i'd rather be greeted by Anubis than be harassed by CloudFlare.
this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2026
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I'd rather be greeted by the Sphinx and asked to solve a riddle than another captcha.
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Anubis doesn't repeatedly fuck me in the ass for using a VPN and hardened firefox settings.
seconded
As the software is called Anubis, technically, ~~she's~~ they're a jackalgirl
Non binary actually!
Edit: It looks like I'm wrong! See down below. The dev is enby while the mascot appears to be a girl
Got a source on this?
The artist uses female pronouns for them.
Mascot seems to be a girl, yes. Main dev is non binary.
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So far we got
- not a cat but jackal
- not a girl but nonbinary
- not a heart but canada leaf
I'll add
- not "something to watch" but OC
- not a nurse
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First of all, itβs a jackal girl.
Second, we wouldnβt need Anubis if it wasnβt for the hoard of scraping bots trying to copy every line of source code they can, to feed into LLM to be ground up and spat out as an attributionless mass of Frankenstein code.
Would they rather it be a soulless corporate logo? A flat two tone rounded corner letter on a square?
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He 100% watches "that stuff"
Probably just wanked off to a catgirl. His post was inspired by the post-nut clarity.
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The world is dominated by people like this Karen. Making society so fucking dry, boring, and lifeless. The same sort of people who invented corpospeak.
I hate that society is largely driven by people who think that whimsy must die with your childhood
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Look, FOSS comes in two flavors.
Either all the contributor profile pics are flash lit smiling photos of middle aged bearded guys with glasses standing in an office, or they're anime girls.
I constantly get reminded that Gonzo, even in business attire, is not an acceptable professional avatar to upload to the companys Windows profile. I'm also a contractor so I dgaf.
I've gone for the corpo middle ground and my company picture is the Japanese business blahaj in a suit. I've been told, "I don't even look for your name I just look for the shark, it stands out more"
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Eh, tbh i'm pretty weirded out by most of the anime culture/fandom as well. I pretty much blocked anything anime on the fediverse because i dont want to see it. But the anubis girl didnt even register as anime for me. Even if it did it would be 5 seconds to block that image with ublock.
Anyway, i hope this will be the last time i post about how i dont like certain aspects of anime because nobody gives a shit.
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Who the hell is this pissed off at a cat girl
The kind of whimsiless corpo half-person who seems embarrassed to know that anime is a thing, and can't mention it without assuring his audience that he doesn't watch that stuff
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It's a freaking picture. It's not even anime-like, this is more the western drawing style. Who cares.
It's the big eyes, I reckon
big eyes of japanese animation where actually inspired by disney so by western influence
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Uh, Simpsons? Hazbin hotel, SpongeBob, most of cartoon network... It's probably catgirl -> anime in their brain.
It's a chibi-esque-ish art style - not obviously manga but I can see why someone might think that if they were unfamiliar with the genre
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same fucking vibes, idc how it looks, or how it designed to look like, as long it works as intended then so be it
why would anyone be offended by an adorable cartoon nurse girl w cat ears
it's like a post I read on the unixporn subreddit about people complaining of all the "anime linux rices" like my guy, everyone on this subreddit uses hyprland with the same neon colours, who cares? Have you seen the github profile picture of vaxry? it's FOSS my dude, it's all made by weebs and furries get over it.
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Not cat but obviously a jackal... (seriously... was the name and the 'weighing the soul of your connection'-thing not enough?)
Not anime...
Not a nurse... (that's a maple leaf on the cap and since when is a magnifying glass typical medical equipment?)
Also and much more important:
Not the more annoying (and often failing) Cloudflare screen...
Not another stupid CAPTCHA...
PS: Did version 1.23.1 really change the Canadian flag with a 'CA'... I have found screenshots of versions older than that that did display the flag as do newer ones. So I'm really asking myself if that was an intentional edit to get away with the "nurse" argument.
Please click on 3000 images of motorcycles to continue.
3000 clicks later: please try again
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It sucks that you can't browse anywhere without javascript anymore. It used to be that all the open source sites, most news sites, forums running phpbb, even YouTube aside from the actual element all worked without javascript, and as a bonus there would be no ads.
Now, you can't browse anywhere without these challenges. At least this one is noninvasive, but the Cloudflare one and the Google Recaptcha do a ton of fingerprinting to choose whether to let you in.
USPS has a home-rolled one that requires web assembly enabled, or it silently fails with a blank page. There's no non-malicious excuse for that.
If this is the future of web browsing, hopefully more sites use systems like Anubis. But I also hope at least static pages can be viewable as plain html.
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Scriptjunkie
With that name, I guess he's a JS dev trying to rebrand as a kernel vibecoder.
Wait until they find out about Programmer Socks.
Weebs and furries, man. Weebs and furries. They run the entire digital infrastructure.
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!
Something exists.
People complain about it.
Anubis has become so common across the internet that I basically never notice it lol
Peak internet: solving a captcha while being judged by a catgirl π
Tbf, a place as serious as that could indeed use a different logo. Anubis absolutely allows for that, the catgirl is just the default.
But then, obviously some find this janky nature of OSS beautiful in its own right
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Tragic that they don't enjoy any fun in their lives.
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