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This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/anime by /u/Elimin8r on 2025-11-19 22:00:10+00:00.


Song 10 - Halloween • Masquerade • Butterfly!

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Good Afternoon!

Konnichiwa!

and welcome to our lovely rewatch discussion of Healer Girl.


Disclaimers:

  • Please do not post spoilers, or other content negative to the rewatching experience.
  • Be most excellent to your fellow rewatchers.
  • Party on, Garth!
  • Enjoy the show!

Image du Jour:

Kana and Reimi invite you to make your choice! What would you like?


Staff Notes:

We have a surprise guest vocalist in today's song, courtesy of Shinobu's grandmother, played by Mika Doi. Mika is probably(?) best known as Queen Serenity in Sailor Moon, Misa Hayase in Macross, and Suiren in The Apothecary Diaries. Hmm...


Song du jour

Here's our lovely Granny singing Kasa no Naka (Under an Umbrella) from Macross.


Questions du Jour:

  1. This episode features some background on Hibiki, as we get to know about her childhood, growing up with Ria, and her own fears and insecurities. How does this affect your thoughts/feelings about her?

  2. Speaking of which, we got some quality Aoi time this episode, as she and Hibiki discuss her own feelings of insecurity and inadequacy. Does this help you feel any better about Aoi?

  3. Would you like to go on a shopping trip with the girls? When they split up, would you choose one to accompany, or???

  4. How about that Halloween spirit? Who do you think had the best song/piece? Did Sonia win the challenge, or did one of the girls take the prize?

  5. Butterflies? WAT???


Questions À Venir:

  1. [Healer Girl]TBD

Final thoughts:

Yesterday's harming music made me think about what kind of healing music I could post. I have some in mind, but I also feel like sharing some of my own personal thoughts about music, and how it can affect us. Should I, or don't bother???


Shoutouts

u/Siegfried72 for today's advice column, overthinking, and the power of hugs.

Hugs, I say!

u/Shimmering-Sky for noticing Ria sending a wave of healing to help the girls keep going.

u/Malipit for not forgetting his goggles

★ All of you for the power of headpats, or something like that, or because I feel like it!

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This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/anime by /u/Pixelsabre on 2025-11-19 20:59:26+00:00.


Episode 13 - Winds of Arras, Answer Me…

Episode aired January 9th, 1980

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Note to all participants

Although I don't believe it necessitates stating, please conduct yourself appropriately and be courteous to your fellow participants.

Note to all Rewatchers

Rewatchers, please be mindful of your fellow first-timers and tag your spoilers appropriately using the r/anime spoiler tag if your comment holds even the slightest of indicators as to future spoilers. Feel free to discuss future plot points behind the safe veil of a spoiler tag, or coyly and discreetly ‘Laugh in Rewatcher’ at our first-timers' transient ignorance, but please ensure our first-timers are no more privy or suspicious than they were the moment they opened the day’s thread.


 

Daily Trivia:

The first English translation of the manga was done by Japanese translator Frederik L. Schodt, which was done for sake of the production of the 1979 live action adaptation, Lady Oscar. What scant few copies of this translation existed have since been lost.

 

Staff Highlight:

Katsuji Mori - voice of Maximilien Robespierre

An actor and voice actor who got his career started as a child actor at age ten, where he took on roles in the Kojika Children's Theater Company. At age fifteen he began working at NHK, acting in their period dramas, and he dropped out of high school some time afterwards. His career as a voice actor began when he starred as none other than Gō Mifune in Mach GoGoGo, where he was inspired by the voice actors to pursue it as a career, though he continued having day jobs for many years until finally focusing solely on voice work in his 40s. He went on to voice several famous 60s and 70s heroes, such as Joe Shimamura in Cyborg 009, Ken Wasshio the Eagle in Gatchaman, Tosshinta Tomoe in Judo Sanka, and Naoto Date in Tiger Mask. He was active up until 2014, and he has supposedly served as voice acting instructor and representative of a short-lived management agency since. Some of his other notable anime credits include Satomi Ōkawa in Ai Shite Knight, Walter Jack in Armored Fleet Dairugger XV, Jiro Yujima in Attack no. 1, Seiji Hayami in Cutie Honey, Beat in Galactic Whirlwind Sasuraiger, Steven Bowie in Galaxy Cyclone Braiger, Masumi Hayami in Glass Mask (1984), Wolfgang Mittermeyer in Legend of The Galactic Heroes, Garma Zabi in Mobile Suit Gundam, Takayuki Tōdō in Aim for The Ace!, and Minami Johji in Space Knight Tekkaman.

 

Screenshot of the day

Questions of the Day:

  1. What’s your impression of Madame de Polignac after this episode?

  2. Oscar learns even more of the injustice of the economic disparity the country is facing, even right under her nose. How do you expect this experience might affect her actions going forward?

I’m angry at myself for being so ignorant!

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Right, so Racknerd doesn't offer Arch image:

As for custom ISO installers, that requires opening a ticket with tech support, giving them a link to the ISO, and asking them to mount it.
Well, I am not doing all that.

So, there's also this outdated (will become important later) "rescue environment":

Linux Kernel 4.x is Debian 9 and 3.x is Debian 8. I don't know why they couldn't just say that.

So, the recovery environment has some RAM (but seems to be less than the VPS), and some storage (around 1GiB). The free storage is around 350MiB.
The recovery environment can be accessed over SSH. OpenSSH 1:6.7p1-5+deb8u4, on that older thing, if someone is curious. Modern OpenSSH client just complains about old key exchange (quantum-resistance), but connects.

Welp, Arch Linux bootstrap is 138MiB compressed, so let's go.
But not so quickly.
There's no wget, nor curl. So let's install them.
Well, apt no longer works. Old minimal environment without package installer. Cool.
I found some trick for HTTP on stackexchange using telnet. No telnet.
No lynx either.
So I downloaded it onto my PC. I first got the idea of unpacking it directly from different server, but yeah, right, no sshfs. That would have been useful for directly dd-ing images.
So I try to use rsync. Of course there's no rsync. scp saves the day.
Let's unpack the bootstrap now, shall we? We shall not, there's no zstd to decompress the archive.
The bootstrap won't fit uncompressed, and anyway, I am uploading over mobile data.
LET'S FUCKING GO! Gzip is installed.
I created a temporary 1.5GiB partition for the bootstrap, this later becomes swap space. And then I can more or less follow installation with Arch Wiki. There's also this wiki page, but it's mostly just regular Arch Install.


That's a very healthy memory usage. RAM nearly full when something else is running, swap typically above half. But their RAID-10 SSD setup seems to be doing well for that.
Speedtest, or really anything is mostly limited by that single virtual core.
I don't know what their shutdown, reboot, change root password, and reconfigure networking would do or screw up in this case. I haven't tried them yet.
The VNC cuts out with Cloudflare captcha every so often, by the way.

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Welcome Fedi Friends to episode 57 of Fireside Fedi! I'm your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you're hearing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.

My guest today is Ian Forrester. Ian is a founder and firestarter of cubicgarden.ltd. Previously at BBC RD,.
Emergent technology expert, public service supporter, defender of human scale flourishing, city dweller, European at heart  and social geek event organiser. Captivated by the digital legacy, future of dating, human data interaction, self-hosing, personal data, open-source, house music, neurodiversity thinking, kindness and  collaborative futures for all.

@cubicgarden@mas.to
https://cubicgarden.com/
https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/advisory/bbcrd-projections-report-the-social-internet-jun25.pdf
https://cubicgarden.info/videos/browse
https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/
https://bbc.github.io/humanvalues/
https://newpublic.org/
@wearenew_public@mastodon.social
https://c2pa.org/
https://www.onnstudio.com/portfolio/good-night-lamp
https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/researchanddevelopment/2012/07/what-is-perceptive-media.shtml

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As Snowden told us, video and audio recording capabilities of your devices are NSA spying vectors. OSS/Linux is a safeguard against such capabilities. The massive datacenter investments in US will be used to classify us all into a patriotic (for Israel)/Oligarchist social credit score, and every mega tech company can increase profits through NSA cooperation, and are legally obligated to cooperate with all government orders.

Speech to text and speech automation are useful tech, though always listening state sponsored terrorists is a non-NSA targeted path for sweeping future social credit classifications of your past life.

Some small LLMs that can be used for speech to text: https://modal.com/blog/open-source-stt

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39202303

Israel strikes southern Gaza. U.S. Envoy Steve Witkoff expected to meet Hamas’s chief negotiator, Khalil al-Hayya, in Istanbul. Israeli troops round up 200 Palestinians in the West Bank town of Beit Ummar. Congress votes to declassify the Epstein files. The Trump administration authorizes covert CIA action in Venezuela, intending to boot President Nicolás Maduro and take as much oil as possible. Trump lavishes Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with praise, attacks reporters, and gives Saudi Arabia a non-member NATO affiliation. A West African woman deported from the U.S. to Ghana commits suicide in custody. Israel continues attacks on Lebanon, killing 13 in airstrike on a Palestinian refugee camp in Saida, in the deadliest strike since a “ceasefire” last year. Jihadist militants kill 9 in a raid on a town in Nigeria’s northeast. Pakistani forces kill 38 in a series of raids across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s sisters are reportedly detained after a protest. Filipino President denies his senatorial sister’s allegations that he is a cocaine addict.

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Does this post appear on Lemmy?

just checking

@nostupidquestions

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Portal and TF2.

Dota 2 is e-sports shite and most people who get sucked into it don't realize how much they're giving up before it's too late.

Same goes for Counter-strike, especially the newer ones. The older ones used to be a bit more fun.

Half life is a pretty mediocre shooter. Guns feel like wet-noodles, story and characters are bland. The series' real value is that it's a tech demo for Valve's game engine.

I'm just saying this because it feels like these games only get praise so people assume they're good without even playing them.

Everyone wants Valve to make more games, but looking at their track record it seems like they made the right choice by ducking out.

Whoever is responsible for the games I liked is probably long gone.

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Someone set the sky on fire (social.goodanser.com)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by zaktakespictures@social.goodanser.com to c/pics@lemmy.world
 
 

Someone set the sky on fire

Greylag geese (Anser anser)
Olympus OM-1, Panasonic 20mm/1.7 II
f/5.6, 1/20s, ISO 400

#bird #BirdPhotography #birds #darktable #geese #goose #photo #photography #sunset #UrbanWildlife #wildlife @pics
https://zaktakespictures.com/someone-set-the-sky-on-fire/

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The lesson from fossil fuels couldn’t be clearer: once infrastructure is built, it’s nearly impossible to reverse.

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