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Projects, privacy, security, motorbikes, outdoors. Non sequiturs potentially. Opinions are my own. A retweet does not imply agreement or support.

[I don't know either/僕も知らない @nanikore]

@Colin_P_A_Jones I remember this! I'll take a look to see if my opinion at the time was close to the mark.

[I don't know either/僕も知らない @nanikore]

@hisense_japan 日本向けに販売されているU558Nにおいて、英語UIに対応したファームウェアの提供はありますでしょうか。
提供されている場合、そのインストール方法についてご教示いただけますと幸いです。

[I don't know either/僕も知らない @nanikore]

Cub time!

[🌊湘南カブライダーズ🛵湘南カブミーティング/初心者・女性大歓迎!! @cub_mon]

湘南カブミーティング in Chigasaki Vol.2 開催に向けて、会場整備とカブの配置シミュレーションを行いました！

湘南カブライダーズ主催のカブミーティングは 11月23日開催。
受付8:30〜、イベントは9:00スタートで13:00終了予定です。

対象車両は カブ系バイク & カブエンジン搭載のホンダ車。
会場ではオリジナルステッカーやアパレルの販売、記念撮影、プレゼント抽選会も実施！

開催場所（Googleマップ）：
https://t.co/o3ASWJvhBf

#湘南カブミーティング #湘南カブライダーズ #スーパーカブ #ハンターカブ #クロスカブ
#カブミーティング #カブツーリング #湘南 #茅ヶ崎 #茅ヶ崎イベント
#原付二種 #バイク好きと繋がりたい #ホンダ好き

[I don't know either/僕も知らない @nanikore]

Looking forward to this! Good Cub, good people!

[安堂ミキオ ほたるロードマップ続編②巻発売中🛵 @andmikio]

11/23(日)に茅ヶ崎で第2回湘南カブミーティングが開催されます🛵
第1回の時にほたるロードマップをブースで販売して下さった湘南カブライダーズ様、あらためてありがとうございます🙏✨
第2回はさらに規模が拡大して、各種出店ブースやイベント、オリジナルステッカーの購入特典もあるようです！
この度、ほたるロードマップ✖️湘南カブライダーズオリジナルステッカーも作成させていただきました。
ほたるちゃんがスーパーカブC105に乗り、少しヴィンテージ感のあるステッカーにしてみました✏️
台紙も厚みがあり発色も良く大変良い出来になっております。
会場限定販売になりますので、カブ主様はぜひ現物を見にいらしてくださいませ🛵
#湘南カブライダーズ
#湘南カブミーティング
#カブミーティング
#ほたるロードマップ

[I don't know either/僕も知らない @nanikore]

@petapixel leaning into advertorials with this one https://t.co/2ghbG4GvLr

[I don't know either/僕も知らない @nanikore]

@KrystalHosting hi, I've been trying to contact you via email and Discord as it seems your sign up page doesn't support Japan residents for billing. No replies yet and chat doesn't open during your office hours. Any advice?

[I don't know either/僕も知らない @nanikore]

Disappointed @TheMeatGuy had a credit card compromise and I only found out by visiting the site. Seems no heads up by email, or my spam filter nailed it :(

[I don't know either/僕も知らない @nanikore]

@shonanunitedbc あなたのオンラインチケット販売システムはまったく機能していません。

[I don't know either/僕も知らない @nanikore]

Some random photos from earlier in the year. Yes, the end of year tidy up is on...
https://t.co/Brs1Ur0SB0

[I don't know either/僕も知らない @nanikore]

@sharp_writing When Mr. Kishida said he wouldn't contest the LDP race, Kono-san was my first thought, so interesting there are so many candidates. Surprised he would tear himself away from being digital minister.

[Law in Japan @Colin_P_A_Jones]

I finally got around to watching this movie that dramatizes the arrest and prosecution for "assisting infringement of the Copyright Act" of Isamu Kaneko, the creator of Winny file-sharing software. It's something that actually happened, but some spoilers if you don't like them.

I thought it did a good job of showing how the case progressed - from the police asking Kaneko to write a declaration of his intent to shut the file-sharing site down, then using that as a basis to arrest him six months later (in 2004), to how the trial progresses, through to his inevitable conviction in 2006 (no spoiler there!) In parallel the movie also highlights something which is happening at the time - the gradual revelation that police departments around the country have been routinely and systematically engaging in expense fraud to create slush funds. Information about some of these activities is leaked to the internet through a virus that propagates through Winny (many police officers are using it, of course).

So there is speculation that Kaneko's arrest was in part an effort by the police to obfuscate that by making him the villain. The movie doesn't ever tie those two threads together because real life is not a movie but it is important and useful context.

I thought the movie did a good job of illustrating some of the challenges of explaining highly technical things to non-technical lawyers and judges. It also repeatedly emphasized the potential damaging impact of a conviction for the unlawful use of a tool others use. I am not sure how much innovation in Japan actually suffered as a result of this case, but that was expressed as a serious concern.

Kaneko's conviction is reversed by the Osaka High Court in 2009, and that is confirmed by the Supreme Court in 2011. He dies of a heart attack just two years later. This part of the story appears only in a brief denouement.

I did have some pet peeves, though they may be more about Japanese movies than this one in particular.

1. The story uses the common device of a younger woman (a paralegal in this instance) whose principal role is to hand over copies of documents and ask basic questions so that the lawyers can mansplain to her (and the audience).
2. Much of the story advances through dialogue, which is fine, but there seems to be this compulsion to cut to people eating in various restaurants while talking - about a high profile case? Again, a common theme in Japanese dramas, but got tedious. As a lawyer, I would have found people eating conbini bentos in a windowless conference room more "real."
3. My general complaint about Japanese movies is they tend to be too long. There are some good scenes of silent contemplation that are good for building a mood, but there are a few too many of them.

BONUS. The expression 出る杭は打たれる is commonly translated "the nail that sticks out is hammered down" and used as a metaphor for aspects of Japanese society.
In this movie the ace criminal litigator uses it as a metaphor to think about what the police are doing with their slush fund scandal. He explains that it actually takes three people to hit a 杭 (which is probably better translated "stake"). One to hold it, one to hit it, and one to give instructions.

Anyways, worth a watch if you are interested in Japanese law or technology. I got the DVD in Japan but it did not have subtitles in any language (including Japanese). I didn't find that problematic, but I am generally okay with legal vocabulary and there was no shouting, dialect or slang.

https://t.co/uo2UAZnjxH

[I don't know either/僕も知らない @nanikore]

Interesting actual data on accuracy of astrology. TL;DR - barely better than random guess work.
https://t.co/41WKbQfeed

[I don't know either/僕も知らない @nanikore]

Saw @anthonyjeselnik in Tokyo last night. Solid show as expected. Oddly not much sense of event to it sadly from @zaikoio. @KellyRyanComedy was a great opener, but with no MC I don't think she even got introduced.

[I don't know either/僕も知らない @nanikore]

@dadsweb67 Wow, and I thought sneezing was a worst case scenario. That's full on next level.

[I don't know either/僕も知らない @nanikore]

@RetroTechChris I saw 'microdrives' and thought about the 80s storage tape designed by Sinclair Research... Now I know another meaning.

[fukumimi @fukumimi]

Renho is a woman too?

[Andy Sharp @sharp_writing]

Basic wages in Japan rose 2.5% in May, the fastest rise in 31 years. But. And a big but. Real wages (accounting for inflation) dropped again for the 26th straight month.

5月基本給2.5%増、31年ぶり伸び率　実質賃金は減少続く：日本経済新聞 https://t.co/GpFGBZRIKd

[I don't know either/僕も知らない @nanikore]

@GaijinMommy As comments show - tragically common - and under the law she should have been on the road (unless it's a shared pavement). Years back a cyclist hit one of my kids on their bicycle, they were too busy looking at their phone, and panicked when I said we should call the police.

[I don't know either/僕も知らない @nanikore]

@Gaijinotousan Ah, the all day undoukai. Good times. Spot the ojiisan with his beers in a cooler cover

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@ObsoleteSony The original SSX before the franchise became trick obsessed.