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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Beginning After the End • Saikyou no Ousama, Nidome no Jinsei wa Nani wo Suru? - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, there is one other slight difference from your average reincarnation story: they actually tried to depict how it would really, really suck to be an infant with an adult mind . . . but confined to a crib and with no bowel or bladder control. That’s something these stories usually try to gloss over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Winter Anime Season Wrap-Up Discussion [2025, Week 14]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Silly awards time!

  • Best dragon award: From Bureaucrat to Villainess. There was actually a decent amount of competition for this one this time, but cute little dual-elemental dragon won.
  • Originality in hairstyling award: Zenshu, of course. With The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer as runner-up, because that elf with the afro (elfro?) was . . . memorable.
  • Bad CGI horse award: Aparida. Unless I’m confusing it with the very similar Fugukan. The horses in that one episode were memorably bad, but the show itself is not very memorable at all. (And I seem to be using the word “memorable” way too much.)
  • Rub-a-dub-dub award: Beheneko. I am in awe of how they managed to shoehorn a bath scene into every single episode, even if it was taking place entirely in a dungeon. Evidence that this is a show that knows it shouldn’t take itself seriously, I guess.
  • General hygiene award: Possibly the Greatest Alchemist of All Time. I dropped this a couple of episodes in, but was impressed that they directly tackled one of my top-ten reasons for not wanting to be isekai’d into a fantasy world: the flush toilet, or the lack thereof.
  • Cognitive dissonance in costuming award: Ubel Blatt. Sorry, guys, but grimdark + scanty women’s combat outfits that protect nothing has been a combination that won’t fly for at least the past thirty years. Go watch Berserk about a dozen times for some pointers on how to do it right.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 • Kusuriya no Hitorigoto 2nd Season - Episode 12 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, dear, she insulted his frog. Now they’ll never be able to have a proper relationship. 🤣

  (Somehow I knew that she was going to figure out that he was an intact male in that or a very similar way, even before these two episodes. It’s just so . . . Maomao.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hina releases sodium-ion battery solution for commercial cars, able to be fully charged in 25 minutes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Appliances have potentially serious failure modes that don’t involve battery fires. (We had one here a couple of weeks ago, which would have flooded out our basement if I hadn’t been able to cut power to the pump involved.) Being able to cut the power completely and instantly is not negotiable for a lot of appliances. I wasn’t even taking battery fires into consideration when I wrote about failure modes—I was talking about things that already happen to plug-in appliances right now.

  Yes, the added weight and complexity are likely not all that significant here, but they’re sufficient that, even without the power-cutting issues, they outweigh any benefit of attaching a battery to the appliance directly. It’s just not a particularly useful idea when you get pretty much the same benefits with none of the downsides by incorporating the batteries into the building’s power system separately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hina releases sodium-ion battery solution for commercial cars, able to be fully charged in 25 minutes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Adding batteries to a device has one advantage: portability. It also has mutiple disadvantages: batteries add weight, add design complexity, and make it more difficult to fully shut off power in an emergency.

  Major household appliances aren’t portable, and are subject to failure modes where you really do want to cut all the power right now and make sure it stays that way. Thus, the disadvantages of adding batteries directly to an appliance outweigh the advantages.

  A power wall using this new battery tech would be great, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad's Been Reincarnated! • Akuyaku Reijou Tensei Oji-san - Episode 12 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that’s one hell of an unresolved implication about Anna’s and Grace’s mothers to end with. I’m catching a whiff of Unfinished Manga Syndrome here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla is banned from Canada EV rebate program, gov freezes suspicous $43 million in rebates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Quebec always marches to a different drummer. Nevertheless, I expect they will be dropping the Tesla vehicles from their list sooner or later. They may just not want to make any more adjustments so close to a launch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DNA testing firm 23andMe files for bankruptcy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more a matter of crazy than stupid, I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Will it actually allow ordinary users to browse normally, though? Their other stuff breaks in minority browsers. Have they tested this well enough so that it won’t? (I’d bet not.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People say they prefer stories written by humans over AI-generated works, yet new study suggests that’s not quite true⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a large swathe of people who want comfort food entertainment—unchallenging and similar to what they’ve enjoyed watching/reading/listening to before—at least some of the time. It makes sense that LLMs would be good at filling that need, since they can pretty much only generate more of the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 11]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I completed Erased last week.

  I had to dredge around for a while before I realized which series this was (I have it filed in my brain under the more-wordy original title, “Boku dake ga Inai Machi”), and yeah, it’s pretty well-done for what it is. In retrospect, I kind of wonder if Tokyo Revengers doesn’t have a bit of this series in its DNA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their cases - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the letter of the law: media shifting is legal in some places where downloading a copy from an unofficial site is not. Also, there are people out there who would not have the first idea where to look for an existing rip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Github: Nintendo Submit DMCA Notices to Ryujinx Forks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re not at the point where we want to burn every bridge with our southern neighbours . . . yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Github: Nintendo Submit DMCA Notices to Ryujinx Forks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I expect the usual game of whack-a-mole will now ensue, with the main repository moving to a new host or changing its name (or both). People sometimes forget that github isn’t the only game in town. Eventually either Nintendo will get tired or the code will end up on a Russian or obscure-nationality server that ignores DMCA notices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Downtown Doug Brown » The gooey rubber that’s slowly ruining old hard drives⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The white is like staring into the Sun.

  Sad to say that, because of the capitalization, the first thing that came to mind was “Toronto Sun or Vancouver Sun?” I think they both still have paper editions, so they’d be at least white-adjacent . . .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 • Kusuriya no Hitorigoto 2nd Season - Episode 8 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It kills insects and microorganisms (just like it kills almost anything else). So the net effect would be preservative, and it’s still used as such in a few obscure contexts despite its toxicity—the American FDA allows very small quantities as a preservative in eye makeup, for instance.

  Given the mess on the floor of that one room, there may have been a considerable amount of cinnabar (mercury sulfide) pigment present. And liquid mercury was widely used in Chinese alchemy. Plenty of possibly routes for contact, either accidental or intentional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 • Kusuriya no Hitorigoto 2nd Season - Episode 8 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, so . . . non-decaying corpse? My first thought is that there were high quantities of mercury involved, doubly so since it was mentioned earlier in the episode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn a 5-star safety rating in Europe | Euro NCAP will introduce new testing rules in 2026 requiring physical controls for the highest safety score⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My car is 25 years old and never ran anything over.

  That’s in part because your car is 25 years old. Designs have changed over time to increase the sizes of blind spots (as an unintended consequence of things like strengthening the support pillars for the roof to increase rollover survivability).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ron Wyden asks for rules about whether you own your digital purchases⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you should post a new article about copyright reform if that’s the topic you want to discuss, rather than trying to drag it into a discussion on a different topic. This one’s about false advertising of digital leases as purchases, which they are not even by the definition applied to physical copies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ron Wyden asks for rules about whether you own your digital purchases⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are two different types of ownership here, and you’re conflating them.

  One is the ownership of a digital copy on the same terms as a physical copy. That allows you to resell your copy, lend it to a friend . . . stuff that falls under the first-sale doctrine and other actions that are generally accepted as “okay” even if maybe not strictly legal in some jurisdictions. That’s what’s being called out here as not existing for most digital copies.

  The other is the ownership of the copyright and permissions to reproduce additional copies. However, that isn’t what most people expect to get when they’re purchasing a copy of a media work, regardless of whether it’s digital or physical. How IP in general and copyright in particular is handled does really need an overhaul, but that isn’t a problem specific to the digital world—it’s equally applicable to print books, oil paintings, and vinyl records.

  And to be honest, I’d prefer to see “lease” lose its meaning than “buy” go the same way, because apparently we can’t have both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ron Wyden asks for rules about whether you own your digital purchases⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For some things, you can get non-DRM downloadable files, and those you do own. They’re very much the minority, though, and mostly limited to smaller, less-popular shops where they do exist.

  I would very much like a law that says that streaming services and DRM’d downloads are required to use words like “rent” or “lease”, never “buy” or any synonym thereof.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Humane Ai Pin Will Become E-Waste Next Week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So essentially the same business plan as 95% of all tech startups of the past quarter-century.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Removing Jeff Bezos From My Bed ◆ Truffle Security Co.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to move to a timeline where this is part of a bad movie plot, not part of the news.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is wrong with the architecture of the Internet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say that all issues can be traced back to letting people sell stuff on what was designed as a government/educational communications system. We keep on adding patches trying to smother commercially-motivated bad actors who were not an expected part of the original design, but it’s not really much different from playing whack-a-mole.

  (I didn’t read the article, but I imagine it’s Yet Another Idea for some kind of patch, and probably not a very good one, because most of them aren’t.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective • Ameku Takao no Suiri Karte - Episode 7 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, it’s not that bad. Lacking depth and sometimes a bit ridiculous, but it isn’t offensive, the plots are easy to follow even if they’re less than brilliant, and the characterization is consistent. Mediocre, mildly amusing brain candy that I’ll probably have forgotten about altogether by this time next year.

  I’m probably going to stick with it to the end unless it manages to crash and burn in a highly spectacular manner by doing something revolting. So far, it’s just made side excursions into the silly, like delivering a “dramatic” monologue inside a burning building. I can handle that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amidst Flurry Of Anti-DEI Measures, Meta’s Content Moderation Policies Will Harm People With Disabilities.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A snake doing the limbo could not go lower than these people at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective • Ameku Takao no Suiri Karte - Episode 7 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not any further off than it’s been from the beginning, I don’t think. At least, not so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The cause of Sophie’s APD diagnosis is unknown, but her audiologist believes the overuse of noise-cancelling headphones, which Sophie wears for up to five hours a day, could have a part to play.

  Other audiologists agree, saying more research is needed into the potential effects of their prolonged use.

  That looks to me like, “audiologists have no bloody clue where this issue is coming from, and are therefore throwing shit at the wall in the hope that something will stick.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down - Phoronix⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The article isn’t entirely clear. I get the impression that the person in question may have been the sole maintainer for some hardware-agnostic parts of the wireless stack (which I’d expect to only need active development when a new standard gets greenlighted; should be bugfixes the rest of the time), co-maintainer of the drivers for some atheros chipsets, and the general oversight/coordination guy, but there are other developers working on specific drivers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"MIRU: Paths To My Future" Original Anime New Key Visual, PV⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the kid second from the right, beside the space mercenary type, who’s the most jarring—looks like someone plonked a 3D model into the middle of a 2D cel. I think they might have gotten away with the other four if that one wasn’t there.