[throw0101d]

I was curious about the name:

> Anubis is a Web AI Firewall Utility that weighs the soul of your connection[1] using one or more challenges in order to protect upstream resources from scraper bots.

* https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/

> The Weighing of the Heart would take place in Duat (the Underworld), in which the dead were judged by Anubis, using a feather, representing Ma'at, the goddess of truth and justice responsible for maintaining order in the universe. The heart was the seat of the life-spirit (ka). Hearts heavier than the feather of Ma'at were rejected and eaten by Ammit, the Devourer of Souls.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighing_of_souls#Ancient_Egyp...

[dlcarrier]

I'm not familiar with the firewall utility, and my initial thought, in response to the question, was "anyone who's heart weighs more than a feather".

[aboardRat4]

>>I was curious about the name:

That's knowledge usually learnt in primary school.

[throw0101d]

> That's knowledge usually learnt in primary school.

Anubis may be known generally as an Ancient Egyptian god, but what he was a god of specifically is a little more obscure. I.e., what 'trait' of Anubis led the developers to choose that name?

I would have thought of something 'defensive', like a shield; to use a Greek example:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegis

The association of weighing (human(!)) souls is not something that would have come to my mind.

[theshackleford]

> That's knowledge usually learnt in primary school.

Perhaps where you reside, I’m unsure why you would believe it to be universal.

[Terr_]

Grades 1-5 is a little hyperbolic, IIRC my "World Religions" class was probably middle/junior-high school.

In any case, it's not the type of lifetime common-knowledge which warrants your scornful response.

[Rendello]

https://xkcd.com/1053/

[j-bos]

Or scholastic book fairs (showing my age)

[ThrowawayTestr]

I mean I know about the heart weighing thing but I'm pretty sure I didn't learn it in school.