dev_ric

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"On Saturday, Triplegangers CEO Oleksandr Tomchuk was alerted that his company’s e-commerce site was down. It looked to be some kind of distributed denial-of-service attack. in c/cybersecurity@fedia.io

[–] dev_ric@fosstodon.org 1 points 1 week ago

@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org GPTBot is the most aggressive content scraper I've come across in decades of server management. Totally ignores any crawl limits that you set in your robots.txt, and they operate on enough IPs to make even nginx configured rate limiting a bit futile.

You can, though, block them (and others) by their useragent string. Add this to your .htaccess to block both GPTBot and Claude, for example:

SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(ClaudeBot|GPTBot) BADBOTHAMMER
Deny from env=BADBOTHAMMER

Hoping for some advice on AI pathfinding terminology in c/gamedev@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[–] dev_ric@fosstodon.org 2 points 2 years ago

@teahands @gamedev you probably want to start by looking up A* pathfinding. Essentially it's just a way of calculating the shortest route between two places by scoring each adjacent tile from every other, based on how many hops it took to get there. Same maths however many adjacents you have so it should work for hex quite nicely. I'm 99.9% certain a YouTube search will explain better than I can...