The feddit.org admins are planning to make an official announcement on how they see the situation and there was an internal discussion about this where it was agreed to wait for that official announcement. This is the main reason these topics were closed.

Yes. You seem to be not well informed about the past and current situation in the middle east.

I don’t even disagree with you, but I find your suggestion to be extremely naive.

The ANC is not comparable to Hamas or Hezbollah, and these kind of “funny” remarks about how there will be a free for all with Jewish lives “once the US support stops” is exactly why people consider such remarks as antisemitic.

I asked to be realistic. That ship has sailed in regards to Israel a long time ago.

that Israel as a country probably shouldn’t exist.

Ok, then please explain what you think would happen with all the Jewish people that were born and live there in such a case?

And please be realistic, because everyone lives happily ever after is an extremely unlikely scenario.

I am not saying that you are antisemitic, but please think these things through before saying stuff that can very well be interpreted as such.

Except for one addition route in the reverse-proxy (which might not be needed anymore in newer versions) it is really only changing the port that points to Lemmy-ui to point to Anubis instead.

You might have to sit through a slightly longer waiting time every now and then, but Anubis is not invoked on every connection and once your browser is found to be worthy you can surf as before.

The bigger issue might be if that old hardware can’t run a modern up to date browser, because then it doesn’t work at all, which is the real down-side of Anubis.

I tried it with the default settings of the Tor browser though and that worked ok surprisingly.

Ah, ok. Yes that kinda makes sense if you think of Anubis as a CAPTCHA equivalent, but it really isn’t as I tried to explain in my other post.

Yes and so far only minor issues that are hard to replicate. Thanks again for helping us to find out the final issue with the setup a few weeks ago.

I agree that it would make more sense to only enable it for unauthenticated visitors, but that seems a bit hard to do with an external software like Anubis.

It does not stop them, but it does make it more expensive and slower for the attacker.

This is a bit of a misconception of what Anubis does. It uses PoW to enforce a full browser environment, but the PoW is only used once a week or so (or when there is some suspicious things detected). The PoW is then used to autogenerate a kind of password to store in the browser cookies, and to generate this “password” you can’t use the simple servers that are used at scale to scrape (practically ddos) the open internet right now.

The main problem is with complex websites like git forges that these AI scrapers hit all the computational expensive deep endpoints and practically force them to shut down from overloading the CPU.

Since I was forced to implement Anubis for my Forgejo instance I also experimented with it on Lemmy. Right now the results show that while Lemmy isn’t as badly effected by this AI scraping, there is still quite a bit of it happening. After adding Anubis the overall traffic went down by about a third on our instance, and it prevents the regular traffic spikes we previously saw and had no real explanation for.

But we also ran in some strange issues with it. Most likely it is caused by Anubis detecting mobile connections with switching IP addresses as possible scrapers (who are known to first access pages from a more complete server to get cookies and so on and then switch to a cheaper server on a different IP to do the actual scraping). But we are still figuring out how to replicate those issues, and they might have been fixed in the latest Anubis update we applied yesterday.

We could add some of these to an RSS feed post bot for Lemmy that I am experimenting with.

Edit: we have an RSS feed post bot now. Time to look into adding some of these feeds. I already added Low-tech Magazine to the /c/technology community.

Agreed, but that doesn’t make it right for multi billion dollar companies to take artists work without their consent and turn it into a commercial AI.

At the very least those AIs would need to be released to the public domain if they were trained on a public body of works.

For a Solarpunk story it is a very weak plot element as it basically just handwavy says the AI is solving all the hard problems. This is both unrealistic and also more akin to transhumanist narratives that claim that some imaginary and not yet invented technology will solve all of humanities problems.