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AI bots are scraping my git server and slowing things down I hate the future so much leave me alone no one uses scheme anyway you're wasting your time

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@dthompson

What's your setup? Do you have a VPS or do you run your own machine?

The real question is: are they finding you because your IP is in a known range or are they just systematically trying every possible IP?

@monkey1 I use a vps on digital ocean. not sure how they found me, exactly, but links to my software are out there enough that it's easy to find. this could have been happening for a long time and I'm only noticing now. not sure, really.

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@dthompson

DO has banks of known IP addresses that they will visit.

I moved to sourcehut because I realised that I wasn't using my droplet for anything except hosting my website and for my git repositories.

It's cheaper and I don't have to manage my own machine. I also worried about DoS charge-backs on a DO droplet.

I wasn't willing to learn more about Nginx to make sure my instance was super tight.

Running a server is a moving target. Life is short.