This is super cool: Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle has published a ton of audio effects with a good permissive license.
> The Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle is Finland's public broadcaster and holds a large audiovisual archive. The archives also contain a great amount of sound effects which have been recorded during the last 70 years using various techniques.
freesound.org/people/YleArkist…
Freesound - YleArkisto
Freesound: collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers. Have you freed your sound today?freesound.org
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Very Human Robot
in reply to Jonathan Corbet • • •Are you using any captcha or cloud armor?
Jonathan Corbet
in reply to Very Human Robot • • •Edwin Török
in reply to Jonathan Corbet • • •I assume you won't be able to write much about the details of the defense, since that'll make it easier for the bots to circumvent the defenses?
Anubis: Web AI Firewall Utility | Anubis
anubis.techaro.lolAlexander S. Kunz
in reply to Very Human Robot • • •No Fate: Butlerian Jihad Now
in reply to Jonathan Corbet • • •> ...just in case anybody wonders why I have a rather dim view of the whole AI industry...
Me too. Because (and this is just another instance of it), the greed of the few destroy life as it was for the many.
Mans R
in reply to No Fate: Butlerian Jihad Now • • •Mike Taylor 🦕
in reply to Mans R • • •Eloy.
in reply to Mike Taylor 🦕 • • •warthog9
in reply to Jonathan Corbet • • •Bart Veldhuizen 🚀
in reply to Jonathan Corbet • • •Fazal Majid
in reply to Bart Veldhuizen 🚀 • • •@BartV @blenderartists
Who would have a motive to DDoS LWN or Blender? Other than Microsoft and Adobe, of course.
Most likely those IPs are from residential proxies so you can't do an easy filtering rule like "Block all IPs in AWS/GCP/Azure address spaces". There were revelations last week than half of all Smart TV apps include residential proxy SDKs.
Bradley M. Kühn
in reply to Fazal Majid • • •@fazalmajid
At SFC, we've been seeing the primary culprit is .cn IP numbers and Zuckerberg.
& I can confirm User-Agent is fiction, at least from those parties. robots.txt of course ignored.
Cc: @BartV @corbet @lwn @blenderartists
Jef Poskanzer
in reply to Bart Veldhuizen 🚀 • • •Michael Cook
in reply to Jonathan Corbet • • •I hate sites with only a paywall. I like open or your “open later” model far better.
But I’m surprised more sites haven’t gone paywall only at this point. How is anyone supposed to survive this?
(Longtime subscriber 👍)
Chris Samuel
in reply to Jonathan Corbet • • •ouch - fingers crossed for you all!
I wonder if this is related to weather.gov going down earlier (and forecast.weather.gov still being down), or just coincidence?
Nick Silkey 📻 N5ILK 🪓🪵 🪣💧
in reply to Jonathan Corbet • • •Jernej Simončič �
in reply to Jonathan Corbet • • •Andres
in reply to Jonathan Corbet • • •𝔅icyclet𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰
in reply to Jonathan Corbet • • •Inkscape also got heated today:
floss.social/@doctormo/1168259…
Martin Owens
2026-06-28 05:01:43
sergiodj
in reply to Jonathan Corbet • • •Bradley M. Kühn
in reply to Jonathan Corbet • • •Anyone scrapping to (re)train LLMs is a selfish capitalist who doesn't care who they inconvenience &/or hurt.
We've enough LLMs for the foreseeable future. None are as Free and Open as we'd like, but I'm sure it's not someone trying to build a truly #FOSS LLM that's DDoS'ing #LWN rn.
All new #LLM training should stop *immediately*; continuing now on training is unconscionable. If you work for a company that is still training, I urge you to resign in protest.
Cc: @lwn @Andres4NY
@corbet
#AI
bignose
in reply to Bradley M. Kühn • • •Agreed in the main, @bkuhn.
I imagine an obvious response is “if we don't keep putting *new* data into the #LLM, it will fall out of date”. As far as it goes, yes that's true.
To which I'd respond: so what, why is that so urgent? Why should the internet be degraded for that? Not enough to justify the hammering of websites, the bulldozing of consent, the active deception to pass blocks, the refusal to countenance anything except #Hyperscaler interests. Stop it all, now.
Bradley M. Kühn
in reply to bignose • • •Even more than whether it is urgent, & even whether or not you're pro or against *using* LLM-gen-AI, the world is still figuring out if these monstrosities they are useful *for* (if anything).
The ballyhoo is clearly wrong, but I also think those who say they are not useful for anything are also wrong.
We (humanity) need at least two years to even begin to understand what we have & what it's for. Let's pause and figure that out without capitalists in the driver's seat.
Alan Langford 🇨🇦🧤🧊摏
in reply to Jonathan Corbet • • •FLOSSbOxIN
in reply to Jonathan Corbet • • •Jonathan Corbet
Unknown parent • • •@kkarhan The problem it that it's *all* the ASNs. Probably even yours. These scrapers are built into apps and running on devices without the knowledge of their ostensible owners. Perhaps your phone is one of them.
Have a look at companies like Bright Data or opscloudio.com if you want to see how that sleazy business works.
OPS
opscloudio.comEric Zarowny
in reply to Jonathan Corbet • • •Jonathan Corbet
in reply to Eric Zarowny • • •Eric Zarowny
in reply to Jonathan Corbet • • •anyGould
in reply to Jonathan Corbet • • •Jonathan Corbet
Unknown parent • • •@kkarhan So if we get one hit on, say, an article written in 2010, do we go through that whole process? How do we know that that isn't the one case of a real human following a link of interest? And how do we send, say, two-million abuse reports without just ending up on the spam blacklists ourselves?
Absolutist solutions like that sound good, but lack practicality.
Dan York
in reply to Jonathan Corbet • • •Hopefully this news about the NetNut residential proxy platform will help diminish the attacks against @lwn - krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/fb…
When you first reported it, I shared it with a colleague involved with tracking residential proxies. They could see that lwn.net was showing up in some of the data they were getting about NetNut attacks.
FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet
krebsonsecurity.comJonathan Corbet
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