Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries - Ars Technica
AI bots hungry for data are taking down FOSS sites by accident, but humans are fighting back.| Ars Technica
A many years ago, the IF Archive existed, and it was an FTP site. It lived at ftp.gmd.de. That was a long time ago. (1992, but who's counting.) Slightly less long ago, the World Wide Web existed, and I said "I bet there could be a web mirror ...| Zarf Updates
AI bots hungry for data are taking down FOSS sites by accident, but humans are fighting back.| Ars Technica
How Cloudflare uses generative AI to slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and other bots that don’t respect “no crawl” directives.| The Cloudflare Blog
In October I wrote: This leaves me with two big IFTF roles: Treasurer and IF Archive lead. I'm happy with the IF Archive job; I figure I'll hold onto that for a while. But it's getting to be time to hand off the Treasurer job. I've been doing ...| Zarf Updates
