Hoimo
@Hoimo@ani.social
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 17 hours ago:
Why do you keep Gemini installed? Does it even work offline?
- Comment on It's all armin 1 day ago:
What the hell happened to Edward’s face?
AI upscaling is the newest vector of digital rot. We already had forced compression, watermarks, people making screenshots instead of saving the picture and now there’s AI upscaling guessing at details that never existed.
Here’s the original picture. Yeah, the resolution is shit, but at least the data isn’t stinking of decAI.
- Comment on Once it's on the Internet, it stays forever, but only for the things you DON'T want. For the things you DO want, it will be wiped off the face of the Earth by tomorrow. 2 days ago:
It also looks like that 1973 picture of Nixon’s bedroom is newer than the website design, so I’m not surprised it isn’t using https.
- Comment on Once it's on the Internet, it stays forever, but only for the things you DON'T want. For the things you DO want, it will be wiped off the face of the Earth by tomorrow. 3 days ago:
Wow, you’d think it wouldn’t be this hard. There’s White House archives online, but they all seem to be text only. Articles about the rose garden, but never any pictures. And when it’s an article with pictures from 2000-2016, it’s only historical pictures, as if showing a contemporary picture would be the most redundant thing to do in an article about a rose garden.
Is tysto someone’s personal archive of whitehousemuseum.org? I don’t get the domain name, the home page mentions the other domain (which is for sale). Wikipedia lists whitehousemuseum.org under “External links” for a collection of photos.
- Comment on Summer Anime Season Preview Discussion and Thread Requests [2025, Week 26] 3 days ago:
Definitely watching City and Dandadan. And Yofukashi no Uta S2 snuck up on me, have to watch that too.
As for originals/newcomers, I put Bad Girl on my PTW ages ago and it’s finally time! Just some silly yuri shenanigans, I don’t expect too much of it.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 4 days ago:
It’s not racist to say that a theocracy scares a lot of smart people away. I know multiple Iranian families who all fled Iran after 1979 and came to Europe. All highly educated, all very opposed to the Islamic Republic that ruined their country.
Here, the effect is notable enough to have its own Wiki article: en.wikipedia.org/…/Human_capital_flight_from_Iran
- Comment on Happy 2nd Birthday Ani.Social! (+ PieFed announcement) 5 days ago:
So can I subscribe to !nyaa@pt.nyaa.social from here? Because I know mastodon-lemmy is mostly one way, can’t really subscribe to a masto tag or user from here, but if Piefed is structured similarly…
- Comment on A woman tried to call her mom in Iran. A robotic voice answered the phone 5 days ago:
The more obvious choice would be to make everyone go dark, instead of setting up nationwide voice mail to pretend everyone is alive. But maybe this way they can keep everyone’s communications open while also fooling most of these intelligence gathering methods (someone answered, in the right language, mark it as active).
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 5 days ago:
Not really early Germanic though, because every other Germanic language kept the meaning of “animal”. It’s only modern English (since the 1500s) that narrowed it all the way to one specific species (or family of Cervidae).
My guess would be that the language gained the word “animal” from French and “deer” was pushed from its niche and forced to specialize?
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 1 week ago:
How strong is that spider that it can lift a turtle? Will one nuke be enough?
- Comment on Ok smartass 1 week ago:
The reverse image search spotted it well, but it isn’t the same image. It’s very likely the source where the image generator got its ideas from though: lemmy.world/post/31578519/17746077
- Comment on Dear Kevin 1 week ago:
I don’t understand why you’d ever need to know this. What is a phylum anyway? Which animals share a phylum? Are bonobos and chimpanzees in a phylum, a family, a class? And what does that tell us about their relation that we couldn’t already tell from their characteristics?
- Comment on xkcd #3101: Good Science 2 weeks ago:
Thought I was looking at Factorio chemical science pack
- Comment on Make the most out of everything. 2 weeks ago:
Be careful, you can’t breathe in bubble mountain. This kid was smart and made a little window in a tall and narrow bubble stack, but in a large pool it’s easier to lose track of the edge of the bubbles.
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 2 weeks ago:
I think if you look at child development research, you’ll see that kids can learn to do crazy shit with very little input, waaay less than you’d need to train a neural net to do the same. So either kids are the luckiest neural nets and always make the correct adjustment after failing, or they have some innate knowledge that isn’t pattern-based at all.
There’s even some examples in linguistics specifically, where children tend towards certain grammar rules despite all evidence in their language pointing to another rule. Pure pattern-matching would find the real-world rule without first modelling a different (universally common) rule.
- Comment on autofocus glasses 2 weeks ago:
How do I prescriptions for glasses even work on your side of the pond? I assumed it was just jargon of a sort, because round these parts I just go to a glasses seller and ask him for his strongest glasses. Then he says “no traveller, my strongest glasses are too strong for you, you can’t handle my strongest glasses” and does the eye test with me before making lenses at the proper strength.
- Comment on True story 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on I feel attacked 3 weeks ago:
Omou again, fucker.
My sides.
And I know it’s a copypasta and the bad translation is the point, but “akachan” is way too friendly for “You’re fucking dead, kiddo”. I’d go for “gaki”, which is a common part of weeb lingo and literally means “kiddo”, with the same connotations and all.
- Comment on I feel attacked 3 weeks ago:
Here in my backyard, smoking these meats.
- Comment on minor tomfoolery 🛻💨🎶 3 weeks ago:
What is your point? You don’t want to swear, but you don’t not want to swear either? Maybe sort out your beliefs then.
- Comment on minor tomfoolery 🛻💨🎶 3 weeks ago:
If you don’t want to swear, don’t swear. Mildly censoring a swear word to “f*ck” doesn’t accomplish anything. Everyone who reads it knows exactly what it says. And if you go far enough to make it unrecognizable, like “!@#*”, now you’re just pretending to swear, but for what purpose? Couldn’t you accomplish your goals by rephrasing to avoid a swear word entirely? (Assuming your goal is to avoid swear words, of course. If the goal is to sound like a cartoon character, consider taking up a funny catch phrase.)
- Comment on Piss off! 4 weeks ago:
The strongest urinators are cicadas, but there’s other animals that score higher on the Jet Shape? I guess ~100 Jet Shape must be peak then and everything higher than that is actually a weaker form of urination.
- Comment on Piss off! 4 weeks ago:
It’s actually about as Small as a cow is Large, according to this graph.
- Comment on Any fans of the source material? 5 weeks ago:
Not tryna start a subs vs dubs debate, just shitposting about House and live-action adaptations of classic anime (which House is, but not the one you might think…)
- Comment on Any fans of the source material? 5 weeks ago:
Animation is too difficult for me to follow and foreign languages are for children.
Pssst
I’m an ani.social user, I’m the type of weeb to end sentences in desu
- Comment on Any fans of the source material? 5 weeks ago:
OP, you accidentally posted the Netflix adaptation. This is the anime:
- Comment on So excited that Avril Lavigne did come back 1 month ago:
Don't open, old inside
Let Go was released 23 years ago. 23 years before that, Toto (a band my grandpa likes) released their debut album. Going to this tour now is like going to a Toto/Dire Straits concert in 2002.
- Comment on We pink inside too :( 1 month ago:
I know it as The Fisherman and the Fish
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 1 month ago:
Either you’re unplugging it to move it somewhere else and plugging it in there, or you’re unplugging it for good, boxing it up and putting it in a shed. Neither scenario ends up with loose plugs on your floor.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 1 month ago:
I don’t think it’s fair to judge plugs by how they behave when dropped on the floor (unless they’re exposing live wires). Do you often have a lot of loose plugs lying around? If you find yourself unplugging things a lot to turn them off, you may be interested to hear the switch was invented not long after the light bulb for exactly this reason.
