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Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by mpalmer »

eddd-ddde wrote: post #90
mpalmer wrote: post #60

With the calm, respectful understanding that everything is subjective and there's no accounting for taste - and in my personal capacity - I do not understand how cutesy anime characters have been deemed sufficiently tasteful/professional/anodyne enough to be displayed to literally every single person who visits my site. With apologies to fans of the art style, it is a negative signal to me. I do not prefer to use Clo…

How is it different from the classic corporate caricature of a person with unnatural body proportions? It's just art style.

Not sure what you're referring to, or what you mean by "it's just art style". It's a style that is likely to clash with the website branding it precedes, in my opinion.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

#102

Post by zakki »

ericbarrett wrote: post #42
esperent wrote: post #37

Opening this site I get "Oh Noes! Invalid Response" with an anime girl. Tried refreshing, opening in a private windows, same thing. EDIT: tried it again and got to "Making sure you're not a bot" with the same cringey anime girl, then the site loaded without CSS. Tried one more time, finally it loaded. EDIT 2: clicked on a link and I'm back to "Oh Noes!..." .

That is Anubis trying to get your browser to do proof of work: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

So AI made human browsing inconvenient?

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

#103

Post by RossBencina »

necovek wrote: post #81
OptionX wrote: post #69

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Are you not familiar with SourceForge? Did you know what a (non-software) "forge" is? The term actually predates Git (SourceForge started with CVS and SVN IIRC). I am not saying documentation should not be better — it should — but I am surprised someone in software development would not know of the term. And knowing how good free software projects are at documentation, not turn to searches first (or is it just softwa…

> I am surprised someone in software development would not know of the term.

It is not a software development term. Are you trolling?

I know what SourceForge is. I had repositories there. I have never heard of a web portal for software project management (SCM front end, issue tracker) referred to as a "forge." Just because a product uses a weird name does not make it a term of art.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

#104

Post by mpalmer »

xena wrote: post #100
mpalmer wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I appreciate the response, and your point is valid. FWIW there's no sarcasm in what I said up top; I'm not here to yuck anyone's yum. I have been reading your stuff for a while, and if anything disproves my original point, it's your published output. cheers -

Thank you. I'm sorry if I was overly abrasive or rude, but it's getting really old. People have sent me horrible things because of this. I've had to start withdrawing from joining new places under my main identity. Just please take one femtoiota of care that the other side is also a human being with thoughts, feelings, and that they may just be incredibly tired of hearing people complain about something.

I legit didn't read any rudeness, it was a graceful retort.

> People have sent me horrible things because of this.

That sucks, and I see how it makes my (somewhat) measured reaction scan differently.

> Just please take one femtoiota of care that the other side is also a human being with thoughts, feelings, and that they may just be incredibly tired of hearing people complain about something.

Your shit rocks, your stuff on Tailscale in particular inspired me greatly, and I'm sorry you caught me seeing orange.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by forrestthewoods »

eddd-ddde wrote: post #90
mpalmer wrote: post #60

With the calm, respectful understanding that everything is subjective and there's no accounting for taste - and in my personal capacity - I do not understand how cutesy anime characters have been deemed sufficiently tasteful/professional/anodyne enough to be displayed to literally every single person who visits my site. With apologies to fans of the art style, it is a negative signal to me. I do not prefer to use Clo…

How is it different from the classic corporate caricature of a person with unnatural body proportions? It's just art style.

> It's just art style.

Art styles aren't picked randomly out of a hat. Humans are pattern matching machines and will draw conclusions based on choice of art style or mascot.

> classic corporate caricature of a person with unnatural body proportions

Corporate Memphis is an abomination and I harshly judge any company that uses it. Everyone hates Corporate Memphis and makes fun of it.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by talles »

OK, not GitHub "because Microsoft". But is there any particular reason why Forgejo and not GitLab, Gitea, or Gogs?

I'm not throwing shade at Forgejo or anything like that, I'm genuinely curious if there's anything about Forgejo that made it a better alternative than the other options.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

#108

Post by KingMob »

ashton314 wrote: post #46
prabinlamsal19 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Lemme guess: you might think that everyone should just write their blogs on Substack, right? The web thrives on diversity. More forges is good. Furthermore, GitHub has been making moves that understandably worry some and so it’s great that there are some excellent alternatives.

Bit of a side note, but nobody should use Substack for anything.

For those out of the loop, Substack has been overlooking Nazis on their platform for a few years, and recently pushed a notification to all subscribers to check out a blog with a Nazi swastika.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/substacks-nazi-p...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/substack-e...

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by ericbarrett »

zakki wrote: post #102
ericbarrett wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is Anubis trying to get your browser to do proof of work: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

So AI made human browsing inconvenient?

I’ve never had problems getting to any Anubis site even with uBlock origin and uMatrix. You have to enable cookies and scripting for the main domain.
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