Anubis rarely ever annoys me (I still prefer it over cloudflare’s Mitm) but this specific visit feels almost vindictive. It used half my CPU cores at full blast for three straight minutes.
It seems to be effective since I can’t really “bypass” it with extensions, so AI crawlers probably can’t either, but damn there really should be an option to complete a manual captcha or email the administrators to complain.
As I’m typing this the challenge is still running xD
Think of it like tipping culture. Get mad at AI industry scrapers that make anubis necessary. Sam Altman is the reason you are enduring this. Take a lighter and…
I’ve actually wanted to deploy this with some absurdly difficult challenge as a troll but I don’t know what’s worth putting behind a webpage with effectively a client side loading bar lol.
Find some relevant XKCD, and drop that on a 404 page
You did say you want to troll people
Your gpg private key
The idea is that at individual scales the additional load is ignorable
So uh anyone anyone gonna tell them the idea was wrong? Three minutes is not ignorable.
The difficulty is typically dynamic based on current request load. At this difficulty typically means their server is getting hammered really hard, better this than the server just respond with a bad gateway error.
It would be better to serve a static page saying “the server is getting hammered really hard”, and, if possible, context about the duration of the current event and historical frequency.
I wish it were doing protein folding work or something less wasteful.
I wonder if that could be a thing
FoldCoin
put crypto nonsense to work and maybe help fund research
That exists already, actually: GridCoin
Would you trust the output of an A.I. swarm?
The idea is to pick some task that is very difficult to calculate, but easy to verify. E.g., confirming a crossword is correct is much faster than filling one in.
Protein folding is one such example, and it’s useful to boot. The results can be used in medical research, for example.
Donating compute via Folding@Home was quite popular for a while for this exact reason.
The problem being the challenge needs to be unique and issued by the server on demand, otherwise a computer can have a bunch of pre-processed challenge answers ready to fire out a huge burst of requests. (Or re-use the solutions on other websites)
I don’t know how protein folding works, but if it’s easy to check it’s correct, then doesn’t that violate that mathematical principle where verifying an answer is as difficult as computing the answer in the first place? I forget the name of it.
I guess what I’m trying to say is, volunteers at home are already self-selecting to be mostly honest and donating correct answers for a good cause. Their output trustworthiness is moderate-high. Spammers, bots, A.I. swarms, ddos networks, random users, etc… not so much. You can’t really trust their output at all, you have to verify it very carefully and treat it as malicious or just incorrect junk by default.
verifying an answer is as difficult as computing the answer in the first place
What the distributed computing stuff does is check many many potential answers. You’re only interested in the right answers, and they’re easy to verify. If there’s a concern about junk answers, the answers could probably be compared across multiple clients to verify.
Unfortunately yeah, people with exceptionally shit computers get caught in the cross-fire of these things
I’ve had Anubis get stuck for me before. Usually clears up if you refresh the page
Maybe that’s part of the challenge, lol.
Wait, I’m not mining crypto trash for strangers whenever I see that annoying fox girl, am I?
crypto* as in cryptography, not *currency
Proof-of-work in approach, not towards the same ends. The goal is to prevent scraping, not monetization.
Vain*
Reworded it instead, but thanks for the correction.
Same process, different product.
Wild that I thought a difficulty of 4 was reasonable when I set up Anubis on my reverse proxy.
You could try hitting up the Internet archive for a quick workaround.
I think you can also download a copy of the entire arch wiki as a zim file too
You are supposed to have a local copy:
lang=eng
First item is in Japanese
Ironically got hit with Anubis on that page
But once you download the files you will be accessing regularly you don’t need to visit again.
