303
How to Build a Powerful Reverse Proxy Firewall for Blocking the Evil Web-Scraping Robot Hordes from Hell
(cheapskatesguide.org)
this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2025
303 points (99.0% liked)
Selfhosted
51205 readers
506 users here now
A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.
Rules:
-
Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.
-
No spam posting.
-
Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.
-
Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.
-
Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).
-
No trolling.
Resources:
- selfh.st Newsletter and index of selfhosted software and apps
- awesome-selfhosted software
- awesome-sysadmin resources
- Self-Hosted Podcast from Jupiter Broadcasting
Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.
Questions? DM the mods!
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I absolutely love the term clankers. It's the perfect blend of dystopian cyberpunk and the very real threat of AI.
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.
toasters
So say we all.
so say we all
All of this has happened before.
does that mean we get to burn down textile mills?
I'm still trying to make 'sloppers' happen. Perfectly describes the lack of thought that goes into what they produce.
I like 'sloppers' as a term for the morons distrubing and consuming the shit that the clankers are excreting.
clankers make the end result that sloppers (meatbags) eat up ;)
Yeah and the make a mess of network traffic that slows everything down.
Sludgers works too, but I like slop for the LLM output, so it makes sense as the bot term of derision.
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.
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.
No no - it’s not plagiarism; it’s standardization.