Notices by Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io), page 20

@lain @thor Or you could make your laws about actions, which can be defined and verified precisely, instead of about "valid reasons."

@lain @thor Seems hard to come up with a definition of "valid reason" that will allow me to do what I want to do and won't allow Facebook to do the very worst of their abusive activities. And that's not because what I want to do is just as bad as what they do - it's because accurately defining "good" in a way that will resist lawyering is an intractable problem.

@lain @thor Explictly including IP addresses in the definition of "personal information" seems like a bad idea to me.

@eal @karen @alfred @pea DOES ENGLISH HAVE ANY THAT CAN'T BE REPRESENTED IN CAPS?

@eal "found that a function called memcpy was the culprit, most memory players use memcpy and this is one of the reasons why memory play sounds worse ie digital sounding. Fortunately there is an optimised version of memcpy from http://www.agner.org/optimize/, using this version removes the hard edge produced by memcpy. the other thing I did was to close the file after reading into the buffer."

@bthall It derives from the expression "old boys" meaning "alumni" - former students of an exclusive private high school who've remained in touch with each other as a semi-formalized social club. They're "old" because they're older than when they were students there; not necessarily particularly old in absolute terms. Just saying "boys" would not suffice in that context because it would be assumed to refer to current, not former, students.

@ninjawedding Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks for thinking of me.

@jk In sooth, canst thou even?

@lain http://www.angryflower.com/advan.html

@Nutty Clever how the author of this tweet avoided using any pronoun for Hitler.

Toronto terrified by mystery accordion men! http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/despacito-accordion-player-ttc-1.4627144

@rra @luka I haven't been following the growth on the Japanese side very closely (my own Japanese language proficiency is not great, though more than zero) but there've certainly been a number of conferences and workshops among research and business people on building Mastodon and its use for business purposes. Pawoo is running a forked version but still taking most of the development lead from Gargron's Mastodon.

@rra @luka Pawoo is closely connected with Pixiv - an an image-sharing site which makes its money by selling a "premium" tier of access on the main site (maybe in other ways too). As far as I know their Mastodon instances are free and simply viewed as a way of promoting and driving traffic to their main, non-Mastodon, services.