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Zarobi
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It's a bit hard to find non-Japanese information since it's a relatively new and lesser known yokai, but this site does a pretty decent breakdown.
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Ms. Eight Feet Tall (八尺様, Hachishakusama, also informally called Hasshakusama) is a type of main Japanese spirit (Yokai) that takes the form of an impossibly tall female specter often rumored to have a deep, masculine or an attractive, feminine voice in which she repeats the interjection "Po" [ぽ] repeatedly, and has a habit of preying on children, usually those who are nine to eleven years old.
It is said that Hachishakusama catches her victims by stalking a select child she takes a liking to for a few days or even months. After a certain time has passed, she takes the child away from their family members and their whereabouts are left completely undisclosed ever since. It's unknown how or why she chooses to abduct them, but it can be assumed that like most spirits, she can also just teleport to the child's location and take them away with her that way too.
However, there are a rare few of people who have been "liked" by Hachishakusama and lived to tell the tale. Those who are fortunate enough to have survived the spirit's wrath have to leave Japan and reside in a different country; they cannot return to Japan due to the risk of being hunted by Hachishakusama once more which also prohibits them from seeing their families by extension even under urgent situations, like a relative of theirs passing away.
Basically, don't reciprocate her affection or pity her too much. If she finds you interesting and you see a tall dark woman watching you intermittently, flee the country immediately. She stalks people to see if they're a good replacement for her lost son, and "adopts" them.
Per the GitHub:
Accessibility layer:
<Shield>hides protected regions from assistive tech and ships ana11yprop that renders a real alternative beside them —mode: "text"puts your words in the page encrypted behind a time-lock puzzle the reader's browser opens (no link for a scraper to follow, no artifact for you to host), ormode: "audio"points at a recording you make. What remains: NVDA and JAWS verification (VoiceOver is done by hand, Windows is not), the focus indicator a sighted keyboard user loses to an invisible control, and the non-React tiers shipping none of it.
In summary, they have two ways to get around this.
- By default, blind people are fucked as usual. Most everything is unusable via screen reader just due to the way modern websites are designed.
- Audio mode pre-records an audio file of your text, and plays that, bypassing the screen reader. This is extremely horrible UX for screen readers, for anything more complicated than a wall of text, but at least it's something.
- Text mode will do some sort of computational challenge, using CPU on the blind person's machine for a few seconds, then revealing the original unmolested text. Assuming this works properly, because screen readers are extremely fragile beasts.
I usually just say I don't want to give out my phone number. It usually works but it short circuits the cashier's brain
I dunno if I've just been unlucky, but I've mostly run into jerks on this platform the last week or so. Reasonable people are the exception, I get just awful replies on most comments, it's really strange. Everyone seems to have a bee in their bonnet. I deleted my Reddit account because every day was people just being toxic at any opportunity, and the same thing is happening here too. My block list is getting pretty long. Makes me wonder if all social media is just inherently an awful place to be.
Most people don't actually want that unfortunately. I agree with you but the numbers don't lie. People love bloated and annoying websites
Yeah exactly. A lot of features are like, let's design the website to perfectly suit your device. But then that means they know everything about your device, otherwise they can't design for it. Then, if they know everything about your device, bad actors will abuse that information. So the only solution is going back to shit websites, but nobody wants that, so we just kind of pretend that it's not a problem and compromise as best we can
I already have to scroll past 20 options to get to Australia in country drop down lists lol
There's an alternate reality where Google was good. They improve the world and push humanity forwards with creative and helpful technology. Instead, we get Gemini
That's a bit misleading.
A bunch of links in an unlisted share directory were indexed and crawled by Google. A Reddit user found them via Google Dorking, and discovered private conversations they shouldn't have had access to. It's not clear how Google discovered these links. To prevent this, Anthropic should have added a "no index" flag to this directory, which they have fixed now.
Yeah, if you care about screen reader users, functionally it's just "Anubis but worse". Unfortunately, most people don't care, so for them and all visual users, it has the benefit of no additional "load time" computational check — the page appears instantly without the Anubis step. Though I'm not sure how long it takes the page to do the de-scrambling.
The primary purpose of this project is to mutilate your HTML so bots can't scrape it, rather than preventing bot traffic in the first place. The screen reader stuff is a bolt-on.