Rust is a programming language which was designed to be memory safe without any of the overhead caused by traditional memory safety techniques employed by existing languages (namely, garbage collection and reference counting). It does this by shifting the memory management from happening at runtime to happening at compile time. The compiler forces the programmer to follow certain rules to ensure that their program can be proven to be free of errors such as use-after-frees and double-frees. Because of this design philosophy, Rust is a good fit as a replacement for C, because it can do everything that C can while ensuring the programmer doesn’t make any mistakes with regard to memory management.

I didn’t know that. I had assumed people using screen readers would use the same versions of websites as everyone else.

Off to do some research, to make my own sites more accessible for the blind!

As I understand, Anubis doesn’t make the user do anything. Instead, it runs some JavaScript in the client’s browser that does the calculations, and then sends the result back to the server. In order for an LLM to get through Anubis, the LLM would need to be running a real JavaScript engine (since the requested calculation is too complicated for an LLM to do natively), and that would be prohibitively expensive for bot farms at any real scale. Since all real people accessing the site will be doing so through a browser, which has JavaScript built in, and most bots will just download the website and send the source code right into the LLM without being able to execute it, real people will be able to get through Anubis while bots won’t. The total amount of extra energy consumed by adding Anubis isn’t actually that high since bot farms aren’t doing the extra work.

Take that all with a grain of salt; that info is based on a blog post which I read like 6 months ago, and I may be remembering incorrectly.

Thanks!

Does anyone know the original source? I remember watching a ton of videos like 5 years ago with the same art style and the same jokey, animals-doing-funny-stuff kind of content, and I’m pretty sure this video came from that same author. I’d like to rewatch them if I can

Immovable Rod: when activated, it becomes fixed in its position in space, ignoring the motion of the planet. The moment it’s activated, it flies off into the sky or through the earth depending on the time of day, destroying everything in its path.

Potentially extremely useful with a lot of planning, once.

Despite the fact that you clearly mentioned music in your title, it took me longer than I’d like to admit to realize you weren’t claiming that scorpions were indigenous to Germany

Hisuian Sliggoo?