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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
professional
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
"You could be saving money if you just accepted cat girls"
That's a sentence.
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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.
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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
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"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.
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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'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,
Us non-weebs are force fed anime and related shit to a point of anger.
Now imagine how it feels to not care about sports or religion
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Crazy how you can let such a little thing bother you this much.
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The blog post explaining it is also gold ! https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/avoiding-becoming-peg-dependency/
It's a cat girl? I thought it was a Jackal. It's named Anubis.
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
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You what now
I assume "swimming snorkel in sewers" is a self deprecating way of describing exactly how "weeb" they are.
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My universities website uses it and they recently replaced the standard logo with a custom one.
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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
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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
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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.
Gonna be honest, was super confused why the god Anubis was suddenly in the software game.
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
Companies have to pay the coward tax.
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