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@mvc1095 @monsieuricon i wish *they* could *not* get away with this. crawlers are essentially doing large scale copyright infringement, if not criminal, large scale DOS attacks. how can we even let this happen? WP, one of the largest sites on the internet, has seen a 50% rise in bandwidth usage, that's nonsense https://mastodon.social/@camwilson/114267595008201156 we need to organise a collective response to this, individually putting up what are essentially CAPTCHAs is not a fix.

@mvc1095 @monsieuricon that said i don't want to target kernel.org here, you do what you have to do, and i suspect we (torproject.org) will have to do the same, at least for our gitlab instance, as we're seeing increased load as well. but damnit, we shouldn't individualize this problem, this is a collective issue. together we stand.

@Anarcat @mvc1095 @monsieuricon If you need help with that, please email me@xeiaso.net. I can also get you in touch with the artist I commissioned for the mascot design to get Anubis wearing a Tor hoodie or something.

@monsieuricon Can you also email me?

Also if you're looking for devops people in Canada I'm on the market :)

@yura @monsieuricon @cadey @mvc1095 i'd take an ASCII art version ;) (more seriously, i am not sure i'm ready to put (another) javascript gate in front of our servers, and i was informed that our load issue might come from inside anyways :p, but thanks for the offer!)

@Anarcat @yura @monsieuricon @mvc1095 It's no problem! Tor was critical to my free web browsing in my youth (I proxied Tor over XMPP to get around an iBoss set up by conservatives). I've always wanted to contribute back and it'd be exceptionally hilarious if that ended up happening this way.

@cadey @mvc1095 @monsieuricon @yura this is already pretty hilarious, and your contribution to our entire community is already felt tremendously. thank you. :)