Olives @olives@qoto.org

I'm seeing accounts from Minds appearing on some feeds, so I guess they're on the fediverse.

Mastodon implements feature every other fediverse implementation has had for years. Search.

Did you notice the weird anatomy on that leg.

https://lemire.me/blog/2022/05/25/parsing-json-faster-with-intel-avx-512/ This is an older one (2022) but they use Intel's AVX-512 instruction set to parse JSON far faster than is normally possible.

Let's see what tactic one "won't anyone please think of the children?" person is using in support of #KOSA.

None at all. He's shouting "Big Tech!" at the top of his lungs and hoping that is sufficient. This is a tactic which has... been invoked a number of times over the past few years to push for all kinds of human rights incursions.

Facebook has gotten too big. Too powerful. The executives are (or were) also a bit shifty. So, we got to do something about them. Something. Anything.

Then, the something ignores any human rights, such as privacy, free expression, or anything else. It also leaves the way Facebook does business completely intact (or close enough so).

Instead of the bad guy being Zuckerberg even, now the bad guy can be someone in the government. There is still a boot on your throat. The centralized power remains. Is everything all tidy and solved?

With KOSA, it has it's own particular brand of awfulness.

It has a number of vague terms which gives figures who have historically been known to over-reach and panic over all kinds of things, a license to panic over more things, then to find a legal text to try to intimidate platforms over that.

Moral panics are not uncommon. In fact, they cannot be any less common. We've seen plenty (in fact, if you look back thousands of years, you can find figures worried about things which would now look silly). There will likely be more to come.

You have to consider whether you really want to live in a sterile Disneyland. Someone could make any number of arguments about this or that potentially being bad. And even if something might be bad to a few people, it's questionable whether that would be proportionate.

This is all assuming that officials are not acting with ill intent. If they're acting with malicious or ideological intent (as a number of people have considered with this bill), it can only get worse.

I am... surprised that someone around here knows about Gatekeepers 21. I thought it was obscure enough that only I knew about it, lol. #anime

Umineko no naku koro ni / When the seagulls cry. Murder mystery on an island.

There is an #anime, but it is incomplete (the second half and some details are missing). To see the whole story you would have to watch / play the visual novel.

Gatekeepers 21. The sequel to Gatekeepers set a few decades later in the 90s with darker themes. #anime

Gatekeepers. A classic #anime about high schoolers with superpowers fighting alien invaders.

Hmm... I'm seeing a bit of interest coming in for this.

I could have asked a slightly more nuanced question, although it still gets the job done.

All of the above is coming in now, although more anime is still ahead, lol.

If this were Japan, I would be using "w" instead of "lol". Probably. That's the equivalent.

Someone seems to believe that people wait to change their avatars until right when they get a new follower rather than it being a synchronisation thing, lol.

I see that someone out there wants more anime content, lol. Well, you can never have too much anime content, lol.