brilliant!

thank you

I’ve heard of “pirate radio” since decades ago but never understood what is pirated about it.

are they broadcasting pirated music? broadcasting from ships committing maritime piracy? drinking Captain Morgan?

unfortunately, Japan companies notoriously don’t give a shit about earning money by making their fans (especially international fans) happy.

generally Japan companies’ main motivation for fandom is to create niche one-off experiences in inconvenient locations at inconvenient times in a way that only Japan residents with lots of free time and disposable income can participate. because that makes those participants feel special and elite in an exclusive secret “ultra rich aristocratic” feeling club.

Japan society rarely gives residents the feeling of being special and valued in social groups or even family, so they feel strongly enough to spend and charge exorbitantly for the experience.

r (slash) invites

r (slash) invites

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i thought Firefox translator didn’t have and East/Southeast Asian languages besides Vietnamese (because of Roman characters) so far

not sure exactly what features you need but there are

• losslesscut
• avidemux
• mkvmerge and mkvmergegui

if command line is OK, ffmpeg is the most versatile and customizable and tons of support docs and question forums (superuser, stackoverflow, askubuntu) for every conceivable niche one-off operation

Agree.

I also think a federated wiki is a great idea.

I think the way to do that is: instead of having separate realities/universes linked together by search and federation, try to unite those universes into a shared multiverse, to the greatest possible.

In other words

• ❌ merely give all federated users access to the same articles
• ✅ automatically link and embed similar articles into each other by default (collapsed, but expandable). similarity can be determined by authors’/contributors’ intentional citations, by instance owners’ filter rules, by LLM, etc.

of course, there may be attempts to obfuscate relatedness, astroturfing, brigading, whatnot. I wonder if its possible to visualize voting results for each duplicated/linked article along with the originating instance. I think this would function as a pseudo version of ‘community fact-checking’. Maybe a better name would be ‘reality-checking’ or ‘sanity-checking’ or whatever.

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coincidentally, i hate the phrase “think of it this way”

thanks for literally devaluing all the work of my fellow translators and i that was stolen by Google and Bing and all the other crawlers/thieves.

it’s the same as with artists’ work being stolen by Stupid Diffusion and the rest.

not mad at you of course. but calling it free was too good a match for devaluing to pass up.

YouTuber Takashii just uploaded a video of street interviews in Japan on the topic of what tourists should/shouldn’t do in Japan.

https://youtu.be/fXV89VQ5dJQ

at least one person said that in Japan, foreigners should try to speak Japanese. some people might see a Japanese thread instance as a little piece of Japan. especially since English language education there is not on a high level.

and monolinguals outside the Anglosphere do sometimes complain that their languages are being replaced/invaded by English.

that said, i think fediverse users (if that’s where you’ve been replying) are less xenophobic than general population.

just remember that in Japan if one wants to complain about another’s behavior, it’s common to go to one’s home turf or filter bubble to do so rather than speaking to the offender directly.

damn… “Luigi’s Mansion” has a totally different ring nowadays…

anyone here ever use Winny (the Japanese predecessor?/copycat? of winmx) or “Share” (also Japanese p2p)?

any news about their developers?

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just… awesome 👍

lately it’s becoming hard to ignore how many of the tools i need for piracy, and for privacy in general, are facilitated in some way by right-leaning/far-right people.

it’s disappointing and a mindfuck.