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yon, 22 days ago

@anianimalsmoe Just guessing here, but could it be related to the whole “don’t talk about things” culture? Which in many ways are a double edged sword.

Japan is definitely better than the U.S. right now, but I get the feeling that things move at a glacial pace. But I think it’s a great thing that it’s getting more common in media, as hopefully newer generations grow up with more empathy and tolerance.

It’s happened in the past with Mr Roger’s Neighborhood for instance.

Not that I’m seeking any of it out myself. Just as I’m not looking for cishet. I’m just not bothered by it and care more if it’s a good setting, world building, characters, and script.

I wonder if any of my favorite YouTubers have made any videos on the subject. It can be difficult to get much of an idea of it from the outside. I really wish Japan would take a leap forward and advance human rights. I think it would help overall.

yon, 23 days ago

@chikorita157 @NaraMoore Also doing DDG. Sometimes something new pops up, but it has gone bad pretty fast each time so in haven’t cared to fix anything.

Biggest issue with DDG is the obvious BS results you can run into. Like all of a sudden local results that aren’t at all relevant to me, but (geographically) local.

yon, 23 days ago

@chikorita157 I’m curious of how much it would cost to run video services. Seems like a very difficult thing to do. Privately, as a community, or as an organization.

Ever looked into fedi video services? More as in “Yon is curious”, not saying you should run it :)

yon, 23 days ago

@chikorita157 Bandwidth is pretty big too, scales with each user and as a small player one wouldn’t have access to <fancy tech that solves that, assuming I don’t have to explain it, but I also don’t know the word for it because I’m tired>.

Streaming is even worse in many ways. Short form videos would be the same.

(I don’t actually dislike short form, it’s just a very different thing. A different mind set. Much closer to zapping between channels but not as shit compared to watching curated “good” videos.)

yon, 22 days ago

@anianimalsmoe @chikorita157 CDN, that’s the dang word. I was thinking of how they are implemented and caching and couldn’t see the forrest for the trees:)

$600/year surely is a chunk of money, but not outside the real of what many can afford. But assume they don’t scale so, yeah, must be horrid amounts of money. Very difficult to get any of this to make any money.

Not to mention how much more difficult streaming is (not the Netflix kind, the Twitch kind). Lag is absolute killer for things like interacting with chat for instance. Very crazy.

Video is pretty crazy stuff. I grew up in an analog world:)

yon, 22 days ago

@chikorita157 @anianimalsmoe Loved Fastly when I dealt with their stuff. I never did video though. But their whole setup is really cool.

yon, 22 days ago

@chikorita157 There’s no such thing as a free lunch or unlimited data:) (sorry for the joke)

Wow. That’s quite a bit after all. Guess it really ads up.

yon, 25 days ago

@neatchee Just wear a T shirt with Bernie and AoC on it and you won’t be chosen :)

I know the usual reaction is, no I don’t want to. Be it’s kinda scary that so much rides on juries.

Either way, good luck!

yon, 24 days ago

@neatchee Thing is, they have to choose someone or there would be no trials. I’m quite intrigued by the selection and what kind of people it is.

Jury trials are kinda scary.

yon, 24 days ago

@neatchee It’s kind of funny, I know more about the U.S. system than the Swedish one. But I was taught how the Swedish one works at school (no juries for instance), but virtually all my knowledge about how it works here comes from TV and movies.

I have a feeling that I don’t have a clear picture of the mundane reality. But as you say, at lot is low level stuff like tickets and such.

I must assume they want people that can sway. So I would probably be one of those people they chose, and one side heavily regrets it:)

I know that if I was a lawyer I’d ask “do you work with software, engineering, or science?” and chuck anyone that did :)

yon, 24 days ago

@ami_angelwings @neatchee “My internal compass is all that matters”:)

It’s funny how there are so many stories on how to get out of jury duty in the US, and back home it was about how to get out of military service :)

(I was placed, so I didn’t pull anything. But I requested to push it into the future as I was in college, and then they just didn’t want me anymore :))

yon, 24 days ago

@neatchee @ami_angelwings Probably best to not do anything stupid, jokes aside. I’m sure one could get into trouble.

yon, 24 days ago

@ami_angelwings @neatchee Same here:)

It’s like the “get out of military service” stories. Some involved chocolate (I’ll stop there), others declaring your love for communism (I.e. the Soviets), and all sorts of stuff. Pretty sure it was mostly tales :)

That said one of my favorite punk bands disbanded because the bassist refused military service and got jail time. Worked out ok because they reformed into another band without him, and I honestly think he was just waaaaay too left for it to be a good thing.

yon, 24 days ago

@neatchee @ami_angelwings Hehe. When I say too left I mean writing songs like “we will arm ourselves” (not a metaphor, it’s clearly weapons) or “shoot a cop” (much more direct than Cop Killer, which made people upset here).

Dude was a full blown revolution communist.

And they wrote (and covered) a bunch of songs that criticized the social democratic government. Yes a whole party that got something like 60-80% of the votes filled with Bernie Sanders and AoCs.

I miss when the left cared about worker rights and moving towards post scarcity. They have completely lost their ways and yeah. I’m sad.

But we could use some left here. It’s a dream but I’m hoping that R falls apart and D grows to the point it splits into progressives and conservatives and we can get some basic sanity.

yon, 26 days ago

@anianimalsmoe I can’t remember his name (don’t follow NBA, can’t name players in general), but maybe that famous Chinese player played in CB? Could explain it.

yon, 25 days ago

@anianimalsmoe Probably some timing and marketing thing that caught on then. If you ever find out, post :)

yon, 25 days ago

@anianimalsmoe Exactly. Some things just kinda sticks. Like Fist of the North Star in some places. Or how “Chinese food” is different depending on the country you are in, and often not similar to food in China.

Or how you’ll hear people wax on about Ingemar Bergman and all I can think of is the grumpiest most depressing director of all time:)

They probably pushed CB when they entered the market and had some big players at the time.

Or how Caramelldansen is a big internet meme and the Japanese thought it was cool. But it was a done a dozen in Sweden and nobody cared too much. The lyrics aren’t great :)

yon, 26 days ago

@chikorita157 I just randomly ran into it and it’s both crazy and fascinating. Don’t think I’d care to use it for anything, but still fun to see that it even exists :)

yon, 26 days ago

@anianimalsmoe Isn’t there already a piece of software named Maven? Seems like poor naming, which isn’t a good start (always search any name you intend to use, even the big dogs fail at it. We almost got the Honda Fitta (that’s slang for female genitalia in Swedish and possibly more)).

I still think these kind of algorithms are neat, but only if I’m in charge of them myself. If AI can sort out ads, spam, abuse, fascism, etc I think it might just end up being good :)

yon, 26 days ago

@anianimalsmoe Whenever I see someone today name a company or a product something very common I think they are either foolish or IKEA. But IKEA does it on purpose for a reason.

(It’s the name of places, given names, or basic verb/adjective/nouns in Swedish. No need to trademark it then. Very safe. Examples being Kivik, Billy, and Blåhaj.)

yon, 27 days ago

@anianimalsmoe If it’s cool it’s ok with me. If it’s not cool I just play/watch something else.

yon, 28 days ago

@chikorita157 Forgot about that, it’s even more damaging to be honest.

I think they hitched their wagon to the cloud and it never made real progress, so they never had an answer for how to build things without it “winning”.

Lackluster exclusives, Sony/Nintendo not being dumb enough to allow Gamepass, and poor leadership and now they are boned.

Feel bad for the workers. The XBox isn’t actually bad, nor are their IPs (which mostly have been unused). Leadership just isn’t people who get it.

yon, 27 days ago

@fujiwara The whole system is awful, ineffective, inhuman, and wasteful:(

With how much tax money we use on it, we could have the best health care in the world
with nothing but simple co-pays ($20 and such). But no…