I love this. Please let me know how well it works for you. I may adjust recommendations based on your experiences.

Ohai! I'm working on dataset poisoning. The early prototype generates vapid LinkedIn posts but future versions will be fully pluggable with WebAssembly.

Now I'm picturing an AI trained exclusively on LinkedIn posts. One could probably sell that model to an online ad agency for a pretty penny.

And thus AM was born. Woe to us.

Hi Xena! Your blog is amazing! Didn't realize you're working on Anubis - it's a really nice tool for the internet! Reminds me a bit of the ye' olde internet for some reason.

You've made one of the best solutions, that matched what I thought of implementing myself, and at the time it was most needed. I think a couple of "thank you" are sorely missing in this comment section.

Thank you!

That sounds fun, I look forward to reading a writeup about that

So I can plan it, how much detail do you want? Here's what I have about the prototype: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/honeypot/overview

Probably any detail that you think is cool, I would be interested in reading about. When in doubt err on the side of too much detail.

That was a good read. I hadn’t heard of spintax before, but I’ve thought of doing things like that. Also “pseudoprofound anti-content”, what a great term, that’s hilarious!

This is amazing, I was just wondering about if it's possible to tie anubis together with iocaine, but it seems you already thought of that.

It's slightly different in subtle ways. If I recall iocaine makes you configure a subprocess that it executes to generate garbage. One rule I have for Anubis in the code is that fork()/exec() are banned. So the pluggable garbage generator is gonna be powered by CGI handlers compiled to WebAssembly. It should be fun!

As the owner of honeypot.net, I always appreciate seeing the name used as intended out in the wild.

There is an unbranded version: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper

I noticed that, but that page makes it sound like it can only be unbranded if you pay for the commercial version. It looks like Anubis is open source though, so I suppose you might be able to download the source and switch out images for your own, is that correct?

Also, since you are who you are, can I ask how you came across this post? Did you notice it because of the content of the original post or because I mentioned Anubis?

> I noticed that, but that page makes it sound like it can only be unbranded if you pay for the commercial version. It looks like Anubis is open source though, so I suppose you might be able to download the source and switch out images for your own, is that correct?

You can do that, but I can prioritize support of the open source project based on if people play nice. I don't mean to be rude, but I can't pay rent with GitHub stars.

> Also, since you are who you are, can I ask how you came across this post? Did you notice it because of the content of the original post or because I mentioned Anubis?

I have a cronjob monitoring new Hacker News posts for mentions of Anubis.

A cronjob, that’s cool. A little rudeness is fine, you could probably say I’ve been a little rude. Thank for making a cool product!

How do I opt out?

Without snark, delete all instances of your code from github or similar places.

If they choose to publish no-truth-value garbage about my life's work I will f**ing shred them with words.

This project and the whole philosophy behind it is just dripping with disrespect so you won't find me in line to be polite to the people who made it. If they're going to walk over and chunder their lukewarm slop onto me they can expect a verbal fistfight.

I opt out

There is no data carried over from Mutable if that's what you're referring to. Please refer to the final email sent to users which I don't have access to.

Can you email me at the email in my HN profile so I can clarify what I mean by opt-out in more detail?

It is for games running natively

I'm implying they'd win via a cultural victory TBH

Everyone is sinking culture on real time. So winning by throwing a bread crumb out is technically correct, but not significant.

I am up for a lego pyramid made of Steam machines.

Nintendo is in its own category in which the other competitor is also Valve. For now Nintendo is winning there.

I love great graphics but , Nintendo carved a nice big niche out for themselves by recognizing the constant drive for best graphics is a bit of rat race.

Nintendo has Mario, Zelda, Kirby, Donkey Kong, Starfox, Pokémon, and a few other less super famous and internationally known IP franchises. The core games and their spinoffs make more games than most children can reasonably expected to play through childhood and early adolescence. That the machine then collects dust doesn’t hurt Nintendo because they already sold it.

Yes Steam has huge library (my ‘want to play’ list is over 100 titles at this point) full of games of all genres, qualities, and niches. But Nintendo has more than enough to do what they have done for years, i.e. sit tight on their beloved IP and dole it out at varying levels of quality on strictly low end hardware and watch their earning go up.

Steam Deck has a tiny install base.

Switch 2 does not.

I'm mostly a PC gamer but let's be real here.

Though, to be fair, my kids steal my Steam Deck from me more often than I try to get the Switch from them. The family share features of the Switch leave a lot to be desired.

That doesn't change the reality that the Steam Deck is a niche device.

I hope that changes though.

People rarely buy a platform for the platform, they buy the platform to do the thing they want to do. A game is just a genre of software.

It is far, far better to have tons of high quality software available for a platform, than to have an amazing platform, but a limited choice of software.

Very true, but that tiny library happens to occupy like 80% of the biggest IP.

They have enough first party games which only release on their hardware that people are willing to buy a Switch for nintendo games, and another gaming device for everything else.

Sad part is that I would be willing to pay a substantial mark up to be able to play some of those first party titles on my PC, but since my kids have a Switch I just settle for using it. So even if I don’t think I’d buy a console just for their games, I’m gonna end up buying it anyway and Nintendo still wins.

Many times what happens is that people buy the Switch for Nintendo games, but since third parties also publish there they just buy games there anyway.

Funnily enough, I own a Switch and a PS5. I mostly buy and play on the Switch while the PS5 main function is getting covered in a thin layer of dust.

Or the many people like myself who are willing to buy a Switch for Nintendo games and that's their only console.

I challenge you to take a critical look at the performance of things like PHPBB and see how even naive scraping brings commonly deployed server CPUs to their knees.

I'm seeing more big botnets hosted on Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud, and one on Tencent Cloud that run Headless Chrome. IP space blocks have been the solution there. I currently have a thread open with Tencent Cloud abuse where they've been begging me to not block them by default.

I don't consider cloud IP blocks a solution. We use Amazon WorkSpaces, and many sites often block or restrict access just because our IPs appear to be from Amazon. There are also a good number of legitimate VPN users that are on cloud IPs.

If you can optimize it, I would love that as a pull request! I am not a JS expert.