Programmer, player of #Splatoon, #Doom, and other games. @zandronum dev and wiki maintainer. Afflicted by chronic pain and mush brain. 🇬🇧🏳️🌈
@nixCraft@mastodon.social Alibaba literally DDoS’d the @zandronum@mastodon.gamedev.place forums to the point it was difficult for us to ssh in to fix it. OpenAI’s crawler got stuck in a loop on our wiki while violating every clause of the license the wiki is under. Our bug tracker takes ages to update because of all the strain on the server. This shit is ridiculous.
@jlow I wrote a blog post about it a couple weeks ago with a list at the beginning: https://drinkybird.net/2025/03/back-to-x11/
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Let’s hope Wayland sees improvements by Plasma 7 then. Plasma’s implementation is solid, but it’s still limited by the Wayland protocol and ecosystem, which are just deficient enough to me that I can’t happily use it.
@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org I had my own run in with GPTbot spamming requests, falling into a recursive hole with desktop/mobile view links and sending malformed URLs:
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social yay I helped!
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social If that allows window position restoration, then Wayland is about to be usable for me…!