PSA: @TencentGlobal is aggressively scraping the Internet to build yet another AI slop chatbot, DDoSing many websites in the process.
We've found that, as of last week, their scraping bots can now solve Cloudflare challenges and behave like real users while ignoring robots.txt. In the last 24 hours alone, our website received more than 3 million successful requests from Tencent bot IP addresses, plus another 1 million that were blocked by Cloudflare challenges.
These recurring DDoS attacks from Tencent have been going on for over a year, and we have been constantly adjusting our firewall rules to filter them while trying not to impact Tencent's real users. Because that is no longer possible, we're now fully blocking Tencent IP addresses, starting with ASN 132203. We recommend other sysadmins do the same.
Other ASNs displaying similar abusive behaviour will also be fully blocked from our services.
We'd also like to thank @Cloudflare for sponsoring us with Project Alexandria as of 2025, giving our sysadmin the tools to keep RPCS3's online services running without service disruptions.
🔴🇮🇱🇱🇧🏰 ALERTE INFO — Israël a bombardé hier le château de Beaufort, joyau légendaire du Liban-Sud… et y a hissé son drapeau !
Un trésor historique de plus de 900 ans, protégé au plus haut niveau par l’UNESCO
“wym you didn’t start dating till your 20s i’ve been dating since middle school” ok so we are two different people who’ve lived two completely different lives
BREAKING: The proposed US-Iran peace deal includes a $300 billion reconstruction fund for Iran, per NYT.
The program is being called an international "investment fund," which the US would facilitate in the final deal.
This comes as Iran demands "reparations" to end the war.
Failure to vote for Israel at Eurovision is a sign of grave alarm and apparently warrants a Senate investigation in Australia.
Beyond parody at this point. They already eroded their free speech laws to protect Israel. Next: mandatory voting for Israel in song competitions.
“Let people enjoy things” started as “don’t go out of your way to shit on other peoples interests for no reason” but now it means “never criticize anything ever”
Sometimes shit just sucks
Peter Thiel has temporarily relocated his family to Argentina, enrolled his children in school there, and bought property, partly due to Thiel’s concerns about the United States’ future, per NYT.