Why would you remove the catgirl branding though?
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The blog post explaining it is also gold ! https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/avoiding-becoming-peg-dependency/
It's a cat girl? I thought it was a Jackal. It's named Anubis.
For all the places I've encountered that used Anubis, I didn't bat an eye because it fits the vibe. But then again, I am a weeb. But also the image isn't even that egregious. I'd say it's atypical for a cartoon character, but that might be because I swim snorkel in sewers.
I usually browse from a pretty good computer. I didnt notice Anubis at all before it was pointed out on lemmy. Its lmost instant
You what now
I assume "swimming snorkel in sewers" is a self deprecating way of describing exactly how "weeb" they are.
My universities website uses it and they recently replaced the standard logo with a custom one.
Jackal because anubis and you can actually change it fairly easy without paying the monthly $50 commercial fee, but they ask that you don't.
They're using weaboo branding to hostage enterprise users into funding the project lol
They basically use the WinRar approach adapted to Open Source. Anubis is MIT licensed, so there's nothing stopping anyone from replacing the branding themselves.
I'm reminded of an old SMBC skit where a couple reluctantly hires a given plumber...who works as though he's starring in a porno, and demands the occupants watch. They can't really turn him down, since he's the cheapest and most qualified in the area.
That was a funny sketch.
Link for those who want it: https://youtu.be/qSqhpnRNyK4?is=JvDg0Eg-S59DTfIp
Since it's Anubis, shouldn't it be a puppy-girl?
I like the catgirl. Its kind of a confirmation that the website I'm going to is "trustable" or indie/smallweb.
If I were an immoral corpo that has problems with cat girls I would just remove the cat girl without paying. Anubis is MIT license, they can't even sue the immoral corpos.
They are explicitly fine with that option, but would prefer you to sponsor the project to keep it being devloped. If you do, they have a commercial version that in includes easy branding changes.
It gives a superb message to the author though. About whose bug reports and requests get priority.
I believe the immoral corpos are just sticking to Google's or Cloudflare's captchas. It's how you tell these corpos apart
Gonna be honest, was super confused why the god Anubis was suddenly in the software game.
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