I actually really liked seeing the mascot. Brought a sense of whimsy to the Internet that I've missed for a long time.
Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
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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.
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.
You must be on a good network. You should run one of those "get paid to share your internet connection with AI companies" apps. Since you're on a good network you might make a lot of money. And then your network will get cloudflared, of course.
We should repeat this until every network is cloudflared and everyone hates cloudflare and cloudflare loses all its customers and goes bankrupt. The internet would be better for it.
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#793Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even if the images aren’t the kind of sexualized (or downright pornographic) content this implies… having cutesy anime girls pop up when a user loads your site is, at best, wildly unprofessional. (Dare I say “cringe”?) For something as serious and legit as kernel.org to have this, I do think it’s frankly shocking and unacceptable.
Noted, I will now add anime girls to my website, so I'm not at risk of being misconstrued as "professional"
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Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
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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…
IIRC, you could use asymmetric cryptography to derive a site-specific pseudonymous token from the service and your government ID without the service knowing what your government ID is or the government provider knowing what service you are using. The service then links the token to your account and uses ordinary detection measures to see if you're spamming, flooding, phishing, whatever. If you do, the token gets blac…
But that does not really answer my question: if a human can prove that they are human anonymously (by getting an anonymous token), what prevents them from passing that token to an AI?
The whole point is to prevent a robot from accessing the API. If you want to detect the robot based on its activity, you don't need to bother humans with the token in the first place: just monitor the activity.
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#795Earlier quoted context omitted.
That doesn't work without the attesting authority knowing what you are doing, which would make this scheme no longer anonymous.
It does work as long as the attesting authority doesn't allow issuing a new identity (before it expires) if the old one is lost. You (Y) generate a keypair and send your public key to the the attesting authority A, and keep your private key. You get a certificate. You visit site b.com, and it asks for your identity, so you hash b.com|yourprivatekey. You submit the hash to b.com, along with a ZKP that you possess a pr…
Isn't the whole point of a privacy-preserving scheme be that you can ask many "certificates" to the attesting authority and it won't care (because you may need as many as the number of websites you visit), and the website b.com won't be able to link you to them, and therefore if it bans certificate C1, you can just start using certificate C2?
And then of course, if you need millions of certificates because b.com keeps banning you, it means that they ban you based on your activity, not based on your lack of certificate. And in that case, it feels like the certificate is useless in the first place: b.com has to monitor and ban you already.
Or am I missing something?
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#796Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you elaborate on that? Are you implying that it is strictly impossible to do this in a privacy-preserving way?
While the question of "is it actually possible to do this in a privacy preserving way?" is certainly interesting, was there ever a _single_ occasion where a government had the option of doing something in a privacy preserving way, when a non-privacy preserving way was also possible? Politicians would absolutely kill for the idea of unmasking dissenters on internet forums. Even if the option is a possibility, they are…
> was there ever a _single_ occasion
I don't know where you live, but in my case, many. Beginning with the fact that I can buy groceries with cash.
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#797Earlier quoted context omitted.
>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.
Also, you do know the
> Please show me on the doll where this stranger hurt you
phrasing is pretty closely associated with child abuse investigations, right? I don't know why you'd associate gender identity with that?
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#799Earlier quoted context omitted.
We are obviously living a different Internet reality, and that's the whole point — we need numbers to really establish baseline truth. FTR, I am mostly browsing from Serbia using Firefox browser on a Linux or MacOS machine.
I don’t think we are living in a different reality, I just don’t think you are accounting for all the CAPTCHAs you successfully pass without seeing .
Not OP but try browsing the web with a combination of Browser + OS that is slightly off to what most people use and you'll see Captchas pop up at every corner of the Internet.
And if the new style of Captchas is then like this one it's much more disturbing.
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
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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…
FYI - you can communicate with the author of Anubis, who has already said she's working on ways to make sure that all browsers - links, lynx, dillo, midori, et cetera, work.
Unless you're paying Cloudflare a LOT of money, you won't get to talk with anyone who can or will do anything about issues. They know about their issues and simply don't care.
If you don't mind taking a few minutes, perhaps put some details about your setup in a bug report?