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Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by bakugo »

delta_p_delta_x wrote: post #187
bakugo wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> A full third of them complaining about the anti-bot protection mascot (yes, it's a cartoon character; get over it) If you're going to force people to stare at a screen with nothing but your quirky anime girl OC for a few seconds every time they visit your website, then in my opinion it's completely reasonable for those people to point out how immature it is. Telling people to "get over it" just makes you sound equa…

> If you're going to force people to stare at a screen with nothing but your quirky anime girl OC for a few seconds every time they visit your website It is a damn sight better than the maliciously-compliant and deeply annoying GDPR 'we use cookies' banners, pop-ups, and dark patterns like having to uncheck thousands of 'partner' boxes. This is merely a response to AI companies abusing scraper bots and having a callo…

> Cartoons are metaphors and windows into the artist's frame of mind.

Maybe they are. But, in this case, nobody cares about the "artist's frame of mind". We care about accessing a website that has nothing to do with art.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by madars »

__loam wrote: post #196
delta_p_delta_x wrote: post #162

The comments on this page are a complete cesspool. A full third of them complaining about the anti-bot protection mascot (yes, it's a cartoon character; get over it), others splitting the finest of hairs over software development groups and company politics, and more. Self-hosting is generally good, well done to FFmpeg. Many large projects self-host, and my own ex-company has physical servers in the city we work at t…

Anubis is funny because I think it's in the license that you have to keep the mascot. If you want to remove it you have to pay them.

Anubis is MIT licensed so you should be able to modify it freely: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/blob/main/LICENSE It would be very funny if they did that though.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by hulitu »

jraph wrote: post #190
delta_p_delta_x wrote: post #162

The comments on this page are a complete cesspool. A full third of them complaining about the anti-bot protection mascot (yes, it's a cartoon character; get over it), others splitting the finest of hairs over software development groups and company politics, and more. Self-hosting is generally good, well done to FFmpeg. Many large projects self-host, and my own ex-company has physical servers in the city we work at t…

> The comments on this page are a complete cesspool. I noticed this. I'm quite appalled. Definitely outside the usual HN standards. I suspect the very idea of self-hosting one's code instead of using GitHub is triggrering many people beyond reasonable levels for reasons I'd love to get an explanation for. Are people projecting their GitHub FOMO? Are people thinking that the value of the GitHub they cherish decreases…

> I suspect the very idea of self-hosting one's code instead of using GitHub is triggrering many people beyond reasonable levels for reasons I'd love to get an explanation for.

The cloud companies do not want you to selfhost. It is good that Ffmpeg did not experience a DDOS attack yet, because that's what happened to someone who moved his email to selfhosting. We are living in a time when companies have become like mafia.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by mockingloris »

delta_p_delta_x wrote: post #187
bakugo wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> A full third of them complaining about the anti-bot protection mascot (yes, it's a cartoon character; get over it) If you're going to force people to stare at a screen with nothing but your quirky anime girl OC for a few seconds every time they visit your website, then in my opinion it's completely reasonable for those people to point out how immature it is. Telling people to "get over it" just makes you sound equa…

> If you're going to force people to stare at a screen with nothing but your quirky anime girl OC for a few seconds every time they visit your website It is a damn sight better than the maliciously-compliant and deeply annoying GDPR 'we use cookies' banners, pop-ups, and dark patterns like having to uncheck thousands of 'partner' boxes. This is merely a response to AI companies abusing scraper bots and having a callo…

> Maturity is empathy, human connection, understanding, perspective, compassion, altruism, and more.

Maturity is FFmpeg moving to Forgejo knowing and weighing the tradeoffs.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by eviks »

jraph wrote: post #146
eviks wrote: post #122

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That explains the delay, not the flash

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44886997#44928597

Oh, thanks, so it's even worse than I thought - it's an intentional degradation of user experience for financial benefit

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by jraph »

hulitu wrote: post #203
jraph wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The comments on this page are a complete cesspool. I noticed this. I'm quite appalled. Definitely outside the usual HN standards. I suspect the very idea of self-hosting one's code instead of using GitHub is triggrering many people beyond reasonable levels for reasons I'd love to get an explanation for. Are people projecting their GitHub FOMO? Are people thinking that the value of the GitHub they cherish decreases…

> I suspect the very idea of self-hosting one's code instead of using GitHub is triggrering many people beyond reasonable levels for reasons I'd love to get an explanation for. The cloud companies do not want you to selfhost. It is good that Ffmpeg did not experience a DDOS attack yet, because that's what happened to someone who moved his email to selfhosting. We are living in a time when companies have become like m…

Do you have evidences that these individual HN accounts are from some cloud company mafia?

I don't think this is it and I would not want to dismiss individual spontaneous, genuine feeling too early.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by timeon »

bakugo wrote: post #184
delta_p_delta_x wrote: post #162

The comments on this page are a complete cesspool. A full third of them complaining about the anti-bot protection mascot (yes, it's a cartoon character; get over it), others splitting the finest of hairs over software development groups and company politics, and more. Self-hosting is generally good, well done to FFmpeg. Many large projects self-host, and my own ex-company has physical servers in the city we work at t…

> A full third of them complaining about the anti-bot protection mascot (yes, it's a cartoon character; get over it) If you're going to force people to stare at a screen with nothing but your quirky anime girl OC for a few seconds every time they visit your website, then in my opinion it's completely reasonable for those people to point out how immature it is. Telling people to "get over it" just makes you sound equa…

That is just what LLM era brings.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by hulitu »

Aurornis wrote: post #174
delta_p_delta_x wrote: post #162

The comments on this page are a complete cesspool. A full third of them complaining about the anti-bot protection mascot (yes, it's a cartoon character; get over it), others splitting the finest of hairs over software development groups and company politics, and more. Self-hosting is generally good, well done to FFmpeg. Many large projects self-host, and my own ex-company has physical servers in the city we work at t…

> Self-hosting is generally good I’ve contributed to a number of projects that try to self-host, with mixed results. It gets frustrating when someone’s GitLab (or other) server is so slow that every page load takes several seconds, or when the self-hosted solution goes down for a week because the admin is on vacation and missed something. I’ve contributed to one server that feels the need to periodically delete dorma…

> server is so slow that every page load takes several seconds,

Welcome to DE, where _every_ page takes several seconds to load.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by jraph »

eviks wrote: post #205
jraph wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44886997#44928597

Oh, thanks, so it's even worse than I thought - it's an intentional degradation of user experience for financial benefit

Sounds like most tech companies with their ads and and tracking.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by gapan »

ipaddr wrote: post #126
kiwijamo wrote: post #82

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I can access it ok on Firefox on Android FWIW.

Not sure how that helps the parent commenter.

You can take it as another data point. Here's another one: it works for me on Firefox/Android too. It might imply that the issue is probably not with that specific combination but something else. Maybe disabled cookies? Just an idea.
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