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Jim’s server is getting hammered by AI scrapers and he’s big mad about it, why RCS doesn’t work on Android without Google apps, a complex Google account issue, and how Jim and Allan handle their WireGuard configs.
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Network Offload and Socket Splicing (SO_SPLICE) in FreeBSD
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Jim hit by AI scrapers
Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%
80% of Web Traffic Is Bots — The Hidden Cost of AI Scraping
Threat Spotlight: The good, the bad, and the ‘gray bots’ – the Gen AI scraper bots targeting your web apps
An AI Scraping Tool Is Overwhelming Websites With Traffic
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