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> If you don't get pedophile vibes from that picture it's on you. Wow, what an absolutely wild statement. I hate to break it to you, but I'm not the one sexualizing the cartoon picture.
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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?
#232>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.
If someone's out to uniquely identify your activity on the internet, your User-Agent string is going to be the least of your problems.
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#233When I instantly read it, I knew it was anubis. I hope the anime catgirls never disapear from that project :)
As Anubis the egyptian god is represented as a dog-headed human, I thought the drawing was of a dog-girl.
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
Once you've built the system that lets you do that, maybe. You still have to do that, though, so it's still raising the cost floor.
but... how? when the author ran the numbers, the rough estimate is solving the challenges at a rate of 10000/5 min, on a single instance of the free tier of google compute. that is an insignificant load at an even more insignificant cost.
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#235> I host this blog on a single core 128MB VPS
No wonder the site is being hugged to death. 128MB is not a lot. Maybe it's worth to upgrade if you post to hacker news. Just a thought.
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#236When I instantly read it, I knew it was anubis. I hope the anime catgirls never disapear from that project :)
As Anubis the egyptian god is represented as a dog-headed human, I thought the drawing was of a dog-girl.
Perhaps a jackal girl? I guess "cat girl" gets used very broadly to mean kemomimi (pardon the spelling) though
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#237I like hashcash. https://github.com/factor/factor/blob/master/extra/hashcash/... https://bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/hashcash
Anubis is based on hashcash concepts - just adapted to a web request flow. Basically the same thing - moderately expensive for the sender/requester to compute, insanely cheap for the server/recipient to verify.
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#238So... Is Anubis actually blocking bots because they didn't bother to circumvent it?
Basically. Anubis is meant to block mindless, careless, rude bots with seemingly no technically proficient human behind the process; these bots tend to be very aggressive and make tons of requests bringing sites down.
The assumption is that if you’re the operator of these bots and care enough to implement the proof of work challenge for Anubis you could also realize your bot is dumb and make it more polite and considerate.
Of course nothing precludes someone implementing the proof of work on the bot but otherwise leaving it the same (rude and abusive). In this case Anubis still works as a somewhat fancy rate limiter which is still good.
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.miwd.11... https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.miwd.11... “The future is now, old man”
Assuming your quote isn't a joke, I think those links prove the opposite.
Not only is it unprofessional, courts have found it impermissible.
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#240Yeah the PoW is minor for botters but annoying people. I think the only positive is if enough people see anime girls on there screens there might actually be political pressure to make laws against rampent bot crawling
> PoW is minor for botters
But still enough to prevent a billion request DDoS
These sites have been search engine scrapped forever. It’s not about blocking bots entirely just about this new wave of fuck you I don’t care if your host goes down quasi malicious scrappers