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Re:Proof-of-work to protect lore.kernel.org and git.kernel.o... by xxprogamerxy on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @08:16PM (#43563355)
Not meant as a criticism of the project in general. I appreciate people working on this.

I'm curious, what other approaches are you currently considering? In my mind, all roads lead to rate-limiting identifiers with privacy through zk-proofs.

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Re:Proof-of-work to protect lore.kernel.org and git.kernel.o... by xena on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @08:18PM (#43563366)
I'm looking at using equi-x, but failing that I may unironically do protein folding.
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