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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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I like to talk seriously about art, representation, and culture. What's wrong with that? It's at least as interesting as discussing databases or web frameworks. In case you feel it needs linking to the purpose of this forum, the art in question here is being forcefully shown to people in a situation that makes them do a massive context switch. I want to look at the linux or ffmpeg source code but my browser failed a…

>I like to talk seriously about art, representation, and culture. What's wrong with that? It's no fun. For one, you pulled your original response out of your ass. That the mascot is not a "catgirl" as identified by OP, but a canine variant of the same concept, because the project is named after the Egyptian god, is both obvious and uninteresting. You added nothing to that. You're running around shouting "I get the jo…

> out of your ass

If I wanted to be spoken to this way I'd make a reddit account.

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

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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 fundamental failure of this is that you can’t publish data to the web and not publish data to the web. If you make things public, the public will use it.

It’s ineffective. (And furry sex-subculture propaganda pushed by its author, which is out of place in such software.)

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

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post #486

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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.

In Singapore, we have SingPass, which is also an OpenID Connect implementation.

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

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post #517

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All this is true, but also somewhat irrelevant. In reality the amount of actual hash work is completely negligible. For usability reasons Anubus only requires that you to go trough a the proof of work flow only once in a given period. (I think the default is once per week.) That's just very little work. Detecting you need to occasionally send a request trough a headless browser far more of a hassle than the PoW. If y…

> For usability reasons Anubus only requires that you to go trough a the proof of work flow only once in a given period. (I think the default is once per week.) That's just very little work. If you keep cookies. I do not want to keep cookies for otherwise "stateless" sites. I have maybe a dozen sites whitelisted, every other site loses cookies when I close the tab.

Well, that's not a problem when scraping. Most scraping libraries have ways to retain cookies.

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

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post #471

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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 resol…

CloudFlare is dystopic. It centralizes even the part of the Internet that hadn't been centralized before. It is a perfect Trojan horse to bypass all encryption. And it chooses who accesses (a considerable chunk of) the Internet and who doesn't. Anubis looks much better than this.

> It is a perfect Trojan horse to bypass all encryption

Isn't any hosting provider also this?

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

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post #512

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But I don't get how is goes for spam or scrapping: if I can pass the test "anonymously", then what prevents me from doing it for illegal purposes? I get it for age verification: it is difficult for a child to get a token that says they are allowed to access porn because adults around them don't want them to access porn (and even though one could sell tokens online, it effectively makes it harder to access porn as a c…

One option I can think of is that the attesting authority might block you if you're behaving badly.

That doesn't work without the attesting authority knowing what you are doing, which would make this scheme no longer anonymous.

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

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post #488

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I hit Cloudflare's garbage about as much as I hit Anubis. With the difference that far more sites use Cloudflare than Anubis, thus Anubis is far worse at triggering false positives.

So yes, it is like having a stalker politely open the door for you as you walk into a shop, because they know very well who you are.

In a world full of robots that look like humans, the stalker who knows you and lets you in might be the only solution.

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

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post #35

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Why haven't they been sued and jailed for DDoS, which is a felony?

Many are using botnets, so it's not practical to find out who they are.

Then how do we know they are OpenAI?

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

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post #510

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This has quite nasty consequences for privacy. For this reason, alternatives are desirable. I have less confidence on what such an alternative should be, however.

Can you elaborate on that? Are you implying that it is strictly impossible to do this in a privacy-preserving way?

It depends on your precise requirements and assumptions.

Does your definition of 'privacy-preserving' distrust Google, Apple, Xiaomi, HTC, Honor, Samsung and suchlike?

Do you also distrust third-party clowns like experian and equifax (whose current systems have gaping security holes) and distrust large government IT projects (which are outsourced to clowns like Fujutsu who don't know what they're doing) ??

Do you require it to work on all devices, including outdated phones and tablets; PCs; Linux-only devices; other networked devices like smart lightbulbs; and so on? Does it have to work in places phones aren't allowed, or mobile data/bluetooth isn't available? Does the identity card have to be as thin, flexible, durable and cheap as a credit card, precluding any built-in fingerprint sensors and suchlike?

Does the age validation have to protect against an 18-year-old passing the age check on their 16-year-old friend's account? While also being privacy-preserving enough nobody can tell the two accounts were approved with the same ID card?

Does the system also have to work on websites without user accounts, because who the hell creates a pornhub account anyway?

Does the system need to work without the government approving individual websites' access to the system? Does it also need to be support proving things like name, nationality, and right to work in the country so people can apply for bank accounts and jobs online? And yet does it need to prevent sites from requiring names just for ad targeting purposes?

Do all approvals have to be provable, so every company can prove to the government that the checks were properly carried out at the right time? Does it have to be possible to revoke cards in a timely manner, but without maintaining a huge list of revoked cards, and without every visit to a porn site triggering a call to a government server for a revocation check?

If you want to accomplish all of these goals - you're going to have a tough time.

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