It's only a real "App-Store" if it has arbitrary restrictions and you must pay fees to a company, obviously.

"Not needing binary blobs" would be a start, wouldn't it?

I don't know, depends on a lot of stuff. If you are interested in this property from a security perspective, then no -- it's trivial to have hardware backdoors without any binary blobs.

This likely would also mean that it can't be flashed, so if you care about future maintainability, this is also a negative -- it can not be updated/fixed in the future, which may or may not make sense depending on what part we are talking about.

But if there are some kind of signature validation then it gets even more complicated (like e.g. iphone screens knowing if they are from apple or not).

> I don't know, depends on a lot of stuff. If you are interested in this property from a security perspective, then no -- it's trivial to have hardware backdoors without any binary blobs.

This is a "necessary but not sufficient" thing.

Right? I hope it never goes away, we should make the web more fun instead of sad and clean!

I think if you were to poll people, a significant portion would be repulsed by this catgirl aesthetic, or (though this isn't the case for Anubis) the cliche inappropriately dressed inappropriately young anime characters dawned as mascots in an ever increasing number of projects. People can do whatever they want with their projects, but I feel like the people who like this crap perhaps don't understand how repulsive it is to a large number of people. Personally it creeps me out.

I'm not repulsed by it but I do wish the people that forced this stuff into their software/hardware realized how juvenile it makes their product look. There's a decent cheap Chinese pair of Bluetooth earbuds on Amazon that's been very popular among audiophiles but the feedback sounds are an anime girl making noises and there's no way to turn it off so I lost interest in purchasing them.

well for the bluetooth headphones i dont think you were the target demographic.

but open source generally isnt treated as a product. its just a bunch of volunteers having fun writing code. its natural that they will include their other interests in it in some way because it makes working on a project more fun. first impressions matter a lot, but i dont think foss projects should optimize for that instead of having fun.

The internet was better when it repulsed a significant portion of people.

What would happen if it changed in a way that repulsed you?

I'm still here

> (though this isn't the case for Anubis) the cliche inappropriately dressed inappropriately young anime characters dawned as mascots in an ever increasing number of projects

I think the fact that people bring up things that the Anubis mascot isn't when talking about Anubis is more telling of their own harmful (and potentially racist) biases against Japanese-styled media than it is about the idea of having anime-styled mascots for free software projects.

It sounds like something you might benefit from talking to a therapist. It's not normal to have such a strong reaction. I hope you can get the help you need!

This is intentional. The version with the fun art that expresses the creator's individuality is free and open source, but they sell a paid version with bland, corporate-friendly art that also supports custom art and CSS. This makes the project sustainable to work on without having to worry about corporations that care about professionalism/how people like you think/etc not supporting the project financially.

What? She's wearing a hoodie and a tee-shirt, how is that inappropriate? And how being young is inappropriate?

The whole Japanese cartoon schoolgirl thing is 100% creepy.

> inappropriately dressed

How do you think Anubis should dress?

Perhaps like he is depicted in temples, like this one from the tomb of Horemheb; 1323-1295 BC: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_King_with_Anubis...

a dog man wearing short skirts is also inappropriate in my opinion

Other options would be: just the head, a black dog (common depiction), perhaps most fittingly to what Anybis does: the scales

I bet he's keeping it on some shelf because he think it's cute like only a true sicko would do

"Why don't people just stop taking heroin"

Usually, it's the distributions problem to package software. You as a software developer publish documentation on how to build your application and then simply wait for other people to do the packaging for you. The creation of services is the same, you can maybe create a recommendation, but the service definition is part of the package file and thus not your problem.

In practice, though, the packagers quite liked systemd, because it a) makes service definition easier than any other system, and b) it significantly increases the likelihood that the developer has already written a suitable service file (and developers will like that that is used, because it reduces the chance that a packager makes a mistake and increases their support burden).

And as an end user of multiple distros, I really appreciate it because I also have to make services on occasion and it's nice that there's one way to do it and it's pretty easy to do correctly.

Usually, this is not good enough. I as a software developer often make use of the package manager built into the language of choice and use that to distribute my software. I also commonly make use of package managers of languages that I don't use to install software.

We are overdue to package manager interop and common interfaces.

That book exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Being_Right

Vineyards are ripped up because they have become unprofitable due to decreased alcohol consumption in general. I'm not sure that has much to do with Americanization.

Laws are just made up by people, we can make up new ones if we want.

Why? Microsoft is a proven bad actor while the startup might have good people of you're lucky.

There is a nonzero chance that said startup gets bought by Microsoft or worse.