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Did anyone see an anime avatar flash by for a fraction of a second before the content loaded? What was that?

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Anubis: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

blog post (pretty sure I've seen it on HN before) on the topic:

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis.html

But not a very accurate blogpost. "Here's why this literally cannot work (in theory)" to denigrate a system that actually works (in practice). Their goal is to convince people to stop using it because it personally inconveniences them, but they never provide an alternative solution that actually solves the problem (in practice) that Anubis actually solves (in practice). If leaving the problem unsolved (in practice) was a desirable option, the site owner would not have turned to Anubis in the first place.

I'm totally out of the loop here, where's the evidence that this works in practice?

before and after apache logs showing much less crap in them from bots. Do you think the maintainers of https://lore.kernel.org/ would leave something in that didn't work? It isn't perfect but I have run it on a (much smaller) web site getting hammered by bots and logged "before" and "after" and the difference is measurable.

Its literally trivially objectively measurable, this isn't something that is based in opinion.

You can throw it up on your own website and simply grep the logs if you don't trust it, or look for the analysis reports from people who have done exactly that.

Like the other commenter said, why would linux.org deploy and leave deployed a technology that did nothing? Do they just enjoy trolling users? I doubt it.

uBlock Origin filter to block the anime girl from loading:

  ! Title: Hide Anubis Image
  */.within.website/x/cmd/anubis/static/img/*.webp$image

Aw, but what have you against kawaii?

For me, it's a personal preference and in my opinion, it's less professional.

Places that want to use Anubis but find the logo not professional enough are free to pay the author, IIRC it was major "professional support" benefit :D

People always seem surprised when someone in CS or SWE doesn't care for anime or cutesy pictorial graphics of girls.

It's mostly surprising how many grown adult men go into a blind rage when confronted with a picture of a cartoon woman. In a lobsters thread about Anubis, a community member of 12 years got themselves permanently banned because they were frothing at the mouth with accusations of pedophilia against the developer and refused to apologise when given an opportunity by moderators. Telling on themselves, perhaps? It's funny, in a bizarre way, that this is a hill people will die on.

> ...they were frothing at the mouth with accusations of pedophilia against the developer...

I think I remember that thread. IIRC, it went something very, very roughly like this:

  Future banned user: It weirds me out a bit how young the mascot looks. I've never been comfortable with cutesy, underage-looking mascots.
  
  The dogpile: How dare you insinuate that the dev a pedophile? Don't you know how anti-trans that dogwhistle is?

and the conversation degraded from there.

I'll also note that you chipped in with

> It's mostly surprising how many grown adult men go into a blind rage when confronted with a picture of a cartoon woman.

when -AFAICT- noone in this subthread expressed anything more heated than "dislike of kawaii". But perhaps you were speaking more generally, and weren't inspired by any conversation that happened in this subthread.

It also serves as a sort of "chud defense", in a way.

I like it.

If anything, its the opposite, going by the number of users with anime girl pfps on Twitter and other social media posting slurs and bigotry.

It's moreso only a loose indicator the user is between the ages of 14-30, if anything.

For some reason it's always underage girls.

How do you determine whether a drawing is "underage"?

If you don't want the anime girl pay for the support, otherwise you get the anime jackal. Seems like a fair deal to me.

everyone knows that penguins are much more professional

its the only weakness of the corpo-capitalist gestalt!

That’s Anubis. [0]

[0]: https://anubis.techaro.lol

It is a way to block bots, similarly to Cloudflare or Google's captcha. The Arch Linux website uses it.

Anubis bot protection: https://anubis.techaro.lol

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