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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft shuts down email account of International Criminal Court chief prosecutor⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If you think you can set up mail infrastructure with on premise everything that is available to your not on premise workers safer than Microsoft, you will be spending a huge amount of money to do so.

  Even if they prefer not to self-host, there are plenty of providers out there that are more trustworthy than Microsoft. In fact, I would say that a medium-sized established company that derives most of its revenue from providing email and related services is likely to secure them better than an oversized tech giant that just does email on the side—they have more incentive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 20]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Shinesman, if you can find it, has an amusingly silly dub that you should be able to follow without paying too much attention to the visuals. They took an already rather silly sentai show parody and just let the English voice actors run away with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 • Kusuriya no Hitorigoto 2nd Season - Episode 18 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, the rear palace’s security is appalling.

  The outer walls do seem to be like swiss cheese even when people aren’t deliberately making holes in them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime General Discussion Thread, Favorite Spring Season OP/ED Edition [2025, Week 19]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is definitely stylish, but I feel like the lore is a little dense for beginners, even if veterans keep telling me it’s fine.

  Speaking as someone whose prior experience with Gundam has been limited to series not part of the main continuity (Wing, part of SEED and I think the first few episodes of X, none of it recently) and a summary or two I read back in the day . . . it is dense enough that I was having a bit of trouble with some terminology that was thrown around in the first episode. The second, ironically, was somewhat easier to follow despite being a lot more lore-steeped, because while it also dumped a fair amount of terminology without proper explanation, it was stuff related to the brief history/political summaries I’d read before, rather than the nuts and bolts of mecha combat. I haven’t gotten to the third ep. yet.

  Overall, I would rate it as more difficult for someone coming in cold to follow than Your Forma, despite the latter having been deliberately decapitated. I suspect that I would have dropped this if I hadn’t had those half-remembered old summaries of the Universal Century to fall back on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MyAnimeList Acquired by Gaudiy Inc.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, those of us who are actually old keep our lists on paper, not on this newfangled Internet thing. 😉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apocalypse Hotel - Episode 5 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, do the tanuki kids not age?

  Ponko’s age came up in the episode where she first starts working and Yachiyo won’t agree to employ her unless she’s old enough. I think she says she’s 58 or something around there, which suggests that the tanuki people age ~8 times slower than humans. Assume 24 years for the whiskey development (9 years of experimentation and yearly tasting to get a decent formula + 15 years of aging to get the bottle Yachiyo serves at the bar when consoling the alien over her(?) breakup) and you get ~3 years of aging for the tanuki, which might not be reflected in their character designs.

  Of course, this assumes that the human forms of the tanuki reflect changes in their biological development instead of being “fixed” forms that they’ve memorized somehow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How much would setting the main registry file to read-only break on Windows 11? Someone may be about to attempt the experiment . . .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are more hoops involved—stuff Windows 10 with your Adobe software in a VM with no Internet connection and you should be okay even after Win10 stops getting security updates—but it isn’t quite impossible for you to migrate everything else and have one or two specific Windows programs too. Granted, you may not have the time and energy to go that route.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it matter to the humans interacting with the LLM whether incorrect information is the result of a bug or an intentional lie? (Keep in mind that the majority of these people are non-technical and don’t understand that All Software Has Bugs.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 18]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then I sort of steeled my resolve and dove into one that I dropped after a couple of episodes about a year ago, because I could see it was going to be a rough ride, and at the time I wasn’t ready to invest as much energy and attention as it was going to demand - Noein: Mou Hitori no Kimi e. I’m about 2/3 of the way through the 24 episode run, and it has been very dense and dramatic, and very good. It’s a sort of Evangelion knock-off insofar as it’s in part a complex and vague science fiction/superpower war allegory on coming of age, but without the religious claptrap - it’s instead all built around quantum physics and multiverse theory. The only real downside to it is that the animation is frankly terrible - an awful combination of cheap fuzzy hand drawn and cheap low poly CGI. But the characters and the story make it worth it.

  In all fairness, Noein is ~20 years old. The animation was pretty much state-of-the-art at the time, and I remember it drawing praise from a couple of the more jaded members of the Usenet anime crowd. It just hasn’t aged as well as some less-ambitious shows of the same era.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 18]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally sorted out what I will and will not be watching this season.

  Dropped:

  • I’m the Evil Lord of a Galactic Empire: Unappealing protag who decides he deserves revenge on everyone in existence because of two people.

  • Shin Samurai-den Yaiba: Although I found the Detective-Conan-mangaka-draws-Dragonball artwork style amusing, the story really didn’t grab me.

  • Dinner-Table Detective: One of the characters really rubbed me the wrong way. .

  Barely made it:

  • Yami Healer: The first episode was really awful with its 10+ minutes of continuous harem fluff (made worse because I had no reason to care about the characters), and if people hadn’t posted here that the second was much better, this would have ended up in the “dropped” bin.

  • Your Forma: Dropping the first story arc from the source material, which would presumably have explained more of the background, really wasn’t the best choice here, but we’ll see where it goes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A List of Social Media Platforms that Still Permit Free-Speech⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude, apparently unlike you, I remember Usenet, which uses precisely the sort of system you’re describing, in its heyday. That means I’ve also seen discussion groups implode because they couldn’t get rid of a single bad actor. Killfiles alone aren’t enough, even when combined with community naming-and-shaming. Someone always lacks self-restraint and engages. That encourages the bad actor(s). They post more, often using multiple sockpuppets to get around people’s killfiles and flood out legitimate discussion. Newcomers to the group see masses of bad actor spam and fail to stick around. The lack of new blood kills the group.

  Self-moderation simply doesn’t work. Yes, bad moderation happens and I’ve seen plenty of examples. But no overarching moderation is also the kiss of death.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman • Katainaka no Ossan, Kensei ni Naru - Episode 4 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m reasonably sure that the gryphon wouldn’t have fit inside the dojo. He would have remembered that. We can also be reasonably sure that (by his own admission) anyone older than him except the smith wasn’t his student either, so not his parents or the adventurer’s guild head. Anyone else, all bets are off, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A List of Social Media Platforms that Still Permit Free-Speech⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone who thinks you can have both absolutely no restraint on speech and an environment that isn’t a cesspit hasn’t seen what humans do in an environment that has absolutely no restraint on speech. Constructive discourse requires that there be someone to moderate and throw out the trolls, the spammers, and that guy who, wherever he goes, preaches about the effect of weather conditions inside the hollow earth on the lizardmen who select US presidential candidates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because modest returns don’t attract investment, so whoever set it up would have to fund the startup out of pocket and never go public or sell the company off. Not quite impossible, but very unlikely (unless the world changes and investors start getting more sensible about profits).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whiplash from bouncing between shows⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The recent Fugukan. One episode of (highly predictable) grimdark followed by (highly predictable) wall-to-wall harem fluff, and even on the rare occasions when it got marginally serious again, it was never on the level of the first episode.

  Pretty bad show, even by the standards of forgettable fantasy light novel adaptations. If you haven’t seen it, don’t bother.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 10 Anime of the Week #2 - Spring 2025 (Anime Corner)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. I thought there were fewer romcoms than usual on this list. Then I went back and checked, and discovered that that’s because there are fewer romcoms than usual airing this season.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Most Printable 3D Printer Yet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All technically true, but how many man-hours would it take to calculate the set of holes necessary to print each layer of a non-trivial object (say, a Benchy) without electronic assistance? I’m sure it could be done, but most people couldn’t do it in a practical timeframe. Taking presliced gcode and translating it via an automatic or even a manual system should be doable, but you still need a computer to slice the model into gcode.

  Jacquard looms are a whole other crottle of greeps. Each warp position gets either raised or lowered, so it’s in essence a binary model rather than full analog—conceptually much simpler than this printer, whose punch language is going to have to include slots for longer motor moves. I’d guess that, in the old days, Jacquard patterns were set up for manual punching by drawing up a diagram (which would look like a piece of black-and-white pixel art) and transferring the information one row at a time to the punch. That doesn’t seem like it would work for this printer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Most Printable 3D Printer Yet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting, but not terribly useful unless you have a separate, likely electronics-driven, machine to punch plastic sheets for it (or have a pre-existing sheet defining something you want to replicate a bazillion of). It’s an ingenious but very niche machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go! Go! Loser Ranger! Season 2 • Sentai Daishikkaku 2nd Season - Episode 2 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully everyone will be too busy with the creepiness here to notice that D has all but blown his cover . . .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman • Katainaka no Ossan, Kensei ni Naru - Episode 3 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t know how long it’s been since Beryl and his father last fought. My bet is that the old man started refusing challenges at least a decade ago, if not more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What % of its GDP does the Netherlands have to put into international aid to make seventh place?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wilding⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe not. Maybe every attempt to tamper with the timeline brought in unforeseen complications that made everything worse, and that’s how we ended up where we are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World's first 3D-texture UV printer for consumers now available for pre-order — prints onto 'nearly any surface'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems like an interesting piece of kit. (Not $1500USD of interesting for me in the current economic climate, though, especially with no indication of Linux support.) Would be nice to know the cost of the consumables beyond the “starter ink bundle”. Would also be nice to know more about how the prints are expected to hold up long-term, and what the “nearly” part of “nearly any surface” implies—are there common substances it won’t print to?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's easier than ever to de-censor videos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or a white box. Or a purple-and-pink gradient box. It was always the most reliable method anyway, since it ensures that there’s no real information within the bounds of the box to be recovered. As far as I can see, the only reason for the popularity of the filters is that they look a bit less jarring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman • Katainaka no Ossan, Kensei ni Naru - Episode 2 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, except the one who’s taken over the dojo, but I doubt we’ll see him very often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If so, it’s a fitting way for them to die.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does that mean it might be possible to trick Musk and company into investing in steak sauce instead of AI? Even if we end up with a whole bunch of unwanted condiments we then have to destroy, that strikes me as a win.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re assuming they’ll ever release you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which Browser Should I Use In 2025? - Hackaday⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people are uncomfortable with it being closed-source. It’s more of a philosophical objection than a criticism of the browser’s functionality.