At work I was asked by a different team how we can deal with bots, because someone in my team remembered that I knew how to do it.

I reluctantly suggested Anubis because I got shit for it last time, This is the URL https://anubis.techaro.lol/

This is the 2nd and last time I will ever recommend Anubis anywhere at work to deal with bots because of how unprofessional, un-serious and weird others perceive it.

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The mascot being a ~10 year old “cutsie” anime cat girl is weird in a work setting.
I will never put myself in a situation again where I have to explain that it’s not weird to anyone again, same for that URL.

What is a professional looking open-source alternative to Anubis?

  • curbstickle_lw@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    I want to remind everyone to keep on topic. Disparaging people for whatever reason is not on topic.

    If you see something problematic, please report rather than respond. Your comment in response will be nuked along with the original problem comment.

      • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        5 hours ago

        Yeah but you need to sell that solution to the team before you’ve swapped the image, and that’s not their absolute favourite thing. It only meets 99% of their criteria.

      • Hasnep@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        6 hours ago

        Yep, or you can pay for the commercial version that has that feature built in. It’s up to you if you want to do the right thing or not.

  • Gravitywell.xYz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    The type of folks who avoid Anubis because of the mascot don’t deserve good bot protection anyway. Its like reverse gate keeping, the corpo dorks filter themselves out.

    • flango@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      Let’s expand this thought: we should put anime girls everywhere in order to filter corpo dorks. Making something look “silly” is actually a great ideia to shit on those “serious companies”.

  • esc@piefed.socialEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    Your work environment is bad if they are so easily distracted by branding and can’t deal with ‘unporfessional’ and ‘weird’ things.

    • SippyCup@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      15 hours ago

      Brother I hear you, I do. The problem isn’t the workplace, the problem is that some people will find this unprofessional enough to bitch. Any public facing anything for any company will be heavily scrutinized by a subset of people who actively look for things to bitch about.

      The professional, whitewashed and soulless veneer on every professional website is the direct result of hoards of bored idiots with nothing better to do than bitch about any perceived insult, however slight. You either have an organization that absolutely revels in it, or you end up with the same safe corporate bullshit everyone else has.

      • esc@piefed.socialEnglish
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        15 hours ago

        I think I’ve just never worked in an environment like this it was always either a startup where nobody cares about branding of some tool (also there wouldn’t even be a discussion about it) or places where it wasn’t a priority as long as it worked because menagerial class was limited in numbers so they couldn’t poke where it wasn’t required.

  • LuceVendemiaire@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    the insane smugness and inability to comprehend that money isnt everything for the creator is astounding “Waaahhh Anubis isn’t gonna get my money cus they chose to look UNPROFESSIONAL” this is why everyone hates corpo guys

      • Buckshot@programming.devEnglish
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        4 hours ago

        I’ve been explicitly told not to use any open source for a project. I don’t even know what language I’d write it in. We ended up not even quoting for it in the end.

      • LuceVendemiaire@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        15 hours ago

        oh they do want all the shit anubis and other foss projects offers which is why they keep trying to browbeat and bully them whenever they arent soulless slop, see the comment thread elsewhere in this post where a bunch of fucks keep jerking off to their idea of replacing the catgirl with a grey square or something so that muh MaRkEt can get over itself and take over properly compensate the project

        • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
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          7 hours ago

          They want to criticize the mascot and, what, replace it with some kinda glyphic anus logo like all the “professional” companies with stupid silicon valley-approved names? LOL what high-ground amirite? 😂

          • LuceVendemiaire@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            15 hours ago

            thats the thing they are explicitly making a brandless soulless alternative you can change the branding for yet there’s still complains and accusations for how the og software looks

  • Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    It sucks that everyone has decided that the nuclear option was the only way, you don’t realize it till you try to setup a HA dashboard on a pi and get stuck loading a website for 5 minutes