What is that?
It's a duck pond.
Why aren't there any ducks?
I don't know. There's never any ducks.
Then how do you know it's a duck pond?

Sunday, April 21

Geek

Daily News Stuff 21 April 2019

Golden Time Edition

Tech News



Disclaimer: I'm pretty sure amnesia doesn't work like that.

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Saturday, April 20

Geek

Daily News Stuff 20 April 2019

I Do Not Like It, Sam I Am Edition

Tech News

  • Should ad-supported networks be regulated differently from other platforms?  (TechDirt)

    That seems at least a reasonable idea to pursue.

  • Working as a librarian gave me PTSD.  (LA Times)

    What?

    In Washington DC.

    Oh.

  • RedHat has taken over management of OpenJDK 8 and 11 from Oracle much to everyone's relief.  (TheServerSide)

    RedHat did this previously for OpenJDK 6 and 7 when Oracle forgot those existed.

  • Google and Amazon have buried the hatchet, and not in each other.  (The Verge)

    YouTube is coming back to Amazon's Fire devices, and Prime Video is returning to Chromecast.

  • Is it possible to escape the Apple ecosystem?  (ZDNet)

    Wait, Apple has an ecosystem?

  • Build your own blockchain in Crystal.

    The code and explanation are both clear, and it covers the principles of blockchains and what mining is all about.  It doesn't cover the networking side of things so it's not a distributed blockchain.

  • But increasingly, neither is Ethereum.  (Coindesk)

    Running a full Ethereum node is a pain because the blockchain has grown huge as Ethereum has gained popularity.  (And the transaction rate of Ethereum, compared to real-world systems, is still indistinguishable from zero.)

    Running a light Ethereum node is a pain because light nodes suck so no-one will peer with you.

    So everyone wants to outsource that problem.

    And everyone is outsourcing it to the same platform - Infura.

    And that means you could replace the entirety of Ethereum with a single MySQL instance and maybe a couple of replicas for safety, and deliver 100x the performance for 1/100th the cost.

    That's the curse of decentralisation.

  • The curse of centralisation, on the other hand, can be shown in WordPress.com's censoring of Jerry Coyne's blog at the behest of Pakistan.

    Run WordPress yourself: Get hacked.  Even if the current release of WordPress is secure, no-one runs it without extensions, and the WordPress extension marketplace is a disaster area.

    Use hosted WordPress: Get hacked anyway, get charged $50 extra a month.

    Use WordPress.com: Get censored according to the standards of the most repressive regimes on Earth.



Picture of the Day

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Disclaimer: Allergens - may contain traces of Node and NPM.

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Friday, April 19

Geek

Daily News Stuff 19 April 2019

Nazi Flowers Edition

Tech News



Icy Trail Map of the Day

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Click for a readable version.  Possibly the only NSFW urban transport map you'll see all day.


Disclaimer: Some Thus No Highlander services operate directly to and from Celt Ran.

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Thursday, April 18

Geek

Daily News Stuff 18 April 2019

Realistic Fake Cat Butthole Edition

Tech News



Science Fiction News

  • Science fiction and fantasy grand master Gene Wolfe has passed away, aged 87.  (The Guardian)

    The Book of the New Sun is probably his most noted work, but his stories range from the relatively whimsical Free Live Free and There Are Doors to the deeply introspective Soldier in the Mist.  Almost all of them are worth reading.  (I didn't care for The Land Across, but that's a rare exception).


Anime News

  • I have watched and enjoyed several anime series recently: The first half of Re:Slime (it loses steam after that point), My Roommate is a Cat, Hinamatsuri, Bunny Girl Senpai, Endro!, Iroduku, and Sakura Quest, which is an example of how quality writing, direction, and art outweighs a flimsy premise.

    Sakurada Reset is an example of how the lack of quality writing, direction, and art can sink an interesting premise.  Also, I don't think they had a budget.  I mean, literally zero.  Shame.

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Wednesday, April 17

Geek

Daily News Stuff 17 April 2019

Blup Edition

Tech News



Anime News

  • Monkey Punch a.k.a Kazuhiko Katou, creator of Lupin III, has passed away, aged 81.  (Crunchyroll)

  • I've been watching Sakura Quest.  By mistake, I thought it was a show about a young princess who leaves her kingdom and returns years later to become queen and work with her council of ministers (all young women) to restore prosperity and discover the truth behind the myth of the mysterious dragon girl.

    Which in fact it is.

    Anyway, initial thoughts:

    • This is nice, but it's no Shirobako.
    • It's taking an awful long time to find its pace.
Later thoughts:
    • This is actually really good.
    • Who wrote this?!  Have to screenshot that dialog and post it.
    • Is there some magic program that converts photos into anime backgrounds?  There's so much detail in some of these shots and they only last a couple of seconds.


Anime Opening of the Day



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Remember, Chihiro... Art by Anato Finnstark



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Tuesday, April 16

Geek

Daily News Stuff 16 April 2019

Chupakabura Edition

Tech News



Appropriately Named Things Video of the Day




Disclaimer: Don't eat the yellow neutronium.

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Monday, April 15

Geek

Daily News Stuff 15 April 2019

Sakura Quest Wasn't The One I Was Thinking Of Edition

Tech News



Repeat Little Glee Monster of the Day



This has been running through my head all goddamn day until I scrolled back through my blog to find it.  Now I can know peace.



Disclaimer: Hora saikou no kao de PISU!  PISU!  [Wraps pillow around head.]

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Site Blorkage

Had some bots scanning the whole of mee.nu for WordPress vulnerabilities.  No mee.nu blogs are running on WordPress, so this was an entirely futile pursuit, but the attempt was putting a lot of load on the server.

So I blocked the bastards at the firewall.

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Sunday, April 14

Geek

Daily News Stuff 14 April 2019

No Such Thing As Too Much Anime Edition

Tech News



Disclaimer: And I wouldn't want to break the rules, no matter how retarded they are.

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Saturday, April 13

Anime

Anime March - April 2019

I've been watching more anime than usual, starting when I was flat on my back for a week with about 97 fractured verterbrae or something.

Dirty Pair TV, then the original OVA series.  Endro!, which is a bright and enjoyable bit of fluff.  Then I Can't Believe My Best Friend's Sister's Roommate's Cat is an Autistic Psychic Alien Yakuza Battle Robot, which may actually have been different shows that have run together in my memory like that time I put the red t-shirt in with the towels.  And now Colourblind Timetravelling Granddaughter Witchfriends.  If you have a wide-gamut / HDR screen (or even if you don't) give that one a shot; the artwork is amazing.


 

I watched one or two episodes, or sometimes half or a quarter or just the opening credits of some others.  There's still a lot of mediocrity and outright trash you have to sift through for the gold.  Irozuka Sekai no Ashita kara is gold.

I've now moved on to Bunny Girl Senpai, which is better than one might expect from the title.

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