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Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

Arnavion wrote: post #102
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly I am okay with anime catgirls since I just find it funny but still it would be cool to see linux related stuff. Imagine mr tux penguin gif of him racing in like supertuxcart for the linux website. sourcehut also uses anubis but they have removed the anime catgirl thing with their own logo, I think disroot also does that I am not sure though

Sourcehut uses go-away, not Anubis.

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2025-04-15-you-cannot-have-our-us...

> As you may have noticed, SourceHut has deployed Anubis to parts of our services to protect ourselves from aggressive LLM crawlers.

Its nice that sourcehut themselves have talked about it on their own blog but I had discovered this through the anubis website themselves showcases or soemthing like that iirc.

Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Post by s1mplicissimus »

throw84a747b4 wrote: post #74
gruez wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Not only is Anubis a poorly thought out solution from an AI sympathizer [...] But the project description describes it as a project to stop AI crawlers? > Weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests to stop AI crawlers

Why would a company that wants to stop AI crawlers give talks on LLMs and diffusion models at AI conferences? Why would they use AI art for the first Anubis mascot until GitHub users called out the hypocrisy on the issue tracker? Why would they use Stable Diffusion art in their blogposts until Mastodon and Bluesky users called them out on it?

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Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Post by turtletontine »

qualeed wrote: post #98
sugarpimpdorsey wrote: post #93

Every time I see one of these I think it's a malicious redirect to some pervert-dwelling imageboard. On that note, is kernel.org really using this for free and not the paid version without the anime? Linux Foundation really that desperate for cash after they gas up all the BMW's?

It's crazy ( especially considering anime is more popular now than ever; netflix alone is making billions a year on anime) that people see a completely innocent little anime picture and immediately think "pervent-dwelling imageboard".

Even if the images aren’t the kind of sexualized (or downright pornographic) content this implies… having cutesy anime girls pop up when a user loads your site is, at best, wildly unprofessional. (Dare I say “cringe”?) For something as serious and legit as kernel.org to have this, I do think it’s frankly shocking and unacceptable.

Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Post by nemothekid »

rnhmjoj wrote: post #29
WesolyKubeczek wrote: post #19

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You should read more. AI companies use residential proxies and mask their user agents with legitimate browser ones, so good luck blocking that.

Which companies are we talking about here? In my case the traffic was similar to what was reported here[1]: these are crawlers from Google, OpenAI, Amazon, etc. they are really idiotic in behaviour, but at least report themselves correctly. [1]: https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/17342163

OpenAI/Anthropic/Perplexity aren't the bad actors here. If they are, they are relatively simply to block - why would you implement an Anubis PoW MITM Proxy, when you could just simply block on UA?

I get the sense many of the bad actors are simply poor copycats that are poorly building LLMs and are scraping the entire web without a care in the world

Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Post by Borg3 »

Oh, its time to bring Internet back to humans. Maybe its time to treat first layer of Internet just as transport. Then, layer large VPN networks and put services there. People will just VPN to vISP to reach content. Different networks, different interests :) But this time dont fuck up abuse handling. Someone is doing something fishy? Depeer him from network (or his un-cooperating upstream!).

Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Post by johnnyanmac »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #80
throw84a747b4 wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would a company that wants to stop AI crawlers give talks on LLMs and diffusion models at AI conferences? Why would they use AI art for the first Anubis mascot until GitHub users called out the hypocrisy on the issue tracker? Why would they use Stable Diffusion art in their blogposts until Mastodon and Bluesky users called them out on it?

I am not again AI art completely since I think of it as an editing instead of art itself. My thoughts on AI art are nuanced and worth discussing some other day, lets talk about the author of anubis/story of anubis So, I hope you know the entire story behind Anubis, firstly they were hosting their own git server (I think?) and amazon's ai related department was basically ddosing their server in some sense by trying to…

> My thoughts on AI art are nuanced and worth discussing some other day

If the argument is all this AI support for an anti-AI crawler, I don't think it's a good argument to ignore it.

and as long as the 3C's aren't followed, there's no subtly here. You don't get to use "edited" art in a commercial product except in fair use cases.

>Stop whining about free projects/labour man.

Yes, I'm sure this sort of argument is coming from someone with very subtle and nuanced thoughts. "Free" ruined the internet very quickly when corporations figured out that's all they need for entry. They can monetize behind the scenes or after market capture.

Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Post by shkkmo »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #80
throw84a747b4 wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would a company that wants to stop AI crawlers give talks on LLMs and diffusion models at AI conferences? Why would they use AI art for the first Anubis mascot until GitHub users called out the hypocrisy on the issue tracker? Why would they use Stable Diffusion art in their blogposts until Mastodon and Bluesky users called them out on it?

I am not again AI art completely since I think of it as an editing instead of art itself. My thoughts on AI art are nuanced and worth discussing some other day, lets talk about the author of anubis/story of anubis So, I hope you know the entire story behind Anubis, firstly they were hosting their own git server (I think?) and amazon's ai related department was basically ddosing their server in some sense by trying to…

> Stop whining about free projects/labour man. The same people comment oh well these AI scrapers are scraping so many websites and taking livelihood of website makers and now you have someone who just gave it to ya for free and you are nitpicking the wrong things.

That isn't the issue. The issue is that this tool is not fit for purpose and is inappropriate to be used by the projects that have adopted it.

The proof of work scheme is idiotic. As explained in the article, it's super easy to mine enough tokens to bypass for any bad actors, while it interfers and wastes the time of good actors.

It's almost like the author deliberately designed a tool that only looks like it is doing something while actually trivially allowing the very thing it was supposedly built to prevent.

Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Post by johnnyanmac »

s1mplicissimus wrote: post #113
throw84a747b4 wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would a company that wants to stop AI crawlers give talks on LLMs and diffusion models at AI conferences? Why would they use AI art for the first Anubis mascot until GitHub users called out the hypocrisy on the issue tracker? Why would they use Stable Diffusion art in their blogposts until Mastodon and Bluesky users called them out on it?

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How so? He brings good points and now there's two responses trying to make emotional appeal instead of address the hypocrisy.

I know it's 2025, but I expected a bit better from this community.

Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Post by ants_everywhere »

qualeed wrote: post #98
sugarpimpdorsey wrote: post #93

Every time I see one of these I think it's a malicious redirect to some pervert-dwelling imageboard. On that note, is kernel.org really using this for free and not the paid version without the anime? Linux Foundation really that desperate for cash after they gas up all the BMW's?

It's crazy ( especially considering anime is more popular now than ever; netflix alone is making billions a year on anime) that people see a completely innocent little anime picture and immediately think "pervent-dwelling imageboard".

they've seized the moment to move the anime cat girls off the Arch Linux desktop wallpapers and onto lore.kernel.org.
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