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6 days agoAh, got it - I didn’t realise you’re running a personal instance. Now it makes sense what you’re doing.
Lvxferre [he/him]
The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.
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Cake day: January 12th, 2024
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From that, I guess you’re browsing by “All”?
My approach was different: I browse by “Subscribed”, and I’m subbed to ~200 comms. It takes a bit more effort but it allows me to have finer control over what I see, for example I subbed to one or two political and memes comms - it’s just enough to get myself informed, but not enough to flood my feed.
Recognising recurring characters is part of the charm for me, too. And also:
While your typical lemming’s behaviour is not perfect, it’s still leagues above your typical redditor’s. For a start I used to dread the orange mail icon… as I saw it I immediately thought, “oh great here comes a dumb fuck distorting what I say”. The bell icon is still a positive for me.
My own behaviour has been positively affected.
[cat analogy]I didn’t declaw myself, but I don’t feel as much of a need to extend my claws as before.[/cat analogy]In Reddit I used to pick fights all the time, I simply don’t see the need to do so here, even when exposed to the same annoyances as before.Once your feed is curated, it’s mostly fun stuff? I do see some politics, but not as much to feel like it’s only political discussion here.
I actually trust the admin of my current instance to do what’s the best for the users, within his capabilities. I couldn’t trust the Reddit admins to die properly. And when the worst came to pass (disagreeing with how the admins of my older instance handle users), I know I don’t need to either ditch everything or suck it up.
33·8 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.
Temporary hacks for broken stuff. If you’re poor, you need those hacks to get anything working, since things never break when you have the money to replace them. And as anything else it’s a skill you improve by doing, so…
(Warning: nothing lasts longer than a temporary hack.)
I even left a chair near my desk, just for her
Since I posted Frieda’s pic, might as well share my old lady Kika:
She’s currently spending so much time on the chair people have joked I found a translation reviewer.
I just asked a Kiwi and an Angolan, and we three agree you are the one upside down :-P
I live in a temperate area of South America. Usually winter isn’t that harsh, but we got two big cold waves this year.
I also hate summer, but that’s a problem for the future me of December :)
We had some pretty chilly nights the last weeks, in the 0~5°C range, so Siegfrieda is often asking to be covered. And by “asking” I mean: she stares me, scratching her blanket, and sometimes meowing, until I grab her blanket and cover her. It’s a mix of cute and annoying, because she sometimes gets too hot so she leaves her blanket, only to ask again five minutes later.
And sometimes she finds smart ways to control her own temperature, like this:
She’s also visibly happy when I go sleep - it’s like she got a huge self-heating pillow (my body). I don’t mind cuddling, so it’s a win-win.
In the meantime, Kika (who gives no fucks about weather) reacted to the winter in a different way: she still hates cuddling, but she’s clearly more needy. Her “mrrown-own?” = “pet me! pet me!” has become more frequent. I even left a chair near my desk, just for her - within my arm’s reach.
Memory is a funny thing. People around me often highlight that I remember oddly specific stuff, but I forget what they make a huge deal of.
So for example, I do remember the name of the girl of my first kiss. And her face, including her ears. Her birthday too, although that’s because it’s close to mine.
I also remember the weird smell of the nurse who took care of my sister when sis was internalised, 30 years ago. (I was 9 back then; now I know the smell is disinfectant). I also remember the specific pitch of my neighbour’s dog “yuuuunnn~”, as he brought what-used-to-be-a-ball through the outer fence of his home, so I could throw to him. (I had dogs back then, but neither was into playing as much as that good boy.)
I also remember my grandpa completely drunk, but taking care of me, when I was 6. And my grandma scolding him for that. Or the toy grandma gave me, a coin that flipped as if it was “magic”, as it went through a house-like thing. (It was themed after Ducktales.)
However I’d be lying if I said I remember the face of my father, even if I lived with him until he died (I was 18). I also tend to forget the specific date of my nephew’s birthday, even if I care a lot about him. I’m also always pausing to remember how many tablespoons of coffee I need to add to the machine, for a specific amount of coffee.
Look “donghua” up - there is some anime production in China, even if way less than in Japan. And some rather good manhua stories to adapt; I’m still waiting for donghua versions of two. (Fairy Captivity and My Wife is the Demon Queen.)
Plus anime fans are everywhere.
Update, as I just prepared dinner for today:
.Tarte Tatin. Or like my folks call it, “tatatã”. I’m following Chef John’s recipe, with a homemade crust:
pie crust recipe
250g flour
50g sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
125g butter
1 egg yolk
eyeballed amount of ice cold water- Mix the powders.
- Add butter, in small pieces. Then use a spatula to work them into the flour mix, until the mix is a bunch of small crumbles.
- Whisk the egg yolk with some of the ice cold water. Add it to the mix. Then add just a bit of water each time, until the dough is barely able to stick to itself.
- Put dough in the fridge, wait 30min. Then roll the dough out, using the pie pan as a cutter.
Leftovers of the minutal matianum (Roman pork with apples) I prepared for lunch.
I was going to prepare it the past weekend, but things happened, so I did it yesterday.
No need to feel sorry - sometimes we need to vent out, that’s only human.
Some “fluctuation” in self esteem is normal. The problem here is the range, it’s going all the way into suicide idealisation, that is not good. If you didn’t yet, I’d suggest you to check this with a psychiatrist.
About kids working together to solve video game problems: that’s always a joy to watch, isn’t it?
Bread. There’s Mettwurst, some slices of cheese, dulce de leche and all that stuff.
I typically work a bit harder on lunch than dinner.
I like the titanosaurs in general - they look at the same time majestic and goofy. Like Patagotitan mayorum:
and Udelartitan celeste:
As far as I know the P. mayorum was the biggest land animal to ever exist, as it could reach up to 30-something metres. The U. celeste is smaller, “only” 16m long.
Fun fact: the trees in the artistic rendition of the U. celeste are likely close relatives to this one from my banner.
The site works fine for me, but the same software is available from Github if desired.
Note I’m recommending anime streaming software (instead of an Anitaku-like site) because it’s a bit less likely to be taken down.
As Kolanaki said, copyright holders killed it.
If you’re looking for alternatives give Hayase (formerly Miru) a try.
It might look completely random, and… well, it is! I’m rebuilding my “videos” directory, that I share in my LAN. By doing so I always hit something interesting, drop whatever I’m doing, and watch it.