Notices by Kotaro (kotaro@kotaro.me), page 2

Good morning, fellow fedi folks.

It's Thursday.

Firefox is at it again, pushing another pointless update and messing around with the settings menu.

Thanks to that, it's now clashing with the Firefox PWA extension, and I can't open the extension panel in the PWA anymore.

By the way, the attached screenshot shows my 2017 MacBook Air running Debian as it is now.

While it's accurate to call it ethnic cleansing, it looks like an even more malicious form of racism.Amnesty report accuses Israel of 'ethnic cleansing' in West Bank amid expanded settlements
Sara Jabakhanji · CBC News · Posted: Jun 10, 2026 5:09 PM EDT |Last Updated: 2 hours agowww.cbc.ca/news/world/west-bank-settlements-israel-amnesty-report-9.7229832?cmp=rss

People in Japan view coexisting with swallows very positively and place great importance on maintaining their habitats.

Look at this. The station staff at our local station take excellent care of them.

@raccoon Personally, I don't think the swallow's song is all that beautiful, but for many Japanese people, myself included, swallows are deeply connected to rice farming and are birds that remind us of our roots.

So, even if they build nests on our homes as they please and scatter droppings everywhere, we shouldn't get rid of them for that reason alone.

After all, we can't forget where we came from.

@raccoon Japanese swallows traditionally played a role in pest control for rice farming.

Since I'm not a rice farmer, personally I'd rather they get rid of the hornets building a nest on the side of my house, though.

So, if you chase the swallows away, all sorts of bugs will breed during Japan's hot and humid summers, which is a real pain.

@aral Hello, Aral.

GoFundMe is blocking our donations to Gaza.

Please encourage those who are Gaza-verified to switch to a fundraising platform other than GoFundMe.

In my town, it's right around the time of year when baby swallows leave their nests.

The twittering of the swallows echoes in every direction.

@atomicpoet That sounds like medieval or Renaissance music.

I specialized in Western music composition at university, and I really think it's the Renaissance style that truly captures the essence and charm of Western music.

Music from that era isn't bound by functional harmony; its tonality is ambiguous, and it lacks the "stiffness" typical of Western music. Despite that, it features beautifully simple harmonies, making it easy to listen to even for beginners.

@atomicpoet It is not that I dislike the beauty of Western music, such as harmonic equivalence or the equal treatment of each voice in counterpoint; rather, I respect it.

For example, Palestrina's compositions are the ultimate model for me.

However, the "order" of simplicity that functional harmony and tonality aim for is different from my aesthetic, which aims to embrace chaos exactly as it is, and my view of life and death, where "eventually everything returns to Mother Earth."

My improved FreshRSS and SmartRSS combo is incredibly handy!

I can see exactly what's trending in every field, full articles and all.

I can't quite put my finger on what's really behind all this LLM hype.

This music is packed with the Japanese elements I envision within Western music.

I really hope you'll give it a listen.

Another world that I know is almost completely safe, but where I don't understand a single word of the language. I'd love to travel to a place like that.

Well, the only places that are actually that safe are probably Northern Europe, South Korea, and Taiwan, though.

I mean, in the US, it feels like Asians who don't speak English would get picked up by ICE just for walking around. 😛

Because recent LLMs use too much Chinese training data, even non-Chinese models contain Chinese Communist Party bias.

The reality of language taking on a life of its own and behaving however it pleases is not strange at all.

LLMs certainly require dedicated curators when learning a language. If they are blessed with a fantastic curation team, like in the case of Anthropic, the resulting product will function reasonably well for practical use.

However, it is an overstatement to dismiss the entire category of LLMs as a product of centralism based solely on the existence of specific curators.

I have severe eye strain. I've never experienced anything like this before.

@lightning What I don't quite understand is that I remember just 10 or 20 years ago, there were so many internet users who were highly supportive of sharing home console emulator ROMs via Torrents and the like.

Right around the time it became a realistic possibility that LLMs could take away human jobs, people in this community suddenly shifted en masse to a serious tone against copyright infringement.

Up until then, it was full of people condemning entities like the RIAA as authoritarian villains.

Good morning, everyone in the fediverse.

I'm feeling really down today for some reason. I don't know why.