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Alun Jones

pengfold@social.ty-penguin.org.uk

<p>Interested in programming, electronics, science, photography, retrocomputing. Bit of a geek, you could say.<br><br>This incarnation of me is self-hosted using GotoSocial.</p>

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    @zaire I&#39;m already compressing (and sending &quot;interestingly tweaked&quot; gzip, png and jpeg payloads for their pleasure). It&#39;s worth remembering, though, that decompression is typically less CPU-heavy than compression. If I&#39;m doing the compressing and they&#39;re doing the decompressing (and they&#39;re also able to deploy hundreds of thousands of machines to doing it) then they&#39;re always going to be able to exhaust my resources, be they bandwidth or CPU.

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    It had to happen, eventually. My AI crawler antagoniser, https://www.ty-penguin.org.uk/~auj/spigot/ has been seeing sustained traffic of between 300 and 500 thousand hits per hour. I&#39;ve not been particularly bothered by that, but a couple of days ago, my provider, @bitfolk, sent me a bandwidth warning: I&#39;m on track to hit 2TBytes of outbound bandwidth this month and end up paying for the excess. So I&#39;ve added firewalling - if more than 5% of machines in a /23 network hit spigot with...