| ▲ | dmix 4 hours ago |
| That anime gating is very jarring, thought I clicked on the wrong link and clicked back. |
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| ▲ | f1refly 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Right? I hope it never goes away, we should make the web more fun instead of sad and clean! |
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| ▲ | suby 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I think if you were to poll people, a significant portion would be repulsed by this catgirl aesthetic, or (though this isn't the case for Anubis) the cliche inappropriately dressed inappropriately young anime characters dawned as mascots in an ever increasing number of projects. People can do whatever they want with their projects, but I feel like the people who like this crap perhaps don't understand how repulsive it is to a large number of people. Personally it creeps me out. | | |
| ▲ | ikamm 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I'm not repulsed by it but I do wish the people that forced this stuff into their software/hardware realized how juvenile it makes their product look. There's a decent cheap Chinese pair of Bluetooth earbuds on Amazon that's been very popular among audiophiles but the feedback sounds are an anime girl making noises and there's no way to turn it off so I lost interest in purchasing them. | | |
| ▲ | makemake_kbo an hour ago | parent [-] | | well for the bluetooth headphones i dont think you were the target demographic. but open source generally isnt treated as a product. its just a bunch of volunteers having fun writing code. its natural that they will include their other interests in it in some way because it makes working on a project more fun. first impressions matter a lot, but i dont think foss projects should optimize for that instead of having fun. |
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| ▲ | windward 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The internet was better when it repulsed a significant portion of people. | | |
| ▲ | naIak 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | What would happen if it changed in a way that repulsed you? | | |
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| ▲ | ndiddy 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | This is intentional. The version with the fun art that expresses the creator's individuality is free and open source, but they sell a paid version with bland, corporate-friendly art that also supports custom art and CSS. This makes the project sustainable to work on without having to worry about corporations that care about professionalism/how people like you think/etc not supporting the project financially. | |
| ▲ | sacado2 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | What? She's wearing a hoodie and a tee-shirt, how is that inappropriate? And how being young is inappropriate? | |
| ▲ | exe34 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It sounds like something you might benefit from talking to a therapist. It's not normal to have such a strong reaction. I hope you can get the help you need! | |
| ▲ | thoroughburro 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > inappropriately dressed How do you think Anubis should dress? | | | |
| ▲ | secondcoming 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The whole Japanese cartoon schoolgirl thing is 100% creepy. |
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| ▲ | NegativeK 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Anubis has been around for almost a year now, but it's also not particularly relevant to the content of the email thread. |
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| ▲ | veltas 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It's particularly jarring to basically every site I've seen it on which is usually some serious and professional looking open source site. I wonder why nobody configures this, is this not something that they can configure themselves to a more relevant image, like the GCC logo or something? | | |
| ▲ | 3836293648 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Because that's the difference between the paid and free versions | |
| ▲ | andsoitis 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Anubis asks that you don’t change the logo and if you want to, pay them: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/funding/ | |
| ▲ | 1718627440 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I think they might also want to bring attention to the problem and advertise for an open-source solution. | | | |
| ▲ | gessha 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Fire up your LLM of choice and make a web extension to make it more presentable. Remove the logo, generate one, do whatever you want. The world is your playground, don’t let it “jarr” you with stuff. | |
| ▲ | Tyr42 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | That's the paid upgrade for "enterprise" level quality. | |
| ▲ | renewiltord 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I’m sure if you want you can offer to pay like $500/mo on their behalf and they’ll change it for everyone. |
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| ▲ | 1718627440 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Anubis is a bit annoying over crappy internet connections, especially in front of a webpage that would work quite well in this case otherwise, but it still performs way better than Cloudflare in this regard. |
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| ▲ | wyldfire 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Recently, on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44962529 |
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| ▲ | MangoToupe 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Who cares tbh |
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| ▲ | 1718627440 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I wouldn't have known that this is anime, if not for all the HN comments pointing that out. |
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| ▲ | tr45872267 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Many people have said they don't like it, and all that did is make its supporters even happier that it's there, because it makes them feel special is some strange way. |
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| ▲ | falcor84 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| See also discussion on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44962529 |
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| ▲ | superkuh 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Anubis is significantly less jarring than cloudflare blocks preventing any access at all. At least Anubis lets me read the content of pages. Cloudflare is so bleeding edge and commercial they do not care about broad brower support (because it doesn't matter for commercial/sales). But for websites you actually want everyone to be able to load anubis is by far the best. That said, more on topic, I am really glad that C++ actually considers the implications of switching default targets and only does this every 5 years. That's a decent amount of time and longer than most distros release cycles. When a language changes significantly faster than release cycles (ie, rustc being a different compiler every 3 months) it means that distros cannot self-host if they use rust code in their software. ie, with Apt now having rust code, and Debian's release cycle being 4 years for LTS, debian's shipped rustc won't be able to compile Apt. |
