Yesterday I finally flipped the switch on the MX record and moved to a new server (still aptly named after another character from アキハバラ電脳組). The machine was found through Hetzner’s server auctions and has quite a good configuration for the price paid: Intel Xeon CPU E31245 @ 3.30GHz 16G ECC RAM (ECC was the deciding factor) LSI Hardware RAID 1 with two 3x2T disks Now, since the old server has been chugging along since 2011, the 5 eurocent question is why did you move at all?

Header image credit: 1840151sudarshan (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA) A while ago I posted a way to download 実況動画 from Nicovideo. One of my acquaintances publishes videos there, and he wanted to collect the various comments to reply in a follow up video (what the Nico users call the コメント返し). When the comments are more than just a few, it’s hard to find where they refer to without watching them on Nicovideo itself, and its UI is suboptimal.

実況? Is it something edible? In recent times, I’ve been watching a lot of VOICEROID実況 (じっきょう, jikkyou, literally “commentary”) videos from the rather famous (in Japan) video service ニコニコ動画, better known as “Nicovideo”. In this case, the commentary actually refers to games: they’re basically a Japanese version of the Let’s Play videos that are all around other places like YouTube. The difference from “regular” videos lies in the “VOICEROID” term: this is a name of a TTS software developed by AH Software using an engine devised by a company called AI Inc.