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Loqi [[Comparison_of_software_and_protocols_for_distributed_social_networking]] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_software_and_protocols_for_distributed_social_networking&diff=1288013350&oldid=prev Baldemoto at 21:16, 29 April 2025
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aaronpk this is a mess, i suspect this is the thing i read about recently where AI crawlers are using browser extensions to distribute crawls across people's regular computers
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aaronpk getting about 30 requests per second to all sorts of random pages like `/wiki/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangesLinked&userExpLevel=registered&hidemyself=1&hidebots=0&hideminor=1&days=14&limit=100&target=WordPress%2FExamples`
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gRegor oof
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aaronpk lots of random user agent strings and random IP addresses
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aaronpk and the microcache isn't working because all these requests are to the deep wiki links
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aaronpk i wonder if i can block non logged in users from these deep links
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aaronpk it started picking up a couple hours ago https://media.aaronpk.com/2025/04/29150614-4060.png
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[snarfed] :hugops:
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aaronpk yeah i think that's going to be the best plan, sorry to anyone who isn't logged in
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aaronpk i need to figure out how to do it while still allowing accessing the login page, but basically any request to `/wiki/index.php?` is going to require being logged in. so only the current version of pages will be accessible to the public
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[snarfed] seems reasonable
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aaronpk nice, there's an extension to block specific things
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aaronpk oof there's too many
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aaronpk might have to do it at the web server level
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artlung.com edited /now (+116) "/* IndieWeb Examples: Joe Crawford */" (view diff)
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www.ciccarello.me edited /Planning (+70) "/* San Diego */ add aciccarello" (view diff)
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[tantek] aaronpk++ hugops++
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