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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 dijit »

mlyle wrote: post #379
technion wrote: post #362

Earlier 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.

The annoying thing about cloudflare is that most of the time once you’re blocked: you’re blocked.

There’s literally no way for you to bypass the block if you’re affected.

Its incredibly scary, I once had a bad useragent (without knowing it) and half the internet went offline, I couldn’t even access documentation or my email providers site, and there was no contact information or debugging information to help me resolve it: just a big middle finger for half the internet.

I haven’t had issues with any sites using Anubis (yet), but I suspect there are ways to verify that you’re a human if your browser fails the automatic check at least.

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

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Post by prmoustache »

ChocolateGod wrote: post #430

I have a S24 (flagship of 2024) and Anubis often takes 10-20 seconds to complete, that time is going to add up if more and more sites adopt it, leaning to a worse browsing experience and wasted battery life. Meanwhile AI farms will just run their own nuclear reactors eventually and be unaffected. I really don't understand why someone thought this was a good idea, even if well intentioned.

Something must be wrong on your flagship smartphone because I have an entry level one that doesn't take that long.

It seems there is a large number of operations crawling the web to build models that aren't using directly infrastructure hosted on AI farms BUT botnet running on commodity hardware and residencial networks to circumvent their ip range from being blacklisted. Anubis point is to block those.

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

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Post by prmoustache »

whatevaa wrote: post #452
ChocolateGod wrote: post #430

I have a S24 (flagship of 2024) and Anubis often takes 10-20 seconds to complete, that time is going to add up if more and more sites adopt it, leaning to a worse browsing experience and wasted battery life. Meanwhile AI farms will just run their own nuclear reactors eventually and be unaffected. I really don't understand why someone thought this was a good idea, even if well intentioned.

Something is wrong with your flagship if it takes that long.

I guess his flagship IS compromised and part of an AI crawling botnet ;-)

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

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Post by ChocolateGod »

whatevaa wrote: post #452
ChocolateGod wrote: post #430

I have a S24 (flagship of 2024) and Anubis often takes 10-20 seconds to complete, that time is going to add up if more and more sites adopt it, leaning to a worse browsing experience and wasted battery life. Meanwhile AI farms will just run their own nuclear reactors eventually and be unaffected. I really don't understand why someone thought this was a good idea, even if well intentioned.

Something is wrong with your flagship if it takes that long.

Samsung's UI has this feature where it turns on power saving mode when it detects light use.

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

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Post by magicalhippo »

qualeed wrote: post #98
sugarpimpdorsey wrote: post #93

Every time I see one of these I think it's a malicious redirect to some pervert-dwelling imageboard. On that note, is kernel.org really using this for free and not the paid version without the anime? Linux Foundation really that desperate for cash after they gas up all the BMW's?

It's crazy ( especially considering anime is more popular now than ever; netflix alone is making billions a year on anime) that people see a completely innocent little anime picture and immediately think "pervent-dwelling imageboard".

> people see a completely innocent little anime picture and immediately think "pervent-dwelling imageboard"

Think you can thank the furries for that.

Every furry I've happened to come across was very pervy in some way, and so that what immediately comes to mind when I see furry-like pictures like the one shown in the article.

YMMV

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

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Post by raverbashing »

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…

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Post by coolcoder613 »

overfeed wrote: post #382
ummonk wrote: post #357

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How would it prevent you from renting your identity out to a bot farm?

Besides making yourself party to a criminal conspiracy, I suspect it would be partly the same reason you won't sell/rent your real-world identity to other people today; an illegal immigrant may be willing to rent it from you right now. Mostly, it will because online identifies will be a market for lemons: there will be so many fake/expired/revoked identities being sold that the value of each one will be worth pennies…

> Mostly, it will because online identifies will be a market for lemons: there will be so many fake/expired/revoked identities being sold that the value of each one will be worth pennies, and that's not commensurate with the risk of someone commiting crimes and linking it to your government-registered identity. That would be trivially solved by using same verification mechanisms they would be used with.

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

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Post by alperakgun »

binaryturtle wrote: post #464
mlyle wrote: post #379

Earlier 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 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…

I gave up on a lot of websites because of the aggressive blocking.
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