Technology@lemmy.world · 7 months ago

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Technology@lemmy.world · 7 months ago

The majority of the traffic on the web is from bots. For the most part, these bots are used to discover new content. These are RSS Feed readers, search engines crawling your content, or nowadays AI bo

The one-liner:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=10 | gzip -c > 10GB.gz

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Brotli gets it to 8.3K, and is supported in most browsers, so there’s a chance scrapers also support it.

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