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Re:Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux ke... by thunderfork on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @05:55PM (#44966926)
Once you've built the system that lets you do that, maybe. You still have to do that, though, so it's still raising the cost floor.
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Re:Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux ke... by vmttmv on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @07:10PM (#44967470)
but... how? when the author ran the numbers, the rough estimate is solving the challenges at a rate of 10000/5 min, on a single instance of the free tier of google compute. that is an insignificant load at an even more insignificant cost.
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Re:Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux ke... by guappa on Thursday August 21, 2025 @04:32AM (#44970454)
That's insanely slow compared to how fast they normally scrape.
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Re:Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux ke... by verteu on Thursday August 21, 2025 @03:45PM (#44977170)
As mentioned in the article, mining one token gets you unfettered access for 7 days.
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