August 27 TCRF DDoS Attack Postmortem
blog.xkeeper.net12 points by panic 2 hours ago
12 points by panic 2 hours ago
This is why no one likes AI. It ruins wonderful passion project sites like this.
> I recently added a new feature to The Cutting Room Floor: If you visit the site with a “Claude-code” user agent… it adds you to a Claude user ban list. Then, if you try and visit the site later, without Claude — maybe because you wanted to investigate the “prompt injection” page it received — you’re greeted with a special error page telling you to get out
This guy sounds like he has spent way too much time online getting angry at imaginary enemies, and really needs to get outside and talk to some real people outside of his filter bubble.
I actually enjoy reading TCRF, so it’s unfortunate that the owner is apparently a terminally online insane person.
It's a pretty funny solution to slop bots, and it's clearly effective enough to upset the exact type of loser it's designed to reject.
The insane part is launching a DDoS attack because some guy online insulted your favorite toy.
I’d argue both sides are acting insane; there are no good guys in this story, only people who got way too worked up about software choices and started lashing out in inappropriate ways.