One of most people’s biggest complaints about anime is the abundance of fanservice. But what is it? And is it always bad? Let’s take a deep dive into anime fanservice and find out.

This is a good video, and I especially appreciate its sex-positivity, but I do wish the author applied more of a feminist lens. People reacting poorly to fanservice as a concept goes far beyond it being utilized poorly and Puritanism, me thinks.

A viral tweet made me curious about looking into the history of fanmade adult content, and I ended up diving into a rabbit hole that goes further than you could ever expect

via: https://youtu.be/yUVWXyNkR2I

‘Due to a freak phenomenon I’ve been calling The End of UX, software companies no longer listen to their users and care about their needs. We are told what we like and what we need, and if we say hell no, we’re accused of being luddites and “behind the times.”‘

It’s quite hard to pick a combination of colors that look good across themese. Ghostty allows to quickly switch theme, but here are some more empirical tests and guidelines.

I really liked Netvibes back in the day, so looking for alternative in our present time.

Desktop environment in the browser

Emphasis my own:

I tried to find the useful information in the original post, and I think I probably succeeded, but the stuff about how Men And Women Are Just Different (on average, yes yes of course on average, anyway THEY’RE JUST DIFFERENT) gave me hives. Within- versus between-group differences!! Finding the good points felt like trying to pick out chocolate chips that someone poured over a bowl of overcooked brussels sprouts; the chocolate inevitably still tasted like rotten eggs. There’s got to be a way to hold simultaneously the ideas that people of all genders are very similar and that it’s fine and good to want to be a successful specimen of your gender specifically.

via: https://thingofthings.substack.com/p/contra-a-review-of-dating-men-in/

Product-market fit has a prerequisite that most AI founders ignore. Before the market can pull your product, the model must be capable of doing the job. That’s Model-Market Fit.

Use a (gitignored) file for interactive scripting. Instead of entering a command directly into the terminal, write it to a file first, and then run the file.

Listen to Ratchet and Clank 3 (Up Your Arsenal) - All Soundtracks, a playlist curated by Im4xel_ on desktop and mobile.

via: https://lobste.rs/s/avdx9j/bootstrap_chain_for_nixos_which_builds