I love how toxic she is to corporate professionalism.
Its also perfect marketing, the software is free with the mascot hardcoded in. The official way to change it is to contribute to get an enterprise version.
The code is MIT licensed, what’s preventing you from just removing the logo/changing it with something else…
Nothing but them respectfully asking not to do this, pointing out that they will help you do it if you pay a contribution.
I love how toxic she is to corporate professionalism.
in what way?
It’s just a silly anime girl showing up on first page load. If you’re deathly afraid of seeming unprofessional, that’s gonna do your head in…
Spot on. There were some complaints recently made by people being afraid to be seen as a furry because she has ears and a tail. It’s hilarious
Oh man. Those people are so gd cringe it IS hilarious.
Not that it matters, but it’s not anime style, it’s a “western” style cartoon character. Compare it to e.g. the original Disney princesses, the proportions and style look like that, not like anime characters.
tbf it is clearly inspired by anime tho. those eyes, the skirt and the cat ears are pretty typical anime stuff
He means that many people in a corporate environment wouldn’t expect a anime girl with a magnifying glass popping up on your screen, that could reflect badly on your company. Just imagine some CEO sharing his screen in a presentation and his background is a screenshot of some hentai scene or something. It wouldn’t make you seem very professional in the eye of the other corporate people.
That’s why companies that use anubis will usually pay for the subscription so they can replace the mascot with something else.
Excellent idea !
Oh I See. Fuck that sterile corpo professional shit.
I much prefer to see Anubis rather than some bullshit captcha with a grid of AI generated slop that requires 30 clicks to pass.
You mean 30 clicks before it tells you to “please try again” for no reason.
To keep training the captcha solving AI of course
Oh is the person riding the bicycle part of the bicycle this time? What do you want, the corner of the pedal that is just barely in the box, or the out of focus blur in the background that might be a bicycle or it might be a bear. It’s hard to tell.
“Prove that you’re human by solving these machine-generated puzzles that machines can solve to give us more data to train our machines, while we run a simple script in the background to verify that you’re human based on your browser’s metadata.”
I had a captcha a few days ago that was something like “click on all the pictures that go with this” with a picture of a saucepan and the grid was food items and other things.
I pointed my phone at it and asked Gemini and almost instantly it said “the potato in the top left and the carrots look the middle of the bottom row”.
While I despise the captchas from a human perspective, the fact that an LLM can solve the challenge isn’t a deal breaker. It doesn’t need to be impossible for a non-human to solve, it just has to be too expensive.
It does certainly shift the equation to stuff like proof of work since a computer can solve it anyway, might as well not annoy the human.
I have a self bound rule to never do the multi-tile single image ones. Fuck those so much, they’re always wrong. I will refresh for as long as it takes to get a grid of smaller images that may also be hard but I at least have some better grasp over.
(Not so) fun fact: The Anubis image is itself AI slop
https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/commit/3e9a93f629e9c5a69bd7fcd6613d27ce9f5231f9
I’ve read somewhere the main dev has comissioned an artist to redo the Anubis mascot.
The repo credits a real artist for the anubis image
https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/blob/main/web/static/img/ATTRIBUTIONS.txt
funner fact: anubis itself is slop
That one was, but the current one is not
Take this over cloudflare any day of the week
I’m on discuss.tchncs.de right now and its web UI lags badly probably due to a lot of bot scaping.
If we had Anubis i guess that could be avoided.
I kinna like it
Anubis is open source, self-hosted, doesn’t block me just because I use a VPN and the later versions work even with JavaScript disabled!
Fuck Cloudflare, long live Anubis!
Cloudflare is great compared to Recaptcha.
Anubis is the best by far.
How exactly is a proof of work engine suppose to run, without any JS work?
https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/configuration/challenges/metarefresh/
Apparently it just tells your browser to refresh after x seconds.
That’s just protection by obscurity then. Any targeted attack could do that challenge at zero cost.
Which doesn’t work with some browsers, but it’s acceptable, I guess
Seems utterly pointless though…
With the proof of work approach, at least it’s demanding the client consume some resources, though the ‘right’ amount is a tricky question, either it’s so trivial as to hardly matter to the scrapers, or it’s hard enough to put a dent in the scrapers’ build, but human operated low end devices are royally screwed…
Here the crawler simply schedules a resumption and moves on to other work. The crawler doesn’t need it right now and it’s free for it to wait.
Read the docs.
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it kinda does when the web is being scraped by bots to fuel the LLMs
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Watch out, you’ll anger the hive mind.
Unfortunately, yes it does. Unless I want it to collapse regularly.
Yet Anna’s Archive still doesn’t use it, curious.
TBF Anna’s just provides a dataset for people who want it and don’t directly host any of the content (they’re just the index). Anubis probably isn’t as necessary for them.
Plus if need high speed access just ask. Look at nvidia llm lawsuit, they more than happy to help.
Long live the Canadian anime catgirl!
Cat? I thought it was a dog, because Anubis(The ancient Egyptian deity) has a dog head.
Jackal girl.
Anubis weighs the soul of your connection.
If you’re going to increase my compute to access your site, at least give me a crypto token that may or may not be worth anything
plus, Cloudflare Turnslide. (i also see it equally as much)
Much better than cludflare and Google recapha
Her face is the response to years of enshittification; without her, the modern browsing experience would suck much harder. Glory to Anubis!
What am I missing to understand this? What is Anubis?
Beloved anti scraping/ddos tool
Looks way better than half the ads I normally see.
