Websearches were getting worse long before AI because of SEO slop. AI has accelerated the worsening searches by making it easier to generate SEO slop.

I’ve been criticizing Anubis and Proof of Work solutions in general. Its my speculation that they mostly work just by requiring you to execute javascript not by being an actual burden on the bots CPU.

Wanting to not get fingerprinted is totally fair. I’m just stating what will and won’t work at scale. But please understand, you’re ability to view the internet anonymously is wholly equivalent to a bots.

Admins will always turn down the bot management when it starts blocking end users. At that point you cough up the money for the extra bandwidth and investigate different solutions.

Most bots and scrapers from what I’ve seen already are using (headless) full browsers

That’s not going to be the majority of your bot traffic by a long shot because it doesn’t scale like using basic HTTP requests.

This is from personal experience. With PoW you just need any puppetted browser, maybe less. With Canvas finerprinting you need a heavily customized scraping browser, either one you made yourself or one you’re paying for. If that’s the case the cost of PoW is neglible. If you still want actual stats, I’d have to ask where you’re getting any stats on PoW working.

The assumption is correct. PoW has been proven to significantly reduce bot traffic.

What you’re doing is filtering out bots that can’t be bothered to execute JavaScript. You don’t need to do a computational heavy PoW task to do that.

meanwhile the mere existence of residential proxies has exploded the availability of easy bot campaigns.

Correct, and thats why they are the number one expense for any scraping company. Any scraper that can’t be bothered to spin up a headless browser isn’t going to cough up the dough for residential proxies.

Demonstrably false… people already do this with abysmal results. Need to visit a clownflare site? Endless captcha loops. No thanks

That’s not what “demonstrably false” even means. Canvas fingerprinting filters out bots better than PoW. What you’re complaining about too strict settings and some users being denied. Make your Anubis settings too high you’ll have users waiting long times while their batteries drain.

Proof of Work is a terrible solution because it assumes computational costs are significant expense for scrapers compared to proxy costs. It’ll never come close to costing the same as residential proxies and meanwhile every smartphone user will be complaining about your website draining their battery.

You can do something like only challenge data data center IPs but you’ll have to do better than Proof-of-Work. Canvas fingerprinting would work.

Whats confusing the hell out of me is: why are they bothering to scrape the git blame page? Just download the entire git repo and feed that into your LLM!

9/10 the best solution is to block nonresidential IPs. Residential proxies exist but they’re far more expensive than cloud proxies and providers will ask questions. Residential proxies are sketch AF and basically guarded like munitions. Some rookie LLM maker isn’t going to figure that out.

Anubis also sounds trivial to beat. If its just crunching numbers and not attempting to fingerprint the browser then its just a case of feeding the page into playwright and moving on.

Every service is doing this as expenses and interest rates go up. Its the driving force of enshittification. All the VCs want internet startups to finally turn a profit.

It was there first and you can share it with friends more easily. For Plex you just register with the central server and share your username with your friends or w/e. Jellyfin has nothing like that.

It literally looks like a clone of fzf or sk complete with prompt and file previews. The fact that ithe article doesn’t event reference the prior art is deeply concerning.

Like opening source code in Word.

Training the most insane AI model on classified federal documents.

This is actually harsher on China than the wiki page for the incident.

Most frequently I use it as an interactive cd. Docs on how

Saves me a whole lot of ls and cd or tabbing through completions.

Switched from ranger to yazi months ago. There’s some UI choices that I miss but the configuration via toml and lua plugins is way better than rangers.

I would like to find a git modeline plugin. Its wild to me that they have a zoxide integrated and keybound by default but no git integration.

Who actually hates on declarative/immutable distros as a concept? Its always the actual usability of the specific implementations thats the problem. Stale packages, poor documentation.

tl;dr: hyprland is the /g/ approved compositor

The analysis revealed that the Debian Linux configuration was not included in their test matrix.

You might as well say you don’t support Linux.

“Crowdstrike’s model seems to be ‘we push software to your machines any time we want, whether or not it’s urgent, without testing it’,” lamented the team member.

I wonder how this shit works on NixOS.

Worse, my employer doesn’t care about this shit but our clients are demanding we have the bossware installed.