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Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by jimsmart »

aidos wrote: post #32
ubermonkey wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm just agog that people are still doing dumb pattern matching for profanity filters. I just assumed that YEARS AGO people realized how dumb it is, but apparently: No.

I once had a bug that I traced back to a rule (can’t remember in which part of the stack - though I think it was client controlled IIS) that was striping the “select” from the word “selected” in query string params in an attempt to thwart sql injection. From memory it was naive enough that “sselectelect” was converted nicely in the process.

Similar: Yahoo used to (2002) replace any instance of the character sequence 'eval' (and other 'bad' strings) in their emails, in an attempt to prevent Javascript exploits. Needless to say it created a small amount of havoc!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2138014.stm

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/medireview

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by Blikkentrekker »

411111111111111 wrote: post #233
Blikkentrekker wrote: post #211

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I honestly find the idea of the English text inside of the picture as such, blending in perfectly with the scene to be most disorienting. It suggests that the character itself is writing the English text, or that it magically appears. If it were simple subtitles, it would be clear that these were translations, and that in the actual story there is only Japanese text. Notwithstanding the impressive technological natur…

I cannot agree after watching shows which embedded text well. Your argument kinda sounds right when you just imagine it... but doesn't hold weight once you actually experience them. If this text isn't done like this then you have to either omit it entirely, possibly leaving out relevant details, or just put them next to the normal subtitles. The latter doesn't work at all for me, because I can't distinguish which tex…

It can be overlayed at the correct place, without blending into the picture.

For instance translating the text on a piece of paper by writing the translation above the piece of paper.

How it is written in this case, in charcoal, on the paper, in perspective, seamlessly blending into the paper, makes it seem as if, for whatever reason, the same text was written twice on the paper in English and Japanese.

It's even more unnerving when the text be written and the English pencil charcoal appears out of thin air next to the Japanese charcoal that emerges from a pencil.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by SilasX »

privacyking wrote: post #240
horsawlarway wrote: post #232

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They aren't preventing surveillance at all, they're monopolizing it. Google is LITERALLY a fucking ad company. Apple is tracking the exact time and location you use any piece of software on their systems (Don't worry guys, it's just for security purposes! /s) ---- I'm no longer sympathetic to the "They're securing my device from the boogeyman!" argument. It has the same overtures as "Won't anyone think of the childre…

> Apple is tracking the exact time and location... Source?

A few months ago it came out that MacOS was constantly making unencrypted calls over the internet to check signatures of non-Apple software; such calls were thus feeding back to Apple (and anyone sniffing the connection) the time and IP address of each application's being opened. (Technically, only the company, but each company usually only has a few apps.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by gaius_baltar »

ubermonkey wrote: post #10
Kim_Bruning wrote: post #2

I guess the Scunthorpe problem is still a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

I'm just agog that people are still doing dumb pattern matching for profanity filters. I just assumed that YEARS AGO people realized how dumb it is, but apparently: No.

They just rebranded it as "AI-powered profanity filter" :)

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by ttt0 »

privacyking wrote: post #240
horsawlarway wrote: post #232

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They aren't preventing surveillance at all, they're monopolizing it. Google is LITERALLY a fucking ad company. Apple is tracking the exact time and location you use any piece of software on their systems (Don't worry guys, it's just for security purposes! /s) ---- I'm no longer sympathetic to the "They're securing my device from the boogeyman!" argument. It has the same overtures as "Won't anyone think of the childre…

> Apple is tracking the exact time and location... Source?

https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by Fordec »

asudosandwich wrote: post #13

This showed up here six minutes after the issue was opened. Kudos for being proactive I guess.

Does a single soul believe the Google review process is fair and reasonable any more? Only the social media option gets results because it causes them enough PR pain. And there's no sign, at all, of that changing.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by [deleted] »

dudul wrote: post #111
_jal wrote: post #94

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Nope, that's an unenforceable rule, too. Here's a great article explaining the evolution of FB's nipple policy: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190503/17322942136/conte...

Interesting article, but I don't think that applies to TV media. People don't share their content on TV, it is very easy for TV censors to say "no female nipple on screen, period". For sure this becomes a problem on social media where there are plenty of reasons to share pictures with nudity (arts, breast feeding, etc), but not for movies/tv shows.

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Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by interestica »

black3r wrote: post #129

What's up with this American obsession with censoring profanities? Who gets to decide what's a bad word? And why are people suddenly okay with "censored" versions of "swearwords" like heck vs. hell, or bleeping out the middle of f*ck while you can still hear both F and K...? The intent is still there... If there is enough of other people who are annoyed by this, can we please start doing something about this?

Netflix just release a series of episodes on the history of curse words. Hosted by Nicholas Cage of all people. The jokes are kinda weak and don't land enough... but there are a couple interesting spots. I think just the fact that a show like this can now exist on a medium like this says a lot about how far we've come. And I think it speaks to where we're going --- where we collectively just care less and less about 'profanity'.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by dgregd »

sa1 wrote: post #225
horsawlarway wrote: post #217

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Good - There's a clear theme in the motivations of both major mobile OS companies here: You, a 3rd party developer making custom software products for a mobile platform, are no longer allowed to have customers yourself. Instead you must grovel and beg and pray that our lords Apple/Google consent to allow you to rent their customers. This consent can be revoked at any time, you will pay through the nose for it (20%+ o…

Me, a customer, is very happy that they play a regulatory role and are taking steps to prevent surveillance of the form GP is proposing. I’m glad that I don’t have a direct relationship with shady 3rd party developers.

> I’m glad that I don’t have a direct relationship with shady 3rd party developers.

To enable background locations update, a sales rep has to open a check-in screen, wait 10 seconds to see their location on the map and then press the big check-in button. Because people were often forgetting to check-out, my customers requested auto check-out feature which requires background location updates. Once a sales rep leaves the check-in area, background location updates are stopped. Managers and employees see exactly the same time reports. And if some sales rep is suspicious then it is always possible to disable that GPS icon in the quick menu settings after work hours. It is almost like using your batch card to open doors in a workplace.

A popular alternative solution to my app is to use GSP devices which are installed in all corporate cars. And there managers see their employees background location updates 24/7.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by motbob »

TheRealNGenius wrote: post #238
Hamuko wrote: post #68

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Definitely. For example, MTBB's subtitles for Kimi no Na wa are very impressive. There's a short showcase of them on YouTube (spoilers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_c-eKTisI0 It's a shame you basically cannot get anything close to the quality of fansubs from any commercial/legal options.

Would you know if they are tracking the text frame by frame? That's quite the dedication if they are.

The most popular subtitling software has a script/plugin to export video, which can then be used in a motion tracking program, the data from which can be fed back into the subtitling program.
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