On 2026-03-23 14:02:52, onefang wrote:
> On 2026-03-04 14:31:13, onefang wrote:
> > So for the last week you may have noticed every now and then something
> > with a user agent resembling "apt-panopticon version 0.0 rewrite, using
> > LuaSocket 3.0.0" trying to download some pages. Eventually it'll replace
> > the current apt-panopticon instances.
>
> I'm leaving that new rewrite running all day now. Haven't put the
> resulting web page up anywhere yet, but it is logging changes to package
> mirrors an our #devuan-mirror IRC channel.

Latest news about the AI bots attacking our mirrors.

They tend to get more aggressive if they think you are trying to hide
things it found before, like all those non Devuan things that are not on
our deb.devuan.org mirrors.

I've now coined the term "AI rAIge bAIt" to describe the sorts of things
that cause that aggression. There are other things.

Personally they are currently attacking my cgit server. I've mostly moved
things to a bare git server with no web front end.

I mentioned before my Devuan rsync script, it's now at -

http://sledjhamr.org/var/lib/baregit/devuan_package_mirror_sync.git

Anything else also moved from http://sledjhamr.org/var/lib/cgit/ to
http://sledjhamr.org/var/lib/baregit/

Now I just gotta wait a week for the bots to notice it's not there and
slow down their scanning to mere noise, like what happened when I did
something similar to my issue tracker. I replaced that with the nyaw
wiki system I'm writing for Devuan.