NonWonderDog [he/him]

I agree as far as the English voice acting goes, but that’s why I played every game in the series in Polish with English subtitles.

Lugaru (2005)

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I’m not sure that holds. The major difference between Linux and BSD is the license: Linux is copyleft, BSD is permissive. FreeBSD actually just completed their decades-long goal to remove all GPL code last month, even, and is now proudly socialism-free. You can now embed all of FreeBSD in your commercial product and modify it at will with no obligations to anyone.

I mean, I don’t really hate it, but it’s hard to see BSD as a safe harbor from corporate meddling in Linux. The Linux situation feels like it’s rather the other way around; corpos who extend Linux are legally bound to make their changes public to be accepted or rejected by the broader Linux community, while Apple has no obligation whatsoever to share any MacOS code with any other BSD distribution.

I guess I’m just not the commune-in-the-woods type.

I think people are missing that Michigan has open primaries and no party registration, and at least in my district you didn’t even have to tell the poll worker if you wanted a Democrat or Republican ballot. The ballot had both the Democrat and Republican candidates on it, and you were only allowed to fill in one column (or it spoiled your ballot).

Most of the republican candidates were running unopposed or effectively so, so there wasn’t much reason for anyone to vote in the Republican column. The Democratic primary polls were of “Democrats,” though, which probably explains most of the discrepancy between the polling and the results.

Hilariously, modern sea mines take this into account, too. Mines can be programmed to ignore the first 10 ships, then have a 10% chance of exploding on any subsequent ship. There’s always a chance that the guy in front of you just got lucky.

A couple overlooked classics:

• Turn A Gundam
  • This is the best Gundam series, without question, but it’s probably better after you’ve seen a couple other Gundams
• Macross Frontier
  • Essentially a more modern retelling of Macross (mecha + idol singers). It’s great. The original Macross is the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen (laudatory), but MacrossF is just a great story.
• ReLIFE
  • The premise is horrifying. The implications are horrifying. The anime never even acknowledges that there could be anything wrong with it. Everything about the premise will turn you away.
  • Watch it anyway. It’s probably the best romance anime ever made.

And some anti-classics:

• Maryuu Senki
  • The epitome of violent over-sexualized 80s OVA trash. It’s horrible. I love it.
• Mad Bull 34
  • Police procedural comedy staring a murderous lecher. One of the most outrageous ever.
• Dominion Tank Police
  • Until this season’s Ghost In The Shell adaptation by Science Saru, the only Shirow Masamune work to get a faithfully silly adaptation

Battle of Algaes

Forgive me but I actually think it’s really cool that it looks like the Delta-Glider from Orbiter.

Other way around. The SM-3 is the anti-ballistic variant.

SM-1 was the swing-arm launch semi-active guided missile.
SM-2 is the vertical launch variant of the SM-1 (still in service).
SM-3 adds a giant boost motor and RCS thrusters for space maneuvering.
SM-4 was a ground-attack SM-2 variant (stupid).
SM-5 was an AWACS-guided SM-2 variant.
SM-6 is an active radar guided version of the SM-2 (it has its own radar, the SM-2 only has a receiver).

All of these are ship-based missiles, so presumably the SM-6 were fired in self defense (but they can be fired over the horizon so there’s room to claim otherwise). The SM-3 would have been fired to intercept ballistic missiles.

If they fired any SM-2 they probably won’t tell us, since those would have definitely been fired in self defense.

If they fired any RIM-7 (SeaSparrow), RIM-162 (Evolved SeaSparrow), or (especially) RIM-116 (Rolling Airframe Missile; half Sidewinder half Stinger) they definitely won’t tell us, because those would have been fired in desperate self defense only. The carriers have these on board.

This is an account with 6 posts, with a name made up of random characters, that posts in Japanese exactly as if they were posting in English and translating it to Japanese with AI.

This applies to basically every Japanese account in this weird little dustup, too.

For real, though, I keep seeing English posts quoting these weirdly plain Japanese posts saying insane things about 海賊飯ユーザー (pirate-version users), and when I see a Japanese post quoting one of these it’s always expressing confusion about the 割れもの (warez) controversy in impenetrable net slang.

At least the rumor at the time was that these things suffered from a physical “virus.”

If you ever put a damaged Zip disk in your drive, it would damage the drive (the click of death). That drive would then damage any Zip disk you put in it, spreading the virus.

To this day I don’t know if that’s actually true, but everyone believed it.

medical facility

Yes we bombed a school, but it was also a hospital!

Why bother with any of that?

If it was about age verification instead of surveillance, it’s all very easy:

1. Require websites to respect a parental controls token sent by the browser. They’re already requiring websites to do age verification, this is much less intrusive.
2. Require browsers to send a parental controls token if set by the parent.
3. Require browsers to use an OS-level parental controls token if set.
4. That’s it. There’s no reason to require that every OS supports OS-level parental controls.

And if a kid happens to buy a laptop out of the back of a car without their parents knowledge specifically to look at porn, why the hell would anyone ever care.

I think they stripped all the emojis.

Possible explanation:

It said 😛😛😛19yo encoded as =D83D=DE1B=D83D=DE1B=D83D=DE1B=␍␊19yo, with =␍␊ added to break the line at 76 chars. Some encoding error in the export replaced ␍␊ with ␊, and =␊1 isn’t a valid QP code. A buggy converter then incorrectly replaced it with =, leaving =9yo.

I haven’t counted the characters to see if this is plausible, but you can play with something like this to see if anything lines up: https://textmagictools.com/tools/quoted-printable-converter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable

It just breaks at 76 characters.

In short, emails still use an old ASCII protocol from the 80s, and old servers used unix tools that read pipes line-by-line.
To avoid emails with long lines slowing down the servers, they break long lines before sending them.
Because it’s ASCII, they use an ASCII control sequence to mark inserted line breaks.
That sequence is =␍␊.
There’s some sequence of screwups in the email export that ended up with last word =␍␊first word getting replaced with last word =irst word instead of last word first word.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BORRBce5TGw

OpenAI bought 40% of all the RAM in the world for the next year.

So I just now understand the name GQuuuuuuX, even after being told it was a placeholder.

https://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/M/metasyntactic-variable.html

This seems to imply that it’s Gundam #8 or 9…

It’s not TOO hard to build a 5- or 8- drive mini-ITX system, and I like my Jonsbo case well enough.

Main issues:

1. mini-ITX server motherboards are expensive (even asrock-rack).
2. mini-ITX server motherboards use OCuLink to connect hard drives. The cables aren’t sold to consumers, and there are two wiring standards for OCuLink-SATA cables that are unmarked (I got lucky on ebay).
3. mini-ITX server motherboards use unbuffered ECC ram in a laptop form factor, which is very specific and again expensive.

So the technical barriers are real.