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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Touring After the Apocalypse • Shuumatsu Touring - Episode 5 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but how? Food isn’t a very efficient energy source if you’re breaking it down by something other than biological methods. They’d get better mileage out of hooking her up to the solar panels along with the bike (or, if whatever hypothetical system she’s using is more efficient than solar, why doesn’t the bike run on it too?). And why would she need to breathe?

  . . . Maybe I’m putting more thought into this than the original mangaka did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Dusk Beyond the End of the World • Towa no Yuugure - Episode 7 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on how plot logic usually works, the logical candidate for an android housing Towasa’s consciousness would be Yugure herself, but the personalities don’t seem to fit. Towasa is shown as a compulsive tinkerer who’s almost too smart for her own good, and Yugure has none of that as far as I can tell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Dusk Beyond the End of the World • Towa no Yuugure - Episode 7 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My bet is that what they’ll end up finding is Towasa’s last message rather than Towasa herself, or if she is alive (in suspended animation or as an uploaded mind in a computer system), she’ll be in no condition to be the MC’s romantic partner. It’s implied she lived at least several decades past the point he was shot, so even in the absolute best case they’d have a considerable age difference to overcome.

  But who knows? Maybe they’ll surprise me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not unless they’re complete boneheads (which, admittedly, is not impossible). If they do that, they effectively lose embed-video-in-external-sites functionality, and that might just be enough for casual video posters to dump the platform en masse and cause their effective monopoly to crumble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How the Web Became Unreadable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No extension—even Netscape 1.0 had most of this stuff built in. I use Pale Moon as a primary browser, but the settings required still exist in modern Firefox, under General > Language and Appearance > Contrast Control and General > Language and Appearance > Fonts > Advanced. Note that although the font labels may say “Serif” etc., Pale Moon at least doesn’t care what you put there—you can set “Serif” to a sans font if you like, or vice-versa.

  Of the Chrome-based browsers I have lying around for work and emergency purposes, Vivaldi has the font settings under Webpage, but doesn’t have full webpage colour settings (although you can force a dark theme, which might be enough). Chromium has the font settings under Appearance > Customize Fonts, but lacks anything that looks like useful colour settings.

  If you’re looking for browser extensions that will restore the colour-forcing functionality for Chrome-based browsers, “Accessibility” is one category to look under.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like what are the drug cops even supposed to do now, arrest Facebook?

  We can only hope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How the Web Became Unreadable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My browser is set to override the colour scheme of all pages I visit. It breaks the odd site that doesn’t know how to present image content correctly, but I consider that an acceptable tradeoff. It also forces a specific font and minimum font size.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Pass the Monster Meat, Milady! • Akujiki Reijou to Kyouketsu Koushaku: Sono Mamono, Watashi ga Oishiku Itadakimasu! - Episode 6 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “I’m dirtier than you.” Oh, dear. Seriously? 🤣

  These two are so cute together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Touring After the Apocalypse • Shuumatsu Touring - Episode 5 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, if Airi is some kind of companion bot, why does she need to both eat and breathe? Her nature is maddeningly ambiguous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Gnosia - Episode 4 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume that whether the looper is gnosia or not in a given loop depends on the events that took place in that timeline before the beginning of the loop . . . so yeah, I expect Yuri will end up being the gnosia sooner or later.

  SQ’s “I’m only a year old” offers some interesting possibilities for the setting (I doubt it’s as simple as her having been brought up sheltered—maybe she’s a clone of some sort?)

  Still five, I think, people in the credits that haven’t shown up yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Shabake - Episode 5 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Something very weird going on with that murder, it seems. Presumably a yokai was involved somehow, but why? And we still don’t know what the notes they keep passing are for, which feels like an artificial attempt at suspense.

  This show really shouldn’t be as entertaining as it is. I think it’s because they went to a lot of trouble to make the slice-of-life/family-drama portions work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Monster Wants to Eat Me Updated Key Visual⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t know at this point whether they’re actually going to go through with the vore or not, but the title is meant to be taken literally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] To Your Eternity Season 3 • Fumetsu no Anata e Season 3 - Episode 5 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And among the enduring questions of the universe . . . who did Bon bribe to get hired as a janitor? 🤣

  And where is the black-robed dude?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The random fans care about the show and want to do the best job they can (although I’ve seen some pretty crappy old fansubs, with broken Engrish and/or outright missing lines, so the best the fans could do wasn’t always necessarily enough).

  The corporations only care about how much profit they can make from the show and thus want to do the cheapest job they can while shoving it in front of as many eyeballs as possible. Most viewers accept it because it’s convenient and they don’t know just how bad the quality is because they have no basis for comparison. Those who do know how bad it is . . . complain on the Internet because they have no leverage to get anything fixed.