Slow Login

[djensen]

I think we’re back in business.

Chinese bots hammering the site again.

[CentralCommando]

@djensen These fricking bots, man!

[djensen]

Lately, it’s been a non-bad actor crawling the site: Apple. I set up some rules to slow it down.

[Elrood]

@djensen „non-bad“ and „apple“ cannot be put together in a sentence in a syntactically sound way! 😉

[barnee]

@Elrood

hmm … maybe apple and china teamed up or well I guess they did a long time ago lol

Well, was able to finally get on the site. I use 8-10 sites a day and this is the only one that has this problem.

And it has it consistently

:)

[djensen]

Applebot strikes again. I’m rate limiting them more.

[Elrood]

@djensen do you know it’s purpose?

[djensen]

@Elrood Applebot? They’re probably training a foundation AI model. Officially it’s for Siri and Safari.

[Elrood]

@djensen oh… “great” :-/

[Elrood]

@djensen today site was unreachable starting 11am (New york Time) and at least for 2 hours … at least for me here in Europe.

If its really apple for some AI stuff… i imagine something like this:

“Siri, what happened to Japan in World War 2?”
AI bot searching the Interwebs
“According to numerous reports on A&A.org, the sea zone around Japan was under constant allied pressure but usually Japan just held out and let Germany win the war for them.”

[Elrood]

@djensen

could it be that the new “no bot” browser validation blocks TripleA’s Access to the forum as well?