Subj : Re: Nifty desktop compari To : KY MOFFET From : Mike Powell Date : Sun Mar 30 2025 08:31:00 > > That's probably the reason: I have also noticed this week a few of my > > regular sites taking longer to load. > See "The Linux Experiment" channel on YT today. He talks about how > recently the AI crawlers are clogging up the works, to the point of > being a giant internet-wide DDOS attack. One outfit had to block all of > Brazil to shut down the excessive traffic. It's knocked some Gitlab > repositories offline, and is costing everyone a lot in bandwidth. I have also read headlines about how AI crawlers are hogging resources and causing trouble. :( That is ok, though, as soon they will be our overlords and we won't be allowed to access the internet anymore. :O Mike * SLMR 2.1a * It's the Bucket woman! She'll sing at me!!! --- SBBSecho 3.20-Linux * Origin: ILink: CCO - capitolcityonline.net (454:3/105) .