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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 palata »

63stack wrote: post #872
palata wrote: post #830

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Well the e-ID is an ID, so to the government it's tied to a person. But I know that in multiple countries it's possible to use the e-ID to only share the information necessary with the receiver in a way that the government cannot track. Typically, share only the fact that you are 18+ without sharing your name or birthday, and without the government being able to track where you shared that fact.

This is privacy-preserving and modern.

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

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Post by tgv »

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?

Why? It has sexual connotations, and it involves someone under the age of consent. As wikipedia puts it: "In a 2010 critique of the manga series Loveless, the feminist writer T. A. Noonan argued that, in Japanese culture, catgirl characteristics have a similar role to that of the Playboy Bunny in western culture, serving as a fetishization of youthful innocence."

> Thinking about it logically

This isn't about logic.

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

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Post by overfeed »

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

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> 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.

> With privacy preserving cryptography the tokens are standalone and have no ties to the identity that spawned them.

I suspect there will be different levels of attestations from the anonymous ("this is an adult"), to semi-anonymous ("this person was born in 20YY and resides in administrative region XYZ") to the compete record ("This is John Quincy Smith III born on YYYY-MM-DD with ID doc number ABC123"). Somewhere in between the extremes is an pseudonymous token that's strongly tied to a single identity with non-repudiation.

Anonymous identities that can be easily churned out on demand by end-users have zero antibot utility

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

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Post by balamatom »

Aachen wrote: post #862
balamatom wrote: post #838

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While subjecting the entire Internet to industrial-scale abuse by inconsiderate and poorly written crawlers for the sake of building an overhyped "whatever" is of course perfectly acceptable.

Well, to be fair, that's not our doing so not really an argument for why one should accept something one apparently dislikes (I myself find the character funny and it brings a fun moment when it flashes by, but I can understand/accept that others see it differently of course)

Yes, an argument for why one should accept something one apparently dislikes usually only works when it's from authority.

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

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Post by buyucu »

We're 1-2 years away from putting the entire internet behind Cloudflare, and Anubis is what upsets you? I really don't get these people. Seeing an anime catgirl for 1-2 seconds won't kill you. It might save the internet though.

The principle behind Anubis is very simple: it forces every visitor to brute force a math problem. This cost is negligible if you're running it on your computer or phone. However, if you are running thousands of crawlers in parallel, the cost adds up. Anubis basically makes it expensive to crawl the internet.

It's not perfect, but much much better than putting everything behind Cloudflare.

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

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Post by throwawayffffas »

mfost wrote: post #588
throwawayffffas wrote: post #196

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> That's what it's for, isn't it? Make crawling slower and more expensive. The default settings produce a computational cost of milliseconds for a week of access. For this to be relevant it would have to be significantly more expensive to the point it would interfere with human access.

I thought the point (which the article misses) is that a token gives you an identity, and an identity can be tracked and rate limited. So a crawlers that goes very ethically and does very little strain on the server should indeed be able to crawl for a whole week on a cheap compute, one that hammers the server hard will not.

Sure but it's really cheap to mint new identities, each node on their scrapping cluster can mint hundreds of thousands of tokens per second.

Provisioning new ips is probably more costly than calculating the tokens, at least with the default difficulty setting.

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

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Post by SnuffBox »

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?

I'd say it's partially a result of 4chan.

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

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Post by hollerith »

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?

We live in a decadent society.

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

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Post by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 »

On my daily browser with V8 JIT disabled, Cloudflare Turnstile has the worst performance hit, and often requires an additional click to clear.

Anubis usually clears in with no clicks and no noticeable slowdown, even with JIT off. Among the common CAPTCHA solutions it's the least annoying for me.

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

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Post by ranger_danger »

debugnik wrote: post #132
ranger_danger wrote: post #38

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The compute also only seems to happen once, not for every page load, so I'm not sure how this is a huge barrier.

It happens once if the user agent keeps a cookie that can be used for rate limiting. If a crawler hits the limit they need to either wait or throw the cookie away and solve another challenge.

Can that cookie then be used across multiple IPs?
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