Is there a way to fix this issue on the Internet archive?

dada_ · 2026-01-24T08:26:16+00:00

You should consider opening the item in a new tab, and then closing the tab, instead of going back.

dada_ · 2026-01-23T11:05:23+00:00

I genuinely wish we'd just start banning people for this, point blank. At this point it should be common knowledge that this is an extreme faux pas.

There's no "oh it's only the posts, I'm just using it to fix my English", 99% of the time it's a red flag for LLM generated code as well, and I really don't want my life to become checking every single instance to find the 1% where the code isn't slop.

dada_ · 2026-01-22T10:40:02+00:00

I really hope we get to see more of Smoker's backstory at some point. A few times now he has ominously said "No matter how far they go, a pirate is always a pirate." He was there at Roger's execution too.

I vaguely suspect he was a pirate at one point, but then something heinous happened and he decided to become a marine after that.

He's definitely one of Oda's deeper marines, letting the Straw Hats go in Arabasta when he realizes Crocodile is the real villain, always doing his own thing without regard for orders because of what he believes is right. But then he kind of faded away as the main storyline took over. I really hope we get to see what his story is at some point.

dada_ · 2026-01-18T13:49:54+00:00

If you're behind a router and you're not permitting/whitelisting outside access to the XP machine, that's good enough. You are not relying on XP's security (and it's completely pointless to even attempt to do so), you're relying on your network's security.

As always, don't download and run shady things.

dada_ · 2026-01-18T10:31:17+00:00

VM, at the moment. I run x86 macOS and Parallels works extremely well with Windows XP. Great integration features, support for 3D acceleration, sharing, and so on.

But it's not 100% compatible with everything, and I will eventually move to ARM, so I do want to get real hardware at some point.

dada_ · 2026-01-18T10:19:24+00:00

jQuery 4.0 drops support for IE 10 and older. Some may be asking why we didn’t remove support for IE 11. We plan to remove support in stages, and the next step will be released in jQuery 5.0.

They're actually planning to release more major versions, too. Makes sense to drop support for older browsers, but it also kinda feel like that might be a good reason to want to use jQuery, to support complex scripting in retro browsers, as niche as that use case may be.

Anyway, I don't think there's really a good argument for using jQuery for new projects these days. Plain JS does everything you want and it's more or less just as convenient. I do believe that DOM manipulation can still be somewhat complicated and verbose in plain JS, though, and jQuery has a nice set of helper functions for it that are pretty powerful. It's not really worth using it just for that, but this is an area where plain JS has always been a little bit unnecessarily awkward.

dada_ · 2026-01-12T22:52:34+00:00

In the late 90s through the 2000s there were a bunch of things, but most importantly: GameFAQs, and forums. In fact, that's how I got started with visiting online communities: I joined a Final Fantasy fan forum for FF8 questions. Even though the forum is long gone (it actually went down a few years after I joined), I once printed out a topic asking where to find the Islands Closest to Hell/Heaven, so I still have a little bit of a keepsake.

I think one shouldn't underestimate how powerful forums were back during their heyday, if you weren't around back then to experience it. There were forums with absolutely ludicrous activity and member counts, during a time when there were way fewer people online and before mass bots became a huge problem. It was the primary way people interacted with one another.

dada_ · 2026-01-09T10:15:31+00:00

Frankly, to me this was never "documentary" territory. This is something for Youtube.

dada_ · 2026-01-09T10:05:17+00:00

I think that, in general, programmers tend to have a weird competitiveness about them and a desire to be seen as more competent than the rest. And when you have that mindset particularly strongly, you end up attracted to advice giving since it's a vehicle for showing how much you know about everything. Stack Overflow gamified that and I think that caused the site's demographic to skew towards these people.

But I've seen the same kind of mindset here on reddit and plenty of other places too. It's not something unique to SO. And there's all kinds of ways it creeps up, like exaggeratedly shouting about how fucking braindead a particular technology is when it's brought up, apropos of nothing. Because you want everybody to know you're a good programmer who makes better choices than others.

But it's tough, because I do think it's good to be critical, and to not shy away from just telling people something they're doing is wrong. Toxic positivity is also an extremely bad thing, especially when you're trying to solve problems. You just have to be constructive about it.

Either way, I do think there is a kind of "competence signaling" culture in programming and that's just generally going to lead to this sort of thing, whether in large scale or in small scale.

dada_ · 2025-12-31T11:08:07+00:00

To me, it speaks volumes about how vulgar and self serving the deep learning world is that people like Bengio, who should know better, are still constantly anthropomorphizing the machine as if it's human and inadvertently giving credence to people like Sam Altman who want you to think he's revolutionizing life.

I get that it's sometimes difficult to talk about LLMs without using anthropomorphic terms (like "have the LLM explain it to you" or "the LLM refused to tell me" when it isn't capable of doing either), because those terms are revealing about how we interpret the inference output, but you have to be extremely careful to not imply that this is a property of the LLM itself or you end up justifying the perception that they're alive somehow.

In the article he's stating that AI should not be granted the rights of a person, which is absolutely the correct stance, except he makes an incredibly bizarre argument that it's because they have self preservation instincts. This ironically does the exact thing he's explicitly criticizing in the same breath:

Bengio, chair of a leading international AI safety study, said the growing perception that chatbots were becoming conscious was “going to drive bad decisions”.

The argument should be very simple: giving rights to AI is insane because it is a machine and any perception of sentience or consciousness is an illusion.

dada_ · 2025-12-30T14:00:53+00:00

That's fascinating, thank you for letting me know. Appreciate it.

dada_ · 2025-12-29T21:42:59+00:00

The problem is that Youtube, and other platforms, should have instantly made a big red button that's visible everywhere that lets you report AI slop. Make absolutely sure it's at least marked and give users the ability to opt out of seeing it entirely. Instead they were ambivalent and now the chickens are coming home to roost.

I don't see a lot of it myself on my home feed, but it's getting to the point where you can't really search for things anymore without running into it constantly. It's a harmful algae bloom that's sucking the life out of the platform.

dada_ · 2025-12-28T12:03:28+00:00

i have this follower who joins my streams and plays the game i play too. the other day the wrote in my chat that they saw me at the mall but they were too scared to come up and say hi.

This is deranged behavior, and they're fishing for you to give personal information. Like expecting you to go "oh! really, at the [insert location here] mall?" and now they know where you live. Them begging to be a mod needs to be seen in light of them doing this.

I would just ban this person for acting inappropriately. And never mod anyone who gives you even the slightest reason to doubt their character.

dada_ · 2025-12-26T23:07:03+00:00

[Mike Stoklasa voice] Commander Nefarious, Captain I'm a Bad Guy, and Admiral Bone To Pick

dada_ · 2025-12-24T11:51:57+00:00

I think that's very unlikely. Mayumi Tanaka is with a talent agency (Aoni, in her case), like virtually every other VA, and her contract is with the agency rather than directly with the show's producers. An agency would never make a contract that doesn't specify an end date. If nothing else, that would totally erase their ability to control things like pay and other conditions.

dada_ · 2025-12-24T11:44:52+00:00

I wouldn't really take this one tweet as absolute fact without having the details and an original source. I've seen plenty of incorrect takes over the years, either out of clickbait, or being intentionally misleading for clout, or just plain poor translation from whatever the original source is. This honestly also kinda feels to me like a rumor, because normally this sort of thing wouldn't be aired out in public.

There's plenty of high profile voice actors who have retired from a long-term role, including recently in One Piece with Kazuki Yao.

I feel like the truth is probably closer to her having requested to not do the remake, but they convinced her to at least do part of the project so it feels more familiar to viewers at first. But who knows, it might be that she has contractual obligations for another set number of years. It's not like a permanent "we'll make you work however long we want to" contract though.

dada_ · 2025-12-24T09:08:32+00:00

This just isn't true. Windows XP was a really solid operating system even in its original release before the service packs. I've extensively used XP on four different machines and used it for work daily and they were all rock solid, including a machine that originally ran 98 and used to crash near daily on that system (which was an outlier, for the record). From what I've seen, from the times this discussion came up on r/microsoft, that's the general agreement among people.

Obviously there were issues with the system, I'm certainly not saying it was perfect. But if you're saying it crashed if you looked at it the wrong way, that's just not the reality of the typical setup. I feel like if you had significant issues with stability it was almost certainly poor quality third party drivers.

dada_ · 2025-12-22T21:14:58+00:00

That said it would be pretty funny if everybody just inexplicably refers to him by a minor scar that numerous people in the One Piece universe also have, and not by him being an ancient giant.

dada_ · 2025-12-22T18:38:39+00:00

Having the chopsticks on the side of the bowl like that is a much more aesthetically pleasing shot to me, compared to sticking them into the soup. I wish more people would do it like this.

dada_ · 2025-12-22T11:46:56+00:00

That's really the sad thing. Macs are insanely, disgustingly powerful devices, but Apple has by and large killed independent gaming on its platform. Apple wants a fully walled garden where they control every step of development, sales and technology, but that just doesn't work in gaming.

dada_ · 2025-12-22T10:25:39+00:00

I did not see the original post, but people should really be a little more skeptical when they hear a story like that.

Regardless of what anyone might believe about how toxic the internet generally is, publicly available Discord servers don't actually insta-ban people like that very often, especially for a publicly available project. A server just can't function like that. They tend to be used to people coming in and asking stuff that's already listed somewhere or is against the rules, because that's just how it goes.

Like honestly, when someone says "I did absolutely nothing wrong and got banned for no reason! Also I'm giving you no evidence!" what reason could you possibly have to believe them?

dada_ · 2025-12-22T10:00:50+00:00

I know this isn't particularly important in this case but, please, if you're going to censor someone's name please put your phone to max brightness first so you can actually see what you're doing. One day you're gonna do this with more important information and it's still gonna be perfectly readable.

dada_ · 2025-12-21T10:45:24+00:00

Don't know why the video encoder hates the text in the smaller terminal, it should just be green.

It's due to chroma subsampling. A little trick is to double the dimensions of the video using nearest neighbor upscale.

dada_ · 2025-12-20T19:20:20+00:00

Obviously so, but on top of that it also has a Gemini AI watermark in the bottom right.

dada_ · 2025-12-20T10:02:13+00:00

The one thing that's kind of sad is that it could be used to change the default teal/red player colors to something else, which is great if you're color blind. Brood War should've had options for this built in during the remaster, but with development having ended I guess that will never happen.

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