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/technology/What is your favorite ThinkPad model and what OS do you use with them? Currently I'm daily driving a T440p with OpenBSD/FVWM. I'm keeping my eyes pee…
What is your favorite ThinkPad model and what OS do you use with them?
Currently I'm daily driving a T440p with OpenBSD/FVWM. I'm keeping my eyes peeled for older models on marketplace, which I will either run OpenBSD on, or if I run into problems, NetBSD.
/technology/v0.1.2 Flicker test bash script: This bash script uses the lossless animated Webp to create a loop to compare Webp and JXL to each other and a source PNG. The Webp/JXL filenames are…
v0.1.2 Flicker test bash script
This bash script uses the lossless animated Webp to create a loop to compare Webp and JXL to each other and a source PNG.
The Webp/JXL filenames are overlaid to display hidden info (ie filesize/CVVDP score/encoding parameters).
sRGB signaling is enforced for all images and finally temporary PNG intermediate files are deleted.Dependencies: FFmpeg, libwebp, and libjxl#!/usr/bin/env bash for f in in.png; do ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel error -color_primaries bt709 -color_trc iec61966-2-1 -i "$f" \ -vf "format=rgb24,drawtext=text='$(basename "$f")':fontcolor=white:fontsize=12:box=1:boxcolor=black@0.6:boxborderw=8:x=20:y=20" \ -pix_fmt rgb24 png.png done for f in *.webp; do dwebp -quiet "$f" -o decwebp.png ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel error -color_primaries bt709 -color_trc iec61966-2-1 -i decwebp.png \ -vf "drawtext=text='$(basename "$f")':fontcolor=white:fontsize=12:box=1:boxcolor=black@0.6:boxborderw=8:x=(w-text_w)/2:y=20" \ -pix_fmt rgb24 webp.png done for f in *.jxl; do djxl "$f" decjxl.png --quiet ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel error -color_primaries bt709 -color_trc iec61966-2-1 -i decjxl.png \ -vf "format=rgb24,drawtext=text='$(basename "$f")':fontcolor=white:fontsize=12:box=1:boxcolor=black@0.6:boxborderw=8:x=w-text_w-20:y=20" \ -pix_fmt rgb24 jxl.png done img2webp -lossless -m 6 -loop 0 -d 1000 png.png webp.png jxl.png -o Webp-vs-JXL_flicker.webp rm -f png.png decwebp.png webp.png decjxl.png jxl.png
/ai/non-anime image reaction restoration: Similar to my W.A.R.i thread but this time make, or are at least attempt to make higher quality upscales using the Resrgan model Photo-HQ-W4xEX in wa…
non-anime image reaction restoration
Similar to my W.A.R.i thread but this time make, or are at least attempt to make higher quality upscales using the Resrgan model Photo-HQ-W4xEX in waifu2x extension gui
1:1 1080x1080 is the goal but some might lose context so I'll get as close as I can to this but avoid going 16:9 since that doesn't look good on phones.
cwebp: -sharp_yuv -m 6 -pass 10 -psnr 45
/general/Thought this should deserve a separate dedicated thread: @void how much free speech are you willing to permit regarding the use of profanity and racial slurs outside of clear racism? On 4chan we usually got…
Thought this should deserve a separate dedicated thread
@void how much free speech are you willing to permit regarding the use of profanity and racial slurs outside of clear racism?
On 4chan we usually got to go wild even outside of /pol/ and when you went full hitler you usually got a warning before a ban.
Obviously letting your site turning into stormfront 2.0 like 4chan isn't smart, it drives users away and destroys discussions.
Yet at the same time completely sterilizing everything defeats the purpose of anonymous posting here I think.
Also "tripfags" like myself should be held to higher scrutiny though since we can act as ambassadors for umigalaxy, right?
I'm asking because of the 4chan mod grapeape macking a mockery of 4chan just by posting the dumbest stuff on twitter lol.
Like I wonder if you should make different, more strict rules for registered users and relax them a bit for anonymous ones.
I'd be cool with that tbh. But if I made questionable statement (as anonymous while logged in) could the less strict rules apply?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:English_profanity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_symbols_designated_by_the_ADL_as_hate_symbols
Not urgent for the moment but I realized that long term this could get you in legal trouble and/or cause users to leave.
/general/Birth rates: Why aren't people having kids anymore? Is there any way birth rates can be raised or is this the new normal? Imo people are having fewer kids because…
Birth rates
Why aren't people having kids anymore? Is there any way birth rates can be raised or is this the new normal?
Imo people are having fewer kids because they're marrying and even dating less often. A lot of people talk about money, but there's the least of the problems.
50 years ago most high school kids dated, nowadays only a minority do. Nowadays we have a lot more virgins and people who never dated.
Standards are sky high and people have no patience for human interaction anymore, guys would rather watch porn over pursing sex. Simping is rampant, be it the guy leaving likes on instagram, the guy on tinder swiping on a million women without getting a match, or the guy on twitch sending money to his dream gamer girl.
Girls end up in soft harems where 10% of guys fuck most women, they are told they need to marry a multi-millionaire while being broke, they are told their normal boyfriends aren't good enough.
/anime-manga/NEET anime: When are you going to give up and live your life as a NEET in a container while hallucinating you have a pink haired girlfriend? It's gonna be fun
/technology/Firefox developer did a JXL vs AVIF comparison. https://jakearchibald.com/2026/jpeg-xl-vs-avif/
/general/Anyone else getting bipolar weather lately? Today was hot as balls (90F) in Maryland even though a few days ago it was room temp (70F).
/ai/MCDONALD'S using AI to raise prices: >A September review of prices on the McDonald’s app found a company-operated restaurant in Fresno, California, selling a Big Mac for $5.69, while ano…
MCDONALD'S using AI to raise prices
>A September review of prices on the McDonald’s app found a company-operated restaurant in Fresno, California, selling a Big Mac for $5.69, while another company-run location about two miles away charged $6.89, a difference of roughly 21%.
https://www.lawcommentary.com/articles/mcdonalds-ai-pricing-big-mac-class-action
/general/Fuck this gay earth: Is that it? No more personal computers? Money isn't worth shit anymore and datacenters literally took all the hardware in the world, I need to work s…
Fuck this gay earth
Is that it? No more personal computers?
Money isn't worth shit anymore and datacenters literally took all the hardware in the world, I need to work several months to afford a new computer
Life is so fucking shit in 2026, I hate it
/meta/People of umigalaxy: OK anon, whats your plan for getting more people here? Pic unrelated Does umigalaxy work with kuroba for mobile users? Whats the angle? Only here to…
People of umigalaxy
OK anon, whats your plan for getting more people here? Pic unrelated
Does umigalaxy work with kuroba for mobile users? Whats the angle? Only here to try to help with the AI board
/technology/If a schizoid maniac can make his own operating system and programming language from scratch, why can't you?
/meta/Website updates: Instead of making a new thread for every website update, I'm just gonna post them here
/technology/Gentoo Setups: Any Gentoo users here? I'm curious to hear what setups do you people have
/general/Dream girls: I write down all of my dreams. but most of the time I can only manage to remember a few things about the dream so I decided to feed those dream snipp…
Dream girls
I write down all of my dreams. but most of the time I can only manage to remember a few things about the dream so I decided to feed those dream snippets to chatgpt to see what it spits out.
>I dreamed I was taking care of a girl who was sick, she was very cute
/general/Lie to women. It's ok. If you know the truth is going to cockblock you, then LIE. They aren't gonna find out.
/general/What leisure activities do you all partake on the weekends? I gotta work on Saturday but I might go see a movie on Sunday if I get lucky and leave ea…
What leisure activities do you all partake on the weekends? I gotta work on Saturday but I might go see a movie on Sunday if I get lucky and leave early today.
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General Codex: Discussion for the Codex page General Codex. The Codex page is written by this board's curators, so other users cannot edit it. This thread is where…
General Codex
Discussion for the Codex page General Codex.
The Codex page is written by this board's curators, so other users cannot edit it. This thread is where everyone else talks about it: post a reply if you have a question, spotted something out of date, or want to suggest what to add.
AI anime: I'm seriously surprised, it looks a bit generic, but I'd say it reached a watchable level
/television/dexter resurrection season 2: are you excited? personally i found season 1 worse than new blood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTOf1FIsBcs
/technology/Ram prices: >DDR5-6000 2x16GB (Average price in USD over last 18 months) Source: https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/#ram.ddr5.6000.2x16384 How long unt…
Ram prices
>DDR5-6000 2x16GB (Average price in USD over last 18 months)
Source: https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/#ram.ddr5.6000.2x16384
How long until prices go down?
/videogames/What do you think think of Star Citizen? I know a lot of people would call it a scam, but I've never felt such a massive sense of scale in any other…
What do you think think of Star Citizen?
I know a lot of people would call it a scam, but I've never felt such a massive sense of scale in any other game
/technology/JXL is now supported on Chrome and Firefox. @void do you have future plans to add JXL support to your site? https://xenospectrum.com/en/chrome-155-jp…
JXL is now supported on Chrome and Firefox.
@void do you have future plans to add JXL support to your site?
https://xenospectrum.com/en/chrome-155-jpeg-xl-rust/
https://www.neowin.net/news/firefox-is-finally-bringing-a-feature-safari-users-have-been-enjoying-for-years/
/anime-manga/New Higurashi Anime announced: Higurashi: When They Cry >same voice actors >same studio DEEN animating it God damn, we might actually get a good continuation of the 2006 Anime, Hig…
New Higurashi Anime announced
Higurashi: When They Cry
>same voice actors
>same studio DEEN animating it
God damn, we might actually get a good continuation of the 2006 Anime, Higurashi When They Cry, and we can all finally pretend GOU never existed.
https://finalweapon.net/2026/06/21/higurashi-when-they-cry-new-anime-20th-anniversary/
https://myanimelist.net/anime/934/Higurashi_no_Naku_Koro_ni
/ai/I want to create a game, not because I think I wanna make money off it or even have others play it, but as a creative outlet, I want to create my own…
I want to create a game, not because I think I wanna make money off it or even have others play it, but as a creative outlet, I want to create my own world.
I have no game developer experience, is AI good enough to help me?
/general//x/fringe/ revival: There's literally no place on the internet to discuss Magick and practical spiritual subjects anymore. Every modern forum on the topic is an overmode…
/x/fringe/ revival
There's literally no place on the internet to discuss Magick and practical spiritual subjects anymore. Every modern forum on the topic is an overmoderated assembly of faggots, and every imageboard around is a basket case schizo central with no coherent discussion about it. Then you have the pseudo-skceptics (because they are not really skceptics, just retards shills) that have never in their god forsaken lives interacted with, and even less had any sort of experience regarding, mysticism and metaphysics.
Is anyone interested anymore? This is the conversation subject, but it has been propagandized with so much misconception and subversion that it set off people and everyone with real competent person participating and willing to share real perspective just fucked off. Early psionics and lucid dreaming forums, and the /r/DimensionalJumping and /r/Oneirosophy were good examples of competent online spaces, but their problem will always be that they are way too specific, and the ideal place would be a syncretic hollistically oriented place for all "magic" and mental science PSI phenomena. It's this topic just outright doomed in the dead of the internet? Subjected to be misunderstood by the masses and misdirected by helpless schizos? Is there hope for man?
/general/Modern wageslavery is a fucking tragedy Spending decades working companies that only see you as a resource, never achieving anything of significance,…
Modern wageslavery is a fucking tragedy
Spending decades working companies that only see you as a resource, never achieving anything of significance, being around people who will backstab you the first chance they get
Last time I had time off I even felt like I smelled better because I wasn't stressed all the time
/general/I have a hunch 4chan deliberately malfunctions email verification when your existing token has expired in order to get you to buy a pass. This keeps…
I have a hunch 4chan deliberately malfunctions email verification when your existing token has expired in order to get you to buy a pass. This keeps happening when I need to renew my email verification once a week.
/videogames/Modern MMORPGs: AION 2 came out today and I started playing it this evening I'm already level 22, went through like 6 different zones, 30 cutscenes, 5 gear sets, the…
Modern MMORPGs
AION 2 came out today and I started playing it this evening
I'm already level 22, went through like 6 different zones, 30 cutscenes, 5 gear sets, the combat feels spammy and with little depth
Maybe that's just the way modern MMORPGs are, they play like everything is dialed up to eleven. I've been playing Valheim as well and even though it's a single player game, it kinda has that feeling old MMORPGs have, you feel like an insignificant person inside a vast world, everything happens slowly, you need to respect your enemies and grind your way to success. Another sad part is that MMORPGs aren't really social anymore, I didn't talk to a single person, didn't form any party, I joined a dungeon but got grouped automatically with other people
I'm gonna continue playing for a while, but AION 2 feels much more forgettable than when I played AION 1 many years ago
/technology//g/ waiting room for umigalaxy or place to discuss the creation of a new altchan that has a dedicated AI board. I am fucking sick of the non-stop AI…
/g/ waiting room for umigalaxy or place to discuss the creation of a new altchan that has a dedicated AI board.
I am fucking sick of the non-stop AI spam shit and will no longer take it.
/general/void, what do you think about picrel from 8ch? You probably won't get raided yet because you're a tiny altchan right now.
/technology/Enshittification: >bought a samsung smart TV to use as PC monitor >it works great >a firmware update later, the TV now loads on the fucking samsung TV crap when it tur…
Enshittification
>bought a samsung smart TV to use as PC monitor
>it works great
>a firmware update later, the TV now loads on the fucking samsung TV crap when it turns on
>another firmware update later, the they added another ad slot when I open the menu
Fucking hell
/technology/v0.0.9 image codec CVVDP bash script: https://files.catbox.moe/auw8e7.txt Primary goal: Determine compression efficiency between image codecs using a CVVDP score. Secondary goal: Investig…
v0.0.9 image codec CVVDP bash script
https://files.catbox.moe/auw8e7.txt
Primary goal: Determine compression efficiency between image codecs using a CVVDP score.
Secondary goal: Investigate diminishing returns between Webp and JXL
Currently only works with this specific input file: in.png. Only tested in Ubuntu WSL.
Replace /mnt/c/Users/1337/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python313/Scripts/cvvdp.exe with your CVVDP location.
CVVDP SDR display model used: standard_fhd. Scores tested: ~9.0 and ~9.5
My subjective CVVDP interpretation is that ~9.0 = medium quality and ~9.5 = high quality
Use CVVDP with photographic images only as it does poorly with Anime ones.
The display I'm using is a 27 inch 1080p monitor (~82 PPI), viewing distance is ~20 inches.
Created 9-20-2026, using the following dependents and their parameters:
ColorVideoVDP v0.5.7 (released on 08-02-2026) cvvdp -t out.png -r in.png --device cpu -d standard_fhd -m cvvdp
CJPEG version 6b (released on 03-27-1998) cjpeg -baseline -sample 1x1,1x1,1x1 -quality X in.ppm > out.jpg
libwebp v1.6.0 (released on 06-30-2025) cwebp -m 6 -af -q X in.png -o out.webp
libjxl v0.12.0 (released on 07-01-2026) cjxl in.png out.jxl -e 10 --override_bitdepth=10 -q X
libavif v1.4.2 (released on 05-26-2026) avifenc -y 420 -d 10 -s 4 -q X in.png out.avif
ffmpeg version N-125350-g3f6bf150cb-20260629
12 photographic wikipedia images being tested, resized to 50% PNGs, attribution provided in zip:
https://files.catbox.moe/te69tk.zip
https://files.catbox.moe/auw8e7.txt
Example Ubuntu WSL shell output:JPG CVVDP= 9.54 Fsize= 178.7 KB [ cjpeg -baseline -sample 1x1,1x1,1x1 -quality 55 ] Webp CVVDP= 9.54 Fsize= 176.9 KB [ cwebp -m 6 -af -q 78 ] JXL CVVDP= 9.54 Fsize= 133.9 KB [ cjxl -e 10 --override_bitdepth=10 -q 78 ] AVIF CVVDP= 9.55 Fsize= 134.3 KB [ avifenc -y 420 -d 10 -s 4 -q 60] WebP compression efficiency relative to [ JXL: 4.0 % ] & [ AVIF: 4.1 % ]
/technology/Guns, Blades, & Armaments: Ever since the first hominid decided to pick up a rock and toss it at another life form, the technological leap provided by weaponry has shaped evolu…
Guns, Blades, & Armaments
Ever since the first hominid decided to pick up a rock and toss it at another life form, the technological leap provided by weaponry has shaped evolution and is inseparable from humanity.
And they're simply neat!
This is the place to discuss anything related to weapons and weapon accessories.
/technology/I found a good SVT-AV1 fork for high quality Anime encodes and made a DRAG&DROP windows batch script for it that includes SSIMULACRA2 scoring. I also…
I found a good SVT-AV1 fork for high quality Anime encodes and made a DRAG&DROP windows batch script for it that includes SSIMULACRA2 scoring.
I also compiled the fssimu2 project for windows otherwise you have to manually convert video frames to PNG and math out the average by hand.https://github.com/nekotrix/SVT-AV1-Essential/releases/tag/v4.0.1-Essential@echo off & setlocal set "input=%~1" & set "outbase=%~dpn1" & set "stfu=-hide_banner -loglevel fatal" set "av1base=--lookahead 32 --preset 4 --rc 1 --max-qp 60" set "psy=--ac-bias 0.5 --enable-dlf 3 --noise-adaptive-filtering 4" set "bt701=--color-primaries 1 --transfer-characteristics 1 --matrix-coefficients 1" echo Welcome to the mini Essential SVT-AV1 2 pass drag and drop encoder, SSIMULACRA2 included at the end :ASK set /p bitrate="Enter 2 pass kbps bitrate: " && set /a bitrate=bitrate 2>nul || goto ASK if %bitrate% LSS 1 (goto ASK) else if %bitrate% GTR 10000 goto ASK echo: ffmpeg %stfu% -i %input% -map 0:v:0 -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -f yuv4mpegpipe -strict -1 - | ^ SvtAv1EncApp-4.0.1-Essential-Windows_Optimized -i - %av1base% --tbr %bitrate% %psy% %bt701% --pass 1 -b temp1pass.ivf ffmpeg %stfu% -i %input% -map 0:v:0 -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -f yuv4mpegpipe -strict -1 - | ^ SvtAv1EncApp-4.0.1-Essential-Windows_Optimized -i - %av1base% --tbr %bitrate% %psy% %bt701% --pass 2 -b temp2pass.ivf ffmpeg %stfu% -i temp2pass.ivf -c:v copy -an -y "%outbase%_%bitrate%_kbps_2pass_essential-av1.webm" echo: && echo --- calculating SSIMULACRA2 score of "%outbase%_%bitrate%_kbps_2pass_essential-av1.webm" --- && echo: ffmpeg %stfu% -i %input% -pix_fmt yuv420p input.y4m && timeout /t 5 /nobreak ffmpeg %stfu% -i "%outbase%_%bitrate%_kbps_2pass_essential-av1.webm" -pix_fmt yuv420p output.y4m timeout /t 5 /nobreak && fssimu2 input.y4m output.y4m del temp1pass.ivf temp2pass.ivf svtav1_2pass.log input.y4m output.y4m && pause
https://github.com/gianni-rosato/fssimu2
/ai/WARi #2: Webp Anime Reaction images thread #2. Jahy-sama edition. Archive of #1 (Oreimo S2): https://files.catbox.moe/vvt33l.zip Workflow: Take 1080p anime sc…
WARi #2
Webp Anime Reaction images thread #2. Jahy-sama edition.
Archive of #1 (Oreimo S2): https://files.catbox.moe/vvt33l.zip
Workflow:
- Take 1080p anime screenshot in PNG.
- Crop it to 1:1 1080x1080 res (so it looks good on mobile and desktop)
- Resize it to 50% and feed it to the Resrgan upscaler using the Anime-HQ-W4xEX model (found on the waifu2x extension gui on github)
- Resize it to 50% again (ie back to 1080x1080), overall this significantly removes video compression artefacts and sharpens up blurry details.
- Convert to webp using these parameters in cwebp: -sharp_yuv -m 6 -pass 10 -psnr 45
/general/Personalized cancer vaccine: Moderna stock, $MRNA, surges over +145% after announcing the first ever positive Phase 3 results for a personalized cancer vaccine.
/technology/Animated Webp: I made some progress optimizing animated Webp compression. Simple windows batch scripts for now as I improve with Bash. This takes Screenshot (X).png…
Animated Webp
I made some progress optimizing animated Webp compression. Simple windows batch scripts for now as I improve with Bash.
This takes Screenshot (X).png files and renames them to 01.png 02.png 03.png frames for ffmpeg processingThis scales the frames to 50% size and crops them to 540x540, assuming source is 1920x1080. Also exports them to a new png_444 folder.@setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion & set n=1 for %%f in (*.png) do ren "%%f" "!n:~ -2!.png" & set /a n+=101This converts the png_444 frames into an intermediate RGB video file, may not be necessary...@echo off & setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion mkdir png_444 & for %%f in (*.png) do ffmpeg -hide_banner -i "%%f" -vf "scale=iw/2:ih/2,crop=540:540:(iw-540)/2:(ih-540)/2" -y "png_444/%%~nf.png"ffmpeg -framerate 1 -i %%02d.png ^ -c:v libvpx-vp9 -cpu-used 4 -r 1 -g 1 ^ -b:v 0 -crf 0 -qmin 0 -qmax 0 -pix_fmt gbrp out.webm
/technology/lossless Webp: >Relative to lossless JXL filesize, how close in compression does a given lossless image codec get? That's what I'm trying to answer here. A dozen co…
lossless Webp
>Relative to lossless JXL filesize, how close in compression does a given lossless image codec get?
That's what I'm trying to answer here. A dozen common type 1920x1080 PNG images were used.
JXL KB = 100% and BMP KB = 0%. Lossless JXL/Webp/AVIF/oxiPNG/QOI tested. Anything above 100% means JXL was defeated.(BMP KB-JXL KB)=A | (BMP KB-Xcodec KB)/A= lossless compression relative to JXL losslesscjxl in.png out.jxl -d 0.0 -e 10 --brotli_effort=11 cwebp -lossless -m 6 -q 100 in.png -o out.webp avifenc -l -s 0 --cicp 1/13/16 in.png out.avif oxipng -o 6 in.png qoi "...\in.png" "...\out.qoi"
ALL files: https://files.catbox.moe/x926hp.zip
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/anime-manga/Frieren: #"Sousou no Frieren 2nd Season" Sometimes I think Frieren is overrated, but it isn't It has so many beautiful scenes that make me appreciate life, th…
Frieren
#"Sousou no Frieren 2nd Season"
Sometimes I think Frieren is overrated, but it isn't
It has so many beautiful scenes that make me appreciate life, that make me realize I have to take it easy sometimes
/videogames/Country roads Take me home To the place I belong WESTER VIRGINIA Mountain mama Take me home Country roads
/ai/Isn't it crazy how AI has given pretty much everyone almost unlimited power to create whatever they wanted and nothing noteworthy has been created? S…
Isn't it crazy how AI has given pretty much everyone almost unlimited power to create whatever they wanted and nothing noteworthy has been created? Sure AI can speed things up, but the bottleneck is new ideas
/meta/Supporter Tier: Supporter Tier is Free Right Now! Just make an account and ask for it! Check it out: Supporter Tier I decided to make this thread so we can have a di…
Supporter Tier
Supporter Tier is Free Right Now! Just make an account and ask for it!
Check it out: Supporter Tier
I decided to make this thread so we can have a discussion about how Umi Galaxy is supported.
The idea behind the Supporter Tier is that, if the website grows, at some point we'll need to make some money to cover the server costs. And if it gets really huge, there will be even more costs beyond just the servers.
Right now, the servers are cheap and more than enough for the current traffic, so I'm taking this opportunity to give the Supporter Tier for free to people who register an account.
What do you think the Supporter Tier should have?
Right now, the Supporter Tier provides boosts for Clan and Alliance threads. Since everyone can create a Clan or Alliance, there needs to be something to prevent usage from getting out of control. We can't have an infinite number of threads with millions of media files without eventually paying for all that storage.
At the moment, Clan and Alliance threads have very little usage, so I was thinking about extending the Supporter Tier perks to regular threads on the normal imageboard as well.
What do you think? What kind of perks would you like to see in the Supporter Tier?
/videogames/ゲームで日本語を勉強する民いる？: 僕は日本製のゲームをやってペラペラになろうとしてるけど、時間かかるなこれ 僕がクリアしてきたコンシューマーゲームはこの辺： PS2 ギャラクシーエンジェル 3本セット 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン鋼鉄のガールフレンド PS3 神様と運命革命のパラドクス 神様と運命覚醒のクロステーゼ Switch ミステ…
ゲームで日本語を勉強する民いる？
僕は日本製のゲームをやってペラペラになろうとしてるけど、時間かかるなこれ
僕がクリアしてきたコンシューマーゲームはこの辺：
PS2
ギャラクシーエンジェル 3本セット
新世紀エヴァンゲリオン鋼鉄のガールフレンド
PS3
神様と運命革命のパラドクス
神様と運命覚醒のクロステーゼ
Switch
ミステリーの歩き方
PS4は、、LUNAR リマスターコレクションを始めたばかり
/meta/Promoting the website: I've decided to make this thread to discuss what I've learned while trying to promote Umi Galaxy. So far, I've noticed that visibility and clicks are…
Promoting the website
I've decided to make this thread to discuss what I've learned while trying to promote Umi Galaxy.
So far, I've noticed that visibility and clicks are important, but there's also a need to reach the right audience.
For example, yesterday I made a post on Reddit promoting the website on /r/webdev. The post got around 92k views and 200 likes, which translated into 200+ visitors to the website.
That looks pretty good, but none of those visitors actually engaged with the website in a meaningful way. Nobody posted on the imageboard, and nobody created an account.
/general/Blogpost/Diary about my struggle learning Japanese: About 10 years ago I became interested in learning Japanese. Mostly because of anime, I just wanted to know what the basic konoyarou/tasukete/urusai…
Blogpost/Diary about my struggle learning Japanese
About 10 years ago I became interested in learning Japanese. Mostly because of anime, I just wanted to know what the basic konoyarou/tasukete/urusai stuff meant so I could focus better on the show's plot.
The tsukkomi/boke comedy in anime involving unecessary physical/emotional violence never fails to amuse me. I don't watch much anime these days but I have become interested in Japanese culture.
The Miko shrine maidens, Shinto shrines themselves, Geisha, tea ceremonies, Onsen, no tipping in restaurants, general lack of DEI, and so on and so on. All things that I wish the US would adopt.
Thus I've been on a journey, for a few years now, to pass the JLPT N5. I've bought many books on this but it's always turned into a 5 minute study session followed by 30 minutes of youtube.
Result: I can read common kanji compounds like 野菜、電話、入口, without furigana now and from memrise practice I know pretty much all hiragana/katakana. However I just can't power through the grammar parts.
SO I've signed up here: https://www.tokiniandy.com/
It's $10 a month and my hope is that this course dumbs it down enough for me to stick to it for longer than 5 mintues a day. I know some N5 stuff now so I hope it can boost me to N4 level this year alone.
I don't mean to shill this course and I have no idea if it will even be worth it. However my plan is to post updates here every week or so and let you all know how it's going.
I hope that this will help other anons here struggling with learning Japanese. It's an amusing/mysterious high-context language (see honne/tatemae) but it will break you especially with grammar.
Still, the challenge can be quite fun. Which is why I refuse to drop it. Gonna start tomorrow (today?) night so stay tuned.
/general/How are you with people?: I've noticed that I'm always putting much more effort into my relationships with people than they put with me. People don't even remember my birthday…
How are you with people?
I've noticed that I'm always putting much more effort into my relationships with people than they put with me.
People don't even remember my birthday. I met this girl a few years ago who complained nobody remembered hers and I made the point to remember it, but when it was my turn, nothing.
Sometimes I feel like I don't even exist.
/technology/Technology: Welcome to the Technology board! For AI discussions please use the https://umigalaxy.com/explore/ai board
/videogames/Summer Game Fest 2026: Overall I'd say the event was pretty good, here are my favorites >Resident Evil Veronica >Stellar Blade: Blood Rain >Final Fantasy VII Revelation >Gu…
Summer Game Fest 2026
Overall I'd say the event was pretty good, here are my favorites
>Resident Evil Veronica
>Stellar Blade: Blood Rain
>Final Fantasy VII Revelation
>Guild Wars 3
>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin
>gen Atlas
>Alien: Isolation 2
>Cuphead sequel
/meta/> > > > > > >... All for a buttery smooth 2 second smooth scroll. Not to mention the 200ms latency while typing this.
/general/Whatever Thread: Post whatever comes to your mind I saw this image and was wonder, is feeling like an outsider just the normal autistic experience? My earliest memory…
Whatever Thread
Post whatever comes to your mind
I saw this image and was wonder, is feeling like an outsider just the normal autistic experience? My earliest memory was feeling like an outsider when I started school. I've had this feeling my whole life
/technology/Silicon-Carbon batteries now mainstream: >uses an anode composite of silicon with a carbon matrix >silicon anode alone swelled 300% during charging, cracked itself apart >carbon matrix conta…
Silicon-Carbon batteries now mainstream
>uses an anode composite of silicon with a carbon matrix
>silicon anode alone swelled 300% during charging, cracked itself apart
>carbon matrix contain expansion better
>Si-C = ~1,000 charge/recharge cycles (potentially higher in the future)
>higher energy density, ~300 Wh/KG (potentially higher in the future)
>lower heat during charging (potential for faster charging)
https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-first-phones-silicon-carbon-batteries-3689630/
https://phoneprice360.com/what-is-a-silicon-carbon-battery-phone-best-phones-using-it-in-2026/
/ai/Thought I'd partake in the whole GANGSTER COMPUTER GOD WORLDWIDE SECRET CONTAINMENT POLICY The most obvious ones seem to be: [AI] [LLM] [AGI] [TENSOR…
Thought I'd partake in the whole GANGSTER COMPUTER GOD WORLDWIDE SECRET CONTAINMENT POLICY
The most obvious ones seem to be: [AI] [LLM] [AGI] [TENSOR]
From the gens: [VIBE CODING or VIBE-CODING] [LOCAL MODEL] [LOCAL DIFFUSION] [CHATBOT] [DIFFUSION] [DE3] [SDXL] [MIDJOURNEY] [DALL-E] [TEXT2IMG] [FLUX]
Generics: [GPT] [CHATGPT] [GPT-4] [GPT-5] [CLAUDE] [GEMINI] [COPILOT] [GROK] [MISTRAL] [QWEN] [DEEPSEEK] [LLAMA] [PHI] [MOONSHOOT] [KIMI] [AGENTIC]
[SINGULARITY] [SNAILCAT] [VIBEGOD] [VIBECHAD] [SNAILCHAD]
Brands: [OPENAI] [ANTHROPIC] [XAI] [HUGGINGFACE] [RUNPOD] [TOGETHER AI] [REPLICATE]
There's more and some of these can be false positives. There will probably be hidden ones now and later especially when it's a twitter screenshot with no relevant words used to bypass obvious inpsection.
Good luck void-san, thank you for being someone who does something about a problem instead of just screaming into the abyss like everyone else.
I'll probably get banned but maybe it will reach out to a few anons from the past banned thread that were complaining about wanting a separate /ai/ board like a few days ago.
https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/109349827
/meta/image settings - BETA: During a conversation with @webpgoy we cooked up an idea for an image tab in the settings. Right now all the static image options from our image proc…
image settings - BETA
During a conversation with @webpgoy we cooked up an idea for an image tab in the settings. Right now all the static image options from our image processor sharp are available for testing.
I already noticed setting the effort to 6 increases the processing time by a ridiculous amount so maybe that should be capped to a lower value.
The idea right now is to test what makes sense, right now when you create a new preset it uses the default values so we can even double check if the default values make sense, for example a 800kb jpg is turning into a 1.5mb webp, which seems counterintuitive.
ps: animated webps and gifs are left alone, these settings don't apply to them
/general/Don't you sometimes question reality? Like why does all this exist? Is God real? Who or what made God? Are our lives all that there is? We die and it…
Don't you sometimes question reality? Like why does all this exist? Is God real? Who or what made God? Are our lives all that there is? We die and it's gone? Everyone we ever loved will just be gone one day? Nothing makes sense
/technology/0.99 SSIM H.264 vs AV1: I took the 73 Mbps 4K NLUUG Tears of Steel encode, scaled it to 720p, and used CRF 10 veryslow x264 to simulate 720p BD. SSIM cheating was disabled i…
0.99 SSIM H.264 vs AV1
I took the 73 Mbps 4K NLUUG Tears of Steel encode, scaled it to 720p, and used CRF 10 veryslow x264 to simulate 720p BD.
SSIM cheating was disabled in AV1 with tune 0 and variance boost, 720p was chosen to handicap AV1's 128x128 superblocks.
Even when nearly maxing out x264 compression , preset 4 AV1 = ~30% better compression and encodes ~40% faster as well.
I confidently declare that H.264 is now official boomer trash like flickering CRT displays.ffmpeg -i tearsofsteel_4k.mov ^ -vf "scale=1280:720:force_original_aspect_ratio=decrease,pad=1280:720:(ow-iw)/2:(oh-ih)/2:black" ^ -c:v libx264 -preset veryslow -crf 10 -pix_fmt yuv420p input.mp4base_av1=ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libsvtav1 -crf 28 -preset 4 -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -svtav1-params psy_av1=keyint=5s:lookahead=120:tune=0:enable-variance-boost=1:variance-boost-strength=3:variance-octile=4frame=17616 fps= 18 Lsize= 212825KiB bitrate=2375.4kbits/s speed=0.73x elapsed=0:16:45.14base_h264=ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libx264 -crf 18 -preset veryslow -pix_fmt yuv420phttps://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/graphics/blender/demo/movies/ToS/tearsofsteel_4k.movframe=17616 fps= 13 Lsize= 304524KiB bitrate=3399.0kbits/s speed=0.535x elapsed=0:22:51.14
/technology/SSIM/AV1 script v2.1: I am 90% sure I have fixed my windows batch SSIM AV1 auto-encoder script. @echo off & setlocal enabledelayedexpansion & set "crf=60" & set "mincrf=20…
SSIM/AV1 script v2.1
I am 90% sure I have fixed my windows batch SSIM AV1 auto-encoder script.@echo off & setlocal enabledelayedexpansion & set "crf=60" & set "mincrf=20" set "base_av1=-c:v libsvtav1 -preset 4 -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -svtav1-params" set "psy_av1=keyint=5s:lookahead=120:tune=0:enable-variance-boost=1:variance-boost-strength=3:variance-octile=4" set "opus=-c:a libopus -b:a 128k" & set "ffquiet=-hide_banner -loglevel quiet" echo Weclome to my auto-SSIM AV1 encoder, only input.mp4 accepted, choose desired SSIM: echo 1= 0.995 (autism quality) & echo 2= 0.990 (very high quality) & echo 3= 0.980 (high quality) choice /c 123 /m "Enter number option on keyboard: " if errorlevel 3 set ssim_target=980 if errorlevel 2 set ssim_target=990 if errorlevel 1 set ssim_target=995 echo: :loop ffmpeg !ffquiet! -i input.mp4 -crf !crf! !base_av1! !psy_av1! !opus! -y AV1_CRF-!crf!.webm 2>nul for /f "delims=" %%A in ('ffmpeg -nostdin -r 30 -i AV1_CRF-!crf!.webm -nostdin -r 30 -i input.mp4 ^ -filter_complex "[0:v]format=yuv420p10le[v0];[1:v]format=yuv420p10le[v1];[v0][v1]ssim" -f null - 2^>^&1 ^| findstr "All:"') do set "a=%%A" set "a=!a:*All:0.=!" & set "ssim=!a:~0,3!" & echo SSIM: 0.!ssim! @ CRF !crf! & echo: if !ssim! lss !ssim_target! (if !crf! gtr !mincrf! (del /s /q AV1_CRF-!crf!.webm >nul 2>&1 & set /a crf-=2 & goto loop) ) :end for %%Y in ("input.mp4") do set /a kb_mp4=(%%~zY+1023)/1024 & for %%Y in ("AV1_CRF-!crf!.webm") do set /a kb_webm=(%%~zY+1023)/1024 set /a saved_pct=(kb_mp4-kb_webm)*100/kb_mp4 & echo MP4= !kb_mp4! KB & echo AV1= !kb_webm! KB echo **** !saved_pct!%% filesize reduction achieved with AV1 **** pause
/meta/Thread watching and notifications: Now when you create a thread, you will automatically be notified when someone replies There is also a Watch Thread button where you can manually add…
Thread watching and notifications
Now when you create a thread, you will automatically be notified when someone replies
There is also a Watch Thread button where you can manually add them to your watch list
/general/I believe the spirit and soul of anime films can be applied IRL in these End Times.: I believe that the spirit of Anime Movies can be applied IRL in this End Times, at least one RPG game and 5 anime can represent it. These are EarthBo…
I believe the spirit and soul of anime films can be applied IRL in these End Times.
I believe that the spirit of Anime Movies can be applied IRL in this End Times, at least one RPG game and 5 anime can represent it. These are EarthBound, Dragon Ball, Made in Abyss, Dr. Stone, Full Metal Panic & Evangelion.
Visit My Web, Because its Very Important for You to Head, Prepared & Survive at The Endtimes Era's Now 👇
https://earthbound.sayalagi.com
https://onee.page/planetkuga
/meta/The Robot: Post in this thread as a logged in user to get the achievement "The Robot" alongside the treasure "Mecha Graveyard" Check your profile after posting…
The Robot
Post in this thread as a logged in user to get the achievement "The Robot" alongside the treasure "Mecha Graveyard"
Check your profile after posting for the achievement
/technology/OHIO umigalaxy I noticed this place supports AV1, hope it's cool if I crosspost from 4chan's /g/ board. I present you a script that targets SSIM, onl…
OHIO umigalaxy
I noticed this place supports AV1, hope it's cool if I crosspost from 4chan's /g/ board. I present you a script that targets SSIM, only 1 input video file per folder though.1 problem: AV1 cheats in SSIM. It intelligently preserves the structure of video but destroys fine detail. However these disable SSIM cheating:@echo off & mkdir temp :loop set /p crf="CRF? (30-50 reccomended): " for %%f in (*.mkv, *.mp4, *.mov) do ( ffmpeg -i "%%f" -c:v libsvtav1 ^ -crf %crf% -preset 4 -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -svtav1-params ^ keyint=2s:lookahead=120:tune=0:enable-variance-boost=1:variance-boost-strength=3:variance-octile=4 ^ -c:a libopus -b:a 64k -y "%%f_CRF-%crf%_AV1.webm" echo: & echo SSIM result: ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel error -i "%%f" -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p10le ^ -preset ultrafast -crf 0 -y temp/temp_source_2_10b.mkv ffmpeg -hide_banner -i "%%f_CRF-%crf%_AV1.webm" -i temp/temp_source_2_10b.mkv ^ -lavfi ssim -f null - 2>&1 | findstr "[Parsed_ssim" echo: ) goto looptune=0Prioritizes perceptual/visual qualityenable-variance-boost=1allocates more bits to low-contrast areas (such as skin, clouds, or foggy scenes) that typically suffer from blurring and artifacting in fixed-quantization encoding.variance-boost-strength=3Applies medium strength variance boost, enough to improve quality but not bloat bitrate.variance-octile=4Applies medium strength for the new 8x8 variance algorithm, which is used for adaptive quantization.
All of these not only give you better/accurate SSIM scores but allow AV1 to create subjectively medium to high quality AV1 encodes, not just compete in objective metric pissing contests.