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- Comment on Why Japan's internet is weirdly designed 6 days ago:
Same reason fax is still a thing you need if you want to do anything official or business related, why PC-98 was a thing, why their smartphones are weird, why they invented the term Galapagos syndrome, or why they use laptops that still have compact disk drives and look like this:
No, really, this is a 2025 model.
Japan innovates early. They innovate fast. And then they sort of… stop.
Technology in Japan looks futuristic for a while, then the rest of the world catches up, but, since Japan has already been there for a decade and made different decisions their technology looks… odd, and then the world carries on, while Japan seems stuck in some kind of retrofuturistic limbo.
Of course this is happening with different innovations at different times and paces, so from an outside perspective Japan is always a weird combination of futuristic, weird old alternate future, and just plain weird.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Monstrous is what it is.
The very concept of earning one’s living, as if we didn’t deserve to be alive without sacrificing said life for the privilege.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 1 week ago:
Steaming seems a bit too extreme… it might damage or peel off the labels, or even damage the discs themselves, depending on the temperature (and I don’t want to see what it’d do to tape!).
Personally I’ve always found a microfiber cloth to be sufficient.
- Comment on Mermaid Diaries 2 weeks ago:
They aren’t as cool, sure, but they’re still covered in chromatophores (and cuttlefish also have ink, so the point still stands anyway).
I just couldn’t find a gif of one using them, so I got one of a cuttlefish. 🤷♂️
- Comment on Mermaid Diaries 2 weeks ago:
Who cares about pens and ink?
Damn things got an HD screen all over their bodies, they don’t need ink to write whatever they want all over themselves…
- Comment on Anon doesn't understand streamer fans 2 weeks ago:
I have limited time, watching certain gaming channels lets me know about games I might be interested in.
Then I can wishlist them, purchase them when they’re on sale, and never find the time to play them.
I also have limited skills. Watching certain gaming channels lets me experience games I wouldn’t be able to progress in if I played them myself.
Also, some are entertaining because of the way the person plays. Watching Jon forget about his damn blunderbuss cavalry until they are again slaughtered to the last man amuses me.
I don’t play for an audience, so I can constantly pause and micromanage the game, and therefore don’t tend to make these amusing mistakes. I’m also not as good as most professionals. Therefore watching certain professionals play certain games can be more entertaining than playing them myself.
Finally, there’s also the reaction factor, same as with film or TV or music reactions. Watching someone experience that surprise or shock for the first time triggers the mirror neuron, and is the closest I can get to experiencing it myself for the first time again.
- Comment on The 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners 2 weeks ago:
OK, the teflon one is monstrous and should get its perpetrators perpetually banned from any position of responsibility, and the drunk bat one depends on whether they force fed the poor critters alcohol or they just ate fermented fruit by themselves, but the rest look like perfectly cromulent science, especially the pasta sauce one… that’s important research, and should get government funding.
- Comment on AI medical tools found to downplay symptoms of women, ethnic minorities 3 weeks ago:
Garbage in, garbage out.
Especially when you shove it into a garbage maker.
- Comment on Kinky 3 weeks ago:
There’s always that one.
Same with close family.
- Comment on tall tails 3 weeks ago:
Smaller dinosaurs might have had fluff, bigger ones probably didn’t, like most big mammals.
Giraffes have hair, though, and woolly mammoths were a thing, so big fluffy dinosaurs might have been a thing, especially in colder climates.
Also, looking at bird behaviour, I wouldn’t be surprised if even mostly bald dinos had some colorful feathers on their arms, tail, or head for displaying…
- Comment on You are stardust. 5 weeks ago:
Most of the atoms you’re made of were born in stars long dead; the rest were born in the big bang.
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 1 month ago:
There are more extreme things, but then that starts being something other than “protest”.
Eh, watch some French protests, especially ones involving French farmers. Spraying manure into government buildings is one of the classics.
As long as you don’t kill anybody (or any pets or livestock), it’s still just a protest.
(And Medialab AI doesn’t seem to have any human employees left, only executives and marketing drones, so no one would get hurt if it got burned down, on the contrary, it’d be a net benefit for humanity).
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 1 month ago:
Thing is, back in those days computers were deterministic.
A certain action caused a certain reaction, and always the same reaction (given the same context).
Anyone could learn that, as long as they bothered to read the screen (a surprisingly rare talent, to be fair).
Now, at least on windows, it’s anyone’s guess what random mayhem a certain action might cause, or where the interface to perform that action has gone after the last update, supposing it still exists and the system survived the update.
No one can learn that. And anyone foolish enough to try will certainly be driven insane.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 1 month ago:
I’m an IT person and I like computers, as long as they’ve never been turned on and they stay that way.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 1 month ago:
Batman is a lunatic occasionally playing rich playboy to finance his crusade against crime, born from untreated trauma.
And most of his villains are just as insane as him.
Gotham is basically a vicious circle of maniacs driving each other further insane.
- Comment on Stop! 1 month ago:
Nice. The good old times…
- Comment on I have tomorrow off :) 1 month ago:
That’s a cyberman, from Star Trek.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 1 month ago:
CA: Brave New World (Order) is about how slavery is okay when the President General does it and loves his daughter or something
What? Ross ended up in jail, and was never portrayed as the good guy…
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 1 month ago:
what Captain America is up to these days. Is he already the poster boy for ICE?
Well, yeah, he basically was, for a while.
(These fascist types tend to identify more with the Punisher, though, despite the fact that he’d be the first to shoot them full of bullets.)
- Comment on 'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court 1 month ago:
If I understand it correctly, they’re arguing that any unauthorized “modification of the computer program” (i.e. the web page) is a copyright violation.
This wouldn’t only affect adblockers… this would affect any browser feature, extension, or user script that modified the page in any way, shape, or form… translators, easy reading modes, CSS modifiers (e.g., dark mode for pages that don’t have it, or anything that improves readability for people with vision problems), probably screen readers…
This would essentially turn web browsers into the HTML equivalent of PDF readers, without any of the customisability that’s been standard for decades…
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 1 month ago:
Favourite of all time?
Wing Commander (2 if I have to pick one, otherwise 1, 2, and secret missions).
Monkey Island (3 if I have to pick one, 1 to 3 otherwise).
Third is difficult, but… Disco Elysium, I guess…?
(What games I’ve spent the most time playing, though…? Definitely Crusader Kings 2 and 3, followed by Stellaris.)
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 1 month ago:
SCSI ain’t weird!
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 1 month ago:
Good flash memory might last a decade, maybe a bit more.
Average flash memory probably won’t.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 1 month ago:
The standard (and tested for decades) answer is tape.
M-Disc might also be an alternative.
- Comment on I should call her. 1 month ago:
DRR… DRR… DRR…
- Comment on Black Holes 2 months ago:
graph function singularities exist as physical features in our world
Do they, though…?
As I (mis?)understand it, as a massive star begins to collapse, getting denser and denser, the gravitational gradient gets steeper and steeper… time (from the perspective of an outside observer) gets slower and slower… to the point that, from our point of view, the full collapse (or maybe even any collapse below the Schwarzschild radius?) hasn’t happened yet, and won’t happen until the extremely distant future, beyond the end of the universe…
So, in that sense, from the point of view of “our world”, no singularities (except possibly the big bang) would ever exist (yet), all of them being censored not only by event horizons, but by being shoved into the perpetually far future, beyond time itself…
And, speaking about event horizons, isn’t the whole “light isn’t fast enough to escape” concept a misinterpretation of sorts…? As I (again mis?)understand it, it’s not a matter of speed, but of geometry… The way space-time is twisted in such a gravitational gradient, once you get past the event horizon there are no longer any directions pointing towards the outside.
Which is another from of cosmic censorship (or a different effect or interpretation of the above), preventing anything inside the event horizon from causally interacting with the outside universe…
So, if these singularities are hidden beyond sight, causally, visually, and geometrically isolated from the rest of the universe, and perpetually shoved into the far future… can they really be said to exist in our world…?
(Of course there’s always the big bang, but we can’t really observe that one, only its effects, and it’s not necessarily exactly what the original post was talking about anyway…)
- Comment on You have one job. 2 months ago:
The right Unix-like OS
It’s always been BSD, it’ll always be BSD.
- Comment on You have one job. 2 months ago:
I believe last time I saw it it was hanging from Donnie’s diaper, like a forgotten strip of toilet paper…
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 2 months ago:
It’s not even selection, though.
We grafted those citruses into existence.
They’re delicious Frankenstein style abominations unto nature.
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 2 months ago:
In the coconut.
