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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 a huge transformation where we will have dystopia.
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.
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
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.
At least it’s not a hypersexualized catgirl.
Ifykyk 😂
idk :(
Rule34 my dude
Iadk
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.
It sucks that you can’t browse anywhere without javascript anymore. It used to be that all the open source sites, most news sites, forums running phpbb, even YouTube aside from the actual <video> element all worked without javascript, and as a bonus there would be no ads.
Now, you can’t browse anywhere without these challenges. At least this one is noninvasive, but the Cloudflare one and the Google Recaptcha do a ton of fingerprinting to choose whether to let you in.
USPS has a home-rolled one that requires web assembly enabled, or it silently fails with a blank page. There’s no non-malicious excuse for that.
If this is the future of web browsing, hopefully more sites use systems like Anubis. But I also hope at least static pages can be viewable as plain html.
USPS has a home-rolled one that requires web assembly enabled, or it silently fails with a blank page
I sadly found out when trying to track the replacement display for my phone from iFixit through the Kobo web browser.
Yeah. I just leave pages that use this crap, but it’s steadily becoming a larger and larger % of the sites I try to visit each day.
What’s wrong with Javascript
Web browsers have a huge attack surface, and are most people’s main exposure to potential exploits. Without javascript, 99% of the attack surface disappears, becuase the attacker no longer has a way to run arbitrary code.
A lot of terminal-based browsers don’t do javascript.
If I want to scrape a page, this makes it a pain for both parties. I’m not an AI company, so I can afford the hash tax, but it’s still a pain to spin up Firefox from a from cron job instead of wget. And I’m still doing it, Anubis doesn’t stop small time scrapers like me who aren’t running AI training, and only scrape like one page per day. So now the server has to serve the original page, plus all the Anubis stuff each time my crown job goes off.
The HT in HTTP stands for HyperText, not HyperCode.
Wait until they find out about Programmer Socks.
I am so damn sick of captchas that I am stoked to see her
Anubis has become so common across the internet that I basically never notice it lol
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
Remember y’all computers are gay.
Peak internet: solving a captcha while being judged by a catgirl 😭
Xenia save us, foxgirl xenia
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.
