Lord Bowlich @lordbowlich@hackers.town

#introductions

Hello World 2.0!

New account. Same screaming into the void.

Not going to get BotW done before Link's Awakening comes out. This game is a touch too big. I still haven't gotten to anything west of Hyrule field -- 3 more divine beasts and the castle.

Starting to think, I need to just run around and get the beasts and knock the game over before it starts to overstay it's welcome.

But what if I don't want your third-party cookies Atlassian...

But I guess Youtube is also an arbitrary bucket. If I go with all of Alphabet which this:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/revenue

Article puts at $136 billion in revenue. Then this is a hard hitting $72 fine, or less than you would get for a 10 mph speeding ticket.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/technology/google-youtube-fine-ftc.html

I should make a website that scales fines in articles to the average household income so we can get a sense of proportion.

So we have $170 Million fine.

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/youtube-statistics/

This article puts Youtube's 2018 US revenue at 4.43 billion or 14 billion globally.

https://census.gov/library/visualizations/2017/comm/income-map.html

This graphic puts the 2016 US Median household income at $57,617.

So that put's this at a $2,200 fine (or $700 from their global revenue).

I did not watch all of Planetes while drinking countless shots of whiskey last night on a work night. I will not be going to bed immediately after stand up to sleep this off and start work after dinner.

I like how newspaper websites hide their articles with CSS instead of just truncating the article server side...

It would've been interesting to see how the internet would've developed if something like stricter domain isolation had been a thing.

Running Firefox with temporary containers + Google container can be rather enlightening to see where things break because they're trying to reach out client-side to communicate with different domains -- or a log in redirects through multiple domains one of which is a Google domain and breaks.

That and they seem to always come from mastodon.social for some odd reason.

Who follows these tootless follow bots? They always have a few.

This is it, this time around it'll actually arrive.

(My pre-order is only five months old...)

It also isn't like we don't see this pattern in mythic legends either.

Odysseus is gone for decades trying to get home from Troy. A lot of the Arthurian legends have knights setting off on quests only to get sidetracked for years is foreign lands.

I wish Link aged through all of this. It would be neat to storm the castle as 60 year old link having quested for forty long years to bring down each divine beast and track down the sword.

It's interesting how Breathe of the Wild starts off when Link awakens from his 100 years of slumber that time is of the essence. Zelda's power is waning, Ganon is going to be free soon.

Then the game sends you off far to the east to track down old friends. Adventure around the world defeating divine beasts and searching for the Mast Sword.

Dozens of blood moons go by unremarked.

If were really keeping track, I would say years have passed in-game since Link awoke and perhaps even decades will go by before he attempts the castle.

It would've been interesting if the game remarked on this extended passage of time.

$dayJob is switching from BlueJeans to Zoom. Not too happy about needing to install the zoom plugin on any of my systems after they demonstrated their brilliant security last summer.

BlueJeans, I was able to isolate to my phone and run it through a browser, not seeing a way to get that working with Zoom.