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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opening Lemmy in the morning and seeing dozens of unread comments in your inbox makes you think: what the heck did I say yesterday?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely, it is only human to make mistakes. Of course there are time where someone gives a stupid reply but there are also times where that is not the case. If it were the assumption would be that I am right about everything, which is asinine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI nabs worker at DVD company for ripping prerelease blockbusters⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You can just say bluray

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI nabs worker at DVD company for ripping prerelease blockbusters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  DVDs?? is this article from 2006?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"One Punch Man" Season 3 New Key Visual, PV, Reveals October Premiere⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  called one punch man punches multiple times

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 231 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it was the illness. Even without the illness based on the first games ending and the fact that Arthur was not mentioned or existed within it I was pretty sure I knew how rdr2 was going to end before I started but the illness gave it such a somber tone. Arthur recognized his mortality and really started to reflect.

  It’s been ages since I played rdr1 but as far as I remember John was more “I’m doing this to be done, for my family!”. The tone was much lighter as a result even though there were moments that were heavy. And the characters weren’t as developed so I didn’t care as much. Dutch was just a fucking monster in that game, bill and Javier were just props. But rdr2 fleshed them all out so much

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 231 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean it is an era where up and moving 100 miles basically meant you started your life over. But that was kind of the plot: they were a gang of that era where they could run in a town, wreak havoc, disappear, and the infrastructure didn’t yet exist to reliably track them across the gigantic land mass that is North america.

  But by the time the game rolls around the beginnings of the modern federal government are happening and agencies to track people like them across the country are in full swing. So all of a sudden their way of life is coming to a close, quickly. Instead of just some pissing off a sheriff in a town and never being able to go back there, occasionally having a bounty hunter after you, you now have a huge team of people with the resources of a government coming for you.

  I think part of it that’s understated is the size of the map. The map is obviously big for a game but it’s supposed to be a huge chunk of America. When you compare the geography of the map to America it’s somewhat clear that it’s supposed to be a gigantic swath of America, from like Montana down to Louisiana and across to Texas. You can ride across the map in 20 min but obviously this would take months irl. Obviously this is about gameplay balance but as a result you lose the sense that Arthur is going extremely far away when he’s going from valentine to st denis, when in reality that would be like a month of riding and crossing several states. Even if he did a genocide that would probably shake the heat for a little while back then

  They did obviously play it up of course. If you literally murdered everyone in a town back then there would probably be more of a response from the surrounding towns to find you. But gamers like violence and it’s again about balancing gameplay vs authenticity. usually gameplay wins because otherwise you end up with a boring game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 231 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember so many people being furious at rockstar for not releasing dlc on the scope of gta4 but honestly with this game I don’t know what form that narrative would take that could be satisfying.

  The main narrative is concluded decisively obviously. It’s a prequel so continuing with John would just be rdr1. Another undead nightmare is eh, zombies are so played out. I guess you could fill in what went on with Dutch or some of the others that show up in rdr1 but frankly I don’t really want to play as them. I suppose you could intro some new character that’s part of their new gang. I dunno. I get why they didn’t prioritize it (well that and more so that dlc costs a ton to develop for a pitiful return relative to something like gta online, which is kind of sad)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What car stickers say about you⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll have you know I shower occasionally

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What car stickers say about you⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What if I have a car covered in weeb shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suppose you were a dissident facing political persecution, how would you preserve your personal files so that you can retrieve it many years later, in case of imprisonment?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on budget and storage options

  That’s not much data

  Listed in order:

  Encrypted nas. For that small amount of data raid 1. A shitty e waste pc would suffice. A ups would be ideal. This is least ideal honestly as it requires power, a maintainer, and isnt truly backup

  SSD of some kind, even a usb stick Enterprise hard drive like wd gold or ironwolf pro Redundant copies, 2-3 ideally, store in various cool dry locations

  LTO tape - far more resilient than hard drives and cost effective per tb but downside is that you need a very expensive ($3-5000) tape drive to utilize them, also very slow to read/write, older/cheaper tape formats (I believe pre lto8?) don’t have the ability to act as an external disk where you can just drag and drop files and are more of a pain to use

  Blu-ray M-DISK. Upside for these are that they are very resilient, can be stored basically anywhere assuming you put them in a sealed container, and will last many many years (probably longer than you’ll be alive). Downside is that storage per disk is very low (100gb), cost per disk is high, and write speed is low. so you will need ~ 50 for 5tb of data, each disk is about $25 (so $1225 though tbf there’s probably bulk pricing) and it would take 37.5 hours to burn them. But this would be the most resilient of all

  Cloud storage - backblaze, tresorit, icedrive, etc

  Hybrid solution - ideal scenario. Load a hard drive or two and lock them away somewhere. If you have access to a Blu-ray burner maybe burn a handful of m-disks of your most critical data (not all 5tb but the most important 1-200gb or so). If you can access a tape drive do that too. Ideally update the tape and hard drives monthly. Update the Blu-ray as needed. local nas and cloud for daily backups

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 231 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I love this game. It has several drawbacks, some of the physics make things feel like you’re underwater the whole time, the wanted system can be extremely irritating at the worst moments, and for a game with a world that is extremely alive the missions are extremely on rails where often even doing something slightly off the developers intended path will fail you

  But despite that I still love it. The game is gorgeous years later. They put so much effort into the world. It’s not just the graphics, it’s every detail that just makes it feel so alive. Walking around the town the npcs are so thought out, have so much dialogue. The animals too. I remember playing other open world games after and just noticing more so how lifeless they felt in comparison; that npcs would repeat dialogue after 2 or 3 lines, animals would run in circles, etc. and the story is great.

  I hope that once gta6 is done they turn to rdr3. Its overall a much better series with a stronger narrative, better characters, etc. with red dead they seem to not be as overly concerned with shitting it up with online bullshit and microtransactions though so the series might be done for

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My basic math skills have been terrible lately. I made a basic math error in a post the other day too. I was a strong student in math too

  Is this cognitive decline? I’m not even 40

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Tech was ruined in the 90s when capitalistic influences (microsoft being the dominant force but far from the only one) propagandized the industry and eventually populace at large with the idea that competition in the industry is what drives innovation.

  Granted, much of their work was already done for them thanks to western influence perpetuating this ideal for ages. But when the frameworks for open standards, interoperability, and collaborative development were being proposed and put into place they were shot down and/or actively sabotaged

  As a result 40 years later we have this mess. A landscape filled with nightmare tech. Fragmentation everywhere, design heavily influenced by a small handful of sociopaths with no empathy and active disdain for users, the idea of open standards is something that requires government intervention (and still rarely occurs), interoperability is something that has to be hacked around and frequently breaks as a means to encourage purchasing a competing product.

  What could have been. Tech designed for people’s needs rather than tech designed to extract income

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨College Student Arrested for Selling Bocchi the Rock! Anime Keychains (She Made Total Profit Of 16$)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  copyright law is Japan is weird and very uncool

  The key differences are that they allow criminal punishment (such as this) though that’s not super common unless it’s egregious (like lots of money), this is pretty insane (though any criminal punishment for copyright violation is)

  Registration is also automatic. In the us copyright is automatic as well but you have to register your copyright to sue for damages. In Japan this is not necessary, work is copy written upon creation and protections are granted without registration

  The big one though vs us law is that they don’t have an exception for fair use. This is why manga and anime typically go to great (or minor) lengths to avoid saying names of products and chains. Unless they have a working relationship with the item/vendor/chain and explicit permission to do so they can be sued for having a character go to don quixote or whatever if donki decides their brand is damaged by being associated with some trashy manga.

  Further complicated by the existence of doujin, which are all blatantly in violation of this system, but tolerated and even encouraged mainly because of cultural precedent. That said the doujin market is itself a complex and hypocritical beast filled with exploitation because of this. When works are small no one cares. When they are medium, free advertising. When they are too big to rival the brand it can cause issues and there has been precedent for shitty behavior here (shutdowns, poaching artists from circles, etc). Similarly disagreeable content can get you shut down (eg Pokémon and Nintendo banning sexualized doujin, kadokawa banning kantai collection doujin featuring rape, kodansha banning attack on titan doujin featuring “disagreeable political themes”)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers with smaller user bases⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you won’t browse about 20% of the Internet, which doesn’t sound like a lot but it’s disproportionately impacting sites you would generally want to browse

  I posted to this effect in a Firefox alternatives thread: if you use an alternative low adoption rate FOSS browser you trade increased privacy via less/no data harvesting for decreased privacy via much higher susceptibility to browser fingerprinting by google/meta/etc. doesn’t matter if you resize your windows if your browser reports its one that only 5,000 people use. And something tells me the tech giants have a way around user agent spoofing

  And now even if you don’t care about that? Fuck you. Cloudflare locks you out of the modern internet because of course anyone not using chrome or safari is a bot

  I have pretty draconian privacy protections on my devices and home network. It makes the internet hostile. Captchas regularly fail and I have to try them many times. Embedded youtube videos always think I am a bot and refuse to play unless I sign in, I get weird interstitial pages with captchas on google search, yandex, etc (kagi and searx don’t so I use searx), etc.

  Advertisers have pushed companies to make the internet openly hostile to anyone who wants to maintain privacy. And to be clear google and meta are advertisers first and foremost. Fuck them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anime that are built diffrent⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not saying it’s bad, clearly many many people like it. It’s exactly what you say. For some people it clicks and for them it seems to be a borderline masterpiece, but for me I was just bored

  I get it because there’s so many people right now that endlessly shit on nokotan, and when asobi asobase aired there was a similar contingency of people who loudly moaned about how stupid it was and how stupid people were for liking it and I just thought those people were dumb. I still think those people are dumb because I can understand why someone would like nichijou, I just didn’t

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anime that are built diffrent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  asobi asobase is, imo, one of the funniest anime ever made

  aho girl (be forewarned the anime ends on the creepiest fucking part of the manga)

  azumanga daioh (be forewarned there is anime bullshit here as well, different time)

  hinamatsuri (definitely well worth it to read the manga, which is one of the funniest I’ve ever read. It’s so good. The anime is great but it only got 1 cour which is an abridged version of the first 9 volumes. There’s 10 more and the story just keeps getting better), I felt like it was a bit of a spiritual successor to ranma which is also a good suggestion

  Imo nichijou isn’t very good, though the animation is excellent. City was a much better manga and I’m excited to watch the anime for that. People love it though so it’s worth checking out

  I genuinely enjoyed nokotan but the above picks all destroy it imo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anime that are built diffrent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  be forewarned that if you watch lain (made in 1998) you’ll be like “how the fuck did they know this would happen”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it is. A quote from the linked page on asahi linux devs leaving twitter because of rising anti trans rhetoric

  ““Half of us are trans,” he says. Accompanied by a call to “fight back” against an imagined “genocide”, assumedly perpetrated by those who do not fully buy into his particular sexual fetish.”

  The blogs author purposely misgenders Alyssa Rosensweig and refers to being trans as a sexual fetish, which makes their politics obscenely clear. Further, Alyssa has a resume of amazing accomplishments in reverse engineering the apple m1 and m2 chips and developing graphics drivers for their gpus. Lundukes resume is basically growing up as a nerd and being a “tech blogger” from early in the game and going full qanon a few years ago

  Further in the article he references hector Martin saying that people demanding to keep politics out of tech is bullshit because tech is made by humans and anti trans rhetoric is going to kill his colleagues. His response to this:

  “Of course nobody is trying to kill Hector’s colleagues.

  And the vast majority of major corporations – not to mention the President of the country – are continually coming out in support of the Trans fetish. So declaring that there is a genocide occuring is beyond ridiculous.”

  So that didn’t age well (from less than 2 years ago)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #13 (2025)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  akane cover? Fuck yeah

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AniYomi HelpLine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  imo the best source is a locally hosted komga server. Download/purchase manga for hi res copies from places like AB/nyaa/baka/etc, rip scanlations with something like hakuneko or fmd2. Place in a folder, install komga+komf, point it at said folder. Komga scans in manga, komf scrapes metadata from manga updates or MAL. Use the Komga plugin in mihon and your progress is tracked both ways.

  Much higher res most of the time, better translations, faster, more reliable, no ads, no tracking, no downtime unless your shit breaks, consistent across devices, and if you get tired of your library you can still just jump to the mangadex plugin or whatever I guess

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AniYomi HelpLine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can scrape mangadex content completely anonymously there. Who cares if they have a breach. Only suckers make an account there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you guys recommend romance manga?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the full time wife escapist if you want something that’s more about realistic characters while also challenging the patriarchal dominance that so many Japanese romcoms fall into though (mild spoiler, I don’t know how to use the spoiler tag) the ending is a bit unsatisfying on that front. It cheapens it a bit but not enough to ruin what is ultimately a great and often overlooked series

  Also the translation of the title is garbage. The translation of the manga is good but I have no idea why they settled on such a shit title. They also made it a tv drama and translated the title of that to “we married as job”, which fits better, but still isn’t great. The literal translation of the title is “running away is shameful, but useful” which I think ultimately reflects the work best.

  It’s great to read if you’ve felt aimless and disillusioned in your early adulthood (like late twentys/early thirties) as well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Collective buying and building of such a project means that there is not universal standard or regulation and the project falls apart when there is disagreement. Given the scale this is inevitable

  Look at lemmy for example: most servers play nicely but occasionally you get the server like exploding heads that cause the overwhelming majority to defederate

  Amazon has 300 warehouses across the US and another 175 worldwide according to a quick web search. That’s a lot of sites that have to play nice with each other. If even one of them starts having poor practices, doing something offensive, something disruptive, etc. it may cause a lot of the others to not want to work with them. If you have one that is especially shit stirring then it may cause a huge portion of the network to cut ties.

  But unlike lemmy now it’s not just some social media where you jump to a new server. Now companies have their products held hostage. Now people in that region potentially have services significantly disrupted. Now your whole system is undermined and a bezos type can swoop in to prove his is much better and more trustworthy.

  A state controlling it (which would inherently happen with collective ownership if done correctly, a pseudo state would be created given the scale) would introduce regulation and enforcement to ensure consistency in operation. It is then the responsibility of the constituents to hold representatives accountable to ensure regulations and enforcement are meaningful

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  amazons true strength is ultimately in their logistics. Amazon itself isn’t a bad idea in theory but the execution is poor because of cutthroat capitalism exploiting workers and privatization. Ultimately the idea of sellers being able to ship their goods to communal warehouses for fulfillment should be a service that is nationalized. The marketplace can be federated, sure

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if this is a response to someone jailbreaking all kindles ever the other day

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to get/train a carrier pigeon today?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So you definitely can’t go there easily but Gerald Hough is who does a lot of research on the abilities of homing pigeons and is available via email if you had specific questions

  csm.rowan.edu/departments/…/aviancognition.html

  Is his bio and email

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to get/train a carrier pigeon today?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  if you’re really interested in pigeon behavior Rowan university in New Jersey has a pigeon lab for studying avian communication and cognition

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horse goals⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I came here to say there are a lot of youtube videos of horses farting, this being the most notable. It’s nice when youtube shoves stuff like this in my feed instead of right wing garbage

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Aphantasia exist for senses other than vision?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A phantom taste perception is actually a lingering bad taste in your mouth and actually caused by multiple things like schizophrenia, diabetes, bad dental hygiene, head injuries, certain cancers, medications, etc