I just hit a site with this --- and hit the back button immediately.

Better than a 500 error

Also better than a third party service IMO because of the privacy implications. You could even potentially give users the choice (complete overkill but technically you could do it).

Interesting! Not how I'd approach it but certainly thinking along the same lines.

Maybe once you can use something more professional as an interstitial page

From the announcement page: https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/anubis/

> RPM packages and unbranded (or customly branded) versions are available if you contact me and purchase commercial support. Otherwise your users have to see a happy anime girl every time they solve a challenge. This is a feature.

I'm going to be making distro packages and binaries public. I will have to figure out white label monetization I guess.

You do realize that people use art like this specifically as a filter for people who react as you did. It's working 100% as intended.

> specifically as a filter for people who react as you did

A filter for normal people? A strange thing to have, but I guess it works if that's the intention.

I’m no anime fan, but this sort of judgement on normalcy leaves me with a very sour impression about whoever says this sort of thing.

It becomes a visceral reaction once you realize that a significant portion of the community is into the whole sexualizing-minors-but-nuh-uh-theyre-not-minors-they-just-look-young-because-of-their-genes ... thing. I apologize to those who are not into that, but I can't look past it.

You might say that, but claiming everyone is a pedophile is such a tired political play at this point. Its primary purpose is to dehumanize people so that blatant wrongdoing can be justified.

The visceral reaction might be genuine, but the actual feelings are probably not. I have yet to see someone who actually "cares about the children". The vast majority of accusations e.g. democrats running a pedophile ring turn out to be completely manufactured. The democrats responded by giving more funding and starting projects combating child abuse, only for the republicans to gut the programs, who think they are a waste of tax payer money and an example of big government.

I genuinely don't know how to respond to that. I'm not labeling some arbitrary political group pedophiles. I'm saying that anime has a problem where sexualization of minors is generally accepted by the community and at least a significant minority actively engages with that content. There's a plethora of articles and research on this topic. Here's a few:

[1] Examination of Sexualized Depictions of Young Schoolgirls in Anime: Opinions and Perspectives of Japanese Women - https://open.metu.edu.tr/bitstream/handle/11511/105628/Exami...

[2] Lolicon and Its Effects on Japanese Society - https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/items/583788d8-bbc8-4475-b1...

[3] Manga and anime: Japan still treating children as sexual objects - https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/8/11/manga-and-anime...

Violent games make people violent, and money make people greedy again?

How does that relate to anything I said?

It's not about anime itself. It's about obnoxious people who make anime their entire personality (because they have none beyond that) and shove it into everything at every opportunity.

It shouldn't upset you so much that other people express themselves and their interests without regard for your jusgement or approval.

It's open source with MIT license, so you should be able to remove those images yourself if you want.

How does it work? I don’t have time to read the code, and the website/docs seem to be under construction.

Does it have the client do a bunch of SHA-256 hashes?

Yeah it's like hashcash. You have to try random numbers until you roll a hash with enough leading zeroes. Then you get a cookie (JWT I think) that's valid for a week.

SHA2 can run on ASICs and isn't memory-hard, so I'm hoping someone will add something tougher