u/Glade_Art

Original content btw, haha.

Scarecrow (DC Comics)

https://batman.fandom.com/wiki/Scarecrow

My most popular and oldest tar pit, gladeart (DOT) com/data-export has done over 30 million serves to bots in total, as of now. Gzip bomb pages like gladeart (DOT) com/saturn_strike are cool, but they just aren't popular among bot swarms because they aren't good for crawling. And that is why I came up with a solution:

When the pit hits over 2000 global RPMs, it becomes a gzip bomber, sending gzip bombs which are small for the server to upload, but very large to decompress. Under 2000 RPMs it functions normally as it has before. This new update just rolled out today.

It's just ideal because it's attractive to bots due to the attractive text in the tar pit, but then it switches to a gzip bomber for the next minute. And best of all, this happens during busy hours because of its mechanism.

Be careful if you go onto there as it may be busy and gzip bomb you, potentially causing the tab to crash. Btw, scraping some random site like this at 2000 requests per minute while rotating IPs aggressively to avoid rate-limiting is not respectful at all by any means, and they are also not listening to the robots.txt which explicitly disallows them from going into the pits. So I would consider these as bad bots that deserve to be gzip striked.

Thanks for reading!

Yeah so we RCers use these kind of fans for cooling off the motors and ESCs of RC cars. They're made for brutal air-flow and durability, not for efficiency or quietness. And these little beasts use up a lot of power, way too much for the Pi's board.
The CPU temp results:
~49c stabilized under long, max load.

I think a larger heat-sink would make a big difference, as this one is very tiny. I probably wouldn't recommend this kind of fan because they vibrate a lot, that might be a problem for the Pi over time.

With the current malware problem.

A fine addition to my collection: https://hatehub.net/racket/232e323

I just needed to drop it here so that it gets crawled, sorry about that!

You know what that is, and I'm going to be installing libreELEC on my current Raspberry Pi for the smooth-like-butter media playback.

https://www.arrma-rc.com/

Not really a modeler; I'm an animator for fun. I reuse the same models most of the time, so this 'workflow' isn't a problem for me to 'model' a model every once in a while when I need it.

4000 RPMs is the global cap for this specific tar pit. I already posted about it, so I don't want to repost; you can read that Reddit post here.

I just managed to get a video of an actually busy time in the pit, lol. It can literally go like this all day and all night, and that's how we have 14 million requests in that pit now. (Been about a million each day since the start of June).

Solid viewport mode, hence no actual textures. (Just a really lightweight texture preview). OC, Blender.

So yeah, 10 feet tall is already quite huge, but 12 feet is even more massive.

For reference, the knee hinge joints are as big around as the person's waist.

10 million requests hit in my oldest and most popular tar pit! Last month was kind of slow moving, and we were stuck on 9m for a while, but they picked back up again. (It's over 11m now btw; got 1m more in the past few days).

Here is a blog article giving some more information about the bot behaviours, log files for download, and such:

https://gladeart.com/blog/10-million-requests-in-my-bot-black-hole-here-is-some-information

This pit in particular: https://gladeart.com/data-export btw.

Thanks for reading!

Such a good movie. I thoroughly enjoyed it on the first time, and every re-watch.

Calf century actually. Gym-goers know why.

(Blender).

After almost 10 million requests in the past few months, the Glade Art tar pits seem to be slowing down for now. Perhaps they detected that the dozens of tar pit endpoints are endless or perhaps they started "blacklisting" the site. By slow I mean only about 10 requests per minute on average now. Either way, there is always a new bot swarm that arises later when things seem to slow down.

But anyways, I had a spare domain laying around unused, so what would be better than to create a dedicated tar pit site with it? And so a few weeks ago I deployed it. See it here: https://gladeart.com/go/1778469735274zGESWbV6i7pR-dPl7luNKr8Ls68jVuaiQ_NzhojhXdg

(Protected by the Glade Art PoW link protector).

So yeah, this site is a massive slop pit. Special thanks to the Poison Fountain as this uses some of its generated data for it. The site has been gaining traction and is currently my most trending tar pit. (Not of all time; only as of now).

The bots originally discovered it because I set up a redirect on one of the Glade Art tar pits to this site. I removed it now to not degrade its percieved value, and they continue coming to it as it must be in their database already.

Logs releasing soon once we hit 1 million requests in this new site, so stay tuned!

Glade Art tar pit #3 source code: https://doggydogdog.xyz:8443/glade_art/gro-tar-pit-text-generator

This new site's source code: https://doggydogdog.xyz:8443/glade_art/dedicated-tarpit-honeypot-bot-trap-site-source-code