TL;DR: we spend more CPU cycles rendering commits for scrapers than we spend on all other kinds of legitimate access, including git clones.
I’ve read similar and even worse before. Probably from Codeberg, or maybe a smaller host of Forgejo or GitLab.
The blame html pages were repeatedly being requested. Which is even worse and even less plausibly useful than a commit html page.
Okay, I’m gonna make myself very unpopular here, but I feel like they got what was coming for them. I think nobody should feel bad for them.
Popular figure heads of the kernel and the linux foundation itself embraces and uses generative AI. (For code & graphics).
They lost their right to complain about scrapers, when then started using the result of them in my opinion.
(It is also quite ironic that the author of this blogpost has an AI pfp on his fedi profile.)
Code and graphics prompting typically doesn’t need to make web requests to serve a response.
Guess where the data came from to train these models?
