Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

lock.cmpxchg8b.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

821–830 of 968 posts

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

#821

Post by buckle8017 »

DanielHB wrote: post #769
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…

How do you bypass cloudflare? I do some light scrapping for some personal stuff, but I can't figure out how to bypass it. Like do you randomize IPs using several VPNs at the same time? I usually just sit there on my phone pressing the "I am not a robot box" when it triggers.

Ironically by runnung cloudflare warp.

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

#822

Post by jeroenhd »

ChocolateGod wrote: post #430

I have a S24 (flagship of 2024) and Anubis often takes 10-20 seconds to complete, that time is going to add up if more and more sites adopt it, leaning to a worse browsing experience and wasted battery life. Meanwhile AI farms will just run their own nuclear reactors eventually and be unaffected. I really don't understand why someone thought this was a good idea, even if well intentioned.

Either your phone is on some extreme power saving mode, your ad blocker is breaking Javascript, or something is wrong with your phone.

I've certainly seen Anubis take a few seconds (three or four maybe) but that was on a very old phone that barely loaded any website more complex than HN.

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

#824

Post by debugnik »

heavyset_go wrote: post #485
debugnik wrote: post #450

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You already provided proof of a living legal identity when you got the ID, and it already expires to make you provide proof again every few years.

That's not not the kind of proof of life the government and companies want online. They want to make sure their video identification 1) is of a living person right now , and 2) that living person matches their government ID. It's a solution to the "grandma died but we've been collecting her Social Security benefits anyway", or "my son stole my wallet with my ID & credit card", or (god forbid) "We incapacitated/killed…

It's the kind of proof my government already asks of me to sign documents much, much more important than watching adult content, such as social security benefits.

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

#826

Post by notpushkin »

troyvit wrote: post #786
tgv wrote: post #686

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Nothing says, "Change out the logo for something that doesn't make my clients tingle in an uncomfortable way" like the MIT license.

Keep in mind that the author explicitly asks you not to do this, and offers a paid white label version. You can still do it yourself, but maybe you shouldn’t.

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

#827

Post by MintPaw »

drakythe wrote: post #746
tgv wrote: post #686

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yeah, but do people like that? It feels pretty patronizing to me in a similar way. Like "Weee! So cute that our website is broken, good luck doing your job! Reminds me of the old uwu error message meme.

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

#828

Post by tptacek »

remexre wrote: post #456
tptacek wrote: post #373

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you flesh that out more? In the case of AI scrapers it seems especially clear: the model companies just want tokens, and are paying a (one-time) cost of C for N tokens. Again, with Hashcash, this isn't how it works: most outbound spam messages are worthless. The point of the system is to exploit the negative exponent on the attacker's value function.

The scraper breaking every time a new version of Anubis is deployed, until new anti-Anubis features are implemented, is the point; if the scrapers were well-engineered by a team that cared about the individual sites they're scraping, they probably wouldn't be so pathological towards forges. The human-labor cost of working around Anubis is unlikely to be paid unless it affects enough data to be worth dedicating time t…

Sure, but if that's the case, you don't need the POW, which is what bugs people about this design. I'm not objecting to the idea of anti-bot content protection on websites.

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

#829

Post by palata »

cakealert wrote: post #809
palata wrote: post #523

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the same reason you won't sell/rent your real-world identity to other people today If you sell your real-world identity to other people today, and they get arrested, then the police will know your identity (obviously). How does that work with a privacy-preserving scheme? If you sell your anonymous token that says that you are a human to a machine and the machine gets arrested, then the police won't be able to know…

It would appear most of the people commenting on the subject don't even understand it. With privacy preserving cryptography the tokens are standalone and have no ties to the identity that spawned them. No enforcement for abuse is possible.

Right, that's my feeling as well

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

#830

Post by palata »

63stack wrote: post #815
palata wrote: post #796

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Example does not fit, when cash was introduced electronic money transfer was not an option.

Health insurance being digitalised and encrypted on the insurance card in a decentralised way?

Many e-IDs in many countries?

Post reply on HN