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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even in space it's possible to get hit by a self-driving Tesla.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 20]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Trying to decide if I want to stick this out to find out what all the fuss is about or not.

  I don’t know if you’ll enjoy the ride overall, but the show’s a roller coaster with a long hill climb. It picks up later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Usernames using randomized nonsense⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I picked an RNG name since my old common username (from reddit, etc) was not available when I started on kbin.social (RIP) and I couldn’t think of anything else I wanted to be called. I deliberately kept it short though. Not sure what to make of other RNG names – esp. long unintelligible ones – but I’ve seen at least one account that I think is legit which has a long, bizarre RNG-looking username and a non-English display name, so 🤷️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You look so lonely⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Band Anime my beloved⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Top left looks like Bocchi the Rock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose one⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on Kyubey and Monokuma, I can take a guess… but what is the third?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VIZ Media Wins Up to $26 Million in Damages Following RWBY Lawsuit Over Copyright & Trademark Infringement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking through the list of sellers, I don’t think they’re going to collect on much, if any, of that…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Suggest a community" community?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a lot of overlap, but the other is a bit more general purpose (not just new communities). I joined both to help with community discovery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Suggest a community" community?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s more-or-less already an active community for that: !communitypromo@lemmy.ca

  From their description:

  Promote your favourite communities here, or ask about a community you are looking for

  A post titled like “Is there a community for TOPIC?” with text in the body indicating you’re interested in making one if not would likely do well there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would there be any potential problem of hosting public and/or private (vpn) services in a school office?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What was the most ridiculous or funny boundary push you saw?

  Trolling someone by attaching a camera to the ceiling right above their keyboard. I’ve been paranoid since I saw that stunt pulled… They got their point across about physical security though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would there be any potential problem of hosting public and/or private (vpn) services in a school office?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve worked for a university before and it was very common for staff to remote into their systems from home – usually with SSH for CS types or Remote Desktop/Team Viewer/etc. for less computer-focused folks. (The former usually didn’t have much issue – the folks using the latter mechanisms got compromised a number of times… -.-) There was also a campus provided VPN that was required to access certain systems with instructions to students and staff on how to use it, but other systems just got public IP addresses.

  If what you’re doing is related to your work and campus IT doesn’t object, you’re probably fine to do it. I’ve run various kinds of websites and web apps for colleagues to collaborate on research projects. Being able to do things like that is kind of the point of the internet.

  Having seen a number of students, uh, push the limits and find the boundaries of acceptability the hard way though… I’d strongly advise you not to install cryptominers, run TOR exit nodes, or torrent TV shows/movies/etc. That kind of thing tends to get your systems in hot water with IT or other parts of the bureaucracy…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way to redirect voice traffic from WhatsApp and Signal to a landline?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In principle, sure. I’m not aware of an existing out-of-the-box solution that’d do what you want, but it also wouldn’t surprise me terribly if someone’s cobbled something together to do this before.

  If I wanted to make something like this personally, I’d start by doing some research into PBX software like Asterisk, what derivatives and extensions people have made for that, etc. – being mindful that I’d likely be digging into a deep rabbit hole…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know a graphics designer personally (from work) who used an AI generated video clip as part of a proposed background video for the landing page of a marketing-style website that was getting a refresh on one of our projects. That one ultimately didn’t end up getting used – not because it looked bad, but because of other branding considerations. Frankly, I’m glad that he didn’t have to put much effort into making something that ended up getting canned.

  There’s a LOT of art out there that’s functional. Few people stop and pay attention to it as art in itself – and it rarely lasts more than a few years before getting swapped out for something else in rebranding – but someone with design sense still needs to make it or a product will be less appealing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does it ever make sense/is it possible to move certain docker volumes to another physical volume, but not all?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can run docker containers with multiple volumes. e.g. pass something like -v src1:dst1 -v src2:dst2 as arguments to docker run.

  So – if I understood your question correctly – yes, you can do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for simple self-hosted image editor / resizer app⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Two quick ideas on possible approaches:

  1. Static page route. You can just write some Javascript to load the image from a file input in HTML, draw it resized to a canvas (based on an input slider or other input element), then save the canvas to an image. (There might even be simpler approaches if I wasn’t stupidly tired right now…) This can be done in a single file (HTML with embedded JS – and CSS if you want to style it a little) that you toss on any web server anywhere (e.g. Apache, nginx, whatever). Should work for JPEG, PNG, and probably WebP – maybe other regular image types too. Benefit: data never needs to leave your device.

  2. Process on server route. Use Python with a simple web server library (I usually opt for tornado for stuff like this, but flask or cherrypy or similar would probably work). Set up a handler for e.g. an HTTP POST and either pass the image into a library like Pillow to resize it or shell out to ImageMagick as others have suggested. (If you want to do something clever with animated GIFs you could shell out to ffmpeg, but that’d be a fair bit trickier…) The image can be sent back as the response. Be careful about security if you take this route. Probably want some kind of login in front of it, and run it in a VM or some other secure environment – especially if you’re using AI to kludge it together…

  Best of luck and let me know if you need any help. Will probably have some time this weekend if you can’t get it on your own. Happy hacking!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for simple self-hosted image editor / resizer app⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would be happy with a FOSS desktop app I can install in linux too

  On the command line, you can do this with ImageMagick (e.g. use the command convert once it’s installed).

  With a (desktop) GUI, there’s a bunch of programs. GIMP is probably the most well known and has a ton of capabilities but is a bit complex. I use Kolourpaint as a quick-and-dirty “MS Paint”-like program for very simple tasks where I want a GUI.

  If you want a simple web UI I’m sure there is one already, but I don’t know one specifically. It wouldn’t be too complicated to hack something up if all you need is a quick-and-dirty file input and percentage rescale or something like that. If you don’t get a better suggestion and don’t know how to make something like that yourself, let me know and I can write an example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favourite way to transfer files in your homelab?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People have already covered most of the tools I typically use, but one I haven’t seen listed yet that is sometimes convenient is python3 -m http.server which runs a small web server that shares whatever is in the directory you launched it from. I’ve used that to download files onto my phone before when I didn’t have the right USB cables/adapters handy as well as for getting data out of VMs when I didn’t want to bother setting up something more complex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anime that are built diffrent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure on the exact flavor of “weird af” that Nokotan or Gintama get into since I haven’t seen them, but here’s some of the weirder shows I’ve watched:

  • Nichijou
  • Azumanga Daioh
  • Penguindrum
  • Utena
  • FLCL
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is weird to see the voice actors from long-running shows having aged because their characters look and sound the same as they did a decade ago.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A while back I noticed that I was recognizing the same voice actor as Fie (from the Trails series of JRPGs) in a lot of other English adaptations of Japanese media – Morgana from P5, Aoi from Danganronpa, Operator 60 from Nier:Automata, Kyubey from Madoka, Ritsu from K-On, Taiga from Toradora, etc. – and looked up the voice actor. Cassandra Lee Morris is now 42 and has a kid. Life goes on, and that makes perfect sense, but it did kind of weird me out a bit to realize that someone knows her voice as “Mom”.