@phnt @ins0mniak

> hammer my Gitea instance with requests for every file in most repos and asking for every revision of those files.

Complete retards.

I was talking about this a while ago, like, they love git repos. People make these complex tarpits for AI but all you have to do is just run cgit somewhere.

> when they didn't receive a response in time (obvious when you are sending ~15r/s to a small server), they just closed the connection and tried again in 30 minutes while still scraping other files.

Fucking assholes.

> Claude on the other hand completely ignores the meta tag and robots.txt,

Are they one of the ones that tries the "/ai.txt" or something or do they just fucking scrape?

> They send requests for issues with numbers in the thousands and never stop when literally all of them return a 404.

Oh, I think they queue it up and then don't even notice until the queue is empty. I ended up just killing off their IPs, but because I also had to wipe the logs (media.fse ran out of space on /var) I can't check if they did.