My basic math skills have been terrible lately. I made a basic math error in a post the other day too. I was a strong student in math too
Is this cognitive decline? I’m not even 40
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Tech was ruined in the 90s when capitalistic influences (microsoft being the dominant force but far from the only one) propagandized the industry and eventually populace at large with the idea that competition in the industry is what drives innovation.
Granted, much of their work was already done for them thanks to western influence perpetuating this ideal for ages. But when the frameworks for open standards, interoperability, and collaborative development were being proposed and put into place they were shot down and/or actively sabotaged
As a result 40 years later we have this mess. A landscape filled with nightmare tech. Fragmentation everywhere, design heavily influenced by a small handful of sociopaths with no empathy and active disdain for users, the idea of open standards is something that requires government intervention (and still rarely occurs), interoperability is something that has to be hacked around and frequently breaks as a means to encourage purchasing a competing product.
What could have been. Tech designed for people’s needs rather than tech designed to extract income
College Student Arrested for Selling Bocchi the Rock! Anime Keychains (She Made Total Profit Of 16$)
copyright law is Japan is weird and very uncool
The key differences are that they allow criminal punishment (such as this) though that’s not super common unless it’s egregious (like lots of money), this is pretty insane (though any criminal punishment for copyright violation is)
Registration is also automatic. In the us copyright is automatic as well but you have to register your copyright to sue for damages. In Japan this is not necessary, work is copy written upon creation and protections are granted without registration
The big one though vs us law is that they don’t have an exception for fair use. This is why manga and anime typically go to great (or minor) lengths to avoid saying names of products and chains. Unless they have a working relationship with the item/vendor/chain and explicit permission to do so they can be sued for having a character go to don quixote or whatever if donki decides their brand is damaged by being associated with some trashy manga.
Further complicated by the existence of doujin, which are all blatantly in violation of this system, but tolerated and even encouraged mainly because of cultural precedent. That said the doujin market is itself a complex and hypocritical beast filled with exploitation because of this. When works are small no one cares. When they are medium, free advertising. When they are too big to rival the brand it can cause issues and there has been precedent for shitty behavior here (shutdowns, poaching artists from circles, etc). Similarly disagreeable content can get you shut down (eg Pokémon and Nintendo banning sexualized doujin, kadokawa banning kantai collection doujin featuring rape, kodansha banning attack on titan doujin featuring “disagreeable political themes”)
Then you won’t browse about 20% of the Internet, which doesn’t sound like a lot but it’s disproportionately impacting sites you would generally want to browse
I posted to this effect in a Firefox alternatives thread: if you use an alternative low adoption rate FOSS browser you trade increased privacy via less/no data harvesting for decreased privacy via much higher susceptibility to browser fingerprinting by google/meta/etc. doesn’t matter if you resize your windows if your browser reports its one that only 5,000 people use. And something tells me the tech giants have a way around user agent spoofing
And now even if you don’t care about that? Fuck you. Cloudflare locks you out of the modern internet because of course anyone not using chrome or safari is a bot
I have pretty draconian privacy protections on my devices and home network. It makes the internet hostile. Captchas regularly fail and I have to try them many times. Embedded youtube videos always think I am a bot and refuse to play unless I sign in, I get weird interstitial pages with captchas on google search, yandex, etc (kagi and searx don’t so I use searx), etc.
Advertisers have pushed companies to make the internet openly hostile to anyone who wants to maintain privacy. And to be clear google and meta are advertisers first and foremost. Fuck them
You’re correct, in my frustration I did shitty math
I leave my post unedited to expose my shame
Edit upon further reflection I did edit my post only to highlight my shame as it appears this got buried and I do not want to promote misinformation
The fuck does he care? He is replacing a large chunk of consumer buyers that have shaky purchasing power with government contracts which will pay up front. 2025 defense budget has 400 million allocated for armored teslas. This is over 4x teslas annual revenue at its highest point (96 billion in 2023)
The stock will bounce to new heights once he can report a revenue of almost half a trillion dollars (of your taxes)
Edit: as @powderhorn pointed out my math is significantly off by a major factor. I leave my post intact because I fucked up.
because you don’t own your device
Anna’s archive, as mentioned
Libgen has academic papers, which is really important. I’m not aware of any torrents that back up scihub, this is the closest thing
Stuff like kiwix gives you offline backups of Wikipedia
Note that you can’t host plex servers from hetzner because plex decided that too many piracy oriented plex servers were being hosted on hetzner hosting and their solution was to range ban all of hetzner.
Fuck plex, Jellyfin is superior if only because some bullshit company makes decisions on behalf of users that don’t reflect the users needs but the fact that the company is perpetually trying to hide the fact that their products core feature is that it’s built around media piracy. Jellyfin has to do the stupid wink wink we don’t do piracy here because laws are stupid but at least they won’t stop you from using good cheap hosting, collect data on you to share with third party analytics and advertisers, or remove watch together
Many years ago, like 2010 or so, I had the opening drumbeat to this song as my ringtone. One day at work I had accidentally left my ringer on and my phone went off during a clinical review meeting. It was a big deal meeting and the chief clinical officer for the agency was there, and she was like “I sure hope that song doesn’t keep going”
It didn’t, I had cut the loop so it just repeated, but it also outed her as someone who knew the work of peaches despite being a c level executive making high 6 figures. I think she realized that she had outed herself in this way because everyone else in the meeting was like “why?”and she awkwardly just powered through. She sucked and that job was the worst
Like a dragon pirate yakuza
Any rgg game is a game I buy. It’s dumb but I love them, especially the action ones where you actually fight (versus the more persona combat oriented ones like 7 and 8). This one is not exceptionally good but the boat parts at least add something new. It’s not bad at all (so far, I’m only a few hours in) but tbh if you don’t like these games you won’t suddenly like this one and if you’re new to the series this definitely isn’t the jump in point
And further he remained unrepentant for his role in murdering 83 Samoan children (most of which were babies). Instead deflecting blame onto the people of Samoa, saying it was because they were malnourished, or possibly because they had the audacity to get vaccinated during an epidemic that he had a direct role in causing (and thus the vaccines killed the unvaccinated children who died of measles, somehow)