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Proof-of-work to protect lore.kernel.org and git.kernel.org against AI crawlers

I'm sad to say that we're following the lead of many others and putting in proof-of-work proxies into place to protect ourselves against "AI" crawler bots. Yes, I hate this as much as you, but all ...

I'm sad to say that we're following the lead of many others and putting in proof-of-work proxies into place to protect ourselves against "AI" crawler bots. @monsieuricon Don't set the difficulty above 5 or it becomes very mathematically unlikely for people to pass the challenge! @monsieuricon I mean, that's funny enough that I'm willing to implement geoip lookups to make it happen :)

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