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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 lbhdc »

hahn-kev wrote: post #734
wraptile wrote: post #689

I'm a scraper developer and Anubis would have worked 10 - 20 years ago, but now all broad scrapers run on a real headless browser with full cookie support and costs relatively nothing in compute. I'd be surprised if LLM bots would use anything else given the fact that they have all of this compute and engineers already available. That being said, one point is very correct here - by far the best effort to resist broad…

Bot blocking through obscurity

That's really the only option available here, right? The goal is to keep sites low friction for end users while stopping bots. Requiring an account with some moderation would stop the majority of bots, but it would add a lot of friction for your human users.

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

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Post by pluc »

Can we talk about the "sexy anime girl" thing? Seems it's popular in geek/nerd/hacker circles and I for one don't get it. Browsing reddit anonymously you're flooded with near-pornographic fan-made renders of these things, I really don't get the appeal. Can someone enlighten me?

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

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Post by andai »

wraptile wrote: post #689

I'm a scraper developer and Anubis would have worked 10 - 20 years ago, but now all broad scrapers run on a real headless browser with full cookie support and costs relatively nothing in compute. I'd be surprised if LLM bots would use anything else given the fact that they have all of this compute and engineers already available. That being said, one point is very correct here - by far the best effort to resist broad…

You can also generate custom solutions at scale with LLMs. So each user could get a different CAPTCHA.

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

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Post by andai »

pluc wrote: post #742

Can we talk about the "sexy anime girl" thing? Seems it's popular in geek/nerd/hacker circles and I for one don't get it. Browsing reddit anonymously you're flooded with near-pornographic fan-made renders of these things, I really don't get the appeal. Can someone enlighten me?

Probably depends on the person, but this stuff is mostly the cute instinct, same as videos of kittens. "Aww" and "I must protect it."

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

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Post by boneitis »

account42 wrote: post #644
ForHackernews wrote: post #596

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

Please do, it's better if people make their negative personality traits public so that you can avoid them before wasting your time. It will also be useful to show your hypocrisy when you inevitably complain about someone else doing something that you don't like.

I don't think you need to try to die on this hill (primarily remarking w.r.t. your lumping in Anubis with Cloudflare/Google/et al. as one). In any case, I'm not appreciating the proliferation of the CAPTCHA-wall any more than you are.

The mascot artist wrote in here in another thread about the design philosophies, and they are IMO a lot more honorable in comparison (to BigCo).

Besides, it's MIT FOSS. Can't a site operator shoehorn in their own image if they were so inclined?

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

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Post by drakythe »

tgv wrote: post #686
technion wrote: post #362

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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.

That says something about the chosen picture, doesn't it? Probably that it's not well liked. It certainly isn't neutral, while the Cloudfare page is.

You know, you say that, and while I understand where you're coming from I was browsing the git repo when github had a slight error and I was greeted with an angry pink unicorn. If Github can be fun like that, Anubis can too, I think.

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

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Post by semiquaver »

trenchpilgrim wrote: post #425
elcritch wrote: post #393

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It’s too cheap as a rate limiter as it is if you read TFA.

That's a configurable setting.

There’s no possible setting that would make it expensive enough to deter AI scrapers while preserving an acceptable user experience. The more zeros you add the more real users suffer, despite not creating much of a challenge to datacenter-hosted scrapers.

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

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Post by 47282847 »

TheDong wrote: post #731
bregma wrote: post #657

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> if you are below or above a certain age or height Is discrimination against dwarves still a thing in Germany?

I want to believe that this would be used at amusement parks to scan "can I safely get on this ride" and at the entrance to stairs to tell you if you'll bump your head or not.

The system as a whole is rarely used. I think it’s a combination of poor APIs and hesitation of the population. For somebody without technical knowledge, there is no obvious difference to the private video ID companies. On the surface, you may believe that all data is transferred anyway and you have to trust providers in all cases, not that some magic makes it so third parties don’t get more than necessary.

I don’t know of any real world example that queries height, I mentioned it because it is part of the data set and privacy-preserving queries are technically possible. Age restrictions are the obvious example, but even there I am not aware of any commercial use, only for government services like tax filing or organ donor registry. Also, nobody really measures your height, you just tell them what to put there when you get the ID. Not so for birth dates, which they take from previous records going back to the birth certificate.

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

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Post by account42 »

deevus wrote: post #461

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?

Depending on your target audience you could require people signing up to send you and email first.

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

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Post by troyvit »

scratchyone wrote: post #409
rhaps0dy wrote: post #230

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latest update from Xe: > After further investigation and communication. This is not a bug. The threat actor group in question installed headless chrome and simply computed the proof of work. I'm just going to submit a default rule that blocks huawei.

this kinda proves the entire project doesn't work if they have to resort to manual IP blocking lol

It doesn't work for headless chrome, sure. The thing is that often, for threats like this to work they need lots scale, and they need it cheaply because the actors are just throwing a wide net and hoping to catch it. Headless chrome doesn't scale cheaply so by forcing script kiddies to use it you're pricing them out of their own game. For now.
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