@alexia@shrimp.starlightnet.work I stopped using Anubis because I found better alternatives, and currently there's nothing in between.

I dropped it because it drove people off and broke many things such as git

@alexia I think it will be feasible. Hopefully applications won't require 8GB of memory just to function in the future. That would be absurd.

My main concern is the availability of battery replacements. It would make it much easier if there was a battery size and connection standard in the future. But since all phones are different shapes and sizes that wouldn't work.

The Fairphone is probably the best in terms of what we want. But it's a lot of money and isn't available to purchase from my country. The PinePhone also uses a J7 sized battery which can still be found on ebay. But the device isn't made to last.

@alexia And thus, not only does it not actually accomplish anything, it also entirely blocks legitimate users.

Impressive⸮

@alexia my phone has 8 cores, 2 Cortex-A73 and 6 Cortex-A53, a whole 2 GIGABYTES of ram, and still, that isn't enough to run certain apps properly

the discord emoji picker ? it OOMs the entire phone if i open it. Websites ? be it chromium or firefox, a website will take 10 seconds to actually show up, even without anubis.

with anubis, that shoots up to a minute. But! i can have modern browsers so anubis does work, it's just, really slow

which, i get it, it's the whole point, but come on.

this isn't that old of a phone, it's barely 6 years old.

mobile first webdev my ass

@SRAZKVT @alexia mobile first (has to be this year's phone)

@alexia@shrimp.starlightnet.work @sneexy@booping.synth.download oh you poor poor soul who has to use a non-pixel phone for two weeks and develop empathy for others who are stuck on obsolete versions of Android with no custom ROMs... that ZTE blade has a newer version of Android than my phone yet you're whining about it?

@alexia@shrimp.starlightnet.work @carbonatedcaffeine@social.treehouse.systems I'm going to be trying my best to keep my current PC for that long, previous PC held strong for almost 7 years before I managed to earn some funds for a new one in 2021. Old hardware is still sitting here ofc, ready to serve as a retro machine or backup PC if needed (although I also have a steamdeck now)

@alexia you could change your user agent

@alexia may I suggest Pale Moon as a workaround?

@alexia @enjarai @aurakle Okay, that's amazing. Can you link to that post? I want to do my part too.

@alexia@starlightnet.work that's one of the reason i like how my website is light and efficient regardless of your hardware of internet speed
even with the slowest network simulation on firefox it loads so fast :3

@alexia I finally cracked and installed Anubis on a niche service which was getting pounded, since the options were to either use Anubis or turn off the service.

My use of Anubis isn't a great solution, but it was the least-worst choice. Either way, you were not going to be able to visit the site.

@alexia@shrimp.starlightnet.work

Software should be efficient, and fast. We've all forgotten what it means to be on a platform that is restricted ever since our computing resources started going up, and this is where it left us.

It isn't even good on high end hardware ​​ Tbh it gives me a vibe of a commercially-funneled open source project (or just the team who really wants to commercialize their idea without a well-defined principle), but it is unclear to me the team even have the experience of designing performance related software.

To me this is an "apathy" based defense: the assumption always is an attacker won't bother to optimize or pay for rigs. But if that is the case (1) the "defense" shouldn't get "harder": that just frustrate the hell out of lgtm visitors without imposing real cost barrier on attacks (2) you shouldn't encourage a monoculture of identical rules and challenge scheme on all your users, that concentrates risk of complete breakage.

Thanks for letting me know of Locaine, it looks like a pragmatic solution: ticks all my checkmarks: security by diversity; no magical thinking; not being the weakest link yourself.

https://yumechi.jp/en/blog/2025/proof-of-mutex-outspeeding-anubis-with-valid-pow/

@alexia@starlightnet.work @sneexy@booping.synth.download you can probably get firefox on at least the latter one

fuck anubis though.

@niko@gts.niko.lgbt @alexia@starlightnet.work "in their commercial offering" ok so that's where the "we're keeping the opensource version intentionally shit" bit kicks in. cool. Anubis is never getting non-JS methods because they insist on purposefully being a garbage solution just so they can scam people who don't know better out of their money