Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
Hey… quick question, why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? Intro I’ve started running into more sites recently that deploy Anubis, a sort of hybrid art project slash network countermeasure. The project “weighs the souls” of HTTP requests to help protect the web from AI crawlers. If you’ve seen anime catgirl avatars when visiting a new website, that’s Anubis. A website blocked with Anubis I’m sympathetic to the cause – I host this blog on a single core 128MB VPS, I can tell you some stories about aggressive crawlers! Anubis recently started blocking how I access git.kernel.org and lore.kernel.org. Those sites host the Linux Kernel Mailing List archive and the kernel git repositories. As far as I know I do have a soul, I just wasn’t using a…
