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Re: Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?

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Post by CiceroCiceronis »

Rather fond of watching the anime fansub scene.

Back in the bad old days, that was the only way to watch shows. Today, almost all shows are subbed at release by Western platforms—for those who are left the focus has shifted to doing it for its own sake, and the results are remarkable. Groups like GJM are doing extremely sophisticated and artful work with motion tracking, graphics editing, masking, and so on, to produce target-language imagery that is visually indistinguishable from the original or matches its style.

Re: Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?

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Post by wrigby »

3np wrote: post #198
muhammadusman wrote: post #11

Ok maybe not too weird but I've been a keyboard enthusiast for almost a decade now and earlier this year I started on a quest to collect as many keyboards in one place as possible to make it easier for newcomers to the hobby to easily find a keyboard (very much in progress still but making steady progress as a hobby project). I created a website called BoardSearch ( https://boardsearch.io ). So far, I've learned a lo…

I've been building from a couple of kits and realizing the next step is to make my own design - what I'm looking for is just not on the market. The one thing I find daunting is find and decide on a shop to handle PCB printing (non-US/EU). Especially since I assume my first couple of designs might need a few tweaks, I'd prefer something with short lead-times and able to handle low volume at reasonable price...

I use JLC PCB for small projects at work, when we‘re doing prototype runs or just making a few units and don’t want to spin up our main PCB supplier.

The process is quick and mostly painless. They even have screenshots and a guide to exporting fab files from KiCad.

Re: Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?

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Post by npteljes »

I love the free software ecosystem, file sharing / electronic communications software, and privacy related stuff, mostly electronic. I like exploring sites like alternativeto.net, european-alternatives.eu, exodus-privacy.eu.org, privacytests.org, degooglisons-internet.org. The whole topic of creating ecosystems that communicate with, or are alternative to, currently established ones, is just fascinating with me, and I have sunk quite some hours into these topics over the years. I have a whole setup of stuff that I manage for myself, a phone that runs /e/ OS, my own cloud to back it up, Linux on various computers, and I also love to tinker with running Windows games on Linux.

Re: Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?

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Post by npteljes »

conductor wrote: post #16

Disclaimer: I am in no way encouraging or advocating for software piracy. The warez scene in 90s and early 00s was fun to follow. I consider the NFO files a legitimate form of art, not to mention the skills for unpacking and keygen-ing or cracking of the protected software. https://scenelist.org/

>I consider the NFO files a legitimate form of art

As a teenage boy, I had them printed with my father's dot matrix printer, and put them on my wall as decoration. Fascinating stuff.

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