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Re:FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies by xena on Thursday March 20, 2025 @10:21AM (#43423922)
There's no way to really make a progress bar make sense, it's a luck-based mechanic.
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Re:FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies by diggan on Thursday March 20, 2025 @10:24AM (#43423952)
Maybe one of those (slightly misleading) progressbars that have a dynamic speed that gets slower and slower the closer to the finish it gets? Just to indicate that it's working towards something
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Re:FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies by blibble on Thursday March 20, 2025 @10:44AM (#43424193)
more, easier proof of works

and the law of large numbers will do the rest

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Re:FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies by yifanl on Thursday March 20, 2025 @05:08PM (#43429003)
That's multiplying the work the server has to do by a large number so it can show a nicer progress bar.

Seems very counter to the purpose.

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Re:FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies by isoprophlex on Thursday March 20, 2025 @10:25AM (#43423964)
It'll be somewhat involved, but based on the difficulty vs the clients hashing speed you could say something probabilistic like "90% of the time, this window will be gone in xyz seconds from now"?
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Re:FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies by xena on Thursday March 20, 2025 @10:29AM (#43424028)
Yeah, I have to get the data for that though! I'm gonna add that to the list.
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Re:FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies by wink on Friday March 21, 2025 @08:49AM (#43435012)
So just like the windows copy dialog. Progress bar it is.
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