How Can I Improve The Website

September 16, 2023

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by Blender Dumbass

Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. The writer and director of the 2023 film "Moria's Race" and the lead developer of it's game sequel "Dani's Race".

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alkyilcycloalke c:0

Improve the contrast

Blender Dumbass c:1

@alkyilcycloalke you mean like the visibility of the text? Because the point is, those are the Blender Dumbass colors. The background is this washed out greyish bluesh thing. And the foreground it yellow. Why text looks quite good on this background. I can try black text. But I believe it will look crappy.

Blender Dumbass c:2

Okay, I changed the background. I hope it is better this way. I mean it look way better to me.

Blender Dumbass c:3

I will test this new feature
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Blender Dumbass c:5

@alkyilcycloalke lol after all this time I ended up actually making a login system. Though I had to hack it into existence since I didn't plan for it at all. But it seems like it works.

Anonymous Guest c:6

I would like your site to have a mirror in Clearnet! I don't want to start Tor Browser and connect to Tor for the sake of one site xD

And thank you for your articles

Blender Dumbass c:7

This is the most working way I found to connect to my website from a normal browser without installing anything.

https://www.4everproxy.com/tor-proxy

If you are using Brave it should just work normally. Though you may need to press a little Tor button in the address bar for it to understand that you want a Tor window. I don't know why .onion links do not load automatically in Tor Window.

Also for almost every browser there is a Torification plugin. One I know is Tor Button. My dad uses it on Chromium to connect to this site. On his other computer he uses only Tor Browser for all browsing.

Blender Dumbass c:8

I don't think I will be able to make a clear-net link to this website in the near future since I host it directly from my computer and I have a shitty network ( including the router ).

There might be a good Tor to Web proxy where I could get a good static link. If I find one, I will start sharing it too. So far I didn't find one.

Anonymous Guest c:9

Wow, you responded quickly. Thank you for the information. Actually about a month ago I created an issue in the repository of a popular Tor proxy (Tor2Web): https://github.com/tor2web/Tor2web/issues/387

Blender Dumbass c:10

I have not yet found a Tor2Web server that works unfortunately. If you find one. Tell me.

Madiator2011 c:11

Revork login system so it does not leak password as plain text.

Blender Dumbass c:12

@Madiator2011 you have a point. But as of now I have no idea how to make a login password system like this without JS. Maybe you know. And yes, if I learn how, I will implement it myself here.

Blender Dumbass c:13 March 04, 2026

I'm testing an idea, please ignore this.
Trying to make the markdown parser recognize text written in a fountain format and render it as a screenplay.

EXT. SOME LOCATION - NIGHT

Two people come into the room. JOHN and MARK.

MARK

How are you doing, John?

John started paying attention Mark.

JOHN

You know, Mark, so much stuff is on my head right now. I don't even know where to start.

This should be already after the script part.

INT. JOHN'S HOUSE - DAY

John is talking on a phone to Mark.

JOHN

Forget about what I told you last time. It is not important.

MARK

What are you talking about?

Again, should be normal text. And the rest of markdown should still work.

Blender Dumbass c:14 March 05, 2026

Attempting a way to suddenly change into script mode

Should be script-like

JOSH

Hello world.

JOSH
This is not script-like

JOSH

Script like again.

Dressed To Kill 1980 is a cinematic treat

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I saw an interview where Quentin Tarantino praises the 1980 Hitchcockian Bryan de Palma film Dressed to Kill. And now after actually watching it myself, I can totally understand why.

#dressedtokill #bryandepalma #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

The Inherent Instability Of Euphemisms

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Often it is required of a storyteller to say less in order to say more. Steven Spielberg had to censor the most gruesome parts of the holocaust in order to make a movie that was actually watchable, and his intuition was arguably right. The movie ended up being a hit, exposing millions upon millions of people to the the holocaust. But it wasn't the horror. It was a watered down version, made so people would not be too upset watching it. The reality of the situation was so much worse that Spielberg didn't even think a movie showing the actual truth was possible. Nobody would be brave or masochistic enough, he thought, to actually see it. A similar story happened to Dunkirk, another World War II movie, this time by Christopher Nolan, who deliberately avoided the worst aspects of a war film to make a film which the audience could watch without taking their eyes from the screen, and as a result, a film that is arguably scarier because of that. Nolan's masterful management of tension is so good that the movie doesn't need violence and blood to be visceral. And yet, to some extent the movie is a watered down version of what war supposed to be. And some argue it is a lesser film because of it.

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