Subj : Nifty desktop compari
To   : Ky Moffet
From : Barry Martin
Date : Sun Mar 30 2025 07:07:00


Hi Ky!

 >   KM> Was fine yesterday, but I've noticed a whole swath of internet is
 >   KM> slow right now, even by my standards. Something busted somewhere
 >   KM> among the backbones, likely reroutes different depending where
 >   KM> you call what from where.
 > That's probably the reason: I have also noticed this week a few of my
 > regular sites taking longer to load.
 KM> See "The Linux Experiment" channel on YT today. He talks about
 KM> how recently the AI crawlers are clogging up the works, to the
 KM> point of being a giant internet-wide DDOS attack. One outfit had
 KM> to block all of Brazil to shut down the excessive traffic. It's
 KM> knocked some Gitlab repositories offline, and is costing everyone
 KM> a lot in bandwidth.

And I was reading the new crawlers ignore the "do not enter" command 
many websites have.  Not that wasn't ignored some with the previous 
generation, just seemed more like following a gentleman's agreement type
of thing.  

I read "Not Always Right" (from my retail days - misery loves company!)
and noticed comments were unavailable == normally don't bother with the 
comments -- they or someone must have disconnected Discus <sp> for that 
reason.



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