Daiz

Daiz

@daiz.moe

🔞 Digital media expert & UX designer/developer @ JP-EN media localization Talks #lightnovels / #anime / #manga / #games / #translation | pro-fiction | Finnish 🇫🇮 but posting primarily in English | opinions firmly my own | he/they Website ★ daiz.moe ★

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Remember when Crunchyroll tried to make their subtitles significantly worse a year ago? They backtracked on it at the time, but I suspected they were just delaying their plans to shift from Aegisub to OOONA, and sadly, it seems I was right: Crunchyroll is actively pushing OOONA subs to users now.

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New article on ★ daiz.moe ★ Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason daiz.moe/crunchyroll-... A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes! Replies here will show up as comments (eventually)

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A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

helenwebberley.comAre transgender sports bans really about protecting women? | Dr Helen WebberleyThe data says no. Those most hostile to women are most in favour of banning trans athletes.

I know it's kind of an unfair comparison for Godot but coming from TypeScript, trying to write properly typed GDScript feels like having your hands tied behind your back. No nullable types, no nested typing for arrays/dicts, generics and union types are a pipe dream... can't do shit. Feels bad man

Occasional reminder that if you believe anything coming out of Kiwifarms, especially about a trans person, you are being a useful idiot for a bunch of vile hateful stalkers who have zero qualms about lying when it comes to those they perceive as enemies, and they consider all trans people enemies

For context, this is about KF's deranged claims about Bunlith that fall apart the moment you actually look at the details. It doesn't matter what you think or don't think about her creative output, you should know not to treat KF as a serious source of anything

One step forward, two steps back seems to be the Bluesky ethos for new features, at least when it comes to anything involving adult content. Just constant nonsense with it

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We see how these companies are acting on their home turf these days. Lawmakers elsewhere should be extremely vigilant with anything these companies want to do on their turf. Though of course our fuckass right-wing government was busy blindly hyping up Google for this "amazing data center investment"

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Of course, the whole thing is actually a pretty shit deal for Finland in the long term too. Data centers, once built, employ a minimal amount of people. We won't be getting any real tax revenue either since Google's local op is set up with corporate accounting to always be operating at a "loss".

Google in turn gets cheap Nordic energy and cool Nordic climate to exploit for their 8938th genAI expansion as they kill all the actually useful Google services to make room for more AI bullshit. And then Google pulls this illegal forest razing shit, because you just gotta go all out on Be Evil

This is bad enough that if you run anything public-facing with PHP, you should shut it down until you can patch PHP. This is not a drill, do it now. Seriously.

nightshade →home, for now@nightshade.technology

details leaked. this vulnerability is a full unauthenticated unconditional remote code execution exploit against any service running on a PHP version from 5.4 until latest yeah if anything deserves CVSS 11, this is it. this is CATACLYSMICALLY bad.

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details leaked. this vulnerability is a full unauthenticated unconditional remote code execution exploit against any service running on a PHP version from 5.4 until latest yeah if anything deserves CVSS 11, this is it. this is CATACLYSMICALLY bad.

nightshade →home, for now@nightshade.technology

oh it's bad. oh it's BAD bad. oh this is CATASTROPHIC, drop-whatever-you're-doing-and-patch-NOW levels of bad cert.europa.eu/publications...

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when I talk about ad-blocking being non-negotiable and ad networks basically running untrusted code in your browser, I have tended to assume I'm being a little bit hyperbolic, but

Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social

New this morning: @citizenlab.ca has identified an Israeli ad tech company — one that's placed ads on NBC News — that ran a secret side platform to let spyware companies plant malicious code to hack people browsing those sites. 45 Al Jazeera employees and journalists were infected!

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I feel like if I put a picture of dahlia hawthorne on anything I own it would be like. permanently cursed. Sticker that conveys malignant spirits. T-shirt that strangles you. I do not invoke her in the same way I do not invoke the The Ring girl

Yamino@yamino.bsky.social

This is a deep cut microaggression but I'll be mad forever that all the dumb men in Ace Attorney (including villains) get merch and there's literally nothing for the best character in the game

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No matter where you shop, you're getting screwed by Amazon. Amazon has found a way to make everything you buy - at Target, at a mom-and-pop shop, even direct from the manufacturer - more expensive. And they're not the only one: Expedia's done the same thing, but for hotel rooms.

Lol

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

new Epic Games Launcher in preview - "Programming is hard. So, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher that’s way faster and more responsive than the current one, and has a new look." store.epicgames.com/news/epic-ga...

Imagine having your head so far up Sam Altman's ass that you think vibe coding your software is actually something worth advertising to your users

Finished volume 7 of Pens Down, Swords Up and yeah, this has definitely become one of my favorite ongoing #lightnovels. More people should still be reading this, though I'm happy to hear it's popular enough that JNC will actually release it in print. Do check it out!

I wrote a more general recommendation for this series a while back, which you can find here: bsky.app/profile/daiz...

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I want to throw a #lightnovels recommendation out there: More people should be reading Pens Down, Swords Up: Throw Your Studies to the Wind. The premise might sound like the most generic thing in existence, but it executes on it with excellence and most importantly: it is just damn funny.

A while back I gave the first volume of this a re-read (which is pretty rare for me) and it still managed to give me good laughs even when I knew what was coming. Reading it should give you a good idea of whether this series will be up your alley or not.

It's cool how on Xitter you can have people literally calling you the n-word to your face and reporting them for hateful conduct does absolutely nothing. "Our support team has determined that a violation of our Rules did not take place." Really cool how big brands are advertising on a site like that

How terminally incapable of reading must one be to put me on a blocklist like this, I wonder, considering that everything I've said related to this subject points to the exact opposite of this description

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The "yuri is male gaze" debate becomes gut-bustingly hilarious once you realize that, more often than not, the genre is created by female mangaka sitting at their desks like:

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紅魔郷咲夜さん ちょっと頑張ればスカートの中が見れそうなぐらいふわふわしてて心配になる

Crazy how you can just say "Ana Valens" and see this website turn into Woke KiwiFarms in realtime Weird how consistently that seems to happen in general whenever a trans woman says something even mildly disagreeable around here

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The video advertising Unity's ew AI-driven autocomplete game maker has 'Mari' who has a game idea they "always wanted to make" and that idea is "Space Corridor" and it looks like this, and that's the strongest argument I can think of for keeping game dev out of the pro-AI crowd's hands.

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Isn't it funny how all the things required to keep the net in a functional state also just so happen to be bad for kids? Torrents, online spaces, the internet archive. All bad for kids! What are the odds right?

Stop Killing Games@stopkillinggames.bsky.social

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Got hit with a Youtube layout update and holy hell this thing is utter and absolute ass. Defaults to always opening the comments to the side, massively reducing video space, and even when you close them you have this ugly ass side bar and side margins anyway. And the recs are always slightly visible

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Also the separate sidebar description and comment tabs are a strict downgrade to just being able to scroll down for both as well. I don't need fucking ginormous recommendations taking up the rest of the vertical space. Gonna need to get something to fix this garbage for sure

Got hit with a Youtube layout update and holy hell this thing is utter and absolute ass. Defaults to always opening the comments to the side, massively reducing video space, and even when you close them you have this ugly ass side bar and side margins anyway. And the recs are always slightly visible

Absolutely massive downgrade compared to the previous where you could have theater mode take up the full width of the window, and have your window sized such that recs were basically invisible. And you weren't getting thrown out of theater mode on every damn video load. What were they thinking!!!

Haven't seen it myself yet but very happy to see people have been reacting positively to the Nia Liston anime. The light novel series is one my current favorites, in large parts due to Nia herself - she is just an absolutely delightful main character. Dutiful, diligent, and insane.

I also like how I only had to see like one screenshot to immediately identify Bendelio and his distinctive face. That's basically the only visual description he gets in the LN, and well, that sure got fittingly translated into actual visuals lol