Traister101
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- Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers 1 week ago:
I did not always use an ad blocker. Frankly my stance is they’ve made their bed, now they get to lie down in it. If it wasn’t for YouTubes ad quality being so poor I would have never bothered taking the 30 seconds it takes to install an adblock those 10 or so years ago
- Comment on An earnest question about the AI/LLM hate 2 weeks ago:
Okay so imagine for a second that somebody just invented voice to text and everyone trying to sell it to you lies about it and claims it can read your thoughts and nobody will ever type things manually ever again.
The people trying to sell us LLMs lie about how they work and what they actually do. They generate text that looks like a human wrote it. That’s all they do. There’s some interesting attributes of this behavior, namely that when prompted with text that’s a question the LLM will usually end up generating text that ends up being an answer. The LLM doesn’t understand any part of this process any better than your phones autocorrect, it’s just really good at generating text that looks like stuff it’s seen in training. Depending on what exactly you want this thing to do it can be extremely useful or a complete scam. Take for example code generation. By and large they can generate code mostly okay, I’d say they tend to be slightly worse than a competent human. Genuinely really impressive for what it is, but it’s not revolutionary. Basically the only actual use cases for this tech so far has been glorified autocomplete. It’s kind of like NFTs or Crypto at large, there is actual utility there but nobody who’s trying to sell the idea to you is actually involved or cares about that part, they just want to trick you into becoming their new money printer.
- Comment on "Kinks" 4 weeks ago:
I caught up, chapter 50. Um so frankly put this is just porn. I’m genuinely kind of invested now though so fuck it, this is going on my trackers
- Comment on "Kinks" 4 weeks ago:
Hmmmmmmmm
Half way through the first chapter and it hasn’t hooked me yet but I am still… intrigued.
Okay so chapter two down and I think I’m noticing a pattern in who is bothering to translate this Manga so far. Both chapters were done by totally different people and neither was super high quality (though not terrible). Wonder if pattern persists since there’s 50 chapters at least where I’m sourcing it from.
Lol this dudes a trooper they learned not just English but also Japanese competently enough to translate it well enough. Hats off to you Chekov
Chapter 6
Damn she snowballed him lmao
I’m not sure why exactly but the fact they are going to research more “lewd sounds” is incredibly funny to me Image
Alright so chapter 8 kind of hooked me, been about half an hour of time investment so far including updating this here comment so if anyone else is also curious there ya go.
- Comment on You Can’t Make an Omelette without Exploding Several Billion Dollars’ Worth of Eggs 4 weeks ago:
It’s not controversial your just really stupid or really stupid and also a natzi
- Comment on Why Japan's animation industry has embraced AI 5 weeks ago:
It hasn’t though? That short “film” in the thumbnail is very not great. Just to summarize a few issues clothing items randomly change colors, clothes randomly switch to different clothes, they attempted to copy the really nice crane shot in Frieren but used “AI” to do it which just smeared ugly green shit around the screen cause there were leaves, a path they are walking on randomly changes material multiple times, ect ect. All the usual AI video crap. They didn’t solve any of the issues it has and it there’s one “animator” credited.
Spoilers if you care (no I’m not going to actually mark them) but there’s a part where using AI would have been a really good directing decision, especially with the faults but because the “director” is just a tech bro who’s incapable of understanding art they completely missed an extremely good use case.
Actual animation studios don’t and won’t use this crap until it’s dramatically better. The closest thing they currently use is cacani (actually an interesting tool scroll through that) and it uses absolutely no “Ai” whatsoever
- Comment on Manga General Discussion Thread - RIP MangaDex Edition [2025, Week 21] 5 weeks ago:
Yeah I’m not sure why it shits the bed so badly. If it helps you can move the folder under
local(rather thandownloads/<source>) and it’ll show it again - Comment on Difference 1 month ago:
I genuinely don’t know why people are confused about the Demons in frieren. They are fundamentally incompatible with humanity. There is no Grey zone. They are monsters, not your happy friendly fantasy where some monsters are good monster monsters. The only connections they are capable of understanding is strength. The only language they truly understand is power. They learned the human tongue not to communicate but to manipulate. The anime and the Manga make it exceptionally clear, the Demons in Frieren are just monsters. There is no redemption. Just like how you can’t genocide a lion, or a mosquito you cannot genocide the demons in frieren.
- Comment on My PC is tired 1 month ago:
Until you’ve paid hundreds of dollars into using your own internet to play online (on servers your console company doesn’t even pay for)
- Comment on My PC is tired 1 month ago:
No you can’t? Do you even know what the steam deck is? It’s a hand held gaming device, like the Nintendo Switch. Adding a computer monitor to the steam decks price tag is nonsensical. Like the Switch you’d be using a TV if your hooking it into a monitor. A wireless controller? Why? It’s a steam deck it has a controller built in. Joystick grips? The fact you think those are needed goes to show how shit the standard console controllers are lmao.
- Comment on Any one else here have watched RE:Zero Season 2 anime subbed? 1 month ago:
Subs are usually on screen for as long as people are saying the words. When they talk quickly they go by quickly. Also it just depends? There’s a bunch of different Re:Zero subs a particular legal one standing out as being awful (good ol Crunchyroll). You probably just read slowly, you’ll speed up with practice
- Comment on A fluid battery that can take any shape. 2 months ago:
Actual new battery tech? I didn’t see the capacity listed/compared to a normal lith-ion of the same volume but it does say they have some issues with voltage. I’m not sure how annoying that actually is (not super good with electricity) but this looks rather promising. Might see smart watches and similar devices without any flat hard surfaces using these combined with flexable screen tech. Course like always this stuff is extremely reliant on the capacity being workable, if it’s too much less than the equivalent in lith-ion it’s just not going to get used.
- Comment on WIT Studio Producer Calls Out Netflix For Not Promoting Moonrise Anime Properly 2 months ago:
I mean Netflix, they do this shit all the time even to their own shows it’s so strange
- Comment on Save your mother. 2 months ago:
I mean would it? You’d have a dude making eyes at some girls dad.
- Comment on Media Do Distributor Sells MyAnimeList Site to Web3/AI Company Gaudiy 2 months ago:
MAL sync does other trackers like Anilist (and will go through and sync it for you)
- Comment on Damn 2 months ago:
And it’s in the same tier as “Subaru dies” after you’ve seen the first episode. If I wanted to purposefully spoil you I can do so in 2 words and you’d be real fuckn mad. Season 3 is great, quit putting it off
- Comment on Damn 2 months ago:
I mean she’s an Archbishop, the only one who’s sort of sane is Regulus and he’s got his own brand of insanity
- Comment on Damn 2 months ago:
I don’t think Capella existing really spoils much of anything, I think it’s nearly impossible hearing about/seeing her if you are even remotely into Re:Zero
- Comment on Next Episode will be spicy 2 months ago:
Sorry to spoil the fun but that’s not an actual line lmao
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 2 months ago:
Whoops, meant flags
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 2 months ago:
It’s actually so bad lol. Idk what Microsoft has against
-for args but it’s fuckn annoying - Comment on Top 10 Anime of the Week #12 - Winter 2025 (Anime Corner) 2 months ago:
God what a screenshot to use for Re:Zero
- Comment on What are your Top 10 anime? 2 months ago:
The megumin spinoffs get better once the gang is sort of involved, pre gang (which is I think fully adapted? I still haven’t actually watched it yet lol) as for why ::: spoiler Main series S2 spoiler Iris gets involved in the shenanigans :::
- Comment on What are your Top 10 anime? 2 months ago:
Oh Dandadan is great, if you liked the first season you’ll like the rest even more.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
But that obviously wouldn’t stop them from having him disappeared. Heck I don’t even think that’s off the table now
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 2 months ago:
Yes but a lot of us who do block ads block them largely because they are intolerable. I largly only started blocking ads at all because of how utterly miserable YouTube ads became.
- Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. 3 months ago:
While this is pretty hilarious LLMs don’t actually “know” anything in the usual sense of the word. An LLM, or a Large Language Model is a basically a system that maps “words” to other “words” to allow a computer to understand language. IE all an LLM knows is that when it sees “I love” what probably comes next is “my mom|my dad|ect”. Because of this behavior, and the fact we can train them on the massive swath of people asking questions and getting awnsers on the internet LLMs essentially by chance are mostly okay at “answering” a question but really they are just picking the next most likely word over and over from their training which usually ends up reasonably accurate.
- Comment on Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2 - PV 3 months ago:
It’s not really a problem. Frierens demons are explicitly monsters, not in the typical “different species” sense. They gained human language in order to better kill humans, Himmel tries to give a “child” demon a chance and she kills a family.
I love me my “redeemable monster” types, that’s why we have stuff like Tensura and other shows where monsters are not inherently bad. In Frieren they are monsters, they exist to kill people end of story. I rather like the simplicity to be honest, it’s boring seeing Demon/Monster redemption arcs all the time.
- Comment on "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle Part 1" New Key Visual, PV 3 months ago:
It’ll be the end of the series, imo it’s a weird decision to make 3 movies. They’d pretty easily get a 8-12 episode season and then a movie for the finale/ending. Hard to say no to monies though I guess idk
- Comment on The Cybertruck Appears to Be More Deadly Than the Infamous Ford Pinto, According to a New Analysis 4 months ago:
Okay so say your testing a brand new rocket engine idea. It uses a fuel nobody has tried to use before. So what you do is you figure out how much energy this fuel has and do some math to figure out how much you’ll need to take with you for the typical rocket. You design an engine for this spec or better and thoroughly test it to make sure it’s behaving like expected. You eventually mount it to a rocket and make sure in practice it behaves as you expect. Next you put a payload in the rocket and test it again. If at any point things don’t behave as expected you have to fix your whole model.
SpaceX struggles to go a launch without their engines destroying themselves. Perhaps they should go back a few steps?
