Is Free and Open Software Under Attack?

LLMs reluctance to follow common web etiquette has forced free and open software's webmasters to shift the way that they deal with user traffic on their websites. The game is Cook, Serve, Delicious 2: get it over on steam at: https://store.steampowered.com/app/386620/Cook_Serve_Delicious_2/ Sources: Nap machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbUO0Ou8Cho Tractor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMo5B0OuOmU Reel mower https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V17ayucCvUI The original article I read: https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2025/spring/defending-savannah-from-ddos-attacks The Libre's article on the subject: https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/ Learn more about software freedom! https://gnu.org/ https://fsf.org/ https://sourcehut.org/ https://www.gnome.org/ https://kde.org/ https://anubis.techaro.lol/ https://ipset.netfilter.org/ https://www.fsf.org/about/ways-to-donate/ Links! Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Lazarwolfe0 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lazarwolfe0 X (formerly Twitter) : https://x.com/_Lazarwolfe TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lazarwolfe0 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lazarwolfe_games/ 0:00 AI is a tool 0:25 There's still issues though 0:40 Scraping of FOSS repos 1:10 robots.txt 1:40 There's not enough money to go around 2:40 Some Affected Projects 3:01 A Totally Accurate Account on how LLMs Work 3:37 The Cost of Scraping 3:56 False Bug Reports 4:26 Tinfoil Hat Time 5:11 A Couple of Solutions 5:23 Anubis 5:55 Lose the Anime Girl! 6:11 ipset 6:33 You can help! 6:57 Donate to the FSF! 7:06 Sign-off