All this effort to block clankers? Absolutely worth it fuck clankers.
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How to Build a Powerful Reverse Proxy Firewall for Blocking the Evil Web-Scraping Robot Hordes from Hell
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I absolutely love the term clankers. It's the perfect blend of dystopian cyberpunk and the very real threat of AI.
It seems goofy to me — I wish we had collectively picked a term with more oomph.
I’m struggling to come up with an alternative though.
toasters
I'm still trying to make 'sloppers' happen. Perfectly describes the lack of thought that goes into what they produce.
I like 'sloppers' as a term for the morons distrubing and consuming the shit that the clankers are excreting.
clankers make the end result that sloppers (meatbags) eat up ;)
Yeah and the make a mess of network traffic that slows everything down.
Sludgers works too, but I like slop for the LLM output, so it makes sense as the bot term of derision.
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This page isn't loading for me.
found the bot
I'm getting a 404 error, using Cloudflare DNS, who ironically has the best commercial clanker protection in the world, otherwise half the world's internet wouldn't use them
Bot
Not a bot. Both of you can go fuck yourselves with an ENTIRE can of bear mace.
Sounds like something a bot would say
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Should we just move everything to tor and start the Internet over again?
look if i can't browse from my fridge i don't want to know about it
Not sure about Tor but your fridge definitely supports mesh networks whether it wants to or not.
Wait till you hear about betanet
I was interested until I saw the crypto stakes to vote on changes baked in.
Isn't that the new freenet ?
No that's alphanet
surely you mean Pipernet
Damn it, with their confusing naming !
*i2p
403 error. Congrats, you built a broken system of false-positives.
Well it cant be that good becauase it thinks im a bot.
Anubis works pretty well for me so far in blocking clankers.
It seems Anubis’github issues shows many false positives with smartphone browsers. Depending on OP’s target audience it’s worth to hunt for FP
I just wish i could read it, it seems to block based on my IP which isn't really a good way to identify bots.
Here is a mirror https://git.qiuwen.net.cn/Mirror/anubis handle with care
Thanks but i meant the site in the original post https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/debian-netinstall-waf.html
It says
403 Error Your IP address has been blocked. This MAY be because you have made yourself look like a robot by using an unknown VPN or Tor exit node.
Blocking tor is pretty bold, that network is too slow to use for anything but straight up privacy.
How ironic
I guess you will have to resort to online translators or actual web proxies to read these pages 🙄
I just used a bot to read it: https://web.archive.org/web/20250901133211/https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/debian-netinstall-waf.html
Here you go: https://web.archive.org/web/20250901133211/https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/debian-netinstall-waf.html
They seem to block archive.today but not archive.org.
Oh interesting! Thank you.
And then you have to fill a block list with something like https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/nginx-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker
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