Post #3828993
2026-06-28 20:59 UTC
@corbet@social.kernel.org @lwn@fedi.lwn.net same on @blenderartists@mastodon.art right now with up to 3.7M requests/hour. Looks more like a DDoS in our case than AI scraping though (which I suspected at first)
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@fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net 2026-06-29 00:18
@BartV@mastodon.social @corbet@social.kernel.org @lwn@fedi.lwn.net @blenderartists@mastodon.art Who would have a motive to DDoS LWN or Blender? Other than Microsoft and Adobe, of course. Most likely those IPs are from residential proxies so you can't do an easy filtering rule like "Block all IPs in AWS/GCP/Azure address spaces". There were revelations last week than half of all Smart TV apps include residential proxy SDKs.
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@jef@mastodon.social 2026-06-29 03:39
@BartV@mastodon.social @corbet@social.kernel.org @lwn@fedi.lwn.net @blenderartists@mastodon.art What's the difference?