• edinbruh@feddit.it
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    4 hours ago

    my point was that even if they don’t have unlimited ips they might have a lot of them, especially if its ipv6, so you couldn’t just block them. but you can use anubis that doesn’t rely on ip filtering

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      3 hours ago

      You’re right, and Anubis was the solution they used. I just wanted to mention the IP thing because you did is all.

      I hadn’t heard about Anubis before this thread. It’s cool! The idea of wasting some of my “resources” to get to a webpage sucks, but I guess that’s the reality we’re in. If it means a more human oriented internet then it’s worth it.

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        1 hour ago

        A lot of FOSS software’s websites are starting to use it lately, starting from the gnome foundation, that’s what popularized it.

        The idea of proof of work itself came from spam emails, of all places. One proposed but never adopted way of preventing spam was hashcash, which required emails to have a proof of work embedded in the email. Bitcoins came after this borrowing the idea