Techrights Be Like...

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 09, 2025

From Gopher yesterday: "I've been fighting with AI scrapers hitting my web server relentlessly for over a week now. It started just before the end of March, when I found out I was near my 1 /Terabyte/ bandwidth limit."/

Gotta go, bloatware.

K.I.S.S.

When the hype hits the bucket so will this nuisance. █

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