Notices by Takuya (takuya@varishangout.net)
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Takuya (takuya@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 04:51:06 JST Takuya @DarkMahesvara @hispanicweeb Mozilla's top priority is just paying their directors bonuses, and sucking google's dick, since they made themselves financially dependent on them. I became aware of that again by following the tragedy that is JPEG-XL (non-)adoption. It's better than Google's ugly kitbashed pseudo image formats (they're all just video intra frames), but doesn't get adopted because Google doesn't have full control over it, since it's a proper standard, not some strong-armed bullshit a monopoly made up.
Mozilla decided to sabotage JXL the moment their keeper decided that the format needs to die.
Just a few days ago I found this summary a guy wrote about the Mozilla situation: https://www.reddit.com/r/jpegxl/comments/1ckqf62/comment/l2qlkiw/ (sorry for linking to that crap site)
The 2017 date is also mentioned there as the date any real development on Firefox stopped, and they focused on BS like pocket and that VPN nobody asked for. -
Takuya (takuya@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 21:44:52 JST Takuya @Tamamo @hellhammer666 It's already suspicious that a 53 year old JP guy who directs domestic TV shows is relatively good at writing English. I bet he had American contacts for quite a while. Maybe even went to the US to get training from American studios, and got indoctrinated there. -
Takuya (takuya@varishangout.net)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 20:15:21 JST Takuya @SuperSnekFriend @dotnet @Meemoo @theorytoe @Wiz Fuck the admin of that loli church website for converting all pictures to webp -
Takuya (takuya@varishangout.net)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 02:49:25 JST Takuya @Tamamo somehow i'm getting the same attention-whoring "weeb"-blogger/youtuber vibes as from that piece of shit melonpan asshole back then (does that fucker still exist, or did he trash the last of his figures to financially exploit something else?) -
Takuya (takuya@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 21-Mar-2024 03:14:05 JST Takuya @Echigo This news confuses me, since I don't know who I despise more, payment processors or dakimakura companies. -
Takuya (takuya@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 21-Mar-2024 03:14:02 JST Takuya @Echigo This essentially -
Takuya (takuya@varishangout.net)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 04:21:24 JST Takuya @Kyonko802 Pictured: Why visual novels never should've been published on steam, and by extension why anime should not be published on netflix, and why crunchyroll shouldn't exist at all. If whatever you like gets published on an easily accessible mainstream platform, it will attract tourists, who then demand that it should be changed. I never read any retarded demands like that while the only way to play steins;gate was an obscure fan translation, or when it went on sale on J-list. -
Takuya (takuya@varishangout.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 04:44:17 JST Takuya @Vidmastereon @rlier23 Fuck 8-4 - Even after I miraculously mustered the self-control to temporarily calm down over the censorship of Xenoblade Chronicles X, the shitty voice acting made my ears bleed so hard that after 40 hours of gameplay I just couldn't continue. I got rid of that shit and imported the original Xenoblade X and a JP Wii U. Yes, localization can be so fucking bad, that someone buys the fucking worst console in the history of mankind twice. I had a lot of fun playing the original, and will forever avoid games with "chronicles" in the title. -
Takuya (takuya@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 06:07:37 JST Takuya @Iffine @AstolfoCockVore wtf, why would anybody even bother watching something if the level of interest is that low -
Takuya (takuya@varishangout.net)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 03:37:58 JST Takuya @Tamamo @SamBox9029 @poopernova Thanks for the links, and I'm glad somebody uploaded it, but damn I just got reminded again why I absolutely despise e/exhentai. Why do people still feed that porn-hoarding pyramid scheme that holds all original high quality files hostage? :akko_weary:
I guess the lossy jpegs will have to do :akko_sad: -
Takuya (takuya@varishangout.net)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 02:15:10 JST Takuya @Tamamo @SamBox9029 @poopernova Holy crap that's a nice art style! What a waste. I witnessed so many cases where really good art, that had no business getting deleted, needed to be protected from its artist :akko_sad: -
Takuya (takuya@varishangout.net)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 04:45:56 JST Takuya @Vidmastereon @Tamamo @Azur_Fenix It's already so annoying with seemingly every second application being an electron application these days, so google also dictates what standards offline applications can support. -
Takuya (takuya@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 03:46:53 JST Takuya @lapin "Let's all go to the next centralized US-based social media startup, it will be fine this time!" -
Takuya (takuya@varishangout.net)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 04:35:21 JST Takuya @Tamamo @Meemoo @luithe i would be fully on board with watching a girl slaughter armies of security guards, if they didn't do that fucked up scene where the cute loli gets torn to pieces :miku_anger: -
Takuya (takuya@varishangout.net)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 04:27:21 JST Takuya @Tamamo @Meemoo @luithe i remember them leaving the city on that weird vehicle, but i think i never got much further, or maybe just forgot -
Takuya (takuya@varishangout.net)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 04:26:39 JST Takuya @Tamamo @Nanakoko @Dechi Also fucking crypton future media with vocaloids before, although iirc they never sent c&d orders, but released a fanart license that their simps parroted and used to bully artists with. And after that also Zun ordering DLsite (edit: iirc just the English DLsite, not the JP one) to cease distributing r-18 touhou doujin. Just 2 cases that come to mind.
Another case that ended with a positive example was Negima! (the one with only the exclamation mark in the title), where the publisher Kodansha tried to make Akamatsu Ken sign away more of his rights, so that they could fuck doujin artists. They didn't realize that Akamatsu Ken had his beginnings in the doujin scene and still advocates for it. He got royally pissed and fucked over the manga's entire story to end it early and show the middle finger to Kodansha. It was later rebooted, and he enforced his own terms in the new contract that prevent the publisher from fucking over people again. -
Takuya (takuya@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 10:22:36 JST Takuya @poopernova @VTArgyle Needs to be the full girl. Also are people seriously still writing "thicc"? -
Takuya (takuya@varishangout.net)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 03:39:09 JST Takuya @Meemoo Meanwhile ignorant me is just jerking off to the green girl i found hot pics of, without a care about who the fuck used her as vtuber avatar at some point in the past or not :kekw: -
Takuya (takuya@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jan-2024 23:58:23 JST Takuya @LoliHat @MaliceinSlumberland I recently bought a nice bunny girl figure, and the store shipped it in a large funko box. I guess I could've reported this to their customer service as harassment, but fortunately the neighbors don't know what those abominations are. In my imagination the store did it so that my package wouldn't get stolen during shipping :kekw: -
Takuya (takuya@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jan-2024 09:39:41 JST Takuya Never rely on wikipedia. After a long time I wanted to check if there are any interesting new photogrammetry projects, and thought of checking if there is a comparison page. There is one, and it doesn't even list VisualSFM and fucking AliceVision/Meshroom, or rather, is just an ad-page for proprietary commercial software: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_photogrammetry_software
Turns out there used to be a long list, but a lobby-bought moderator has had free reign deleting everything, got god status at some point and nobody is allowed to question the guy.
People have been calling this shit out since 2018, but the industry seems to have an iron grip on everything photogrammetry related there. There is no way nobody ever wrote articles for those open source projects. Most likely they got deleted.
There is one about SFM (structure from motion, not valve's porn maker), but it also has no reference to VisualSFM and Meshroom, which are both mature open source implementations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_from_motion