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leah & flutters & nose, oh my!@mewsleah@meow.social (2026-09-28 14:56:52)
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 (2026-09-28 15:07:00)
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.
ed. for the pedants, that was a suggestion, not a proposal. and replying that the default is acceptably fast (on your machine!) totally misses the point.
not doing that is definitely Xe's problem, whatever Xe thinks.
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Charlotte :lotteheartplural:/Cinny :cinny_heart_plural: :thetadelta: :ursaminor: :treblesand: @charlotte@akko.chir.rs (2026-09-28 19:14:47)
@mewsleah > except that they could quite easily run a 5s speed test before demanding proof of work
now page load times with default config take over 5s instead of the “you barely see it pop up” and i don’t think it still changes anything if the admin very explictitly configures it is be over 1000x slower than the default