Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Linux@programming.devEnglish · edit-22 months agoFOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companiesthelibre.newsexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldopensource@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.world
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minus-squaresudo@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoAdmins will always turn down the bot management when it starts blocking end users. At that point you cough up the money for the extra bandwidth and investigate different solutions.
minus-squareSkotchY@ieji.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-22 months ago@sudo yeah, the bot-problem is hard, especially for voluntary that help others. https://nadeko.net/announcements/invidious-and-the-bot-problem/ * they use a proof of work system called #Anubis to fix their #bot problem. I hope it works. #proofofwork The proof of work right now needs about 1 second on my phone, so I am happy with that. Perhaps the biggest problem of bots is the number of requests they start, which is impossible to replicate by a normal human clicking on buttons.
Admins will always turn down the bot management when it starts blocking end users. At that point you cough up the money for the extra bandwidth and investigate different solutions.
@sudo yeah, the bot-problem is hard, especially for voluntary that help others.
https://nadeko.net/announcements/invidious-and-the-bot-problem/
* they use a proof of work system called #Anubis to fix their #bot problem. I hope it works. #proofofwork
The proof of work right now needs about 1 second on my phone, so I am happy with that.
Perhaps the biggest problem of bots is the number of requests they start, which is impossible to replicate by a normal human clicking on buttons.