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- Comment on New trailer for Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown has a rather bald Borg crew member 1 week ago:
Amazing. She’s a great role model.
- Comment on New trailer for Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown has a rather bald Borg crew member 1 week ago:
Ah! Finally! Something where I can look up at the sky and go:
What would Janeway do…?
without people looking at me like I’m a weirdo and that wasn’t what everyone does when faced with difficult questions.
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 2 weeks ago:
What’s a tomato?
- Comment on Chat Control 2.0: what if Signal supports user-made Add-ons, one which encrypts all messages? Could that circumvent Chat Control 2.0? 2 weeks ago:
It’s not about prohibiting e2ee; it’s about enforcing client-side scanning.
Yes, that also breaks e2ee, but they can still go “nooo! E2ee is still perfectly fine and legal! You know, as ling as we get to read anything anyways”
And realistically, this will probably end up being implemented on an OS-level as well. So even using a self-hosted matrix server would not be immune.
Not to mention that both you and your conversation partner needs to take steps to evade this; one party is not sufficient.
- Comment on How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this? 2 weeks ago:
Not OP, but: watched Haruhi a while back in English Dub, because there’s no German one. It was ok. The main POV character’s monotone voice was fitting in a fun way, but almost everyone else still has this fake energy to it (esp Haruhi and Asahina). Really hard to describe.
In general it’s baffling to me how fake English dubs sound, especially because there clearly are a lot of talented English voice actors doing the voices for cartoons etc.
I have the privilege of comparing the English Dubs to the German ones for a lot of shows, and it’s really interesting how, while the German VAs sound distinctly different from the Japanese originals, they sound natural and not overacted, while the English counterparts almost always sound like they were told “make it sound as fake as possible”.
- Comment on How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this? 2 weeks ago:
What this lovely person said.
Also, and maybe I am alone here, but when I said learning to write, I really meant with a pen, on paper (or a tablet, I guess), not through an app where you need to smush your fingers in approximately the right place for the line to snap to the correct position; that does not really translate to being able to write.
- Comment on How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this? 2 weeks ago:
Me and my GF are currently doing this. Some recommendations from personal experience:
- Pimsleur is really nice for getting from 0 to being able to speak and understand some amount. It’s very much less overwhelming than jumping head-first into grammar. You can find torrents for it. It’s also a really good way to learn to listen to and speak Japanese out loud, something most other resources lack.
- everyone recommends Genki, and I concurr; it’s a good book series on grammar, with plenty exercises. Will really help filling in the gaps where you have gotten a feeling for things with Pimsleur, but are not able to grasp the underlying concepts intuitively.
- don’t shy away from Hiragana and Katakana. They are easy to learn (seriously, spend an afternoon on each and then do kana.pro for a week and never look back). Ignoring this will prevent you from using most learning resources.
- use Anki; again, everyone says this, because it’s true. You can download a pre-made pack for Genki. 10-15 cards a day are a good leisurely pace, allowing you to tackle a new chapter in Genki approximately every 7-10 days.
- don’t fall in the rabbithole of watching YouTube videos on learning Japanese. Just study instead. If there’s a concrete thing you struggle with, look for a Video on that topic. Most of the geberal advice videos seem to come from English-speaking folks for whom Japanese is their first foreign language (which is great! Don’t get me wrong!), and the resulting information ranges from obvious to questionable.
- decide if you want to learn Kanji (if you don’t know them anyways, given your stated experience). I’d recommend it. It’s actually quite fun, and if you want to watch Anime in Japanese, there’s a good chance you’ll have to use Japanese subs for a while to help along anyways…
- most people online seem to suggest only learning to read Kanji, because “you never need to handwrite things today anyways”. I call bullshit. It’s marginal additional effort, can actually help you with recognition, and if you ever end up needing / wanting to write by hand, you’d have to start all over otherwise.
Lastly, no, it is not a waste of time. Apart from anime, a new language means new ways of thinking, of challenging yourself, of being able to experience people and culture through a new lense, and potentially increasing job opportunities.
Plus if you ever end up visiting Japan, it really comes in handy.
Feel free to ask any followup things that I’ve forgotten about…
- Comment on I can't find a single decent bedtime story online. 90% of the articles are AI slop. 3 weeks ago:
Do not
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on oh cool 4 weeks ago:
ALright, thanks for the recommendation :) And yeah, “weird” and “metal” are good descriptions. Additionally, the backstory we got in S1 was definitely “fire”.
- Comment on oh cool 4 weeks ago:
I liked the first 80% of the first season, and stopped watching halfway into S02E01. Is it worth continuing? Do we get any answers? Are they satisfying?
- Comment on society 1 month ago:
I miss the Be Like Bill memes
- Comment on Post your homescreen 2 months ago:
Hey, thanks! It’s a photo I took almost a decode ago in New Zealand. Here’s a link.
I also have a second “swipe” to the homescreen, but I make a point to keep apps installed to a minimum, and everything else is not used commonly enough to justify a place on the homescreen. 95% of my app opens are probably Firefox, haha.
- Comment on Post your homescreen 2 months ago:
I kinda like it, but fuck Xiaomi for disabling gestures unless you iss their launcher.
Used Kvaesitso previously.
- Comment on Remember to 2FA your kidneys. 2 months ago:
Would passkeys solve your grievances for you?
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 2 months ago:
- Comment on Grow a Garden Calculator 2 months ago:
Well… In my case it would be “calculate how much loss you’ve been making by growing your own veggies!”, lol.
(Container gardening and watering add up, but I am not complaining, I am not doing this to save/earn money)
- Comment on Grow a Garden Calculator 2 months ago:
I was SO confused until I checked the community.
Thought this was about literal, real-world vegatable gardens as a hobby.
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 2 months ago:
Make sure you choose a proper open source one, else the app might collect data as well…
- Comment on Everything is a problem 2 months ago:
No, even QR I can only accept as an option, as in completely optionally. I’m out and about without a phone quite frequently.
- Comment on Are password managers secure to use? 3 months ago:
Can’t believe noone mentioned this yet:
Any good password manager encrypts and decrypts your password file client side. The server should not even have the ability to read your passwords.
Even in the case of a leak of all of the server’s data, as long as your password for the manager was good, you’ve got nothing to worry about.
I’d say pick a PW manager where both client and server are open source. Pick a strong passphrase. Enjoy.
- Comment on Dik Piks 3 months ago:
There so much misogyny oozing out of your comment, I think I’ll go disinfect my screen now.
Hope your friend gets convicted for sending unsolicited explicit content 👍
- Comment on We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud. 3 months ago:
Hans Wurst
- Comment on Enjoy 3 months ago:
I graduated with my Master’s 4 months ago.
I HAVENT PLAYED A SINGLE GAME SINCE, WHAT THE FUCK
- Comment on Nudify app’s plan to dominate deepfake porn hinges on Reddit, docs show 3 months ago:
Yeah but they can at least buy their bullshit, i.e. “we help gut overspending and Make America Great Again”. What’s the supposed mission here? “We help you fap to people that don’t want to he fapped to”?
- Comment on Nudify app’s plan to dominate deepfake porn hinges on Reddit, docs show 3 months ago:
Oh god I had not even thought about the last part.
Their staff is either 100% male, or a disaster waiting to happen. Probably both. I would not feel safe there that’s for sure.
- Comment on Nudify app’s plan to dominate deepfake porn hinges on Reddit, docs show 3 months ago:
the Wernher von Braun club
LMAO. Except even dumber, they’re the von Brauns of the “fake illegal nude” world
- Comment on Nudify app’s plan to dominate deepfake porn hinges on Reddit, docs show 3 months ago:
For some people, definitely. But finding an entire startup worth of those people is (IMO) more difficult/unlikely than at least some of those starting there and talking themselves into not feeling guilty (if not for us, someone else would do it; we are not being as terrible as those others would be; it’s a tool, it’s not our fault people are applying it to minors etc.!; …)
- Comment on Nudify app’s plan to dominate deepfake porn hinges on Reddit, docs show 3 months ago:
I can not imagine the mental gymnastics of people working for Clothoff
- Comment on Mood. 3 months ago:
Just use git… One of the huge advantages of latex over docx is its easy diffability
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