Notices by earslash (earslash@ebiverse.social)

@adiz@mtl.jinxian.casa @genmaicha@stereophonic.space @p@fsebugoutzone.org There are some services that ask but do not require a phone number/email (Reddit is a surprising example)

@p@fsebugoutzone.org @laurel@fsebugoutzone.org @phnt@fluffytail.org @tyil@fedi.tyil.nl @waifu@mai.waifuism.life

The creator of Anubis claims there is "bait" in Anubis which AI companies are taking
Take of this what you will - in my opinion its a 100% bluff considering it is easily bypassable by anyone

@sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party @adiz@mtl.jinxian.casa @phnt@fluffytail.org @tyil@fedi.tyil.nl @p@fsebugoutzone.org @waifu@mai.waifuism.life @bonifartius@qoto.org I hate this foone guy since back in his Twitter days

@laurel@fsebugoutzone.org @phnt@fluffytail.org @tyil@fedi.tyil.nl @waifu@mai.waifuism.life @p@fsebugoutzone.org IIRC the kiwiflare was forked from another programmer, so most of the grunt work might had already be done

@p@fsebugoutzone.org @phnt@fluffytail.org @tyil@fedi.tyil.nl @waifu@mai.waifuism.life

Headless Chrome doesn't output to a screen at all, the "headful" chrome they use outputs to a virtual framebuffer (similar to headless Firefox with your description). Because Headless chrome didn't output to anything it was possible to detect when it was running. For example, a certain variable relating to graphics would be different, or a driver would be missing from the headless Chrome. There were programs that could "patch up" the discrepancies from the webpage through the browser instrumentation - but there would always be more 'telltale signs' than what the programs could hide. Also, they were able to archive sites that were known to block Chrome headless browsers.

https://freeman.vc/notes/headfull-browsers-beat-headless has a bit more information on the differences

@laurel@fsebugoutzone.org @p@fsebugoutzone.org @phnt@fluffytail.org @tyil@fedi.tyil.nl @waifu@mai.waifuism.life KiwiFlare only shows up once per session. Anubis shows up every 3rd time i am navigating a site with Anubis enabled. It seems to me KiwiFlare is better designed than Anubis though they have different goals.

@phnt@fluffytail.org @tyil@fedi.tyil.nl @waifu@mai.waifuism.life @p@fsebugoutzone.org I remember when 100% of the Linux money went into diversity lmfao

@phnt@fluffytail.org @adiz@mtl.jinxian.casa @tyil@fedi.tyil.nl @p@fsebugoutzone.org @waifu@mai.waifuism.life While on the topic of Mastodon keep in mind the default robots.txt on Mastodon is still just "GPTBot", despite the existence of numerous other major AI scraping bots and the addition of GPT-Search. Eugen can not merge a simple change that adds the new bots, making it almost useless. really shows the priorities and the mindset of Mastodon devs

@p@fsebugoutzone.org @phnt@fluffytail.org @tyil@fedi.tyil.nl @waifu@mai.waifuism.life I think they're mostly static blogs run by neurotics and they don't actually have a problem with bots.To be completely honest this is my take as well. There is little to no reason why the Linux Kernel, one of the most resourced (if not the most resourced) FOSS organizations in the world, has difficulty finding servers/creating code that can handle the load without Anubis. They inserted the rent-seeking maneuvers from the start. They were hoping it would happen.It wasn't until the viral thelibre article came out that people started mass adopting Anubis. It is possible the creator set themselves up for promotion

@waifu@mai.waifuism.life @p@fsebugoutzone.org @phnt@fluffytail.org @tyil@fedi.tyil.nl
if you really want connections from only humans you'd have to to use a custom captcha (off the shelf ones have solvers) or a HTTP password or something. Could kill off some human traffic though.

@p@fsebugoutzone.org @phnt@fluffytail.org @waifu@mai.waifuism.life @tyil@fedi.tyil.nl
Archive.today (and ghostarchive.org) do not use headless chrome, they use an actual Chrome instance (some sites can tell the difference).

@waifu@mai.waifuism.life @p@fsebugoutzone.org @tyil@fedi.tyil.nl @phnt@fluffytail.org It does deter "some" bots - i don't know how effective it is in the larger context. I think a lot of the sites using it have poor coding behind them that can't efficiency handle any sort of major traffic, bot or not.

My insider source says the creator of Anubis is still surprised at the sudden intake of sites using it, and they never expected it to get this far (it was a personal side project after all). The PoW thing is supposedly temporary until they find a new way to determine bot traffic. See https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/blob/main/web/index.templ

"Ultimately, this is a hack whose real purpose is to give a "good enough" placeholder solution so that more
time can be spent on fingerprinting and identifying headless browsers (EG: via how they do font rendering)
so that the challenge proof of work page doesn't need to be presented to users that are much more likely to
be legitimate."

@waifu@mai.waifuism.life @p@fsebugoutzone.org @tyil@fedi.tyil.nl @phnt@fluffytail.org Bots can access the site even with anubis, it just takes slightly more computational resources

@anemone I read some where new CS grads will be expected to perform at a senior dev level as AI will replace the need for junior level devs

@phnt@fluffytail.org 5 months before I switch to other OSes permanently

@phnt@fluffytail.org Let's hope 4chan is the first to update

@waifu@mai.waifuism.life
LLVM - https://llvm.org/img/LLVM-Logo-Derivative-1.png
FreeBSD- https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.wSbL9pDWyftZ5C9sW67g1wHaEo?rs=1&pid=ImgDetMain
OpenBSD - https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.6e5c8fca67a72fe33211e4a9824c67b7?rik=JnJcf3HOBwoL0g&pid=ImgRaw&r=0

@waifu@mai.waifuism.life Dragon-tan for LLVM, Pufffish-tan for OpenBSD

@phnt@fluffytail.org @Inginsub@clubcyberia.co
For clarification, They "transpiled" dav1d, which is a av1 decoder not part of the FFmpeg project.

@sun@shitposter.world I am very young but old enough to remember when Linux Foundation put: "100% of donations received go towards funding diversity programs."