>>43548
Does GNU count as a political group?

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>>43549
Part of the same movement. Roughly saying the social media clowns are the face, pajeets are the hands. If pajeets were everywhere it would be too suspicious.
>>43550
Yes and at this point in time they're quite retarded too. Their initial effort was valiant, if what I read is correct they gave birth to the whole open source thing, but right now they're as full of issues as any other open source organization.

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And yes if you're about to call me down for conspiracy for god's sake keep it to yourselves, please.

>>/tat/1799/ seems like a more suitable thread if anyone did want to continue the discussion.

>>43361
>That's odd
That's not odd at all. I am not going to rant about capitalism though.

Maybe asking here is a shot in the dark, but does anyone know any good Russian imageboards/textboards or forums? I learned some Russian but I haven't had the opportunity to really put the language to use yet, and I've heard that the grass is greener on the other side, so...

>>43541
>pic related
Die.

>>43541
I just lurk on ычан and also just the анимублядсках threads on харкач/a/ and /media/ (the mp4/webum ones).
Доброчан was alright too, but it died-ed-ed, but maybe whatever bunker they found themselves in is alright too, haven't checked.

>pic related
pic related

>>43450
>>43449
Ok at this point I really can't tell if >>43443 was supposed to be a joke mocking the misunderstanding of normalfags suddenly learning about DeepSeek for the first time while knowing nothing about the field of ML, or if it's just actual cluelessness.

The R1, V3, and DeepSeekMath papers are very well written and approachable (compared to the usual impenetrable academia stuff). For your own sake just skim the source materials and stop listening to what people say online.

>>43443
>>43442
I think on a more holistic note, the reason why the West is scared about DeepSeek is because it's a model they can't control. Yes it's true that their team is very clever given their constraints, but if it was solely just a matter of losing marketshare DeepSeek would have already been crushed (after all, the bitter pill is that "gpus go brr", i.e. all of the cleverness can just be made up for with more compute). The fact that they haven't even released their O3 model publicly shows that they probably don't care about revenue or marketshare in any way, the only real threat is lack of control.

In the west "AI safety/alignment" is just a thin euphemism for propaganda/censorship. There's no way that they're spending all this effort on guardrails just to prevent people from writing smut, most likely they realized that by using erotica as a test-case, they can have horny anons serve as a motivated and free red team.

https://near.blog/personality-basins/

>>43532
I read this, and while the author does have an interesting concept, it feels like a "dude, just go outside and you won't be sad" sort of article but with a scientific twist.
That's probably just my resentment towards mentally healthy people seeping through and clouding my judgement though.

I started off with SOl and iyashikei and still like it the most. I haven't found any other media with that same comfy feeling but even if I did I'm not sure I'd care if it didn't have 2D girls.
But I'm older now and watch very little anime and almost no seasonal series. I find that I'm either going back and reading the manga of some of shows I remember fondly or else sticking with long-running series and as a result I feel like I'm a bit stuck in the early 2010's. I read recent stuff as well but it's harder to find things that interest me. I guess that trend will continue but I've been a little more excited lately because some of my favorite series got new chapters or unexpected new seasons.

They expanded but that's all, I don't really watch anime though, I'm a manga kind of guy, I started mostly with battle shonen, rom/com and Isekai, to this day (around 6-8 years since I got into manga) I still love these genres dearly but nowadays I can read just about anything except +18 shit, things with too much Ecchi (softcore porn honestly), yaoi or Yuri.

Outside of those things pretty much anything can be read, last manga I really enjoyed and I'm keeping an eye on is Nobunaga's chef, I decided to read Eat-Man too, sadly many chapters have not the best quality but it is what it is, I've read worst translations/scan lations.

>>43500
But yuri is the best, the holiest genre ever created by (wo)man!

I was going to write a timeline of all the major series I've been into, but it pretty much boils down going back and forth between CGDCT, psychological, idols, war, slice of life.
It's like feeling the urge to eat something salty after eating something sweet or vice versa.

At some point in time I remember writing off battle shonen as garbage, but I've somehow come back around to liking them. I tend to enjoy the universe and the characters on their own rather than the events occuring within the series. The older series also have a backlog of spinoff games with original storylines, which I really enjoy. Pic rel

I've grown out of multimedia franchises like Bandori and Love Live though. It's really tiresome to keep up. Upgradng my phone, logging in daily, ranking in events, reading all the manga adaptations, wathcing the anime, watching all the MVs, real time web series, this, that...I just listen to the music now.

>42465
>It's less so new doujin circles but moreso individual artists.
It definitely feels that way when checking download sites. I've been listing to the same few groups over the years as well and everytime I branch out I feel so lost. I'll give the artists you've listed a listen.

>>42982
% grep -rl "referent" .
./tat/res/380.html
./tat/res/85.html
./tat/index.html
./ot/res/12292.html
./ot/res/11220.html
./ot/res/12292+50.html
./ot/res/37253.html
./ot/res/16448.html
./ot/arch/res/11249.html
./ot/arch/res/2516.html
./vg/res/2003.html
./an/res/35784.html
./an/res/33339.html

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>>42985
Brilliant, you're amazing. I found the post I was looking for, it's >>/an/37137. As I suspected, my memory was right and I was searching for the right keywords (I knew I had mentioned something about accusative or noun phrase), just that all search engines fail at their basic job and simply don't have it in their index.

>Still under 1GB compressed.
Yeah there was some junk in /mp3/ and /ddl/. Removing that, the uncompressed size is 873M. I highly suspect that excluding those and using better compression like 7z you could get a resulting size of < 150M or so. You could also remove the +50 or +100 version of the thread html since they are redundant.

> I used a very rudimentary method
Out of curiosity, what was this method? I'd think that it would suffice to just rsync over anything ending with the html extension, right? Also are you the same anon who made the >>/navi/3378 thread?

Not exactly a clear/objective request, but does anyone know any moe artists with an aesthetic similar to https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/13824728 ? At least with a theme of physical illness (not guro) and a washed out palette.

>>43529
Their colors aren't muted, but the line work in that reminds me of this artist's
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/482483

Post edited on 23rd Feb 2025, 11:08am

>>42718
It's not stay mad anon, Ecchi definitely js, but full blown pornography or lewd isn't.

>>43020
You're a moron if you think that's true. The big pillars of otaku culture are the lolicon boom (which centered around stuff like Lemon People and Cream Lemon) and eroge (self-explanatory).

>>42695
>>42708
I'm happy that they haven't discovered Key yet (as far as I know) despite attaching to popular 00's media. I dread the day that I see a picture of Nagisa smoking weed or whatever.
>>42970
Just curious but can you give me an example of some of these sites? I only know about 2chan & 5chan... I have taken a look at them before and they looked rather boring (but maybe part of that is not understanding their jargon).

>>42964
Really don't wanna revive a topic that should probably die down, but I agree, the traditional otaku archetype is definitely gone now, which is a bit sad since it was still common to see people like that even in like 2014. Goes to show how obnoxiously different the western fanbase is now. From a whole campaign trying to literally bully/harass anime fans online (think the mid-late 2010s) to it suddenly being cool to like it, it honestly sucks that it had to be this way. Definitely miss seeing more people in popular online spaces who would challenge you to watch anything other than shonen.

>>43522
yep and intel too i think a wrapper can mitigate this issue

>>43523
I don't have nearly enough knowledge to get it working myself, but these seem like good starting points.

https://github.com/mikex86/LibreCuda
https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA/discussions/31

A bit of fucking irony but seems I got somewhat (or not somewhat at all) burnt out from doing fuck all (that is consuming media [books/anime] like a retards [because the books/anime are primarily targeted at infantile men, teenagers and retards]). This now makes me feel sick of everything and that is sickening in itself. Not an unusual ramble coming from a retard like me, seen it many times in other places coming from many other people, but damn it doesn't feel great at all.

Not too great I guess. Got abused to hell and back by my family since they still think I'm a NEET despite literally not actually being one. You think I'd get used to this for the umpteenth time being in my 20s and all but...nope. Still painful. That said, I should read a 4koma on my ereader or something. Just anything cute to get my mind off of how I'm perceived.

For those from the US, how do you feel about the whole tariffs situation?

>>43514
Possibly should be on /tat/?

>>43515
It has a direct impact on buying things doesn't it?

>>43514
Hello, posts pertaining to politics must be made to /tat/ (>>/r/15). Please create a thread there if you wish to discuss this matter.

>>43516
It is relevant but nonetheless political.

Post edited on 18th Feb 2025, 5:44pm

>>43506
Looks nice Tohno. I enjoyed zooming in on the little town area. What are those 5 blue USBs for behind your monitors?

>>43510
They're used for VR trackers. I've played a bit of VRC here and there. I believe each tracker needs it's own.

>>43511
Ah I see. I played a bit myself but it never clicked with me so I don't know much about the tracker things. Thank you for the better view, the cars in particular are fun to look at. I think we gave my mom a building like those for Christmas a couple years back, though it was a British set.

>>43506
I like the Touhou CDs back there.

*conclusions. Apologies, my pc died and any alternative I have is awful and I am not used to it.

>>43479
They obviously have self-esteem issues and don't feel "qualified" to call themselves an otaku, despite probably being more invested than the majority of people who show up to cons.

>>43472
Sorry if this sounds insufferable, I'm drunk.
First, get out of your mind that you need to get fluent/reach N1 by "x date", like "4 years". This is a stupid mindset way too many people adopt. I've met people who reached N1, or whatever useless arbitrary standard they think is worth bragging over, that nonetheless can hardly even speak the language or read long-form content. Do it for fun. Likewise, you're going to need to put time in. People say "10 minutes a day is better than nothing", and that's true to an extent, but you will not learn a language if you don't put a significant amount of time into it.

With that out of the way, start with learning hiragana and katakana. This should take you a week at most if you dedicate time to it. You don't need a flashcard system for this -- you can get one if you want but honestly it's useless, just find a site that lists them and go through that.
Next, read a grammar guide. People like to circlejerk about some being better than others but honestly it really doesn't fucking matter as long as you learn the basics, people just want e-peen. Try Tae Kim.

Now for the boring shit that loses most people. You could just go on and start reading, but it's going to be suffering and you'll probably get burnt out cause you can't remember shit. I'd recommend downloading Anki, setting up a deck like VNCore or core2k/6k/whatever the new FOTM is, and work through that. Once you finish that, you can move onto reading stuff.

At this point you've got all the boring trash done. You can start reading stuff, but it's going to be slow as hell and you're probably going to hate it for a while. I'd recommend setting up a mining deck on Anki where you 'mine' words you come across and add them to a deck you study, you can look that up; it helps memorize. You can go without one, just keep in mind it'll take longer that way -- however helps you learn best though. I'd recommend either reading manga or easier VNs like moege at the start, you could jump into LNs/novels but you may burn yourself out (altern

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>>43482
Thanks, anon.

hello again!
it seems like this is moreso becoming the monthly otaku extended report for me, ahaha...

>What games are you playing today?
i actually managed to finish Mary Skelter Finale...either late last month or early this month, i forget when. it took me way longer to beat than i thought it would, but i really liked it for the most part!
i plan on hopefully beating Reynatis before the month ends.

>What anime, movies, YouTube channels etcetera are you watching today?
i plan on rewatching Good Night World again, but only so that i can collect screenshots for it.
after that, i still need to catch up on two seasons worth of anime i've missed...

>Have you been listening to any podcasts or music today?
i just woke up, so i actually haven't really had the chance to listen to anything yet!

>Are you reading any manga or literature?

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>What games are you playing today?
I downloaded Planetarian and intend to play it today night. The premise of a story about viewing stars and talking to a robot girl in some post-apocalyptic world, sounds good to me.

>What anime, movies, YouTube channels etcetera are you watching today?
I'm watching a lot of the Xah Lee Livestreams, as they are just enough interesting to have it running in the background as noise, while not being too interesting, so it isn't distracting. Also they are fairly long, so I don't have to concern myself with selecting something new. Other than that, I started watching Clannad, which from what I've seen yet, seems fine to me (I'm 4 episodes in).

>Have you been listening to any podcasts or music today?

>Are you reading any manga or literature?
I still have Yotsuba laying around, but I haven't touched the manga since. I might do so today night, when I go to bed.

>What're you going to have to eat and drink today?
Pasta with Pesto and Caprese as a side dish. Quite a meal, but I'm stuffed now. I'm still drinking blueberry tea.

>What's on your mind right now?

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>What games are you playing today?

Atelier Ryza.

>What anime, movies, YouTube channels etcetera are you watching today?

Girumasu.

>Have you been listening to any podcasts or music today?

No.

>Are you reading any manga or literature?

No.

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>What games are you playing today?
Haven't been playing games much lately, as I haven't been finding them fun. Instead, Visual Novels, right now Tsui no Sora. Doesn't seem like my cup of tea for the time being. Also morrowind here and there.
>What anime, movies, YouTube channels etcetera are you watching today?
Read most of Little Busters, so I've been watching the anime with an online buddy, because I enjoyed it a lot, wanted to see how it was adapted and share it at the same time. Aside from that, I've watched a bit of Galaxy Express 999, maybe watch more this weekend.
>Have you been listening to any podcasts or music today?
More doujin music. Syrufit's new to me and it's not bad.
>Are you reading any manga or literature?
Reading is hard for my addled mind.
>What're you going to have to eat and drink today?
Had chicken breasts covered in ketchup alongside some whisky, Hibiki in particular.
>What's on your mind right now?
Turbulent times ahead at work. It's beneficial for me that things are getting shaken up, but I may be out of a job if things don't go smoothly. Wouldn't be bad. I have plenty of savings so an excuse to return to NEETing would be welcome. Alternatively, I get promoted and have one less incompetent idiot to irritate me.
>And, in general, how are you feeling?
I feel... not bad. I'm tired but, less gloomy than usual.