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How to Build a Powerful Reverse Proxy Firewall for Blocking the Evil Web-Scraping Robot Hordes from Hell (cheapskatesguide.org)

submitted 9 months ago by kjo@discuss.tchncs.de to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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My goals for this firewall were mostly to provide better robot blocking and perhaps some more powerful DDoS protection than my Raspberry Pi 3 web server is capable of delivering. I still have to do some testing before I will know if my new firewall actually provides either of those, but at least I now have the additional ability to run multiple physical web servers on my LAN. Exploring that should be fun, and fun is a very important component of running a home web server.

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[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It seems goofy to me — I wish we had collectively picked a term with more oomph.

I’m struggling to come up with an alternative though.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

toasters

[–] massacre@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So say we all.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

so say we all

[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

All of this has happened before.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

does that mean we get to burn down textile mills?

[–] addie@feddit.uk 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I'm still trying to make 'sloppers' happen. Perfectly describes the lack of thought that goes into what they produce.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 11 points 9 months ago

I like 'sloppers' as a term for the morons distrubing and consuming the shit that the clankers are excreting.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

clankers make the end result that sloppers (meatbags) eat up ;)

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah and the make a mess of network traffic that slows everything down.

Sludgers works too, but I like slop for the LLM output, so it makes sense as the bot term of derision.

[–] mhague@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Stealing a slur from Star Wars and engaging in traditional name calling to show we disapprove of uncreative slop.

We can't even think of an original term. We can't think of a novel way to shit on AI. We just copy what everyone else is doing to make fun of the plagiarism machine.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 7 points 9 months ago

Why does everyone think the term came from Star Wars? I know it was used in steampunk before then, and google suggests it goes back to a 1958 article about robots. Sorry, not trying to be pedantic, just feels like a lot of people give Star Wars unjust credit for things they didn't actually create.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago

No no - it’s not plagiarism; it’s standardization.