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Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
$Id: f0cc50a6fc6a5dd652c2b96ca9c1779f763fd6b1 $ Hey… quick question, why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? I’ve started running into more sites recently that deploy Anubis, a sort of hybrid art project slash network countermeasure. The project “weighs the souls” of HTTP requests to help protect the web from AI crawlers.
I’ve started running into more sites recently that deploy Anubis, a sort of hybrid art project slash network countermeasure. The default configuration means mining one token gets you access for 7 days (although I think this expiration check is broken, see below), so we need 11,508 * 2^16 SHA-256 operations per week, how expensive is that? The discussion forums are full of users on limited devices complaining Anubis cites hashcash as the primary inspiration for their design, an anti-spam solution from the 90s that was never widely adopted.
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