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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 lproven »

windward wrote: post #666
sidewndr46 wrote: post #245

> The CAPTCHA forces vistors to solve a problem designed to be very difficult for computers but trivial for humans I'm an unsure if this deadpan humor or if the author has never tried to solve a CAPTCHA that is something like "select the squares with an orthodox rabbi present"

I wonder if it's an intentional quirk that you can only pass some CAPTCHAs if you're a human who knows what an American fire hydrant or school bus looks like?

> an American fire hydrant or school bus

So much this. The first time one asked me to click on "crosswalks", I genuinely had to think for a while as I struggled to remember WTF a "crosswalk" was in AmEng. I am a native English speaker, writer, editor and professionally qualified teacher, but my form of English does not have the word "crosswalk" or any word that is a synonym for it. (It has phrases instead.)

Our schoolbuses are ordinary buses with a special number on the front. They are no specific colour.

There are other examples which aren't coming immediately to mind, but it is vexing when the designer of a CAPTCHA isn't testing if I am human but if I am American.

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

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Post by cakealert »

overfeed wrote: post #923
cakealert wrote: post #809

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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 i…

The latter attestation will be completely useless for privacy.

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

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Post by odo1242 »

wredcoll wrote: post #387
odo1242 wrote: post #254

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Also, it forces the crawler to gain code execution capabilities, which for many companies will just make them give up and scrape someone else.

I don't know if you've noticed, but there's a few websites these days that use javascript as part of their display logic.

Yes, and those sites take way more effort to crawl than other sites. They may still get crawled, but likely less often than the ones that don't use JavaScript for rendering (which is the main purpose of Anubis - saving bandwidth from crawlers who crawl sites way too often).

(Also, note the difference between using JavaScript for display logic and requiring JavaScript to load any content at all. Most websites do the first, the second isn't quite as common.)

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

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Post by raiph »

semiquaver wrote: post #908
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #755

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Real users suffer much more if the site is entirely down due to being DDoSed by aggressive AI scrapers.

Yeah, and if this tool doesn’t stop them then the site is down anyway.

Right. The choice is presumably between:

Bad: A site being usable for a significant amount of time per day, but also unusable for a significant amount of time per day, and the ratio between usable and unusable time per day significantly deteriorating.

Worse: A site being usable for a significant amount of time per day, but also unusable for a significant amount of time per day, and the ratio between usable and unusable time per day significantly deteriorating _significantly faster_.

Clearly, Anubis is at best an interim measure. The interim period might not be significant.

But it might be. That is presumably the point of Anubis.

That said, the only time I've heard of Anubis being tried was when Perl's MetaCPAN became ever more unusable over the summer. [0]

Unfortunately Anubis and Fastly fought, and Fastly won. [1]

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[0] https://www.perl.com/article/metacpan-traffic-crisis/

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/1mbzrjo/metacpans_tra...

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

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Post by Aachen »

1gn15 wrote: post #913
Aachen wrote: post #867

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Doesn't have to be black or white. You can have a much easier challenge for regular visitors if you block the only (and giant) party that has implemented a solver so far. We can work on both fronts at once...

The point is that it isn't "implementing a solver", it's just using a browser and waiting a few seconds.

That counts as something that can solve it, yes. Apparently there's now exactly one party in the world that does that (among the annoying scrapers that this mechanism targets). So until there are more...

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

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Post by Aachen »

ok123456 wrote: post #878
Aachen wrote: post #866

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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?

Ah true, I think I might have forgotten the context. They're big enough to do that. Most people I see recommending a CDN are freeloading on some big corp's systems

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

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Post by Aachen »

guappa wrote: post #917
Aachen wrote: post #779

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I don't mind car driving AI, why the sad face? Maybe autonomous train training would be even cooler but it's not like improving tobacco products that only have downsides

I mind working for free.

You'd rather do busywork that you know will definitely not benefit anyone?

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

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Post by Aachen »

efreak wrote: post #890
Aachen wrote: post #783

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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)

(For the record, I like the image)

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

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Post by Aachen »

KETHERCORTEX wrote: post #894
Aachen wrote: post #705

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That's called authentication. In the case of the stalker, by biometrics (facial recognition). This could be a solution But that's not what Cloudflare does. Cloudflare guesses whether you are a bot and then either blocks you or not. If it currently likes you, bless your luck

> This could be a solution Until the moment someone will figure out the generation of realistic enough 3d faces.

Ah true! I meant authentication in general by whatever means, which seems dystopian enough already, but indeed my post can be read as being about facial recognition being required to visit random websites... that's even worse! Don't give them ideas xD

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

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Post by korse »

lsh0 wrote: post #906
jijijijij wrote: post #839

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> patronizing I think it's reasonable and fair, and something you are expected to tolerate in a free world. In fact, I think it's rather unusual to take this benign and inconsequential thing as personal as you do.

Not at all. I can't stand it either. It's definitely patronising and infantile. I tolerate the silliness, grit my teeth and move on but it wears away at my patience.

This is why I add anime catgirls to nearly everything I build. I'm glad the effort isn't in vain!
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