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  • Anubis is awesome and I want to talk about it

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  • No one is disputing that in theory (!) Anubis offers very little protection against an adversary that specifically tries to circumvent it, but we are dealing with an elephant in the porcelain shop kind of situation. The AI companies simply don't care if they kill off small independently hosted web-applications with their scraping and Anubis is the mouse that is currently sufficient to make them back off.

    And no, forced site reloads are extremely disruptive for web-applications and often force a lot of extra load for re-authentication etc. It is not as easy as you make it sound.

  • Anubis is awesome and I want to talk about it

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  • You clearly don't know what you are talking about.

  • The cloud is just someone else's computer, but the internet is just someone else's network

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  • Yeah, German Universities have special direct internet access via the "Hochschulnetz". We had some pretty fancy 5ghz directional wifi connections over several km connecting to it, but it was fairly slow (shared 10 mbit), which made that impractical for most private internet use.

  • The cloud is just someone else's computer, but the internet is just someone else's network

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  • It would already help if apartment buildings had an internal network with a single connection point, but I can tell you as someone who worked on this as a volunteer for student dormitories back in the day that ISPs are extremely hostile to the idea.

  • Anubis is awesome and I want to talk about it

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  • If you check for GPU (not generally a bad idea) you will have the same people that currently complain about JS, complain about this breaking with their anti-fingerprinting browser addons.

    But no, you can't spoof PoW obviously, that's the entire point of it. If you do the calculation in Javascript or not doesn't really matter for it to work.

    In the current shape Anubis has zero impact on usability for 99% of the site visitors, not so with meta refresh.

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  • And how do you actually check for working JS in a way that can't be easily spoofed? Hint: PoW is a good way to do that.

    Meta refresh is a downgrade in usability for everyone but a tiny minority that has disabled JS.

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  • You are arguing a strawman. Anubis works because because most AI scrapers (currently) don't want to spend extra on running headless chromium, and because it slightly incentivises AI scrapers to correctly identify themselves as such.

    Most of the AI scraping is frankly just shoddy code written by careless people that don't want to ddos the independent web, but can't be bothered to actually fix that on their side.

  • Anubis is awesome and I want to talk about it

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  • AI scraping is a massive issue for specific types of websites, such has git forges, wikis and to a lesser extend Lemmy etc, that rely on complex database operations that can not be easily cached. Unless you massively overprovision your infrastructure these web-applications come to a grinding halt by constantly maxing out the available CPU power.

    The vast majority of the critical commenters here seem to talk from a point of total ignorance about this, or assume operators of such web applications have time for hyperviligance to constantly monitor and manually block AI scrapers (that do their best to circumvent more basic blocks). The realistic options for such operators are right now: Anubis (or similar), Cloudflare or shutting down their servers. Of these Anubis is clearly the least bad option.

  • Anubis is awesome and I want to talk about it

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  • I kinda sucks how AI scrapers make websites inaccessible to everyone 🙄

  • Anubis is awesome and I want to talk about it

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  • That blog post is fundamentally misunderstanding what Anubis actually does.

  • VTT (Virtual Tabletop)?

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  • Steam Frame Using Mesa's Turnip Vulkan Open-Source Driver

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  • Actually, often the are available, but of such low code quality and depending on various out of tree changes in the Linux kernel that it is easier to rewrite them if you want to get them into mainline Linux.

    And RISC-V has more or less the same problem.

  • Running GoToSocial on an old wifi router

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  • Very, cool. But I can't help to notice the very odd placement of the ethernet ports on that router?

    Edit: Ah, I see:

  • Steam Machine – Powerful Enough?

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  • Yeah, I don't really get why people complain about the 8gb VRAM. The GPU isn't fast enough to push native 4k anyway and at lower resolutions 8gb is sufficient for gaming. I have a similar GPU in my PC and never had any issues with the 8gb in 1080p, and I suspect at 1440p it is also still fine.

  • Steam Machine – Powerful Enough?

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  • It recently really increase in price, which is probably why Valve doesn't want to announce prices yet.

  • Plasma-Bigscreen for TV (Desktop) Mode

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  • Yeah, I hope the qt6 version comes to the Fedora repos soon. Was really disappointed when the qt5 version seemed discontinued for a long time.

    Maybe this will end up on the Steam Machine as the primary non-Steam UI? Would explain why there is renewed developer interest.

  • Featured

    [Meta] This community has been renamed to Steam Hardware to include the newly annouced Steam Machine and Steam Frame

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  • Only the display name.

  • Problems with Diablo 1 via GoG

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    Stop cramming everything onto one Pi: treat your home lab like a tiny ISP - hardware, stack, backups and an update plan

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  • Probably some hack to make it look to the OS like it is charging the battery.

    But yeah, why all the silicone? 😱

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Peertube runner container with GPU acceleration support?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    In São Paulo, ‘Big Brother’ is watching, with 25,000 cameras and facial recognition technology

    english.elpais.com /international/2025-05-10/in-sao-paulo-big-brother-is-watching-with-25000-cameras-and-facial-recognition-technology.html
  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml
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    Fedora KDE Plasma Edition Aims To Appeal To Multimedia Enthusiasts & Content Creators (and gaming)

    www.phoronix.com /news/Fedora-KDE-Edition-Plan
  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml
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    Lenovo Legion Go S official: $499 buys the first authorized third-party SteamOS handheld

    www.theverge.com /2025/1/7/24338028/lenovo-legion-go-s-steam-windows
  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml
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    Descent 3: Piccu Engine is a new open source build focused on quality-of-life improvements

    www.gamingonlinux.com /2024/10/descent-3-piccu-engine-is-a-new-open-source-build-focused-on-quality-of-life-improvements/
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    CSAM Regulation Update: Dutch Intelligence agency weighs in

    berthub.eu /articles/posts/dutch-intel-service-csam-update/
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    What's inside the QR code menu at this cafe?

    peabee.substack.com /p/whats-inside-the-qr-code-menu-at
  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml
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    Games on Whales - Stream multiple desktops and games from a single host

    games-on-whales.github.io
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    GNU Taler presentation

    Privacy, Identity and Payment in the Next Generation Internet

  • Europe @feddit.de
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    Please update your subscription to [email protected]

  • Europe @feddit.de
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    Portugal’s socialists and liberals defeat far-right in EU elections

    www.euractiv.com /section/politics/news/portugals-socialists-liberals-defeat-far-right-in-eu-elections/
  • Europe @feddit.de
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    Dutch exit poll: Labor-Green alliance narrowly beats far-right Wilders in EU election

    www.politico.eu /article/dutch-exit-poll-labour-green-alliance-far-right-geert-wilders-european-parliament-polls-pvv/
  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml
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    Moonlight PC for game streaming via Sunshine gets HDR support for Linux / Steam Deck

    www.gamingonlinux.com /2024/06/moonlight-pc-for-game-streaming-via-sunshine-gets-hdr-support-for-linux-steam-deck/
  • Europe @feddit.de
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    Southern Germany hit by catastrophic flooding

    www.dw.com /en/southern-germany-hit-by-catastrophic-flooding/a-69239541
  • Europe @feddit.de
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    Iceland volcano eruption: Travel advice and Blue Lagoon update

    www.euronews.com /travel/2024/05/29/iceland-volcano-2023-how-likely-is-an-eruption-and-how-will-it-affect-travel
  • Europe @feddit.de
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    Seaweed farming: a new lifeline for fishers facing declining catches

    www.euronews.com /green/2024/05/28/fishers-turn-to-seaweed-farming
  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml
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    Linux_gaming is looking for additional mods

  • Europe @feddit.de
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    Bulgaria and Romania join the Schengen area

    ec.europa.eu /commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_1722
  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    Repository Overhaul in new F-Droid Client 1.20

    f-droid.org /2024/05/16/repository-overhaul-in-client-1-20.html
  • Europe @feddit.de
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    EU–Mercosur: No agreement before European elections

    www.dw.com /en/eumercosur-no-agreement-before-european-elections/a-69123817