EDIT 3: I have Anubis installed and configured the way I want now. I would recommend it, the .deb works great. Don't forget to set POLICY_FNAME like I did

cool, the LLM scrapers have found my #Gitea instance

anybody have advice about how to keep the bastards at bay? I would love to run Anubis, but I don't want to introduce Docker to this server.

EDIT: It seems that Anubis is now shipping a .deb, so I'll give that a shot.

They even use protecting a Gitea instance as their base-case in the docs

https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/native-install/

EDIT 2: setting up Anubis was pretty simple. I can't seem to get challenges issued even to the `minimal-suspicion` threshold, but I do see challenges issued against the abusive requests, so I should be okay now.