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no offense intended but

lately, the articles about lack of privacy being the downfall of murderers and dictators...... it's killing my enthusiasm for privacy

i won't give up on privacy... its just starting to feel gross... learning lessons from ppl who ought to suffer.

edit: everyone replying to me seems to misunderstand catastrophically. "losing enthusiasm" does NOT mean quitting privacy. i will never quit privacy. i have ANXIETY ABOUT LOSING PRIVACY. DON'T reply to me to convince me about privacy. i am a privacy evangelist.

my original comment was intended to say: "hey privacy advocates! stop posting articles about murderers and genocidal autocrats!"

-5000pts + 1pt = -4999pts

watch out posting content from valnet sites....

i got flamed for not criticizing valnet

unfortunately, Japan companies notoriously don't give a shit about earning money by making their fans (especially international fans) happy.

generally Japan companies' main motivation for fandom is to create niche one-off experiences in inconvenient locations at inconvenient times in a way that only Japan residents with lots of free time and disposable income can participate. because that makes those participants feel special and elite in an exclusive secret "ultra rich aristocratic" feeling club.

Japan society rarely gives residents the feeling of being special and valued in social groups or even family, so they feel strongly enough to spend and charge exorbitantly for the experience.

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Uncharted 1

this is why polygon got sold and laid off the staff......

not sure exactly what features you need but there are

• losslesscut
• avidemux
• mkvmerge and mkvmergegui

if command line is OK, ffmpeg is the most versatile and customizable and tons of support docs and question forums (superuser, stackoverflow, askubuntu) for every conceivable niche one-off operation

Agree.

I also think a federated wiki is a great idea.

I think the way to do that is: instead of having separate realities/universes linked together by search and federation, try to unite those universes into a shared multiverse, to the greatest possible.

In other words

• ❌ merely give all federated users access to the same articles
• ✅ automatically link and embed similar articles into each other by default (collapsed, but expandable). similarity can be determined by authors'/contributors' intentional citations, by instance owners' filter rules, by LLM, etc.

of course, there may be attempts to obfuscate relatedness, astroturfing, brigading, whatnot. I wonder if its possible to visualize voting results for each duplicated/linked article along with the originating instance. I think this would function as a pseudo version of 'community fact-checking'. Maybe a better name would be 'reality-checking' or 'sanity-checking' or whatever.