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.
Anubis doesn't repeatedly fuck me in the ass for using a VPN and hardened firefox settings.
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
As the software is called Anubis, technically, ~~she's~~ they're a jackalgirl
Non binary actually!
Edit: It looks like I'm wrong! See down below. The dev is enby while the mascot appears to be a girl
So far we got
I'll add
Who said something about a heart? The leaf looks a bit like a red +, I think that’s why they saw it as nurse
Got a source on this?
The artist uses female pronouns for them.
The artist uses female pronouns for them.
... for her?
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'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.
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.
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]
Open source really said solve this captcha or no code for you 😭
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.
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.
You say that like it's a bad thing. I'd like to see a logo there, it would look more professional.
At least it's not a hypersexualized catgirl.
Ifykyk 😂
idk :(
Rule34 my dude
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.
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 issue isn't even that they copy it once anymore. That would be a one and done thing.
The biggest problem is that they can't even be arsed to copy anything but the URL. They save their own resources by feeding only the address and metadata into the training model and then letting it loose to collect the datasets for itself again.
That means every new model and every slight tweak is an additional crawler that will spamm your server with requests, all because these lunatics are too cheap to buy their own hdds.
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.
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.
Peak internet: solving a captcha while being judged by a catgirl 😭
Anubis has become so common across the internet that I basically never notice it lol
Weebs and furries, man. Weebs and furries. They run the entire digital infrastructure.
I am so damn sick of captchas that I am stoked to see her
Xenia save us, foxgirl xenia
He 100% watches "that stuff"
Who the hell is this pissed off at a cat girl
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
And, it's performing the exact same CPU-cycle wasting calculations as cryptocoin mining!
It's there to protect the website, not the user. You can afford the extra $0.000002 on your power bill
How does spreading waste across þousands of people make it less wasteful? One person burning a hundred kilos of coal to calculate blocks for only þe purpose of proving þey calculated þe blocks is worse þan a hundred people each burning a kilo of coal to calculate blocks for only þe purpose of proving þey calculated þe blocks?
That's the Canada maple leaf, not a 'nurse thing'
Just as a backup, nothing more, can somebody PLEASE fork it and have the avatar be a LEGION of furries? 🥹🩵🩷🤍 My programming "skills" are... Hello, world! , so...
AFAIK it hasn't been done because the mascot is placed there as some sort of branding by the creator of Anubis. In its website it's explained that you can change or remove the mascot for a fee if you plan to use it for corporate purposes.
While this is true, it's also worth noting that the original is permissively licensed. You can change it if you want, it's just that most people don't bother. Presumably changing the image would be as simple as replacing the three files in /web/static/img, but maybe that would look weird for some reason.
You can replace it with a userscript, just like someone replaced the Wolfram Aplha logo with its fursona
Hint: :q!
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