The majority of the traffic on the web is from bots. For the most part, these bots are used to discover new content. These are RSS Feed readers, search engines crawling your content, or nowadays AI bo

The one-liner:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=10 | gzip -c > 10GB.gz

This is brilliant.

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
    574·
    7 hours ago

    The article writer kind of complains that they’re having to serve a 10MB file, which is the result of the gzip compression. If that’s a problem, they could switch to bzip2. It’s available pretty much everywhere that gzip is available and it packs the 10GB down to 7506 bytes.

    That’s not a typo. bzip2 is way better with highly redundant data.

    • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
      581·
      2 hours ago

      I believe he’s returning a gzip HTTP response stream, not just a file payload that the requester then downloads and decompresses.

      Bzip isn’t used in HTTP compression.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        11·
        4 hours ago

        Brotli is an option, and it’s comparable to Bzip. Brotli works in most browsers, so hopefully these bots would support it.

        I just tested it, and a 10G file full of zeroes is only 8.3K compressed. That’s pretty good, though a little bigger than BZip.