Notices by anna (navi@social.vlhl.dev), page 2
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anna (navi@social.vlhl.dev)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Jul-2025 02:23:21 JST 
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@novenary @lanodan @icedquinn case and point, to show i'm not making this up:
https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-56337365
brazilian boy, all he had was broken phones, that's all his family could afford. one phone would overheat and need to be put in the fridge, another, only a quarter of the screen worked -- he still managed to learn to code like that
the news article is in ptbr, but in there there's more pictures of his living condition. and in places in brazil, living like that is *normal* -- this is past me complaining about phones, and more me being mad at the economic hell that is living in brazil, so i'll stop talking about it here, just, wanted to show some people actually do it despite how many barriers those devices put on them, but most people that could be curious about tech won't have such perseverance -
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anna (navi@social.vlhl.dev)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Jul-2025 01:10:12 JST
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@icedquinn @novenary @lanodan ebay does not exist in brazil, if you want something from there, you'd pay like around 50$+ for shipping, then add 60% of the whole transaction cost for taxes, 70 + 50 = 120$ usd, which is 655 brl + 60% = 1048 brl
and i did check what's the price of used laptops in local trade markets, it's around 1000 brl plus shipping (though local, so shipping would be like, 20 brl) -
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anna (navi@social.vlhl.dev)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Jul-2025 01:10:11 JST
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@icedquinn @lanodan @novenary
that is assuming you already know how and where to look for a laptop, someone could get lucky and find a device for really cheap, but that's a huge exception, far from the rule for most people there -
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anna (navi@social.vlhl.dev)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Jul-2025 00:36:00 JST
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@novenary @lanodan
they're not really adequate yes, but they're all some people have access to, and even for those people, getting a cheap otg cable and a keyboard is more accessible (10 brl) than getting a cheap computer (at least 900brl for an used laptop from 2010 if they're lucky, often it's 1200+ brl) (noting that 1500brl is the minimum wage, and lots of families survive off half a minimum wage or so)
if everyone had ample access to traditional computers, i wouldn't be so mad at this, but there's so many people that *don't* -
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anna (navi@social.vlhl.dev)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Jul-2025 00:18:39 JST
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honestly smartphones as a platform (android, ios) are the antithesis of technology as i know it
they're only made for consumption of corpo content, they do not allow the user to explore, tinker, learn. if all you have is a phone, you cannot learn it's workings, you cannot learn how to create new applications for it, you can only *consume* what is already made for you
if you want to create something new, to learn how your device work, you better be able to afford a separate, often more expensive computer, to do that. you can't? outta luck kiddo -
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anna (navi@social.vlhl.dev)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Jul-2025 00:14:55 JST
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@lanodan @hipsterelectron
i am thinking of phones as PDAs lol, in brazil, people will call you via whatsapp before ever thinking of using the telephony side of things, the other day my mom got mad that i didn't pick up her call, when she never called me proper, she called on whatsapp which i didn't transfer to my new phone yet
people there only get mobile plans for mobile data and nothing else, it is common for those poor households i mentioned, to never get a mobile plan, they can't afford it, so their phones only really work while at the range of their home wifi (or, some other families, only have mobile plans for mobile data, and no wifi at home at all, meaning carrier data limits are an actual danger to them) -
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anna (navi@social.vlhl.dev)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Jul-2025 00:06:22 JST
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@SRAZKVT @hipsterelectron i'm playing with pmos and attempting to cross-compile gentoo to my pinephone
currently the performance is not great, i hope one day i can manage to port mainline to my moto phone so i can have decent performance
but the problem with linux on mobile here, is that you *still* need a computer to install it, so it's still no go for those people in a poor house that only have access to a samsung galaxy from 2014 or smth
and newer devices continue this trend as you can't unlock the bootloader at all without an external PC and adb -- tho this makes me realize how awful-er the platform is, even at base, it's the enemy of learning about tech, as you cannot, in any way, develop an android app from android, you need a traditional computer for it, and some people can't ever afford one -
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anna (navi@social.vlhl.dev)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 23:58:08 JST
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@hipsterelectron i don't think the form factor of phones is dumb or whatever, but i do think that current smartphones as dumb by nature
they're locked down devices that prohibit tinkering and experimentation, and if you try, google says "no, fuck you, play integrity / safety net fail for you"
i love my phone, though i use it in a manner that is different than most, my phone is used for quick, at-a-glance checks (calendar, bank account, todos), simple media (videos in bed, music on the go), for actual comms it's only slightly useful, just for quick chatting with friends
anything longer than a couple short messages, i do prefer to use a laptop or my desktop, as a proper keyboard is a lot better to type on, and the screen doesn't feel claustrophobic, phones for me are amazing as a side-device, as my hud and quick-action screen
i would hate to use a shared family computer honestly, since i would not be able to tinker with it, and i know because from 4 to 12 all i had access was the shared family computer (wow i've been tinkering with computers since forever huh)
i also come from a poor country, where even though most houses have a few cheap samsung or moto phones (don't get me started on how those people get fucked over by being forced to run android 6 or android 8, since corpos are quick to drop device updates for anything but their flagship devices), some households, there's only a *single* phone for the whole family is all they had, a shared, phone.
oh i wish the smartphone as a platform were open, so many people would then have the opportunity to learn about tech and explore it in their own devices... and some folks who only have a phone do learn with it, termux is amazing, and i do admire those folks persistence, but it's not enough, it's highly limited
sadly you can only step outside of the corpo box by getting a proper computer -
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anna (navi@social.vlhl.dev)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 22:41:55 JST
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one day i'll try to gather a group of people to do the haruhi dance in a random tech / foss convention
wait do people now a days still know the haruhi dance -
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anna (navi@social.vlhl.dev)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 22:17:45 JST
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@lanodan @artemist @mildsunrise
once i add fd-keeping to openrc, we could have the fdkeep daemon open /dev/log and pass it to syslog (if we can make syslogd use an externally provided fd) -
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anna (navi@social.vlhl.dev)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 22:12:34 JST
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@lanodan @artemist @mildsunrise
> syslog
makes me wonder why do syslog need to be ran as root? it could open /dev/log then drop all perms to a `log` user i think (or is there some odd syslogd feature i'm forgetting about) -
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anna (navi@social.vlhl.dev)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 00:47:37 JST
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honestly, *why* does `open.2` take mode as a vararg? it's so random and error prone
just have it be an argument proper, and if the user is not creating a file, pass 0 -
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anna (navi@social.vlhl.dev)'s status on Monday, 30-Jun-2025 10:16:39 JST
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how many patch releases in the span of 2 weeks is too many
going for a third soon (they're all simple (but kinda important) bug fixes though) -
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anna (navi@social.vlhl.dev)'s status on Monday, 30-Jun-2025 08:42:30 JST
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i don't think i've ever used hardlinks for anything -
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anna (navi@social.vlhl.dev)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 23:36:44 JST
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@lanodan i think i would have filenames be the date, and hardlink them into dirs for maybe location, but mainly a few categories like "selfies", "family", "vacation", etc -
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anna (navi@social.vlhl.dev)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 22:56:09 JST
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@lanodan i wasn't considering arbitrary queries tbh, just a way to "dump pictures from my phone and downloads, and organize them in a somewhat searchable way" -- the only reason i'd care about sorting resolution in this case, is for wallpapers, and those can just go in a category by themselves -
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anna (navi@social.vlhl.dev)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 22:37:01 JST
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ftr i find this idea interesting mostly due to not needing a special client with a bespoke database schema just to, like, organize, filter, and view, files
RE: https://social.vlhl.dev/objects/743a263b-d948-435f-ae1c-6506e9d158cc -
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anna (navi@social.vlhl.dev)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 22:28:42 JST
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i remember someone once telling me that directories weren't enough to organize their pictures, because they needed both chronological sorting and tagging by categories, and with directories you can't do both, and if you do tagging, an image can't be in more than one directory
but now, i wonder, why not just symlink, have one structure be chronological, then symlink the pictures to directories representing tags
you can even list multiple tags at once with ls + uniq -
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anna (navi@social.vlhl.dev)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 03:43:43 JST
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@leo @lethalbit hmm yea, i can see that, one side would go "i never distributed gpl code", the other would argue against, and we won't really know until there's an actual case -
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anna (navi@social.vlhl.dev)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 03:41:14 JST
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@lethalbit GPL != LGPL, LGPL is GPL + linking exception
i was about to edit the post to also mention, the former case, GPL proper, distributing the binary linked against a GPL library means, effectively, the user receiving that binary needs to be allowed access to the source code of both, and everything else that comes with the GPL -- but this means, if i got it right, someone could take the MIT crate, re-write the GPL crate as MIT or smth, then build that, and release that as MIT
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