Actual translated quote from Fujimoto's Da Vinci Magazine interview

Image transcription:

Fujimoto: This might be a reflection of how, not just in Japan but now in the entire world, during the recession, social structures of control and exploitation emerged. However I don't necessarily think that being used is all bad...Consider the Mongol street children. They live in pipes under the streets and fish through trash every day to get anything to eat and afterwards to not use up their little energy all they do is sleep. As long as they continue loving this way, nothing will change, but I can't bring myself to think that's all bad. So when Denji and Pochita are living a similar life together, there are many difficulties but it's not unfortunate. That's how I wanted to depict them.

Bottom panel; excerpt from second to last chapter

Pochita (Disembodied voice): "Unfortunately, you [Denji] must have noticed too. You were far happier starving and suffering, fighting devils and eating spoiled bread in that run-down shack."

Chainsaw Man fans it's over, Tatsuki Fujimoto has come out as Japanese (circa 1940).

I have no idea how this person was able to write Part 1 while holding all of these incoherent worldviews together. It's great to know that while he was writing Denji losing his testicles to human traffickers that he was thinking of the Impoverished Mongolian Child.

Millions of fans and the only thing he can come up with is to personally shit on each and every one of them for multiple years of serialization. (<- This character (Nayuta) has no arc and was quite literally fridged for the male lead's development which is him saying he'll make another family to replace his old one again).

Mangaka Man is NOT one of us, not even close.

They also can't make any new changes to the compiler because it would break horribly.

It also doesnt even generate correct assembly.

Original blog: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler

Disclaimer: I dislike 2b2t, but the video does go over a harmful effect that these rule enforcements bring which is that all the harmful players on 2b2t will find other servers to play in instead of containing them in a place that the average player will never think about.

But also for drawing swastikas in response to getting told to not make hate symbols.

Also the minecraft EULA has always been the most confusing document to read. They're even being sued in sweden for it.

• https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/eula

They basically have infinite powers until they decide to use them, which is what Microsoft wants to do now.

Don't buy into proprietary software, this will always happen. There's a libre implementation of blockgame called Luanti.

The season's ending was pretty disappointing (https://hexbear.net/comment/6743863)

I wonder if Manousos figures out that he can disable the plurb through outbursts and just keeps doing that to one plurb'd node and Carol would have to stop him. If this plot ends up happening I'd be disappointed because I just came up with it in 30 seconds.

Bravo Vince collecting the apple check to do whatever he wants with a sci-fi show that can basically magic any scenario he wants out of thin air and be patted on the back for it.

Also Carol is also just like Diabaté (French speaking dude with the air force one) and only stops when she realizes that she can't treat the plurb as her own sexual fantasy and slaves.

Manousos is goated only because he envisions a world where the virus is cured. Diabaté is also great because he shares little to nothing about himself and gets to learn a ton from the plurb without them suspecting him (and is actually trying to find a solution to the windfall thing).

Carol shooting at manousos with a shotgun got me heated, white people will always ruin the day.

In any case, I don't know what angle the show is going for. I guess people called it when it became a christian "lets save the world" type story by someone who only sees the world through ideology.

Perplexity AI Search in Firefox

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Again I must go into my 100+ line firefox configuration and remove this shit.

• https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986
• https://crimier.github.io/posts/Framework-Omarchy/
• https://gardinerbryant.com/the-omarchy-framework-thing/
• https://community.frame.work/t/withdrawing-all-financial-association-from-framework-until-further-changes/76005

The hitlerite particle CEO says:

We support open source software (and hardware), and partner with developers and maintainers across the ecosystem. We deliberately create a big tent, because we want open source software to win. We don’t partner based on individuals’ or organizations’ beliefs, values, or political stances outside of their alignment with us on increasing the adoption of open source software. We’ve sent out large quantities of hardware to folks at Fedora, Bluefin, Bazzite, NixOS, Arch Linux, Linux Mint, Omarchy, and many other distros, and have sponsored either the organizations directly or events with Linux Foundation, LVFS, NixOS, Debian, KDE, Hyprland, and others. Within the team itself, personal distro and OS preferences span basically every Linux distro you can imagine along with FreeBSD. I personally am running machines with Fedora (for machine learning), Bazzite (for gaming), Omarchy (general productivity), and Windows 11 (when I have to).

I definitely understand that not everyone will agree with taking a big tent approach, but we want to be transparent that bringing in and enabling every organization and community that we can across the Linux ecosystem is a deliberate choice.

Big tent is when you support British Nazi trash known as DHH. Framework CEO personally uses a distribution that has "Super GroKKK" built-in and chatgpt.

Garbage company, Garbage CEO (their products are so fucking overpriced).

Nerd fascism is the fastest growing fascism there is!

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We eating good tonight.

No break is this really going to shape the entirety of one piece in 2025?!

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We eating good tonight.

No break is this really going to shape the entirety of one piece in 2025?!

No, you're going to get BANNED! LUFFY!!!

Corporate goodbye post: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/goodbye-github/

GitHub employees are called "hubbers"

GitHub is now folded into Microsoft more explicitly than before and is now a platform for advertising Microsoft products.

For those who love "open source", I'm glad many have no cognitive dissonance to hosting on GitHub (and using VSCode when Emacs is right there), a proprietary made-for-profit Microsoft product that is probably the single biggest reason for the virus that is permissive licensing.

Anyway, fuck GitHub, statistically speaking only 1 other person is going to contribute to your "open source" project if you're lucky so using GitHub is an abuse in of itself.

Also:

• https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/other-site-policies/github-and-trade-controls

We are committed to advocating for the broadest possible developer access, as we believe offering code collaboration services for developers in sanctioned regions makes the global developer community stronger, advances human progress, and supports the enduring U.S. foreign policy of promoting free speech and the free flow of information.

On which countries and territories are U.S. government sanctions applied?

Crimea, the separatist areas of Donetsk and Luhansk, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Syria. With respect to Iran, however, GitHub now has a license from the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to provide cloud services to developers located or otherwise resident in that country. GitHub cloud services, both free and paid, are also generally available to developers located in Cuba.

Literally anything but GitHub:

• https://notabug.org/
• https://sr.ht/
• https://codeberg.org/
• Backing up .git literally anywhere because you don't need GitHub to use git.

Abridged version

This isn’t the first time I’ve blogged about the dearth of truly great PC laptops out there, and I suspect it won’t be the last.

Seven product lines (or is it eight; there’s an extra one in the sidebar not shown in the main view) and 330 distinct models! How can a normal person who isn’t a laptop enthusiast find anything in here? Even my eyes glaze over when I’m trying to distinguish the differences between the models and product lines.

HP further complicates things by having separate sites for consumer laptops and business laptops.

You might think that this level of choice should provide anything one could want, but that’s not true. Most of the models differ by like 1% and make all the same mistakes, copy-pasted across the while product line. Maintaining so many product lines at a reasonable level of development and quality is impossible, even for companies of their size with billions of dollars to throw at the problem.

These companies are clearly trying to micro-target specific market segments to match prices to buyers’ budgets, but offering so much choice is foolish. Most buyers — even big commercial buyers — are not informed enough to be able to pick the perfect device from among a massive blob of options presented at the same level, causing choice paralysis and lost sales, disappointing purchases that reduce brand loyalty, and expensive returns.

There has to be a better way!

The author is a high level contributor to KDE (read: nerd), and even they can't figure this shit out. Honestly the laptop market is getting more shit by the day with every company taking a leaf out of apple's book (no upgradeability, repairability, glossy design) but they don't have the credentials to back it up. You end up in a market where everyone's chasing the macbook pedestal but are shipping hot, plastic devices with no ports and soldered components.

I just caught up to the current chapter of HxH (as of writing that's chpt. 408) and I'm wondering what other hexbears have to think about HxH?