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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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> The CAPTCHA forces vistors to solve a problem designed to be very difficult for computers but trivial for humans. > Anubis – confusingly – inverts this idea.

Not really, AI easily automates traditional captchas now. At least this one does not need extensions to bypass.

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

#6
The argument isn't that it's difficult for them to circumvent - it's not - but that it adds enough friction to force them to rethink how they're scraping at scale and/or self-throttle.

I personally don't care about the act of scraping itself, but the volume of scraping traffic has forced administrators' hands here. I suspect we'd be seeing far fewer deployments if the scrapers behaved themselves to begin with.

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

#9

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you are overthinking

it's a simple as having a nice picture there make this whole thing feel nicer, and give it a bit of personality

so you put in some picture/art you like

that's it

similar any site sing it can change that picture, but there isn't any fundamental problem with the picture, so most can't care to change it

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