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Did anyone see an anime avatar flash by for a fraction of a second before the content loaded? What was that?
by Y-bar 4mo ago
Did anyone see an anime avatar flash by for a fraction of a second before the content loaded? What was that?
- Hackbraten 4mo agoThat’s Anubis. [0] [0]: https://anubis.techaro.lol https://anubis.techaro.lol
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- bzzzt 4mo agoAnubis bot protection: https://anubis.techaro.lol https://anubis.techaro.lol
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- konart 4mo agoAnubis: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis blog post (pretty sure I've seen it on HN before) on the topic: https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis.html https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis.html
- anonymous908213 4mo agoBut not a very accurate blogpost. "Here's why this literally cannot work (in theory)" to denigrate a system that actually works (in practice). Their goal is to convince people to stop using it because it personally inconveniences them, but they never provide an alternative solution that actually solves the problem (in practice) that Anubis actually solves (in practice). If leaving the problem unsolved (in practice) was a desirable option, the site owner would not have turned to Anubis in the first place.
- yunwal 4mo agoI'm totally out of the loop here, where's the evidence that this works in practice?
- patchtopic 4mo agobefore and after apache logs showing much less crap in them from bots. Do you think the maintainers of https://lore.kernel.org/ https://lore.kernel.org/ would leave something in that didn't work? It isn't perfect but I have run it on a (much smaller) web site getting hammered by bots and logged "before" and "after" and the difference is measurable.
- chlorion 4mo agoIts literally trivially objectively measurable, this isn't something that is based in opinion. You can throw it up on your own website and simply grep the logs if you don't trust it, or look for the analysis reports from people who have done exactly that. Like the other commenter said, why would linux.org deploy and leave deployed a technology that did nothing? Do they just enjoy trolling users? I doubt it.
- notafox 4mo agouBlock Origin filter to block the anime girl from loading: ! Title: Hide Anubis Image */.within.website/x/cmd/anubis/static/img/*.webp$image (c) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46310941 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46310941
- HeckFeck 4mo agoAw, but what have you against kawaii?
- saltamimi 4mo agoFor me, it's a personal preference and in my opinion, it's less professional.
- lukeify 4mo agoPeople always seem surprised when someone in CS or SWE doesn't care for anime or cutesy pictorial graphics of girls.
- anonymous908213 4mo agoIt's mostly surprising how many grown adult men go into a blind rage when confronted with a picture of a cartoon woman. In a lobsters thread about Anubis, a community member of 12 years got themselves permanently banned because they were frothing at the mouth with accusations of pedophilia against the developer and refused to apologise when given an opportunity by moderators. Telling on themselves, perhaps? It's funny, in a bizarre way, that this is a hill people will die on.
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- Shellban 4mo agoIt is a way to block bots, similarly to Cloudflare or Google's captcha. The Arch Linux website uses it.