Check how the whistleblower phrased it: “advertising posts”. If that’s accurate they aren’t buying reserved ad space in 4chan, they’re simply paying people to post this shit there, as if it was content.

In both cases you have businesses using the lack of legal representation to avoid following local laws. But that’s it; everything else is quite different.

• Xitter - blocked after orders of the federal court, because there was a legal representative but he was explicitly removed to avoid following the court decisions.
• Nintendo - a state customer protection organ is requesting legal representation, to address violations of customer laws. Nintendo assigned a temporary representative, to handle this specific issue.

I don’t think Procon organs have the power to ban the sales of an imported good within their states. But even if they do, note that this would only apply to the state (in this case São Paulo). Plus Nintendo is being considerably more tactful than that braindead idiot called Musk.

Clothoff is seemingly hoping to entice more young boys worldwide to use its apps for such purposes. The whistleblower told Der Spiegel that most of Clothoff’s marketing budget goes toward “advertising posts in special Telegram channels, in sex subs on Reddit, and on 4chan.”

advertising posts on 4chan

Is Clothoff asking to be raided? Because that’s what happens when you spam 4chan. Ask Anontalk aka AnT.

As I mentioned in another thread, São Paulo state’s customer protection organ is basically telling people to not buy Nintendo. Indirectly, with pretty words, but that’s what it’s doing.

[IANAL] Also, note some stuff in the Switch 2 user agreement is legally invalid in Brazil. Nintendo is shielding itself with an “ackshyually we don’t sell it in Brazil lol lmao”, that’s why Procon - SP is calling it out.

22 yards in a chain

What. I had to websearch this because it sounds too silly, but apparently it’s true.

But, really, even if it used saner numbers (like 12:3:24:8:3), it still feels nothing like a “metric dozenal” would look like. It’s missing the two things the metric system did right:

1. All prefixes are unit-agnostic, like they were numbers. For example you can plop “kilo” = 10³ on weight (kilogram), length (kilometre), volume (kilolitre), energy, (kilojoule), etc.
2. All prefixes must be an integer power of the base. For example you could make a 10⁸ prefix, even if there’s none, and it would be OK; but you can’t make, say, a 10^(2.447) = 300 one.

A lot of the Switch 2’s UA is also illegal in Brazil. For example, check section 7 (Dispute Resolution) - IIRC law protection is considered an inalienable right in Brazil, you can’t simply sign it off.

However Nintendo has been shielding itself by saying “ackshyually, we aren’t conducting business in Brazil”. That’s why São Paulo’s Procon is calling it out.

Procon-SP is a state customer protection organ. It’s more like “São Paulo’s watchdog” than “Brazil’s watchdog”. However since the state in question is populous and has relatively high purchasing power per capita, typically megacorpos beeline towards it anyway.

I’ll coarsely translate here the news from Procon-SP’s site. Emphasis mine in all cases, as I want to highlight something.

See the bolded parts? São Paulo’s Procon is basically telling people “Don’t buy stuff from Nintendo, it’s an irregular business in Brazil.”

Metric “dozenalisation” would be perfectly viable, and metric-dozenal units would still look nothing like USA units.

I’ll use length for the example. All of them in base 10, just for clarity. (Also the name of the units would be different, but I’m not changing them for this example.)

• metric-decimal: 10⁻³ km = 10⁻² hm = 10⁻¹ dam = 10⁰m = 10¹dm = 10²cm = 10³mm
• metric-dozenal: 12⁻³ km = 12⁻²hm = 12⁻¹ dam = 12⁰m = 12¹dm = 12²cm = 12³mm
• USA units: 1/1760mi = 1yd = 3ft = 3*12 in = 3*12*6 P = 3*12*6*12 p

Are you noticing what the USA units do? They don’t stick to a base.

if [[ instance == "lemmy.world" ]] && [[ topic == "Palestine" ]]; then echo "PTB"; fi

Serious now, PTB.

Since the existence of the state of Israel causes violence in the Levant, anyone defending the “survival” of that ethnostate is promoting violence. And yet you don’t see LW mods removing comments defending it - why?

People are focusing on the Excel part, I’ll focus on the maths.

I wish our societies picked base-12 instead of base-10. Divisions in base-12 give you repeating digits less often, and being able to split exactly by 3, 6, 9 and 12₁₀=10₁₂ is far more useful than doing it for 5 and 10₁₀=A₁₂.

Plus 4chan would stop arguing if 0.999… = 1. It would argue instead if 0.BBB… = 1.

I once had a cat that “elected” one of the beds as her litterbox. I have a feeling that, if she could, she’d blame humans for her shit.

All science is junk science when you care more about enforcing your own views than about accurately describing how things are.

The problem with landfills is widespread, not just in USA. And the solution is simple in theory, hard in practice: we shouldn’t be using landfills at all. It’s hard in practice because it means:

1. Reducing the average amount of waste per individual. Yeah. In an economic system that encourages mindless waste.
2. Sorting the waste so it can be processed (recycled, composted, etc.). Waste is messy, so you need to rely on human labour (that’s expensive). And people throw dangerous junk away, things the workers won’t know how to deal with, things that are so oddly specific you won’t be able to pile a large enough amount of it to process it further (and yet since there are multiple types, they’re together a big problem). Ah, if you’re composting it, give up using the compost to fertilise food crops - odds are it’ll be contaminated as fuck.
3. Creating and maintaining facilities that process that waste. Except people nowadays really, really, really love plastic; and plastic is not just “it’s plastic lol process it together”, each type must be processed separately (this compounds with #2).
4. Deciding the less shitty way to handle what you won’t process. Burning is often a solution, and often a problem on itself; let’s not forget that decomposition is never complete unless you reach high temperatures (here’s some additional cost!), and if it’s incomplete you’re releasing harmful substances in the atmosphere.

So… yeah, we got a bunch of ticking bombs, all around the world. Yay, capitalism. /s

Here’s a better idea: address the socio-politico-economical issues that make people resort to crime on first place. Done, “prison crisis” averted.

You could warn the players that the game is best played blind, and the source code will have spoilers. Beyond that it’s up to them, I guess. (Or us. …I’m genuinely curious about your game.)

This may not be the most wholesome but I’m looking to make an indie rpg that tackles the non-choice of being born. T

This reminds me a bit Deltarune: it goes all the length to let you choose the head, torso, and legs you prefer… then its (referring to the body, aka “your creation”) favourite food, blood type, colour… a gift… then a name. Then it says: “your wonderful creation will now be discarded. No one can choose who they are in this world.”

It’s the same general “vibe” I get from your idea - we don’t choose certain things.

Wow. Installing it now. I need this.

I see YT videos mostly in three languages (IT, PT, EN), and you have no idea how much I bloody fucking hate that autodubbing crap - no matter how I configure YT, Google, and my browser, that steaming pile of shit automatically turns on for at least two of the languages.

And frankly, I don’t want it even for other languages. For me it’s subtitles all the way. Let me see the korokke recipe with the original audio, who cares if I don’t speak Japanese?

It is not even good dammit. Not even for people who want/need it. It sounds robotic and expressionless, the voices being chosen don’t match the people being shown, the lip movement is desynchronised to the point of uncanny valley, the translation is filthy garbage.

I wish I could outright ditch YouTube, but PeerTube tends to be unstable and true alternatives (i.e. not relying on anything Google) have network effect against them.

[rant]

Might as well rant about the rest of the botnet aka Google aka Alphabet:

Even when taking privacy concerns out of the equation, I can’t help but stay clear of most things Google. Mostly because of anti-features like the above.

Search? I’m using DuckDuckGo nowadays, except for reverse image search. It has the decency to ask me if I want an AI overview, and if I say “never” it respects my choice; I don’t need an assumption algorithm telling me to put glue on my pizze. I also abhor results being “tailored” (= bubbled) based on location, and goddammit respect the language options I’ve set up in my browser!

GMail? I never used it for my primary e-mail, only for potentially junk subscriptions. Nowadays it isn’t even worth that, so I’m using a Proton account for the same purpose. And if some service assumes you use GMail, guess what - I’m not using it.

Android? Yeah, I still need to use it because of my bank app, but goddammit every fucking update I need to deactivate yet another dumb feature. Plus I barely use the phone. Also, stop trying to convince me to enable PlayProtect, this wall is not to stop invaders going in - it’s against users going out, and using non-Google repositories.

Maps? I want a map; nothing more, nothing less. Organic Maps fits the bill.

And in every single Google product, there’s always that belittling tone. Never to be spoken in loud voice, always implied. Something like this:

• “Since you’re a user, we assume you to be stupid/filthy/dumb trash unable to think by itself. Something like you would cause itself harm if allowed to decide what it should do, so we’re telling you what you should do.”
• “You want to say «no»? Ah, so you’re too stupid to understand simple concepts, like obedience… right. Here’s a «maybe later»; we’re going to smear the same pop-up on your snout all the time, until you say «yes». You’re a user, not a human being, so consent doesn’t apply to something like you.”
• “Oh, the user is still able to jump the wall and run away from the walled garden! Quick, raise the walls. Users are things to be herded in factory farms, not free range, you know?”

[/rant]

For my take on those news, check here. Including context. Here I’ll solely talk about the comments in that cesspool of idiocy.

[1]All this does if make things worse. [2] Things like banning the sale of personal information would be a step in the right direction.

1: It’s too early to know what’ll happen. It might make things better, worse, or the same.

2: I agree that the sale of personal info should be outright banned; one’s control over their own data should be seen as an inalienable right.

Note currently there’s an ongoing law project seeking to assign property rights to individuals over their personal data. IMO a side-step - on one hand it means you’d have an easier time suing megacorpos for stealing your data, on another it means they can still press you to share it.

A big issue here would be defining social media. // Are forums social media? What about reddit? What about YouTube? // I think what we really need is a ban on algorithmic recommendations that seek to encourage engagement or total time spent on the app.

The article 19 of the Marco Civil da Internet - that the STF is getting rid of - does not talk about “social media”, but rather “provedor de aplicações de internet” (lit. internet application provider). It’s basically anyone providing internet services to a third party.

As such, “ackshyually wut teh definishun of sacial meria” is not a relevant concern.

US Social Media should just cancel service to that territory.

I kind of low-key wish that that happened, those megacorpos are cancer. But it won’t - no megacorpos would unnecessarily restrict its own market.

But let’s roll with that. The impact of that would be hilariously small: a single month of disruption, then business as usual. For reference check what happened when the dickhead Alexandre de Moraes banned Twitter, almost everybody and their caramel-coloured dog migrated to Bluesky. Once a platform is gone so is the network effect associated with it.

This series looks fun, right up my alley. BRB, binge reading all 31 chapters.

EDIT - on the series:

It reminds me “My Death Flags Show No Sign of Ending”: boy reincarnates as a game villain but avoids being one. However unlike Harold, Len isn’t forced into a certain path.

I don’t like the whole maken ex machina thing - he seems to develop a new demon sword skill “conveniently” when he needs it the most. The author could’ve handled this better, I think. Still, better than having him start even more powerful right off the bat.

On the other hand, I love how the romance with Lydia is developing; sure, it’s slow, but it’s innocent and heartwarming. The two senpai adventurers are also bro tier, it’s refreshing to see them watching out for newbies instead of picking on them.

I’m not sure on the way they handled Chronoa? Okay, having him protect someone who’s extremely powerful is cute, but we (readers) already knew she was a big shot right off the bat.

HE STOLE YERKQU’S HORSE!

On ch31: oh boy, Fiona is a rival for Lycia, isn’t she? Including mutual acknowledgement of each other’s strengths. … …I’m still on Team Lycia though.

The monsters being of different species hints a stampede. But I don’t know if this story will handle it this way.

Worth noting a small progress is better than no progress at all. Sure, you might not be able to avoid all Meta products, because there’s always someone among your acquaintances you couldn’t contact otherwise; but by migrating whoever you can, you’re at least reducing the amount of info you’re exposing to Meta. At this rate might as well treat it by what it is - using a Meta product is to put yourself in a vulnerable position.

And, seriously, the idea of some AI “managing your schedule, anticipating your needs, running your home, helping you make decisions, and maybe even guiding your career” is fucking awful. Even if it was another human being doing it for free, this would be a bad idea - it’s losing control over your own life. (inb4 not even secretaries do this - they handle the chores, but the overarching decisions are still up to the boss.) It gets worse when you remember those artificial “intelligence” systems aren’t intelligent at all, and they do dumb shit all the bloody time.