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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 bawolff »

NoGravitas wrote: post #243
debugnik wrote: post #121

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That's not bypassing it, that's them finally engaging with the PoW challenge as intended, making crawling slower and more expensive, instead failing to crawl at all, which is more of a plus. This however forces servers to increase the challenge difficulty, which increases the waiting time for the first-time access.

The point is that it will always be cheaper for bot farms to pass the challenge than for regular users.

It might be a lot closer if they were using argon2 instead of sha. Sha is a kind of bad choice for this sort of thinh.

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

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Post by bawolff »

hiccuphippo wrote: post #193
debugnik wrote: post #121

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That's not bypassing it, that's them finally engaging with the PoW challenge as intended, making crawling slower and more expensive, instead failing to crawl at all, which is more of a plus. This however forces servers to increase the challenge difficulty, which increases the waiting time for the first-time access.

Too bad the challenge's result is only a waste of electricity. Maybe they should do like some of those alt-coins and search for prime numbers or something similar instead.

Most of those alt-coins are kind of fake/scams. Its really hard to make it work with actually useful problems.

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

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Post by bawolff »

heap_perms wrote: post #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.

It doesnt take much to host a static website. Its all the dynamic stuff/frameworks/db/etc that bogs everything down.

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

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Post by odo1242 »

johnklos wrote: post #244

This is a usually technical crowd, so I can't help but wonder if many people genuinely don't get it, or if they are just feigning a lack of understanding to be dismissive of Anubis. Sure, the people who make the AI scraper bots are going to figure out how to actually do the work. The point is that they hadn't, and this worked for quite a while. As the botmakers circumvent, new methods of proof-of-notbot will be made…

Also, it forces the crawler to gain code execution capabilities, which for many companies will just make them give up and scrape someone else.

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

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Post by wingworks »

sidewndr46 wrote: post #245

> The CAPTCHA forces vistors to solve a problem designed to be very difficult for computers but trivial for humans I'm an unsure if this deadpan humor or if the author has never tried to solve a CAPTCHA that is something like "select the squares with an orthodox rabbi present"

There are also services out that will solve any CAPTCHA for you at a very small cost to you. And an AI company will get steep discounts with the volumes of traffic they do.

There are some browser extensions for it too, like NopeCHA, it works 99% of the time and saves me the hassle of doing them.

Any site using CAPTCHA's today is really only hurting there real customers and low hanging fruit.

Of course this assumes they can't solve the capture themselves, with ai, which often they can.

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

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Post by classichasclass »

sidewndr46 wrote: post #245

> The CAPTCHA forces vistors to solve a problem designed to be very difficult for computers but trivial for humans I'm an unsure if this deadpan humor or if the author has never tried to solve a CAPTCHA that is something like "select the squares with an orthodox rabbi present"

The problem with that CAPTCHA is you're not allowed to solve it on Saturdays.

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

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Post by ufo »

efilife wrote: post #203
Lammy wrote: post #175

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[flagged]

Can somebody please explain why was this comment flagged to death? I seem to be missing something

Possibly because it links to kiwifarms (nasty website to say the least)

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

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Post by kelseydh »

codedokode wrote: post #198
johnecheck wrote: post #136

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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 your headers are new every time then it is very difficult to figure out who is who.

It is very easy unless the IP address is also switching up.

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

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Post by extraduder_ire »

throwawayffffas wrote: post #192
jagged-chisel wrote: post #140

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I wouldn’t think the intention is to s/Mozilla// but to select another well-known UA string.

I don't think there are any. Because servers would serve different content based on user agent virtually all browsers start with Mozilla/5.0...

curl, wget, lynx, and elinks all don't by default (I checked). Mainstream web browsers likely all do, and will forever.

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

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Post by Dylan16807 »

johnnyanmac wrote: post #224
Dylan16807 wrote: post #167

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Are you arguing that "poorly thought out solution from an AI sympathizer, it was probably vibecoded" is not an emotional appeal, or do you think it's unfair to respond to an emotional appeal with an emotional criticism?

I think their layer points based on actual events do lend credence to at least look deeper. The incentives don't line up for a tool to combat AI to utilize it for promotional material.

Well it's a tool to combat scraping, and in particular text-focused scraping. That's very far away from image generation, even with both falling under "AI".

It's worth some consideration but it doesn't leave the whole thing feeling nonsensical or fake.

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