Anubis Works

It's amusing that Xe managed to turn what was historically mostly a joke/shitpost into an actually useful product. They did always say timing was everything.

I am kind of surprised how many sites seem to want/need this. I get the slow git pages problem for some of the git servers that are super deep, lack caches, serve off slow disks, etc.

Unesco surprised me some, the sub-site in question is pretty big, it has thousands of documents of content, but the content is static - this should be trivial to serve, so what's going on? Well it looks like it's a poorly deployed Wordpress on top of Apache, with no caching enabled, no content compression, no HTTP 2/3. It would likely be fairly easy to get this serving super cheap on a very small machine, but of course doing so requires some expertise, and expertise still isn't cheap.

Sure you could ask an LLM, but they still aren't good at helping when you have no clue what to ask - if you don't even really know the site is slower than it should be, why would you even ask? You'd just hear about things getting crushed and reach for the furry defender.

PoW anti-bot/scraping/DDOS was already being done a decade ago, I’m not sure why it’s only catching on now. I even recall a project that tried to make the PoW useful.

Xe here. If I had to guess in two words: timing and luck. As the G-man said: the right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world. I was the right shitposter in the right place at the right time.

And then the universe blessed me with a natural 20. Never had these problems before. This shit is wild.