I don’t know if “anything”. But surely people overestimate its capabilities.

It’s only a PoW challenge. Any bot can execute a PoW challenge. For a smal to medium number of bots the energy difference it’s negligible.

Anubis it’s useful when millions of bots would want to attack a site. Then the energy difference of the PoW (specially because Anubis increase the challenge if there’s a big number of petitions) can be enough to make the attacker desist, or maybe it’s not enough, but at least then it’s doing something.

I see more useful against DDOS than AI scrapping. And only if the service being DDOS is more heavy than Anubis itself, if not you can get DDOS via anubis petitions. For AI scrapping I don’t see the point, you don’t need millions of bots to scrape a site unless you are talking about a massively big site.

You are right. For most self-hosting usecases anubis is not only irrelevant, but it actually works against you. False sense of security and making your devices do extra work for nothing.

Anubis is though for public facing services that may get ddos or AI scrapped by some not targeted bot (for a target bot it’s trivial to get over Anubis in order to scrap).

And it’s never a substitute of crowdsec or fail2ban. Getting an Anubis token it’s just a matter of executing the PoW challenge. You still need a way to detect and ban malicious attacks.

I don’t think you have a usecase for Anubis.

Anubis is mainly aimed against bad AI scrappers and some ddos mitigation if you have a heavy service.

You are getting hit exactly the same, anubis doesn’t put up a block list or anything. It just put itself in front of the service. The load on your server and the risk you take it’s very similar anubis or not anubis here. Most bots are not AI scrappers they are just proving. So the hit on your server is the same.

What you want is to properly set up fail2ban or, even better, crowdsec. That would actually block and ban bots that try to prove your server.

If you are just self-hosting with Anubis the only thing you are doing is deriving the log noise towards Anubis logs and making your devices do a PoW every once in a while when you want to use your services.

Being honest I don’t know what you are self hosting. But at least it’s something that’s going to get ddos or AI scrapped, there’s not much point with Anubis.

Also Anubis is not a substitute for fail2ban or crowdsec. You need something to detect and ban brute force attacks. If not the attacker would only need to execute the anubis challenge get the token for the week and then they are free to attack your services as they like.

I have a testing website. I have never gave the address to absolutely anyone, ever. It’s not linked with anything. It’s just a silly html site living in a domain.

It’s still being ping and probed to death by bad actors. No necessarily AI scrappers. But it’s dozens or hundreds of http petitions a day for random places all over the world.

There’s no black forest. It’s all light up and under constant attack, every tree is already on fire.

My “important” emails work on a white list basis. So every sender not approved by me goes to spam. When I’m waiting for an email I’ll check the spam folder for it and white list the sender.

American tourists are kind of fun in my experience. I’ve never had a bad experience with one, usually very friendly and respectful in comparison.

I guess that they want to be indexed by google for the full content but not to be seen by you.

If it were to be a revolution he would be given the chance. Just be a director of valve for a normal director salary. If he take it then he would be just another worker.

Water cooling.

Scary indeed.

Phone carriers are to blame. Unlimited SMS plans weren’t common when whatsapp took hold of our communications.

It’s the de facto communication medium in Europe. It’s not much of a choice. Even work related groups are usually over WhatsApp.

Where they give you houses for going to college? Did I missed a promotion?

What the hell is that thumbnail. That’s nightmare fuel.

I mean, I don’t really enjoy characters I like changing overtime. They are nor “people” they are just stories, I don’t necessarily want the best for them. I just want them to keep providing the same interesting stories that hooked me on them to begin with.

If they change is hit or miss, and they may loose the thing I like about them.

I guess after no way home that stopped. I don’t know much about next movie but my guess would be a more “street level solitary” spiderman.

In Spain we do. 1st of September All Saints Day.

It’s not gay if I’m wearing programming socks.

Needing an app through a business to find love is fucking depressing.

“I’d rather die alone shot down by a fascist than teaming up with this pal that do not share 100% of my vision on what this dead dude did 100 years ago”