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by namanyayg 437 days ago
"It also uses time as an input, which is known to both the server and requestor due to the nature of linear timelines"

A funny line from his docs

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OMG lol I forgot that I left that in. Hilarious. I think I'm gonna keep it.
I didn’t even blink at this, my inner monologue just did a little “well, naturally” in a Redditor voice and kept reading.
BTW Xe, https://xeiaso.net/pronouns is 404 since sometime last year, but it is still linked to from some places like https://xeiaso.net/blog/xe-2021-08-07/ (I saw "his" above and went looking).
I'm considering making it come back, but it's just gotten me too much abuse so I'm probably gonna leave it 404-ing until society is better.
Maybe there is some space on the market for a Proof of Emapthy widget
I have seen some projects that require acknowledging certain politically-charged statements before they will allow you to participate, like "you must agree that sovereign country X is at war with aggressor country Y".
That's what route-specific Anubis is for.
parent is referring to a different kind of abuse
or you just not cranking up the required proof of work effort enough.
Unfortunately it is also false (if taken out of context; Anubis rounds the time to the nearest week, which is probably good enough if the next-nearest week is valid too). Clock desync for a variety of reasons is pervasive - you can't expect the 10th percentile of your users to be accurate even to the day, and even the 25th percentile will be five minutes or so off.