Post AsNHy8fShBZLrf8mzA by kittylyst@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AsN2UiK8449YRvfpHk by BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social
       2025-03-24T06:02:32Z
       
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       Here's just a fun little bit of information: You may have seen by now the GNOME Gitlab making use of Anubis and seen mentions of it using "Proof Of Work" and thought that sounds familiar. That's because it should, the mathematics behind how Anubis slows down AI scrapers is fundamentally the same idea as how Bitcoin consensus algorithm works.Maybe more interestingly, Proof of Work began as a spam mitigation method and was only later popularized by Bitcoin.
       
 (DIR) Post #AsNHy8fShBZLrf8mzA by kittylyst@mastodon.social
       2025-03-24T08:55:51Z
       
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       @BrodieOnLinux It didn't work for spam mitigation either - https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/proofwork.pdf
       
 (DIR) Post #AsO33Ka4WgLg6cb6IK by Rhababerbarbar@tux.social
       2025-03-24T17:43:25Z
       
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       @BrodieOnLinux I always wonder what useful things we could do with all that wasted computing power.There is "friendlycaptcha" too, which freezes my machine when opening sites, as it seems to adapt to the power of the machine?