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

Not my article. Just sharing.

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[–] 94 points 1 year ago (14 children)

All this effort to block clankers? Absolutely worth it fuck clankers.

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    I absolutely love the term clankers. It's the perfect blend of dystopian cyberpunk and the very real threat of AI.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (12 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.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    toasters

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    So say we all.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year 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.

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