e0qdk

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Main account: e0qdk@kbin.social

This is my alt for when kbin is down or when I need to do something Lemmy-specific.

⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 44]⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Did you watch all of Endless 8? (Kyon-kun denwa!)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quack!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah; @Sxan@piefed.zip uses þ a lot to mess with people trying to train LLMs off the Fediverse, IIRC, but I don’t think I’ve seen anyone else using it regularly.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobody has ever lit a cigarette because of happiness. Smoking is a anxiety-coping mechanism.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Ah. Now I see why they had so many meals…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Talk about a varied filmography [Nyaight of the Living Cat]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Huh. I had no idea there was a live-action Yakuza 1 or Ace Attorney movie adaptation.

What jumped out at you?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
The Expression Amrilato is a VN that’s mostly in Juliamo (i.e. Esperanto with some modifications like a custom alphabet). It’s mostly an Esperanto tutorial though with an isekai yuri plot.

Disney’s Atlantis had a custom conlang specifically made for it, but IIRC the dialogue was mostly in English still.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are not reading old public domain books because it's not profitable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
You might not be, but I am. I’m currently reading The Count of Monte Cristo, and have read a bunch of other titles from Project Gutenberg over the last few years.

I think I remember seeing that someone was running a group reading of Dracula in one of the vampire communities a while back, so I’m not alone even if I am perhaps in the minority.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monday again (by Khyle)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Ah. I didn’t realize that.

Poking at the anti-bot thing again, I finally got past it (the no-JS version seems to be buggy) and rehosted it for anyone else having issues: files.catbox.moe/h9ijyi.mp4
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monday again (by Khyle)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
It would be better to rehost the image on your instance and put a link to the source in the body – your other posts where you do that are great!

xcancel blocks loading the image preview (a bunch of fediverse servers trying to load it probably looks like a DDOS to them) and x.com just… sucks, of course.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monday again (by Khyle)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Can you please not link directly to xcancel for the post image itself? It gets stuck in anti-bot hell…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 42]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I can’t think of any other shows that deal with time travel off the top of my head, but if you want some more serious sci-fi flavored shows, maybe try Ghost in the Shell?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 42]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Steins;Gate has a particular kind of humor. My gut feeling is that if you’re bothered by anime humor in general in other shows you probably won’t like it, but I don’t know your specific tastes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Try the other side maybe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Ah. Is this what is meant by “Flat is Justice”? 🤔️
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie: The Game, hardest game I ever played⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It had it when I became aware of it a decade+ ago; it’s not new, at least.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you lose your memories, are "you" dead? If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still "your relative/friend"? What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
This was my grandfather’s axe; the head’s been replaced twice and the handle three times since he owned it.

It’s the same pizza we had last week. / Eww! Shouldn’t you have gotten rid of it by now? / No – I mean, it’s just got the same toppings! We ordered it last night!

If you could swap memories with another person, which body is “you”? Well, that depends on what the meaning of the word is is… Mr. President.

An annoying amount of philosophy “problems” are really just equivocation about different kinds of equivalence.

These ramblings brought to you from my aging – though not yet lost – memories of long hours of procrastination during my sophomore year in college…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is lunch like in exclusive private schools for rich kids?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I went to a lot of different schools growing up. Some of them were not-very-well-funded public schools, but others were international schools for expats and private US schools – some of which might qualify. Most of the schools I went to had a cafeteria with a typical “go through the line with a tray and get whatever they cooked that day in bulk” kind of system. Some of them also had a store where you could buy snacks, prepackaged sandwiches, and such. I remember bringing lunch from home a lot – either sandwiches or leftovers from dinner the previous night, usually. One of the schools was so small it didn’t even have a real cafeteria for us and all the students (6th~8th grade in the US system) brought lunch from home and ate on fold up chairs in the multi-purpose room every day. I also went to a boarding school for a couple years. That one had a cafeteria system too – but the students were pressed into working on a rotation schedule (wiping down tables, cleaning dishes, and such – I don’t remember preparing any of the food). I don’t recall anything particularly outstanding one way or the other about the regular lunches there, but that one had periodic formal dinners (once a month or so, IIRC) where I had to get dressed up (e.g. put on a tie) and they broke us up into small groups of students and teachers. I remember those being stressful, but also having better than average food.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You can get huge HDDs for about $15~20/TB (US) right now – possibly even better priced if you spend more than the 30 seconds I did looking. You can get up to 30TB in a single disk now if you really want.

I have hundreds of games I’ve bought on GOG over the last decade or so. I have a copy of the offline installers for every single one of them, and they can fit on a single HDD. Literally the first thing I do when I buy a game is download the offline installer so that it’s mine forever.

If you give a shit about preserving the games you bought and don’t do the bare minimum of downloading the offline installer for what you paid for… that’s not a problem with GOG; that’s on you.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've been alive for the entire narrative of the internet and it's crazy to think any of the newer generations will be able to sort it all out for themselves.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The internet is a testament to the power of applied interpretive dance; it wouldn’t be anything like it is today without those Al Gore Rhythms!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: there's a browser extension called "SingleFile", which allows you to save a page into a single HTML file.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
This takes a snapshot of the HTML elements from when they were loaded in your browser. If the page loads content dynamically, HTTrack won’t save it. (i.e. this works better on crappy modern sites that need JS to even just load the article text…)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: there's a browser extension called "SingleFile", which allows you to save a page into a single HTML file.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It stores the actual HTML structure and assets, so you can still view the page as it was more-or-less intended instead of it getting split up across print pages.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You are not ready for this⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
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(by haraya manawari - pixiv - danbooru)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Content Is Too Provocative': Texas Says Yes to Anime Censorship With New 'Anti-Anime' Law⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California could mandate tobacco-style health labels on social media⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We keep the entomologists in the basement.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
There are parasitoid wasps that lay eggs inside other species of insect and have a symbiotic relationship with polydnaviruses that suppress the host’s immune system so it doesn’t attack the wasp eggs.

Basically, if you’re an unlucky caterpillar, ant, or whatever, a wasp may come along, penetrate you with its girldick (ovipositor), and give you insect AIDS so that its young can hatch inside you and eat your still living flesh…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a self-hosted project that does base64 url decoding in a privacy respecting fashion?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
There’s something else going on there besides base64 encoding of the URL – possibly they have some binary tracking data or other crap that only makes sense to the creator of the link.

It’s not hard to write a small Python script that gets what you want out of a URL like that though. Here’s one that works with your sample link:
```
#!/usr/bin/env python3

import base64
import binascii
import itertools
import string
import sys

input_url = sys.argv[1]
parts = input_url.split("/")
  
for chunk in itertools.accumulate(reversed(parts), lambda b,a: "/".join([a,b])):
  try:
    text = base64.b64decode(chunk).decode("ascii", errors="ignore")
    clean = "".join(itertools.takewhile(lambda x: x in string.printable, text))
    print(clean)
  except binascii.Error:
    continue
```
Save that to a file like decode.py and then you can you run it on the command line like python3 ./decode.py ‘YOUR-LINK-HERE’

e.g.
```
$ python3 ./decode.py 'https://link.sfchronicle.com/external/41488169.38548/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaG90ZG9nYmlsbHMuY29tL2hhbWJ1cmdlci1tb2xkcy9idXJnZXItZG9nLW1vbGQ_c2lkPTY4MTNkMTljYzM0ZWJjZTE4NDA1ZGVjYSZzcz1QJnN0X3JpZD1udWxsJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV90ZXJtPWJyaWVmaW5nJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1zZmNfYml0ZWN1cmlvdXM/6813d19cc34ebce18405decaB7ef84e41'
https://www.hotdogbills.com/hamburger-molds/burger-dog-mold
```
This script works by spitting the URL at ‘/’ characters and then recombining the parts (right-to-left) and checking if that chunk of text can be base64 decoded successfully. If it does, it then takes any printable ASCII characters at the start of the string and outputs it (to clean up the garbage characters at the end). If there’s more than one possible valid interpretation as base64 it will print them all as it finds them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh Oh: Nintendo Just Landed A ‘Summoning’ And ‘Battling’ Patent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 37]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

I’m not sure if it ever made it to DVD.

It did. I have a DVD copy in a box somewhere.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How could AI be better than an encyclopedia?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
If it actually worked reliably enough, it would be like having a dedicated, knowledgeable, and infinitely patient tutor that you can ask questions to and interactively explore a subject with who can adapt their explanations specifically to your way of thinking. i.e. it would understand not just the subject matter but also you. That would help facilitate knowledge transfer and could reduce the tedium of trying to make sense of something that’s not explained well enough for you to understand (as written) with your current background knowledge but which you are capable of understanding.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I also recommend From The New World (Shin Sekai Yori).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I just got it a half hour ago on GOG and can confirm – no issues at that time!