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.

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    17 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.