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debugnik commented on Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit   emersion.fr/blog/2025/usi... · Posted by u/LaSombra
lukaslalinsky · 4 days ago
I was a huge fan of Podman, but I eventually gave up and use Docker Compose for local development. It's not worth fighting the system.

However, for single server deployments, where I don't need Kubernetes, I now exclusively use Quadlets to run apps and I couldn't be happier. It's a much nicer experience that using typical Docker/Podman setup. It feels integrated into the system.

debugnik · 3 days ago
> I was a huge fan of Podman, but I eventually gave up and use Docker Compose

You can mix them. I was using docker-compose with podman instead of docker before switching to quadlets. I still prefer the experience of compose files, but quadlets do integrate much better into systemd.

debugnik commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?   lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso
heavyset_go · 4 days ago
That's not not the kind of proof of life the government and companies want online. They want to make sure their video identification 1) is of a living person right now, and 2) that living person matches their government ID.

It's a solution to the "grandma died but we've been collecting her Social Security benefits anyway", or "my son stole my wallet with my ID & credit card", or (god forbid) "We incapacitated/killed this person to access their bank account using facial ID".

It's also a solution to the problem advertisers, investors and platforms face of 1) wanting huge piles of video training data for free and 2) determining that a user truly is a monetizable human being and not a freeloader bot using stolen/sold credentials.

debugnik · 4 days ago
It's the kind of proof my government already asks of me to sign documents much, much more important than watching adult content, such as social security benefits.

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debugnik commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?   lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso
heavyset_go · 4 days ago
There isn't a technical solution to this: governments and providers not only want proof of identity matching IDs, they want proof of life, too.

This will always end with live video of the person requesting to log in to provide proof of life at the very least, and if they're lazy/want more data, they'll tie in their ID verification process to their video pipeline.

debugnik · 4 days ago
You already provided proof of a living legal identity when you got the ID, and it already expires to make you provide proof again every few years.
debugnik commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?   lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso
NoGravitas · 4 days ago
The point is that it will always be cheaper for bot farms to pass the challenge than for regular users.
debugnik · 4 days ago
Why does that matter? The challenge needs to stay expensive enough to slow down bots, but legitimate users won't be solving anywhere near the same amount of challenges and the alternative is the site getting crawled to death, so they can wait once in a while.
debugnik commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?   lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso
Retr0id · 5 days ago
If you increase the difficulty much beyond what it currently is, legitimate users end up having to wait for ages.
debugnik · 4 days ago
And if you don't increase it, crawlers will DoS the sites again and legitimate users will have to wait until the next tech hype bubble for the site to load, which is the reason why software like Anubis is being installed in the first place.
debugnik commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?   lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso
therein · 5 days ago
I am guessing you don't realize that that means people using not the latest generation phones will suffer.
debugnik · 4 days ago
I'm not using the latest generation of phones, not in the slightest, and I don't really care, because the alternative to Anubis-like intersitials is the sites not loading at all when they're mass-crawled to death.
debugnik commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?   lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso
nialv7 · 5 days ago
Obviously the developer of Anubis thinks it is bypassing: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/issues/978
debugnik · 5 days ago
Fair, then I obviously think Xe may have a kinda misguided understanding of their own product. I still stand by the concept I stated above.
debugnik commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?   lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso
shkkmo · 5 days ago
The explanation of how the estimate is made is more detailed, but here is the referenced conclusion:

>> So (11508 websites * 2^16 sha256 operations) / 2^21, that’s about 6 minutes to mine enough tokens for every single Anubis deployment in the world. That means the cost of unrestricted crawler access to the internet for a week is approximately $0.

>> In fact, I don’t think we reach a single cent per month in compute costs until several million sites have deployed Anubis.

debugnik · 5 days ago
That's a matter of increasing the difficulty isn't it? And if the added cost is really negligible, we can just switch to a "refresh" challenge for the same added latency and without burning energy for no reason.
debugnik commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?   lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso
ranger_danger · 5 days ago
The compute also only seems to happen once, not for every page load, so I'm not sure how this is a huge barrier.
debugnik · 5 days ago
It happens once if the user agent keeps a cookie that can be used for rate limiting. If a crawler hits the limit they need to either wait or throw the cookie away and solve another challenge.

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