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<damo22>i am convinced the mass DDoS is from AI / LLM companies scraping the web
<damo22>i have collected many logs with prood
<damo22>proof
<damo22>the user agents are mostly bots
<damo22>they ignore robots.txt
<damo22>they probably use robots.txt as an index into more scraping possibilities
<nexussfan>If you are using Nginx try out https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/9flare
<rrq>the useragent text now typically includes an "AI name" like ChatGPT or Claude etc .. the accesses are performed via bot farms using hundreds or thousends of originating IP addresses
<rrq>all servers with server side computed pages suffer badly even though the access rate is slightly reduced nowadays
<DonjuanP->hi :)
<azeem>hrm, the PostgreSQL buildfarm animal reported corruption again during this night's test but unfortunately I forgot to re-enable that it keeps the buildtrees around after failures so it was automatically wiped, no way to analyze it :-/
<loveLain>how do i change the platform in autoconf's configure script? i know that --host cross compiles but it seems that the platform means something else, it says "configure: error: unsupported combination of cpu type 'x86_64' and platform 'default'" i am very unfamiliar with ac :(
<solid_black>this is a gnumach thing, not autoconf thing
<solid_black>see 'AC_ARG_ENABLE([platform],' in 'configure.ac'
<solid_black>so possibly '--enable-platform=at' might work
<loveLain>oh i guess the version of mach that is in the ftp does not have amd64 supported in the build script, or is the 1.8 version that debian's amd64 version uses a fork?
<solid_black>there is a version on the ftp server? :D
<solid_black>I don't think we really do releases
<solid_black>grab the Git version
<solid_black>x86_64 support was added to gnumach somewhere between late 2023 and early 2024, I think
<azeem>there was a 1.8 release, but it's been a while. Debian packages git snapshots
<azeem>FSVO "it's been a while", 10 years to be exact: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Hurd-0.9-Released
<solid_black>no, I'm off by a year, so 2022 to 2023