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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creative workers on the affects of AI on their jobs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To be exact, there is a noun “affect” whose plural would presumably be “affects”, but it’s a term of art in psychology and absolutely not the word that is wanted here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 50]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Next up was one that I noticed back when it was first shown, but had since forgotten about and just happened to stumble across a couple of weeks ago - Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka? I thoroughly enjoyed it and especially liked the way they expanded such a simple concept into such an enormous and convoluted plot, but that enormous and convoluted plot was, as I began to suspect about halfway through, sort of a problem. It’s one of those light novel series adaptations that takes the route of telling its story in detail rather than condensing it, and that meant that it didn’t really manage to finish anything before it ran out of episodes. It even ended on multiple cliffhangers. I’m tempted to read the LN, just because I really did like the story and the worldbuilding, but unfortunately it’s probably more likely that I’ll just forget about it again.

  I’ve read part of it—not to the end, but well past the point that the anime got to. It just gets more convoluted, and the focus shifts away from Everyone’s Favourite Spider to a more ensemble-y situation, or at least that was my impression at the time. (We do find out why she ended up as a spider, specifically, though—it wasn’t random.)

  spoiler

  It’s been a while, but I think this was the story where a bunch of the characters were fighting an elf in a mecha at the point I left off, if that gives you some idea of the level of insanity involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon’s AI ‘Banana Fish’ Dubs Are Hilariously, Inexcusably Bad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If Bing’s database isn’t good enough for you, Startpage supposedly uses Google’s database and doesn’t shoehorn AI into the results. You’ll want an adblocker, though. (My usual order of query is Duckduckgo, then Startpage, then Mojeek if the other two didn’t find anything useful.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The “O” word, actually: oligarchs (or their relatives or best buddies). Chances are that at least some of them are under sanction in more civilized countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] SANDA - Episode 9 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuyumura’s “what the heck are you going on about? What’s wrong with you? Give me back my friend!” experience is one regrettably familiar to many aro-aces. 🫤

  And apparently, if there’s such a thing as Evil!Santa, he dresses like he works for the Mafia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt most owners of recent-model luxury-brand cars in Russia are average joes for which this is their only transport. I therefore find my sympathy to be somewhat limited.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Dusk Beyond the End of the World • Towa no Yuugure - Episode 10 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So I guess the “real” Akira was the guy standing beside Towasa in the flashback . . . The question now is “why?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework stops selling separate DDR5 RAM modules to fight scalpers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t think the horse was still intact enough that you could find any hide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dead mosquito proboscis used for high-resolution 3D printing nozzle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh. I hope that there being a use for the little bastards now doesn’t make people breed them on purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] A Gatherer's Adventure in Isekai • Sozai Saishuka no Isekai Ryokouki - Episode 9 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  . . . I’m now wondering whether Brolite’s shadow’s personal hygiene would be just as bad as hers, or the exact opposite. 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Python and Ruby have both had various repo issues too.

  I’ve never heard of anything similar with Perl, but that may partly be because applications for new developers who want to join CPAN still appear to be processed by humans, with up to a couple of weeks lag. The time inefficiency plus the language being less popular probably makes it an unattractive target.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Gnosia - Episode 7 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, all characters have now been introduced, and there were no new game mechanics (unless you count the thing with the doors, which might or might not be significant), although we’ve confirmed that it may be possible for the ship’s computer system itself to be a gnosia infectee. We’re also at the halfway point for this series.

  At this point, I see two ways the second half could go. One is to continue placing more emphasis on the characters and less on the werewolf-game-logic-battle material (that may be what Yuri’s flameout in the previous episode was supposed to foreshadow). The other possibility would be to make the remaining episodes a single loop or a set of loops that are somehow interconnected, with an external adversary (the computer, or the creator of the timeloop gear, or some kind of gnosia leader). Or I might be completely off-base, but I don’t see how they can keep the whole thing from falling apart without doing one of those or the other. Maybe they’ll surprise me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux laptop cancelled due to performance concerns — Linux PC maker says Qualcomm CPU is ‘less suitable for Linux than expected’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s nothing wrong with ARM. Qualcomm, on the other hand . . .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Dusk Beyond the End of the World • Towa no Yuugure - Episode 9 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, at least it’s now been indicated that all the other-people’s-relationship-issues stuff may not be completely irrelevant to how the world fell apart. Not quite sure where they’re trying to go with this anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A quick search shows that squirrels have quite good vision at short to medium distances (up to ~10m) during daylight, with a wide field of view (common in prey animals) and excellent depth perception. Their colour vision isn’t up to human standards, however, and their night vision isn’t that great. So yeah, they’d have a clear concept of the distance and direction to the next tree branch or a nearby cat as long as the light was good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the worst case? On ebay, as a “For parts/not working” model with a reasonably intact exterior. Might take a bit of patience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, it’s an extinct genus of land snail. Really. Wikipedia told me so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Re:Zero: Starting Life in Another World Season 4 - New Key Visual⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  livechart.me has it under “Spring 2026”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] A Gatherer's Adventure in Isekai • Sozai Saishuka no Isekai Ryokouki - Episode 8 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, Takeru, but you’re not even the first person to have had a god(dess) join your isekai adventuring party. You and the MC from Konosuba can form a club, though, if you can stand to spend time with him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t just annoying, it often breaks for people on less-popular browsers. Plus, it requires you to run Cloudflare’s Javascript. You think this outage was bad—what do you think would happen if someone slipped them a bit of malware?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Gnosia - Episode 6 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, now that the dolphin has appeared, there should be only two more characters to introduce (assuming that all characters are present in the credits). If that’s the case, and they’re introduced together, we’re most likely due two more iterations, and the last few episodes might settle down after that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Dusk Beyond the End of the World • Towa no Yuugure - Episode 8 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What did those poor books do to deserve being assaulted by a crazed dominatrix who doesn’t seem to grasp the concept of “consent”‽ 🤦

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waymo says its self-driving taxis will take customers on freeways for the first time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Conditions on freeways are usually more controlled than conditions on surface-level roads, and Waymo’s accident record isn’t bad, unlike Tesla’s. I suspect that this isn’t going to generate any post-debut news stories of much significance. (If something bad and avoidable does happen, though, Waymo is 100% accountable—no handwaving it away.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Touring After the Apocalypse • Shuumatsu Touring - Episode 6 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a lot of rats. I’m surprised there’s enough food—they should have emptied most of the human-created storage by now.

  Fire safety tip that our MCs apparently need: Don’t build a campfire on a wooden floor if you can avoid it. Even if it’s well-saturated with water, it’ll eventually dry out and start to smoulder.

  So there was still liquid fuel (diesel?) in that one bus. That supports my theory that it hasn’t been that long since the apocalypse—decades, and probably not very many of them, rather than centuries. I wonder if the glass-bottled soft drinks in those vending machines would still have been drinkable if they could have gotten them out? (Canned maybe less so, but glass is pretty inert and shouldn’t have reacted with the contents, although I’m sure anything carbonated would have gone flat.)

  And it seems that there’s something a bit hinky even with the non-robotic MC. Maybe this is like Coppelion, and the reason they’re all alone on the surface involves bioengineering to resist radiation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Servo: A new, independent Web Browser Engine (the core of a web browser) written in Rust.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As with all the other alternative browser-related projects, I wish them luck. It isn’t easy just keeping pace with the details of current standards documents for rendering webpages—climbing up from zero (even if they’ve already made considerable progress) has got to be even more difficult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox 145.0⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For what it’s worth, Pale Moon can still be built for 32-bit Linux ( fish through contributed builds, or build your own). Sufficient for many, many sites, although a few will break or require workarounds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artificial Intelligence Wants to Sell You Stuff While the World Burns⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Artificial Intelligence” doesn’t actually want anything. It has no agency. Meta/Facebook wants to sell you stuff while the world burns, but that’s nothing new.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Shabake - Episode 6 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, so next episode we’ll finally get to find out what those notes are about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Camera Capabilities Unlocked From A Mouse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can’t, it’s probably because no one’s tried yet. (30x30 display’s pretty small, though, so I don’t know how playable it would be.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] To Your Eternity Season 3 • Fumetsu no Anata e Season 3 - Episode 6 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fushi really should stick to birds and mammals. He seems far more likely to get in trouble when he switches to a form with a less-developed nervous system. 🤣

  I wonder if those eggs are actually going to hatch, and if so, into what? Are they biologically identical to the eggs of the turtle he copied?