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   Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 11:59:18 JST Jonathan Corbet
   So I guess I'm famous now :)
   
   https://www.heise.de/en/news/AI-bots-paralyze-Linux-news-site-and-others-10252162.html
   
   To be clear, LWN has never "crashed" as a result of this onslaught. We'll not talk about what happened after I pushed up some code trying to address it...
   
   Most seriously, though: I'm surprised that this situation is surprising to anybody at this point. This is a net-wide problem, it surely is not limited to free-software-oriented sites. But if the problem is starting to get wider attention, that is fine with me...
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     Account: Computers (pro@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 22:13:18 JST Account: Computers

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     @corbet So, what's the downside to going login-only? Most social media and news sites are like that these days. Pure nostalgia for the wide-open Internet is not a good enough reason. We used to have http: at one point too, but we moved on. Do you reap anything from that openness?