I never even mentioned the DNC or “vote blue” bullshit. You seem to be eager to argue with someone who has opinions different than mine.

Idk why you think I was arguing that.

Historically, a socialist holding an elected executive office of a capitalist government is a precarious position fraught with contradictions. You can only meaningfully govern by making massive concessions to the ruling class and betraying some supporters. Communists will stake out the “he will betray you” position.

FWIW the Mamdani administration is very aware of this contradiction and deliberately made promises that he can do by decree, such as the rent freeze. But there’s also been some rather heinous concessions, like keeping on a bunch of Zionists in the admin, and also keeping on the NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch.

They weren’t wide, 21-23" 1080p.

I’ve seen a coder have exactly two vertical monitors.

More of a loser than Guaidó.

Chocolate filled but not really restricted to children. They also aren’t like mandatory.

In the US, I’ve seen advent wreaths at churches but not in anyone’s home. But I’m sure some people have it in the US. Usually wreaths are hung on the front door as holiday decorations.

We do have the christmas calendars and jokes about eating them all at once.

Holy shit the intercept has gone downhill with the AI images.

Kraft American Singles is normal american cheese. All american cheese is “cheese product” because its solidified cheese sauce, not a cheese itself.

That seems like a flight of stairs up.

Like the NYT suddenly cares about Palestinian women.

For more than a century, Russia and the Soviet Union sought to weaken their adversaries in the West by inflaming racial and ethnic tensions.

FUCK ALL THE WAY OFF, NYT. DID YOU FORGET FRED HAMPTON? DID YOU FORGET THE FBI BLACKMAILING MLK?

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Anubis forces the site to reload when doing the normal PoW challenge! Meta Refresh is a sufficient mouse to block 99% of all bot traffic without being any more burdensome than PoW.

You’ve failed to demonstrate why meta-refresh is more burdensome than PoW and have pivoted to arguing the point I was making from the start as though it was your own. I’m not arguing with you any further. I’m satisfied that I’ve convinced any readers of our discussion.

You will have people complain about their anti-fingerprinting being blocked with every bot-managment solution. Your ability to navigate the internet anonymously is directly correlated with a bots ability to scrape. That has never been my complaint about Anubis.

My complaint is that the calculations Anubis forces you to do are absolutely negligible burden for a bot to solve. The hardest part is just having a JavaScript interpreter available. Making the author of the scraper write custom code to deal with your website is the most effective way to prevent bots.

Think about how much computing power AI data centers have. Do you think they give a shit about hashing some values for Anubis? No. They burn more compute power than a thousand Anubis challenges generating a single llm answer. PoW is a backwards solution.

Please Think. Captchas worked because they’re supposed to be hard for a computer to solve but are easy for a human. PoW is the opposite.

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

Again, I ask you: What extra burden does meta-refresh impose on users? How does setting a cookie and immediately refreshing the page burden the user more than making them wait longer while draining their battery before doing the exact same thing? Its strictly less intrusive.

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.

Accessing the browsers API in any way is way harder to spoof than some hashing. I already suggested checking if the browser has graphics acceleration. That would filter out the vast majority of headless browsers too. PoW is just math and is easy to spoof without running any JavaScript. You can even do it faster than real JavaScript users something like Rust or C.

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

What are you talking about? It just refreshes the page without doing any of the extra computation that PoW does. What extra burden does it put on users?

LOL

You are arguing a strawman. Anubis works because because most AI scrapers (currently) don’t want to spend extra on running headless chromium

WTF, That’s what I already said? That was my entire point from the start!? You don’t need PoW to force headless usage. Any JavaScript challenge will suffice. I even said the Meta Refresh challenge Anubis provides is sufficient and explicitly recommended it.

Well in most cases it would by Python requests not curl. But yes, forcing them to use a browser is the real cost. Not just in CPU time but in programmer labor. PoW is overkill for that though.

Anubis is that it has a graded tier system of how sketchy a client is and changing the kind of challenge based on a a weighted priority system.

Last I checked that was just User-Agent regexes and IP lists. But that’s where Anubis should continue development, and hopefully they’ve improved since. Discerning real users from bots is how you do proper bot management. Not imposing a flat tax on all connections.