Posts by sj_zero@social.fbxl.net
(DIR) Post #B45LtJVTCoHwrFerjs by sj_zero@social.fbxl.net
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Jean Baudrillard's simulations and simulacra describe how you start with reality, and reality is then simulated and eventually the simulation is simulated to create a simulacrum, and the original reality may in fact cease to exist. This toy really reminds me of that. There was once a thing as a rotary phone. The rotary phone was simulated in a children's toy. Then the children's toy itself is simulated in another children's toy, and meanwhile rotary phones have disappeared, and in an example of hyperreality, the reference to reality has disappeared entirely and the toy which is the simulation becomes an icon which is represented separately from its original context.
(DIR) Post #B4EnYzwSmbClWj1ZvU by sj_zero@social.fbxl.net
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I made a neat Discovery tonight. My Chromecast 4K came with a power supply that doubles as a network adapter. It supports high speed internet so I didn't really have a use for it. I think it was yesterday I mentioned the cell phone I was installing postmarketOS on, I basically wanted to be a fairly long-term device that I will be using for building things on arm64. Now I can and could use the Wi-Fi for that purpose, and I still might, but I decided to try out the USB micro power adapter with the ethernet port inside, and sure enough the ethernet port in the power adapter provides ethernet to the phone.I would imagine that it is USB on the go, so it's probably capped at an absolute maximum of 480 megabits, which is reason enough probably to stick with the wi-fi, but it's just a very interesting thing to discover that this unusual device is obviously standardized enough that it can provide ethernet connectivity to something else.
(DIR) Post #B4GLsWFsSVIYqVXrY8 by sj_zero@social.fbxl.net
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And they say nobody wins in war.
(DIR) Post #B4ISSkbBavkxnY5k6y by sj_zero@social.fbxl.net
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It won't be a VPN ban, because of VPN ban would immediately impact millions of people in the laptop classes which includes millions of people who work for the government. It'll be a ban on using VPNs for unapproved purposes.Which in some ways is much worse because it's like a digital feudalism.
(DIR) Post #B4K1IRzBdJuejH6MMK by sj_zero@social.fbxl.net
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Every time I deal with arm linux, it reminds me of why every time I see threats to move away from x86 it gives me the chills in a bad way. I could build a USB memory stick that would run on a particularly unusual Pentium 3 (since most Pentium 3s didn't have boot from USB) and would be fully capable of booting on every machine released since. Meanwhile, every memory stick that I create for arm needs to be so incredibly specific that just making bootable media is the single most difficult part. It's kind of a shame because arm has some really cool features that would potentially make it really useful, but without the surrounding ecosystem it's just not a single thing.
(DIR) Post #B4bzpXtXywTZY6Ob3I by sj_zero@social.fbxl.net
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As part of an ongoing project I have been setting up various flavors of BSD.Freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, and dragonfly bsd. Nothing particularly fancy, they are all just living in virtual machines.Unix is Unix, but it's surprising how different each one is. Freebsd was The most straightforward so far, feeling the most familiar and straightforward. OpenBSD so far has been the most difficult to develop on because it has a lot of security features as mandatory that other OSes recommend set as default. Dragonfly has a lot of similarities with freebsd, but in trying to set it up feel like I was back in 1996, fumbling with manual config files only to have no keyboard or no mouse for reasons known only to God.Another big difference between them is how they manage current versions of things. Freebsd maintains 3 different version lines going back several years, but openbsd is standardized on whatever the current version is.Something that is constant between Linux distributions is the Linux kernel, so you can chroot between distributions which is convenient for compiling between distros, whereas BSDs are basically their own thing and each kernel is unique with a long individual genetic line.
(DIR) Post #B4fcGDfteCk4O92Kwa by sj_zero@social.fbxl.net
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Neither is correct.440m underground is deep enough that you're well under the cold temperatures immediately underground, but not so deep it's painfully hot. It's probably a super stable temperature year round, and you could probably spend all day every day at 440m and the worst you'd have is it's pretty stuffy being surrounded by rock. Ventilation is key in something like that, because it'd be humid and without getting fresh air it gets stale and eventually could get quite dangerous as well.
(DIR) Post #B5Q2o4PC9VajZ7BPdo by sj_zero@social.fbxl.net
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FBXL has always been a FreeBASIC site, first and foremost. If you go to fbxl.net, you'll get to see the ancient FBXL magazine which hasn't been updated in 20 years. So I'm proud to announce the first fruits of a major project I've been working on for several months now:https://deb.fbxl.net/I've been creating a build environment that lets me build for every platform FreeBASIC supports, and then some.Linux (currently Debian/Ubuntu)cygwin (as a package)mingw (as a universal installer)freebsdnetbsdopenbsddragonflysolarismacosx (Intel only)And for the first time ever, FreeBASIC is packaged for Haiku.As far as I know, these should all install, and they should also support gfxlib.I'm pretty proud of it. I believe I'm the single person who has compiled to more FreeBASIC platforms than anyone else at this point.Wherever I could, I also tried to have them bring in whatever dependencies are required.Can I guarantee they're going to work perfectly? No. I've tested them, but the focus was getting the full matrix built and packaged. There may still be rough edges.
(DIR) Post #B5SAtpx5zQmoQVDjQu by sj_zero@social.fbxl.net
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Regarding Iran, it's tough because it's really easy to say "leave them alone they didn't do anything", what they did do a lot. They have done a lot. I left to their own devices they would continue to do a lot.They fund terrorism abroad, including in many Western countries. The guy who started a war with them was someone attempted to assassinate, and then bragged about it. For people who support the war in Ukraine against Russia, Iran is a key of Russia and their source of both parts and expertise regarding drones. Iran is a key Ally of china, what are the sources of oil for that regime. The strait of Hormuz is a key choke point in Chinese supply chains and if China were to start that war in Taiwan they want, the street will become a critical strategic point. I'm not going to go too far on the negatives of war because that's the story of the last 70 years. Pictures of media about Vietnam, Cuba, the Cold war, Iraq, and Afghanistan all layout in painstaking detail the reasons why war is bad. Therefore, the only discussion worth having at the moment seems to me to be why it might be different this time, or why it might not.I'm taking a superpositional stance on this. Multiple things are true in this scenario, and the key that decide whether this war which contains both good and bad element has generally positive outcomes. Are the keys going to be whether is short, whether it is effective, and what those effects might be. But the war in Iran definitely doesn't look like the war in Iraq at this moment, at least to me. Especially is the regime change is just making sure the new people stepping into the regime have a healthy fear of God.
(DIR) Post #B5X8utmtzDPOUgdARc by sj_zero@social.fbxl.net
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Can confirm, am idiot and retard and have been using godaddy for like 30 years.
(DIR) Post #B5X9A343mI4Rbosd3Q by sj_zero@social.fbxl.net
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I know -- when I'm closer to renewal I intend to look at the alternatives. But sometimes inertia keeps something around longer than it deserves.
(DIR) Post #B5X9GGR4ycFCohbwsy by sj_zero@social.fbxl.net
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What does homeassistant do? Is it just a central point for smart devices?
(DIR) Post #B5d1LZBf3O3jjhAztw by sj_zero@social.fbxl.net
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Morality or not, we've got two choices here: the "everyone who presses this button lives" button, and the "if I press this button there's a chance I die" button.Literally everyone should press the red button. There should be ad campaigns about how much the red button ought to be the one you press. Pamphlets. Planes in the sky should write messages. Because every red button is a choice to live."My people would press the blue button because it makes us better people!" Great, but your community is in the minority and will not win the vote.The only reason to press the blue button is you think someone else is stupid enough to press the blue button and you want to try to protect them from themselves, but then you become one of them. God sent you a speedboat, a helicopter, and a ship and you chose to drown.
(DIR) Post #B5d40tSkm26OOw0NbE by sj_zero@social.fbxl.net
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No, not at all.We live in a society full of people who press the blue button assuming everyone else will bail them out for their choice and thus be dragged down with them.To live in a society of red button pressers is to live in a society where individuals take responsibility for their own well-being first and foremost, and more importantly not burden others with the risk of their existence. It's selfish to demand others put themselves at risk to validate you, when everyone could be just fine if they just make the obvious choice and protect themselves.Morally speaking, forcing others to consider pressing blue and potentially dying just to save you is a sort of moral vanity. You press blue because it feels nice to press blue, but insodoing you perpetuate a potentially lethal plague, for no other reason than you think others might too.But there are entire continents with billions of people who would laugh at the concept of pressing blue as well. You don't outnumber them, they won't press blue. That's the whole scenario in the west right now, when you think about it.
(DIR) Post #B6HtpqgXjA9QXZuHh2 by sj_zero@social.fbxl.net
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My water main broke a couple weeks ago.To get water back into my house, they needed to dig a huge hole (frost line up north is like 6 feet deep) from the city's water valve to the front of my house, then they had to drill under the basement all the way to the utility room. They had to jackhammer out the basement floor, and run this huge copper line.Every step of the way, they had to go "Oh, this job isn't as easy as we'd hoped, it's going to be a lot harder", and that means more time, more equipment more money.It was a nightmare. Absolute nightmare. I'm waiting for the final invoice, and my insurance with a big 5 bank was never going to cover it because in spite of costing a lot of money it doesn't cover anything.There isn't an inch of my front lawn that survived. It's a giant field of mud.Here's the thing though: throughout the whole process, I kept hearing the people who go "Housing is a human right" in my head, and I thought about everything I actually needed to maintain that so-called "right". It was a crew of guys and an excavator and a drill and a vac truck, and by the time everything was back to some semblance of normal, it was two full days for a crew, and on the third day someone needed to come in and cement the hole in the basement back in. And that's where the whole concept becomes insane to me. I don't have a right to a crew of people coming in and spending days doing dirty, dangerous, uncomfortable work. That's a privilege, and a privilege I was happy to pay for.Housing is a responsibility, and one you have to fight entropy to maintain. House was built in 1946, the water line is probably 80 years old. Just like the replacement ceiling tiles, replacement flooring, replacement shower parts, replacement sink traps, replacement plumbing under the sink, repairs to the driveway, growing the lawn back after all this.Entire villages are being abandoned in Japan, and nature quickly reclaims the buildings. The images are of places humans can no longer live. Entropy is a harsh mistress.I'm not saying the state shouldn't help the needy here. That's a different discussion. My concern here is the language of "rights" and what that implies.When the word "rights" are invoked, it's trying to invoke the unalienable rights endowed by our creator, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. These are things that are not given by the state, but only infringed upon by the state. The problem is, for something like housing, that's simply not true. In order to get an unalienable "right" of housing, you need the time, labour, materials, equipment, land that presumably was someone else's first.Skilled labour is at a premium, what happens when there isn't enough to build or maintain house houses? If the right is truly unalienable, then the state simply has no choice, and must enlist people. At first they can do so by increasing the amount of money paid and funding available to do the thing, but eventually you reach the point on the supply/demand curve where nobody else is willing to sell labour at any price. What then? At that point, if you are the state, and you are faced with an unalienable right to housing, then as always happens with rights, you start having to balance them. Perhaps the state then decides or has it decided for it that the right to housing is more important than the right to the liberty that comes from owning your own person. Coercive means such as threats of violence then can be applied to force people to work on a certain thing "or else".I very nearly was without water for most of the summer. The first company I called didn't do this kind of work. The second had a 6-8 week backlog. The third was barely able to move around its schedule for us. There just aren't that many people willing to crawl around in 6 feet of clay and boulder filled mud for 8 hours a day. Even the city itself had to make a demarcation of responsibility point, and that's why it was my problem and not their problem.Which, by the way, is something that always happens when the state gets involved with so-called "Rights" of this nature. Communist China has virtually no welfare system unless you're one of a chosen few. Healthcare in Canada famously has absurdly long wait times, sometimes in the years for certain procedures. And even my fairly liberal area (it's been a liberal stronghold for decades), the taxes keep going up but the state will reduce the amount they're willing to take responsibility for.Which goes to my final point -- Housing isn't a right, it's a responsibility. And the government can choose to take on that responsibility, just like it can choose to take on many responsibilities, but that doesn't mean you have an unalienable right to the thing. They can fail to provide it due to lack of will, lack of resources, lack of competence. You still need the thing, but you can be facing a summer without water. In the Soviet Union, situations like these were famously common. In the Nordic countries, they realized that if the state is to take on that responsibility, they require a strong private economy to power the public responsibility.