Theres a compute option that doesnt require javascript. The responsibility lays on site owners to properly configure IMO, though you can make the argument its not default I guess.

https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/configuration/challenges/metarefresh

::: spoiler From docs on Meta Refresh Method

Meta Refresh (No JavaScript)

The metarefresh challenge sends a browser a much simpler challenge that makes it refresh the page after a set period of time. This enables clients to pass challenges without executing JavaScript.

To use it in your Anubis configuration:

# Generic catchall rule
- name: generic-browser
  user_agent_regex: >-
    Mozilla|Opera
  action: CHALLENGE
  challenge:
    difficulty: 1 # Number of seconds to wait before refreshing the page
    algorithm: metarefresh # Specify a non-JS challenge method

This is not enabled by default while this method is tested and its false positive rate is ascertained. Many modern scrapers use headless Google Chrome, so this will have a much higher false positive rate. :::

You know something cm0002 just wanted to let you know I appreciate the dichotomy formed between posting these shitpost memes making fun of corporate AI trash one second while simultaneously posting genuinely informative news keeping the localllama community updated the next. It helps keep it real.

I havent used twitter in many years. Do they really let their llms have a twitter account and be taggable like this? I though they would have learned it doesnt worked out so great when microsoft tried it with TayAI years ago.

The PugJesus History Explanations™ are a highlight of lemmy (I guess piefed now) for me. One of my all time favorite interactions on here was roleplaying as senator Armstrong debating with PJ while referencing the history explanation thing. Divinity bless the glorious bastard and their historical hobby hyperfixations.

Something that hasn't been mentioned much in discussions about Anubis is that it has a graded tier system of how sketchy a client is and changing the kind of challenge based on a a weighted priority system.

The default bot policies it comes with has it so squeaky clean regular clients are passed through, then only slightly weighted clients/IPs get the metarefresh, then its when you get to moderate-suspicion level that JavaScript Proof of Work kicks. The bot policy and weight triggers for these levels, challenge action, and duration of clients validity are all configurable.

It seems to me that the sites who heavy hand the proof of work for every client with validity that only last every 5 minutes are the ones who are giving Anubis a bad wrap. The default bot policy settings Anubis comes with dont trigger PoW on the regular Firefox android clients ive tried including hardened ironfox. meanwhile other sites show the finger wag every connection no matter what.

Its understandable why some choose strict policies but they give the impression this is the only way it should be done which Is overkill. I'm glad theres config options to mitigate impact normal user experience.

Okay but what the fuck is up with the first un-highlighted part?

... I really hoped that this wasn't a thing, but im not surprised in the least.

Its just fucking painful, man.

Its food man. It belongs if you like it, it doesn't if you don't. I don't understand some of these arguments where "the originating culture did it this way so it belongs!" Who cares how people half way across the world make their burritos, fuck culture and tradition. Cooking is art, do what you want and make it how you like. Personally I put rice in because its an easy nutritious filler that doesnt impact taste or texture too bad and which extends the good meats and seasoning and stuff out a couple meals.

"Dyson Spheres? Look, playing with sunlight and mirrors was a fun side project, but you want to know a much more advanced method of generating power?"

"Please dont...."

"Thats right! By hurling entire water worlds into a star, we then capture the released steam which powers our gravitationally locked dynamo network."

Inferior rehash version of the OG

You know the thing is that they know the character is a problem/annoyance, thats how they grease the wheel on selling subscription access to a commecial version with different branding.

https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper/

::: spoiler pricing from site

Commercial support and an unbranded version

If you want to use Anubis but organizational policies prevent you from using the branding that the open source project ships, we offer a commercial version of Anubis named BotStopper. BotStopper builds off of the open source core of Anubis and offers organizations more control over the branding, including but not limited to:

• Custom images for different states of the challenge process (in process, success, failure)
• Custom CSS and fonts
• Custom titles for the challenge and error pages
• "Anubis" replaced with "BotStopper" across the UI
• A private bug tracker for issues

In the near future this will expand to:

• A private challenge implementation that does advanced fingerprinting to check if the client is a genuine browser or not
• Advanced fingerprinting via Thoth-based advanced checks

In order to sign up for BotStopper, please do one of the following:

• Sign up on GitHub Sponsors at the $50 per month tier or higher
• Email [email protected] with your requirements for invoicing, please note that custom invoicing will cost more than using GitHub Sponsors for understandable overhead reasons

:::

I have to respect the play tbh its clever. Absolutely the kind of greasy shit play that Julian from the trailer park boys would do if he were an open source developer.

Yes and no. Its the same aggregated content but the underlying software running piefed instances is different than lemmy. The websites internals are made by different people with different programming language. On a surface user interaction level a piefed instance is the same functional thing as a lemmy instance and can be treated as such. They all use activitypub protocol to federate between instances whether its piefed or lemmy.

https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

The main difference IMO is the personal politics of the people who make the software and run the instances. Lemmys main developers are controversial in regards to politics and administration practices on the main .ml instance. I don't want to be associated with that anymore. Also piefed is in very active development already has cool features that lemmy doesn't with a sleek default layout.

Certified Lore Drop moment

I stepped up my nerd game to start trying to land an IT job of some kind. I learned computer networking to set up my own website on recycled hardware and began writing about it. I started developing on a game engine making modules and making art assets to maybe one day make a commercial product. I released like a dozen open source projects under open source licenses.

It all kind of culminated with Christmas. The kids in my life have been begging for multiplayer Minecraft server but Microsoft destroyed the he so hard with money grabbing we refused to pay for realms or make a bunch of Microsoft accounts or whatever.

So, I rolled up my sleeves and got to work on creating a mineclonia server built on luanti/minetest engine, patching in all the Minecraft assets like textures, sounds, music that I legally own with python tools I built myself and released,

I really wanted an in game fullscreen map and nobody had ever figured out how to make one on luanti engine so I so spent a few weeks developing one from the ground up. I released the map mod two days ago and people quickly noticed saying I had changed the game forever, congratulating me on my technological achievement or whatever.

Its just a little frustrating because it feels like I'm somewhat competent at the nerd professions but I have no idea how to advertise my talents or if what I'm doing even translates to real Dev work. How Does creating universal map colorizer + generator for proceeduraly generated voxel worlds or designing a full model animation interpolation system for an engine from scratch or hosting public services on my own network built from scratch powered by solar turn into resume stuffs? That'd what I guess new years focus needs to be

I hate that the basic polygons and their 3d counterparts are all people think of theyre so boring. Fuck Circles/spheres, Fuck squares/cubes, and no, hexagons are not the bestagons. You want to know what natures perfect shape is? Its a tie between the Mandelbrot Set and maybe Pascals Triangle if you consider that a kind of data structure shape. Your shape efficently packs interior space in a minimum surface area? Thats cool, mine encodes the entirety of combinatorics with fractal geometry and acts as an actual map showing the boundaries between order and chaos. Your shape aperiodically tiles the plane? Thats neat, mine geometrically encodes the logistic map which governs things like animal population changes over time.

Imagine a race of star treck aliens flying around in one of these things and tell me it wouldn't be more visually interesting than a big technophile bondage cube.

As a bonus their mom briefly became socialist when she freely shared some crabs and HIV with you :)

The only reason the first one was any good was because they copied the homework of Unreal. All world building after the first has been shit and people only watched the first because of 3d which was a massive flex at the time.

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler ontributed by Rúben Alvim (1) on 18.07.2004.

One of director James Cameron's pet projects after Titanic was an epic sci-fi extravaganza called Avatar, much hyped in Hollywood circles at the time and poised to redefine the notion of a truly alien world on the big screen.

The project fell apart some years ago, but the scriptment (a hybrid between a script and a treatment ) by James Cameron still exists. Interestingly, you can find quite a few similarities between it and Unreal:


Both feature a basic plot premise where, by virtue of circumstances mostly beyond his control, a reluctant hero becomes the saviour of the native race of an alien planet forced to mine their land for ore of utmost importance to an invading race coming from the skies. In both cases the saviour is seen by the natives as someone who also came from the skies and is thus initially met with some alarm or distrust only to be later hailed as a pseudo-messiah.


The native race is called "Na'vi" in Avatar and "Nali" in Unreal. The physical description of the Na'vi by Cameron can be visualised as basically a cross between the Nalis' tall, lean, slender bodies and the IceSkaarjs' blueish skin colour patterns, facial features, ponytail-like dreadlocks and caudal appendages.


The Nali in Unreal worship goddess Vandora. The home planet of the Na'vi in Avatar (which the Na'vi worship as a goddess entity) is named Pandora.


In Avatar, one of the most dazzling alien settings described is a huge set of sky mountains, "like floating islands among the clouds". One of the most memorable vistas in Unreal is Na Pali, thousands of miles up in the cloudy sky amidst a host of floating mountains. The main sky mountain range in Avatar is called "Hallelujah Mountains". The main Unreal level set in Na Pali is called "Na Pali Haven". Both include beautiful visual references to waterfalls streaming down the cliffs and dissolving into the clouds below.


The Earth ship in Avatar is called "ISV-Prometheus". One of the levels in Unreal takes place in the wreck of a Terran ship called "ISV-Kran". Even more striking, in the expansion pack Return to Na Pali, the crashed ship the player is asked to salvage is called "Prometheus".


One of the deadly examples of local fauna in Unreal is the Manta, essentially a flying manta-ray. In Avatar, one of the most lethal aerial creatures is the Bansheeray, basically a flying manta-ray. The expansion Return to Na Pali even features a Giant Manta, while in Avatar one of the most formidable predators is a giant Bansheeray, which Cameron dubbed "Great Leonopteryx".


In the two stories (especially Return to Na Pali, on Unreal's end), a plot point arises from the fact the precious ore behind the invasion of the planet ("tarydium" in Unreal, "unobtanium" in Avatar) causes problems in the scanners.


Unreal was in development for several years before its release in 1998. The Avatar scriptment was probably finished as early as 1996-97. Bearing all the above in mind the temptation to start wondering about further suspicious parallels may be quite strong, but in spite of these similarities both titles have few else in common and many aspects actually veer off in wildly different directions. Even so, the coinciding factors can make for an interesting minutia comparison. :::

The electrical fire thing is mostly because there are people in this world who will absolutely try running two 1500w space heaters on a single multiplug extension. Its not the quantity of the plugs its how much power is flowing through them as well as what quality of cabling is used. From the image it looks like a couple phone chargers which isnt the worst thing in the world.

For me its resolution. The jump from 480p standard box to 720/1080p was night and day revolution. Meanwhile a 4k image looks maybe 10-15%sharper to my eye but takes up 4x the storage space. Whenever I voice this people say that I must be blind if I can't tell a difference. I'd rather have the disc space and know my software collection is well optimized with reasonable file sizes instead of buying 22tb worth of ssds in a network cluster with a nvidia 80000 to play the latest AAA

You are close I think! though its not quite that simple IMO. . According to penrose spacetime diagrams the roles of space and time get reversed in a black hole which causes all sorts of wierdness from an interior perspective. Just like the universe has no center, it also has no single singularity pulling everything in unlike a black hole. The universe contains many singularities, a black hole contains one singularity that might connect to many universes depending on how much you buy into the complete penrose diagrams.

Now heres where it gets interesting. Our observable universe has a hard limit boundary known as the cosmological horizon due to finite speed of light and finite universe lifespan. Its impossible to ever know whats beyond this horizon boundary. similarly,black hole event horizons share this property of not being able to know about the future state of objects that fall inside. A cosmologist would say they are different phenomenon but from an information-theoretic perspective these are fundamentally indistinguishable Riemann manifolds that share a very unique property.

They are geometric physically realized instances of uncomputability which is a direct analog of godelian incompleteness and turing undecidability within the universes computational phase space. The universe is a finite computational system with finite state system representation capacity of about 10^122 microstates according to beckenstein bounds and Planck constant. If an area of spacetime exceeds this amount of potential microstates to represent it gets quarantined in a black hole singularity so the whole system doesnt freeze up trying to compute the uncomputable.

The problem is that the universe can't just throw away all that energy and information due to conservation laws, instead it utilizes something called 'holographic principle' to safely conserve information even if it cant compute with it. Information isn't lost when a thing enters a black hole instead it gets encoded into the topological event horizon boundary itself. in a sense the information is 'pulled' into a higher fractal dimension for efficient encoding. Over time the universe slowly works on safely bleeding out all that energy through hawking radiation.

So say you buy into this logic, assume that the cosmological horizon isn't just some observational limit artifact but an actual topological Riemann manifold made of the same 'stuff' sharing properties with an event horizon, like an inverted black hole where the universe is a kind of anti-singularity which distributes matter everywhere dense as it expands instead of concentrating matter into a single point. what could that mean?

So this holographic principle thing is all about how information in high dimensional topological spaces can be projected down into lower dimensional space. This concept is insanely powerful and is at the forefront of advanced computer modeling of high dimensional spaces. For example, neural networks organize information in high dimensional spaces called activation atlases that have billions and trillions of 'feature dimensions' each representing a kind of relation between two unique states of information.

So, what if our physical universe is a lower dimensional holographic projection of the cosmological horizon manifold? What if the unknowable cosmological horizon bubble surrounding our universe is the universes fundimental substrate in its native high dimensional space and our 3D+1T universe perspective is a projection?