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It's crazy (especially considering anime is more popular now than ever; netflix alone is making billions a year on anime) that people see a completely innocent little anime picture and immediately think "pervent-dwelling imageboard".

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> people see a completely innocent little anime picture and immediately think "pervent-dwelling imageboard"

Think you can thank the furries for that.

Every furry I've happened to come across was very pervy in some way, and so that what immediately comes to mind when I see furry-like pictures like the one shown in the article.

YMMV

Out of interest, how many furries have you met? I've been to several fur meets, and have met approximately three furries who I would not want to know anymore for one reason or another

Admittedly just a handful. But I met them in entirely non-furry settings, for example as a user of a regular open source program I was a contributor to (which wasn't Rust based[1]).

None of them were very pervy at first, only after I got to know them.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/vyelva/why_are_there_...

To be fair, that's the sort of place where I spend most of my free time.

"Anime pfp" stereotype is alive and well.

they've seized the moment to move the anime cat girls off the Arch Linux desktop wallpapers and onto lore.kernel.org.

It's not crazy at all that anyone who has been online for more than a day has that association.

Even if the images aren’t the kind of sexualized (or downright pornographic) content this implies… having cutesy anime girls pop up when a user loads your site is, at best, wildly unprofessional. (Dare I say “cringe”?) For something as serious and legit as kernel.org to have this, I do think it’s frankly shocking and unacceptable.

If anime girls prevent LLM scraper sympathizers from interacting with the kernel, that's a good thing and should be encouraged more!

You'd think it's the opposite, look at Joseph Redmon's resume:

https://web.itu.edu.tr/yavuzid19/cv.pdf

Isn't the mascot/logo for the Linux kernel a cartoon penguin?

I have a plushy tux at home (about 30cm high). So now I'm in the same league as the people with anime pillows?

It depends. What do you do with the plushy?

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

Well, the people with anime plushies would be a better comparison. There's plenty more of those than pillows.

What’s the difference?

Right, but, that's different. Penguins are serious and professional.

I mean, he's wearing a tuxedo!

never forget the Ponies CV of an ML guy https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/09/03/my-little-pony-r...

Never mind the content, that is one of the most printer-unfriendly CVs I've ever seen

HP loves it "oops you're out of ink"

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.miwd.11...

“The future is now, old man”

This is the most hilarious thing I have ever read from HN, thank you.

Assuming your quote isn't a joke, I think those links prove the opposite.

Not only is it unprofessional, courts have found it impermissible.

You'll live.

Noted, I will now add anime girls to my website, so I'm not at risk of being misconstrued as "professional"

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