Some people on my instance regularly get their knickers in a twist over it.
Their reason: they fear to be seen as furries by people who don't know about anubis and their mascot.
I approve of this business model. Make them pay extra for professionalism so it stops being the default. "You could be saving money if you just accepted cat girls" will haunt their dreams every night
Correct, but the places where it is SUCK. So if they see them as bound together, they are also the places to abuse FOSS, so this is a perfect way to utilize their own shittiness to make them behave ethically.
Absolutely. I was just replying to the bit that professional is boring. It is, but sometimes it's necessary because it's what your target audience expects
I personally expect professionalism from government websites. And when buying products and services from private companies, a professional looking (and well working) website is something I want to see. Makes it more credible for me.
If the technical parts company I'm contacting has a poorly functioning website with anime shit in it, I'm definitely not going to run that by my boss lol. Sometimes the cartoon things can be used to distinguish yourself from the competition of course but I wouldn't gamble on that in my field.
Why does "professionalism" have to equal soulless? Go to Japan, tons of official sites and machines you interact with are full of whimsy and character, and they are known for being the breaurecrats. There is no reason that a funny image should be seen as "unprofessional".
Tbf, it can be a harder sell. For instance I'm recommending Delta Chat to my contacts over Arcane Chat even though Arcane has some extra features like Markdown support, because Arcane has a weird Chibi wizard girl mascot when you first open the app.
I don't need them assuming I'm into hentai or some shit just because of my choice of messenger, or just getting the ick and so they keep using FB messenger. Also, in fact I like anime but I've also always hated the Chibi artstyle, I like like, Trigun and Mazinger Z and stuff. Even then, anime is stereotypically too horny for me to want to associate with it without being able to explain how "yes most of them are, that's why I'm extremely picky and choose mostly space violence, but there is one good horny anime called Golden Boy." Also there's a difference between those who like anime and those who's entire personality is liking anime, the more web based things that have anime branding that I try to convince friends to use, the more I look like my whole personality is anime when in reality my whole personality is Privacy (and Piracy and kitties and hobbies and... but ykwim), and all that is before we throw in the furries, while they constantly insist it isn't sexual, nobody is believing that shit (I'm sure it isn't for some but c'mon there's too much furry porn out there, we know already, it's clearly sexual for a large contingent of people drawing furry futa.)
Tl;dr I get why some people wouldn't want overly sexualized or possibly divisive (in a sense, not like politically but that isn't the only context that word can be used in) cartoonery in logos and mascots, especially when it isn't also their thing or they don't want their mom asking weird questions about a meaningless logo.
Iffor my part have the experience when there is a funny mascot or icon which is a traffic cone or a cat girl, then I know the people behind that are professionals. The quality is good and nobody bats and eye about the mascot.
I'd rather not see it. Us non-weebs are force fed anime and related shit to a point of anger. It's extremely annoying and too much get through even with filters in place. Weebs don't understand how bad it is, and how not just being uninterested but actual disliking it makes the internet a shitty place to be.
Add this to ublock to remove it. I am not a fan of weeb or furry shit so I figured this one out pretty quick. There's no point in the logo even existing.
Talking about an opensource software some web developers use to verify the humanity of their traffic.
Instead of getting a captcha or a cloudflare verification, you see an anime catgirl nurse for a couple seconds while it runs a simple check on your browser metadata to filter out the majority of bot traffic
I mean it's MIT licensed which means you can just remove the character and the branding if you want. It's kinda a dick move to do that but that's what open source is all about.
For all the places I've encountered that used Anubis, I didn't bat an eye because it fits the vibe. But then again, I am a weeb. But also the image isn't even that egregious. I'd say it's atypical for a cartoon character, but that might be because I swim snorkel in sewers.
I heard of Anubis before a few times around posts surrounding Cloudflare's (CF) efforts around web scrapers previously. Truth be told, I hardly see the Anubis screen pop up. If the site or service is big enough, it would be using CF. If it's small enough or niche, in my mind, it shouldn't have that problem and doesn't need it. I can see big enough niche service and sites getting hit though, and can't pay for CF so they use Anubis. And sometimes those are anime related sites, though that's how I found it in the wild. I think catbox.moe is using anubis, and I think that's where I sometimes encounter it.
Yeah, git repositories get hit much more heavily than most websites by scrapers, as they usually go into every subdirectory/file iirc and also scrape pretty frequently
Yes that basically. I go to image boards (no, not that one) to find anime images. Often time that would entail seeing crazy shit.
I actually had another sentence written before but it didn't sound nice enough and swim snorkel somehow got posted. But I decide to just leave it at that
I can't really even comment if it's out of place or not because I know what Anubis is and get more excited about someone using it then I even think "is a cat girl out of place here?"
They basically use the WinRar approach adapted to Open Source. Anubis is MIT licensed, so there's nothing stopping anyone from replacing the branding themselves.
I'm reminded of an old SMBC skit where a couple reluctantly hires a given plumber...who works as though he's starring in a porno, and demands the occupants watch. They can't really turn him down, since he's the cheapest and most qualified in the area.
An old SMBC skit where a couple reluctantly hires a given plumber...who works as though he's starring in a porno, and demands the occupants watch. They can't really turn him down, since he's the cheapest and most qualified in the area.
If I were an immoral corpo that has problems with cat girls I would just remove the cat girl without paying. Anubis is MIT license, they can't even sue the immoral corpos.
They are explicitly fine with that option, but would prefer you to sponsor the project to keep it being devloped. If you do, they have a commercial version that in includes easy branding changes.
I use it because it compresses better and looks just as good, why use space when I can not use space?
I tried to compress with x265 on the videos I host but apparently iphones don't like it for some reason, but I just checked again and it looks like it's av1 they don't like, I might try x265 again but with HEVC
Practically x265 can be treated as another name for hevc. Apparently apple includes a software decoder for x265 and not av1, so av1 can only be used on newer devices (iphone 15 pro and newer) but x265 can be used on almost anything. The vlc media player app might work, idk. They do have a software decoder for avif included tho, which is kinda funny as apparently it supports animated avif as well. You can literally just copy an av1 video into an animated avif and it will play perfectly fine
interestingly you can't do this with webp even though that is also built on a video codec, webp only supports intra frames so it can't take advantage of the similarities between multiple frames of a video the way avif can
av2 also came out recently, it's a fair amount better but there isn't really a usable encoder yet (the encoder they made to test the codec, avm, is unusably slow, but they designed the codec for fast software and hardware encoders to be possible)
nowadays, for practical use, generally avif is best for lossy images (make sure you're using a recent encoder so you get the new tune=iq, which is default in libavif since this March) and webp is best for lossless.
for lossless, if you don't care about wide support, jpeg xl lossless is usually best, outside of some niche high-speed focused codecs with even less support (like https://github.com/a1024/L1codec).
for lossy, av2 is probably the best, though it's currently extremely slow to encode and supported by nothing, but that will probably change relatively soon. It looks like av2 will use the same avif container and file extension for images.
there are also proprietary and/or patented codecs that I'm not as knowledgeable about (including x265 and x266, which are covered by many patents but have open-source encoders and decoders). My understanding is that x265 is roughly equivalent to av1 quality (or maybe a bit below) and x266 is roughly equivalent to av2. x266 might be able to compress a bit more than av2, but it seems like it might not be feasible to get encoding to be reasonably fast, as that doesn't seem to have happened over the past 6 years it's been out. The only devices I know of with hardware decoding support for x266 are Intel xe2 or xe3 GPUs (b60, b580, b390, etc)
funnily enough I discussed with my mate Mistral Le Chat about JXL vs AVIF and was like, why use AVIF over JXL, and it was like JXL is better but AVIF has more support, but WebP has even more support than both of them and decent compression
So I ended up going with webp for my self hosted vibe coded image host
Basically I'm now just waiting for everyone to catch up so I can go to JXL over WebP
It's more competitive at the high end, but this website has some comparisons of avif and jxl: https://svt-av1-psy.com/avif/
(this project was later incorporated into other encoders as tune=iq, and is now default)
That being said, I think the jxl bitstream does have a fair amount of potential that current encoders don't exploit due to lack of manpower. I've been following development fairly closely over the past couple years on the jxl discord, I think all active jxl devs are there
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Why would you remove the catgirl branding though?
Some people on my instance regularly get their knickers in a twist over it.
Their reason: they fear to be seen as furries by people who don't know about anubis and their mascot.
so they're weak is what i'm hearing
Weak, and with money.
So they are just freaks that would hate on furries if everyone around them does too
It does look pretty unprofessional tbh
who cares! 'Professionalism' has made the internet worse.
Sure but on the other hand it's nice to have money in order not to starve.
The author thinks the same, hence why people can pay them 50 a month to get a non-anime version.
I approve of this business model. Make them pay extra for professionalism so it stops being the default. "You could be saving money if you just accepted cat girls" will haunt their dreams every night
That's a sentence.
But if people didn't care about professionalism, the author wouldn't be paid either.
you can have many money with no professionalism, they are not bound to one another
Correct, but the places where it is SUCK. So if they see them as bound together, they are also the places to abuse FOSS, so this is a perfect way to utilize their own shittiness to make them behave ethically.
I won't bemoan that, I just think it's weird people need to get rid of it in the first place.
If you're running a business, whether you need professionalism really depends on what you're doing.
Medical software? Anything aimed at governments as your customers? Billing? Be professional.
Literally a thing aimed at software engineers? Book publisher? Most types of online stores? You can be quirky
The things that need professionalism seem like things that could pay for the non-branded version, though?
Absolutely. I was just replying to the bit that professional is boring. It is, but sometimes it's necessary because it's what your target audience expects
There is a place and time for both.
If my bank used it I would assume
1: They are compromised
2: They are cringe
Well. Companies, people about to pay for those companies for professional stuff...
"Professionalism" has destroyed the internet, we have tools like that to fight the enshitification that "Professionalism" created.
Fuck professionalism, I want to see parts of the soul of the people who built the internet
I personally expect professionalism from government websites. And when buying products and services from private companies, a professional looking (and well working) website is something I want to see. Makes it more credible for me.
If the technical parts company I'm contacting has a poorly functioning website with anime shit in it, I'm definitely not going to run that by my boss lol. Sometimes the cartoon things can be used to distinguish yourself from the competition of course but I wouldn't gamble on that in my field.
There's a time and place for everything.
Why does "professionalism" have to equal soulless? Go to Japan, tons of official sites and machines you interact with are full of whimsy and character, and they are known for being the breaurecrats. There is no reason that a funny image should be seen as "unprofessional".
Tbf, it can be a harder sell. For instance I'm recommending Delta Chat to my contacts over Arcane Chat even though Arcane has some extra features like Markdown support, because Arcane has a weird Chibi wizard girl mascot when you first open the app.
I don't need them assuming I'm into hentai or some shit just because of my choice of messenger, or just getting the ick and so they keep using FB messenger. Also, in fact I like anime but I've also always hated the Chibi artstyle, I like like, Trigun and Mazinger Z and stuff. Even then, anime is stereotypically too horny for me to want to associate with it without being able to explain how "yes most of them are, that's why I'm extremely picky and choose mostly space violence, but there is one good horny anime called Golden Boy." Also there's a difference between those who like anime and those who's entire personality is liking anime, the more web based things that have anime branding that I try to convince friends to use, the more I look like my whole personality is anime when in reality my whole personality is Privacy (and Piracy and kitties and hobbies and... but ykwim), and all that is before we throw in the furries, while they constantly insist it isn't sexual, nobody is believing that shit (I'm sure it isn't for some but c'mon there's too much furry porn out there, we know already, it's clearly sexual for a large contingent of people drawing furry futa.)
Tl;dr I get why some people wouldn't want overly sexualized or possibly divisive (in a sense, not like politically but that isn't the only context that word can be used in) cartoonery in logos and mascots, especially when it isn't also their thing or they don't want their mom asking weird questions about a meaningless logo.
Which makes it funny.
I agree
Iffor my part have the experience when there is a funny mascot or icon which is a traffic cone or a cat girl, then I know the people behind that are professionals. The quality is good and nobody bats and eye about the mascot.
how so?
It doesn't carry the sort of seriousness and relation to the business/work that many associate with professionalism.
It's of course subjective but in most situations, I don't think catgirl anime stuff really fits.
Not many companies have catgirl CI.
That's a many companies problem though, they're the ones that should change.
Yes, but paying to support open source software is a decent compromise.
They must be into kitsune girls etc.
I would remove it but I can't bother, I just don't really like that for browsing.
I'd rather not see it. Us non-weebs are force fed anime and related shit to a point of anger. It's extremely annoying and too much get through even with filters in place. Weebs don't understand how bad it is, and how not just being uninterested but actual disliking it makes the internet a shitty place to be.
weebs built modern tools,. we should respect their culture rather than erase it...
Half joking,
Now imagine how it feels to not care about sports or religion
I'm getting there with the cult of vroom vroom. Like gas isn't expensive enough they burn it for fun, and our planet is literally cooking.
but sports & religion 100%
Crazy how you can let such a little thing bother you this much.
Would you rather be forcefed captcha and cloudflare?
Add this to ublock to remove it. I am not a fan of weeb or furry shit so I figured this one out pretty quick. There's no point in the logo even existing.
*/anubis/static/img/*.webp*
The blog post explaining it is also gold ! https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/avoiding-becoming-peg-dependency/
That is absolutely brilliant.
It's a cat girl? I thought it was a Jackal. It's named Anubis.
Talking about an opensource software some web developers use to verify the humanity of their traffic.
Instead of getting a captcha or a cloudflare verification, you see an anime catgirl nurse for a couple seconds while it runs a simple check on your browser metadata to filter out the majority of bot traffic
I looked it up she's definitely a dog / Jackal girl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis_(software)
I don't think the people hating on it are going to look into it in that much detail...
I mean it's MIT licensed which means you can just remove the character and the branding if you want. It's kinda a dick move to do that but that's what open source is all about.
If a commercial company does that on a website that generates revenue, then they're huge assholes.
If some nobody does it for their static website that gets 10 hits on a good month, honestly I'm not gonna judge.
For all the places I've encountered that used Anubis, I didn't bat an eye because it fits the vibe. But then again, I am a weeb. But also the image isn't even that egregious. I'd say it's atypical for a cartoon character, but that might be because I swim snorkel in sewers.
I usually browse from a pretty good computer. I didnt notice Anubis at all before it was pointed out on lemmy. Its lmost instant
I heard of Anubis before a few times around posts surrounding Cloudflare's (CF) efforts around web scrapers previously. Truth be told, I hardly see the Anubis screen pop up. If the site or service is big enough, it would be using CF. If it's small enough or niche, in my mind, it shouldn't have that problem and doesn't need it. I can see big enough niche service and sites getting hit though, and can't pay for CF so they use Anubis. And sometimes those are anime related sites, though that's how I found it in the wild. I think catbox.moe is using anubis, and I think that's where I sometimes encounter it.
There are More mainstream sites using it. Like codeberg
But yeah mostly those who won’t use cloudflare for ideological reasons
Thanks for telling me. I made a poor assumption.
Yeah, git repositories get hit much more heavily than most websites by scrapers, as they usually go into every subdirectory/file iirc and also scrape pretty frequently
catbox.moe using it is very fitting too lol
On a slow connection or old device, it is usually pretty noticeable, but not unusable
You what now
I assume "swimming snorkel in sewers" is a self deprecating way of describing exactly how "weeb" they are.
I don’t know what it means but it makes sense.
Yes that basically. I go to image boards (no, not that one) to find anime images. Often time that would entail seeing crazy shit.
I actually had another sentence written before but it didn't sound nice enough and swim snorkel somehow got posted. But I decide to just leave it at that
My universities website uses it and they recently replaced the standard logo with a custom one.
I can't really even comment if it's out of place or not because I know what Anubis is and get more excited about someone using it then I even think "is a cat girl out of place here?"
Jackal because anubis and you can actually change it fairly easy without paying the monthly $50 commercial fee, but they ask that you don't.
They're using weaboo branding to hostage enterprise users into funding the project lol
Would you say stores are holding their merchandise hostage to get customers to fund their business?
They basically use the WinRar approach adapted to Open Source. Anubis is MIT licensed, so there's nothing stopping anyone from replacing the branding themselves.
what?! I have to code?! Or worse, pay someone to do so!
Me mad! me want free stuff, reliable, and quick update when I ask a feature to the person I'm not paying !
Free as in anime.
I'm reminded of an old SMBC skit where a couple reluctantly hires a given plumber...who works as though he's starring in a porno, and demands the occupants watch. They can't really turn him down, since he's the cheapest and most qualified in the area.
That was a funny sketch.
Link for those who want it: https://youtu.be/qSqhpnRNyK4?is=JvDg0Eg-S59DTfIp
What the hell did I just watch lol
An old SMBC skit where a couple reluctantly hires a given plumber...who works as though he's starring in a porno, and demands the occupants watch. They can't really turn him down, since he's the cheapest and most qualified in the area.
Since it's Anubis, shouldn't it be a puppy-girl?
Jackal-girl to be specific
I like the catgirl. Its kind of a confirmation that the website I'm going to is "trustable" or indie/smallweb.
If I were an immoral corpo that has problems with cat girls I would just remove the cat girl without paying. Anubis is MIT license, they can't even sue the immoral corpos.
They are explicitly fine with that option, but would prefer you to sponsor the project to keep it being devloped. If you do, they have a commercial version that in includes easy branding changes.
It gives a superb message to the author though. About whose bug reports and requests get priority.
I believe the immoral corpos are just sticking to Google's or Cloudflare's captchas. It's how you tell these corpos apart
Gonna be honest, was super confused why the god Anubis was suddenly in the software game.
Maybe it should be licensed under the CDL
Wowee! I've been looking for a licence for my new project. Thanks!
Companies have to pay the coward tax.
it was funny seeing people lose their shit when it was implemented in freedesktop git repository site
Random aside, why would anyone use
webpEdit: My bad, I had forgotten Chrome had removed JPEG XL support
I use it because it compresses better and looks just as good, why use space when I can not use space?
I tried to compress with x265 on the videos I host but apparently iphones don't like it for some reason, but I just checked again and it looks like it's av1 they don't like, I might try x265 again but with HEVC
Practically x265 can be treated as another name for hevc. Apparently apple includes a software decoder for x265 and not av1, so av1 can only be used on newer devices (iphone 15 pro and newer) but x265 can be used on almost anything. The vlc media player app might work, idk. They do have a software decoder for avif included tho, which is kinda funny as apparently it supports animated avif as well. You can literally just copy an av1 video into an animated avif and it will play perfectly fine
yeah you can just
ffmpeg -i video.mkv -c:v copy video.avifand it will copy over the av1 stream without reencodinghttps://copyparty.adrian.place/u/tower.avif (1.5 mb animated avif)
interestingly you can't do this with webp even though that is also built on a video codec, webp only supports intra frames so it can't take advantage of the similarities between multiple frames of a video the way avif can
av2 also came out recently, it's a fair amount better but there isn't really a usable encoder yet (the encoder they made to test the codec, avm, is unusably slow, but they designed the codec for fast software and hardware encoders to be possible)
nowadays, for practical use, generally avif is best for lossy images (make sure you're using a recent encoder so you get the new tune=iq, which is default in libavif since this March) and webp is best for lossless.
for lossless, if you don't care about wide support, jpeg xl lossless is usually best, outside of some niche high-speed focused codecs with even less support (like https://github.com/a1024/L1codec).
for lossy, av2 is probably the best, though it's currently extremely slow to encode and supported by nothing, but that will probably change relatively soon. It looks like av2 will use the same avif container and file extension for images.
there are also proprietary and/or patented codecs that I'm not as knowledgeable about (including x265 and x266, which are covered by many patents but have open-source encoders and decoders). My understanding is that x265 is roughly equivalent to av1 quality (or maybe a bit below) and x266 is roughly equivalent to av2. x266 might be able to compress a bit more than av2, but it seems like it might not be feasible to get encoding to be reasonably fast, as that doesn't seem to have happened over the past 6 years it's been out. The only devices I know of with hardware decoding support for x266 are Intel xe2 or xe3 GPUs (b60, b580, b390, etc)
wth https://aussie.zone/post/34604587 why doesn’t it play on mobile??
edit: FFmpeg tags HEVC streams in MP4 as hev1 by default, Apple only supports hvc1 for some reason.
You need to add -tag:v hvc1 to your command line.
In my case ffmpeg -i ok.mp4 -c:v libx265 -tag:v hvc1 -c:a aac -movflags +faststart output.mp4
funnily enough I discussed with my mate Mistral Le Chat about JXL vs AVIF and was like, why use AVIF over JXL, and it was like JXL is better but AVIF has more support, but WebP has even more support than both of them and decent compression
So I ended up going with webp for my self hosted vibe coded image host
Basically I'm now just waiting for everyone to catch up so I can go to JXL over WebP
It's more competitive at the high end, but this website has some comparisons of avif and jxl: https://svt-av1-psy.com/avif/
(this project was later incorporated into other encoders as tune=iq, and is now default)
That being said, I think the jxl bitstream does have a fair amount of potential that current encoders don't exploit due to lack of manpower. I've been following development fairly closely over the past couple years on the jxl discord, I think all active jxl devs are there
Because avif isn't as widely supported yet
It's supported on basically every browser
You need websites to support it too
Which websites don't?