lime with barcodescanlime@misc.name
Oct 18, 2026, 6:07 PMcould you do a bot tarpit that uses up loads of memory by sending specially crafted compressed content? iirc gzip's worst case memory usage isn't that bad but the bots probably support zstd
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- lime with barcodescanlime@misc.nameOct 18, 2026, 6:13 PM
this is only interesting if the bots are scraping text without running a browser but with something that has lenient memory limits on its decompressor. if the bot runs a whole browser there are easy ways to use lots of ram.
alexandra catalinacatalina@selfy.armyOct 18, 2026, 6:12 PM@scanlime i remember seeing this a while back https://ache.one/notes/html_zip_bomb
- lime with barcodescanlime@misc.nameOct 18, 2026, 6:15 PM
@catalina i think the ratio needs to be much higher to be effective but that's a good example for gzip