Article note: Also delightful and hacky: zip bombs to punish aggressive web scrapers.
I feel like merging this technique with some of the LLM crawler traps would make for a lot of fun.
I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.