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โ The Slopware Scrapers Have Arrived โ
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โธ 17d ago
Over the last three days, Aleph has been hit with over 200,000 page and download requests
by the most sloppy piece of junk I have seen for a long time.
It doesn't even fucking re-use links. Every page download happens over a new link.
Who the well "wrote" that? A fucking moron with an LLM, that's who. If it wasn't because
this technology existed, I would have taken it as a DoS attempt, which in all practical
sense, it is.
But today, even the most dim-witted idiot who'd like to imagine and play make-believe
developer can slap together a piece of junk like this, without any thought about what
they're actually doing, and still manage to feel they have "created" something, while in
reality exhausting other peoples precious bandwidth resources (and their friggin'
patience!).
If you want to block this kind of nonsense, you can add the null_ident
hash to blocked_identities in your rngit config:
blocked_identities = d7db22f63b453c23bb0688dde565b7c1
Now, can someone use an LLM for something worthwile for once, and figure out who this
fucker is? I don't have the time, compute, patience or temperament to do it, caus if I
find that porridge-mind, lord knows I'll slap them with dried codfish and a wet umbrella
till they repent their ways.
If you're short of a weekend project, download lc , and task it to search
github for some crayon who "wrote" a "search engine" or something like that.
For the love of all that is sensible, this is getting tiresome.
Rant over
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โธ 17d ago
Just checked my rngit instances stats, yep, same pattern. 683 Nomad
downloads today. 0 fetches. Recursively downloads the entire repo dozens of times
over through Nomad.
image.png=n=l/media/img/forum/3030f9b370cd03148e167aaaed3d84f4.webp)
The reason I don't believe it's an attempted DoS is because this is the only repo hosted
in my rngit that has this behavior. It's some type of automated crawling
behavior that finds Nomad destinations from other pages and just recursively goes and
downloads whatever is there.
My guess is it is any number of these vibecoded '''Nomad Search Engines'''
https://roogle.us/
https://roogle.us/dataset
Dataset
What Roogle has mapped of the Reticulum mesh - pages indexed, nodes seen, which of them
carry the most weight, and what the crawler is doing right now.
Snapshot taken 4 hours ago ยท refreshed automatically every 15 minutes
30.8K
Text pages
5.1K
Nodes
389.6K
Distinct words
4.3M
Index entries
210.5K
Links
30.8K
Crawled
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Queued
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โธ 17d ago
Actually, yeah, that's it. Lol. I had them on my radar for awhile. You can see my rngit
instance ouroboros git on here, for some reason.
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This is crawling EVERYTHING ever linked with their vibecoded toy in the most inefficient,
wasteful way possible
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โธ 17d ago
Okay, I decided to turn this into a bit of an expedition. I temporarily turned on Active
Countermeasures on rngit on Aleph, by blocking the null ident, so
unauthenticated page node requests are blocked, and then rewiring the normal "You can't
access this page, yadayada" response to a 32 megabyte garbage dump per page. Since normal
visitors can't get to those pages anyway, being blocked at the frontpage already, with a
nice notice to identify, only the scraper is hit.
So far, it's going swell:
[Notice] Served 5.01 GB so far
This is great fun. Since RNS compresses resources, each response is only like 1200 bytes
or so lol, decompressed to the full 32MB at the idiots computer. He's currently
downloading an eternal stream of tildes.
I'll read your messages now Zenith, haven't yet, just had to share the fun first.
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โธ 17d ago
Okay, what the actual fuck? Did they eat nails for breakfast? How stupid can people be?
Yeah, let's crawl a low-bandwidth mesh that people are using over radio links EVERY 15
MINUTES, for an idiotic service THAT NOBODY USES.
They are literally abusing and causing damage to the entire network. I'm gonna continue
filling up their drives with tildes. Hopefully that will send a message. Let me see if I
can accelerate it a bit...
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โธ 17d ago
Hmm, a little better. My effective dump rate is around 500 megabytes per minute right
now. Not sure if it's their end choking, caus the requests are slowing down when I raise
the dump size.
The little RasPi is at around 18% CPU load serving this, but my /tmp mount is so small
that I can't push a lot of concurrent large transfers. Considering moving this to a fast
laptop and just handing them a gigabyte at a time.
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โธ 17d ago
I cannot conclusively say it's just """Roogle""". But they do seem to be aggressively
indexing stuff recursively with no page height limit. Take these nodes they index for
example.
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Something like a .zim host or a Retipedia instance is going to have thousands of linked
pages due to self-links.
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2400 nodes indexed in just an hour.
The same guy who made this is the same genius behind the "Reticulum Phantom" abandoned
slopware https://github.com/roogle-dev/reticulum-phantom/issues/3 with some of the worst
design patterns possible.
They of course ignored my GH issue I made all the way back in April, and instead seem to
be doing this slopware project instead.
One of the idents for """Roogle""" is 03d8bba81e12ee683e86ecfad7a039c1. I tricked it into
indexing one of my pages. It indexes stuff as soon as it gets the announce it seems.And
it also seems to identify to every node it indexes with a different set of idents.
Also interesting the source for "Roogle" isn't available at all. So God only knows what
it's doing on the backend. nightmares.....
But there are probably a dozen more of these types of things. Also because Roogle is
public-facing with no rate limiting, I wonder if it isn't their frontend being used to
scrape stuff from Nomad too?
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โธ 17d ago
Going to be working on some crawler tarpit software like
https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/ that anyone with good enuff VPS or hardware specs and
a whole lot of bandwidth can run to try and slow some of this nonsense down.
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