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I was originally gonna post the Wikipedia info about this software because its actually fairly new, and only came out last year, but I found an infinitely more funny entry about the mascot:
The software’s loading screen is branded with a commissioned artwork of Anubis as a jackal-eared anime girl by the European artist CELPHASE.[1][8] The mascot is depicted with a hoodie, skirt and magnifying glass. Before the artwork was ordered, Anubis used an AI-generated placeholder image.[1]
The Anubis mascot is shown to all end users and cannot be altered in the software configuration.[1] The image’s feel may clash with websites that have more formal atmospheres, surprising or confusing users of those sites.[8] Altering the branding is an enterprise feature and Iaso has requested that operators not attempt to change it themselves unless they have made financial contributions to the project.[1]
Duke University, which has deployed Anubis for its digital archives, was “hesitant” to use it due to the mascot but has reached an agreement to use the software with custom branding.[1] Jamie Zawinski describes the mascot as “cutesey kawaii bullshit”.[11]
So literally hardcoded weeb builtin lmao.
EDIT: It’s $50 donation a month if you want the “official” enterprise version which gives you an easy overlay to change the HTML/CSS and uses some generic icons by default, but I’m sure anyone not into a jackal girl is more than capable of doing the same on the public image lol.
If you’re interested about the software history anyway, it involves a response to Amazon spamming the crap out of the internet with their web crawlers, probably including for mass AI data collection:
spoiler
Anubis is an open source software program that adds a proof of work challenge to websites before users can access them in order to deter web scraping. It has been adopted mainly by Git forges and free and open-source software projects.[4][5]
Anubis was created by Xe Iaso in response to Amazon’s web crawler overloading their Git server, as the crawler did not respect the robots.txt exclusion protocol and would work around restrictions.[4][6] Iaso lists Hashcash as having inspired the project.[7] The application supports inspecting request elements such as headers like the User-Agent header to determine if the request should require proof of work.
The name Anubis is taken from the Ancient Egyptian god of funerals and judgement, who weighs the hearts of the dead to determine if they are allowed passage into the afterlife, whereas the Anubis software “weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests”.[8]
Bril
i’d rather be greeted by Anubis than be harassed by CloudFlare.
I’d rather be greeted by the Sphinx and asked to solve a riddle than another captcha.
What happens when we anser the riddle wrong?
Anubis doesn’t repeatedly fuck me in the ass for using a VPN and hardened firefox settings.
seconded
I am so damn sick of captchas that I am stoked to see her
First of all, it’s a jackal girl.
Second, we wouldn’t need Anubis if it wasn’t for the hoard of scraping bots trying to copy every line of source code they can, to feed into LLM to be ground up and spat out as an attributionless mass of Frankenstein code.
Would they rather it be a soulless corporate logo? A flat two tone rounded corner letter on a square?
I think we collectively agreed FOSS mascots need to be full furry, preferably drawn by that one artist who did the KDE mascots
Tyson Tan, who also did Freedom Planet 2 designs.
The only way to fight multi-billionaire corporations is by being a little
controversialopinionated.
yep. this is like somebody putting a giant retro reflective wall in front of their house because the person across from them idles their vehicle with blinding LED headlights every morning for 10 minutes pointed straight in the living room
The world is dominated by people like this Karen. Making society so fucking dry, boring, and lifeless. The same sort of people who invented corpospeak.
I hate that society is largely driven by people who think that whimsy must die with your childhood
It’s also people who think that anything out of the ordinary must be dirty and perverted.
No its not. But you have that typical personality type in computers. The one who is all facts and data, very logical but very low emotional iq. And sometimes autistic, uncomfortable with default social norms.
That kind of person would put more stats in that screen rather than a picture. Or the picture would be something default, like a loading bar.
I dont see that type dominating the world outside. If you would go outside your door! :)
The real world is also not dominated by furries. However, pedophile, autistic billionaries are leading it into destruktion.
You say that like it’s a bad thing. I’d like to see a logo there, it would look more professional.
looks like an artistic logo to me, says everything it needs to.
Fuck I love how queer FOSS is. When big tech corporations switch there support of LGBT organizations dependent on which party is in power to make a profit, FOSS will maintain there position.
Well, a core of FOSS. Unfortunately, there are many jerkasses within the FOSS community, see the Xlibre developer.
personally, i like the catgirl avatar. it shows that passionate and quirky nerds are doing stuff for science and computing. also people should check out that one github repo of just pictures of anime girls holding programming books
Look, FOSS comes in two flavors.
Either all the contributor profile pics are flash lit smiling photos of middle aged bearded guys with glasses standing in an office, or they’re anime girls.
I constantly get reminded that Gonzo, even in business attire, is not an acceptable professional avatar to upload to the companys Windows profile. I’m also a contractor so I dgaf.
I’ve gone for the corpo middle ground and my company picture is the Japanese business blahaj in a suit. I’ve been told, “I don’t even look for your name I just look for the shark, it stands out more”
Where I work, profile pictures come in 2 flavors. Headshots or cat photos. I excersied radical free will and chose a rooster shooting lasers out it’s eyes.
or creatures :3
It’s the same demographic for both.
Oh- well i guess i am not a developer anymore now XD
That’s the Canada maple leaf, not a ‘nurse thing’
Oh, she’s from Canada, you wouldn’t know her.
she goes to a different temple
Also, drawing a red cross as a “nurse thing” would be a violation of the Geneva convention.
I’d rather this than find all of the stoplights in an array of 9, move a puzzle piece into the hole, or even sit through cloudflare (that fails more times than it succeeds). Catgirl nurse any fuckin day!
Weebs and furries, man. Weebs and furries. They run the entire digital infrastructure.
He 100% watches “that stuff”
Probably just wanked off to a catgirl. His post was inspired by the post-nut clarity.
Eh, tbh i’m pretty weirded out by most of the anime culture/fandom as well. I pretty much blocked anything anime on the fediverse because i dont want to see it. But the anubis girl didnt even register as anime for me. Even if it did it would be 5 seconds to block that image with ublock.
Anyway, i hope this will be the last time i post about how i dont like certain aspects of anime because nobody gives a shit.
I just see it and think at least it’s not captcha.
Hell yeah, opinions truly do not matter. I’m not even joking, de gustibus nil disputandum MFer.
I’m glad that these folks feel comfortable sharing their interest/avatar/character in the community.
I recently watched a presentation on game engine topic on game conference and the presenter was wearing a cat ear headband. A bit unusual but it suited her.
Who the hell is this pissed off at a cat girl
I’m guessing fathers
The kind of whimsiless corpo half-person who seems embarrassed to know that anime is a thing, and can’t mention it without assuring his audience that he doesn’t watch that stuff
Conservatives. They hate everything.
Spurned lover.
idk i think its pretty out of place and gets kind of obnoxious seeing specifically anime furry adjacent stuff all the time. If its your thing, its really your thing, if its not your thing its mildly annoying/occasionally weird. Theres some communities where if youre an outsider its better not to engage with the fandom but thats hard when its your job to interact with these people all day.
ok tangent: i used to think furries are mostly innocent nice nerds, but then i found out how the vast majority are into it as a kink or some kind of nasty besti*lity cartoon fetish nasty nasty. I get reallly uncomfy around those dudes that wear the mascot head to walmart or whatever bc i feel like hes gonna jerk off about being a dog later
edit: yeah that sums up my feelings, i feel gross like youre exposing me/involving me in your kink when i see that stuff. not in an extreme way or anything. but the nature of it being wantinf to fck dogs takes it up a notch
What’s your basis for saying the vast majority are into it as a kink thing? Because I’m someone who used to feel uneasy about furries for much the same reason you are — but that was when I personally knew few, if any people who were furries.
Over the last few years, my work has meant that I’ve met more furries than I can count, becoming friends with many of them, and developing a better understanding of what being a furry offers them. It’s not a sex thing for the vast majority of furries I have known. This isn’t just based on my experience either — I have an artist friend who draws furry porn for a living. Although she is not a furry herself, she exists in close proximity to the furry community so that she can network and get commissions, and she agrees that the people for whom it’s a kink thing is a minority
I was a furry before I had words for it, way before I knew anything about sex stuff… I learned the term “furry” around 2002 and was shocked there was a term for it, and quite a few other people who felt the same way I did!
Sees harmless picture of anime girl somewhere on the internet
DON’T INVOLVE ME WITH YOUR GROSS BEASTIALITY KINK
Furry porn is a thing the same way anime porn is a thing. Just because someone’s into anime doesn’t mean they’re jerkin it to anime all the time
This reaction is not neutral. You’re missing the people in between those repulsed by the idea of silly animal cartoons (you) and those who actively enjoy silly animal cartoons. Which is everybody else, who just see a cartoon and do not care.
Legitimate completely non-sarcastic question because I’m actually curious. How do you feel about trans rights and how do you feel about Trump?
anime furry
It’s literally a cartoon.
then i found out how the vast majority are into it as a kink or some kind of nasty besti*lity cartoon fetish nasty nasty.
Well, good news! You’re wrong!
A furry is simply somebody who’s a fan of anthropomorphics. For example, I’m a fan of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I do not want to fuck the TMNT. I’m willing to bet most fans of the TMNT don’t.
I get reallly uncomfy around those dudes that wear the mascot head to walmart or whatever bc i feel like hes gonna jerk off about being a dog later
Maybe. Why do you care, though? It sounds like you’re upset about kinky people existing.
