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Re:How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins by seism on Saturday June 29, 2024 @03:13AM (#40828448)
Also, when I saw the headline, I had to think of all the LLM scrapers and bots (soon to be running directly on your AIphone!) roaming the Interwebs.
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Re:How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins by quaintdev on Saturday June 29, 2024 @03:52AM (#40828584)
Just yesterday I blocked the bots from my blog using this[1]. Of course whether these bots respect robots.txt nowadays is a different question altogether

[1]: https://github.com/fardog/fardog.io/commit/b2e3eac838ea25209...

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Re:How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins by fartfeatures on Saturday June 29, 2024 @05:28AM (#40828954)
They do not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40759916
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