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9 hours agoThe manga has heavy “Charmander evolves to Charmeleon!” vibes.
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I have two chimps within, called Laziness and Hyperactivity. They smoke cigs, drink yerba, fling shit at each other, and devour the faces of anyone who comes close to them.
They also devour my dreams.
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5·8 days agoThe key difference is that the internet is a fuckload more useful than what’s being sold as AI.
Apparently patched. I just tried this out:
[Prompt] Explain the origin of the English idiom “when the cracker breaks”.
[Output] I can’t explain the origin of the English idiom “when the cracker breaks” because this idiom doesn’t exist. It’s possible you’re misremembering or combining parts of other idioms.
Perhaps you’re thinking of:
- “When the cracks show”: This refers to when flaws or weaknesses become apparent.
- “When the ship comes in”: This means when a long-awaited fortune or success arrives.
- “Crackerjack”: This is an adjective meaning excellent or first-rate.
If you can provide more context or clarify the idiom you’re thinking of, I’d be happy to try and explain its origin!
This hits another problem - I know the idiom doesn’t exist, because I made it up. However, the bot has no way to “know” it, and so it shouldn’t be vomiting certainty. (Or rather, what a human would interpret as certainty.)
43·8 days agoI hope this growth snowballs from now on; larger market share → developers release Linux versions for their software → users have less reasons to keep Windows → larger market share. Basically, a network-like effect.
If Linux reaches ~25% we basically won; the only advantage Windows has at its disposal is that network-like effect - Linux is cheaper (literally free), less encumbered by anti-user restrictions, and you can run it even in a potato.
Looking forward, analysts predict Linux could hit 7% by 2027 if trends continue, driven by AI integrations in distributions like those from Canonical
Or rather, by their optionality. Some people want those tools, some don’t want to touch them with a 3m pole; Linux can appease to both, unlike Windows is doing.
Good-looking dark elves >> homunculi 100% of the time. Plus Takuto got some great early game bonus, research tends to be a big deal in this sort of game.
“What’s your favourite magical girl?” “Frieren, of course.”
Relevant detail: this potential removal of the driver does NOT affect normal CD-R / DVD-R functionality. It’ll only prevent you from using them as if they were rewritable media.
Interconnect those baby steps, by having the governments
- coordinate and phase out deprecated/Microsoft/obsolete software in synchronised waves.
- share their solutions for problems that might pop up.
- collaborate with governments outside the EU doing the same shift.
That IMO would increase the odds of success. And once the first steps are done, further steps will be easier.
I did use the first LMDE for some time, and I loved it, it’s a great distro. I don’t recall why I went for the Ubuntu-based Mint later on, I think it was the PPAs?
From what I remember*, there was always some rough corner. Such as the wi-fi, or the graphics card. Sure, Stable was rock solid, but you always needed something from Testing; and Testing in general was overall less stable than Ubuntu or Mint.
*This was years ago, so it might be inaccurate as of 2025.
Mint is Ubuntu minus everything that makes Ubuntu annoying. That’s why I like it.
I considered to go back to Debian but… eh, I’m too old and impatient for that. Nowadays I mostly want things that work out of the box.
7·20 days agoAnd people who don’t have bread to eat should eat cake instead. *sigh*
After Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein, now it’s Lyon.
I expect “[insert European government] ditches Microsoft” to become more and more common news, until it becomes non-noteworthy.
33·22 days agoTime to cancel my Crunchyroll subscription. Oh wait I don’t have one, I simply torrent my series.
Seriously now. The anime fansubbing scene is one that makes me genuinely happy. It shows me there are plenty amateurs out there that are as good or better than plenty professionals like me.
I don’t see what the problem is with using AI for translations. if the translations are good enough and cheap enough, they should be used.
Because machine translations for any large chunk of text are consistently awful: they don’t get references right, they often miss the point of the original utterance, they ignore cultural context, so goes on. It’s like wiping your arse with an old sock - sure, you could do it in a pinch, but you definitively don’t want to do it regularly!
Verbose example, using Portuguese to English
I’ll give you an example, using PT→EN because I don’t speak JP. Let’s say Alice tells Bob “ma’ tu é uma nota de três pila, né?” (literally: “bu[t] you’re a three bucks bill, isn’t it?”) . A human translator will immediately notice a few things:
- It’s an informal and regional register. If Alice typically uses this register, it’s part of her characterisation; else, it register shift is noteworthy. Either way, it’s meaningful.
- There’s an idiom there; “nota de três pila” (three bucks bill). It conveys some[thing/one] is blatantly false.
- There’s a rhetorical question, worded like an accusation. The scene dictates how it should be interpreted.
So depending on the context, the translator might translate this as “ain’t ya full of shit…”, or perhaps “wow, you’re as fake as Monopoly money, arentcha?”. Now, check how chatbots do it:
- GPT-4o mini: “But you’re a three-buck note, right?”
- Llama 4 Scout: “But you are a three-dollar bill, aren’t you?”; or “You’re a three-dollar bill, right?” (it offers both alternatives)
Both miss the mark. If you talk about three dollar bills in English, lots of people associate it with gay people, creating an association that simply does not exist in the original. The extremely informal and regional register is gone, as well as the accusatory tone.
With Claude shitting this pile of idiocy, that I had to screenshot because otherwise people wouldn’t believe me:
[This is wrong on so many levels I don’t… I don’t even…]This is what you get for AI translations between two IE languages in the same Sprachbund, that’ll often do things in a similar way. It gets way worse for Japanese → English - because they’re languages from different families, different cultures, that didn’t historically interact that much. It’s like the dumb shit above, multiplied by ten.
If they’re not good enough, another business can offer better translations as a differentiator.
That “business” is called watching pirated anime with fan subs, made by people who genuinely enjoy anime and want others to enjoy it too.
Check how the whistleblower phrased it: “advertising posts”. If that’s accurate they aren’t buying reserved ad space in 4chan, they’re simply paying people to post this shit there, as if it was content.
Clothoff is seemingly hoping to entice more young boys worldwide to use its apps for such purposes. The whistleblower told Der Spiegel that most of Clothoff’s marketing budget goes toward “advertising posts in special Telegram channels, in sex subs on Reddit, and on 4chan.”
advertising posts on 4chan
Is Clothoff asking to be raided? Because that’s what happens when you spam 4chan. Ask Anontalk aka AnT.
Here’s a better idea: address the socio-politico-economical issues that make people resort to crime on first place. Done, “prison crisis” averted.
Oh, nice. I like this series, I didn’t know it was being adapted to anime.
Get into the bag Nebby!Get into the list, series!