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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?
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
> as AI scrapers bother implementing the PoW That's what it's for, isn't it? Make crawling slower and more expensive. Shitty crawlers not being able to run the PoW efficiently or at all is just a plus. Although: > which is trivial for them, as the post explains Sadly the site's being hugged to death right now so I can't really tell if I'm missing part of your argument here. > figure out that they can simply remove "M…
The explanation of how the estimate is made is more detailed, but here is the referenced conclusion: >> So (11508 websites * 2^16 sha256 operations) / 2^21, that’s about 6 minutes to mine enough tokens for every single Anubis deployment in the world. That means the cost of unrestricted crawler access to the internet for a week is approximately $0. >> In fact, I don’t think we reach a single cent per month in compute…
That's a matter of increasing the difficulty isn't it? And if the added cost is really negligible, we can just switch to a "refresh" challenge for the same added latency and without burning energy for no reason.
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
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> Fuck AI scrapers, and fuck all this copyright infringement at scale. Yes, fuck them. Problem is Anubis here is not doing the job. As the article already explains, currently Anubis is not adding a single cent to the AI scrappers' costs. For Anubis to become effective against scrappers, it will necessarily have to become quite annoying for legitimate users.
Best response to AI scrapers is to poison their models.
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#154>This dance to get access is just a minor annoyance for me, but I question how it proves I’m not a bot. These steps can be trivially and cheaply automated. >I think the end result is just an internet resource I need is a little harder to access, and we have to waste a small amount of energy. No need to mimic the actual challenge process. Just change your user agent to not have "Mozilla" in it; Anubis only serves you…
Sadly, touching the user-agent header more or less instantly makes you uniquely identifiable. Browser fingerprinting works best against people with unique headers. There's probably millions of people using an untouched safari on iPhone. Once you touch your user-agent header, you're likely the only person in the world with that fingerprint.
I'll set mine to "null" if the rest of you will set yours...
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#155Earlier 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?
Likely the only way to stop AI is with purpose, fundamentally sound "machine learning", aka, AI.
AI slop is mass produced, but there's likely great potential for really useful AI models with very limited scopes.
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#156This is neither here nor there but the character isn't a cat. It's in the name, Anubis, who is an Egyptian deity typically depicted as a jackal or generic canine, and the gatekeeper of the afterlife who weighs the souls of the dead (hence the tagline). So more of a dog-girl, or jackal-girl if you want to be technical.
Well, thank you for that. That's a great weight off me mind.
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#157>This dance to get access is just a minor annoyance for me, but I question how it proves I’m not a bot. These steps can be trivially and cheaply automated. >I think the end result is just an internet resource I need is a little harder to access, and we have to waste a small amount of energy. No need to mimic the actual challenge process. Just change your user agent to not have "Mozilla" in it; Anubis only serves you…
Sadly, touching the user-agent header more or less instantly makes you uniquely identifiable. Browser fingerprinting works best against people with unique headers. There's probably millions of people using an untouched safari on iPhone. Once you touch your user-agent header, you're likely the only person in the world with that fingerprint.
UA fingerprinting isn't a problem for me. As I said I only modify the UA for the handful of sites that use Anubis that I visit. I trust those sites enough that them fingerprinting me is unlikely, and won't be a problem even if they did.
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#158I don't care that they use anime catgirls. What I do care about is being met with something cutesy in the face of a technical failure anywhere on the net . I hate Amazon's failure pets, I hate google's failure mini-games -- it strikes me as an organizational effort to get really good at failing rather than spending that same effort to avoid failures all together. It's like everyone collectively thought the standard o…
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Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#159>This dance to get access is just a minor annoyance for me, but I question how it proves I’m not a bot. These steps can be trivially and cheaply automated. >I think the end result is just an internet resource I need is a little harder to access, and we have to waste a small amount of energy. No need to mimic the actual challenge process. Just change your user agent to not have "Mozilla" in it; Anubis only serves you…
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Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Fuck AI scrapers, and fuck all this copyright infringement at scale. Yes, fuck them. Problem is Anubis here is not doing the job. As the article already explains, currently Anubis is not adding a single cent to the AI scrappers' costs. For Anubis to become effective against scrappers, it will necessarily have to become quite annoying for legitimate users.
Best response to AI scrapers is to poison their models.
how well is modern poisoning holding up?