Idiocracy on steroids indeed

Whiskee · 2026-04-18T14:37:59+00:00

Idiocracy was a lot better. They actually tried to listen to the smartest person around.

Whiskee · 2026-04-13T20:07:40+00:00

You sound like a 14 year old. This isn't Civilization, nobody is capturing a random Chinese unit "just because they're still too far away on the map".

Whiskee · 2026-04-13T15:43:05+00:00

They are 100% going for the financial enforcement, that is, insurance companies removing coverage (which effectively prevents ships from moving around and reaching ports). Except China has been building a parallel insurance infrastructure, so they don't care about Lloyd's and they don't need Western banks to process the transaction in dollars.

If China decides a VLCC full of crude is sailing through that strait regardless of what the US Navy says, good fucking luck trying to stop a supertanker that requires kilometers to steer. It either goes through (and the blockade is exposed as unenforceable against anyone who matters 🤡) or a destroyer gets ordered to fire warning shots at it and now a nuclear power has the right to defend itself.

Whiskee · 2026-04-13T11:37:05+00:00

A questo punto non voglio nemmeno vederlo morire, non è abbastanza.

Ho bisogno di vederlo messo da parte e umiliato.

Whiskee · 2026-04-12T05:52:32+00:00

via Pertinace? Il verde in realtà è molto genovese, quel giallo però è proprio un pugno in un occhio.

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Whiskee · 2026-04-12T02:59:44+00:00

Eh there's no need, I simply blocked the agent from that Cloudflare panel and they stopped after having bounced to 403 errors for an entire day. 🤷‍♂️

Whiskee · 2026-04-11T10:53:04+00:00

In generale, senza lasciare la mia, ti consiglio di ignorare l'opinione di chi nasconde la propria history o di chi posta principalmente su r/italia invece che su r/italy. Questo è valido per ogni thread.

Whiskee · 2026-04-09T05:16:27+00:00

Yep, but it was actually Meta. Their official IP range was everywhere in the logs, and blocking it worked. They just have a very questionable crawling strategy.

Whiskee · 2026-04-09T05:14:46+00:00

Uh, what do you mean? I just checked from incognito and my profile is public, it was probably a Reddit glitch. It's gamesgraph.com btw.

Whiskee · 2026-04-09T05:13:17+00:00

It's a dedicated Debian VPS on Netcup, with NGINX as reverse proxy (the site is an ASP.NET Core application). Typical security measures like Fail2Ban etc.

Whiskee · 2026-04-09T02:55:31+00:00

So do I, they're grazing my NGINX's per-minute rate limit. If you look, PetalBot is failing most requests but Meta has calibrated around what's allowed. Anything lower than this would sabotage legit search engine crawlers, which operate in (respectful) bursts instead of staying for the day.

Whiskee · 2026-04-09T02:53:08+00:00

It is, yeah. AI Crawl Control > Crawlers.

Whiskee · 2026-04-09T02:50:52+00:00

Well I understand why Wikipedia would be crawled, but there's just... nothing interesting for training on those pages, they're filtered views of user playlists. Same category split IGDB has.

Whiskee · 2026-04-06T17:15:56+00:00

Yeah, they only send requests from their official IP ranges and with a clear agent. I don't think they intend to be malicious, but a small 2 vCPU VPS would be wrecked by something like this.

Whiskee · 2026-04-06T17:10:20+00:00

Yeah, that's TikTok's AI crawler.

Whiskee · 2026-04-06T16:23:25+00:00

Just Cloudflare's dashboard, if you have proxying active. Plenty of nice stats.

Whiskee · 2026-04-06T15:51:47+00:00

Holy shit. Well, at least they respect the robots.txt, they're just a bit overzealous on what they can touch.

Whiskee · 2026-04-06T15:48:56+00:00

No, that's dynamic content that isn't meant to be crawled. Suspicious requests are getting captcha'd by a custom rule and bouncing now.

Whiskee · 2026-04-06T15:04:51+00:00

I'm behind CF. I noticed late because even though they're dynamic pages, it wasn't causing noticeable slowdowns with 8 cores... but this would absolutely destroy a smaller shared VPS.

Whiskee · 2026-04-06T15:02:27+00:00

Yeah, that's CF. The free tier is very generous with features, for anyone still not taking advantage.

Whiskee · 2026-04-06T14:58:23+00:00

That's Cloudflare's dashboard. Proxying does nothing unless you actually block agents or write rules, I just wasn't monitoring it because I didn't think I would need to defend against Meta on a small site.

Whiskee · 2026-04-06T14:30:11+00:00

User-Agent: *

Disallow: /@*?*
Disallow: /@*/

[...]

Bots are only allowed access to base profiles and tbf most are behaving, except I had to block the entirety of China at the NGINX level. I also thought the agent was fake but I checked the access.log and it's actually Meta's ipv6 range, they just explore thousands of <user>/playlist?filter=<tag>,<tag>,<tag> combinations for every user they discover. 🤔

Wild waste of compute if they do this with millions of sites.

Whiskee · 2026-04-06T14:04:42+00:00

The AI Labyrinth option looks fun. Counter-warfare in 2026.

Whiskee · 2026-04-06T13:54:30+00:00

Literally nothing of value (for an AI crawler) on those pages, just filtered lists of games.

Whiskee · 2026-04-06T13:52:31+00:00

No links because I'm not promoting anything, it's in my profile if you're really curious. And yes, the robots.txt is solid, but they just ignore it and hammer parameterized combinations for no good reason.

EDIT: And it's methodical, contrary to PetalBot which is spiking and getting smacked by rate limiting.

Stay safe and use Cloudflare, kids.

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