Achievement unlocked: loaded a GNOME #GitLab link that was pasted in a chatroom and triggered @cadey's "Anubis" anti-LLM-scraper protection catgirl with my genuine Firefox browser, and had to watch my CPU burn for a minute 
I regret to inform you that we have now entered the DEFCON 1 stage of the struggle against the LLMs "AI" #enshittification bubble 
What I don't quite understand is why the GitLab instance would put up this challenge to already logged-in users 
@nekohayo wow holy shit this is awesome! I should get in touch with the GNOME team to see if they run into any issues with it.
@cadey Many of us have been having random encounters with Anubis today, I got my ass kicked by it on a couple of occasions in the past few hours, it feels exactly as terrifying as in Zone of the Enders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFmfygHQ4r4&t=366s
@karolherbst Yeah that's partially because I fucked up the implementation of difficulty. I'm gonna make a patch to fix that, but I kinda wish that they used anything but Matrix. I've had to delete my Matrix account due to transphobic harassment.
@cadey well.. we are still using good ol IRC at least 
and we do have a huge bot problem, sometimes we got 100k ore more sign-ups per week just for spam...
But we've also been seeing AI crawler hammering at our instance quite a lot.
So yeah, definitely interested to find good solutions for that.
@karolherbst I just joined #freedesktop on OFTC!
@cadey At the bottom of https://handbook.gnome.org/infrastructure/contact.html there's the ID of the Matrix channel where the sysadmins discuss and live troubleshoot, if you're interested 
@whynothugo @nekohayo I'm working on making it only trigger when you're not logged in. Sorry for the inconvenience! I made it fail closed.