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Re:Why are you (still) using OpenBSD? by PunchyHamster on Sunday November 16, 2025 @07:48AM (#45944723)
Coming from a person that made a static web page from static web page generator take 40s+ to open, going thru some AI trashcan "validating" against bots that takes more than just returning the page... and burns user CPU and CO2 for no good reason

...maybe I wouldn't trust any software choices this person does.

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Re:Why are you (still) using OpenBSD? by prmoustache on Sunday November 16, 2025 @08:00AM (#45944796)
Are you calling Anubis an AI trashcan? Are you opening their website with an i286 for it to take 40s to load?
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Re:Why are you (still) using OpenBSD? by PunchyHamster on Sunday November 16, 2025 @08:12AM (#45944872)
it took 30s to even load the trashcan
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Re:Why are you (still) using OpenBSD? by binaryturtle on Sunday November 16, 2025 @08:55AM (#45945173)
Doesn't load here at all, I had to change my User-Agent to "curl".
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Re:Why are you (still) using OpenBSD? by AIBytes on Sunday November 16, 2025 @08:06AM (#45944835)
So if the author recommended software that you loved and used everyday you would stop using that software?
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Re:Why are you (still) using OpenBSD? by PunchyHamster on Sunday November 16, 2025 @08:18AM (#45944926)
Even broken clock is right twice a day so no.

You mistake dismiss with "do opposite"

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Re:Why are you (still) using OpenBSD? by shevy-java on Sunday November 16, 2025 @07:54AM (#45944764)
AI? I may be missing something. You are talking about whom here? The blog author?
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Re:Why are you (still) using OpenBSD? by andai on Sunday November 16, 2025 @08:03AM (#45944812)
GP is referring to the LLM crawler captcha thing. The one with the anime girls in it. It only took a few seconds on my phone, but it's slow on my old ThinkPad.
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Re:Why are you (still) using OpenBSD? by PunchyHamster on Sunday November 16, 2025 @08:21AM (#45944942)
it took tens of seconds to load, once it loaded it was quick

And the point of "why waste time for captcha for static file" still stands, it's not like there is comment section for bots to abuse

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Re:Why are you (still) using OpenBSD? by natebc on Sunday November 16, 2025 @10:27AM (#45945788)
It's not about keeping spam out of comments, it's about keeping systems and content safe/operational for normal people and more costly or unavailable for the trillion dollar "AI" companies that are shitting all over everything.

Don't blame this on site operators, this is the fault of careless LLM operators knocking down everybody's walls doors and windows to "learn" from their content.

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