Mirrored from my MAL review

To watch The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan, it is imperative that expectations be set. Whether a viewer will like it or not depends largely on this. If you expect a Haruhi S3 OR you like how the characters are written in S1 and S2, you will be disappointed. If you want to explore a certain path branch not taken in The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya movie, you will like (or at least appreciate) this one.

Before I proceed, let’s tackle the show’s weak points first.

One: The KyoAni visual finish is not present, simply because the studio animating it is not KyoAni. To Satelight’s credit, they did not seek to imitate the KyoAni style and do their own thing. That sort of worked in the show’s favor by painting the show as being in alt-Nagato’s perspective.

Two: The show’s latter episodes feel indecisive and appears to finish in a cliffhanger, which is a shame. Being a spin-off, it was quite unlikely to get a season two to begin with. This is the decisive factor on giving this show a “Mixed Feelings” as far as recommending it to other viewers is concerned. That being said, whether you’ll like this or not is a “see for yourself” affair. For me, I enjoyed it even with its flaws.

Going to its good points…

Exploring this world shows a completely new side of the cast that we’re familiar with, stripped of supernatural occurrences (aside from nudge nudge wink wink references to Haruhi fans, which I like very much). If you’re among those who find Haruhi overbearing in the canon show, you’ll like that it was toned down a lot here. I prefer this version of Haruhi over the original. The character balance between the cast is much better here (and also was hinted in The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya).

The buildup and fluff involving Nagato and Kyon’s relationship in the slice-of-life segments is nicely paced on its own and presents the viewer a very understandable picture of what’s going on in Nagato’s head and heart, even in the more serious episodes.

To me, the highlight of this show is the soundtrack. It really elevated the show to be a compelling watch along the way with nary a miss. It manages to capture the cutesy and the introspective scenes when it’s needed. Its ED is one of those that became an instant “can’t skip” for me, and if you liked Violet Evergarden, that might intrigue you. I’ll let you find out why.

Overall, I very much enjoyed this show. I only acknowledge that The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan is not for everyone, primarily because of what one might expect. But I can at least recommend you to try the first few episodes and make your own judgments on whether to continue or not.

My english teacher wants to be able to see document history. He says that my process is more important than the product. Is there any way to do this in libreoffice or some other open source document editor?

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/51729610

🧑‍⚖️ Love how they are going after Meta in “Alvarez v. Meta” for their use of Instagram user biometrics to train #AI (EMU) plus their Smart Glasses and MetaAI facial recognition software (NAMETAG) 🥸 This could turn into a major win for everyone’s privacy❣️

The full CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT: biometricupdate.com/…/Alvarez_et_al_v_Meta_Platfo…

Artist: Iparupua | danbooru

cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/9497419

The Millennium Problems are a set of the most important open problems in mathematics. so far only 2 have been solved: the Poincare Conjecture by Grigori Perelman in 2010 and today OpenAI released this openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/

The only problem is, that their AI didn’t even come up with the solution itself. Mathematicians working on the same problem recently made big strides in solving the Navier Stokes equations, and their chat logs were scraped and used in training data before they could release the proof themselves.

Here is the unpaywalled statements of the Mathematician: mastodon.social/…/117233413705701198

Western AI companies have been tackling a bunch of open problems and techbro chuds cannot shut up about it, this is just Marketing and the fact they have to steal real people’s work to do so just proves it. They really want that IPO moneyyy

cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/75362830

JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N) cut off lending activity for Leopold Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund Situational Awareness after large losses tied to his AI bets led to a near-collapse, ‌a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday.

The AI-focused hedge fund liquidated most of its public equity holdings to Citadel after a global chip-stock rout exposed its leveraged bets to steep losses.

Was a wild couple of hours on gamingleaksandrumours on the forbidden site. Somehow Final Fantasy 7 and Code Veronica stayed safe.

For anyone curious: KH4 achievements basically revealed all the worlds, the final boss, and some other story things. Persona 6 had achievements for fusions and missions that give away plot points. Proceed with caution if you care about spoilers for any of the games on the list.

social.grat.gay/notes/apnw6pi0076i0217

(note: i myself am not a femboy nor a man)

be nice, dont fetishize ppl, have respect

Paywall? www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https%3A%2F%2Fww…

Europe is falling behind. Its share of the global economy has been shrinking for decades, and it’s projected to grow more slowly than rivals like the US and China.But one of Europe’s biggest economic problems may be of its own making.

The EU was built to function as one huge economy — where people, money, goods and businesses can move freely across borders. In reality, national rules and barriers still divide it into 27 different markets. In this episode of Business Beyond, we look at how Europe’s fragmented economy is holding it back and why fixing it is proving so difficult. #dwbusiness

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

02:21 Why working across Europe is hard

03:53 Why Europe needs one economy

08:21 Why trading across Europe is hard

11:10 Why Europe loses start-ups

13:58 Why Europe lacks investment

18:37 Conclusion

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/51729610

🧑‍⚖️ Love how they are going after Meta in “Alvarez v. Meta” for their use of Instagram user biometrics to train #AI (EMU) plus their Smart Glasses and MetaAI facial recognition software (NAMETAG) 🥸 This could turn into a major win for everyone’s privacy❣️

The full CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT: biometricupdate.com/…/Alvarez_et_al_v_Meta_Platfo…

Today’s game is Mario Kart 64. You know what I had? A bunch of cool stuff about Pokemon Platinum I was going to share. My flash cart though isn’t a fan of taking screenshots when the screenshots Archive was made on the 3DS and I switched it back to my DS Lite. So basically all the ones I took were gone. Thankfully, I was uploading some stuff to my Jellyfin server and was playing Mario Kart 64 while waiting. So I have that to talk about.

Namely these hills. I was playing time trials and got distracted looking at them. I’ve never stopped to look at them really before outside of with freecam I think. It’s just interesting. They’re striped, despite the main ground not being so and it being something the player would probably never notice. Then again, if it got added I have to imagine someone noticed it. Maybe someone was driving past during play testing and thought they were sparse.

This one is a lot less interesting but I was playing Yoshi Valley, and I realized the fall is super fucking long. Like a good 5 seconds of Toad just tumbling down the side of the wall screaming for his life. It’s comedic, though I have to imagine it’s pissed someone out there off before.

Anyways. I just ended up tossing the time trial idea out the window when playing and gazing at the world. These Penguins have always been super satisfying to me for example. Just a thought I had when I stopped and looked at them.

I wish I had gotten those Platinum Screenshots. But this was interesting to think about and write down and share. So I guess it worked out in the end. Maybe they’re buried somewhere on the card. I’ll have to look later.

Every public request to one of my sites used to go through a Cloudflare tunnel. I had a cloudflared deployment in my cluster, some routing rules, and everything just worked. And it was free! But that bugged me. TANSTAAFL right? The whole point of selfhosting is to not rely on big cloud company, and there are few bigger than Cloudflare. And Cloudflare’s tunnels decrypt every single packet, so they see everything you do. I really don’t like that.

So I’ve replaced Cloudflare tunnels with Erwan Leboucher’s towonel, a selfhosted tunnel implementation. I still have my DNS on Cloudflare, but no data is moving through them any more.

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didn’t see it mentioned here, so a brief YSK.

stefano marinelli is working on #littleFedi, a self-hosted, single-binary activitypub/fediverse peer that hosts a mastodon-like instance with, in my mind, three killer features.

one, the thing can run on your premises completely, no need for paying for a VPS, domain name, nothing, bypasses NAT/CGNAT, encrypted comms to other instances by way of lighthouses that do the initial intros.

dos, the thing runs on something as light as a Pi zero 2W, with a miniscule memory footprint and immense CPU optimizations due to running on the weakest hardware there is (also running off SD storage).

finally, a blog-like view of your long-format tweets/toots/posts, naturally with replies appearing as comments.

original post introing the thing: …littlefedi.social/…/4252ae6f-b949-42f8-a021-fd2b…

no code available atm (coming soon) same goes for binaries. the first instance is at littleone.littlefedi.social if you want an invite code to check things out (the settings page’s got a lot of cool stuff), hit up stefano.

I am beyond stoked, this clears the two biggest hurdles for selfhosting your shit - the VPS/domain expense and hassle, and the hardware requirements for running it.

edit: missed that the website is up, explaining everything way better: littlefedi.org

Pic is how I feel acquiring more software to replace my Big Tech dependency.

(Not all services could be listed here, obviously. Just the ones I personally use)

The accessories would likely be sold under the Beats brand.

Valheim 1.0 has arrived!

Cliparr 2.0 is out now

What is Cliparr?

Cliparr is a browser-based, simplified video editor with a single purpose: to create and export clips from Plex, Jellyfin, and local video.

What’s new?

Check the blog post for the full breakdown, but the biggest change is the new canvas-based timeline editor.

While adding support for editable subtitles, I discovered the timeline component we were using was highly inefficient. Also, no other free or open-source timeline editors existed.

So… we now also have canvastimeline.com which is a new open-source headless video editor for JavaScript.

Canvas Timeline allows us to load and render literally hundreds of clips without any performance issues.

Also new:

• Subtitle editor
• Export size estimation
• Mobile UI updates
• Maintenance automations

Aside: When making the Export Size Estimator, it made sense to also release a fully in-browser video converter: cliparr.dev/convert/

• GitHub: github.com/TechSquidTV/Cliparr
• Website: cliparr.dev

AI Disclosure:

Implementation - Generated Testing - Generated Documentation - Assisted Review - Assisted Deployment - Assisted

Today’s game is Halo. I admittedly didn’t have much I did today. I ended up booting Halo to play campaign. I figured I could grab some of the loose stragglers I have in terms of achievements for fun. I accidentally booted it up without Anti Cheat though. And that’s when i remembered “Oh yeah. I have mods”. I ended up spending all day just exploring them.

Like the one above was an incredibly faithful yet imaginative recreation of 2-fort. It was cool. I wish I had friends playing with me. But it did inspire me to see if I could do the same in Forge. Probably not. I imagine my skills are lacking and forge is less free than full on modding. But it’d be a fun challenge that I’d love to try.

Another map I played was one that was a tiny Halo Ring. I expected like a quick recap of a single level or an entire series of them. But nope. This thing was a full on recap of the entire campaign, ending in Chief’s escape.

I thought it was really cool that it denied my expectations like that. I guess I had just expected less and it delivered more.

The last level I looked at was this backrooms one. I went through it but I didn’t realize it was going to be horror. I don’t mind horror all that much, but If I’m going to be playing a Horror Halo Map I want to do it Co-op with my usual Co-op buddy. They aren’t nearly as tolerant to Horror as I am and I think it will make it infinitely more amusing.

I ended up just cutting it short because of that. I really didn’t want to spoil myself for the rest, as I still enjoy getting scared by horror. I feel like that’s the major appeal of horror. To get scared by it (at least on a surface level. On an analytical level it means a lot more to me). Or at-least for me that’s what the appeal is. So I think I’ll save it for later. I fully expect to be coming back to this though, and may even make it a screenshot.

シスコンアイドル by Akausuko

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1398398/the-rise-of-ai-companions-27-of-u-s-adults-turn-to-ai-for-personal-emotional-social-quer

by Casyu Nut

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Who Gets to Learn? Education, power, and feminist pedagogy in Witch Hat Atelier
By Zofi Ysa, Aug 14 2026

Qifrey’s approach to teaching closely resembles principles associated with feminist pedagogy, an approach to education that views learning as a collaborative process grounded in dialogue, critical thinking, and mutual respect.

Sauce: xcancel.com/ryousangataK/…/1716743018575974505

Lore: anilist.co/anime/6213/Toaru-Kagaku-no-Railgun

クロスポスト: ani.social/post/36187126

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