Notices by Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im), page 19

Governments are trying to keep up with technology but the solutions the non-techies are coming up with are for the analog era.

If you are a returning user of the #Fediverse, or a new user, and you found your account compormised as "Support" and randomly tagged users with repeated content about verification: create a new account instead.

Accounts with such content, activities, display names, are outright blocked by large instances. Even if you regain control of your account, it is highly unlikely you can contact every single instance to unblock you. If you just live with it, your reach will also be much smaller which can make your fediverse experience really bad.

Just create a new account and activate 2FA (two-factor authentication) to protect your account. And don't click any suspicious links, especially those telling you that you need to verify your account. Please A.S.K. first.

@gcvsa Yes! I was refraining from mentioning that particular work because so many gets fired up with it. I first realized something was wrong with it when I found out the world was actually patterned with continental Europe and Asia. And it clicked, "the Eastern men are "evil" and "barbaric"? That's us Asians!"

Then I started seeing things in a different light. "It is coming from a racist viewpoint."

Add your analyses, 🤯. Indeed, because they removed humanity and "civilized", it suddenly became fine to be racist. Pure race vs race, when in reality it isn't always the case, it's just a certain group who are always racist, but in fiction and games, it's always the entirety of a race unified in their racism against another. A subtle way to normalize racism. "It's okay, they're not like us. They're monsters. We're the superior race."

#Google Search's #AI is very rude. If it cannot analyse your query, it will give you a search result and end your session.

I hope this is not the AI that will take over the world in 2035. 😅😅🤣🤣🤪🤪

@ronsboy67 Ooh, that's interesting. Yep, it's much better to build our own if we can. More control and more sense on how records are kept. 😁

@ronsboy67 😅 You know MDL, their moderators are from a different universe. A lot of stuff that gets approved in their listing are often questionable or inaccurate. (And if you try to submit corrections, usually denied and they cite some reason like "submit it again because something went wrong". 🤣)

New instance blocked.

- massive user tagging
- massive hashtag spamming
- other stuff not worth mentioning because it simply are gruesome, it'll take weeks to unsee 🤬

Lucky for most in our instance because I saw it first.

Unlucky for me because I can't unsee the gruesome 🤬.

If you're an admin or mod, search for cum dot estate and save yourself and your users.

I hope amihan comes early, and this time brings it serious cold air and last longer. It did not last cycle.

Even though I don't do Christmas, the Philippine Christmas season is not complete without a very cold air from amihan which originally lasted for 2–3 months.

Speaking of originally, it used to start mid-December. Since 2018kor 2019, it often starts mid or late January. Very different feels. The Philippine Christmas season is only from September 1st to the Catholic Feast of the 3 Kings (1st Sunday of January, iirc).

@gcvsa 😲😧😳 And I thought you were only talking about how "monster" was attached or used in gaming and fiction. I had no idea of the word's etymology. That is so twisted!

I'm now seeing the "monsters" in a new light. And what you described and hinted at rbiut specimens of medical oddities, it's giving me a picture of biological mad scientist coupled with "monster" = yep, not a good thing to imagine. (Although I got curious what madness they were doing then.)

@jikomayo @rpf If you have an app that can sandbox BPI from detecting all those, it should work.

Anither Filipino said their Samsung phone have such an app and it works there. Secret folder IIRC. Unfortunately I can't find anything similar. I tried work profile but BPI app can still see. 😭

@jikomayo For BPI, yms definitely developer options. They hate it. In their August update, they added accessibility features. So, now, we need to turn-off developer mode, remove all apps using accessibility features, and turn-off anything else related to accessibility.

Oh. One more thing they check, Android's sideloading "install from another app". There are Android brands and models where it is enabled by default, so turning-off developer options is not enough. Since sideloading enabled by default, there's no way to launch BPI app. (Some Oppo and Realme models are like that.)

@rpf

@atomicpoet I agree. It's just is what's currently acceptable and expected.

In the early days, a black background website was the norm. (Or with dark wallpaper gradients.) Then light background became the norm, eyebrows raise if you design with black or dark background. Today? We're back to black and dark. 🤣

Keyboards. Mechanical keyboards were the thing (since we didn't have a choice). Then came soft keyboards, very quiet. And suddenly, mechanical keyboards are hot and you're judged based on if you're using one or not! 🤣

Even in fashion. Long-hair for men. Then gone. Now it's back. Or, straight/wide/loose pants. Gone. And now it's back. (And you're a boomer if you're not wearing one. 😅😅).

But I think we can all agree that it is very bad design to use AJAX loading on scroll and have your important footer links (especially contact/support) and notices at the footer that keeps getting pushed down. 😝 (I still encounter those.)

@AlsoPaisleyCat Oh-em-gee , that is so awesome and a huge undertaking. Did you create it?

Regarless, thank you for sharing! 🙇🏽

@ausir

@teacherbuknoy True! It's going to be a disaster. 😅😅

@liaizon Similar to what you found,

RE: https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/115123148685120336

@crazyeddie @stux

@gcvsa The crazy thing also is, they humanized their "monsters", which only further drives the point that the "monster" is a subtle reference to a particular type of human culture or groups.

And to make skin color racial discrimination more acceptable, elves were used instead of humans. White Elves vs Dark Elves. Light Elves vs Shadow Elves. "Ahh, it's alright, it's not racism based on skin colour, they're elves. They even have an eons long history explaining how it is not racism or any type of discrimination."

And the idea that there would be caves and ruins littering the countryside filled with monsters and treasure, enough to support the idea of "adventuring" as a profession is even sillier.

If you notice in Japanese Fantasy, it largely revolves around videogame tropes, where dungeons magically appear, monster corpses evaporate upon death leaving behind treasure, and all three are magically replenished periodically. Because that is what's needed to make the genre make sense.

@iflscience That reminded me of StarGate. 👽🤖

If anyone is tracking the signup date of the spam accounts that might be interesting to look at. Are they mostly new accounts or are many of them old ones that have recently been activated

cc @jerry @stux