[Barbing]

30/s is preposterous. Are these loser companies who don’t want to cache on their end or are they getting unique info per request or could it really be that many different origins or…?

[yjftsjthsd-h]

> Are these loser companies who don’t want to cache on their end

Google couldn't be bothered to cache; I would guess this before anything else.

https://drewdevault.com/blog/Google-has-been-DDoSing-sourceh...

[Barbing]

> each IP address still clones the same repositories 8-10 times per hour.

Dumb! When was this fixed and don’t say never :)

[inigyou]

That just sounds like a CI system. Surely almost every one of us is responsible for at least one CI process that doesn't cache dependencies.

[mkj]

There are a lot of urls for the bots to follow. Yesterday's logs had 2.2M unique URLs out of 2.7M requests (more unique than I was expecting!)

Typical traffic:

  https://hg.ucc.asn.au/dropbear-fuzzcorpus/annotate/default/fuzzer-preauth/23f6b74342011f35e657f06e9398ad339360d7e9 
  https://hg.ucc.asn.au/dropbear-fuzzcorpus/comparison/e67e5df225e5/fuzzer-verify/b5f57a2bb85ab7ef957e4979fd202b091de27bd8?revcount=8 
  https://hg.ucc.asn.au/dropbear-fuzzcorpus/log/72337e3dcccf/fuzzer-preauth_nomaths/6b1f390d26b08759983937727e10ab90aa7b03f2?revcount=15 
  https://hg.ucc.asn.au/dropbear-fuzzcorpus/log/4cdb539e4b20/fuzzer-preauth_nomaths/713e5cd4f73276f00a5d6685cc16d4565ad3815a?revcount=96 
  https://hg.ucc.asn.au/dropbear-fuzzcorpus/diff/tip/fuzzer-client_nomaths/540778ea81a915af6e898fd9658c5d9d6594c40a?revcount=128 
  https://hg.ucc.asn.au/dropbear-fuzzcorpus/diff/0ef1e51e583f/fuzzer-client/65ac44bdf4868866def70f40542dd1b5ca447310?revcount=30

(I've moved and kept the fuzz corpus now, but other viewvc repos were suffering similarly)

[psd1]

I have compiled a list of vibecoders who have impressed me with their consideration for other people. Here it is:

[inigyou]

None of the above. They're just really retarded bots. Nobody knows why they exist or what they gain from really stupid scraping.