• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      53·
      8 days ago

      Talking about an opensource software some web developers use to verify the humanity of their traffic.

      Instead of getting a captcha or a cloudflare verification, you see an anime catgirl nurse for a couple seconds while it runs a simple check on your browser metadata to filter out the majority of bot traffic

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    481·
    8 days ago

    Jackal because anubis and you can actually change it fairly easy without paying the monthly $50 commercial fee, but they ask that you don’t.

    They’re using weaboo branding to hostage enterprise users into funding the project lol

    • AeonFelis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      7 days ago

      They’re using weaboo branding to hostage enterprise users into funding the project lol

      Would you say stores are holding their merchandise hostage to get customers to fund their business?

  • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    8 days ago

    I’m reminded of an old SMBC skit where a couple reluctantly hires a given plumber…who works as though he’s starring in a porno, and demands the occupants watch. They can’t really turn him down, since he’s the cheapest and most qualified in the area.

  • zaphod@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    11·
    9 days ago

    If I were an immoral corpo that has problems with cat girls I would just remove the cat girl without paying. Anubis is MIT license, they can’t even sue the immoral corpos.

  • MrKoyun@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    7 days ago

    I like the catgirl. Its kind of a confirmation that the website I’m going to is “trustable” or indie/smallweb.

  • vinyl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    7 days ago

    it was funny seeing people lose their shit when it was implemented in freedesktop git repository site

  • ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    8 days ago

    Random aside, why would anyone use webp

    Edit: My bad, I had forgotten Chrome had removed JPEG XL support

    • ikt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      8 days ago

      I use it because it compresses better and looks just as good, why use space when I can not use space?

      I tried to compress with x265 on the videos I host but apparently iphones don’t like it for some reason, but I just checked again and it looks like it’s av1 they don’t like, I might try x265 again but with HEVC

      • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 days ago

        Practically x265 can be treated as another name for hevc. Apparently apple includes a software decoder for x265 and not av1, so av1 can only be used on newer devices (iphone 15 pro and newer) but x265 can be used on almost anything. The vlc media player app might work, idk. They do have a software decoder for avif included tho, which is kinda funny as apparently it supports animated avif as well. You can literally just copy an av1 video into an animated avif and it will play perfectly fine

        • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 days ago

          yeah you can just ffmpeg -i video.mkv -c:v copy video.avif and it will copy over the av1 stream without reencoding

          https://copyparty.adrian.place/u/tower.avif (1.5 mb animated avif)

          interestingly you can’t do this with webp even though that is also built on a video codec, webp only supports intra frames so it can’t take advantage of the similarities between multiple frames of a video the way avif can

          av2 also came out recently, it’s a fair amount better but there isn’t really a usable encoder yet (the encoder they made to test the codec, avm, is unusably slow, but they designed the codec for fast software and hardware encoders to be possible)

          • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            8 days ago

            nowadays, for practical use, generally avif is best for lossy images (make sure you’re using a recent encoder so you get the new tune=iq, which is default in libavif since this March) and webp is best for lossless.

            for lossless, if you don’t care about wide support, jpeg xl lossless is usually best, outside of some niche high-speed focused codecs with even less support (like https://github.com/a1024/L1codec).

            for lossy, av2 is probably the best, though it’s currently extremely slow to encode and supported by nothing, but that will probably change relatively soon. It looks like av2 will use the same avif container and file extension for images.

            there are also proprietary and/or patented codecs that I’m not as knowledgeable about (including x265 and x266, which are covered by many patents but have open-source encoders and decoders). My understanding is that x265 is roughly equivalent to av1 quality (or maybe a bit below) and x266 is roughly equivalent to av2. x266 might be able to compress a bit more than av2, but it seems like it might not be feasible to get encoding to be reasonably fast, as that doesn’t seem to have happened over the past 6 years it’s been out. The only devices I know of with hardware decoding support for x266 are Intel xe2 or xe3 GPUs (b60, b580, b390, etc)

            • ikt@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              5 days ago

              wth https://aussie.zone/post/34604587 why doesn’t it play on mobile??

              edit: FFmpeg tags HEVC streams in MP4 as hev1 by default, Apple only supports hvc1 for some reason.

              You need to add -tag:v hvc1 to your command line.

              In my case ffmpeg -i ok.mp4 -c:v libx265 -tag:v hvc1 -c:a aac -movflags +faststart output.mp4

            • ikt@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              8 days ago

              funnily enough I discussed with my mate Mistral Le Chat about JXL vs AVIF and was like, why use AVIF over JXL, and it was like JXL is better but AVIF has more support, but WebP has even more support than both of them and decent compression

              So I ended up going with webp for my self hosted vibe coded image host

              Basically I’m now just waiting for everyone to catch up so I can go to JXL over WebP

              • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                7 days ago

                It’s more competitive at the high end, but this website has some comparisons of avif and jxl: https://svt-av1-psy.com/avif/

                (this project was later incorporated into other encoders as tune=iq, and is now default)

                That being said, I think the jxl bitstream does have a fair amount of potential that current encoders don’t exploit due to lack of manpower. I’ve been following development fairly closely over the past couple years on the jxl discord, I think all active jxl devs are there