbut
delta.chat: https://i.delta.chat/#99F5C6FC6F07EDD1334F579443509F6B25EBBDDF&a=2grh8mqum%40nine.testrun.org&n=TudbuT&i=Ft_c-scxhWbczlONzV3MRw1x&s=83Mim2wip2g1WT-ndR4kEkkc
the: she/her, it/it
the (2): he/him if its funny
the (3): they/them ok
age: yeah
THE: https://tudbut.de

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2026-04-20 09:42:06 UTC

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i apologize for just jumping in here but i want to back up just how literal this destruction is. despite me using an ai blocker, my server is now at a constant 50%+ cpu usage, most of which coming from caddy and thus being unavoidable for me unless i write my own reverse proxy too (not too unlikely i suppose, but either way).
i am now experiencing up to 300-something requests per second that are confirmed to be coming from llm scrapers, usually hovering around 185 with regular spikes to 250. that means an average of 16 million requests per day. this translates to over 99.7% of requests to my sites coming from scrapers.

2025-12-22 10:40:58 UTC

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i see a lot of french people as well

2025-12-21 22:04:30 UTC

as some of you may know i made sth called [bombai](https://git.tudbut.de/tudbut/bombai) (name comes from bomba and ai) thats kinda like anubis or iocaine in purpose. those solutions are kind of "fine" already, but the thing about them is that anubis sucks for regular users too, and isnt always effective, and that iocaine usually relies on lists or similar things.
scrapers unfortunately come in all shapes and sizes and with new user agents or hidden ones all the time. after using anubis for a while, i got my forgejo downed again and so i went looking. iocaine seems like a good idea, but i want something that is sure to stop my git from going down even if i dont maintain it or the lists are incomplete.
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what i made now does the following:
- very configurable detection entirely based on behaviour, without modifying site content
- request counting
- one fail = timeout, continuously resetting if attempts continue (this can be excellently combined with trap paths)
- weighted by path and such
- blobbing entire subnets together if desired (needed for alibaba's bot for example)
- allows setting up "trap paths" that instantly flag someone for timeout upon visit
- customizable response
- redirection to iocaine or other trap
- **zip bombs** (small ones usually since most scrapers are smart enough to not decompress them fully otherwise - but it makes it cheaper on bandwidth either way)
- maze similar to but less sophisticated than iocaine
- plain http or html response from file
it is worth mentioning especially explicitly that paths that are expensive for the server to provide (in storage or otherwise), can be thus limited extremely well, and of course most scrapers are blocked even far before the first time they request such a path.
if interest exists and help is needed setting it up or you just want to chat about it, DO IT I WOULD LOVE THAT.
if a bot makes it through that is capable of doing any harm, i consider that a bug immediately. make an issue and ill debug either your config or the program itself.
#opensource #forgejo

2025-12-17 23:37:05 UTC

bombai is being really quite successful. whenever a scraper hits a bomb it slows to a crawl for a good minute (without this, they do 4 requests a second easily, now its closer to 30s or eveb minutes between requests). i am going to remove anubis for now.

2025-10-06 05:15:35 UTC

btw my nextcloud is back (i hate nextcloud)

2025-01-09 04:47:50 UTC

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for me its a similar thing: absence of visual (and material) business.
and ive talked to a lot of people who find liminal spaces calming in that way, i believe its more common in autistic people whereas neurotypicals tend towards finding them scary.

2025-01-09 04:38:20 UTC

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i believe some people do make that connection on their own, but definitely not all. i have talked to people who found liminal spaces naturally pressing

2025-01-09 04:36:32 UTC

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i have the same experience! i find them so so calming and never even considered that some people might associate them with horror for a long time