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

Post by Retr0id » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 9:50 PM UTC

debugnik wrote: post #152

shkkmo wrote: post #130

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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.

Post by hiccuphippo » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 9:52 PM UTC

shkkmo wrote: post #130

debugnik wrote: post #109

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> 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…

Post by thunderfork » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 9:55 PM UTC

verteu wrote: post #172

dingnuts wrote: post #107

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> PoW increases the cost for the bots which is great. Trivial to implement, sure, but that added cost will add up quickly. No, the article estimates it would cost less than a single penny to scrape all pages of 1,000,000 distinct Anubis-guarded websites for an entire month.

Post by Arnavion » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 9:57 PM UTC

CursedSilicon wrote: post #177

Arnavion wrote: post #148

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The string I use in my extension is "anubis is crap". I took it from a different FF extension that had been posted in a /g/ thread about Anubis, which is where I got the idea from in the first place. I don't use other people's extensions if I can help it (because of the obvious risk), but I figured I'd use the same string in my own extension so as to be combined with users of that extension for the sake of user-agent…

It's a bit telling that you "don't use extensions if you can help it" but trust advice from a 4chan board

Post by therein » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 9:58 PM UTC

debugnik wrote: post #152

shkkmo wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.