Dear #China, you have left me with no choice but to ban you from my entire network.

After months of scraping my Wikiless, Invidious, Nitter, Redlib and Forgejo, compromising the performance of my servers by requesting commits, blames, bulk PR changes, and even repeatedly cloning my repos over HTTPS, and even bypassing captchas and Anubis, all at peak rates of 20-25 requests/second, I have decided that I’m done.

See you again when you stop abusing the Internet.

And I don’t even know which network admin I should report these episodes of network abuse to, when the abuse comes from ALL the Chinese subnets (Huawei, Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, Unicom, and even networks allocated for mobile devices), and the desperate race to win the #AI war has apparently turned the whole country into a giant botnet.

6GB of nginx logs collected just on my Forgejo server only in the past week, from tens of thousands of Chinese IP addresses. At least I have a comprehensive list of subnets to blacklist.