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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] What is your best BL anime?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an enduring soft spot for Antique Bakery, although more the manga than the anime. (Isekai Office Worker is probably better, though.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chemists thought phosphorus had shown all its cards—until it surprised them with a new move⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Only in the US. Other countries will be able to push the prices down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it do anything that isn’t in response to a human’s prompting? No? Then it can’t be conscious. Consciousness requires having a sense of self, which implies having needs and desires that one acts to fulfill without needing prompting. Even a bacterium is more conscious than these things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Connected cars can be hacked, research finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is anyone actually surprised by this? It’s one of those things that any semi-competent programmer could have told you would be the case. The study just formalizes it and adds specifics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Fate/strange Fake - Episode 8 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And they just randomly dropped Caster’s name in the middle of all that . . .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thing is, that means you don’t really own the hardware that you buy, because a corporation is dictating what you can do with it even though it doesn’t belong to them. Most of us consider that unacceptable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty noticeable that Gentoo Linux doesn’t offer an option to compile OnlyOffice locally—it’s only available as a -bin package, which means that it’s precompiled by upstream. That tells me that either the available source is too incomplete to actually compile the software from, or it has some really strange licensing. Either way, it can’t be open-source software in the accepted sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The chain of trust starts with the owner of the hardware, not some random corporation that happens to make an OS. The owner can, if they wish, outsource the root of the chain of trust to a corporation, but that should be an active decision on their part, not something that happens just because the hardware was shipped with some random OS preloaded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  . . . And then the market will be flooded with RAM that companies preordered and can’t pay for, because the AI bubble burst before it could be manufactured.

  Hey, I can dream, right? And seriously, I would be quite happy if this causes an increase in dumb appliances, devices, and cars in the meanwhile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China’s dancing robots: how worried should we be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How concerned should I be when the documentation for complex devices coming out of China always seems to be so bad that no one except the people who designed them can program them anyway?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 08]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Then the latest (and apparently last) episode of Gnosia,

  We’re not actually sure about that. The nature of the show is such that it might easily be another fakeout. Currently, livechart is claiming there will be another episode, but has no airdate for it. It’s hard to tell exactly what’s going on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 20 Darkest Anime Series of All Time, Ranked⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ergo Proxy is dark? Darker than, oh, Mahou Shoujo Site, Deadman Wonderland, Ajin, Promised Neverland, or any of a couple of dozen others? Someone needs to watch more anime.

  Now and Then, Here and There, on the other hand, deserves to be at the top of the list. That thing is brutal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why all Animes are made in Japan?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically those are donghua, not anime, though. Similar in style, different origin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Gnosia - Episode 18 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmm. Livechart indicates that there will be an episode 19, but doesn’t have an air date. Maybe we’re in for a week’s hiatus?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Telemedicine: better than nothing, already used a fair amount in the more inaccessible parts of Canada (ideally in combination with a nursing station so there’s someone with some training available to do things that absolutely need hands on location).

  AI medicine: likely worse than nothing, some people are going to get killed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They do make hardware in most of those categories, actually, but they don’t sell much of it direct to consumer in the West. And unfortunately, the way things are going, they’re going to be able to get better prices for it from the AI-entranced idiots too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What dating apps are really optimizing. Hint: it isn’t love⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re really optimizing for the income of the people who make the apps. No surprise there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Free Tool Says it Can Bypass Discord's Age Verification Check With a 3D Model⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And thus begins the three-legged race between imaged-based age verification and kids. (Prediction: the kids will win, but it will take the other side a looooong time to admit it.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is browser preference a personality flaw? AI job interview evaluation raises questions— AI said applicant's 'habitual' Chrome use could indicate a 'lack of adaptability' after screening interview⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs need to have the same warnings attached as the old psychic hotlines: “Must be 18. For entertainment only.”

  That being said, I’m not sure that this is any more ridiculous than an ad asking for ten years’ experience with a piece of software that’s only existed for three. HR departments have never had much contact with reality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Kaya-chan Isn't Scary • Kaya-chan wa Kowakunai - Episode 5 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So it’s now been confirmed that there is something really wrong with Kaya-chan herself, not just with the unborn baby.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With the LLM pushers driving hardware prices through the roof, will any of us be able to afford these?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Happened To WebAssembly⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Speaking based on my own PC in that era: it had 512MB RAM and the video card was capable of running FFVII PC version with hardware drivers, so there was some very modest and primitive 3D capability buried in there somewhere. I believe the CPU was a ~500 MHz P3, so I’ll grant you that one, and the one about RAM speed. Well, I did only claim they were “somewhat similar”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wi-Fi 7 Marketing is Lying About it's Biggest Feature⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wi-Fi 7 Marketing is Lying ~About it’s Biggest Feature~

  Truth in advertising is pretty much nonexistent these days. Assume they’re lying until proven otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Happened To WebAssembly⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except that it isn’t really the first iteration of any of those things. Java did most of 'em more than a quarter century ago: browser-embedable, multiple languages could target the JVM, and, yes, sandboxed—the only issue was startup (not runtime) performance. That wasm doesn’t share those startup performance woes makes it useful, but not revolutionary.

  As for tiny environments, a typical desktop system from around 1999 is somewhat similar to a Pi Zero W in terms of ability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Gnosia - Episode 16 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My question now is, how thoroughly does one of the Yuris have to be destroyed in order to prevent the universe from collapsing? Is erasure-by-gnosia the only acceptable method, or would it be sufficient, say, for bug-Yuri to throw themself into a sun before real-Yuri wakes from the healing pod?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It almost became my Christmas rewatch this year, but in the end I decided I needed something with a stronger adventure/action vibe to distract me from the world we’re now living in. 🫤

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. It’s pretty much a half-assed attempt to grab onto the coattails of the much better Madoka Magica.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in The Real World, Too” | Special Key Visual⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s just a one-shot special, set to air a couple of months from now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 06]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trigun Stargaze - still more or less following the original story, so now we’re moving into Legato and the Gung-ho Guns (though I don’t think that name has been used for them, and I assume at least the cheesier ones from the original aren’t going to appear in this more serious reboot).

  Most of the Gung-Ho Guns in the first anime were taken from the Trigun Maximum manga (the exceptions were Caine the Longshot, who was a pure anime-original, and Chapel the Evergreen, who had been mentioned but not depicted in the manga at the time, so the anime team created their own character design). So the rest of them—Midvalley, Zazie, and so on—may well show up in the rebooted anime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At that point, you’ve put multiple man-hours into analyzing the response required to placate it, and it isn’t a “cheap” device anymore. Easier to return it.