This seems like a good place to ask. How do I stop bots from signing up to my email list on my website without hosting a backend?
Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
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#463Earlier quoted context omitted.
It really should be recognised just how many people are watching Cloudflare interstitials on nearly every site these days (and I totally get why this happens) yet making a huge amount of noise about Anubis on a very small amount of sites.
I don't trip over CloudFlare except when in a weird VPN, and then it always gets out of my way after the challenge. Anubis screws with me a lot, and often doesn't work.
I’m planning a trip to France right now, and it seems like half the websites in that country (for example, ratp.fr for Paris public transport info) require me to check a CloudFlare checkbox to promise that I am a human. And of those that don’t, quite a few just plain lock me out...
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#464Earlier quoted context omitted.
It really should be recognised just how many people are watching Cloudflare interstitials on nearly every site these days (and I totally get why this happens) yet making a huge amount of noise about Anubis on a very small amount of sites.
I don't trip over CloudFlare except when in a weird VPN, and then it always gets out of my way after the challenge. Anubis screws with me a lot, and often doesn't work.
I'm on an older system here, and both Cloudflare and Anubis entirely block me out of sites. Once you start blocking actual users out of your sites, it simply has gone too far. At least provide an alternative method to enter your site (e.g. via login) that's not hampered by erroneous human checks. Same for the captchas where you help train AIs by choosing out of a set of tiny/ noisy pictures. I often struggle for 5 to 10 minutes to get past that nonsense. I heard bots have less trouble.
Basically we're already past the point where the web is made for actual humans, now it's made for bots.
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#465Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought only capital crimes (murder, for example) held the standard of beyond a reasonable doubt. Lesser crimes require the standard of either a "Preponderance of Evidence" or "Clear and Convincing Evidence" as burden of proof. Still, even by those lesser standards, it's hard to build a case.
No, all criminal convictions require proof beyond a reasonable doubt: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt14-S1-5-5... >Absent a guilty plea, the Due Process Clause requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt before a person may be convicted of a crime.
Proof or a guilty plea, which is often extracted from not guilty parties due to the lopsided environment of the courts
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#466Just use Anubis Bypass: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/anubis-bypass...
Haven't seen dumb anime characters since.
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#467Earlier quoted context omitted.
This arms race will have a terminus. The bots will eventually be indistinguishable from humans. Some already are.
> The bots will eventually be indistinguishable from humans Not until they get issued government IDs they won't! Extrapolating from current trends, some form of online ID attestation (likely based on government-issued ID[1]) will become normal in the next decade, and naturally, this will be included in the anti-bot arsenal. It will be up to the site operator to trust identities signed by the Russian government. 1. De…
Fun fact: The Norwegian wine monopoly is rolling out exactly this to prevent scalpers buying up new releases. Each online release will require a signup in advance with a verified account.
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
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did you read the article?
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#469This 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.
Every representation I've ever seen of Anubis - including remarkably well preserved statues from antiquity - are either a male human body with a canine head, or fully canine.
This anime girl is not Anubis. It's a modern cartoon characters that simply borrows the name because it sounds cool, without caring anything about the history or meaning behind it.
Anime culture does this all the time, drawing on inspiration from all cultures but nearly always only paying the barest lip service to the original meaning.
I don't have an issue with that, personally. All cultures and religions should be fair game as inspiration for any kind of art. But I do have an issue with claiming that the newly inspired creation is equivalent in any way to the original source just because they share a name and some other very superficial characteristics.
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#470Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't trip over CloudFlare except when in a weird VPN, and then it always gets out of my way after the challenge. Anubis screws with me a lot, and often doesn't work.
I’m planning a trip to France right now, and it seems like half the websites in that country (for example, ratp.fr for Paris public transport info) require me to check a CloudFlare checkbox to promise that I am a human. And of those that don’t, quite a few just plain lock me out...
And a lot of US sites don't work in France either, or they ban you after just a couple requests with no appeal...