i'd rather be greeted by Anubis than be harassed by CloudFlare.

That's the Canada maple leaf, not a 'nurse thing'

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.

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?

same fucking vibes, idc how it looks, or how it designed to look like, as long it works as intended then so be it

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.

He 100% watches "that stuff"

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 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.

Wait until they find out about Programmer Socks.

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.

Scriptjunkie

With that name, I guess he's a JS dev trying to rebrand as a kernel vibecoder.

Oh look at the types that would call everyone snowflakes a few years ago get seriously offended by an image of a catgirl

Something exists.

People complain about it.

Anubis has become so common across the internet that I basically never notice it lol

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.

Peak internet: solving a captcha while being judged by a catgirl 😭

Weebs and furries, man. Weebs and furries. They run the entire digital infrastructure.

It's a freaking picture. It's not even anime-like, this is more the western drawing style. Who cares.

Who the hell is this pissed off at a cat girl

Xenia save us, foxgirl xenia

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!

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:

There are worse things you could get for an "I'm not a robot" prompt.

Remember y'all computers are gay.

why would anyone be offended by an adorable cartoon nurse girl w cat ears

Just git clone the repo to analyze it. That is the intended way to get the code for running your natural neural network over it; it should work just fine for artificial neural networks too.

Fun fact: It's based directly on the implementation seen in "DDOS Retarding by Kiwi Farms" which wasn't absolutely the original idea for cryptographic ddos filtering but the first to popularize and seriously rely on it live service.

Also I think it might be a wolf girl because it's called "Anubis" but I dunno. Anyway, I think it would be a lot funnier if everyone called it "DDOS retarding" but that's just me.

Its called evolution, roll with it.

I am so damn sick of captchas that I am stoked to see her

Not even a cat.

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

the gatekeepers we didn't know we needed....

Open source really said solve this captcha or no code for you 😭

Tragic that they don't enjoy any fun in their lives.

even TF2/Valve developer wiki makes you stare at catgirls.

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.