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ivarious··on An entire video of anime that is contained in the subtitle file inside
Here's the tl;dr from the makers themselves:

They contains 16894 line entries, which correspond to every frame from the original file. Every line is composed of several colored vector drawings in the form of cubes. Each one has the size of 1x1 pixels. These lines are aligned with the top left corner, and contain internal newlines to create rows and columns. Every single of these pixels is colored. It is a lossless transformation from the pngs produced to embedding them, so you could recover the original easily. TL;DR: every line contains one frame of video. In the subtitles.

ivarious··on Grab Indonesia under fire for 'mishandling' sexual harassment report
The mishandling part comes from Grab's misguided plan to make the traumatized sexual harassment victim with the sexual harasser. A commenter even said

"It’s like you are trying to form a public opinion on this. Just report it to the police to be investigated. Don’t make it look like the victim doesn’t want to fix the problem.”

This is also not the first time Grab's driver has sexually harassed their passengers. From kissing, sexually testing their passengers, and more.

ivarious··on Bricklayers Think They’re Safe from Robots
Houses in Indonesia mostly use bricks.
ivarious··on Join the Battle for Net Neutrality
Some ISPs throttle P2P/torrent. I don't know specifically about VPN.
ivarious··on Join the Battle for Net Neutrality
https://i.imgur.com/DhL4vKq.jpg

Indonesia doesn't have net neutrality laws. That's the screenshot of Indosat (Internet Provider)'s app where you can buy data plan from. But as you can see, they sell data plans ala carte, per application in this case. If your favorite app is not there, you're shit out of luck and have to use the more expensive universal data plan.

Not only that, last year, the biggest home internet provider (Indihome), and the biggest mobile internet provider (Telkomsel), which both are owned by the government, banned Netflix under the guise of "Netflix hasn't rated nor censored their contents based on our country's rules". The truth is that both of them are selling their own movie streaming service. Indihome has partnership with iflix, and Telkomsel with HOOQ.

Now, if you buy new prepaid number from Telkomsel, this is the kind of data fuckery you will get. https://i.imgur.com/wb6gMBo.png

ivarious··on This is what happens in a country without net neutrality – Indosat, Indonesia
Translations :

Jam = Hour

Hari = Day

ivarious··on Show HN: Discurse – A discussion forum based on Reddit and 4chan
Please use colors and different text size/style, it will help the readability.
ivarious··on A lot we know about pirates is not true, and a lot of what is true is not known
He was Hamilton's contemporaries, of course he know a thing or two about fake news.
ivarious··on Taking the Gaia Hypothesis Seriously
Exo/planet colonization? Terraforming Mars, for example, will create a Mars that will (eventually) look like Earth.
ivarious··on Airbnb: #weaccept
In the future, will corporations do more of whatever service that governments traditionally do for its people?
ivarious··on The foreign words that seem like English, but aren't
And then there's the whole business of Wasei-Eigo, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasei-eigo.
ivarious··on A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web
>Posts linking their replies in the header has been a feature for a very, very long time.

Before, that was add-on/userscript feature. Since moot adopted them into 4chan's codebase, everyone has it.

>only trolls and candyasses pay attention to the number of replies on your post

Exactly. This feature encourages and rewards trolls and people who fish for replies.

>There isn't any kind of long-term karma game like on other sites. 4chan is still content-heavy and shit posts are still looked down upon by the larger community.

The dynamic of the discussion changes though. Even a slight nod matters in a long run considering that 4chan's culture evolves in a very rapid pace, thanks to its ephemerality and anonymity.

>

Come on.

ivarious··on A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web
Considering that one of internet's strength is the democratization of content creation, low-effort anyone-could-do-it contents are inherently high quality.
ivarious··on A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web
I still remember when moot first created [s4s] a lot of people say that it can be a reset to the old chan culture.
ivarious··on A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web
It's rather disappointing that the authors didn't talk about the biggest thing that has reshaped discussion in 4chan since years.

The reply indicator.

For people who don't go to 4chan, you can read it on http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-here-s-your-you. Basically, if someone else replied to your post, the post pointer will show a (You) word, showing that the poster replied to a post that you wrote.

Moreover, the post number of posts that replied/quoted you will be attached to your own posts. Much-replied post will have a lot of link to the posts that replied them, and very visible when you skip through the thread.

This one simple feature has changed 4chan. Before, posts are similar and anonymous since they don't have visual distinction between each other. You have to actually read their content to know what's inside. The reply indicator make controversial posts very visible and "famous" in the thread.

Much like Reddit's voting system and Facebook likes or Twitter's retweets/favorites, 4chan now has its own post rating system. The difference is that Facebook likes and Reddit's vote system rewards popular posts that people agree with and liked. 4chan's "rating system" rewards controversial posts that people rebuke or laugh at.

The presence of this reply indicator make people try to post controversial contents, and to be controversial by 4chan standards, your post have to be very, very controversial.

ivarious··on A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web
Not to mention the rickroll in page 2.
ivarious··on Theremins
I really like how the cursors displayed mostly play above the rainbow curve.
ivarious··on Lenovo Agrees to Buy IBM Server Business for $2.3 Billion
And one of LINE's core business is being a (mobile) video game storefront.
ivarious··on Paul Dini explains why execs don't want girls watching their superhero shows
To be fair, magical girl shows for kids in Japan are huge franchises with theatrical movies, boatload amounts of merchandises, live action theatrical shows, video games, and even food products.
ivarious··on Oculus VR raises $75M
I wonder what does this mean to the Kickstarter backers. Sure, by legal means they donate to the cause rather than investing in it, but I think it's not really fair if they get nothing from this VC funds.
ivarious··on Time POY: Snowden's 200,000+ votes go missing, now behind Miley Cyrus
It wasn't hacked, just gamed.
ivarious··on Goodbye Sticky. Hello Ara
Thankfully Motorola gets in touch with them.
ivarious··on Show HN: A Github for writers?
This site is perfect for copywriters. I can't wait to show this site to my creative directors.
ivarious··on Show HN: WordsForThat.com - A new site that's like a reverse urban dictionary
I can totally use this as a marketing tool.
ivarious··on Intel says get ready for $99 tablets, $299 Haswell notebooks, $349 hybrids
While the article said about "holiday PC lineup", is the upcoming machines confirmed for Windows machines?
ivarious··on Steam Controller
http://cdn3.store.steampowered.com/public/images/promo/livin...

Looks effing comfy.

ivarious··on Steam Controller
You're correct. I guess this is why I speculate that the new trackpads uncomfortable with action/platforming games, since in those games, you move your character and dictate their speed (velocity plus direction), not pointing their position.

We'll see of course, and since the controller will be "hackable" I think there will be many way to use the controller for many types of games.

Edit for spelling

ivarious··on Steam Controller
Gestures-based fighting game.

Clang will like this.

ivarious··on Steam Controller
Just call it a "Machine".
ivarious··on Steam Controller
I think the reason that using mouse is more precise is not because of its shape, but because we use at least all of our palm to use it while with controllers you only have one thumb to connect the stick with your body.
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