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Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Post by TheDong »

bregma wrote: post #657
47282847 wrote: post #481

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Germany has this. The card plus PIN technically proves you are in current possession of both, not that you are the person (no biometrics or the like). You can chose to share/request not only certain data fields but also eg if you are below or above a certain age or height without disclosing the actual number.

> if you are below or above a certain age or height Is discrimination against dwarves still a thing in Germany?

I want to believe that this would be used at amusement parks to scan "can I safely get on this ride" and at the entrance to stairs to tell you if you'll bump your head or not.

Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Post by thrance »

octo888 wrote: post #646
armada651 wrote: post #615

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Why is there an aversion though? Is it about the image itself or because of the subculture people are associating with the image?

It's an aversion to the sexualised depiction of girls barely the age of puberty or under the age of consent. I'd ask why you /don't/ have an aversion to that? (yes, "not all anime" etc...)

You know, there are enough real pedophiles in the world, like POTUS for instance. No need to go after made up ones.

Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Post by voidUpdate »

ge96 wrote: post #143
turtletontine wrote: post #114

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Even if the images aren’t the kind of sexualized (or downright pornographic) content this implies… having cutesy anime girls pop up when a user loads your site is, at best, wildly unprofessional. (Dare I say “cringe”?) For something as serious and legit as kernel.org to have this, I do think it’s frankly shocking and unacceptable.

never forget the Ponies CV of an ML guy https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/09/03/my-little-pony-r...

Never mind the content, that is one of the most printer-unfriendly CVs I've ever seen

Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Post by hahn-kev »

wraptile wrote: post #689

I'm a scraper developer and Anubis would have worked 10 - 20 years ago, but now all broad scrapers run on a real headless browser with full cookie support and costs relatively nothing in compute. I'd be surprised if LLM bots would use anything else given the fact that they have all of this compute and engineers already available. That being said, one point is very correct here - by far the best effort to resist broad…

Bot blocking through obscurity

Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Post by NoGravitas »

mlyle wrote: post #379
technion wrote: post #362

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It really should be recognised just how many people are watching Cloudflare interstitials on nearly every site these days (and I totally get why this happens) yet making a huge amount of noise about Anubis on a very small amount of sites.

I don't trip over CloudFlare except when in a weird VPN, and then it always gets out of my way after the challenge. Anubis screws with me a lot, and often doesn't work.

Even when not on VPN, if a site uses the CloudFlare interstitials, I will get it every single time - at least the "prove you're not a bot" checkbox. I get the full CAPTCHA if I'm on a VPN or I change browsers. It is certainly enough to annoy me. More than Anubis, though I do think Anubis is also annoying, mainly because of being nearly worthless.

Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Post by boneitis »

celphase wrote: post #684
esperent wrote: post #571

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I like to talk seriously about art, representation, and culture. What's wrong with that? It's at least as interesting as discussing databases or web frameworks. In case you feel it needs linking to the purpose of this forum, the art in question here is being forcefully shown to people in a situation that makes them do a massive context switch. I want to look at the linux or ffmpeg source code but my browser failed a…

Hey there! The design of the mascot serves a dual-purpose, and was done very intentionally. Your workflow getting interrupted, especially with a full-screen challenge page, is a very high-stress event. The mascot serves a purpose in being particularly distinct and recognizable, but also disarming for first-time users. This emotional response was calibrated particularly for more non-technical users who would be quick…

Hi there, thank you for chiming in.

Viewing the challenge screenshot again after reading your response definitely sheds light as to why I have no aggro toward Anubis (even if the branding supposedly wouldn't jive well with a super professional platform, but hey, I think having the alternate, commercial offering is super brilliant in turn).

On the other hand, I immediately see red when I get stopped in my tracks by all the widely used (and often infinitely-unpassable) Cloudflare/Google/etc. implementations with wordings that do nothing but add insult to injury.

Thank you for the thought you put into that. I think you guys hit it out of the park.

Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Post by cdrini »

timcambrant wrote: post #693
hdndiebf wrote: post #483

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This anime thing is the one thing about computer culture that I just don't seem to get. I did not get it as child, when suddenly half of children cartoons became animes and I just disliked the aestheic. I didn't get it in school, when people started reading mangas . I'll probably never get it. Therefore I sincerely hope, they do go away from anubis, so I can further dwell in my ignorance.

I feel the same. It's a distinct part of nerd culture. In the '70s, if you were into computers you were most likely also a fan of Star Trek. I remember an anecdote from the 1990s when an entire dial-up ISP was troubleshooting its modem pools because there were zero people connected and they assumed there was an outage. The outage happened to occur exactly while that week's episode of X-Files was airing in their time…

I think I'd push back and say that nerd culture is no longer really a single thing. Back in the star trek days, the nerd "community" was small enough that star trek could be a defining quality shared by the majority. Now the nerd community has grown, and there are too many people to have defining parts of the culture that are loved by the majority.

Eg if the nerd community had $x$ people in the star trek days, now there are more than $x$ nerds who like anime and more than $x$ nerds who dislike it. And the total size is much bigger than both.

Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Post by account42 »

qualeed wrote: post #98
sugarpimpdorsey wrote: post #93

Every time I see one of these I think it's a malicious redirect to some pervert-dwelling imageboard. On that note, is kernel.org really using this for free and not the paid version without the anime? Linux Foundation really that desperate for cash after they gas up all the BMW's?

It's crazy ( especially considering anime is more popular now than ever; netflix alone is making billions a year on anime) that people see a completely innocent little anime picture and immediately think "pervent-dwelling imageboard".

It's not crazy at all that anyone who has been online for more than a day has that association.

Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Post by [deleted] »

sznio wrote: post #697
sneak wrote: post #622

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The fundamental failure of this is that you can’t publish data to the web and not publish data to the web. If you make things public, the public will use it. It’s ineffective. (And furry sex-subculture propaganda pushed by its author, which is out of place in such software.)

>And furry sex-subculture propaganda pushed by its author if your first thought when seeing a catgirl is sex, i got bad news for you

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Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Post by [deleted] »

account42 wrote: post #644
ForHackernews wrote: post #596

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I'm not commenting on the value of this project (I wouldn't characterize captchas as DRM, but I see why you have that negative connotation) and I tend to agree with the OP that this is simply wasting energy, but the amount of seething over "anime catgirls" makes me want to write all the docs for my next projects in UwU text and charge for a whimsy-free version. (o˘◡˘o)

Please do, it's better if people make their negative personality traits public so that you can avoid them before wasting your time. It will also be useful to show your hypocrisy when you inevitably complain about someone else doing something that you don't like.

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