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e0qdk

@ e0qdk @reddthat.com

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Interests: programming, video games, anime, music composition

I used to be on kbin as e0qdk@kbin.social before it broke down.

  • Crunchyroll CEO Responds to Calls To Pay Japanese Anime Companies More Money for Overseas Distribution

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  • "The easiest way to stop piracy... is to give those people a service that's better than what they’re receiving from the pirates." -Gabe Newell

    Yep -- although even there, I have 5x as many games on GOG as Steam because they're mine and I don't have to worry about dealing with forced updates ever. That was a BIG deal for me when I had crappy internet access -- a single game's forced update could tank my entire month's quota... I still get nervous putting Steam in online mode to this day even though I don't have to deal with that shit any more.

    Disagree with you on the BD issue, though. Much more capacity, higher quality video and audio, and drives are dirt cheap. I have a BDROM in an external enclosure, and it handles DVD and BD perfectly.

    My complaint there's about Blu-Ray's DRM. Better quality video means nothing to me if I can't actually get the damned thing to even play.

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  • Whilst I agree, there's (currently) nothing stopping you from buying the DVDs?

    I have a ridiculous number of DVDs. (Blu-Ray on the other hand can fuck off and die.) A ton of content is just not practically available as DVDs.

    Checking Amazon just now for some stuff that was absolutely impossible to find at all a few years ago when I was looking for it, there seem to be non-US releases now (e.g. region 2, region 4...) for some of them at not insane prices. Others want $300 for "only 1 in stock" from a nonsense bot account with a last purchase comment from ~2015... i.e. they probably aren't real listings even if I was willing to pay that insane amount. A few others look like they might be commercial pirate offerings with only subsets of episodes and strange packaging. (I might just be OOTL on some marketing gimmick with those though.)

    Honestly, I've largely given up on anime since COVID hit. I still like the art, but I don't really watch new shows any more. The inability to get legit copies in a timely fashion is the main reason why. The shift to Blu-Ray really alienated me. Yes, I can work around its bullshit up a point. No, I am not going to pay ~$60 for half a show from years ago and then have to do quasi-illegal shit just to get it to maybe play on my computer -- without menus. Fuck that.

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  • I really wish someone would just set up "GOG for anime seasons" and let me buy and download MP4 files (or whatever) so I can have an offline collection legally.

  • Is there a Lemmy server/way that doesn't require allowing javascript of a million other servers?

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  • I don't know what anyone else intends to do, but if I can fix the issues I'm currently looking at -- and no one else has stepped up in the interim -- I'll at least take a look at the 1.0 stuff. (I use mlmym and would like it to keep working...)

  • Is there a Lemmy server/way that doesn't require allowing javascript of a million other servers?

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  • the thumbnails now are even more clearly 4-pixel potatoes

    pictrs's thumbnail parameter uses dumb raw pixel sampling -- which leaves something to be desired... It has other sampling options implemented (with resize, according to the docs), but they don't seem to accessible on my instance. You can remove thumbnail=96 if you want to get the image without that thumbnail sampling, at least.

    make everything zoom 150%

    I do this with my browser's UI (ctrl-plus keyboard shortcut in FF-based browsers works for me).

    e.g. right side bar

    [...document.querySelectorAll(".side")].forEach(sidebar => sidebar.remove())

    You could also just adblock the element with class side.

  • Is there a Lemmy server/way that doesn't require allowing javascript of a million other servers?

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  • someone forks and maintains it.

    MrKaplan already forked it and is keeping it on life support for lemmy.world. I've been trying to make enough sense of it to fix several issues that have been bugging me for a while, and will contribute my fixes there if I can figure them out.

    I've only got a few hours each weekend where I have good concentration + enough free time to work on it, and don't know the relevant languages (Go, Rust, TypeScript), so my progress is pretty slow... but I'm still poking at it.

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  • Voting

    You could support this by making vote buttons submit a form if JS isn't enabled. (That's what mlmym does.)

    Can't manually switch between dark and light mode

    Hmm... There are some pretty nifty things you can do with a hidden checkbox, label, and some clever CSS (e.g. html:has(#element:checked) + CSS variables -- though FYI :has is baseline 2023.)

    Making it persistent would require some more effort -- e.g. form + cookies + server side style sheet selection, most likely. mlmym lets users change their theme w/o JS by submiting a form on the setting page. I'd have to think a bit if there's a good way to make it persistent across multiple requests for logged out users with a CDN caching things in between though...

    only automatically based on browser settings

    Doesn't actually work for me in a FF138-based browser w/ JS blocked via NoScript -- I always get light mode despite having a dark mode preference set. (Where do you have your prefers-color-scheme media query?)

    Also, FYI I had to manually override font restriction -- otherwise all your buttons end up as tofu characters. (I think NoScript is being kind of unreasonably strict there by blocking first party fonts.) That's a papercut kind of issue, but figured I'd point it out in case it might save you some debugging time if you get confused NoScript users in the future.

  • New Device Mounts to Your Toilet to Analyze Your Turds Using the Power of AI

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  • Recomend me some slive of life anime like K-On! but without the musical band stuff

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  • Yuyushiki, maybe? It's slice-of-life with three girls in a computer club instead of a music club. I liked K-On's humor more, but I remember thinking they were similar when I watched it a long time ago.

  • What to use leftover flavoured pork fat for?

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  • You can just use the rendered fat as a cooking fat for anything that pairs with the spices you infused it with.

    Fried rice might be nice!

  • Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 20]

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  • Trying to decide if I want to stick this out to find out what all the fuss is about or not.

    I don't know if you'll enjoy the ride overall, but the show's a roller coaster with a long hill climb. It picks up later.

  • Usernames using randomized nonsense

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  • I picked an RNG name since my old common username (from reddit, etc) was not available when I started on kbin.social (RIP) and I couldn't think of anything else I wanted to be called. I deliberately kept it short though. Not sure what to make of other RNG names -- esp. long unintelligible ones -- but I've seen at least one account that I think is legit which has a long, bizarre RNG-looking username and a non-English display name, so 🤷️

  • What reading somewhat can OCR East Asian languages then easily allow me to check dictionary for words?

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  • You can use tesseract -l jpn input.png - on the command line to have it print out the text from input.png into the console if you've got the language files for Japanese installed. (There's also language files for vertical text and a few others for script in my package manager.) Alternatively give the filename (w/o extension) instead of - to write the output into a .txt file.

    On Mint, I think I did sudo apt install tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-jpn to get it working for the simple case of horizontal text; been a while though.

  • Is there any practical use for pine cones?

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  • The seeds from some kinds of pine are edible. e.g. pine nuts are used as an ingredient in pesto.

  • Notes about "go: RLock go.mod: no locks available" and similar errors

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  • I've tried so many... so... many network filesystems. They all suck in some way.

    Definitely agree with you on that! Distributed systems are just fundamentally challenging. Network filesystems try to hide some of that complexity, but it inevitably leaks through in one way or another...

    I deal with Ceph at work. Thankfully I'm not the one in charge of its configuration, but I've seen enough of the headaches the admin had to go through to get it working right... Once we got it though, it's been working pretty damned well -- but you basically need a full-time sysadmin (or will become one yourself...) when you're dealing with the kind of scale we've got. (My home needs are not quite as insane though; mere dozens of TB instead of a dozen or so PB...)

    SeaweedFS is another I've got in the back of my mind if I ever outgrown my NAS, but I haven't worked with it personally.

  • Notes about "go: RLock go.mod: no locks available" and similar errors

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  • I've got a similar length of experience and plenty of my own horror stories about NFS... but yeah, it's the most effective way to get what I need done at the moment. (When I outgrow my current setup though I'll wrestle the tentacle monster and replace it with Ceph... probably.)

  • ELI5 for Firefox : Difference between sandbox / site isolation / total cookie protection / first party isolation / multi account container

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    • Sandbox a general computer security term for a limited area that untrusted code can operate in. Essentially, think of an unruly kid -- it's allowed to play in its sandbox and could make a big mess there, but it shouldn't be able to mess up the rest of your house if it's only allowed to play in the sandbox.
    • Site Isolation According to this post from 2021 on Mozilla's blog, "Site Isolation" is the term they picked for loading different websites in different OS processes. As an ELI5... maybe think of it like moving from sites being in the computer equivalent of neighboring apartments to being in different buildings? IRL, you're supposed to have a certain amount of privacy and security in your apartment but there's limits because of the physical construction... A half decade or so ago, people figured out that you can do the equivalent of sticking your ear against the wall to try to hear what people were saying in the apartment next door; it's more challenging to do that if you're in the digital equivalent of a different building...
    • Total Cookie Protection Metaphorically speaking, websites can tape a name tag ("cookie") to your jacket without you noticing. That includes not just the direct operator of the site (who use cookies like that to keep you logged in) but also other people like advertisers on the site. In the old way of handling cookies, whoever stuck that name tag on your jacket can read it, so advertisers could figure out the equivalent of "Oh that's Bob -- he just went to Walmart, and then the bank, and now he's at a swap meet looking at used manga." if they were advertising on all those sites. "Total Cookie Protection" as Mozilla calls it is basically changing your jacket for each place you visit. Bob has a jacket for Walmart, a jacket for the bank, and a jacket for the swap meet. The advertiser can tell if Bob's been to those places before -- the metaphorical name tags are still on each one -- but doesn't know it's the same Bob who was just at the bank since he changed his jacket.
    • First Party Isolation seems to be an older name for a similar idea brought back into Firefox from Tor Browser. "Total Cookie Protection" seems to be Mozilla's marketing of it when they enabled it by default, as far as I understand it? (There may be other features of it that I don't understand though.)
    • Multi Account Container Going back to my name tag and jacket metaphor again, this is a feature that lets you have essentially multiple jackets for the same place that you can choose between. You can have your work clothes and your personal clothes and pick which is appropriate for the situation, metaphorically speaking. Particularly useful if you have multiple webmail/social media/whatever accounts from the same provider and want to stay logged in to all of them.

  • I managed to perfect my Tan Tan Ramen

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  • Sichuan pepper provides a numbing effect. It's usually combined with spicy chili to make the Chinese "mala" taste.

    The numbing effect was the most memorable part of my experience of trying tantanmen when I was in Japan a long time ago; I hadn't encountered Sichuan pepper before that, so it was quite surprising!

    If you're getting the numbing effect then there's some mixed into one of the ingredients you used. If not, you're missing out on an interesting ingredient that you can use in the dish.

  • I managed to perfect my Tan Tan Ramen

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  • Did you use Sichuan pepper?

  • VIZ Media Wins Up to $26 Million in Damages Following RWBY Lawsuit Over Copyright & Trademark Infringement

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  • Looking through the list of sellers, I don't think they're going to collect much, if any, of that...