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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
by throw0101d 3mo ago
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/ 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_Egyptian_religion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighing_of_souls#Ancient_Egyp...
- aboardRat4 3mo ago>>I was curious about the name: That's knowledge usually learnt in primary school.
- ThrowawayTestr 3mo agoI mean I know about the heart weighing thing but I'm pretty sure I didn't learn it in school.
- theshackleford 3mo ago> That's knowledge usually learnt in primary school. Perhaps where you reside, I’m unsure why you would believe it to be universal.
- j-bos 3mo agoOr scholastic book fairs (showing my age)
- Terr_ 3mo agoGrades 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 3mo agohttps://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
- throw0101d 3mo ago> 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegis The association of weighing (human(!)) souls is not something that would have come to my mind.
- dlcarrier 3mo agoI'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".