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    7 hours ago

    Weird, the cartoon doesn’t want to let me through. Something about an iPhone running lemmy pisses off anubus.

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      I’m having the same issue on Android. For me, switching to desktop mode to load the Anubis check then back to mobile mode so the website is usable again worked.

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      7 hours ago

      cartoon? Anubis? What?

      (I’ve never used an iPhone in my life)

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        Websites are getting hammered by AI bots stealing content and jacking up their bandwidth usage. So they use a piece of software called Anubis which, for some reason, has a cartoon nurse that will grant or deny you access based on if she thinks you are human or AI. For some reason, she thinks I am AI so I can’t access the article.

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          Wonder if any of this is the reason why.

          Anubis also relies on modern web browser features:

          ES6 modules to load the client-side code and the proof-of-work challenge code.
          Web Workers to run the proof-of-work challenge in a separate thread to avoid blocking the UI thread.
          Fetch API to communicate with the Anubis server.
          Web Cryptography API to generate the proof-of-work challenge.
          This ensures that browsers are decently modern in order to combat most known scrapers. It’s not perfect, but it’s a good start.

          This will also lock out users who have JavaScript disabled, prevent your server from being indexed in search engines, require users to have HTTP cookies enabled, and require users to spend time solving the proof-of-work challenge.

          This does mean that users using text-only browsers or older machines where they are unable to update their browser will be locked out of services protected by Anubis. This is a tradeoff that I am not happy about, but it is the world we live in now.

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          That cartoon is so misleading, I thought I was deceived and sent to a bogus site.

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    9 hours ago

    Gnome seems to swap out default apps pretty often. Are the old apps getting abandoned? Or are they always jumping to the next cool new thing?

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      Here’s what I found.

      Why does Totem need to be replaced?

      Totem is still a GTK3 app and is unmaintained (in part due to a crusty codebase), seeing no major development in years. Replacing it with a modern GTK4/libadwaita app designed to use modern technologies and meet modern needs has been a “high priority” for GNOME.

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      I don’t think they’re usually abandoned. At least not right away. But they rarely still get feature updates. Mostly just bug fixes. Not sure if it’s just different developers not wanting to stick to the same project of someone else’s code or what.

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    Trademark suit from the premium cable channel in 5…4…

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      11 hours ago

      In my opinion, MPV is even better. I mean, it is faster and has better codec support. On the other hand, VLC has a better user interface with a lot of preferences. As for Showtime, oh boy, it’s a clear beauty!

      For now I’m staying with MPV, because ffmpeg > gstreamer.

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        I love VLC. I also love mpv.

        I like to think that VLC is for window users for them to get a taste of what it’s like to use Linux.

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        I mean, it is faster

        Lol, what? Do people really care about the ‘speed’ of their video player in 2025?