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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 Aachen »

heap_perms wrote: post #235

> I host this blog on a single core 128MB VPS No wonder the site is being hugged to death. 128MB is not a lot. Maybe it's worth to upgrade if you post to hacker news. Just a thought.

Moving bytes around doesn't take RAM but CPU. Notice how switches don't advertise how many gigabytes of RAM they have, but can push a few gigabits of content around between all 24 ports at once without even going expensive

Also, the HN homepage is pretty tame so long as you don't run WordPress. You don't get more than a few requests per second, so multiply that with the page size (images etc.) and you probably get a few megabits as bandwidth, no problem even for a Raspberry Pi 1 if the sdcard can read fast enough or the files are mapped to RAM by the kernel

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

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Post by kjkjadksj »

palata wrote: post #859
kjkjadksj wrote: post #837

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You’d at least be limited to deploying a single verified scraper which might be too slow for people to bother with.

Not even: the government is supposed to provide you with more than one token (how would you verify yourself as a human to more than one website otherwise?)

The idea would be a connection requires the key so you could both verify at more than one website and be limited to one instance per website.

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

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Post by dominick-cc »

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?

2D girls don't nag and I've never had to clear their clogged hair out of my shower drain.

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

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Post by ronsor »

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…

A web server is really only going to be running 3 things: init, sshd, and the web server software. Even if we give init and sshd half of 128 MB, there's still 64 MB left for the web server.

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

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Post by 20after4 »

hooverd wrote: post #857
dmesg wrote: post #843

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I still don't understand what Anubis solves if it can be bypassed too easily: If you use User-agent switcher (i emulate wget) as firefox addon on kernel.org or ffmpeg.org you save the entire check time and straight up skip Anubis. Apparently they use a whitelist for user-agents due to allowing legitimate wget usage on these domains. However if I (an honest human can) the scrapers and grifters can too. https://addons.…

It's extra work for scrapers. They pretend to be upstanding citizens (Chrome UA from residential IPs). You can more easily block those.

A lot of scrapers are actually utilizing some malware installed on residential user's machines, so the request is legitimately coming from a chrome UA on a residential ip.

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

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Post by dragonwriter »

20after4 wrote: post #885
hooverd wrote: post #857

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It's extra work for scrapers. They pretend to be upstanding citizens (Chrome UA from residential IPs). You can more easily block those.

A lot of scrapers are actually utilizing some malware installed on residential user's machines, so the request is legitimately coming from a chrome UA on a residential ip.

Well, “actually”, perhaps; “legitimately” is still a stretch.

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

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Post by 20after4 »

integralid wrote: post #844
troyvit wrote: post #786

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

I wonder why the anime girl is received so badly. Is it because it's seen as childish? Is it bad because it confuses people (i.e. don't do this because other don't do this)? Thinking about it logically, putting some "serious" banner there would just make everything a bit more grey and boring and would make no functional difference. So why is it disliked so much?

Because the world is full of haters?

I personally find anime kind of cringe but that's just a matter of taste.

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

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Post by dijit »

thfuran wrote: post #861
dijit wrote: post #641

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Not necessarily, Yggdrasil flies under the radar because it's inherently hard to block. Tor even more so, the power of Tor is that the more people use it: the stronger it becomes to centralised adversaries. The main issue with Tor is the performance of it though.

I thought that the main issue with tor was that so many of the exit nodes are actually the FBI.

You don't ever have to leave the Tor network.

I host IRC on a hidden service, and even Facebook (lol) offers a hidden service endpoint.

All that is needed is for a critical mass of people and a decent index: and we successfully have reinvented "the wired" from Serial Experiments: Lain

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

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Post by msephton »

Arnavion wrote: post #852
msephton wrote: post #407

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I'm interested in your extension. I'm wondering if I could do something similar to force text encoding of pages into Japanese.

If your Firefox supports sideloading extensions then making extensions that modify request or response headers is easy. All the API is documented in https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web... . My Anubis extension modifies request headers using `browser.webRequest.onBeforeSendHeaders.addListener()` . Your case sounds like modifying response headers which is `browser.webRequest.onHeadersReceived.a…

Cheers! I'm in Safari so I'll see if there's a match.

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

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Post by efreak »

Aachen wrote: post #783
troyvit wrote: post #777

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It's an MIT licensed, open project. Fork it and change the icon to your favorite white-bread corporate logo if you want. It would probably take less time than complaining about it on HN.

I think the complaint is rather that you don't know when it will rear its face on third-party websites that you are visiting as part of work. Forking wouldn't help with not seeing it on other sites (Even if I agree that the boss or customers should just get over it. It's not like they're drawing genitalia on screen and it's also easily explainable if they don't already know it themselves.)

Add a rule to your adblocker for the image, then. The main site appears to have it at `anubis.techaro.lol/.within.website/x/cmd/anubis/static/img/happy.webp?cacheBuster=v1.21.3-43-gb0fa256`, so a rule for `||*/.within.website/x/cmd/anubis/static/img/$image` ought to work for ublock origin (purely a guess regarding wildcards for domain, I've never set a rule without a domain before)
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