Building native packages is complicated
xeiaso.net
Especially if you want a UX as good as Docker images give you.

Anubis provides protection against bots scraping websites and DDoSing projects.

This blog post is about Xe’s reasoning for originally only providing docker packages and their work to provide native packages.

  • onlinepersona@programming.dev
    5·
    2 days ago

    How would that work? And how easy would it be to circumvent? Anubis probably forces spinning up a browser or something that supports a JS runtime (again probably a browser), so it’s not as easily scriptable as just callling an HTTP endpoint. I’m curious how you would implement a system without JS.

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    • marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      Honestly I have no idea how PoW works at all. I’m just happy to see the innovation in this space. With that said, people have raised the idea of using TOR’s PoW mechanism, or in my case, Dread’s PoW. I believe both of them work without JavaScript

      • onlinepersona@programming.dev
        1·
        17 hours ago

        I would then encourage you to look up how those work and what proof of work actually is. Proof of work requires some work to be done by the client. If you want regular people to browse the internet normally and “do work”, that means JavaScript, otherwise it requires them to install an extra binary like TOR or something, which would lock out most of real users. I imagine that’s not the goal of site operators.

        Anti Commercial-AI license

    • lumony@lemmings.worldEnglish
      31·
      1 day ago

      Maybe the solution is for browsers to include POW functionality natively.

      We see dumb shit like “you need to enable DRM yadayada.” We could have a similar thing for “you need to enable POW.”