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jabroni_saladon The disappearance of Japan's animators

Those titles are a result of the webnovel -> lightnovel pipeline. Users won't click unless they like the concept so authors started to just put the tagline directly in the title.

jabroni_saladon The A.I.-Design Aesthetic That's Taking over the Internet

A lot of design is kind of rote and boilerplate and has been for ages.

The original cliparts were paper books. Designers would clip out the pictures they want, glue them to their master document, and then run it through a photocopier. Then later we had the big hero web templates and stock images. Even though every person involved has an excellent camera in their pocket, the thought of using it was unbearable compared to just downloading a stock image. Then we got canva which was basically the perfection of cliparts and stock images.

Now we have AI web design. It's just the newest step of the least exciting 'something needs to exist but its form is mostly without value' category of "content", which is itself a category so devoid of meaning that nobody doing it even bothers to give themselves the title of 'designer' or 'writer' or 'illustrator', instead self labeling as 'content creator'.

For what it's worth though, I find AI designs to be mostly okay? They aren't exciting but at least the ultra low contrast design era is finally over and I can finally have usable scrollbars and easily find the login button on most websites now.

jabroni_saladon GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents

deepseek's direct API is super loosey goosey about caching. On multiple occasions I have gotten cache hits resuming a session from the previous day.

jabroni_saladon The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs

Glad they spent half the article on the a-pillar issue. As a recent recipient of a bit of back pain I'd be real happy if my next car didn't require me to try and peer around those things at every intersection.

jabroni_saladon Steam Machine launches today

This past calendar year I bought a new document scanner, controller, mouse, and DAC that all came with usb-A on the computer end of the included cable. On the peripheral side, I must not have done enough research on 'new' products because only the DAC and mouse have USB-C. Brother's document scanners in 2026 ship with the incredibly horrible usb-3-micro-b and the controller uses a low latency wireless dongle on usb-a.

jabroni_saladon Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

Home: eero. they actually work really well.

Business: aruba instant-on. They cost more and updates are much less frequent. They are also more reliable and the support experience is far superior even though it is HP.

jabroni_saladon I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware

The autotyper can with a little bit of finangling. Every browser has a 'url in title bar' extension avaialble and then you can use that for your autotype matching. If you do not like to use extensions, changing a page's title is a trivial bookmarklet or userscript to make I would think.

jabroni_saladon Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users

I have a GTI and with cruise control on, the speedo and my phone's gps reads exactly the same speed.

jabroni_saladon Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time

this is one of the funniest recurring threads on HN. developers finding out what other developers are requiring from their customers. Bonus points for developers finding out that non-cloud solutions still dominate some industries.

jabroni_saladon Fox to buy Roku

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15Wf_jy5WqOPShczFKQB2...

shield is still competitive. It has become a little laggy but apparently that can be fixed by swapping out the launcher.

jabroni_saladon The Future of Email

for me there were two:

no caldav support so I couldn't get my next appointment as a widget on my phone. Similarly, your contacts in proton are trapped there and cannot sync with any other system (such as your phone...)

limited quantity of aliases compared to fastmail. this is actually a really sticky feature with fm from what I've been seeing. I would have to rename a bunch of accounts or switch to using a catchall to transfer out.

jabroni_saladon I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys

For any lenovo enjoyers, know that you can swap Fn and Ctrl in the bios options.

jabroni_saladon OpenFOV – Webcam head tracking for iRacing

I tried to play Elite Dangerous in VR. It is a very nice game to do that with but personally I found the heavy HMD got uncomfortable inside of a half hour, and I had difficulty reading text. It's fine for combat missions but if I want to design a trade route I'd rather just use my normal monitor.

The other problem is that I have a fancy throttle and stick with lots of extra buttons and switches. I know common functions by touch but if I wanna toggle exterior lights or something I have to look down and find a label.

For me choosing a screen + head tracking vs VR is like choosing to use speakers instead of headphones. The headphones sound way nicer and give much more immersive soundscapes but sometimes you want to have some tunes going and not have your ears get sweaty.

jabroni_saladon A 10 year old Xeon is all you need

Yeah, 1u is gonna do that. Get something that can accommodate a big tower air cooler such as the Hyper 212 and your airflow will be quieter than the disks.

I don't run it anymore but my old server was a dual xeon (with two of those coolers crammed in) and I rarely heard a peep out of it.

jabroni_saladon Don't put aria-label on generic elements like divs

I browse everything at 125% and HN is fine on my machine so I decided to check. It depends on your width.

1080px wide (aka on my vertical monitor) HN comments stop reflowing > 300%

At 1920px wide it never stops reflowing.

jabroni_saladon Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid

My VW wrongly reads a speed limit off of frontage roads instead of my actual road every single day. When the car was new I tried the speed limit beeper just to see and it isn't worth it.

The speed limit display is great for simple highways and I appreciate the warning when I reach a speed zone, but not ready for anywhere complicated.

jabroni_saladon Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site

If you are referring to an organization rather than a family, have a look at Pleasant Password Server.

jabroni_saladon Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site

My first bitwarden invoice is dated november 2019. My concern here is 'squeeze' type activities that other companies with strong M&A leaderships have brought to their customers. For consumers, loyalty is exploited, not rewarded, and one must be vigilant for signals to jump ship.

jabroni_saladon Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid

according to some guys on r/askcarsales the manufacturers have required KPIs for onboarding app users so they just have to do it.

jabroni_saladon Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features

To tack onto this a big annoyance for me right now is the lack of knowledge in the community about frame pacing and how to configure the computer.

The user will say 'it lags' but does not mention if they have tearing enabled in wayland, what are their 1% lows, have they set an fps cap, what vsync settings have they chosen in-game. On top of that there is an ecosystem failure as not every game supports arbitrary caps and you have to configure some mangohud thing.

Linux is only a 'just click play' experience if you have no standards because I have never had this stuff be correct out of the box on a fresh install.

jabroni_saladon Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house

It is not just troopers, it's a lot of IL state employees. Pay being ballooned in the final few years of service is just one of the many reasons the Illinois pension system is in crisis.

jabroni_saladon Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force attacks

sorry, I ninja edited my comment to avoid having an identical discussion as the previous many times I brought up this topic.

It is nice that you know what the law is but that isn't the same as the law being followed. Also the bank was PNC, not the biggest guy ever but not a small player either.

jabroni_saladon Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks

When my bank account got drained, I could not pay rent or any bills. I had enough cash for about a week of food. It took 4 weeks for the bank to decide I could be made whole. Ever since then I have never even put a debit card in my wallet. I know what the laws say. I have read endless "well banks usually[...]" type messages. and yet all the same I one day awoke to find myself transformed into a giant cockroach.

jabroni_saladon I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to

I did a second visit to yellowstone during the winter and it absolutely ruled. Most of it is closed to only commercial operators but the Lamar Valley area is fine if you can get a vehicle with studded tires.

jabroni_saladon AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart

Not even just for their category. "NYT bestsellers" has been manipulated like this since inception.

jabroni_saladon Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11

No no you don't understand. "Here's a picture of some gross toenails" is the sincere best most valuable advertisement that the fourth most valuable company in the united states is capable of delivering. If anything better existed, they would be using it.

jabroni_saladon Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11

The Teams... team... took several years to let us pop out chats to their own windows. The minimum size of the window was almost half my screen for a long time, which was annoying since it had a mobile app and my phone is way smaller.

Someone would send you a document and it took over the entire Teams window. You had to exit it in order to chat with the person about the document. The concept of having more than one 'thing' on screen at the time was completely missing. My only explanation was that the developers had never used a computer before.

jabroni_saladon Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids

Ooma has a wifi box that you plug your handset into. It's not like a POTS where you need to put a jack in every room.

jabroni_saladon Home Assistant waters my plants

1.get a cheap used miniPC from ebay

2. Buy a relevant dongle/antenna for the protocol you want to use. I recommend the ones from Sonoff or from the Home Assistant foundation (I started with the sonoff for zigbee, but added the ZBT-2 for matter/thread. they are both good)

3. install proxmox to the metal.

4. use tteck's install script to make the HAOS vm. Don't make the containers, make the HAOS VM specifically: https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/#home-assistant-os-vm

5. Plug in your dongle(s) and don't forget to assign them to the new VM. You should now be able to start using home assistant. If you're using zigbee, choose zigbee2mqtt rather than ZHA, it's more reliable overall.

My setup is around 2 years old and I haven't had to administrate it at all.

jabroni_saladon Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US

I usually stay out of health convos because it's just not my wheelhouse, but I think most people would benefit from extra fiber. It has an obvious direct benefit to your life the very next time you use the bathroom. I don't know if it is the answer to the rise of colon cancer; this is well studied and seems really easy to work with? We would surely know already. But I do know it's worth doing irrespective of that.