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- Comment on 12 hours ago:
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.
- Comment on 13 hours ago:
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.
- Comment on 15 hours ago:
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.
- Comment on 15 hours ago:
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.
- Comment on 15 hours ago:
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.
- Comment on 16 hours ago:
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.
- Comment on 16 hours ago:
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'.
- Comment on 17 hours ago:
Well, only if you assume the end goal is to make profit from the various businesses out there.
- Comment on Discord announced a revamped global age verification system 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. It sucks, but discord replaced irc+mumble for damn good reasons. I just wish that the open source clients had the features that discord does.
- Comment on Discord announced a revamped global age verification system 2 weeks ago:
I'm hoping xep-0503 gets implemented in a couple xmpp clients at some point soon. That'll make xmpp have feature parity with discord, except for ease of use, which is a barrier I'm willing to help friends/family work through in order to never have to switch chat clients ever again, since xmpp has been around for nearly thirty years now.
- Comment on Discord announced a revamped global age verification system 2 weeks ago:
This isn't targeted at you, zen_shinobi, specifically, but you are the latest example of one of my pet peeves, so I'm replying here.
Mumble doesn't have text channels.
Everytime time I see a discord alternative proposed it always has at least one major feature missing. Discord isn't just popular because it has almost always works out of the box, but because it has every single feature a communication platform could want. This makes it incredibly easy to use in practically every context.
Iphones revolutionized the phone space because they combined PDAs and cell phones in a very easy to use package, not because they did something completely new.
Discord combined video, audio, AND text into an incredibly easy to use package, and became the biggest chat platform in the world because of it.
Nothing is an entirely valid discord alternative until it has feature parity, including ease of use and compatibility, and I haven't found a single alternative that does that yet. (And isn't vibecoded slop, venture funded, incredibly early alpha, difficult or impossible to set up or even connect to, or some combination of the previous).
Gamevox is a new option I'm seeing, but it's also for profit, and I'm sick and tired of switching software just to see it get sold to a vc company and enshittified right underneath me.