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Account age

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Noticed some excessive load on the FreshBSD frontend service. Found this charming little Lightpanda user discovering they don't need to complete the Anubis challenge if they just change the User-Agent to something more honest.
Anyway it's now categorised as a bot, and Anubis is blocking 94.6% of all requests. The scraper doesn't seem to care they're wasting a ton of residential proxy bandwidth on

1 views Noticed some excessive load on the FreshBSD frontend service. Found this charming little Lightpanda user discovering they don't need to complete the Anubis challenge if they just change the User-Agent to something more honest. Anyway it's now categorised as a bot, and Anubis is blocking 94.6% of all requests. The scraper doesn't seem to care they're wasting a ton of residential proxy bandwidth on

📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

3.1%

Engagement vs followers

Nov 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: I just deployed Anubis (https://anubis.techaro.lol/) to FreshBSD · 28 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

0.09 / week

A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

0.5×

Follows 448 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post I just deployed Anubis (https://anubis.techaro.lol/) to FreshBSD.org due to relentless web scraping by unscrupulous bots that ignore `robots.txt`. Anubis requires a JavaScript proof-of-work challenge be performed by a web browser in order to acquire an access cookie that permits… ★ 28

Working on some user-facing improvements to FreshBSD.org. Firstly: Dark Mode, following `prefers-color-scheme` with buttons to override if desired. Secondly: Updating the select dropdowns (https://slimselectjs.com/), which in particular ha…

Noticed some excessive load on the FreshBSD frontend service. Found this charming little Lightpanda user discovering they don't need to complete the Anubis challenge if they just change the User-Agent to something more honest. Anyway it's … ★ 1 RE: https://ruby.social/@JRuby/116965062620718446 "Updated JRuby’s native library backend with support for OpenBSD" So these dumbfuck web scraper bots that want to get every possible combination of results from FreshBSD now bypass Anubis by just... running the challenge. Bumped the difficulty up to 6 (ridiculous) and they still go, they just take a lot … ★ 2 In the past 14-ish hours Anubis has issued 30 challenges, validated 14 of them, and processed 51,028 `bot/generic-browser` `CHALLENGE` policy hits (slightly under 1 per second). Pretty stark ratio, but the disparity between challenges issu… Many thanks to @dch for the almost perfectly-timed port! https://freshbsd.org/freebsd/ports/commit/3745ef7406f7579cea610caaa755d676f4d7f7af ★ 2 Currently reading "Learning Go", and struck by how it can't seem to go 3 paragraphs without warning you about yet another sharp edge of the language, some way you must be careful about using any given seemingly-innocuous feature lest you b… ★ 2 FreshBSD having issues due to appalling packet loss from Contabo. I guess they're prioritising Black Friday money over, you know, actually providing a service. They still haven't fixed Zenbleed, btw. Hopefully I'll have enough free cash to… Why is the most convincingly human character a small floating robot. I keep picturing the director interrupting the actors demanding they act stiffer, more robotic, screaming at them whenever they show the slightest hint of emotion. I don't remember much from the short stories, but if they'd started like this I wouldn't have got past the first page.

🐘 Community & instance

Home server

hachyderm.io

A tech & engineering server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.

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Verified link

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On Mastodon since

Nov 2022

Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.

👁️Averages 7 views per post.

📤Posts about 0.1× per week.

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Estimated

89/100

Excellent Credibility score

99%

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High Data confidence

Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Strong engagement (~3.1% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
Verified account.
Established account (3+ years old).

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

Lazy Rustacean, lapsed Rubyist, lupid nerd, loony leftist, laconic ignostic. ∞ he/they.

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