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

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Post by Aachen »

heavyset_go wrote: post #420
ranger_danger wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Criminal convictions in the US require a standard of proof that is "beyond a reasonable doubt" and I suspect cases like this would not pass the required mens rea test, as, in their minds at least (and probably a judge's), there was no ill intent to cause a denial of service... and trying to argue otherwise based on any technical reasoning (e.g. "most servers cannot handle this load and they somehow knew it") is IMO u…

There's an angle where criminal intent doesn't matter when it comes to negligence and damages. They have to had known that their scrapers would cause denial of service, unauthorized access, increased costs for operators, etc.

That's not a certain outcome. If you're willing to do this case, I can provide access logs and any evidence you want. You can keep any money you win plus I'll pay a bonus on top! Wanna do it?

Keep in mind I'm in Germany, the server is in another EU country, and the worst scrapers overseas (in China, USA, and Singapore). Thanks to these LLMs there is no barrier to have the relevant laws be translated in all directions I trust that won't be a problem! :P

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

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Post by 63stack »

palata wrote: post #830
63stack wrote: post #815

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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?

I didn't know about e-IDs in other countries, but in Scandinavia (at least in Norway and Sweden, but I know the same system is used in Denmark as well) they are very much tied to your personal number which uniquely identifies you. Healthcare data is also not encrypted.

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

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Post by Aachen »

s1mplicissimus wrote: post #124
ranger_danger wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Criminal convictions in the US require a standard of proof that is "beyond a reasonable doubt" and I suspect cases like this would not pass the required mens rea test, as, in their minds at least (and probably a judge's), there was no ill intent to cause a denial of service... and trying to argue otherwise based on any technical reasoning (e.g. "most servers cannot handle this load and they somehow knew it") is IMO u…

coming from a different legal system so please forgive my ignorance: Is it necessary in the US to prove ill intent in order to sue for repairs? Just wondering, because when I accidentally punch someones tooth out, I would assume they certainly are entitled to the dentist bill.

Manslaughter vs. murder. Same act, different intent, different stigma, different punishment

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

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Post by bawolff »

tambourine_man wrote: post #692
ronsor wrote: post #399

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128MB is more than enough to run Debian and serve a static site. I had no issue with doing it a decade ago and it still works fine. How much memory do you think it actually takes to accept a TLS connection and copy files from disk to a socket?

Modern Linux is much less frugal these days: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Bullseye/Req... * Thin clients with only 256 MiB RAM and 400 MHz are possible, though more RAM and faster processors are recommended. * For workstations, diskless workstations and standalone systems, 1500 MHz and 1024 MiB RAM are the absolute minimum requirements. For running modern webbrowsers and LibreOffice at least 2048 M…

That's for some educational distro, which presumably is running some fancy desktop environment with fancy GUI programs. I don't think that is reflective of what a web server needs.

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

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Post by Aachen »

blibble wrote: post #64
jimmaswell wrote: post #12

What exactly is so bad about AI crawlers compared to Google or Bing? Is there more volume or is it just "I don't like AI"?

they seem to be written by either idiots and/or people that don't give a shit about being good internet citizens either way the result is the same: they induce massive load well written crawlers will: - not hit a specific ip/host more frequently than say 1 req/5s - put newly discovered URLs at the end of a distributed queue (NOT do DFS per domain) - limit crawling depth based on crawled page quality and/or response t…

- wait 2 seconds for a page to load before aborting the connection

- wait for the previous request to finish before requesting the next page, since that would only induce more load, get even slower, and eventually take everything down

I've designed my site to hold up to traffic spikes anyway and the bots I'm getting aren't as crazy as the ones I hear about from other, bigger website operators (like the OpenStreetMap wiki, still pretty niche), so I don't block much of them. Can't vet every visitor so they'll get the content anyway, whether I like it or not. But if I see a bot having HTTP 499 "client went away before page finished loading" entries in the access log, I'm not wasting my compute on those assholes. That's a block. I haven't had to do that before, in a decade of hosting my own various tools and websites

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

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Post by dominick-cc »

usbpoet wrote: post #823

I don't think I've ever actually seen Anubis once. Always interesting to see what's going on in parts of the internet you aren't frequenting.

I read hackernews on my phone when I'm bored and I've seen it a lot lately. I don't think I've ever seen it on my desktop.

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

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Post by Aachen »

tambourine_man wrote: post #720
walthamstow wrote: post #628

> I host this blog on a single core 128MB VPS Where does one even find a VPS with such small memory today?

Or software to run on it. I'm intrigued about this claim as well.

The software is easy. Apt install debian apache2 php certbot and you're pretty much set to deploy content to /var/www. I'm sure any BSD variant is also fine, or lots of other software distributions that don't require a graphical environment

On an old laptop running Windows XP (yes, with GUI, breaking my own rule there) I've also run a lot of services, iirc on 256MB RAM. XP needed about 70 I think, or 52 if I killed stuff like Explorer and unnecessary services, and the remainder was sufficient to run a uTorrent server, XAMPP (Apache, MySQL, Perl and PHP) stack, Filezilla FTP server, OpenArena game server, LogMeIn for management, some network traffic monitoring tool, and probably more things I'm forgetting. This ran probably until like 2014 and I'm pretty sure the site has been on the HN homepage with a blog post about IPv6. The only thing that I wanted to run but couldn't was a Minecraft server that a friend had requested. You can do a heck of a lot with a hundred megabytes of free RAM but not run most Javaware :)

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

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Post by ok123456 »

Aachen wrote: post #866
1gn15 wrote: post #513

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Use a CDN.

So that someone else pays for your bandwidth while seeing who is interested in this content? Idk about that solution

Maybe the Linux Foundation should cover kernel.org's hosting costs?

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

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Post by Aachen »

extraduder_ire wrote: post #270

With the asymmetry of doing the PoW in javascript versus compiled c code, I wonder if this type of rate limiting is ever going to be directly implemented into regular web browsers. (I assume there's already plugins for curl/wget) Other than Safari, mainstream browsers seem to have given up on considering browsing without javascript enabled a valid usecase. So it would purely be a performance improvement thing.

Apple supports people that want to not use their software as the gods at Apple intended it? What parallel universe Version of Apple is this!

Seriously though, does anything of Apple's work without JS, like Icloud or Find my phone? Or does Safari somehow support it in a way that other browsers don't?

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