Comment by sugarpimpdorsey 4 days ago
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?
> people see a completely innocent little anime picture and immediately think "pervent-dwelling imageboard"
Think you can thank the furries for that.
Every furry I've happened to come across was very pervy in some way, and so that what immediately comes to mind when I see furry-like pictures like the one shown in the article.
YMMV
Out of interest, how many furries have you met? I've been to several fur meets, and have met approximately three furries who I would not want to know anymore for one reason or another
Admittedly just a handful. But I met them in entirely non-furry settings, for example as a user of a regular open source program I was a contributor to (which wasn't Rust based[1]).
None of them were very pervy at first, only after I got to know them.
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/vyelva/why_are_there_...
To be fair, that's the sort of place where I spend most of my free time.
they've seized the moment to move the anime cat girls off the Arch Linux desktop wallpapers and onto lore.kernel.org.
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...
Noted, I will now add anime girls to my website, so I'm not at risk of being misconstrued as "professional"
You'd think it's the opposite, look at Joseph Redmon's resume:
For me it's the flipside: It makes me think "Ahh, my people!"
Huh, why would they need the unbranded version? The branded version works just fine. It's usually easier to deploy ordinary open source software than it is for software that needs to be licensed, because you don't need special download pages or license keys.
If it makes sense for an organization to donate to a project they rely on, then they should just donate. No need to debrand if it's not strictly required, all that would do is give the upstream project less exposure. For design reasons maybe? But LKML isn't "designed" at all, it has always exposed the raw ugly interface of mailing list software.
Also, this brand does have trust. Sure, I'm annoyed by these PoW captcha pages, but I'm a lot more likely to enable Javascript if it's the Anubis character, than if it is debranded. If it is debranded, it could be any of the privacy-invasive captcha vendors, but if it's Anubis, I know exactly what code is going to run.
If i saw an anime pic show up, thatd be a flag. I only know of Anubis’ existence and use of anime from hn.
It is only trusted by a small subset of people who are in the know. It is not about “anime bad” but that a large chunk of the population isnt into it for whatever reason.
I love anime but it can also be cringe. I find this cringe as it seems many others do too.
> Anubis is a clone of Kiwiflare, not an original work, so you're actually sort of half-right:
Interesting. That itself appears to be a clone of haproxy-protection. I know there has also been an nginx module that does the same for some time. Either way, proof-of-work is by this point not novel.
Everyone seems to have overlooked the more substantive point of my comment which is that it appears kernel.org cheaped out and is using the free version of Anubis, instead of paying up to support the developer for his work. You know they have the money to do it.
In 2024 the Linux Foundation reported $299.7M in expenses, with $22.7M of that going toward project infrastructure and $15.2M on "event services" (I guess making sure the cotton candy machines and sno-cone makers were working at conferences).
My point is, cough up a few bucks for a license you chiselers.
> My point is, cough up a few bucks for a license you chiselers.
You mean this one? https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/blob/main/LICENSE
No I mean this one:
> Everyone seems to have overlooked the more substantive point of my comment which is that it appears kernel.org cheaped out and is using the free version of Anubis, instead of paying up to support the developer for his work. You know they have the money to do it. > > In 2024 the Linux Foundation reported $299.7M in expenses, with $22.7M of that going toward project infrastructure and $15.2M on "event services" (I guess making sure the cotton candy machines and sno-cone makers were working at conferences). > > My point is, cough up a few bucks for a license you chiselers.
Several points:
- there is no license to pay. This is free (as in open source and as in beer) software. There is commercial support if you feel you need it and sponsoring options however. Sponsoring is not paying a license.
- Sometimes it takes so long to get approval for a sponsor that large org member give up.
- Obviously kernel.org is using an old release of anubis so they likely observed a huge spike in bandwith used at some point and used anubis, solving the problem immediately. I don't remember anubis proposing a paid license at the time of the early releases. I may be wrong but it may be that kernel.org admins have never heard of the possibly of sponsoring nor are they interested in support.
- you don't have to pay anythinf to change/remove the image and the people who implemented this clearly do not care as they didn't do it.
- do we have evidence that the anubis developer ever donated directly or indirectly to Linus Torvalds and the thousands of developers who worked on the kernel?
Anubis has nothing to do with Kiwiflare, there's no connection at all. It's not the same codebase, and the inspiration for Anubis comes from Hashcash (1997) and numerous other examples of web PoW that predate Kiwiflare, which perhaps tens of thousands of websites were already using as an established technique. What makes you think it is a clone of it?
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".