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leah & flutters & nose, oh my! @mewsleah@meow.social
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PSA using anubis fucks over people with slower machines so today i got stopped by an Anubis challenge again, difficulty 5. normally i'd give it about 15 seconds then decide i didn't care enough, but today i thought "no, let's let it run".

eighty two seconds.

i was staring at a catgirl for ONE MINUTE AND TWENTY TWO SECONDS.

(and yes, of course i had lost both interest and context by the time i got to see what i'd clicked on.)

please think about that, if the idea of using anubis appeals to you. because that is
fucking unacceptable and hostile to the very people it's supposed to be protecting your site for.

also consider that anubis welcomes AI contributions, and think about that vs its stated purpose. are you sure
that pile of hypocrisy is the solution you want?
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leah & flutters & nose, oh my! @mewsleah@meow.social
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re: PSA using anubis fucks over people with slower machines i just checked the anubis issue tracker, and it turns out that anubis' developer takes the attitude that it's a config issue and therefore not their problem.

except that they could quite easily run a 5s speed test before demanding proof of work, so that the amount of work that has to be done bears at least
some resemblance to the speed of the machine of which the work is demanded.

not doing that is
definitely Xe's problem, whatever Xe thinks.
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minwlfNotice flori_ava_star~cursor_blinking @star@amazonawaws.com
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re: PSA using anubis fucks over people with slower machines @mewsleah But... aren't they right? As far as I am aware, difficulty is a mathematical adjustment knob for the PoW that is going on in the background. Adjusting it based on the machine speed could be possible but might defeat the purpose. Difficulty 5 is just a little much, no? I don't know whether 5 is high or not /gen, but I mean, I could set that version to 10000 and then that's not really a problem of the developer, just a problem with me being an idiot configuring my services
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