Comment by ForHackernews 3 days ago
On the contrary: Making things look silly and unprofessional so that Big Serious Corporations With Money will pay thousands of dollars to whitelabel them is an OUTSTANDING solution for preserving software freedom while raising money for hardworking developers.
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.
I don't think you need to try to die on this hill (primarily remarking w.r.t. your lumping in Anubis with Cloudflare/Google/et al. as one). In any case, I'm not appreciating the proliferation of the CAPTCHA-wall any more than you are.
The mascot artist wrote in here in another thread about the design philosophies, and they are IMO a lot more honorable in comparison (to BigCo).
Besides, it's MIT FOSS. Can't a site operator shoehorn in their own image if they were so inclined?
i love this thread because it the Serious Business Man doesn't realize that purposeful unprofessionalism like anime art, silly uwu :3 catgirls, writing with no capitalization are done specifically to be unpalatable to Serious Business Man—threatening to not interact with people like that is the funniest thing.
negative signaling works!
Acting obnoxiously to piss people off makes you seem like an inexperienced teenager and distances more than "Serious Business Man".
I look forward for this to be taken to the logical extreme when a niche subculture of internet nerds change their entire online persona to revolve around scat pornography to spite "the normals", I'm sure they'll be remembered fondly as witty and intelligent and not at all as mentally ill young people.
Sounds like a similar idea to what the "plus N-word license" is trying to accomplish
I'd rather not raise money for "hardworking" developers if their work is spreading DRM on the web. And it's not just "Big Serious Corporations" that don't want to see your furry art.