Re: Linux 7.2

c186282 <[email protected]> wrote:
>   And, as said, you can't STEAL Linux - so there's no POINT
>   in the pixie girl at all.

The pixie girl is there to *try* to halt the onslaught of the AI 
companies that do abjectly stupid things like download every version of 
linux on kernel.org from 0.0.1 through to 7.2 278 times a day, every 
day, times 75 AI companies to feed to their AI models.

I setup a really simple markov chain text generator as an AI honey pot 
on a server I admin and linked it to one, hidden (display: none; in the 
css) link on the page footer, with a robots.txt saying "don't access 
this link".

Turned it on last Sept 8 (2025).

As of just now when I checked, it has fed 7,160,636 nonsense "pages" 
into AI company's systems.

344 operating days.  20,815 accesses per day average.  For a web page 
that, if it is lucky, gets a low hundreds of accesses a day (and most 
of those from search indexers).

That's why the pixie girl is there on kernel.org.  You can like or 
dislike it, but the "burn" from the AI companies irresponsible accesses 
is the underlying cause.