deathmtn

I've had this idea about an automated daily or weekly email digest of posts (text, images, sound) from bots for about a year now. I was planning on starting exploratory work on this in July, but it occurs to me, this isn't an art kind of thing in which it's worth doing even if very few people want it. If no one wants it, then it's not worth doing.

So, I thought I'd ask: Do you want this? Email deathmtn@fastmail.com and put "yes" or "no" in the body. (You also add other elaboration if you like!)

Petty, but I'm really pissed that I have to shower again today. Fund the goddamn trains already, Republican governor.

Goddamn no AC on the red line today. Stink steam

10-3-3-3-2-3. Woof.

The office gym showers are nice, though. There's a little curtained area where you can hang up your towel and clothes before going in the actual shower. Maybe this is standard now? I haven't went to a gym in a while.

Last week, I made Space. Out. It's a web page that plays (mostly) ambient space music with random NASA mission audio. I wrote a bit about the power this pairing in my projects newsletter.

I'm using it today, and it's holding up.

It is a weird thing, at this age, to always expect people speaking in Korean to be older than you. I just heard some people speaking Korean at Starbucks, turned to look at the speakers, and they were 10-15 years younger than me.

I kind of don't want to talk about it at all, but I feel I should so that I actually learn something from this.

The spinners project has been going slowly, but well. Yesterday, it started getting stuck on Mobile Safari. As in, everything just stopped animating.

Some investigation today on normal Safari on a Mac revealed that Safari just cannot handle animating a lot of stuff as well as Firefox and Chrome. I was able to get things to at least not freeze in Safari by cutting the size of the images I was using by half and reducing the number of DOM elements on the screen at a time to about 500 or less. (Both of these things were necessary to not lock up Safari.)

Still, shit was extremely choppy.

I'm probably going to have to rewrite it with canvas, which, I guess, I should have done in the first place, despite the benefits of SVG.

Very betrayed (by whom? I don't know) at going from almost having a project done to having to do it over.

Fuckin' Tom Nook is at it again.

The Animal Crossing games have always been very peaceful, yet at the same time your character is always driven by capitalism and debt, at least in the beginning. You owe a ton of shells to Tom Nook, a raccoon with a lot of capital, and you have to hustle to pay off that debt.

In this latest game, it looks like he has a horizontal monopoly. He has a charter airline, an island where you can only buy his products, and the NookPhone. He is keeping up with the times, and his growth outlook looks good.

Just not feeling it today. Having stoically struggled through the "not feeling" hundreds of times without getting anything out of it, I decided to just go home early and get some kalbi for grilling.

Which, yeah, I lean on grilling when I'm not feeling good.

10-4-4-3-3-3. Did some burpees before and after. Ended up more intense than I wanted because coworkers were in the gym which subconsciously made me rush. I need to pick a less peak time than noon.

On YouTube’s Digital Playground, an Open Gate for Pedophiles

So a user who watches erotic videos might be recommended videos of women who become conspicuously younger, and then women who pose provocatively in children’s clothes. Eventually, some users might be presented with videos of girls as young as 5 or 6 wearing bathing suits, or getting dressed or doing a split.

On its own, each video might be perfectly innocent, a home movie, say, made by a child. Any revealing frames are fleeting and appear accidental. But, grouped together, their shared features become unmistakable.

Asked to take a very simple measure to stop like this, they said a variation of what they usually say:

But YouTube has not put in place the one change that researchers say would prevent this from happening again: turning off its recommendation system on videos of children, though the platform can identify such videos automatically. The company said that because recommendations are the biggest traffic driver, removing them would hurt “creators” who rely on those clicks. It did say it would limit recommendations on videos that it deems as putting children at risk.

Google is an indefensible entity. I hate that I can't avoid them in my professional life.

And YouTube, by showing videos of children alongside more mainstream sexual content, as well as displaying the videos’ high view counts, risked eroding the taboo against pedophilia, psychologists said.

That's what they, along with Twitter and Facebook, have already done with white nationalism.

So what should we expect of IPFS? At five years old, is this a project that’s usable ‘here and now’, as the homepage promised in 2017? Are all the parts in place, just waiting for web and application developers to see the light? Have the stumbling blocks I noticed in 2017 been smoothed over?

No

This is really good to know. I want to get my sites decentralized, given how much trouble Net Neutrality and the open world wide web is in. I'm never sure how solid IPFS is, though, despite all the talk about it. I guess I'll wait a bit more.