• mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days 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.

    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
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    2 days 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
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    2 days 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

  • PearOfJudes@lemmy.ml
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    3 days 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
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      2 days ago

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

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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    3 days 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!

  • Kaligalis@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    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.

  • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
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    3 days ago

    If running a development team is like herding cats, of course an self-organized free software team is a “clowder”. Autonomy respecting catboys are also welcome.