Shinji_Ikari [he/him]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2020

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  • there’s this awful venn diagram of circles with no overlap, where you cant get a smallish phone that gets updates. Even asking for it to be well made is a pipe dream.

    Add onto the desire for an unlockable bootloader and your only options are the phones designed to be thrown into a river after the job is complete.

    I wish those unihertz devices were serious whatsoever. They ship on old android versions and get maybe one update in their life cycle.

    Android is such a clusterfuck of an OS too. kernel/driver space is an absolute mess so every OEM has to basically ship their own kernel. Qualcomm is the devil and hides everything behind NDA’s so you can’t really write an open OS from the ground up on any hardware that can do any real processing.








  • Yeah I actually just prefer the command line, I’ve never had to force myself to use it. I even tried using VSC for a bit recently but i couldn’t get myself to like it. I just use nvim with some plugins in a tmux session now and its productive as hell.

    Of course I don’t browse the web with the command line. For merging branches, I always merge main into the working branch first, check conflict files, and go through the file finding the diffs and resolving them. I’ve used merge tools before that were sorta nice but I had my own issues with them.

    Maybe it’s the type of programming I do. I don’t do any web stuff, so file count is down. For larger code bases I keep a non editor terminal up and will grep -re for word/phrase searching, find to look for specific files, etc. I’ll occasionally use an IDE, typically eclipse based because embedded, but I don’t find myself missing the features they add.




  • I really never understood why one would need a GUI for git except for visualizing branches.

    I feel like I’m crazy seeing so many people using clicky buttons for tracking files. I need like 4 commands for 95% of what I do and the rest you look up.

    You’re already programming! Just learn the tool!

    And now there’s a github CLI tool? I hate to beat a dead horse but Microsoft pushing their extended version of an open source tool/protocol is literally the second step of their mantra.





  • I lived above a screen printing business owned by the landlord. I had these weird itchy rashes for a while and went to a dermatologist who said it was Psoriasis. I was super depressed and didn’t change my bed sheets for a while. On the day I was moving out after the landlord told me to leave a month early, i pull up my sheets and see hundreds of these bugs and just leave the sheets on the bed, pack up all my cloth items in black garbage bags, and gtfo of there.

    The landlord fucking charged me a cleaning fee for the sheet left on the bedbug infested mattress, above her husbands screen printing store, that printed shirts for large events in the city.

    To this day I check creases in hotels and basically refuse to allow any used furniture into my home that might conceal these evil creatures.





  • I’m going to swing in and suggest reading/glancing over the Original Adrien Zenz report. Zenz is a fellow at the heritage fund and part of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. Both notorious right-wing propaganda mills.

    Nearly every article you have seen has either cited the original Zenz report, or a thinktank that cites said report. Often times if you dig into the funding schemes of those think tanks, you’ll learn about all sorts of organizations explicitly tied to defense organizations. I saw one that was an Australian defense org funded by the US DoD.

    Anyway, the original report focused on a possible cultural genocide. What this is referring to is the return of 1-2 child policies in China. Previously, these policies excluded most ethnic minorities within China, including the Uyghurs. With this new policy, this group would now be included in the 1-2 child restrictions.

    Zenz extrapolated a slowed growth in Uyghur population, not reduction, or stall, but slowed. He concluded that these policies would result in a “Cultural Genocide”, meaning an attempt to destroy the culture of the group, not the group itself. This does not make sense, as these were not hard targeted policies, but sweeping across the population.

    The reeducation camps were something totally distinct from this report. Keep in mind that news media was using the report in order to call the reeducation camps essentially concentration camps.

    Something that is often left out of the conversation is that Xinjiang has been host to many Muslim extremist terrorist attacks. The solutions that China chose may not have been the best, but if we’re being honest with ourselves, are no worse than the immigrant camps at the US boarder. Except those are often privatized, profit centered, and have a constant stream of stories about neglect, abuse, and even forced sterilization. Most of the camps in Xinjiang have since been closed, as reported by AP.

    I’m sorry I’m not providing sources here, I don’t have my notes app set up on my current machine. below I’m going to give prompts to help you search.

    Nearly any article will link to the zenz report if you follow citations well enough.

    AP reported on the camps being closed.

    In the US, Migrants were given hysterectomies without being told prior to the proceedure, often times they came to the doctor for other ails.