Olives @olives@qoto.org

I never really liked Vice World News. One article tried to argue that the leader of some old NAMBLA like group was a "victim of society" which drove him to do that.

The bigger question is why anyone even cares about (or remembers) some fringe and irrelevant NAMBLA like figure from fifty years ago (who frankly was irrelevant even back then).

It feels like there are parts of the British media which have a morbid fascination with these things.

The editor-in-chief of Vice World News was from the U.K. which kind of explains the weirdly framed child abuse takes. Someone was curious about that before.

I generally don't engage with Brits.

There is a *bubble* there and I don't want to think about how to debunk some asinine point some fringe figure made five years ago because they had a grudge with one particular weirdo in the same manner that someone might have a grudge with Zuckerberg, and they just so happened to tar people with a broad brush to "get even" with that one person.

It feels like Australia still hasn't learned, that despite having ranked voting, it isn't that useful, if there are only candidates from two parties (practically) running.

For instance, someone could maybe pitch something more about leaving people alone (i.e. no anti abortion policies) as well as more business friendly positions.

https://www.refused-classification.com/censorship-timelines/game-iarc/
More games banned by Australia.

https://www.appbrain.com/app/mountains-of-madness/com.atomichorde.coi2
Mountains of Madness. You play as a private investigator in the Lovecraftian horror universe.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/19680/Alice_Madness_Returns/
Alice: Madness Returns. A popular game inspired by Alice in Wonderland but with a dark psychological twist.
#auspol #FreeSpeech

Since someone asked, I would not recommend Netflix. It's either things you've watched, things that are boring, or a couple of items which are okay.

Chances are that anything you'd be interested in watching is not even there.

Someone tried to make the argument that "people have always gone through puberty" in an anti porn screed (although, not to me).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2465479/
Of course, while we don't need to make an argument to that, *even this point is wrong* as the age of puberty onset has been going down since 1840.

It's interesting that someone would take the name of "The Bad Place" from The Good Place show, when the show is literally a piece of satire about impossible (and strange / arbitrary) standards where everyone fails and is screwed over.

There were some celebrities who didn't like people tracking them everywhere.

If this happened three years ago, I don't think anyone would think twice about it.

I'm okay with Threads / Instagram not letting people track celebrity jets. People might not like it, because they don't like one particular guy, however, from a #privacy perspective, it makes sense.

Rather than zooming into social media drama, it might be better to zoom out.

There are accounts which are dedicated to mocking people they find "strange". Why on earth would someone spend all their time doing this?

One reason that I avoid discussing social media drama, other than it being tiresome, is that it follows a news cycle of sorts.

One short cycle comes, another short cycle goes, and whatever it is that someone is talking about is forgotten about before long.

The option to schedule posts on social media also means that rather than firing off takes on the spot, maybe someone will think about them a bit more.

This is somewhat anecdotal, however, one of the perks is that you can just set a post to be posted at a particular time and just walk away from social media, it's tiring being around social media all the time.

Let alone blogs, even for something like social media, scheduling posts can be useful.

Scheduling posts is convenient as you might want to be able to write a post, schedule a time for it to be published, and leave it at that.

It's a reminder that someone can't just slap on a textbox, maybe a slightly better editor, and say it's done. There are the little details like this which make things more convenient.

One of the blogging systems I'm looking at doesn't even have a drafts feature... Or a scheduling system (less important).

Drafts are important.

I see the guy in the Medium article used a mutex. You have to be a bit careful with these because only one thread can hold a mutex at once (until the unlock method is called). Other threads have to wait until it's released.

If you're doing something that takes a long time, that might be painful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-and-set The mutex is likely implemented with some sort of atomic instruction like this.