The "app" isn't even capitalized, which is my favorite part!

Yes. There are numerous fresh accounts being created to flood this very thread.

Can't help but wonder if that's a strategy that works until it doesn't.

I'd rather get nothing, because a thoughtless blob of text being pushed on me is insulting. Nothing, otoh, is just peace and quiet.

Is that machine also going to be segmented on a private VLAN?

Or this behavior is just programmed, the old fashioned way.

This is one of the things that’s so frustrating about the AI hype. Yes there are genuinely things these tools can do that couldn’t be done before, mostly around language processing, but so much of the automation work people are putting them up to just isn’t that impressive.

But it’s precisely the automation around LLMs that make the end result itself impressive.

If you want to use the internet, you need an IP address.

You can share that IP address by putting multiple hosts on the same local network and using parts of the transport later. NAT was invented because of lacking enough addresses.

CGNAT is a guarantee that you have plausible deniability on the internet. NAT is also a guarantee that you are not addressable from the internet.

It’s a feature.

Until it isn't.

If I want to send you a message (an email), I have to go through some other party.

If I want to see what my home security cameras show, I have to go though some other party.

Hacker News was borderline insufferable during the 2022/23 NFT craze when all the startups, investments, and headlines were going into whatever new disruption NFTs/blockchain were allegedly going to cause.

At least with AI I do get some value out of asking Gemini questions. But I hardly need or want my web browser to be a chatbot interface.

I have a site with a complete and accurate sitemap.xml describing when its ~6k pages are last updated (on average, maybe weekly or monthly). What do the bots do? They scrape every page continuously 24/7, because of course they do. The amount of waste going into this AI craze is just obscene. It's not even good content.

It would be interesting if someone made a map that depicts the locations of the ip addresses that are sending so many requests, over the course of a day maybe.

If you are in the US, have you considered suing them for robot.txt / copyright violation? AI companies are currently flush with cash from VCs and there may be a few big law firms willing to fight a law suit against them on your behalf. AI companies have already lost some copyright cases.

Based upon traffic you could tell whether an IP or request structure is coming from a not, but how would you reliability tell which company is DDOSing you?

It should be at least theoretically possible: each IP address is assigned to an organisation running the IP routing prefix, and you can look that up easily, and they should have some sort of abuse channel, or at the very least a legal system should be able to compel them to cooperate and give up the information they’re required to have.

Or just 'mv ~ /dev/null'