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FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies (thelibre.news)

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The bots scrape costly endpoints like the entire edit histories of every page on a wiki. You can't always just cache every possible generated page at the same time.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Of course you can. This is why people use CDNs.

Put the entire site on a CDN with a cache of 24 hours for unauthenticated users.

this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2025

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