Notices by abadidea (0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange)

@jessie @catsalad this is Odin. Sometimes he commits hug crimes against mommy and has to be arrested by daddy.

continually astonished that every package delivery service on earth seems unaware that the #1 reason people are visiting their website is to use the track-and-trace and not to read their mission statement

We let Odin run loose in a big field today, but he decided he was in a bratty mood and refused to be caught again, sticking reasonably close but always just out of reach as we walked deeper into the park.

This went on for about a kilometer until we came to a public water fountain, and Odin stood next to it and gave me the puppy eyes until I came over with his bowl and gave him some (and leashed him back up).

here is some “Odin wild and free” footage. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

all woofs come to those who wait #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

we ordered delivery and the poor worker arrived very stressed and anxious about how she was late and how her Dutchglish skills weren't strong enough to make a good, customer-placating explanation for why she was late. I resolved this by asking if she likes dogs. Odin emergency therapy was successful

@theirstar they were teaching about the consequences of bad posts all the way back then? very forward-thinking

90s Toy Computer Appreciation Post

there was a brief window of time in the 90s where these things had their own aisle in American toy stores. I wanted one but I never got one because we... had a real computer.

#retrocomputing

@jason I believe some localizations changed that because the name scans as 100% masculine in some cultures, but yeah, in canonical English she's she/her

I love this approach to copyright. Sure, slap some clip art of 90s point-and-click adventure star Freddi Fish into your book of random interesting scientific facts. What’s she gonna do, solve an extremely low-stakes mystery about it?

@lesley my absolute favorite example of this sort of thing is the North Korea propaganda video which uses the Elder Scrolls Oblivion theme song. like what is Bethesda Softworks gonna do about it

@DJGummikuh he did immediately stop, in fact I think Odin got quite sad that mommy was crying. After I cleaned up the blood situation, I went to hug him to reassure him I'm not mad at him. He wagged his tail really hard when I came back.

it may surprise you to find out that tonight was the first time Odin has ever jumped into my face hard enough to give me a nosebleed. Got a little too excited about mommy getting her hands on the ball.

I just had a brief panic attack about how I need to go grocery shopping but the stores will be mobbed today and closed tomorrow, before I remembered that I don’t live in the United States. :neodog_thumbsup:

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Odin Flashback

I am glad my husband doesn’t put “sword of @0xabad1dea” in his bio and then get in bizarre arguments with randos that escalate to sending rude comments on their etsy listings

(my husband is going to see this post and be very confused.)

Odin is staging a sit-in against mommy’s bedtime. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

Sorry I wasn’t able to get pictures of that puppy playing Odin, but *me* playing with Odin is almost as cute, right?

He loves standing like people so much. I try to make sure his weight is well-supported.

#dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

This is a good example of the value of manual translation: google translate does a decent job with this (especially considering that it’s tuned for modern Chinese, not ancient), but it’s not going to notice that children are addressing an elder with a pronoun that elders use to address younger people, which requires non-literal localization to get the rudeness across. (This is further complicated by how it seems to me that over time, 汝 underwent the same antiquity-equals-formality process as English “thou”, which means that the great antiquity of the text is relevant to grasping the point — and of course, that’s also why I couldn’t simply translate as “thou” to begin with.)

#translation #localization

Children engaging in scientific reasoning, as recorded roughly 2500 years ago in a Daoist (not Confucian!) text:

Confucius was heading east when he came across two little boys arguing, and asked what was going on.

One boy said: "I think that at sunrise, the sun is nearer to us, and at noon, it is further away."

The other boy said: "I think it is farthest at sunrise and nearest at noon."

The first boy said: "At sunrise it is as big as an umbrella, and at noon it's more like the lid of a jar. Doesn't that show when it is near and when it is far?"

The other boy said: "At sunrise it is chilly, and at noon water warms to the touch. Doesn't that mean it's near when it's warm and far when it's cool?"

Confucius had no idea who was right. The little boys laughed at him: "We thought you were supposed to be smart, loser!"

Source text: https://ctext.org/liezi/tang-wen#n37474

Translation note: I'm getting "loser" from how they boldly address him with the inferior-thou pronoun, which is what Confucius would use to address *his* students.

#classicalchinese #translation #localization