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  1. Comment on Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO | Teaser PV in ~anime

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    That's great, thanks a lot!!

    That's great, thanks a lot!!

  2. Comment on Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO | Teaser PV in ~anime

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    I've never watched any, but always wanted, there's just so much it's intimidating. Where would you recommend I start? Gundam Unicorn and anything that came after that? Edit: maybe Witch from...

    I've never watched any, but always wanted, there's just so much it's intimidating. Where would you recommend I start? Gundam Unicorn and anything that came after that?

    Edit: maybe Witch from Mercury that @NonoAdomo recommended below

    2 votes

  3. Comment on Power consumption of LLM's in ~tech

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    Indeed. I feel that if we could just stop now with pre training and focus on post training and better harness and other tooling, things would keep improving and the damage would be way more...

    Indeed. I feel that if we could just stop now with pre training and focus on post training and better harness and other tooling, things would keep improving and the damage would be way more acceptable moving forward. But capitalism will never let that happen.

    3 votes

  4. Comment on Power consumption of LLM's in ~tech

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    I don't think they publish any official numbers, not sure. I remember this post from a while ago that said: https://simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01-20-cc-impact/ But people pointed out that, back...

    I don't think they publish any official numbers, not sure. I remember this post from a while ago that said:

    So, if I wanted to analogize the energy usage of my use of coding agents, it’s something like running the dishwasher an extra time each day, keeping an extra refrigerator, or skipping one drive to the grocery store in favor of biking there.

    https://simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01-20-cc-impact/

    But people pointed out that, back then, if you included the model training costs as well it would be more like running 10 extra fridges. Hard to tell how that compare to today's numbers.

    I think the current costs of LLM inference is "not too bad", at least for Open Source models you can run at home. It's probably much higher for the larger models due to the hardware requirements.

    But the biggest environment damage comes from model training and, even worse, the new data centers being built. The energy consumption, water, the environmental consequences, all the electronic waste from hardware that only last a few years, etc.

    15 votes

  5. Comment on What are your gaming idiosyncracies? in ~games

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    Probably not what you’re looking for, but I think I like games way more than I like playing games :|

    Probably not what you’re looking for, but I think I like games way more than I like playing games :|

    45 votes

  6. Comment on The zero-days are numbered — Firefox team uses AI to find and fix vulnerabilities in ~tech

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    Any idea where I could find more details about these vulnerabilities? I'm looking at this page, from the 150 release notes, and I see 41 vulnerabilities, only 3 mentioning Claude. Edit: Now I see...

    Any idea where I could find more details about these vulnerabilities? I'm looking at this page, from the 150 release notes, and I see 41 vulnerabilities, only 3 mentioning Claude.

    Edit: Now I see post says "includes fixes for 271 vulnerabilities identified during this initial evaluation". Maybe they identified 271 but only fixed 3?

    2 votes

  7. Comment on New Evangelion series to be written by Yoko Taro in ~anime

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    IIRC, Anno said he was already done with the series after telling the same-ish story 3 times and wanted to pass the torch to other directors to continue building on the same universe. Similar to...

    IIRC, Anno said he was already done with the series after telling the same-ish story 3 times and wanted to pass the torch to other directors to continue building on the same universe. Similar to what he and orhers did with Gundam.

    3 votes

  8. Comment on archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog in ~tech

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    I tried to find it some years ago to host my own and couldn't. They probably needs to keep it private also to prevent companies from finding ways to block it. IIRC, on their Tumblr it's mentioned...

    I tried to find it some years ago to host my own and couldn't. They probably needs to keep it private also to prevent companies from finding ways to block it. IIRC, on their Tumblr it's mentioned that they keep rotating newspaper paid subscriptions to be able to scrape the whole content, unlike Internet Archive.

    4 votes

  9. Comment on archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog in ~tech

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    Just a small note about this point. In some countries, publishing personal information of people even if it's publicly available, can also be considered a crime:...

    Investigative journalism is not a crime.

    Just a small note about this point. In some countries, publishing personal information of people even if it's publicly available, can also be considered a crime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing#Legislation

    23 votes

  10. Comment on archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog in ~tech

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    Sorry, I meant the original 2023 "doxing investigation". He argues it was just out of curiosity, which could be true. But now that FBI is after the site owner, I'm sure they are pretty annoyed...

    To find out why they’re being DDoSed and to get them to stop.

    Sorry, I meant the original 2023 "doxing investigation". He argues it was just out of curiosity, which could be true. But now that FBI is after the site owner, I'm sure they are pretty annoyed this info is more easily available and require no OSINT, just Google.

    6 votes

  11. Comment on archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog in ~tech

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    I'm probably gonna be alone on this, but what did the author expect after writing a whole investigation trying to dox their identity? I'm of course annoyed that my bandwidth could be used for this...

    I'm probably gonna be alone on this, but what did the author expect after writing a whole investigation trying to dox their identity? I'm of course annoyed that my bandwidth could be used for this purpose. But archive.today is a great service that we get basically for free, but lives on the verge of legality. Its admin would have their live destroyed if their info leaks, so what's the point of the investigation?

    15 votes

  12. Comment on SpaceX is acquiring xAI in ~space

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    Suspiciously close to the rumored IPO? I'm sure it's just a coincidence, of course. Good that it may be backfiring a bit now that France authorities raided their offices...

    Suspiciously close to the rumored IPO? I'm sure it's just a coincidence, of course. Good that it may be backfiring a bit now that France authorities raided their offices https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3ex92557jo

    7 votes

  13. Comment on SpaceX is acquiring xAI in ~space

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    of course

    within two to three years

    of course

    5 votes

  14. Comment on A global explosion of absurdly spicy foods in ~food

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    It's so interesting how fast you can build tolerance to spicy food and start craving it if you insist a bit. I used to not be able to tolerate even Tabasco and the first time I tried Buldak, the...

    It's so interesting how fast you can build tolerance to spicy food and start craving it if you insist a bit. I used to not be able to tolerate even Tabasco and the first time I tried Buldak, the much less spicy cheese flavored version, I thought it was insane someone could enjoy that. Now I'm watching the TikTok video on the article and thinking I should probably have that for lunch today.

    2 votes

  15. Comment on Any beautiful and/or interesting magazines you like? in ~design

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    Thanks, I had no idea about Overdrive! But I see it's supported in the country I live, so I'll figure out how to subscribe to some of these libraries.

    Overdrive

    Thanks, I had no idea about Overdrive! But I see it's supported in the country I live, so I'll figure out how to subscribe to some of these libraries.

    2 votes

  16. Any beautiful and/or interesting magazines you like?

    ~design Ask (survey)
    I always loved magazines. Like, real paper magazines. Lately I realized that I can find digital versions or scans somewhat easily and it sparked a new obsession. I'm weird, I know. But there are...

    I always loved magazines. Like, real paper magazines. Lately I realized that I can find digital versions or scans somewhat easily and it sparked a new obsession. I'm weird, I know. But there are so many beautifully designed magazines, such as the Japanese travel-related Transit or the men's lifestyle Brutus. Even their websites are beautiful and worth visiting. There's also this independent Brazilian retro gaming magazine called Jogo Véio that is almost like a love letter to the classic video game magazines.

    I think I've been craving creativity lately, in a World of AI slop and "content" creators. So any magazines you like? What do you like about them?

    21 votes

  17. Comment on What's your favorite RSS reader? in ~comp

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    I've been using NewsBlur since Google killed Google Reader. I think it's pretty much what it would be nowadays if Google had not killed it. A few nice features added, like newsletters or fetching...

    I've been using NewsBlur since Google killed Google Reader. I think it's pretty much what it would be nowadays if Google had not killed it. A few nice features added, like newsletters or fetching full feed for the ones that don't offer it, but not super modern, AI-hyped, etc.

    More recently, I connected it to Reeder Classic (pre-subscription version) on Mac and iPhone. But they have their own app and web version as well.

    1 vote

  18. Comment on Do you recommend any website to host a free sub-forum in Portuguese? Not Reddit. in ~tech

  19. Comment on Request for help: Backing up NASA public databases in ~space

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    This is probably our best option and anyone with some bandwidth and storage to spare can help by running a Warrior themselves.

    This is probably our best option and anyone with some bandwidth and storage to spare can help by running a Warrior themselves.

    4 votes

  20. Comment on Data brokers know everything about you (ft. Yael Grauer) in ~tech

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    Always wondered how big this issue is outside of US. I imagine this is completely illegal in Europe, I think I receive significantly less spam after GDPR. But a few years back recruiters would...

    Always wondered how big this issue is outside of US. I imagine this is completely illegal in Europe, I think I receive significantly less spam after GDPR. But a few years back recruiters would call me a lot and one told me they got my number from one of these brokers that offered a way of matching data with LinkedIn profiles.

    4 votes