any way of slowing things down or wasting resources is a gain I guess
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nepenthe
It's a Markov-chain-based text generator which could be difficult for people to implement on repos depending upon how they're hosting them. Regardless, any sensibly-built crawler will have rate limits. This means that although Nepenthe is an interesting thought exercise, it's only going to do anything to things knocked together by people who haven't thought about it, not the Big Big companies with the real resources who are likely having the biggest impact.
It's a three-pronged attack: Subliminal, liminal, and super-liminal