Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Heeft #BIJ1 eigenlijk een standpunt over ondertitels door hobbyisten?

In 2016 is door een rechtbank verklaard dat ondertitels door hobbyisten in de basis inbreuk maken op het auteursrecht, en dit is mij echt een doorn in het oog, gezien de belangrijke rol die zij spelen in toegankelijkheid voor doven/slechthorenden (waaronder ik) en anderstaligen.

Het lijkt me toch dat dit niet de bedoeling is van het auteursrecht, en dat het rechtgezet moet worden.

This whole incident is frankly a scathing indictment of the supposed "progressives" who immediately lose their shit as soon as they are confronted with their beloved country's involvement in ongoing colonialism

(The original source that everyone seems to be going off, by the way, is Bild; a German populist tabloid)

Also consider that this was all *specifically* in the context of how the situation in Gaza is really bad. I can really only explain this as deliberate propaganda, not just a simple misunderstanding.

So after seeing various Dutch media post extremely poorly-sourced articles (well, let's just call it what it is - propaganda) about the incident at the Amsterdam climate protest, I finally had time to look into what actually happened.

The claims: Sara Rachdan is a "Hamas supporter", a "terrorist friend", and "trivializing the Holocaust".

The actual evidence: Sara Rachdan drawing parallels between what happened in the Holocaust and what is happening in Gaza, eg. comparing the death tolls and circumstances.

Now there's two ways to interpret that: either you assume the Holocaust was horrible, and so by extension she claims that what's happening in Gaza is also horrible.

Or you assume that what's happening in Gaza is Not That Bad, actually, and therefore by extension that must mean she claims that the Holocaust also wasn't that bad.

And well, if you look at the reporting in the Dutch media, you can very easily tell that they went with the second interpretation - and I think that pretty much says everything I need to know about these claims, and the people spreading them.

To share a translation of the final question in the survey I just got, about "getting information about station services":

"Can you suggest any place or format that this facility information should be available in? It does not need to exist yet, be creative"

TL;DR I get the impression that they actually give a shit about the results, and they aren't just trying to make the KPIs go up

I certainly have my complaints about the Dutch railways, but I do appreciate the surveys they send out; they're quite in-depth (in a good way) and always explicitly leave room for submitting new ideas to improve things at stations. I rarely feel like there's no place to communicate a specific frustration/compliment.

Also, bonus points for occasionally getting sneak peeks of new train interior designs 🙃

(I'm especially interested in communities that do their own subtitling/translation in a collaborative manner)

So, with OpenSubtitles becoming further assholes with every passing month, is there any *actual* community-run subtitle source to switch to yet?

Like, don't get me wrong, it was a legitimate problem, but the emphasis here is on "was" - it was discovered and publicly talked about years ago

That Unciphered article about the supposedly newly discovered Bitcoin wallet vulnerability sure looks an awful lot like a cheap marketing hackjob that tries to recycle and rebrand an old and documented security issue to drum up press coverage...