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The one-liner:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=10 | gzip -c > 10GB.gz

This is brilliant.

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[–] dwt@feddit.org 67 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Sadly about the only thing that reliably helps against malicious crawlers is Anubis

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[–] alehel@lemmy.zip 26 points 3 days ago (3 children)

That URL is telling me "Invalid response". Am I a bot?

[–] doorknob88@lemmy.world 87 points 3 days ago

I’m sorry you had to find out this way.

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago

Now you know why your mom spent so much time with the Amiga

[–] spicehoarder@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't really like this approach, not just because I was flagged as a bot, but because I don't really like captchas. I swear I'm not a bot guys!

[–] dwt@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

That’s the reason I say ‚sadly‘. It’s definitely not good. But since everything else fails, this is what currently remains.