I hope there's some kind of memory-hungry checker to replace the CPU cost.
a 2GB memory consumption wont stop them, but it will limit the parallelism of crawlers.
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?
#592Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could you expand on what ideology this tool is broadcasting and what virtue is being signalled?
>Please call me (order of preference): They/them or She/her please. Take a wild guess
Please show me on the doll where this stranger's personal identity hurt you.
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#593Good on you that you found a solution to myself but personally I will just not use websites that pull this and not contribute to projects where using such a website is required. If you respect me so little that you will make demands about how I use my computer and block me as a bot if I don't comply then I am going to assume that you're not worth my time.
Interesting take to say the Linux Kernel is not worth your time.
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#594Earlier 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…
At this future point, AI firms will simply rent people’s identities to use online.
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#595Earlier quoted context omitted.
...unless you're sus, then the difficulty increases. And if you unleash a single scrapping bot, you're not a problem anyway. It's for botnets of thousands, mimicking browsers on residual connections to make them hard to filter out or rate limit, effectively DDoSing the server. Perhaps you just don't realize how much did the scraping load increase in the last 2 years or so. If your server can stay up after deploying A…
How is it going to hurt those? If it's an actual botnet, then it's hijacked computers belonging to other people, who are the ones paying the power bills. The attacker doesn't care that each computer takes a long time to calculate. If you have 1000 computers each spending 5s/page, then your botnet can retrieve 200 pages/s. If it's just a cloud deployment, still it has resources that vastly outstrip a normal person's.…
> How is it going to hurt those?
In an endless cat-and-mouse game, it won't.
But right now, it does, as these bots tend to be really dumb (presumably, a more competent botnet user wouldn't have it do an equivalent of copying Wikipedia by crawling through its every single page in the first place). With a bit of luck, it will be enough until the bubble bursts and the problem is gone, and you won't need to deploy Anubis just to keep your server running anymore.
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#596Earlier quoted context omitted.
On the contrary: Making things look silly and unprofessional so that Big Serious Corporations With Money will pay thousands of dollars to whitelabel them is an OUTSTANDING solution for preserving software freedom while raising money for hardworking developers.
I'd rather not raise money for "hardworking" developers if their work is spreading DRM on the web. And it's not just "Big Serious Corporations" that don't want to see your furry art.
I'm not commenting on the value of this project (I wouldn't characterize captchas as DRM, but I see why you have that negative connotation) and I tend to agree with the OP that this is simply wasting energy, but the amount of seething over "anime catgirls" makes me want to write all the docs for my next projects in UwU text and charge for a whimsy-free version. (o˘◡˘o)
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#597I don't care that they use anime catgirls. What I do care about is being met with something cutesy in the face of a technical failure anywhere on the net . I hate Amazon's failure pets, I hate google's failure mini-games -- it strikes me as an organizational effort to get really good at failing rather than spending that same effort to avoid failures all together. It's like everyone collectively thought the standard o…
> What I do care about is being met with something cutesy in the face of a technical failure anywhere on the net
This is probably intentional. They offer an paid unbranded version. If they had a corporate friendly brand on the free offering, then there would be fewer people paying for the unbranded one.
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#598Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#599Good on you that you found a solution to myself but personally I will just not use websites that pull this and not contribute to projects where using such a website is required. If you respect me so little that you will make demands about how I use my computer and block me as a bot if I don't comply then I am going to assume that you're not worth my time.
Interesting take to say the Linux Kernel is not worth your time.
As far as I know Linux kernel contributions still use email.