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I'm writing this in English.

Not because English is my first language—it isn't. I'm writing this in English because if I wrote it in Korean, the people I'm addressing would run it through an outdated translator, misread it, and respond to something I never said. The responsibility for that mistranslation would fall on me. It always does.

This is the thing Eugen Rochko's post misses, despite its good intentions.

@GargronEugen Rochko argues that LLMs are no substitute for human translators, and that people who think otherwise don't actually rely on translation. He's right about some of this. A machine-translated novel is not the same as one rendered by a skilled human translator. But the argument rests on a premise that only makes sense from a certain position: that translation is primarily about quality, about the aesthetic experience of reading literature in another language.

For many of us, translation is first about access.

The professional translation market doesn't scale to cover everything. It never has. What gets translated—and into which languages—follows the logic of cultural hegemony. Works from dominant Western languages flow outward, translated into everything. Works from East Asian languages trickle in, selectively, slowly, on someone else's schedule. The asymmetry isn't incidental; it's structural.

@GargronEugen Rochko notes, fairly, that machine translation existed decades before LLMs. But this is only half the story, and which half matters depends entirely on which languages you're talking about. European language pairs were reasonably serviceable with older tools. Korean–English, Japanese–English, Chinese–English? Genuinely usable translation for these pairs arrived with the LLM era. Treating “machine translation” as a monolithic technology with a uniform history erases the experience of everyone whose language sits far from the Indo-European center.

There's also something uncomfortable in the framing of the button-press thought experiment: “I would erase LLMs even if it took machine translation with it.” For someone whose language has always been peripheral, that button looks very different. It's not an abstract philosophical position; it's a statement about whose access to information is expendable.

I want to be clear: none of this is an argument that LLMs are good, or that the harms @GargronEugen Rochko describes aren't real. They are. But a critique of AI doesn't become more universal by ignoring whose languages have always been on the margins. If anything, a serious critique of AI's political economy should be more attentive to those asymmetries, not less.

The fact that I'm writing this in English, carefully, so it won't be misread—that's not incidental to my argument. That is my argument.

북한도 사람 사는 동네라는걸 특히 남한 사람들이 너무 모르고 있음 우리가 아는 세계 소식 웬만해서는 비슷하게 다 알고 있고요 "서방" 문화 컨텐츠 이런것도 북한 관련 각종 기기괴괴 썰들과 달리 그리 어렵진 않게 퍼져있음 모란봉 악단 공연 영상 정도만 봐도 여러 전자 악기들 다 요즘에 널리 쓰는 것들 똑같이 쓰고 있고, 서점 등지에 가면 해리포터 같은 현대 판타지 소설 역시 찾아볼 수 있음. 대내외적 사정으로 상대적으로 폐쇄적으로 국가를 굴리고 있긴 하지만 남한 사람들 머릿속에 박힌 말도 안되는 수준의 감옥 이런 나라는 아닙니다..

@stefanoStefano Marinelli also, for convenience, the overview page:

<https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.4R/>

#FreeBSD

Could contain bugs but I have added “SBC-IMAGE” support to imagine.sh, proving that the #FreeBSD release engineering infrastructure could easily make root-on-ZFS RockPro64 and friends ARM64 boards. In this case:

doas sh imagine.sh -a arm64 -B quartz64-a -u -p "doas tmux got openrsync" -v

To create an image for a Quartz64 A board with root on ZFS, primarycache=metadata, root/root and freebsd/freebsd users, SSHd and NTPd enabled, four packages, and a VM boot script for use under qemu and bhyve/ARM64.

What if the single board computing experience didn’t suck?

https://github.com/michaeldexter/occambsd

The “BOY HOWDY!” heard around the room:

A #FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT boot environment on a 15.0-RELEASE made with OccamBSD imagine.sh and propagate.sh, which use makefs(8) and mkimg(1) internally, and packaged base…

We can have nice things!

I’m sure there are remaining rough edges but IT CAN BE DONE.

You’re welcome.

コーヒーを注ぐとカルーアミルクになるsakesandのタンブラー #いいえ

OpenBSD -current moves to 7.9-beta https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260311062921 #openbsd #current #79beta #development #testing #freesoftware #libresoftware

OpenBSD -current moves to 7.9-beta https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260311062921

그림작가 관둬서 작품 얼레벌레됏단 얘기나오면 항상 그림작가 책임감탓하는 사람 나옴... 하지만 대부분은 말이죠... 살기위해 그만두는 경우가 많아.... 원인이 너무 다양해서 긴말붙일수없지만 작가입장에선 자신의 신뢰와 스팩, 미래를 생각해서 웬만하면 중도하차 안하고싶어하죠... 그런데 여러조건을 다 따져도 이건아니다 싶어서 관두는거지... 일단 내가 봐온 경우중에선 과로-건강의 문제가 가장 많았음... 돈을 받아도 이건 무리다 싶은거라니깐... 그림 아예 관둔 작가도 있고......ㅠ

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nn4tkoqkv6r7ufeazwf36xsm/post/3mgq7abomic24

My guitar is illegal in the EU now, because a German court just decided to destroy the complete guitar industry in favour of the big player

https://spotlight.fender.com/newsroom/news/1004

3500억달러 규모의 대미 투자를 시행하기 위한 ‘한미 전략적 투자 관리를 위한 특별법안’(대미투자특별법)이 11일 국회 법제사법위원회를 통과했습니다.

[속보] ‘대미투자특별법’ 국회 법사위 통과…12일 본...

#endfossilfuels

While rumours of a possible owner change of #suse make rounds, check out the #EU_OS #fosdem talk slides at https://eu-os.eu/assets/slides/2026-01-31-fosdem-linux-distro.pdf

#EU_OS encourages all #Linux distributors aiming to offer high #DigitalSovereignty to setup non-profit foundations to increase ownership stability.

Follow @eu_os for updates!

MBC의 윤석열 전 대통령 ‘바이든-날리면’ 발언 보도에 대해 방송통신심의위원회가 내린 과징금 3천만원 처분을 취소하라는 법원 판결이 나왔습니다.

법원, 윤석열 ‘바이든 날리면’ MBC 보도 과징금 취...

현대로템은 10일 자사의 수소전기동력차와 수소전기동차가 독일 ‘iF 디자인 어워드 2026(International Forum Design Award 2026)’에서 각각 본상을 수상하며 2관왕을 달성했다고 밝혔다.

현대로템은 10일 자사의 수소전기동력차와 수소전기동차가...

멀 자꾸 올려싸... 일하기 시러서 그럼 ㅎ

아이돌 쇼츠 정말 많이 보지만 잘 안뜹니다 소속사 골고루 보시면 괜찮을듯 대신 제와피는 뜹니다

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fvyaird3ggeppv7eimcjovj3/post/3mgrdoia2w22l

E-Voting in Basel: 2048 elektronisch abgegebene Stimmen können nicht ausgezählt werden https://www.bs.ch/medienmitteilungen/2026-e-voting-basel-stadt-gibt-analyse-zu-den-umstaenden-und-ursachen-des-vorfalls-bei-der-abstimmung-vom-8-maerz-2026-auftrag

うめばちさんなんかいつも怒ってるな

서태지가 2008년에 8집 프로모션용으로 보령에 있는 어느 보리밭에 만들었던 미스터리 서클(?)인데(당연히 땅 주인 허락은 받고. 마침 갈아엎을 땅이었다고 함)

....어느 듣보잡 사이비종교가 저 사진을 퍼가가지고 지구 종말 징조 어쩌고 떠들었다고

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PCで作った動画をDVDプレイヤーとテレビで正常に再生できるようにオーバースキャン分だけ縮小させるために枠のサイズを100%から90%まで段階的に小さくしていくだけの動画を作ってDVDに焼いて実機で確認したことがある

🗺️ #OpenStreetMap accounts to follow:

@openstreetmap@en.osm.town - Official OpenStreetMap account
@openstreetmap@fedigroups.social - Discussion group about OSM
@osm_techOpenStreetMap Ops Team - Operations team at OSM
@sotmState of the Map - State of the Map OSM conference
@weeklyOSM - Weekly OSM newsletter
@ohmOpenHistoricalMap - OpenHistoricalMap, local history in maps
@OpenInfraMapOpen Infrastructure Map - Open Infrastructure Map
@MapComplete - Web-based graphical interface for OSM
@lokjoLokjo - EU's online map - Online map service using OSM, run by non-profit

🧵 1/5

버스 기다리는데 어떤 할머니가 손이 이래 작아서 뭐먹고 사냐고 하시는데 그냥 웃음

エサ枯渇問題

경의전철에 앉아서 간다요.

笑っちゃいけないんだけども突然地面から管飛び出してくるってフレーズはちょっとふふっとなってしまうわね

Jekyllの記事にMastodonへの共有リンクを表示する | zundaの個人サイト
https://blog.zunda.ninja/jekyll/mastodon/2026/03/02/share-button.html

It's come to this: The Ig Nobel Awards, presented at Harvard or MIT since the 1990s, is moving to Zurich because the US is not safe for foreign visitors
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/research-frontiers/ig-nobels-to-move-awards-to-switzerland-due-to-concern-over-us-travel-visas/91073250

Frontlineはたぶん東海岸で放送されたらオンラインでも観られるようになってそれを観れば夜遅くまで起きてなくていいんだなあ（やっと気づいた←

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音声処理難しい……ログメルスペクトルってこれ、難しいんだけど、音声処理では基本なんだよな……

지난 3년간 그가 바다에 투자한 500만 원은 단순한 취미 비용이 아니다. 전국 위판장과 바다를 누비며 우리 바다 생태계의 빈칸을 하나씩 채워온 25살 청년의 기록이다. 등록 2026-03-10 15:16

지난 3년간 그가 바다에 투자한 500만 원은 단순한 ...

I'm writing this in English.

Not because English is my first language—it isn't. I'm writing this in English because if I wrote it in Korean, the people I'm addressing would run it through an outdated translator, misread it, and respond to something I never said. The responsibility for that mistranslation would fall on me. It always does.

This is the thing Eugen Rochko's post misses, despite its good intentions.

@GargronEugen Rochko argues that LLMs are no substitute for human translators, and that people who think otherwise don't actually rely on translation. He's right about some of this. A machine-translated novel is not the same as one rendered by a skilled human translator. But the argument rests on a premise that only makes sense from a certain position: that translation is primarily about quality, about the aesthetic experience of reading literature in another language.

For many of us, translation is first about access.

The professional translation market doesn't scale to cover everything. It never has. What gets translated—and into which languages—follows the logic of cultural hegemony. Works from dominant Western languages flow outward, translated into everything. Works from East Asian languages trickle in, selectively, slowly, on someone else's schedule. The asymmetry isn't incidental; it's structural.

@GargronEugen Rochko notes, fairly, that machine translation existed decades before LLMs. But this is only half the story, and which half matters depends entirely on which languages you're talking about. European language pairs were reasonably serviceable with older tools. Korean–English, Japanese–English, Chinese–English? Genuinely usable translation for these pairs arrived with the LLM era. Treating “machine translation” as a monolithic technology with a uniform history erases the experience of everyone whose language sits far from the Indo-European center.

There's also something uncomfortable in the framing of the button-press thought experiment: “I would erase LLMs even if it took machine translation with it.” For someone whose language has always been peripheral, that button looks very different. It's not an abstract philosophical position; it's a statement about whose access to information is expendable.

I want to be clear: none of this is an argument that LLMs are good, or that the harms @GargronEugen Rochko describes aren't real. They are. But a critique of AI doesn't become more universal by ignoring whose languages have always been on the margins. If anything, a serious critique of AI's political economy should be more attentive to those asymmetries, not less.

The fact that I'm writing this in English, carefully, so it won't be misread—that's not incidental to my argument. That is my argument.

今日はFrontlineを観たのでプランク重力が大きい

이번 이스라엘과 미국의 삽질로 인해서 식량 가격 높아져서 아랍의 봄 시즌2 같은 사태가 다시 일어날것이라 생각함다 어디가 다음에 무너질지 모르지만... 이런건 계산이나 예측이 어렵죠 허허 한국도 이번에 중동 지역에 대한 의존도를 줄이거나 그러면 좋겠는데요 듣기론 뭐 UAE에 우회 파이프라인 이런건 지어놓긴했다던데 그래도 가능하면 저렇게 매번 불나는 동네보단 다른 동네 알아보는것도 좋겠죠 (먼산)

OpenBSD -current moves to 7.9-beta https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260311062921

“팔로워 10명당 1마당개 챙겨주기”···‘도파민’ 대신 ‘도움’, 그들의 선행 알고리즘 www.khan.co.kr/article/2026... "‘선행 릴스’를 올리는 사람들은 선행이 또 다른 행동을 끌어내는 효과가 있다고 입을 모았다. 싸클의 영상을 보고 마당개를 챙기기 시작했다는 김씨는 “‘이 영상을 보고 집 앞 강아지 보호자에게 말을 건넸고 강아지를 더 잘 챙겨주기로 했다’는 메시지를 받기도 했다”며 “내 작은 행동이 다른 사람에게도 계기가 될 수 있다는 걸 느꼈다”고 했다."

“팔로워 10명당 1마당개 챙겨주기”···‘도파민’ 대...

Mastodon has a new human-over-AI contribution policy.

tl;dr:

- The human contributor is the sole party responsible for the contribution.

- If AI was used to generate a significant portion of your contribution (i.e. beyond simple autocomplete), we require you to disclose it in the Pull Request description.

- If you cannot guarantee the provenance and legal safety of the AI-generated code, do not submit it.

- Cases of repeated violations of these ... guidelines could result in a ban from our repositories.

https://github.com/mastodon/.github/blob/main/AI_POLICY.md

#AI #Mastodon #fedimeta

🍝 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님께서 여러분과 함께.
😋 또한 주교의 면발과 함께 하소서.
🍝 기도합시다.

저의 주님, 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님 🍝,
제가 주님 앞에 나아가 봉사하기에 합당치 못하오나
첫 조상의 타락으로 잃은 불사불멸의 면대를 제게 도로 주시어
영원한 즐거움을 누리게 하소서 😋.

2026-03-11T16:16:25+09:00

#FlyingSpaghettiMonster #FSM #HolyNoodle #TheMeatball #TheSauce #Spaghetti #Ramen #Pastafarian #NoodlyAppendage #FSMism #FSMist #Pirate #DivineOffice #DailyOffice #Breviary
#날아다니는스파게티괴물님 #성면 #면발 #스파게티 #라멘 #파스타파리안 #해적 #성무일도 #성무일과 #매일전례 #시간전례

아이돌 쇼츠 많이 보면 방시혁 떠요? ㅠㅠㅠㅠ 아 진짜 불미스럽다 ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

jeez clouds everywhere #lovesclouds

Last year I got PSVR2, and immediately felt like PSVR2 was the only way to play GT7. But plying in VR was mentally straining, especially crashes/spins. So, many days I just didn’t feel up to it, and I quickly stopped playing at all. I just restarted playing, on the TV, a few weeks ago. I just tried PSVR2 last night; then playing on the TV tonight just felt bad. History repeating. I kinda wish I had never tried PSVR2. I wouldn’t be surprised if Sony regretted releasing it.

동생님이 이런 걸 보내왔고 메우 잘 들었다 나쁜 자식 2진법에 2가 들어가는 게 말이 되냐아아

It will never stop being weird to think that all those little kids I went to school with are my age now.