@@ -10,17 +10,18 @@ is going to remind me exactly how important consent is, or remind me how easy it
is to lose sight over how much influence any individual has over another."""
+++
As I sit here trying to write this intro, I wonder how many more times someone
is going to remind me exactly how important consent is, or remind me how easy it
is to lose sight over how much influence any individual has over another. In
addition to how easy it is to miss the connections between some action and it's
outcome; the more layers of indirection required as any system increase in size,
the harder it becomes to even describe how, or who plays which part. The ease at
which anyone might forget, or how the difficulty grows as the system becomes
more complex, doesn't seem to be the part that irks me. Sadly, the more I look
for it, the more I see software engineers, or the systems they drive, ignore
consent. This is bad, and collectively we should be embarrassed enough to do
something.
As I sit here attempting to decide what exactly belongs in this intro, I wonder
how many more times someone is going to remind me exactly how important consent
is, or remind me how easy it is to lose sight over how much influence any
individual has over another. In addition to how easy it is to miss the
connections between some action and it's outcome; the more layers of indirection
required as any system increase in size, the harder it becomes to even describe
how, or who plays which part. The ease at which anyone might forget, or how the
difficulty grows as the system becomes more complex, doesn't seem to be the part
that irks me. Sadly, the more I look for it, the more I see software engineers
directly or indirectly though the systems they drive, ignore consent because
it's expedient. This is bad, and collectively we should be embarrassed enough to
do something.
Opinions differ[^difficulty] on what exactly counts as consent. I'd venture to
guess it gets even more complicated when it comes to software. I'm sure that
@@ -145,8 +146,8 @@ service[^srctree]. This isn't how consent is support to work!
I almost feel bad for the above. It does seem to imply I'm blaming sr.ht here
for failing to obtain consent. But that's entirely inaccurate. Source hut is
playing fair. The splash screen while my computer wastes energy and cpu cycles
for no other reason than "why not[^LLM power]", is totally within the
playing fair. Showing the splash screen while my computer wastes energy and cpu
cycles for no other reason than "why not[^LLM power]", is totally within the
reasonability, and does seem to be fair in requesting consent; even though I
refused. The problem with the missing consent are the bots.
@@ -168,11 +169,12 @@ crawling/scraping and consent over access is concerned.
The ones violating the rules for consent are these.
```
43.128.149.102 - [03/Apr/2025:15:48:20 +0000] "GET /repo/dns/commit/43edea6e HTTP/1.1" 200 932 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 13_2_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0.3 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1"
34.145.110.128 - [05/Apr/2025:18:03:29 +0000] "GET /repo/srctree/tree/srcapi HTTP/2.0" 200 1650 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
34.83.184.238 - [05/Apr/2025:16:31:18 +0000] "GET /repos/gak/issues HTTP/2.0" 200 494 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/117.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
35.197.78.148 - [05/Apr/2025:16:31:52 +0000] "GET /repo/mqtt/diffs/new HTTP/2.0" 200 639 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
35.203.140.140 - [05/Apr/2025:16:55:49 +0000] "GET /repo/srctree/issues/d HTTP/2.0" 200 564 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
43.128.149.102 - "GET /repo/dns/commit/43edea6e HTTP/1.1" 200 932 "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 13_2_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0.3 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1"
34.145.110.128 - "GET /repo/srctree/tree/srcapi HTTP/2.0" 200 1650 "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
34.83.184.238 - "GET /repos/gak/issues HTTP/2.0" 200 494 "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/117.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
35.197.78.148 - "GET /repo/mqtt/diffs/new HTTP/2.0" 200 639 "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
35.203.140.140 - "GET /repo/srctree/issues/d HTTP/2.0" 200 564 "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
114.250.44.111 - "HEAD /repo/n_e_s.git/commit/06fc04b5 HTTP/1.1" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36"
```
I've created and now published [nft rules](https://srctree.gr.ht/repo/rules) for