ArinaS

There are many distros for people who don't want to care - Ubuntu, Mint, Elementary OS, MX Linux, etc. I don't see how NixOS not being one of them is NixOS's problem.

> "I believe that the core idea of NixOS is fundamentally opposed to the idea of what the average person wants in their desktop."

What an average person wants in their desktop is Windows - not Linux and certainly not some obscure independent distro. And this is still not a problem of that distro or Linux.

Comment · 1 year ago

The "beauty" of websites built solely with javascript.

As if they couldn't build an absolutely identical page with just HTML and CSS. But no, javascript is the way for them because it has way more tracking and fingerprinting abilities than plain HTML and CSS.

Comment · 1 year ago

> "It also puts of some genuine users like me who prefer to keep JS off."

Non-javascript challenges are also available[1].

> "The 97% is only accurate if you assume a zero false positive rate."

GNOME's gitlab instance is not something people visit daily like Wikipedia, so it's a negligible amount of false positives.

[1] - https://git.gammaspectra.live/git/go-away/wiki/Challenges#no...

Comment · 1 year ago

Cloudflare is not chill because they, either ignorantly or purposefully, block everything that's not Chromium or Firefox[1].

Or sometimes everything that's not just Chromium[2].

[1] - https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/04/cloudflare_blocking_n...

[2] - https://www.techradar.com/pro/cloudflare-admits-security-too...

Comment · 1 year ago

This thing, despite using "captcha" in its name, is not your typical captcha like hCaptcha or Google's one, because it uses a proof-of-work mechanism instead of writing answers in textboxes/clicking on images/other means of verification requiring user input.

AI bots can't solve proof-of-work challenges because browsers they use for scraping don't support features needed to solve them. This is highlighted by existence of other proof-of-work solutions designed to specifically filter out AI bots, like go-away[1] or Anubis[2].

And yes, they work - once GNOME deployed one of these proof-of-work challenges on their gitlab instance, traffic on it fell by 97%[3].

[1] - https://git.gammaspectra.live/git/go-away

[2] - https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

[3] - https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by...: "According to Bart Piotrowski, in around two hours and a half they received 81k total requests, and out of those only 3% passed Anubi's proof of work, hinting at 97% of the traffic being bots."