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  • NYes, I can go into more details! In the early manga, Yugi solves the puzzle in chapter 1 and transforms into Yami Yugi after both him and Joey (Jono-Uchi in the manga) are threatened by a guy who was at first pretending to be defending Yugi against Joey who was bullying him but then immediately demanded money from him. Yami Yugi challenges him to a game where they put the stack of money on their own hands and start picking bills with a knife (they must each take at least one per turn but lose if they stab their hands). When the other guys tries to cheat by stabbing Yugi, he uses tge power of the ouzzle to drive him insane as a punishment.

    The rest is along these lines for a long time, a new villain and a new game every two chaoter. Sometimes they’re plugging actual games, I think some chaoters might be sponsored, lie the tamagochi one.

    But interestingly, the first one with the card games isn’t. I think it’s strongly implied to be a reference to Magic: The Gathering (hence why they say it’s from the US, for example). But since they didn’t use the actual name or monsters and didn’t get into details of the rules, there was potential for monetization, which was realized a but later.

    Kaiba is already the villain of the first chapters featuring the card game, but the first episodes of the anime are really a mix of the two first Kaiba encounters, which are many chapters apart (and the card game doesn’t come back until Kaiba does).

    In the first encounter, Kaiba doesn’t have the Blue Eyed White Dragon, he steals it from Yugi who borrowed it from his Grandpa and Yami Yugi defeats him. We have the first idea of “the soul of cards” whith the BEWD refusing to fight for Kaiba. But we’re not really told that cards have an inherent soul because they’re from a sacred game, that’s all invented later. It’s more that this card was given to Yugi’s grampa by a precious friend and he treasures it because of it; and objects that are precious to someone become imbued with their soul.

    Second encounter is after Kaiba beat Yugi’s grandpa and ripped his dragon. Yugi and friends actually have to climb a tower full of deadly games and traps to get to him, and then it’s the first duel from the anime.

    Extra elements that are explained by this is that the inspirations for the hollograms Kaiba created is the traumatizing hallucinations Yami Yugi made him experience during his first duel. The reason why Yugi’s grandpa was unwell and in danger after the duel is that Kaiba, immitating Yami Yugi, subjected him to holograms of monsters attacking him after defeating him, which gave him a heart attack.

    Shahdi and Bakura both appear a bit before the manga shifts completely to card games, hence why Bakura’s introduction in the anime was pretty rushed. In the manga, the first game he plays is a ttrpg.


  • You’re on the open-source community, of course we’ll be biased in favour of open source. One thing to point out is that open-source and closed source are both pretty broad categories that cover several licenses. Source available means people can see the code, but there are restrictions to how they can use it. Is there a specific thing you don’t want people to do with your code? Do you not want them to edit it for example? Or you’re fine with them editing it, but not for commercial purpose ? Any restriction of this type will make it source-available. If you’re fine with them doing anything, it’s open source. If you want them to mention somewhere that their code is based on yours, it’s still open source. And if you want any code made by editing yours to also be open source, that’s still open source (that’s the idea of the GPL). But other restrictions might make it not fit that category.

    I personally usually default to the GPL3, I’m fine with people doing anything with my code except making it non-open source. Well “my code”… It might be a bit presumptious of me, I’m not really a programmer, I’ve just made a few small and not very useful things. There may be legitimate reasons for not wanting your code to be open source sometimes, but for me the stakes have always been low.

    As for whether using Github creates an expectation for Open-Source… Not so much at this point. It’s very used by the Open-Source community, but not only. Plus, it’s not really open-source itself, so the most purist prefer other git platforms like git-lab, forgejo or source-hut.



  • I think there’ll always be an issue depending on how dependent a project is on a company. Because the main risk isn’t that some bumbleling idiot of a CEO will run the projects and his company to the ground, but that sensible people will take decisions that serve their own interests, but not the interests of users.

    Free software creates a framework wherein companies may have an interest in the success of a project and contribute to it. This is a good thing, insofar that to companies, the project is just a tool that needs to work well and to the programmers, the company is just one of several contributors.

    In a community driven project, those who take decisions are the programmers who directly contribute to it and who are also usually users. Their interests are closer to those of all other end users. They want the project to work, and that may also be what financial contributors want.

    However, if the software is a product of the company, they’ll intend to extract value from it directly. The interest of shareholders will supercede those of programmers and end users. That is why they may take decisions that are bad from a user’s perspective, not because their dumb, but because they have other interests in mind.
    Inserting adds is a good way to get fundings from add companies at the detriment of users.
    Adding suscription tiers is a good way to extract wealth from part of the users. Adding AI is a good way to secure loans from banks that speculate on the AI bubble, and maybe even from companies like Nvidia, interested in making the bubble last and grow.

    It’s not a matter of being sensible or not, it’s a matter of whose interest you’re sensibly serving.


  • What was that joke about Firefox again? “We’re the browser beloved for being the only one not hitting our dick with a hammer. Now, you’re probably wondering why we brought this hammer and and took out our dick. Well you see…”

    More seriously, I think until the bubble pops, writing “AI” anywhere is a way for companies to attract fundings, and that money is too easy for many to pass.

    That’s why I tend to trust community managed distros over corpo ones. I don’t see Arch or Debian pulling this bullshit.

    Tho, I’d still be suspicious of the other big private company, Redhat; which is very involved in maintaining Systemd.

    Honestly, if it comes to this I’ll distro-hop as far as I need to escape AI.








  • True, but the pressure wave is what is being perceived when hearing, light is what is being perceived when seeing, I never said what was being perceived had to be matter. In the case of touch, some molecules may enter the skin, but that is not the cause of the sensation. Even if you imagine an perfectly hard, smooth and clean surface that sheds no molecule, you should still be able to feel of you touch it.

    However, I thought about it after making this post, but there also is a small amount of kinetic energy entering you when you touch something, and that may be what triggers your nerve… So I guess even in the case of touch, it remains true that you can only perceive something that’s inside of you.






  • If we exclude Musk, no, it’s not worse than Instagram. Musk is a pretty big deal tho. Now, the Zucc is pretty evil too, so anyway I’d say Instagram and Facebook are fair contenders for worst platform.

    Personally I deleted Twitter as soon as the purchase by Elongated Muskrat was confirmed. I deleted Facebook and Instagram more recently (I hesitated longer because I was using it more to communicate with irl acquaintances). I still use WhatsApp, until I can get some people I need to keep in contact with to start using Signal or Telegram (I know I’m not gonna get them on Matrix or xmpp, not worth trying), but it’s also owned by the Zucc so it bothers me to keep using it.


  • This really depends on how you define bugs, and I keep seing different definitions. The most restrictive one: Just the infra-order hemiptera (insects that generally have two pairs of wings, with the anterior wings covering the posterior wings while overlapping with each-other a bit… But some of them lost their wings altogether, like fire bugs). That includes stinkbugs, cicadas, and aphids but excludes other infra-orders of insects (butterflies, wasps, beetles, grasshoppers,flies…)

    A broader definition is simply synonimous with insects.

    Then, many definitions are polyphyletic (which means some bugs may be more cloaely related to some none-bugs than to each-other). A common one could be “land arthropods” and would include insects, arachnids, myriapods and isopods (which are crustaceans) but that’d still exclude limules, which are mostly aquatic. That would, however, now include some species of hermit crab and not others, which is too counterintuitive, so maybe explicitly ban decapod crustaceans from being bugs? Then again, I saw people refer to shrimps as bugs, and they’re also decapods. You could add a size constraints, but the smallest crabs are smaller than the biggest true bugs (even by the narrowest definition).

    Then, you could drop the “land” constraint and go back to a monophyletic definition by making it synonimous with arthropod. That definition would finally include limules.

    But then, so are crabs, so are sea-spiders, and so are all the extinct guys like trilobites (which are more related to myriapods, crustaceans and insects), eurypterids (aka sea scorpions, more related to limules and arachnids) and radiodonts anomalocaris (less related to extant arthropods than they are to each-others).

    trilobites

    eurypterid

    anomalocaris

    radiodonts

    Ok, maybe we can exclude radiodonts by taking the crown arthropod group. But triolobites and eurypterids must definetely stay!

    By this broader definition (whether or not you keep radiodonts in it), the biggest bug ever known to have existed would’ve been jaekelopterus, one of the eurypterids, at 2.5 meters long! jaekelopterus



  • Fun fact: Finnish and Estonian are both Finnic languages. Meanwhile, the other Nordic countries mostly speak Scandinavian languages an the other Baltic countries speak Baltic languages, which are part of the broader Balto-Slavic group. So really, from a linguistic perspective at least, Finns and Estonians are more similar to each-other than to any of their neighbors. And also pretty similar to Hungary (Magyar being a Finno-Ugric language).