"Vance responded: "This idea that Gavin Newsom is somehow going to mimic Donald Trump's style, I think that ignores the fundamental genius of President Trump's political success, which is that he's authentic. He just is who he is.
"You've got to be yourself, you've got to actually talk to people honestly about the issues. I don't think it's that complicated; don't be a crazy person, be authentic, if the Democrats did that, they'd do a hell of a lot better.""
I hate Vance, but has legitimately spoken true and good advice to the Dems here. It's sad that he knows there's no harm in doing so.
Yeah, well-written stuff. I think Anubis will come and go. This beautifully demonstrates and, best of all, quantifies the
negligencenegligible cost to scrapers of Anubis.It's very interesting to try to think of what would work, even conceptually. Some sort of purely client-side captcha type of thing perhaps. I keep thinking about it in half-assed ways for minutes at a time.
Maybe something that scrambles the characters of the site according to some random "offset" of some sort, e.g maybe randomly selecting a modulus size and an offset to cycle them, or even just a good ol' cipher. And the "captcha" consists of a slider that adjusts the offset. You as the viewer know it's solved when the text becomes something sensical - so there's no need for the client code to store a readable key that could be used to auto-undo the scrambling. You could maybe even have some values of the slider randomly chosen to produce English text if the scrapers got smart enough to check for legibility (not sure how to hide which slider positions would be these red herring ones though) - which could maybe be enough to trick the scraper into picking up junk text sometimes.