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pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist::mgsgb_1: :moon: makes a joke about fedi's incessant deliberations on Israel. :mgsgb_2: I reply with joke. :mgsgb_3: I look to see if there are more jokes. :mgsgb_4: People are being very serious. Someone has said something foolish. :mgsgb_5::mgsgb_a: I reply, thus sticking my dick in a hornet's nest and having notifications that contain only messages about Israel, most of them being repeats of previous messages about Israel, and all of which are heavily emotionally invested in the emotional/moral framing of the Levantine Hutus/Tutsis, so everyone will ignore roughly half of the facts; mute thread in disgust three days from now; get depressed that people half volunteered to take one side or the other of the bad dichotomy ("I support Ukraine because CNN" and "I support Russia because knee-jerking out the opposite of whatever the NPC does makes me a radical free thinker with important but dangerous ideas"), then get drunk and start speculating that the CIA has psyopped fedi. :mgsgb_5::mgsgb_b: I don't reply and I pick one of the following options: :mbsgb_5::mgsgb_b::mgsgb_1: Why are xpdf 3.04 and xpopple unanimous in failing to recognize Motif libraries on this tiny box? (P9P's page(1) doesn't do PoC||GTFO very well. The stupid qt5 xpdf 4.x doesn't do *anything* well, especially if your screen has a weird aspect ratio plus this tiny machine has one core and 1GB RAM and qt5 can't do "Hello, World" in less than half a gig--and it's still less demanding than gtk3.) :mbsgb_5::mgsgb_b::mgsgb_2: Clean up my CRUX ports tree and upload it somewhere or clean up some code for Inferno or 9front so that I can send it upstream. :mbsgb_5::mgsgb_b::mgsgb_3: Continue reading https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.wired.com/story/mirai-untold-story-three-young-hackers-web-killing-monster :mbsgb_5::mgsgb_b::mgsgb_4: Get back to work because it is Saturday and I have time to do that and I'm working on a fun bit anyway. :mbsgb_5::mgsgb_b::mgsgb_5: Fuck off because it's Saturday and I'm tired. :mbsgb_5::mgsgb_b::mgsgb_6: Do the writing I have been meaning to do. :mbsgb_5::mgsgb_b::mgsgb_7: Bug fixes for tiny things I am working on casually. :mbsgb_5::mgsgb_b::mgsgb_8: Play with the dinky ssh interface because I had an idea while in the bathroom trying to debug the PDF build. :mbsgb_5::mgsgb_b::mgsgb_9: Bounce between 5-b-1 through 5-b-8 most of the day (because tired) and complete none of the small tasks, let alone the big one, and wake up as tired tomorrow with exactly as much done but now a panic because I've burned half the weekend without direction. :mgsgb_6: Time passes and we are all slowly dying while you idiots are arguing about Israel.
Actually, now that I think about it, those are eight choices and that's three coin flips. current_thing.jpg
The dangers of copypasting :mgsgb_5: if you have written "mbs" on the one you started copying and pasting: you will start wondering if somewhere in the back of your mind was "Mohammed bin Salman" or "Mortgage-backed Securities" or something like that.
@a7 It's the only Linux that manages to make Slackware look bloated. It was also the easiest to port to a new architecture, which is why I was on it to begin with: I had an Athlon64 and wanted to run a 64-bit distro but the only options were, like, Suse (horrifying) or Debian (clunky) or Gentoo (ew). I ended up using Gentoo to bootstrap an LFS system and eventually found CRUX and hacked it until it produced a 64-bit image.
@p@freespeechextremist.com sexy. I’ve been super busy with work and class lately so I’ve just been debianing it, but have been playing on a vm with crux to autistically cobble together a “dream distro” with crux and pkgsrc.
@a7@p i started getting annoying with upstream over hyprland and .net. we could do with some AUR equivalent probably.
hyperland is the most annoying of the two because they did some extreme ownership (vendoring wl-roots to a known compatible revision) and upstream sets their hair on fire like "no you can't vendor the deps, even though wl-roots itself refuses to follow stability guarantees"
@mia There's this "state" object that gets passed around and I wanted to start exploiting it. All it is used for at the moment is current user, but there are two things I wanted to try shoving in there: one is using "." (like edsamacme, nedmail, etc.) to represent the most recently interacted-with ID (so wherever an ID was used, you could use ".", which would be updated automatically, making "," more useful; I think I noted something about this when I announced ","), and the other was using it to keep track of a rotating list of IDs so that I could type two digits instead of pasting a long-ass base-36'd flake ID. (The same way Pleroma/bloat/styxbot ephemerally number posts.) There are a lot of places to take the .-context, like maybe "." is a stack (like how dc works) or a ring buffer so that "<" goes back and ">" goes forward, so you could navigate a thread. Maybe have it display replies, too. Helene did some hacking on it before it was removed and had it display threads but I like the navigation model more than the display model. Then there's also stuff like finding users and displaying their posts/bios, or making replies tag the other people in the thread, or marking notifications as read. (Notifications could be done a little more intelligently by displaying the oldest unread ones and then using the state object to keep track of the last one displayed so that you could page through them or clear up to the highest ID from the most recently displayed page.) Line continuations for multi-paragraph posts, easier than it sounds because the pattern-matching lets you match on the state object, too.
I don't know why, but I have gotten kinda fascinated with the text interface to fedi. I started playing with it so that I could interact using the RISC-V machine because the Rockchip one is busy compiling a new CRUX and the RISC-V one runs Slackware so I've kinda been living on the RISC-V DevTerm and it's been delightful with the exception that all current-year browsers are clunky on a machine that is more powerful than my desktop system was when Firefox was first released. So I did the minimum required to make it talk to fedi properly and then I keep wanting to hack on it more.
I should clarify, that's not how "." works in dc, but it is how registers work in dc. `1 sa 2 Sa La p La p` prints `2\n1\n`. Top-of-stack is used for loads/stores, but capital-S stores push it down one and capital-L loads pop the stack.
dancing poorly “b-bu-but the sky is not always blue.. like.. like when you add 2+2 and get 5 ah… it’s always sunset and and sometimes it’s dark!” - t. TikTokUser1918
@thendrix@lanodan There's some Austrian saying that only a true patriot can claim that Beethoven was Austrian and Hitler wasn't. If the sky being blue means that Israel/Palestine/Russia/Ukraine/Iran/Hutus/Tutsis/Boko Haram/whoever is in the moral right or that they will win, then pro-whoever people will decry you for entertaining questions about what color the sky is and anti-whoever people will insist that you prove the sky is blue.
@p what i usually try to teach people is that there are always N+1 groups involved in any conflict. Two or more governments or extremist groups (read: dickheads) and the unseen group of civilians, usually belonging to both sides, that are caught in the middle.
(Jokes aside, you are correct, but I don't think it's possible to get a partisan to decouple their ego from the story they want to push.)
> and the unseen group of civilians, usually belonging to both sides, that are caught in the middle.
Yeah, I haven't played it but I liked the idea of that game, "My War". Basically, you're a civilian and you are trying to survive the war, so you're under some bombed-out building and trying to figure out how to get food, you can go out during the day and risk snipers or go out at night and risk getting robbed. It seemed like an interesting concept for a game.
@a7 Oh, I used to run pkgsrc on Slackware. Building this CRUX for aarch64 and rolling out an image, it's been fun, but it's been the first time I tried to bootstrap a CRUX system in at least a decade.
@p@pomstan You should engage and defend the ancap position that you don't recognize neither Israel or Palestine because all states and governments are gay, and keep preaching ancapism until everyone gets annoyed and leave
@TheMadPirate@deadheat@pomstan You have missed the point. Geopolitics is amoral and the only reason this matters is because Israel/Palestine is a remnant of cold war politics. If you give a damn about convincing zionists they are wrong instead of realizing that the question is stupid, then you have been played.
@TheMadPirate No, China won't do it until they're sure they can do it without creating popular support for a war here. They're drilling "start on Friday night, have Taipei before Monday morning" so that it's already done by the time people start checking the news. Unlike Korea, we don't have anyone stationed there so there'd be no American-flag coffins, we don't have any formal treaties with Taiwan and officially we don't recognize them (recognizing them would piss off China), so if they take the capital before the public starts paying attention, there won't be any retaliation.
@Humpleupagus :terryno: You are hereby disenfranchised permanently, in every society. You can't be trusted to vote where to eat for lunch. This is the worst vote forever.
@TheMadPirate@deadheat@pomstan So my new strategy is to just be very sad at everyone's terrible opinions on this, a continuation of my Ukraine/Russia policy.
@p@TheMadPirate@pomstan You could probably convert @georgia though, she seems to care more about psychedelics than politics these days (already ancap behavior she just needs a little push)
@p@Brycicle I think that's what makes a good shipost. It needs to be *close* to the original subject, inconceivable if you're not catching the word-joke/misread of "salman" and "stallman". And then, the trope presented in the top post - the "non-current-thing"/"current thing"/"anti-current-thing" trilemma is kind of pointing towards that things discussed should be off topic. So I was somehow on topic by being off topic...
@p@TheMadPirate@deadheat@pomstan I think the civilian casualties are worth addressing every now and again. Maybe my retardation levels are higher on this issue than others, but the suffering incurred here matters.
Also the reeeeeeing from Israeli niggers is pretty fucking funny.
> I think the civilian casualties are worth addressing every now and again.
Well, sure, it's stuff worth thinking/talking about, just not stuff worth arguing about on the internet, you know what I mean? But why these civilian casualties? There are civilian casualties all over the earth on a regular basis. I saw some chart, I forget, but most years, when the UN passes a resolution that names specific countries, 75% of the time at least one of those countries is "Israel" or "Palestine". There's a severely disproportionate amount of attention drawn to this one conflict: why? (I mean, the obvious reason is that it started with the Cold War, it was kind of a focal point.)
One interesting conclusion from the McCombs/Shaw paper was that, although mass media is bad at directly influencing people's opinions on any topic, it does have a very strong effect on *which* topics people discuss, and thus which opinions they backfill when asked by other people.
So what's going on in the Levant is another bag of upturned rabbits that the press is chasing around. Which thing are you not paying attention to if you look at that?
> the reeeeeeing from Israeli
Why not the REEEEEEing from Hutus or Tutsis? This is what I'm getting at: you care about these groups, one of these is funny and one is not. McCombsShaw1972--agenda_setting.pdf
@p@TheMadPirate@georgia@pomstan That being said, it's not that I want to sound like I'm better than the people arguing, it's just that I don't feel like I get anything from it anymore, and I feel like I have to spend my time and energy better these days. People who feel like they get something out of it should feel free to do it of course.
@deadheat@TheMadPirate@georgia@pomstan Yeah, I don't have a problem with people that want to do it, just I wish they would do a better job of it. It's not like there's nothing of interest to argue, just that Sturgeon's Law applies.
@p@TheMadPirate@deadheat@pomstan I get what you mean. Arguing is pretty gay in general, especially on the internet. Sometimes, especially when the people talking are level-headed about it, it can be useful but 9/10 times it's exactly, or similar, to how you describe throughout the thread.
>But why these civilian casualties? There are civilian casualties all over the earth on a regular basis. I am outraged by any civilian casualties, and with few exceptions it's all I focus on in a conflict. Though I must admit I can get caught up in the hype myself. I try my best not to, but I'd never meet the like minded people I've met on this crazy journey if I had never voiced and/or defended my true opinions. Instead focusing to shitpost all the time.
>Why not the REEEEEEing from Hutus or Tutsis? This is what I'm getting at: you care about these groups, one of these is funny and one is not. No, that's not it at all. The schadenfreude is off the charts because of all the complaining from the Israelis over the holocaust and never again, so seeing them doing the exact same shit and then complaining is both funny as fuck and incredibly validating; after all the "alt-right" nasties turned out to at least be partially right. Nonetheless, any reeeeeing is funny. The Ukraine reeeeing was pretty funny on both sides. Mask reeeing and vaccine reeeeeing was also pretty funny.
Reeeeeing is just funny. The degree to which is, unfortunately and always, situational.
> I am outraged by any civilian casualties, and with few exceptions it's all I focus on in a conflict.
Well, it sucks, but nothing I do influences any of that. Nobody with a bomb is accountable to me.
> because of all the complaining from the Israelis over the holocaust and never again,
And you see that why? You can get similar rhetoric out of anywhere. If I say "I ran out of tea and this is like ten 9/11s", then who gives a shit? I suggested that Israel should nuke Palestine, nobody gives a damn, it makes sense that nobody gives a damn. So I see people upset over these screenshots of :verified:s saying things like that, :verified:s that nobody could have named before seeing the screenshot, people no one has ever heard of, but they're invested in this war, so they take these screenshots of someone that gave Elon $8 and then posted something inflammatory. What makes you certain that they're real? Any of them! They could *all* be false flags, agitprop thrown in to keep people interested in the topic. Israel/Palestine has been one false flag after another for decades: did it stop?
So, anyway, the topic doesn't interest me much, because it's difficult to actually see anything on the internet.
@p@TheMadPirate@deadheat@pomstan >Well, it sucks, but nothing I do influences any of that. Nobody with a bomb is accountable to me. I am a sensitive soul in this regard. Have tried for years not to care. Just can't.
>And you see that why? You can get similar rhetoric out of anywhere. Schadenfreude is always funny. They did it to themselves. Of course they all get mad at you that they shot themselves in the foot like it's your fault. Simply because you point it out. :shrug_akko:
>"I ran out of tea and this is like ten 9/11s", then who gives a shit? I would give a shit, because it would be incredibly funny and for much the same reason as the Israeli bitching.
I don't really disagree with you ultimately. It's all fake and gay tbh.
It depends, I had some good discussions on fedi, they were opportunties to look more deeply into several topics and make informative posts for anyone reading, it was more than just the game of winning the argument. They were organic rather than discussions about the current thing though, I don't even think I would have ever wanted to argue about Palestine since I don't care.
I feel like that era of fedi is kinda gone, people who liked to have discussions left or don't post much anymore, most leftists and trannies walled themselves off and blocked everyone else, among other things that changed fedi culture
@p I love the fediverse, its interesting and fun. It draws a wide range of people and most of them seem smart and crazy, and I feel like that is my spot lol.
@MisterRogersSnapped Well, I did say "going home"; presumably even if you work in Langley, you don't live there. I was thinking of Ashburn, VA, due to a recent fedposter having bounced between there and DC and that being the home of former CIA director Gina Haspel. (I doubt that a fed would be stupid enough to fedpost from an FBI- or CIA-associated IP, but the coincidence was too funny to ignore.)
Yes, I have thick skin and ad hominems don't affect me. I have the stance that whoever throws the insult is whatever they are expressing in the insult. "case closed"
:npc: No, you fucking retard. :bigred: I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU JUST SAID THAT TO ME
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:npc: No, you fucking retard. :facesofautism: Even if I'm retarded, I'm certain that I'm correct about this. Here's an addendum to my previous twelve-part rebuttal.
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:npc: No, you fucking retard. :brian3: Proof? Do you have proof? I need to see some proof of that.
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:npc: No, you fucking retard. :itscalledwedoalittletrolling: behold my avatar :smug7: