Right now, there is no such thing as a completely open source laptop/desktop computer. You can have an open source operating system. You can even have an open source bios in the form of libreboot. The hardware however, is impossible to have as open source too. intel, amd, and arm all have closed source binary blobs in them. Risc-v might be an option, but frankly, I don’t expect any for profit company to make their hardware accessible in any sort of intentional way.

I will never willingly put any tech inside my body that isn’t entirely open source. (Just you watch, i’ll make a fuss about the pacemaker tech I need to have installed in 50 years!) Since this currently excludes every major hardware company in existence, I don’t expect to ever answer this question positively.

People shouldn’t have to jump through that many hoops to recommend something, that’s ridiculous

True, but only for a commercial offering.

False, for free or open source software. Makemkv is the absolute best tool for ripping DVDs and bluerays. It requires being compiled from source in order to be used for free. Anubis charges 50/month to change the branding. These both serve the same purpose; a mild speedbump to encourage paying for the work of the developer.

Anubis’ direct competitor will straight up hold your business hostage and blackmail your company for money when they feel like they can get away with it.

The ‘ridiculous hoops to jump through’ are there for the developers benefit, and are incredibly mild compared to most every other commercial offering. I just don’t see why it matters so much that anubis must change in this way.

I was just taking issue with the responses ignoring the context given, and rudely.

Yup. The fediverse is usually better than reddit but it looks like today several people got up and chose angry instead of helpful. It happens for sure. I do love how helpful some of these have been though. Lots of good advice among the arguments at least.

Here is a video about a combat robot team using various algorithms to assist with driving. It includes the following:

• a robot team trying to explain how their neat driving assist technology works
• regular people mixing up ai and genai in the video
• commentors in the video doing the same thing
• a big company mixing up ai and genai just to spread more conflict / drama

I don’t think the other meanings are lost. If you say “the enemies in this game have bad AI”, people aren’t going to think that you mean LLMs.

The ai techbros won. We’re already here.

You brought up butts.

No I didn’t. You did. It’s right above my comment. Don’t lie. Everybody can see you mentioning butts first.

My point with going to an extreme with that is even you can agree there is a line somewhere where something shifts over the line of “too ridiculous to consider for serious purposes”.

And my point is that “too ridiculous to consider for serious purposes” being the current state of things is wrong and needs to change to allow for less serious things to exist.

There is a conflict here. There are at least three options to resolve it. Either the company needs to change, anubis needs to change, or the users complaining about the other two groups need to change.

I’m arguing that the company is wrong for not changing. I’m also arguing that the user is wrong for complaining about anubis’ branding. Hell, I’m even arguing that anubis is right for choosing to skip out on mainstream branding.

My point with going to an extreme with that is even you can agree there is a line somewhere where something shifts over the line of “too ridiculous to consider for serious purposes”.

In short, I’m saying that anubis is nowhere near crossing that line.

random visitor visits your website and they see a weird anime girl drawing talking about security, what is the chance of them just bouncing away afraid that it is a virus or an unsafe website?

Very high. And they’d be completely wrong in doing so.

Let’s not pretend that it’s the furries fault that everyone discounts their work because of how they present themselves, especially for things they are giving out for free.

That’s the neat part. You don’t. If they can’t get past the branding, that’s their problem.

Trying to force the issue makes it into anubis’ problem, which is a dick move for free software.

the unhinged and reality-divorced types who cannot understand something so simple as normal people thinking things are weird. Half the respondents here think you should scream at your coworkers

I’ve recommended the ploopy knob to coworkers before. I was in government work at the time. My current employer uses and recommends software called “keep ass”. This is a user problem first, and a software/branding problem a distant second. The comments here reflect that.

Yes, software developers put out things that are counterculture. Yes, that can make working with them more difficult than it might otherwise be.

No, you should not blame the software developer for this.

If the branding causes too many issues, don’t use it. The branding is there because the developer wants it there, and wants to have the type of customers that enjoy it, or can at least look past it. Everybody else being filtered out is a good thing.

And the P is capitalized, so the software is not presenting itself as keep ass.

It’s not called KeyPass either though. They did KeePass on purpose, and everybody uses it anyways.

Would your company use that software if it actually was? With a cartoon butt as the logo, not a key?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don’t live in that world, so I don’t know. My previous employer used it too. It’s kinda the standard for password management, just like anubis is. (which has a normal name and silly logo, as opposed to keepass which has a silly name and normal logo).

A butt is not the same as an animal person at all. The fact that you compared a cartoon mascot like Anubis’ to a cartoon butt says more about you than it does this conversation. Cartoon animal people as mascots is older than the internet by a mile.

Like would you give a second glance at choosing something like UwU.jajaja.lol or whatever for your antivirus? It puts out “we don’t take this seriously” vibes and that translates to “you shouldn’t take us seriously either”, which doesn’t mech well with a serious software function.

Yes. Currently my office uses a tool called “keep ass” as the primary password database management tool.

If a company can’t look past a cartoon mascot, it is best, for the developer of the tool, that company never actually uses the tool in the first place.

You can stop a lot of assholes at the door by putting a rainbow by the door handle. This is the same, and it’s working as intended.

I think a lot of people in this thread have missed the point a little. Money isn’t everything, and the branding is absolutely doing its job correctly here.

When advertising, you don’t just tailor your branding to the customers, but to the customers you want to have.

If you want to have lots of locals visit your restaurant, you post your ad in the local newspaper. This specifically excludes out of towners, and makes sure that everyone that visits is very likely a local, or someone who actually pays attention to local events.

If you want your scam to only reach stupid or mentally incapable people, you make sure to have several typos in your scam email. This filters out most everyone who might catch on halfway through if you had used a better formatted and written scam email.

If you want to exclude people who hate furries, might be transphobic, or otherwise problematic, you add a furry logo to your hobby project and make it very obvious what it is.

Having your branding and advertising filter out the idiots who hate furries is a feature, not a bug.

Yeah, but Xe Xaio also has a full time job that is funding things right now. There’s room for priorities other than profit, such as cute furry art. Not everything has to be about money.

Either you are a creep or otherwise come off as creepy due to Audhd things

That is one hell of a leap. Maybe don’t try to diagnose people on the internet?

The reaction you are describing is not reasonable

No, it is. Anubis being unprofessional is by design. It’s run by one person, as a hobby, as of last year. When you aren’t reliant on profit in order to run a project you are able to adjust your priorities away from ‘money at any cost’.

Well, only if you assume the end goal is to make profit from the various businesses out there.