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Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by jraph »

xena wrote: post #124
foresto wrote: post #117

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Any news on the no-script feature? I love the idea of Anubis, but in practice, it has turned more than a few sites that I visit into sites that don't work without javascript. So instead of being happy to see it, I find myself disappointed and frustrated, often deciding not to bother with the site after all.

Admins need to enable the meta refresh challenge: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/configuration/challeng... It's off by default while the false positive, true positive, true negative, and false negative rates are being evaluated. This is how you make changes like that without breaking user expectations.

That's good news. That'll make me consider using Anubis.

Thanks for fighting the AI bots.

You get some hate for this anime girl image but this paid white label thing is a good idea I think. It's nice we have alternative ways of funding free software that doesn't involve ads and tracking and thank you for choosing this path.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by pyridines »

mpalmer wrote: post #101
eddd-ddde wrote: post #90

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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 .

they're referring to the infamous Corporate Memphis style which is frequently used in big tech branding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by necovek »

tonyhart7 wrote: post #105
Nursie wrote: post #99

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Boomer means what now, anyone over 40?

anyone that is old and grumpy at internet (+ real life) neck beard balding would be pissed to me since I'am not being pedantic

Someone did not read the homepage, did not do a web search and complained about the term "software forge" in a HackerNews comment, and I am "old and grumpy at internet"? :D

There are so many opportunities to learn it, and recognize it from one of the existing projects still using it in the name, and it's better to complain on HN?

(Though I guess I still classify as a millenial, but I would love to be closer to boomer when it comes to CS experience)

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by ipaddr »

KingMob wrote: post #108
ashton314 wrote: post #46

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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...

Don't use the most used platform for blogging reach in 2025 because .0000001% of users are people you hate?

Sounds silly. Don't use wordpress because a store I don't like uses it? I hate to tell you this but friend and foe are using Google search.. time to move on.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by some-guy »

OhMeadhbh wrote: post #97
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…

It's the kids. They all like the anime. Not at all like the serious teams I worked with at IBM and DEC that slapped trek logos over everything.

Define kids? I know plenty of Gen X and elder millennials into anime

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by necovek »

RossBencina wrote: post #116
tylerritchie wrote: post #85

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this is one where "software forge" is industry specific jargon (similar to "isostaticrebound" in earthquake science and "evapotranspiration" in biology) which the intended audience would tend to know the definition of. that said, it's a fair complaint for the quality of their marketing material (if not their technical documentation). as an aside, i checked and it takes four taps (with an thumb highlight thown in ) to…

Curious, what part of the industry is "software forge" a term of art? I have been programming since the late 90s and have never heard it. Looks like it was popular from 1988 to 2007: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Software+Forge... TIL

I would fully expect not everybody to have ran into it. I would not expect people to complain about the term without looking it up first.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by scythe »

OhMeadhbh wrote: post #97
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…

It's the kids. They all like the anime. Not at all like the serious teams I worked with at IBM and DEC that slapped trek logos over everything.

In the radiology department at Westchester Medical Center, all of the portable X-ray machines have little nametags on them that read, variously, "Enterprise", "Voyager", "Defiant", etc.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by xena »

jraph wrote: post #131
xena wrote: post #124

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Admins need to enable the meta refresh challenge: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/configuration/challeng... It's off by default while the false positive, true positive, true negative, and false negative rates are being evaluated. This is how you make changes like that without breaking user expectations.

That's good news. That'll make me consider using Anubis. Thanks for fighting the AI bots. You get some hate for this anime girl image but this paid white label thing is a good idea I think. It's nice we have alternative ways of funding free software that doesn't involve ads and tracking and thank you for choosing this path.

There's a solid strategy behind it: give people what they want with a flaw that makes it unviable for corpos. Then sell the cure. I remember being told that monetization model as a joke and figured this would be one way to test it. The horrifying part in my book is that Anubis is a relative success story as far as open source funding goes, and it's barely a third of what a junior level software developer makes. It's maddening.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by nightpool »

talles wrote: post #107

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.

Forejo is/was a soft fork of Gitea due to some licensing / trademark bruhaha that I think got blown somewhat out of proportion. (And Gitea was famous for using Github instead of dogfooding their own software, which I've always thought was a pretty strange choice). I'm not familiar enough with the development roadmap of both teams to make a good call on whether following the fork is a good idea or not, but I know a lot of projects are just bandwagoning on the fork due to generally frustrating Gitea governance. GitLab is open core and I know a lot of people are frustrated with their UX and with their high resource consumption for self-hosting (although I would expect YJIT probably made a big improvement here). I've only seen maybe one project use Gogs seriously, I don't get the sense that it has the same level of adoption as the other three.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by esperent »

ericbarrett wrote: post #109
zakki wrote: post #102

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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.

I pass multiple proof of work checks from Cloudflare everyday using this browser (Brave on Android). I have JavaScript and cookies enabled.

Plus, I did manage to pass it once at least.

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