Very cool!

Michel Gondry made some amazing videos, and one of my absolute favorites was Cibo Matto’s Sugar Water. Blew my mind the first time I saw it. https://youtu.be/EN9auBn6Jys

It really comes across as quite dirty to me. What if your ass crack starts to itch? You going to go direct hand to crack for the scratch? What about issues with post-urination leakage?

Inaccurate headline. The bill doesn’t ban web scraping, it just requires that bots accurately identify themselves through the user agent string, and maybe some additional requirements to disclose the purpose of scraping the data.

From the article

Most are heap or stack overflows in parsers and demuxers, spanning components from the TS demuxer to the VP9 decoder. depthfirst says some already carry CVE identifiers; its writeup lists nine, CVE-2026-39210 through CVE-2026-39218, and notes the rest are fixed but not yet numbered. It also published a PoC.

I have always watched subbed except for a few shows that I watched on TV back in the day. I don’t really know what it is, but the dubbed voices just always feel off. I can watch American animation and the English voices feel perfectly fine. But show me an anime with English voices and it’s like an uncanny valley sort of thing.

Hmmm, that’s weird, I didn’t even realize this feature existed until I read your post. Guess I have always had it disabled, and I’ve never run into the issue. Have you also deleted the default bookmarks? The address bar will prefer bookmarks when you start typing an address, so if you don’t delete the default ones that come with Vivaldi, they might be autocompleting?

https://vivaldi.com/blog/what-is-direct-match/

WTF are games for retired people?

Put it on YouTube.

Aren’t things like discord (or any other more preferable chat service) basically what you are talking about?

I’m pretty sure AI is objectively smarter today than it was 5 years ago.

Sounds like a good idea. Now we just need a way to determine which users are kids and which are adults. I’ve got it! We can use age verification for that, and we’ll probably also need to ban vpns to stop kids from getting around it.

Wtf, pizza hut doesn’t employ their own delivery drivers anymore? Sounds like they are complaining because they outsourced delivery and now they don’t like how the work is getting done.

I lined up to get the Wii on it’s release date. I went to Walmart at around 11 am to wait on the midnight launch. We were put in the garden center, and it was pretty chill. The guy at the front kept a list so people could go to the bathroom or to grab food without losing their spot. One guy brought a portable TV with a PlayStation and guitar hero, so we spent a lot of time playing that. I brought my DS, but not many people in line had one. It turned out to be a fun and memorable experience, but I’ve never waited in line like that again.

In what way did Microsoft miss the Internet wave? Internet explorer was basically the gatekeeper of the Internet for a while, to the extent that it led to the antitrust case.

Without the Internet, you had to find other ways of entertaining yourself. Regular toys and board games and stuff were played with a lot. As an only child, I would sometimes play my board games by myself, acting as 2 players (yeah, sad I know). I remember getting lots of activity books and coloring books when I was really young. Then as I got older I read a lot of magazines and books. The Readers Digest was kept in the bathroom, and I would read jokes or stories from it while on the toilet. Things like Legos could keep you busy for hours. I got a Nintendo and it consumed most of my time. The games were simple, but tended to be difficult, and you would just play it over and over and over again. On Fridays after school you could go to the video store to rent a movie or game as some weekend entertainment. Going to the movie theater seemed to be reasonably priced back then. There were arcade games all over the place, like at the movie theater, inside convenience stores, even in the pizza hut. We used to actually go to the pizza hut and sit down at a table to eat, it was fun. Before cable or satellite TV, there were only like 3 channels, and they went off at night.

Its easy to think of it similar to something like computer hardware or game consoles. There is always newer and better hardware coming out. And the newer stuff is always more efficient (performance/watt) than the old stuff. But the user’s expectations increase as well, so new hardware doesn’t just aim to be more efficient, it aims to be more powerful. Then that sets a new baseline for expectations.

So a lot of these LLM and other types of models are very much like that. The newer models definitely bring improvements in efficiency and performance. But no one wants to sit still, they have to keep pushing the envelope to make them better and more powerful.

A couple months back, I had an Internet outage, and decided to just watch some over the air TV. My TCL TV wouldn’t even display the standard TV broadcast without an Internet connection.

Is there any benefit to this over ublock origin?