• mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    7 hours ago

    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]

  • romanticremedy@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    8 hours ago

    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.

  • goodboyjojo@lemmy.world
    5·
    13 hours ago

    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

    • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      7 hours ago

      It’s a pretty neat way of making your computer to solve captcha, doesn’t prove you are not a robot but sure as hell slows your requests down

  • PearOfJudes@lemmy.ml
    29·
    1 day ago

    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.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
      7·
      21 hours ago

      Well, a core of FOSS. Unfortunately, there are many jerkasses within the FOSS community, see the Xlibre developer.

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
    281·
    1 day ago

    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!

  • Tattorack@lemmy.world
    301·
    2 days ago

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

  • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1151·
    2 days ago

    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?

    • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
      35·
      2 days ago

      I think we collectively agreed FOSS mascots need to be full furry, preferably drawn by that one artist who did the KDE mascots

    • Jako302@feddit.org
      12·
      2 days ago

      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.

    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      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

  • mycodesucks@lemmy.world
    711·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • Bakkoda@lemmy.world
      26·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • saplyng@lemmy.world
        14·
        2 days ago

        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”

          • VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca
            4·
            2 days ago

            In the previous post Xe said they’ve been commissioned to make Anubis mascot. So I believe that makes Xe the artist ?

        • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          The artist (according to the attributions file on the github) also gives her female pronouns, I think they avoid it though I see the word mascot used most often.

          edit: linked attributions file as well because it’s served in an unconventional location.

          • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
            8·
            2 days ago

            Gender-neutral term are never wrong and maybe there was another source for it.

            Not sure who has the technical authority to decide the pronouns of a fictional character, commissioned artist or the commissioner.

            • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
              111·
              2 days ago

              the joke is that while discussing if a character has neutral or female pronouns, you referred to the character by the neutral pronouns while declaring that the character is female.

              I managed to write that whole sentence while avoiding saying “they” or “her”. Go me!

      • Zwiebel@feddit.orgEnglish
        44·
        2 days ago

        So far we got

        • not a cat but jackal
        • not a girl but nonbinary
        • not a heart but canada leaf

        I’ll add

        • not “something to watch” but OC
        • not a nurse