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		Sharlin on March 20, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companie... The brute-force solution to the first hard problem in computer science is to not have a cache at all.

mycall on March 20, 2025 [–]

Yet in these cases mentioned in the article, if they had an HTTP static cache version of each page, using git hooks to refresh them, the bots would be negligable to their services. That is assuming the bots use HTTP 80/443 instead of git 9418

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