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AISimon Willisonabout 1 hour ago
Creepy crawliesAbusive crawlers consume more CPU cycles on git.kernel.org than all legitimate access combined, including git clones. Across 5 geo-distributed nodes, 14 CPU cores constantly render git commits as HTML for scrapers. The Linux kernel repository faces significant resource drain from this background radiation.
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