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eb0la
on March 20, 2025
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FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companie...
If that happens, count with me to use Anubis to factor large primes or whatever science needs as a background task.
enrico204
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Actually, that is not a bad idea. @xena maybe Anubis v2 could make the client participate in some sort of SETI@HOME project, creating the biggest distributed cluster ever created :-D
programd
on March 20, 2025
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Oh come now, clearly Anubis should make the clients mine bitcoin as proof of work, with a split for the website and the author.
Oh dear, somebody is going to implement this in about an hour, aren't they....
grotorea
on March 20, 2025
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Just in case you didn't know, cryptominers in Javascript are already thing. Firefox even blocks them.
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on March 20, 2025
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a service that allows you expose and host your data in a private manner getting a cut from whatever token your endpoints have generated.
kotenok2000
on March 21, 2025
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Shouldn't you factor composite numbers? Factoring prime numbers is pointless.
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