Notices by Mythic Beasts (beasts@social.mythic-beasts.com)

Another large language model scraper blocked. This graph is from a site which runs a tool generating answers for people doing important research work. The AI scraper sent hundreds of thousands of lookup requests evading rate limits by using about a thousand IPs and pinned multiple webservers at 100% CPU (graph from one attached). This is a massive waste of electricity to train a hallucination machine.

@alyx we have lots that only have IPv6 address on the server itself, but use NAT64 to get out to IPv4 only instances, and a https proxy inbound so v4 only instances can federate with us. We salute your purism!

MastodonEngineering - @MastodonEngineering

>We just released important security patches for version 4.2..

That changed some of our priorities for the afternoon. We now have a lot of copies of mastodon4.2.6 running.

Always happy to manage more mastodons on behalf of people who are bored of applying updates. sales@mythic-beasts.com

Upgrading to 4.0.2 of mastodon significantly dropped memory consumption on our @Raspberry_Pi 4 running the instance. CPU seems slightly down too.