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
I wonder if this even is effective. If a bot can solve anubis challenges, why can’t it solve all difficulties?
A word of advice: download Arch wiki for offline use.
You can use Kiwix to have a full graphical wiki, or use things like arch-wiki-docs.
Difficulty 6 is a little high. The default is 4.
Honestly better than running into cloudfail every 5mins
I never got a challenge, sounds fun.
Every time I watch Youtuße through Invidious and I get this crap, it gets stuck every time and goes nowhere.
This is every scraper for YouTube.
The only applications that I’ve ever seen reliably access YouTube are the ones that work by patching the YouTube app and then using what the app would do.
Applications like invidious or Grayjay almost always have a 15 to 30 second delay before any video.
Public invidious instances are more a proof of concept, its much more performant to run it yourself.
True.
Will set one up, if more need arises.
…but people keep sharing invidious links.
The last part of the url is still the same Video id from youtube. You can copy that in whichever you use.
The internet actually really needs an overhaul to how links are presented. So you can press a video link and opening in the compatible player you prefer.
Same issue exists on lemmy. A link will send you to the instance of the poster, we have special ! Links to bridge the gap but i can never remember how to use em.
Technically, the internet already has what you’re looking for. It’s just not really standardized for video media.
The beginning of the URL or the schema is already able to on most mainstream OS be controlled by a specific application.
There’s nothing really stopping anyone from making it so there’s a video:// schema, and then configuring a schema handler to handle it. on Debian it would be a single desktop file with a MimeType=x-scheme-handler/video line indicating that type of url should be opened with that desktop file. I had to configure it for vortex to get it to open mod links, I never knew how easy that was
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 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
My concern like everything open-source is a single person deciding to profit off of it.
Banano is also one. But this one is more of a memecoin.
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.
that mathematical principle where verifying an answer is as difficult as computing the answer in the first place
You’re thinking of the P vs NP problem, but you got the details wrong. There are known cases where the answer is easy to verify.
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.
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.
Disagree, that just stops me from using it completely instead of just having to wait a bit
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
For everything
Maybe we should do a capture-able reward for anyone who can bypass Anubis lmao
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.
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
Wild that I thought a difficulty of 4 was reasonable when I set up Anubis on my reverse proxy.
