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Re:FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies by vhcr on Thursday March 20, 2025 @10:52AM (#43424274)
Anubis is only going to work as long as it doesn't gets famous, if that happens crawlers will start using GPUs / ASICs for the proof of work and it's game over.
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Re:FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies by bashfulpup on Thursday March 20, 2025 @11:12AM (#43424506)
The entire reason bots are so agressive is because they are cheap to run.

If a GPU was required per scrape then >90% simply couldn't afford it at scale.

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Re:FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies by xena on Thursday March 20, 2025 @11:01AM (#43424376)
Author of Anubis here. If that happens, I win.
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Re:FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies by eb0la on Thursday March 20, 2025 @11:10AM (#43424486)
If that happens, count with me to use Anubis to factor large primes or whatever science needs as a background task.
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Re:FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies by enrico204 on Thursday March 20, 2025 @12:46PM (#43425602)
Actually, that is not a bad idea. @xena maybe Anubis v2 could make the client participate in some sort of SETI@HOME project, creating the biggest distributed cluster ever created :-D
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Re:FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies by programd on Thursday March 20, 2025 @02:10PM (#43426801)
Oh come now, clearly Anubis should make the clients mine bitcoin as proof of work, with a split for the website and the author.

Oh dear, somebody is going to implement this in about an hour, aren't they....

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Re:FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies by clvx on Thursday March 20, 2025 @05:59PM (#43429468)
a service that allows you expose and host your data in a private manner getting a cut from whatever token your endpoints have generated.
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Re:FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies by grotorea on Thursday March 20, 2025 @06:15PM (#43429628)
Just in case you didn't know, cryptominers in Javascript are already thing. Firefox even blocks them.
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Re:FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies by kotenok2000 on Friday March 21, 2025 @11:13AM (#43436667)
Shouldn't you factor composite numbers? Factoring prime numbers is pointless.
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