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.
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.
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.
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!
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Right? I hope it never goes away, we should make the web more fun instead of sad and clean!
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.
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.
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The internet was better when it repulsed a significant portion of people.
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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.
What? She's wearing a hoodie and a tee-shirt, how is that inappropriate? And how being young is inappropriate?
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!
> inappropriately dressed
How do you think Anubis should dress?
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The whole Japanese cartoon schoolgirl thing is 100% creepy.
Anubis has been around for almost a year now, but it's also not particularly relevant to the content of the email thread.
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?
Because that's the difference between the paid and free versions
Anubis asks that you don’t change the logo and if you want to, pay them: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/funding/
I think they might also want to bring attention to the problem and advertise for an open-source solution.
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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.
That's the paid upgrade for "enterprise" level quality.
I’m sure if you want you can offer to pay like $500/mo on their behalf and they’ll change it for everyone.
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.
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.
Recently, on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44962529
Who cares tbh
I wouldn't have known that this is anime, if not for all the HN comments pointing that out.
See also discussion on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44962529
So some sort of viral marketing by using weird images
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.