This is very exciting. Here is the APK I downloaded. And the associated discussion.
It even already seems to support stylus input which is very exciting seeing as there has been talk of porting RNote to Android.
This is very exciting. Here is the APK I downloaded. And the associated discussion.
It even already seems to support stylus input which is very exciting seeing as there has been talk of porting RNote to Android.
Do you have a better way? It is way more private than anything else I’ve seen.
From a energy usage perspective it also isn’t bad. Spiking the CPU for a few seconds is minor especially compared to other tasks.
Yeah, tarpits. Or, even just intentionally fractionally lagging the connection, or putting a delay on the response to some mime types. Delays don’t consume nearly as much processing as PoW. Personally, I like tar pits that trickle out content like a really slow server. Hidden URLs that users are not likely to click on. These are about the least energy-demanding solutions that have a chance of fooling bots; a true, no-response tarpit would use less energy, but is easily detected by bots and terminated.
Proof of work is just a terrible idea, once you’ve accepted that PoW is bad for the environment, which it demonstrably is.
None of those things work well is the problem. It doesn’t stop the bots from hammering you site. Crawlers will just timeout and move on.
I run a service that gets attacked by AI bots, and while PoW isn’t the only way to do things, none of your suggestions work at all.