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- Comment on Github: Nintendo Submit DMCA Notices to Ryujinx Forks 1 day 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 1 day 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 2 days 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 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
- Comment on Shangri-La Frontier Season 2 • Shangri-La Frontier 2nd Season - Episode 19 discussion 2 weeks ago:
And appropriately, everything that already lives there is out to kill him. 🤣
- Comment on I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons • Kisaki Kyouiku kara Nigetai Watashi - Episode 7 discussion 2 weeks ago:
It’s trash. Stockholm Syndrome disguised as romcom, pretty much. See previous episode discussions.
- Comment on The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 • Kusuriya no Hitorigoto 2nd Season - Episode 6 discussion 2 weeks ago:
I believe it’s brother legally, son biologically.
- Comment on In psychotherapists vs. ChatGPT showdown, the latter wins, new study finds 2 weeks ago:
Did they compete on providing actual therapy? No? Then this is meaningless.
- Comment on Google's AI made up a fake cheese fact that wound up in an ad for Google's AI, perfectly highlighting why relying on AI is a bad idea 3 weeks ago:
It’s an obsolete usage of “beg” that’s now preserved only in that particular set phrase. One of English’s many linguistic fossils, which you should learn more about before trying to critique anyone’s language use.
- Comment on Sri Lanka goes bananas after monkey unplugs nation 3 weeks ago:
The newsworthy parts of this:
- It was a monkey and not a squirrel.
- It took down the entire grid and not just a section of it, because poorly-designed and -maintained grid.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 07] 3 weeks ago:
The thing to keep in mind about 86 is that it’s a very grimdark kind of show (themes of racism, lots of character death). It’s a good show and worth trying, but if grimdark isn’t your thing, don’t be surprised if you bounce.
Hmm . . . so what else has no one recommended yet that’s worth trying. Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet, of course. You might find the earlier installments in the Aquarion franchise (Genesis of Aquarion, Aquarion EVOL, and Aquarion Logos) somewhat amusing—they’re more on the silly side, but so are some of the shows you listed (the first series especially has some very silly-weird stuff, like the episode where the characters are cosplaying each other).
Older shows that you haven’t mentioned and might be worth looking at would include Patlabor and Escaflowne.
And as someone has already said, do finish Gurren Lagann—it’s worth it.
- Comment on Übel Blatt - Episode 5 discussion 3 weeks ago:
Oh, come now. Surely he did the traditional split-the-water-with-a-sword thing . . . while somehow keeping their mount from being hit in the face with it . . .
Okay, I give up.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 3 weeks ago:
It’s useful because it’s ubiquitous. Everything that can take in music files supports it.
Is MP3-encoded audio of the best possible quality? No, of course not. But for most people it’s Good Enough, especially if you do most of your listening in a noisy environment. MP3s are to lossless formats what CD was to vinyl for so many years.
- Comment on Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective • Ameku Takao no Suiri Karte - Episode 6 discussion 3 weeks ago:
Good thing the fire took that into account and didn’t spread to the wooden floor.
Not quite as unrealistic as it seems, maybe—fires tend to burn upward when they can. I would have been more worried about the ceiling catching than the non-gasoline-soaked parts of the floor. But yeah, really dumb and stupidly risky overall.
- Comment on Top 10 Anime of the Week #05 - Winter 2025 (Anime Corner) 3 weeks ago:
The first six items on the list are things that I’m actually watching. Did I drop into an alternate timeline when I wasn’t paying attention? 😲
- Comment on 'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' * TorrentFreak 3 weeks ago:
They might end up having to pay more money than exists on the planet at that rate.