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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Last episode is crazy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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  sauce: pantsu-ripper (Danbooru - Xitter)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disgusting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Digital Renal Management

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could I just create my own drive format?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Handbrake local vs docker on Synology DS920+: same settings, very different results?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anubis is awesome! Stopping (AI)crawlbots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “You love the robot more than me!” 💔️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keeping track of different targets in terminal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uninterrupted Stream⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been trying to figure out a related sort of video streaming setup for work (without Owncast, but with a similar sort of 24/7 goal plus other considerations) and have been looking into using ffmpeg’s capabilities to output either HLS or DASH segments + manifests. (FFMPEG can do both but I don’t know which would be better for my needs yet.) The sources I’m working with are RTSP/RTP instead of RTMP and I only need streaming to browser clients currently – although it working with VLC naturally by pointing it to the manifest is nice.

  HLS and DASH work by having videos split into small chunks that can be downloaded over HTTP, so just replacing the manifest allows for continuous streaming (the client pulls it repeatedly) without the server needing to maintain a continuous connection to the client.(Fan out to CDNs works naturally since the video chunks are just files that can be served by any web server.)

  It should be possible to do some creative things by either creating / modifying the manifests myself with scripting or by piping chunks into another instance of ffmpeg from a script. (I’ve done something similar using -f image2pipe in the past, but that was for cases where I need to do things like create a video from an image gallery dynamically.) That’s as far as I’ve gotten with it myself though.

  I don’t know what the right answer is either, but I’m also interested in finding out and hopeful you get additional responses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even in space it's possible to get hit by a self-driving Tesla.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Heliocentric orbit like this:

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  More info:

  • Wikipedia article
  • Media page on Wikipedia
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else going basic with their NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an older version of TrueNAS on it from when it was still FreeBSD based (instead of Linux). I might replace it with Scale whenever I get around to doing maintenance on it next – or maybe just go to stock Debian or something since I don’t use most of the bells-and-whistles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else going basic with their NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I run my NAS that way too. I just mount it and play videos with VLC if I want to watch something I have on it. The main reason I have a NAS is because I ran out of drive bays in my main system a few years ago… Works fine for my needs currently; no need to make it more complicated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comments not showing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Check your language settings. Either Undetermined or English may be disabled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll CEO Responds to Calls To Pay Japanese Anime Companies More Money for Overseas Distribution⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “The easiest way to stop piracy… is to give those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.” -Gabe Newell

  Yep – although even there, I have 5x as many games on GOG as Steam because they’re mine and I don’t have to worry about dealing with forced updates ever. That was a BIG deal for me when I had crappy internet access – a single game’s forced update could tank my entire month’s quota… I still get nervous putting Steam in online mode to this day even though I don’t have to deal with that shit any more.

  Disagree with you on the BD issue, though. Much more capacity, higher quality video and audio, and drives are dirt cheap. I have a BDROM in an external enclosure, and it handles DVD and BD perfectly.

  My complaint there’s about Blu-Ray’s DRM. Better quality video means nothing to me if I can’t actually get the damned thing to even play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll CEO Responds to Calls To Pay Japanese Anime Companies More Money for Overseas Distribution⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whilst I agree, there’s (currently) nothing stopping you from buying the DVDs?

  I have a ridiculous number of DVDs. (Blu-Ray on the other hand can fuck off and die.) A ton of content is just not practically available as DVDs.

  Checking Amazon just now for some stuff that was absolutely impossible to find at all a few years ago when I was looking for it, there seem to be non-US releases now (e.g. region 2, region 4…) for some of them at not insane prices. Others want $300 for “only 1 in stock” from a nonsense bot account with a last purchase comment from ~2015… i.e. they probably aren’t real listings even if I was willing to pay that insane amount. A few others look like they might be commercial pirate offerings with only subsets of episodes and strange packaging. (I might just be OOTL on some marketing gimmick with those though.)

  Honestly, I’ve largely given up on anime since COVID hit. I still like the art, but I don’t really watch new shows any more. The inability to get legit copies in a timely fashion is the main reason why. The shift to Blu-Ray really alienated me. Yes, I can work around its bullshit up a point. No, I am not going to pay ~$60 for half a show from years ago and then have to do quasi-illegal shit just to get it to maybe play on my computer – without menus. Fuck that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll CEO Responds to Calls To Pay Japanese Anime Companies More Money for Overseas Distribution⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really wish someone would just set up “GOG for anime seasons” and let me buy and download MP4 files (or whatever) so I can have an offline collection legally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a server that doesn't require allowing javascript of a million other servers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what anyone else intends to do, but if I can fix the issues I’m currently looking at – and no one else has stepped up in the interim – I’ll at least take a look at the 1.0 stuff. (I use mlmym and would like it to keep working…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a server that doesn't require allowing javascript of a million other servers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the thumbnails now are even more clearly 4-pixel potatoes

  pictrs’s thumbnail parameter uses dumb raw pixel sampling – which leaves something to be desired… It has other sampling options implemented (with resize, according to the docs), but they don’t seem to accessible on my instance. You can remove thumbnail=96 if you want to get the image without that thumbnail sampling, at least.

  make everything zoom 150%

  I do this with my browser’s UI (ctrl-plus keyboard shortcut in FF-based browsers works for me).

  e.g. right side bar

  […document.querySelectorAll(“.side”)].forEach(sidebar => sidebar.remove())

  You could also just adblock the element with class side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a server that doesn't require allowing javascript of a million other servers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  someone forks and maintains it.

  MrKaplan already forked it and is keeping it on life support for lemmy.world. I’ve been trying to make enough sense of it to fix several issues that have been bugging me for a while, and will contribute my fixes there if I can figure them out.

  I’ve only got a few hours each weekend where I have good concentration + enough free time to work on it, and don’t know the relevant languages (Go, Rust, TypeScript), so my progress is pretty slow… but I’m still poking at it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a server that doesn't require allowing javascript of a million other servers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Voting

  You could support this by making vote buttons submit a form if JS isn’t enabled. (That’s what mlmym does.)

  Can’t manually switch between dark and light mode

  Hmm… There are some pretty nifty things you can do with a hidden checkbox, label, and some clever CSS (e.g. html:has(#element:checked) + CSS variables – though FYI :has is baseline 2023.)

  Making it persistent would require some more effort – e.g. form + cookies + server side style sheet selection, most likely. mlmym lets users change their theme w/o JS by submiting a form on the setting page. I’d have to think a bit if there’s a good way to make it persistent across multiple requests for logged out users with a CDN caching things in between though…

  only automatically based on browser settings

  Doesn’t actually work for me in a FF138-based browser w/ JS blocked via NoScript – I always get light mode despite having a dark mode preference set. (Where do you have your prefers-color-scheme media query?)

  Also, FYI I had to manually override font restriction – otherwise all your buttons end up as tofu characters. (I think NoScript is being kind of unreasonably strict there by blocking first party fonts.) That’s a papercut kind of issue, but figured I’d point it out in case it might save you some debugging time if you get confused NoScript users in the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recomend me some slive of life anime like K-On! but without the musical band stuff⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yuyushiki, maybe? It’s slice-of-life with three girls in a computer club instead of a music club. I liked K-On’s humor more, but I remember thinking they were similar when I watched it a long time ago.