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I really hope they die soon, this is unbearable…
I'm gonna guess 17:25:20
For a while my GoAccess instance wasn’t working properly so I couldn’t visualize my access logs from Traefik, got lazy trying to fix it and left it as is, well in the meantime I wasn’t lazy enough to setup Synapse and begin federating on my home network.
Finally fixed my GoAccess today to be surprised to see Synapse hits labelled as crawlers, well over a million hits.
vendredi à 16h30 ... curieusement, personne n'essaie de répondre à ta question 😋
Pile poil
50% of my traffic is scrapers now. I really want to block them but I also want my content to be indexed and used for LLMs. At the moment there isn't really an in-between way of doing that. :(
(This is with me knowing they fuck up the electricity nets and memory chips, I'm just hoping that gets better soon.)
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| CGNAT | Carrier-Grade NAT |
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| Git | Popular version control system, primarily for code |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
| nginx | Popular HTTP server |
5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.
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Good bot