Anubis provides protection against bots scraping websites and DDoSing projects.

This blog post is about Xe’s reasoning for originally only providing docker packages and their work to provide native packages.

  • Leaflet@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 day ago

    If you use Anubis for free, he asks that you keep the girl on for marketing purposes.

    If you pay / support the project, you can remove it.

    Honestly, it’s a good way to encourage people to pay up because some people absolutely hate it.

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      19 hours ago

      As much as I’m against the takeover of minimalism in logo design, something a bit more subdued would make people more likely to use the free version. The anime girl vibe may not be the one for every website.

      Maybe Xe has little interest in people using the free version, which is fine, but they still haven’t nailed down the pricing. You contact them and set up a meeting to discuss the price. That may change as soon as they gain some traction though, so we’ll see.

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      Yeah. I don’t support making software worse just to pressure people into paying for it.

      Maybe if I was the one making money off of it, sure. But I’m just a user so it doesn’t make sense for me to go to bat for the businessman.

      It’s also really creepy and borderline pedophilic.

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        Do you just assume that any cartoon character is underaged? There’s literally no indication that that character is in any way underaged whatsoever, it appears to be a standard chibi-style depiction of a generic adult.

        I think you may need to consult a therapist or other mental health professional if literally every depiction of a cartoon character in a Chibi art style causes you to see pedophilia

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        The fuck? There is nothing sexual about the character at all. Calling it pedophilic says a whole lot more about you than the software.

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        I may be missing some context here. How is it creepy to have a child as the mascot of your software? I just checked the Anubis website and didn’t see any sexualization.

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          14 hours ago

          I don’t even see a child character? I feel like I’m missing something here but I went and checked the ffmpeg documentation because they are using Anubis and it appears to just be a generic chibi Style character that looks to be maybe early twenties style adult.

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            8 hours ago

            Watching you people defend thinly-veiled pedophilia makes me sick, but I honestly don’t expect more from you at this point.

            Ignored. Get help.

      • Leaflet@lemmy.worldOP
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        1 day ago

        It’s not making it worse. They like anime, so they have an anime girl as the mascot; a very tame one too.

        But some people freak out about it.