kotaro

@kotaro@kotaro.me

He is an office worker who lives in Tokyo, Japan.
He graduated from a music college outside of Tokyo and majored in new media art at a graduate school in Gifu, Japan. He worked part-time for about nine months for a porn screening organization as a cyber-patroller to remove pirated pornography. During his time there, he realized the strength of his own ADHD disability, which motivated him to search for employment opportunities for disabled people.
Currently, he is working for a software engineering company in Tokyo.

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kotaro, to random

BTW, the latest Assassin's Creed game, set in Japan and featuring a real-life historical black man, is apparently unpopular with game fans around the world.
I am ashamed to admit that I had no idea that black people lived in early modern Japan.

kotaro,

@forthy42 The prevailing theory in my country is that although black men did exist, it is not certain whether they were Samurai or not.

kotaro, to random

LLM, along with cryptocurrency and metaverse, is a disingenuous business model that only arms dealers can profit from.

kotaro,

Even OpenAI is not sure if sales are viable.
The only winner in the "AI" market is NVIDIA.

kotaro, to random

It's an earthquake in the middle of the night.
I have difficulty sleeping.

ayo, to random
@ayo@ayco.io avatar

My DAC light indicator changes color when hi-res music is playing, I tried some “hi-res” files I found on the web but I think they just edited the metadata because my DAC doesn’t light up the right color.

kotaro,

@ayo Well, it's a minute difference that many people's hearing can't perceive, which is why there are so many fraudulent businesses.

kotaro, to random

I was able to work for a publicly traded Japanese company with a market capitalization of $2 billion for over 5 years and climbed the ranks to regular employee.
They were able to fire me after 9 months not because of my poor performance!

kotaro,

I was overcome with a very, very great sense of guilt.
I resigned of my own free will.

kotaro,

@tshirtman That's a good question.
It was shortly before I had just started working for a porn screening organization as a cyber-patroller for the fight against piracy.
Our screening group was being sued by a UN human rights NGO for taking pictures of women without their consent in the porn industry.
The following BBC source has more details:

Apology after Japan porn industry coercion claims

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36604001

kotaro,

@tshirtman At the time I was working part-time for "The Intellectual Property Promotion Association" mentioned in this news article.

kotaro,

@tshirtman To this day, I do not know if they had any malice toward me.
But if there is one thing I can say with confidence, it is that they had no regard for the "consent" or "free will" of the people under them.
Even I became a victim because they did not take responsibility for their recommendations about firing me.

elizabethtasker, to random
@elizabethtasker@mastodon.online avatar

Afternoon high tea with a Prince of Tennis (Japanese manga/anime) theme! Each cake is based on the tastes of one of the manga characters (from the Rikkai tennis team). There was also a mini-burger. Also, I can no longer move comfortably 😅

A top down view of the cake tray. The logo of the Rikkai school in the anime can be seen printed on the top tray.
The outside of the menu, showing the faces of each of the 9 anime characters.
A life sized poster shows all 9 anime characters standing together, wearing wait staff uniforms.

kotaro,

@elizabethtasker There are only hot boys!

kotaro,

@elizabethtasker They are only 14 or 15......lol

jake4480, to microsoft
@jake4480@c.im avatar

With the impending doom of ICQ in June and the new crappy version of Teams coming in July, I would like to post this meme one final time

kotaro,

@jake4480 Have we really evolved since the days of newsgroups?

StillIRise1963, to random
@StillIRise1963@mastodon.world avatar

Good morning anti-fascists. 😎

kotaro,

@StillIRise1963 Hello, how are you waking up?

kotaro,

@StillIRise1963 It's a peaceful night as usual.
I want the Japanese government to recognize Palestine as a state.
It is a shame that they keep flattering the white people only at times like this.

kotaro, to random

It was just a month ago.
The Japanese media, Nikkei, has announced an LLM whose dataset is composed solely of their content.
Success in future LLMs will come from operators like them who can steadily build their own data sets.

kotaro, to random

Any entity that will work on creating a model for LLM will not be successful without disclosing the breakdown of the data set.
Having miscellaneous geek content mixed in with the answers will not benefit any users.

kotaro, to random

Not only DuckDuckGo is down, ecosia is down too!
Is ecosia's internal engine also Bing?

kotaro,

@andycarolan @triptych If they were attacked at the same time, Google would be a target too. Why is Google the only one intact?

kotaro, to random

DuckDuckGo is down.
What a surprise, I didn't know their content was Bing.
Too bad, I trusted them.

purplepadma, to random
@purplepadma@beige.party avatar

Good morning. I paid for yesterday afternoon’s delicious nap with nighttime insomnia. I had to put a sleep story on to drown out the anxieties in my head. Got my first uni counselling session this afternoon, so obviously I’m now anxious about that 🙄 How are you today?

kotaro,

@purplepadma Good Morning.
I have very little work to do today.

kotaro, to random

In this day and age, large companies all over the world are implementing LLM because it gives them an excuse to collect confidential information from their customers, not necessarily because LLM is really useful.

kotaro, to random

It's late at night and it's almost morning.
I have to go to bed because I have to work.

purplepadma, to random
@purplepadma@beige.party avatar

The beautiful weather has ended, grey cloud with rain predicted. My social worker is visiting today, this will probably be her last visit as I’ve thankfully moved out of my depressive episode. Just the clinical anxiety to deal with (“just” haha). How is everyone today?

kotaro,

@purplepadma Good evening.
I feel very peaceful.

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