Cordelia Green @casualwp@qoto.org

I'm about to post something I wrote 2 years ago. I like embarrassing myself so here it goes.

Fukusyuu Programmer!! Sekai-ichi wo mezase!

In a world where programming competitions are serious business, 16 year old junior high school student Yamada Hanako is thrust into the strange world of hardcore coding competitions after vowing to avenge her family's tarnished repuation.

Chapter 1 summary:
1996, Tokyo Japan
"Hanako, cheer for daddy okay? After I win this programming competition we can finally afford the five hundred million yen treatment for mommy's Ultracancer, and we'll be together again. I promise"
Hanako's father, Yamada Tarou, enters the 1v1 computer lab and steps onto his mainframe.
Among a crowd of thousands, Hanako frantically tries to cheer for her father hoping to give her father some morale.
It is the finals stage of the prestigious Michaelsoft programming competition. The winner will get five hundred million yen and recognition as the best programmer in Japan.
Tarou's opponent, Matsuda Hiro, is a 16 year old junior high school student who shattered all expectations, quickly rising through the ranks, beating veteran programmers along the way, finally making it to the finals 1v1 stage.
As the match continues into the 5th programming problem, something seems amiss. Tarou's hands are shaking terribly and the audience has noticed this.
"What's this? It looks like Yamada-san cannot type anymore! He has just requested one of the judges for a timeout. This should be grounds for a temporary match suspension!" the match commentator exclaims.
"NANI!? THE JUDGE IS SHAKING HIS HEAD!? It seems that Yamada-san's request was denied! What could be the cause of this? Nevertheless, the match must continue, it seems."
It is the final problem, and from the jumbo screen displaying his monitor, it looks like Yamada was almost close to finishing. But the rules do not consider a solution creditable until it is completely done.
The audience is in shock as Yamada desperately uses his tongue to type the remaining few functions, an utterly shameful display. His daughter Hanako could not believe her eyes.
Unfortunately, Yamada accidentally slams his face onto the keyboard and closes the entire project without saving. It was at this point that it was clear to everyone, including himself, that he would lose. Realizing this, Yamada Tarou could do nothing but rest his head in the table and cry.
The time limit approaches, and Matsuda finishes just in time. Yamada could not submit a solution so Matsuda was crowned the winner of the Michaelsoft programming competition by way of Yamada's forfeit.
Weeks after her father's tragic defeat, Hanako's mother perished painfully as the ultracancer destroyed her brain. Her father was not there to witness this, as he had committed suicide because of the massive shame he suffered on national television.
Determined to avenge her family, Hanako joins her high school programming club in order to learn the ropes and get revenge on Matsuda, the one she suspects poisoned her father in order to win.
CHAPTER 1 END

Here's something I'm wondering. So there are a bunch of people really upset that Trump didn't win. And the common sentiment is that the protest he basically organized only inflamed spirits more, and got people more riled up and primed for violence.

But what if it's the exact opposite. What if this allowed the more ardent supporters to vent some steam, get a feeling that they achieved something, that they showed "them". And now, on Trump's word, they're gonna go back home, with some peace of mind that Biden's presidency can't hurt them, because they did take over Capitol building after all, and if something bad were to happen... "well clearly Biden wouldn't dare do something against the people, because he saw how powerful we were that day".
At the very least, I see the possibility that this event gave the people the illusion that they have power and control over their government, even if/when it's corrupt. And what can give someone more peace of mind than feeling that they are in control of their own lives?

Maybe I'm reaching here, hoping for a calmer future, but wouldn't it be nice if inadvertently Trump pulled one final 4D chess move before he left?

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damn it, that link isn't real

@gamingonlinux did an excellent roundup of coming Linux games in 2021, here:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/01/upcoming-linux-games-2021-list

(Big fan of their site, which is ad-free and Patreon-supported.)

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I have to admit, my ego is slightly inflated (even though i did nothing to earn it really) by the fact that I am the first person in the history of the fediverse to have a post on the front page of #HackerNews

@freemo Which is why no open forum should be banned.

At the same time, Twitter actively censors one type of hate speech, but allows another. It's interesting because this means Twitter actively supports, and therefore publishes hate speech.

@kline Yea, what goes around comes around.. for many this will be a taste of their own medicine...

@freemo this happened to Clover, an imageboard client, because it supported access to 4chan - a site that Google considered unpalatable.

At the time, it was mostly cheered by a lot of the same people as use mastodon. It's unfortunate the precedent has come full circle.

@khird Yupits the slippery slope of censorship.. Censorship never works so you have to get more and more drastic in the hopes of silencing the unwanted material. Eventually you have as more collateral damage than productive censorship.

@freemo The only reasonable model I see if Google takes a hard line on this is for apps to maintain a whitelist of known well-moderated instances, given how easy it is to set up a cheap instance to troll from. And if the app developer is supposed to be personally responsible for the content accessible through the app, then he'll probably only whitelist an instance he has control over. So you'll have a QOTO app, Gargron will have a Mastodon Social app, &c. If Google doesn't like some instance's moderation policy they ban its app.

@khird ahh yes, that may be true.. but there is plenty of hate speech on other servers too, some just as bad or worse than gab... how far will they take this, do app maintainers really need to be int he business of maintaining a mile long block list?

Holy crap, google is apparently taking down all/most fediverse apps from google play on the grounds that that some servers in the fediverse engage in hate speech. At least three apps I know of anyway and I'd imagine the others will follow soon under the exact same reasoning.} Seems to be the case with Husky, Fedilab, and "subway" tooter.

this is a scary precedent if google play is going to ban any apps that can in any way be used to access content with hate speech. So what about a forum client, do they take that down just because there is a forum somewhere on the internet posting hate speech?

This is particularly worrisome because for most people Google Play is the only way they understand to install apps at all.

Picture attached of one of the notices received by fedilab.

https://toot.fedilab.app/@fedilab/104761140268193772

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/104763960269049818

@fedilab @tateisu #fediverse #mastoadmin #freespeech #censorship