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   Carl Schwan :kde: (carl@kde.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 04:41:57 JST Carl Schwan :kde:

   If LLM/AI companies could maybe stop DDoS-ing git forges from open-source communities for five minutes, that would be just amazing.

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     Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora: (conan_kudo@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 04:41:52 JST Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora:

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     • Emmanuele Bassi

     @ebassi @carl Fedora Infrastructure has been regularly down for weeks because AI scrapers. I'm so frustrated. 😦

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     Emmanuele Bassi (ebassi@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 04:41:53 JST Emmanuele Bassi

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     @carl we literally had to put a proof-of-work reverse proxy in front of the GNOME gitlab instance to mitigate AI scrapers leaving about 10% of the available resources to the people actually using gitlab. It's a disaster.

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     Carl Schwan :kde: (carl@kde.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 23:12:58 JST Carl Schwan :kde:

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     • Niccolò Venerandi

     And nice summary from @niccolove about the current situation https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/

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     Carl Schwan :kde: (carl@kde.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 23:12:59 JST Carl Schwan :kde:

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     Drew DeVault put it nicely https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html

     Gianmarco Gargiulo repeated this.