That said, we promise to still offer all of our data for download to anyone who asks. You just may have to jump through more hoops to get it.

Sorry. (Oblig. Canadian thing to say.)

That said I will never complain about Anubis no matter how high the difficulty is set.

ⓘ Remember to enable JPEG-XL support in your browser, even on your phone!

I've had this idea rattling around in my head that when you strip out all the very human perceptions of our world, of money and political power and the like, what your left with is this: the profit motive is, physically, entropy maximization. Why, in the 21st century, is petrolium still our primary energy source? Min/Maxing effort. Entropy.

Why are we burning so much CPU time to solve math problems to scrape data to train a model with diminishing returns? Entropy.

I'm an idiot and that's probably a major misunderstanding of entropy as a physical concept, but whatever.

the linked article within is also dreadful

Using random homes' smart appliances to bypass ip bans to scrape data for AI training is spectacularly creative in its evil, especially because the power consumption costs for passing anubis just go to the appliance owners. I wonder how much the appliance vendors sell these data contracts for.

Used to be i just had to worry about smart appliances being used in a botnet to do DDOS attacks

Now i donthave to worry because they come with that feature pre installed.

Cool

I banned most of the crawlers now but for a while they would legit saturate my entire upload bandwidth with request for html rendered commits.