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by Krssst 304 days ago
That's too bad, I wonder what's so triggering about it.

OSS projects are mostly done by people on their free time, they can do whatever they want with their mascots/branding/project. And those OSS projects tend to be significantly more respectful of users than the average modern software so on my side I tend to see those kind of harmless personal touches quite positively, sign of software that is made with the user in mind.
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userbinator 304 days ago
I think it's more that Anubis is getting in the way of accessing the content, and blocking actual humans. It quickly becomes "it's that damn anime girl again" and I suspect the mascot only increases the irritation in the same way that cutesy error messages do when you're trying to do serious work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32337520

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account42 304 days ago
The problem is when those choices end up on about every project making up the open source ecosystem. Nor weird tastes and fetishes don't belong there.
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strogonoff 303 days ago
Weird tastes is what makes OSS wonderful!
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Krssst 304 days ago
I fail to what hard choice there is to make. Choices are:

* use it

* don't use it

* use something else

* pay to change the picture

Easy.

> fetishes

And what fetish would that be? That's just a picture of a girl (maybe? Not sure they were ever gendered) holding a magnifying glass, if that's improper I'm not sure what is proper.

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