Notices by チャノさん (japananon@mitra.anon-kenkai.com)

@suwako @udon NIGGERBALLSの件は全然問題なかったよね。逆に面白いと思ったw

I generally don't know my ass from my elbow when it comes to programming, but today I had an AI write a simple bash script for me, and it was actually really helpful as a learning tool. I generally have low patience for learning groundwork shit, and want to jump straight to some specific thing I want to accomplish here and now. Having an AI write the script for me, I get an object example of something I want done, which I can then study and observe its moving parts... editing it where necessary to fix shit that doesn't quite fit and making it work smoothly.

I know asking an AI to write shit for you is looked down on as a crutch, but for a low-level beginner if used correctly its actually a halfway decent learning tool.

@phnt @hakui @Kyou I would heartily recommend archiving any Pixiv-only content if you want to hold on to it.

If you ever needed more evidence that Pixiv is totally pozzed, their new logo just dropped

@icedquinn Some people they didn't care for gave their game a shout out, the smart money was on "just ignore it and keep making your game"

Selaco devs have decided to get retarded. It's funny when it happens to shit games, but Selaco was actually fun and well made... shame.

I've been doing a little digging into Unifans, and while I agree it has a lot going for it, I have a number of questions about them that remain unanswered.

Finding corporate information about Unifans took some doing, since the site doesn't have anything provided up front. Pulling up WHOIS records on their domain, and the Developer Profile on their iOS app, revealed that the company behind it is "1000353701 Ontario Inc", an otherwise unnamed private corporation referred to by its Corporation Number in the registry, in this case registered in Ontario, Canada.

Dun and Bradstreet also has an entry on the company that lists a Mr. Bing Li as the President and Director of the Board. Trying to search for "Bing Li" in Ontario turned up so many results, it'd be difficult to pin down any one as our man, everything from a PhD level geologist to a couple of investment bankers and more.

None of this is necessarily sinister, but I am very curious about how 1000353701 Ontario Inc can operate Unifans out of Canada while also collecting almost zero information from fans or creators. IANAL, but a brief lookup of KYC/AML laws in Canada makes me think it'd fall under "E-Commerce with Age-Regulated Sales" for any R34 stuff (the example they cite is alcohol, but I think Canada's draconian policies for drawings would apply here).

As things stand, it's perfectly possible for both fans and creators to access the site via VPN, use pseudonyms, pay/withdraw in USDT, and walk away with no paper trail. For the record, I think this is a good thing... I just wonder how the company can have done this since 2022 without any legal repercussions. I'd need to hear from an actual lawyer on this, though, there may be loopholes I'm unaware of.

Right now, though, I'd say hell yeah, use it if you can. Just make sure you're behind 7 Boxxies when you do, and have a backup plan in case they get the banhammer at some point.

Thanks to Crippled Media for bringing this to my attention.

RE: https://shota.house/notes/a39iai37vno300u3

@JustDisa Did a little extra legwork and ran an Exodus Privacy scan on their Android app. Lot of Facebook trackers:

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/552637/#trackers

I might recommend people blacklist Facebook domains via something like AdAway before using it. No idea if that breaks functionality, I'll be testing it out a little later today.

https://peertube.anon-kenkai.com/w/mK8AB9Ae9n6BofUih5otHX

In which the recent Conservative heel-turn on waifus and fanservice is better understood by studying the three basic types of people in the world, and how they think and operate.

@nerthos @hakui @vitalis Fortunately or otherwise, practicality almost never factors into Japanese law.

Tokyo to sudsidize up to 20,000 yen per household to support the cost of purchasing security equipment

https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOCC16AA20W5A110C2000000

...I feel like this is a bad sign

@sun I thought the artstyle looked familiar. These are the same people who did a collab with Penny Arcade back in the day, where a "sex educator" talks about masturbation & sex toys with one of the PA artist's children:

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/08/01/the-talk-by-erika-moen

@sun Requesting sauce, this looks hilarious

@adiz That's what I'd like to know. I just recently discovered that FUTO's shit isn't as "open source" as I thought it was, and I remember how LBRY was technically "open source", but designed in such a way to be as unfriendly/unintuitive to 3rd party developers as possible, so now I'm very skeptical of any supposed "decentralized project" until it proves itself.

From what I can find via quick search, atproto is dual-licensed under MIT and Apache 2.0, so it appears to get the gold star of approval from the FSF at least:

https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file#license

But I have no idea if they're playing any tricks under the hood. The Guides section of atproto makes reference to self-hosting a "Personal Data Server". But I don't understand any of this enough to be able to figure out if there's any fuckery going on.

@adiz I think my got my answers here:

https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

If I'm reading this correctly, Bluesky offers the possibility for users to host Personal Data Servers, but this really just offloads storage onto the end users. Message delivery is handled by dumping all messages onto relays, which are sifted through by applications called "AppViews" who pick out and forward them to users.

There is currently only one relay run by Bluesky Inc, and since it's expected to store literally everything for everyone, you'd need 5 terabytes of storage (and growing) to create one. I don't know what's involved with running an AppView instance, but I imagine it's not simple and right now apparently there's only one and it's also run by Bluesky Inc

So the devil in the details appears to be "sure you can host your own data on your own PDS, but whether anybody gets to see anything you post (or vice versa) depends on a service that's too big for anybody but a corpo to run, and we run the only one everybody uses". The relay/AppView layer appears to be where algorithmic stuff for user feeds is done as well, so there's your chokepoint for deciding who gets to see what (or doesn't).

@djsumdog @prettygood @romin Donating blood is cool and all, but what if I could sell my blood on the open market instead? It'd be like Wolf of Wall Street, but vampires instead.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/a-30-million-campaign-to-free-social-media-from-billionaire-control-is-now-underway/ar-BB1rotwo

>"For the first time, we have a clear pathway to securing the future of social media as a tool for connection, creativity, and joy," Nabiha Syed, Executive Director of Mozilla Foundation

>The initiative, called "Free Our Feeds," aims to create independent infrastructure around the AT Protocol, an open-source technology that powers the Bluesky social network, and allows anyone to build their own social media applications

Interesting that Mozilla bailed on Fediverse just last year, saying they needed to focus their resources on the browser and AI shit:

https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/17/mozilla-exits-the-fediverse-and-will-shutter-its-mastodon-server-in-december

...yet here they are shilling Bluesky's protocol as the "first time ever" fix for corpo social media.

@djsumdog @icedquinn @VD15 @sun ..fuck, Grayjay has a proprietary backend? That sucks, I thought it was a decent project.

HOLY SHIT, we have working polls in Mitra.
I repeat, we have working polls in Mitra.

This weekend, it's time for 3-week-old Christmas leftovers. Project Zomboid crowded it out of the Christmas Streaming Special, but now it's back! STALKER's slightly less famous little brother, it nonetheless gives us mutants, radiation, snow, and vodka.

"Let's Try: Metro Exodus" is this Saturday January 11th, only on PeerTube

WHEN: https://time.is/0830PM_11_Jan_2025_in_JST

WHERE: https://peertube.anon-kenkai.com/w/fw3FVDxM8VYZsUTMBSJsJv