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Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by akk0 »

bowsamic wrote: post #147
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…

I do find the fact that anime is inescapable among mainly the American youth (not seen it as much here in Germany) to be alienating. I guess it’s just what it feels like to get old

I don't feel you're right? I'm pretty sure that Germany experienced the same 80s anime boom that was felt in other parts of Europe too, and DoKomi (German anime convention) pulls ~180,000 people, very close to overtaking Comic Con. I'm actively involved in the European anime-adjacent DJ scene so I know Germany is not some low spot within Europe at all.

I think perhaps you might be overestimating how popular anime is with Americans because of how popular it is on the Internet.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by strken »

BoredPositron wrote: post #244
reconvene1290 wrote: post #238

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s all in the approach: start with a “thank you for the project”, and a “hope you don’t mind but I’ve corrected a few typos” and nobody will shout you down. Only go with a blank PR description and it’ll come across as arrogant and spammy.

There are people hunting double spaces or typos in code? For what contributor credits?

I fix documentation typos or broken links because they really annoy me. There are some egregious examples of people doing it for GitHub-as-a-social-network reasons, but I think some are like me and just want to fix the writing.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by akk0 »

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.

Thank you for what you do. I have zero use for Anubis nor have I personally encountered the problem it's meant to solve, but I'll readily support the girl, she is very cute. Never listen to the blisteringly lukewarm takes of the corpo venturecapitariat.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by democracy »

BoredPositron wrote: post #244
reconvene1290 wrote: post #238

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s all in the approach: start with a “thank you for the project”, and a “hope you don’t mind but I’ve corrected a few typos” and nobody will shout you down. Only go with a blank PR description and it’ll come across as arrogant and spammy.

There are people hunting double spaces or typos in code? For what contributor credits?

oh boy... I am thinking of having it as an interview question - once someone raises a PR for an empty space it's an obvious NO )))))

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by akk0 »

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

I do find it more noble to pursue degradation of the user experience for its own sake, but we do live in a capitalist society.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by bobajeff »

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

Thanks, I found out I had to disable Brave's protection to get it to let me past.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by rice7th »

elric wrote: post #228
rice7th wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's anubis, an anti web crawler tool [0] [0]: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

Not a very good one, given the apparently large number of complaints by presumably legitimate users in this thread. Seems like it doesn't like users who take privacy enhancing measures.

Not really. It probably got overloaded with requests and thought that another crawler was tergeting the repository so it probably bumped up the measures.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by xena »

akk0 wrote: post #273
xena wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Thank you for what you do. I have zero use for Anubis nor have I personally encountered the problem it's meant to solve, but I'll readily support the girl, she is very cute. Never listen to the blisteringly lukewarm takes of the corpo venturecapitariat.

Thank you. I swear some people here have had their innate sense of whimsy surgically removed, or it's some kind of transphobia. Either way, it's frustrating to hear the people here bitch so much about something so minor.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by mpalmer »

numpad0 wrote: post #215
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…

~15 years ago I'd come across tweets sharing how European art teachers are struggling with cultural intrusions of anime into fine arts(lol), ~10 years ago Chinese companies started serving anime-style online games, ~5 years ago COVID kickstarted VTubers in anglosphere, now an anime art is in a major OSS like an AC/DC reference. It's funny how vehemently people respond to anime the first time, it's often so strong tha…

Can people just not like something? Not everything is a sociopolitical debate.

> It's funny how vehemently people respond to anime the first time, it's often so strong that they would not be consistent with their judgements or even own moral standards. It then subsides, and then it'll be something that "doesn't look like anything" to them

uh... no, not in my case at least.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by mpalmer »

nine_k wrote: post #159
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…

Hmm, does the cutesy anime Octocat bother you? It's all over GitHub; admittedly, not as large, but definitely more pervasive. My point is that people get used to such things, and stop to even notice.

The context is a bit different from a proof of work captcha that sits in front of otherwise-unaffiliated sites.
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