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Post by tambourine_man »

Aachen wrote: post #877
tambourine_man wrote: post #720

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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 s…

What I meant is that I’m not sure it will even boot. Bookworm minimum requirements are 256MB of RAM.

https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/armel/ch03s04.en.ht...

128MB should be plenty. I used systems for years with much less. But in reality, Linux is much heavier these days.

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

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Post by tambourine_man »

bawolff wrote: post #874
tambourine_man wrote: post #692

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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.

Bookworm minimum requirements are 256MB of RAM. Without desktop.

https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/armel/ch03s04.en.ht...

128MB should be plenty. I used systems for years with much less. But in reality, Linux is much heavier these days.

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

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Post by tambourine_man »

ronsor wrote: post #884
tambourine_man wrote: post #692

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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.

Theoretically, sure. But standard Linux distros are much heavier these days. See my other reply on this thread.

Unless the author is using some very slim distribution or perhaps something more interesting, it’s a challenge to run an up to date HTTP server like Apache or nginx on 128MB alone, even though it shouldn’t.

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Post by oblio »

lxgr wrote: post #4

> This isn’t perfect of course, we can debate the accessibility tradeoffs and weaknesses, but conceptually the idea makes some sense. It was arguably never a great idea to begin with, and stopped making sense entirely with the advent of generative AI.

Why?

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Post by thrown-0825 »

ehnto wrote: post #537
dijit wrote: post #471

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The annoying thing about cloudflare is that most of the time once you’re blocked: you’re blocked. There’s literally no way for you to bypass the block if you’re affected. Its incredibly scary, I once had a bad useragent (without knowing it) and half the internet went offline, I couldn’t even access documentation or my email providers site, and there was no contact information or debugging information to help me resol…

Now imagine your government provided internet agent gets blacklisted because your linked social media post was interpreted by an LLM to be anti-establishment, and we are painting a picture of our current trajectory.

most of the people on this site work or worked for companies who enabled this or specifically sold it as a feature

we are all complicit

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Post by jhbadger »

gambiting wrote: post #521
marcus_holmes wrote: post #321

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How does this work, though? We can't just have "send me a picture of your ID" because that is pointlessly easy to spoof - just copy someone else's ID. So there must be some verification that you, the person at the keyboard, is the same person as that ID identifies. The UK is rapidly finding out that that is extremely difficult to do reliably. Video doesn't really work reliably on all cases, and still images are too e…

UK is stupidly far behind on this though. On one hand the digitization of government services is really well done(thanks to the fantastic team behind .gov websites), but on the other it's like being in the dark ages of tech. My native country has physical ID cards that contain my personal certificate that I can use to sign things or to - gasp! - prove that I am who I say I am. There is a government app that you can u…

>UK is in this weird place where there isn't one kind of ID that everyone has - for most people it's the driving licence, but obviously that's not good enough

The US also lacks a national ID, but as a non-driver myself, this is handled by things called variously by state a "state ID" or a "non-driver's driving license". These look exactly like driver's licenses and can be used wherever those can for ID (like for flying) except for a line saying "not valid for driving".

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Post by jgalt212 »

jijijijij wrote: post #842
zorked wrote: post #530

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CloudFlare is dystopic. It centralizes even the part of the Internet that hadn't been centralized before. It is a perfect Trojan horse to bypass all encryption. And it chooses who accesses (a considerable chunk of) the Internet and who doesn't. Anubis looks much better than this.

It's literally insane. After Snowden, how the fuck did we ended up with a single US company terminating almost every TLS connection?

They don't have to terminate every TLS connection. That's just the happy path.

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Post by dlenski »

eqvinox wrote: post #412

TFA — and most comments here — seem to completely miss what I thought was the main point of Anubis: it counters the crawler's "identity scattering"/sybil'ing/parallel crawling. Any access will fall into either of the following categories: - client with JS and cookies. In this case the server now has an identity to apply rate limiting to, from the cookie. Humans should never hit it, but crawlers will be slowed down im…

> Crawlers can still start an arbitrary number of parallel crawls, but each one costs to start and needs to stay below some rate limit.

This is a nice explanation. It's much clearer than anything I've seen offered by Anubis’s authors, in terms of why or how it could be effective at preventing a site from being ravaged by hordes of ill-behaved bots.

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Post by DanielHB »

wraptile wrote: post #910
DanielHB wrote: post #769

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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.

It's still pretty hard to bypass it with open source solutions. To bypass CF you need: - an automated browser that doesn't leak the fact it's being automated - ability to fake the browser fingerprint (e.g. Linux is heavily penalized) - residential or mobile proxies (for small scale your home IP is probably good enough) - deployment environment that isn't leaked to the browser. - realistic scrape pattern and header co…

I do it maybe once a month to fetch Thanks for the tips!

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

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Post by Sincere6066 »

esperent wrote: post #469
ksymph wrote: post #15

This is neither here nor there but the character isn't a cat. It's in the name, Anubis, who is an Egyptian deity typically depicted as a jackal or generic canine, and the gatekeeper of the afterlife who weighs the souls of the dead (hence the tagline). So more of a dog-girl, or jackal-girl if you want to be technical.

Every representation I've ever seen of Anubis - including remarkably well preserved statues from antiquity - are either a male human body with a canine head, or fully canine. This anime girl is not Anubis. It's a modern cartoon characters that simply borrows the name because it sounds cool, without caring anything about the history or meaning behind it. Anime culture does this all the time, drawing on inspiration fro…

irrelevant. still a doggirl.
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