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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California could mandate tobacco-style health labels on social media⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We keep the entomologists in the basement.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 37]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨Anime with a high death count that's actually good?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I just got it a half hour ago on GOG and can confirm – no issues at that time!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to relax and most importantly stop thinking about the things i could be doing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had similar problems and couldn’t figure out how to get out of that cycle before it ended up with me having panic attacks, and anxiety/depression bad enough to be put on SSRIs. If you can’t relax and feel tense all the time, that is a serious issue! Nip it in the bud if you can.

  What I eventually figured out is that I needed separation between my work and my personal time – and yes, those kinds of personal projects are still work even if you’re just doing them for yourself.

  Decide how long you want to dedicate to working – then hold yourself to that. Like, actually write down the start and end times you worked so that you can prove to yourself that you really put in the effort. I use plain text files on my computer for this; do what works for you. After you’ve put in the time you committed to, you are OFF THE CLOCK. Stop working – even if you have to force yourself – and go do something else. Without guilt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Having trouble setting up Nginx⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nginx is running in Docker

  Are you launching the container with the correct ports exposed? You generally cannot make connections into a container from the outside unless you explicitly tell Docker that you want it to allow that to happen… i.e. assuming you want a simple one-to-one mapping for HTTP and HTTPS standard ports are you passing something like -p 80:80 -p 443:443 to docker run on the command line, adding the appropriate ports in your compose file, or doing something similar with another tool for bringing the container up?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Putting HDDs to sleep⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve put drives into standby mode with the gnome disks GUI tool on my regular desktop when they were being noisy and I wanted some peace for a while. If the drive was mounted before I put it to sleep, trying to access something on the disk will cause it to spin back up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck no, I don’t agree with that at all. People mature at different rates, and the main reason IMO not to show sexual content to very little kids is that they literally don’t have the capability to understand it having not yet hit puberty. If you’re old enough to be interested in sexuality, you’re old enough that you’re going to start trying to explore it… and it’s a hell of a lot safer to explore it through media than through doing things IRL. I don’t think there’s anything particularly harmful about a ~13+ year old searching for boobs or dicks if they’re interested and want to see them; I did it myself. I may have gotten a few weird ideas about sex from seeing porn online when I was a teenager – that took me a couple years to sort through while growing up – but I never got an STD or got anyone pregnant from looking at porn!

  I reached the point of being interested in sexuality around 9th grade – and I seemed to be on the late side compared to my peers based on things I heard from them in 7th and 8th grade. As far as I can recall, the first time I encountered something explicitly sexual was in a novel I found at a library when I was in 6th grade; I was more traumatized by the taboo around sexuality than anything in the book itself (which was a fairly tame sexual fantasy that the main character had involving comparing a girl’s breasts to fruit of various sizes, IIRC). I was not ready for that content yet, and that led to me having a formative conversation with my dad about the subject – i.e. it was ultimately a positive experience for me growing up, even though I was briefly uncomfortable for a bit while I was going through it. When I was a teenager, I was ready to deal with it and sought it out on my own. Speaking as someone who grew up in the goatse/lemonparty/tubgirl era of the internet, if I ran into something that was too extreme, I backed off and said “yeah, that ain’t for me!” I don’t think I would’ve turned out better if I’d been locked out of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bandcamp - A community to share and discuss Bandcamp music⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the ping! I’ll post a few links to some albums I’ve been listening to lately to help kick things off. Curious to see what other people like as well!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Last episode is crazy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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  sauce: pantsu-ripper (Danbooru - Xitter)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disgusting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How many of you had to learn that formula (rearranged) to the tune of “Pop Goes the Weasel”? (X equals negative B, plus or minus square root… 🎶️)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨makes more sense than this shit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t aware of that one, but I did hear about the bird with a baguette…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 34]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Takopi’s Original Sin - I should warn you this one is kind of hard to watch

  I’ve seen the first couple episodes and while I’ll definitely be finishing it, yeah… it’s right up there with Grave of the Fireflies.

  Thanks for the suggestions!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 34]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard of a few of those, but most are new to me. I’ll look into them – thanks for the suggestions!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 34]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Catching up on AOT is definitely on my PTW. Makeine is already on there as well. I’ve seen Monogatari up through Nisemonogatari; will probably get back to it eventually. Not familiar with SHOSHIMIN – will look into it, thanks!

  Is the NieR Automata adaptation still worth watching if I’m already very familiar with the game (e.g. I got all 27 endings)? I’ve watched the first episode of it, and while it looked like a solid adaptation I wasn’t sure if I’d get anything new out of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 34]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really on genre – I’ll watch a bit of everything.

  I tend to prefer shows that have a strong continuity between episodes, and that’ll grab you and make you binge the rest of the show (or at least the arc) in one go though. The 2nd half of Steins;Gate, Erased, Shin Sekai Yori, A Place Further Than The Universe, Mai-HiME, FMA, Madoka Magica, ATLA, etc. worked for me.

  Preference also towards shows where the characters are not in high school (although that’s not a deal breaker). e.g. more Shirobako, Planetes, Samurai Champloo, please!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 34]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So… my situation has changed a bit recently, and, for better or worse, I’ve got (convenient) access to Crunchyroll through at least the end of the year. I’ve barely seen anything new since 2020. I’m going through some of the obviously popular stuff from the last few years like Bocchi, Frieren, Nagatoro, Spy x Family, etc. that’s entered my awareness mostly through memes. Just finished Mushoku Tensei and currently watching Apothecary Diaries. Open to suggestions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember to 2FA your kidneys.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Digital Renal Management

  …simultaneously rolled out with Digital Rectal Management, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could I just create my own drive format?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if anyone has ever passed messages between spacecraft as a peculiar form of delay line memory – or pinged a satellite at a predictable distance as part of a timing system…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your preferred way of buying games? (digital/physical/physical digital)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
  • Preferred: DRM-free download (e.g. GOG, JAST)
  • Will consider: Steam (if not encumbered with evil crap like Denuvo, Enigma, Ubisoft/EA shitware, …) – rarely preferred in some cases (e.g. the game is stupidly big)

  That’s it. Those are the only ways I buy games in practice in 2025. (The last time I bought a physical copy of a game was pre-COVID…)

  I have a Steam Deck and an ancient (offline-only) Win7 computer that is surprisingly still usable. If I can’t run a game on one of those, it might as well not exist as far as I’m concerned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨go to sleep⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Handbrake local vs docker on Synology DS920+: same settings, very different results?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you running different versions of the software? (e.g. different versions of ffmpeg, maybe?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anubis is awesome! Stopping (AI)crawlbots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t like Anubis because it requires me to enable JS – making me less secure. reddthat started using go-away recently as an alternative that doesn’t require JS when we were getting hammered by scrapers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keeping track of different targets in terminal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just right click on the terminal to change the profile to whatever I feel like it should be in the moment (usually red). I do it by reflex, basically. I never felt the need to try to set up automation for different servers, but I expect there’s probably a way to do that if you really wanted to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhisperX — Automated Transcripts w/ Timestamps and Speaker Tagging⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “You love the robot more than me!” 💔️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keeping track of different targets in terminal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I (manually) set the background color of my terminals depending on the machine I connect to. I currently have profiles for red, green, blue, and black backgrounds with black as my default. I usually use red for ones I want to be especially careful of.