“The writing of my thesis was virtually complete in 1974, but the submission was deferred due to various pressures.”
— Brian May, Under Pressure, 2007Dear Apple,
I think you’ve gotten enough abuse this week over your stale computer
hardware with terrible keyboards and nosebleed pricing, so I’ll abuse
you over something else: com.apple.quarantine.
In the course of pretending you’re all about security, you’ve slapped
this attribute on everything downloaded via the Safari browser,
including all image files. This means that FuckWithPreview.app
kinda-sorta-sandboxes them, and dragging the thumbnail into a Terminal
window will give you a uselessspecial path rather than the
image’s actual location.
Only Preview, though; everything else seems to behave as expected, and
I’ve gotten in the habit of inoculating downloaded images before
reviewing them, with: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine *.*
What makes this particularly obnoxious is that this is the same Safari that still has this setting enabled by default for all users:
If you actually cared about security, this option would have been removed around ten years ago. I’m sure there are plenty of critical bugs pointing this out, all closed with “working as intended”.
I only care because when I open a few dozen images at once in Preview, instead of one window with lots of thumbnails, it opens two, with the second reserved for those bearing the Scarlet Q. Annoying and pointless.
On Context...
Just stumbled across a hilariously-incorrect translation in the Pixiv tags file I’m using: 黒パン (kuro-pan) as “Rye_Bread”.
Google it, and you will in fact find pictures and recipes featuring dark rye and pumpernickel.
Pixiv it, and you’ll find black panties. 😄
Bike Witch
The ‘Kiki at 17’ ad was cute, but this is just cool.
(art by snatti; much larger version at artstation)
Pixiv Cheesecake 2
Need a little touchup on the script still, but I merged together tag translations from two sources (1, 2) and cleaned up a lot of the cruft, ending up with 8,238 tags and (mostly-reasonable) translations. Next will probably be adding a uniq() function to cover duplicates created by the translations.
Of course, the moment I ran the script on this small set of images, it immediately barfed out 107 tags that weren’t on the list…
(Seriously, though, in all these years, no one had added translations for horn, saké, bento, white_hair, black_bra, long_hair, frilly_panties, or high_quality_panties? Most of the rest were series-related, at least)
Pixiv test
Working on upgrading my posting script to extract keywords and proper URLs from Pixiv downloads. PixivPy mostly works, although Python is my least-favorite language to hack about in. I haven’t found a good mapping table to create English versions of most tags, even though I know Pixiv has one. The API is kind of goofy, since it’s straightforward REST, but relies on pretending you’re the official Android/iOS client to get authentication to work. Documentation is lacking in two languages.
"Looks like I picked a bad day to take up armed robbery"
Florida Man robs liquor store with knife. So far, just another day in paradise.
His getaway car fails to start, so he tries carjacking, getting a few cuts in before his victim pulls a gun on him and scares him off.
He then jumps into the passenger seat of a car in a Starbucks drive-thru. Driver hops out, opens the trunk, and pulls her gun on him, scaring him off.
Eventually he surrenders when police track him to the restroom in a nearby Supercuts.
