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

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Post by account42 »

psionides wrote: post #307
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…

The problem is that 7 + 2 on a submission form only affects people who want to submit something, Anubis affects every user who wants to read something on your site

The question then is why read only users are consuming so much resources that serving them big chunks of JS instead reduces loads of the server. Maybe improve you rendering and/or caching before employing DRM solutions that are doomed to fail anyway.

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

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Post by victorbjorklund »

phito wrote: post #486
marcus_holmes wrote: post #321

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How does this work, though? We can't just have "send me a picture of your ID" because that is pointlessly easy to spoof - just copy someone else's ID. So there must be some verification that you, the person at the keyboard, is the same person as that ID identifies. The UK is rapidly finding out that that is extremely difficult to do reliably. Video doesn't really work reliably on all cases, and still images are too e…

In Europe we have itsme. You link the phone app to your ID, then you can use it to scan QR codes to log into websites.

One problem with solutions like that is the the website needs to pay for every log in. So you save a few dollars blocking scrapers but now you have to pay thousands of dollars to this company instead.

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Post by krige »

JdeBP wrote: post #158
serf wrote: post #133

I 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…

Guru Meditations and Sad Macs are not your thing?

FWIW second and third iteration of AmigaOS didn't have "Guru Meditation"; instead it bluntly labeled the numbers as error and task.

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

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Post by sethaurus »

haskellshill wrote: post #568
sethaurus wrote: post #371

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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

Well that tells me the rough cultural area alt187 might be pointing to, but I could use some more clarity. Are you saying that pronouns/transgender/queerness are the ideology? Or are you showing them as shibboleths of a broader ideological tendency that's prevailing in FOSS?

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

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Post by armada651 »

ChrisRR wrote: post #559
ksymph wrote: post #15

This 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.

I'm assuming the aversion is more about why young anime girls are popping up, not about what animal it is

Why is there an aversion though? Is it about the image itself or because of the subculture people are associating with the image?

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Post by armada651 »

hdndiebf wrote: post #483
rootsudo wrote: post #59

When I instantly read it, I knew it was anubis. I hope the anime catgirls never disapear from that project :)

This anime thing is the one thing about computer culture that I just don't seem to get. I did not get it as child, when suddenly half of children cartoons became animes and I just disliked the aestheic. I didn't get it in school, when people started reading mangas . I'll probably never get it. Therefore I sincerely hope, they do go away from anubis, so I can further dwell in my ignorance.

But what if they choose a different image that you don't get? What if they used an abstract modern art piece that no one gets? Oh the horror!

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Post by JimDabell »

akk0 wrote: post #570
JimDabell wrote: post #527

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> some form of online ID attestation (likely based on government-issued ID[1]) will become normal in the next decade I believe this is likely, and implemented in the right way, I think it will be a good thing. A zero-knowledge way of attesting persistent pseudonymous identity would solve a lot of problems. If the government doesn’t know who you are attesting to, the service doesn’t know your real identity, services c…

> A social media site can ban an abusive user without them being able to simply register a new account. This is an absolutely gargantuan-sized antifeature that would single-handedly drive me out of the parts of the internet that choose to embrace this hellish tech.

I think social media platforms should have the ability to effectively ban abusive users, and I’m pretty sure that’s a mainstream viewpoint shared by most people.

The alternative is that you think people should be able to use social media platforms in ways that violate their rules, and that the platforms should not be able to refuse service to these users. I don’t think that’s a justifiable position to take, but I’m open to hearing an argument for it. Simply calling it “hellish” isn’t an argument.

And can you clarify if your position accounts for spammers? Because as far as I can see, your position is very clearly “spammers should be allowed to spam”.

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Post by account42 »

overfeed wrote: post #317
bhawks wrote: post #306

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Can't wait to sign into my web browser with my driver's license.

In all likelihood, most people will do so via the Apple Wallet (or the equivalent on their non-Apple devices). It's going to be painful to use Open source OSes for a while, thanks to CloudFlare and Anubis. This is not the future I want, but we can't have nice things.

> This is not the future I want, but we can't have nice things.

Actually, we can if we collectively decide that we should have them. Refuse to use sites that require these technologies and demand governments to solve the issue in better ways, e.g. by ensuring there are legal consequences for abusive corporations.

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Post by JimDabell »

ibejoeb wrote: post #581
JimDabell wrote: post #527

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> some form of online ID attestation (likely based on government-issued ID[1]) will become normal in the next decade I believe this is likely, and implemented in the right way, I think it will be a good thing. A zero-knowledge way of attesting persistent pseudonymous identity would solve a lot of problems. If the government doesn’t know who you are attesting to, the service doesn’t know your real identity, services c…

>A zero-knowledge way of attesting persistent pseudonymous identity why would a government do that though? the alternative is easier and gives it more of what it wants.

The alternative would have far less support from the public.

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Post by account42 »

xlbuttplug2 wrote: post #340
overfeed wrote: post #298

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> 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…

The internet would come to a grinding halt as everyone would suddenly become mindful of their browsing. It's not hard to imagine a situation where, say, pornhub sells its access data and the next day you get sacked at your teaching job.

You are right about the negative outcomes that this might have but you have way too much faith in the average person caring enough before it happens to them.
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