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Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by numpad0 »

mpalmer wrote: post #279
numpad0 wrote: post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

~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.

Yes in technical sense that only wrong countries try to control wrongthink, and no in the sense that if there are chances such opinions prevail.

It'll be like insisting YOLO[1] renamed and presentation video changed up. We all kind of deserve a right to say so, and insisting anime is unprofessional and must be removed don't look that way yet, but IMO it very well could be considered insane talks in 5-10 years.

1: https://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by mpalmer »

squeaky-clean wrote: post #319
mpalmer wrote: post #281

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I'm not sure we agree on what constitutes "pretty damn rude". It was an inelegant, hastily expressed opinion.

Yes, inelegant, hasty, and with no regard to the person across the wire you're communicating with. Self serving and rude.

You are incorrectly implying that I made the comment after the author joined the thread. This is not true.

Hastiness and inelegance tends to happen when you want to trip over yourself to make a point on this site, which we're now both guilty of.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by forrestthewoods »

userbinator wrote: post #254
forrestthewoods wrote: post #106

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> 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.

IMHO Corporate Memphis is much worse than anime art. "You have small brain" is the message it seems to imply.

I don't necessarily disagree. But in either case the point is "it's just an art style" is wrong. People make judgement calls based on art. It's just human nature.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by nixosbestos »

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

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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.

My head might actually explode from irony wtf.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by userbinator »

Krssst wrote: post #311
debugnik wrote: post #300

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> hopefully nobody is triggered by this kind of art Apparently a good chunk of HN is. Anubis-tan seems to me the main reason that this comment section about FFmpeg and Forgejo has devolved into a debate about Anubis; more than the intersitial page itself.

That's too bad, I wonder what's so triggering about it. OSS projects are mostly done by people on their free time, they can do whatever they want with their mascots/branding/project. And those OSS projects tend to be significantly more respectful of users than the average modern software so on my side I tend to see those kind of harmless personal touches quite positively, sign of software that is made with the user i…

I think it's more that Anubis is getting in the way of accessing the content, and blocking actual humans. It quickly becomes "it's that damn anime girl again" and I suspect the mascot only increases the irritation in the same way that cutesy error messages do when you're trying to do serious work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32337520

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by m4rtink »

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!..." .

I think Anubis is cute. ;-)

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by m4rtink »

akk0 wrote: post #269
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…

You would be horrified to spend any time in Japan then, where such characters are used in official capacity for anything from shops to corporations to government agencies, police stations and street signs. It's just flashing a logo as the equivalent of a loading spinner while it does things. I don't see how the specific logo could possibly be interpreted as tasteless or offensive -- I know I'll take it any day over f…

Yeah, imagin typoing "ls" and having a Steam Locomotive drive through your terminal! Thankfully no one implemented that. ;-)

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by mpalmer »

numpad0 wrote: post #321
mpalmer wrote: post #279

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yes in technical sense that only wrong countries try to control wrongthink, and no in the sense that if there are chances such opinions prevail. It'll be like insisting YOLO[1] renamed and presentation video changed up. We all kind of deserve a right to say so, and insisting anime is unprofessional and must be removed don't look that way yet, but IMO it very well could be considered insane talks in 5-10 years. 1: htt…

Culture hasn't been monolithic for decades now; it's only fragmenting more. Broad consensus that any opinion is "insane" is becoming less likely, not the other way around.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by KingMob »

ipaddr wrote: post #134
KingMob wrote: post #108

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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.

The difference is the Substack owners have actively recommended Nazi substacks, and ignored calls to deplatform Nazi content.

They're not a common carrier like the phone company, and could kick off the nazis at any moment if they wanted to.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by ptman »

nightpool wrote: post #139
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 lo…

There is a plan for hosting gitea on gitea: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029
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