‘The more I see of what you call civilisation, the more highly I think of what you call savagery.’

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Cake day: February 8th, 2025
  • Finnish game studios don’t even bother to add Finnish subtitles in the games half the time and nobody cares, because nobody expects them to, or even makes a fuss when they don’t, and the devs wouldn’t care even if some people would, since domestic market is an afterthought. Such is the fate of a small language zone, lol. It’s a bit weird if Chinese isn’t among the first 2-6 languages to get translations, if they care about widest possible global market and sales, and the game isn’t just in english with no language options at all. I don’t know if it’s harder to get good Chinese translators in some places to do that kind of work to get both message and the tone right?

  • Does it go something like this? Those companies who buy the NAND chips to make AI accelerators, SSDs and RAM for data centers are the Microns customers, like Nvidia. Even if they are in trouble and know that the datacenters are not being built, they can’t cancel the deals because that would call the bubble into question. They will have to take any markup deal that Micron gives, them because if they don’t there will be nothing for them nor Micron anyway.

  • Signal I think. I don’t mean that the end2end algorithm or messaging itself are itself unsafe, the algo has been shown to be secure. This is what people usually rebuke this with, with the reminder of Signal’s OSS nature.

    The issue the servers and the social networking data that can be harvested. The server code only partially exists in public and we just have to trust that that is actually what is running on whatever AWS server without tampering and self hosting is nearly impossible in practice if technically possible and nobody does it. The social network data (who talks to who) is more valuable than the actual messages logs, which give a massive, but mainly useless datasets. Until LLMs, like 10-15 years ago they were basically impossible to parse for any useful info without using large quantities of eye pairs. Basically if you are an organizer, criminal, government, part of a hunted opposition, you will leak the whole core group structure of your org with attached phone numbers. Whoever with that data can then target their devices and persons with other means. Plus it’s literally built on top of CIA money. I think signal is totally safe and adequate for friends and family type of use, but not much else, but then all in all so is whatsapp, mostly since signal and Whattsapp share the same end to end algorithm.