Ancestors

Written by Aaron on 2025-01-14 at 22:58

• KICKS DOOR DOWN*

Hey everyone! Hate AI web crawlers? Have some spare CPU cycles you want to use to punish them?

Meet Nepenthes!

https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes

This little guy runs nicely on low power hardware, and generates an infinite maze of what appear to be static files with no exit links. Web crawlers will merrily hop right in and just .... get stuck in there! Optional randomized delay to waste their time and conserve your CPU, optional markovbabble to poison large language models.

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Written by Aaron on 2025-01-15 at 01:50

Whelp, this blew past my most viral post so far, one which took three days, in about three hours.

It's almost like people hate this AI shit.

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Toot

Written by Richard Webb on 2025-01-15 at 08:59

@aaron A site I support and contribute to is the n a near permanent state of near DoS because of these things. It keeps going by shutting down parts of the site when stressed

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Descendants

Written by Aaron on 2025-01-15 at 14:32

@Fasgadh That is one use case I hope to support. It could easily be plugged into fail2ban or blocklistd but that hasn't happened yet.

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