zabadoh 4 months ago • 100%
In the episode, they also mention the Usui Pass Railway Heritage Park where you can actually drive their working EF63 electric locomotive!
zabadoh 4 months ago • 100%
As featured in anime TV series Yuru Camp S3, episode 10
About halfway between Tokyo and Nagano. Here's what it looks like in the daytime:  Here's the plaque explaining it, and the cherry blossoms(?)  Can anyone translate the plaque? Japanese OCR seems to be hopeless...
www.railwaygazette.com
Old post, from before this /c was created.
zabadoh 4 months ago • 100%
You mean the special toothed tracks? Yeah, I couldn't find a good photo with both the train and the tracks.
zabadoh 4 months ago • 100%
Featured in anime series Yuru Camp Season 3, episodes 3 and 4.
Photoshop filter not included https://daitetsu.jp/eng/abt The Abt rail system, developed in Switzerland in the 1880s, is a narrow gauge track that specializes in climbing inclines by using a 3rd track that is toothed. The Oigawa Railway's Ikawa Line is the only Abt system in Japan. 
zabadoh 4 months ago • 100%
An absolutely fun series too
From comment on anime series Shuumatsu Train Doko E Iku - Where is the Last Train Going? https://ani.social/comment/4233782
Lemmy
Right? I agree with this #lemming. They don’t care about you, just profit. This is the reason I prefer open platforms like @Mastodon and @peertube . They at least care for user privacy and
zabadoh 5 months ago • 100%
Sooo, who wants to develop the open source hookup app based on the Fediverse?
zabadoh 5 months ago • 100%
It's fear of calcification. Lemmy is tiny, in terms of our user base.
If we don't get fresh blood, and most importantly the rare active contributors, we'll just get used to talking to each other, we'll get bored or burned out and leave.
zabadoh 5 months ago • 50%
You'd be surprised.
I have a RL friend who's on Reddit all the time, and he didn't even hear about the shutdown, much less /r/place, or anything like lemmy. I've been trying to sell it to him...
Re: The "We're elite" becomes "We're bored talking among the same old people" or "We're burned out", leading to users leaving and formerly thriving communities dying.
I've been around long enough to see this happen on multiple forums.
fedidb.org
User count has plateaued at about 420K Active user count rose significantly between 2/24 37K to 3/24 51K Hopefully users who signed up last year are coming back to use their accounts. Maybe because they're tired of ads on reddit? Should we put together a collection and and buy an ad campaign on Reddit? I can see it now: "Ads suck. We're ad-free forever. Join Lemmy." and "He'll never get us. Join Lemmy." or "Don't let him get you. Join Lemmy"
zabadoh 5 months ago • 50%
When I search for communities about animation on the web interface, I see one called !animation@lemmy.film There has been no activity in the /c for 6 months. It's not my native instance, but I can read posts and comments in the /c, and I can even create a post in the /c. But when I try to visit http://lemmy.film in a browser, I get a "Web Server Is Down" page. Is the content in !animation@lemmy.film a ghost of cached content on my native instance?
zabadoh 6 months ago • 100%
Or anything the devs can do to make it not look goofy.
A new post with 1 deleted comment shows as "*comment symbol* 0 (-1 New)" ... which looks goofy. But not in this /c, maybe there's some kind of /c setting that shows quantities of new comments? Maybe I made and deleted the comment too soon after I created this post?
zabadoh 6 months ago • 100%
It's part of the ol' Big Tech playbook:
If a promising emerging competitor emerges:
- Acquire the emerging competitor for cheap when it's still small
- Copy the competitor's best features to make them irrelevant
- Co-opt them with integration so the competitor's users won't see any advantage to staying with them
- Pollute the competitor's content to make your own offering look better
- Steal the competitor's best talent
zabadoh 6 months ago • 100%
Image rendering attacks and download tracking are well known, so it's not paranoid at all.
zabadoh 6 months ago • 100%
I'm not sure how extensive the spam wave was, nor how quickly the user was able to create an account, make the comments.
I doubt that the quantity in that I came across would be enough to take down a server, but that may be the point: To test lemmy's collective defenses and response without drawing too much attention.
A common IP address or address range ban file that's frequently updated and downloaded by each instance might be another way to boost security.
If this is actually an org attack, I'm guessing that we'll see botnet DDOS comment and post attacks next.
zabadoh 6 months ago • 100%
It looks like some kind of fix was implemented after my post, so I can't replicate the problem for you.
Whenever I edit one of my cross-instance posts, the language defaults to English, and I can save my edits with no issues.
Now whether the fix was on an instance basis, i.e. config changes, or in some Lemmy-system update, I can't tell you.
edit: Maybe my issue was solved along with the fix for the default languages: https://lemmy.ml/post/13410320
There have been a number of comment spam attacks in various posts in a couple of /c's that I follow by a user/individual who uses account names like Thulean* For example: ThuleanSneed@lemmy.tf in [!coffee@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/c/coffee) and ThuleanPerspective2@eviltoast.org in !anime@ani.social edit: Also ThuleanSneed@startrek.website in !startrek@startrek.website The posts have been removed or deleted by the respective /c's mods, and the offending accounts banned, but you can see the traces of them in those /c's modlogs. The comments consist of an all-caps string of words with profanities, and Simpsons memes. An attack on a post may consist of several repeated or similar looking comments. This looks like a bored teenager prank, but it may also be an organization testing Lemmy's systemic and collective defenses and ability to respond against spam and bot posts.
zabadoh 6 months ago • 100%
I disagree that people suck.
I think that enshittification on any SM platform, whether free and open, or built for commerce, happens when companies try to exploit it for commercial gain.
Take Usenet for example: At the beginning it was great, then spammers found they could post unlimited spam across the newsgroups for free, and it became shit, barring a few groups where mods had to work very hard to weed out the spam to keep them readable, but eventually collapsed, and people moved on to the new platforms.
Reddit, was built for ads and tracking its users to start with, so the gradual creep of enshittification was no surprise there.
And now we have nation-state backed disinformation campaigns to deal with in addition to commercial spam.
I could see Lemmy and the Fediverse in general taking a similar path to Usenet, if the devs, admins, and mods aren't vigilant about keeping bad actors out.
I like the Fediverse's guarantor feature for adding new instances, but we'll have to see how well it holds up under assault from spammers.
zabadoh 6 months ago • 100%
Someone just gave me a workaround for this:
Before saving the edits, select a language, other than "Undetermined".
After doing that, my edits to the posts saved normally
After I've saved a post to a /c hosted by another instance than the one that I'm logged into, I can open that post for editing, but I'm unable to save my edits to that post. For example: I made a post to !ukraine@sopuli.xyz, while logged in elsewhere. Something or other in the webpage link is forcing a download, so I tried to edit the URL in the post, but I can't save it. This also happened to a post I made to !coffee@lemmy.world where I was trying to edit the text in the post's Body after saving the post. I can save edits to my posts to /c's on my native instance just fine.
movieszabadoh 6 months ago • 87%
I watched this Saturday.
There was so much good stuff artistically in this movie!
The changes to the story worked really well, IMO, towards updating it for modern cynical sensibilities:
I loved Zendaya's portrayal of Chani and her girl friend calling out Paul and Jessica's colonialist bullshit.
Jessica's "strange" behavior as a pregnant woman. I agree with others that having Jessica speak for Alia worked better than having a child actor like Lynch's version.
Stilgar's parody of religious fanaticism was hilarious!
Visually, making the worm riding look like some kind of extreme sport worked well
The Giedi Prime black and white/infrared sequences were brilliant, although seeing the Baron and Feyd in regular flesh tones afterwards felt strange.
The Atreides nuke missiles flying across the sky felt apocalyptic
The Sardukar ranks were notably not as rigidly disciplined as we saw in the first film.
Unlike others, I thought that Christopher Walken's emperor was good. Age decrepit on the verge of doddering, but with dark intelligent thoughts behind his sullen face. The only problem with casting Walken was that he's too recognizable.
The one part I didn't like was the climactic dagger fight. I would have liked to see the action better choreographed and coordinated with camera angles to make the sequence of thrusts and parries clearer. I also would have liked to see contrasting fighting styles between whatever Feyd does, and Paul's classical Atreides training mixed with Fremen savagery. I'm still not sure how Paul's knife wound up in Feyd at the end.
I also noticed unlike other adaptations, they didn't do the weirding modules, the Atreides-developed sonic weapons that give the Fremen some kind of combat advantage. But I didn't miss them.
Overall I was very happy with the movie.
Ukraine
Exclusive: Putin's suggestion of Ukraine ceasefire rejected by United States, sources say
zabadoh 7 months ago • 85%
US: "No ceasefire"
Also US (Trumpublicans): "No arms for Ukraine either"
Ukraine: "Hey, we're dying over here, we need ammunition"
Mangazabadoh 7 months ago • 100%
It's like a giant robot trying to stamp out cockroaches for the last 5 or 6 chapters: Wrong tool for the job...
zabadoh 8 months ago • 50%
Bad bot
I'm trying to say report a bug and the steps to re-create the bug.
Before I begin, I have to say that this post includes links to an instance, ani.social, that has been defederated from this instance, lemmy.ml, because that's where I discovered this problem. But in this case, I hope the admins understand that this is worth reporting and investigating, and don't insta-delete this post, because this problem appears to happen with more than that one instance, including sopuli.xyz, which is not defederated from here at lemmy.ml Let us begin: **With Lemmy account setting “Auto Expand Media” turned on**, when I’m viewing community https://ani.social/c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz on my desktop browser, Firefox on Windows, one particular post, https://ani.social/post/1923262 , causes the /c view to ask me to download an .mp4 video from streamable.com: After declining the download, the space where the thumbnail for the expanded media goes is just blank. This doesn’t happen when viewing the same /c on .ml https://lemmy.ml/c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz On .ml, I just get a clickable thumbnail of the video. It’s just that one post. On other earlier and later posts of links to streamable.com videos in the same /c, I just get the expected clickable thumbnail. Maybe some kind of corrupted data as that particular post was transferring over? When I asked about this on ani.social's meta /c, another user reported the auto-download request on ani.social, sopuli.xyz (the /c's home!) but not on lemmy.ml and lemmy.world
zabadoh 8 months ago • 100%
It's weird that this /c !anime@lemmy.ml doesn't show up on neither Feddit's Community Browser https://browse.feddit.de/ or Lemmy Explorer https://lemmyverse.net/communities when searching for "anime"
Instead anime@(the-instance-that-shall-not-be-named).social shows up first on Community Browser, and
I'm not sure what to make of that.
Is someone trying to shadow deprecate this /c/ ?
Anime
Mark Merlino, cofounder of the Cartoon/Fantasy Organization (C/FO), is in the hospital following a stroke
zabadoh 8 months ago • 100%
I'd forgotten all about C/FO because it had been such a long time since I'd heard of them.
It was really local groups who organized anime showings on college campuses who kindled me to take a more serious interest in anime.
Tape trading is where those groups from the 70s and 80s got their imported show from, but tape trading happened in all kinds of media, e.g. rock concerts.
Often we'd wind up watching 3rd or 4th gen VHS copies, i.e. grainy, washed out with bad sound, because we were so far down the chain.
zabadoh 8 months ago • 100%
...Aaaand the entries from the modlog concerning deleting my thread and post have been deleted.
Wonderful transparency there....
Fortunately, the bookwormstory.social entries are still there, so I could recover my scribblings.
zabadoh 9 months ago • 100%
Hahaha, the writer's joke was on us the viewers!
It starts out as a boring isekai "quiet life" scenario, then things get complicated...
The amount of twists that were thrown in to ratchet up the tension...
This is the best first episode I've watched in the new season so far.
CGDCT with mahjong. Just a generic start. There's nothing really standing out for me except the art: Those eyes look like they take ages to draw. The comedy bits where they're imagining things while seated around the table aren't as funny as those in say "Sabagebu!"
zabadoh 9 months ago • 80%
Actually according to the modlog, some "mod" removed for "Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete • Gushing over Magical Girls - Episode 1 discussion" citing Rule 3 "No Porn"
I mean the show is risque, but we're starting to see nipples on Hollywood red carpets these days...
"mod" being in quotes because of the uncertainty elsewhere in this post...
zabadoh 9 months ago • 100%
zabadoh 9 months ago • 100%
Another villain POV series, but this one takes the form of a gag comedy, with what was probably a 4 panel gag comic, turned into a series of skits per episode.
As in all gag comedies, don't expect sakuga animation sequences.
The voice actor for the villain is great! And he should be, because he gets the most dialogue, and the story hangs on his character's POV.
Basically, the theme is "don't bug me on my day off" that should be relatable to 9 to 5 working people.
zabadoh 9 months ago • 100%
Thanks for posting the episode discussion threads! I thought you were shinobu's replacement bot!
zabadoh 9 months ago • 100%
I read the manhwa too, and so far it's being faithful, and it was nice touch to have additional explanations of this world up front graphically animated without being talky.
Good so far.
Yes, I also agree that a double episode premiere would have been more effective, because we haven't seen what this story is really about.
zabadoh 9 months ago • 100%
I'm finding the time to watch a lot more shows this season, and so far I'm finding enjoyment in the first episodes of some unexpected titles:
- Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete • Gushing over Magical Girls - Villain POV with S&M lewdness
- Sokushi Cheat - Kill all the evil classmates in an isekai. Kind of a similar vibe to The Executioner And Her Way Of Life
- Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha • The Unwanted Undead Adventurer - An adventurer unexpectedly joins the monster track of advancement and starts from being a weak skeleton
- Chiyu Mahou no Machigatta Tsukaikata: Senjou wo Kakeru Kaifuku Youin • The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic - An average student gets sucked into an isekai. All likeable characters so far.
Sousou No Freiren continues to be a strong show.
Solo Leveling - I've enjoyed the manhwa, and this first episode is okay, it could have been longer to get to the key plot mechanic.
Conversely, I was disappointed by the first episode of the highly anticipated Dungeon Meshi/Delicious In Dungeon, which is fine. Some shows take a few episodes for the writing to gain traction.
zabadoh 9 months ago • 100%
Web interface, on Windows Firefox I was trying to create a post with the title: "Sokushi Cheat ga Saikyou Sugite, Isekai no Yatsura ga Marude Aite ni Naranaindesu ga. • My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! - Episode 1 discussion" It let me paste this much into the title box: "Sokushi Cheat ga Saikyou Sugite, Isekai no Yatsura ga Marude Aite ni Naranaindesu ga. • My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! - Episode 1 d" Then, when I created the post, a red dialog saying "Error: invalid_post_title" popped up in the lower left of my browser. I suspected that the pasted title was too long, so I removed some of the text, and sure enough, I was able to create the post. 1. If it's going to automatically truncate the pasted text, it should truncate the text to an acceptable length. 2. The error message should be more specific. Probably obvious to anyone encountering this, and an easy workaround. Thanks for your attention devs!
Anime
Sokushi Cheat • My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! - Episode 1 discussion
zabadoh 9 months ago • 100%
Like a lot of isekai first episodes, this was a good start.
I do like the evil-classmates-kill-em-all idea
But of course, it's all about whether the writing can sustain the quality and surprise.
Streams [HIDIVE](https://www.hidive.com/tv/my-instant-death-ability-is-overpowered)
zabadoh 9 months ago • 100%
Starting with Winter 2023: Overall a weak season.
Vinland Saga S2 Handyman Saitou In Another World Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill
Spring 2023: A very strong season
Birdie Wing Golf Girls Story S2 Oshi No Ko Chibi Godzilla Raids Again Heavenly Delusion My Home Hero Skip and Loafer
Summer 2023: Honestly I got burned out here, and stopped watching halfway through the season
zabadoh 9 months ago • 100%
I really liked this start!
The MC is bumped onto the monster track of progress and growth.
I enjoyed his funny cartoony thought process.
It's the opposite of Skeleton Knight In Another World, where the main character skeleton starts extremely strong.
zabadoh 9 months ago • 100%
An oddly quiet style of animation for a Trigger series.
It's not grabbing me yet.
The elf mage seems useless and annoying so far.
As someone else pointed out, it seems to share a food porn aesthetic with the Campfire Cooking show.
zabadoh 9 months ago • 100%
It's kind of a shock to see Sein leave so soon after joining the party. We might or might not see him again, or find out how his search for Gorilla went.
The OP shows us a second female mage joining the party, but doesn't show the party without Sein yet, so maybe we'll see him again...
The woman living alone where the Frost Cherry Tree village used to be didn't explain why the village disappeared...
A total-non-adventure episode...
Newszabadoh 9 months ago • 94%
The prisoner, Dotson, was “found dead” so who knows how many hours the body was lying there.
That pretty much precludes any use of the heart for transplant.
His relatives said they received the body in a decomposed state, but that could have been poor storage by the coroner before or after the autopsy, or the body might have been well hidden inside the prison so it was a long time before someone found it.
The article isn’t very clear on the condition of the body at each stage of handling.
What’s in the article is probably all the information that the reporter could get out of the prison authority, the state Department of Forensic Sciences, and the University.
Anime
Chiyu Mahou no Machigatta Tsukaikata: Senjou wo Kakeru Kaifuku Youin • The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic - Episode 1 discussion
zabadoh 9 months ago • 100%
A promising start so far.
Usato and the other characters seem interesting and likeable so far.
It's not really clear yet why Healing magic is so bad, but I suppose we'll find out
Streams [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/G0XHWM1EK)
zabadoh 9 months ago • 100%
A new test for Ayanakoji, and the newly promoted Class C, this time split into mixed groups with upper and lower classmates.
This first episode was about what is expected for this show, which is good if you enjoy this kind of writing.
news.yahoo.com
Bad news. New Russian electronic warfare tactics are blocking HIMARS legendary accuracy, and drones. Without further aid packages with military grade NATO electronics, the Ukrainian electronic advantage is over. Republicans and Orban are literally killing Ukrainian soldiers.
I have a book scan that came back from a book scanning company. The scan images were fine, but the OCR text in the PDF are whacky, due to eccentric fonts, dirt, etc. So I'm going to have to go through this by hand and tidy up. I have tried a lot of FOSS PDF editors on this particular PDF, but none of them work as well as an old copy of Foxit PhantomPDF (an old version of the product currently named Foxit PDF Editor) that I have on a dying laptop. I've tried the following commonly recommended FOSS PDF editors without much success: LibreOffice Draw - Many text fields in wrong layer order. Page images not visible. PDFEdit - Loads the file as blank Scribus - Won't load the file FireFox - only allows annotation changes Inkscape - It sort of works, but it's not oriented towards text editing, so looking and editing text is cumbersome.
www.nytimes.com
NY Times gift article link. Republicans are testing how far they can make unrelated demands in exchange for supporting Ukraine as the previously budgeted aid fund runs low. Exploiting the lives of Ukrainians who are dying every day for political gain. It's going to be a long war. If the D's cave in this time what will the R's demand next time?
In some posts, I see some comments are highlighted in yellow for no obvious reason that I can figure out. [Example post here](https://lemmy.ml/post/8825552) It's not just the OP's comments, it's not just all comments, so ??? I haven't seen this before, so maybe this came in the new lemmy 0.19 update? What does the highlighting mean?
There's no way to read replies to my comments and posts after they've been marked as read. Also, when viewing replies to my comments from my profile menu, there's no way to go to my comment in the original post to view the context of the reply.
www.visualcapitalist.com
HK is far and away the #1 least affordable housing market ranked by housing cost divided by median income. 18 years of the current median income is required to buy a home in HK. That is your entire income going towards housing for 18 years if you don't eat, use electricity, pay taxes, etc. Not including interest on a mortgage. Sydney Australia is in second place with 13.3 times their median income. Vancouver, Canada is third with 12.0
www.kyivpost.com
Recruiting Russian officers to help plan the attack was made easier by many of them not being paid their salaries
www.cnn.com
Extreme drought across the American South is causing ground water tables to drop, allowing seawater to penetrate further inland towards drinking water sources for New Orleans and other coastal communities.
Just wondering, because I can't find anything...
The included clip is pretty convincing...
www.theguardian.com
www.dailykos.com
A lot of soil science! Heavy rains last spring delayed the counteroffensive. Expected mild rains this autumn may extend it, especially towards Tokmak, where soil conditions stay less muddy than much of Ukraine.
That's how you get positive publicity!!!
cardealermagazine.co.uk
London used car dealers are reluctant to accept non-electric or hybrid vehicles in trade for new vehicles. So why not accept them, and donate them to Ukraine where they can be used in the war effort there? AFU units are continually begging for donations to buy replacement vehicles for the ones that break down or are damaged ferrying troops and supplies to the front lines. Vehicles wear out especially quickly because of the rough dirt roads in the countryside they are fighting to liberate.
markets.businessinsider.com
Key quotes: >Russia has accumulated billions of rupees that are sitting in Indian banks. >Reuters reported that Russia and India have suspended negotiations over using rupees for trade between the two countries. >Russia prefers to be paid in Chinese yuan, which has become the most-used foreign currency in Russia. >Russia and India remain deadlocked in a currency dispute that has also frozen weapons sales between the two countries. >India won't pay Russia in US dollars over concerns that it may face secondary sanctions and won't pay in rubles because of worries about obtaining Russia's currency on global markets at a fair rate, >Recently, (Russia) agreed to use the (Chinese) yuan to for payments on a nuclear-power plant deal with Bangladesh, after previously insisting on using its ruble.
www.forbes.com
Harsh headline, but an interesting idea: Russia has redeployed its 76th Guards Air Assault Division to the Zaporizhzhia front to plug the Ukrainian breakthrough in Robotyne. But this unit was until recently doing the same thing in Bakhmut. Some indicators say the Ukrainian Eastern offensive near Bakhmut has ebbed in the last 2 weeks, which has theoretically freed up the 76th GAAD to be redeployed to the southern front.
www.youtube.com
Why would anyone ever want to ingest this plant for a recreational drug experience? It sounds awful.
I'm trying to block posts from !memes@lemmy.ml as a community. When I go to the appropriate settings dialog, and try searching for "memes@lemmy.ml" it returns communities such as "wholesomememes@lemmy.ml" and "animemes@lemmy.ml" Therefore I can't select "memes@lemmy.ml" to block. I think the search is not including the blank prefix case.
After switching to to Search bottom tab, I press on the search text field, but the keyboard won’t appear/cursor won’t start.
It seems like I should be able to subscribe to a Mastodon channel on Lemmy, but according to this answer from 2 months ago, that isn't part of Lemmy's general direction: https://lemmy.eus/post/163057 Has that changed yet? Is that being looked at by the devs?
www.nytimes.com
Free NYTimes link Archaeologists, and looters, scramble to collect artifacts that used to be at the bottom of the reservoir floor.