Is that why, in the rare cases where I talked to someone on a landline phone, it felt like a spotty online meeting call? I remember landline phone calls being good enough to at least hear the other side clearly, but maybe my memory is bad I thought. Do you really need to get laid? Turkey seems to have easier options. I'm married. Soooooo haven't explored the options Turkey provides. Maybe my wife and I should do so together at some point :p
Edit: lol I missed your attached link. I thought you were talking about something else XD
@textfiles@digipres.club@istvan@noauthority.social@p@fsebugoutzone.org Just finished watching the BBS documentary, now I know how to get laid. Thank you to everyone involved. Anyone has some cool telnet or ssh BBS recommendations? Perhaps ones with at least one or two regular users on them. I'm on the other side of the planet, without a phone-line, so connecting to phone-based ones will probably be too much work.
@wolf480pl@mstdn.io@josemanuel@qoto.org@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com I enjoy freedom, and I'm grateful for the work of GNU volunteers, but the number of instructions executed to run true is 146,925 instructions, doing 67 syscalls. To be fair, a lot of this is due to dynamic linking and glibc C runtime initialization, which is standard on most GNU systems.
@ActuallyAubrey@void.lgbt if you close your eyes and listen, deep deep in there, in the softest undertones of this world's song, you can hear it. it whispers to you: you are loved, aubrey, all of you. the parts you're proud of, and you will grow, the weaknesses you detest, and will overcome, the lessons you will learn, the stories you will tell; everything about you, a message, you, the medium: love abound, for you, for the world, for all.
you exist aubrey, /you/. this is the greatest love, you only need listen.
the ethereal wired carry those words for you, aubrey, from the other side of this blue world, through waves of magical light, over great skies, and under vast oceans, and across hundreds of blinking clicking sleepless machines; a prayer that those words may reach you, a prayer by someone who, perhaps, really cares: @tjhexf@transfem.social
@expergetech@labyrinth.zone@chjara@akko.wtf@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me@erincandescent@erincandescent.net@alina@girldick.gay We have only one way to write it in Arabic really, letter-wise: محمد. The problem in transliteration comes from Arabic's diacritics (Harakat) system, those are optional short vowels that you may write for clarity, but you don't have to, because fluent Arab people just "know" by intuition / osmosis / grammar rules and roots of words, but novice Arab learners or foreigners would barely register the difference in the sounds sometimes, let alone be able to guess the right diacritics.
There's only one set of correct Harakat for the name: مُحَمَّد. But, if you drop some of those vowels, because they are optional, a novice Arabic learner would likely be confused. So, that's how you get all that variety of names, depending on what's dropped and not guessed correctly. For example, double 'mm' vs single 'm', they missed Al-Shad'dah[1], which roughly doubles the sounds of the consonant under it. Ending with 'ed' instead of 'ad', they mistook the Al-Fat'hah[2] (angled dash on top of the letter), with Al-Kasrah[3] (angled dash under the letter).
Now, imagine this happening for each possible combination of the five diacritics, while being interpreted by many different chains of dozens and dozens of other languages; Turkish, Farsi, various European languages, Chinese, and all other countries where Muslims have been, and it would be surprising why there isn't even more ways to write that name (there are :D).
The closest way to sound it right, in English, in my opinion, is Muhammad. Note also that there are /different names/ that sound close, like Mahmoud and Hamad, and that probably adds to the confusion of non-fluent speakers (think Jane, Janet, etc.).
Fun fact, Muhammad is apparently the most popular boy name on the planet o.o
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@lain@lain.com I tried to carry a wallet because the wife got me one, I then proceeded to lose it within a few weeks, with IDs and money and other important stuff. I think the wallet most likely fell off my pocket in a park. Never lost stuff before a wallet, never lost again after a wallet. Wallet bad.
I instead put things in different pockets in my pants and jacket, based on importance and access frequency. Small money bills, note-paper, pen, to low importance pockets, IDs or big money, in high importance pocket. Almost never touch high importance pockets, so things in them never get lost.
Wallet made me practically pull out every important thing I'm carrying when all I wanted was small change. Maybe the solution is to carry multiple wallets, but I'm too traumatized to even try again.
@VIPPER@new.asbestos.cafe@david@pl.dav1d.lol@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com >Read Only Memory >hack around. The OS storage /is/ read-only, in almost all phones I had the displeasure of using. You have to use "security exploits" to work around that, "unlocking the bootloader", then write a minor "recovery" image to a different partition, boot from that, then overwrite the OS partition. ROM is a popular term to describe Android OS images, but you're right, even though it is popular to call them that, it is traditionally wrong. Replicant with the modem disabled Without a cellular connection, nor internet access on the go, I fail to see the point of a "phone" other than being a small ARM computer but with terrible software development ergonomics, that sits somewhere under my desk, connected through wired adb to my desktop machine, and on which I run minor ARM software experiments... which is what I do right now :) I do not have a tracking device for government or bank related proprietary malware. I don't live in the land of the free. In my case it is sadly not optional. I live under a peculiar political situation, and without a phone I could easily end up detained or worse. Putting it aside and not using it every day is the best I can do, as far as I can see. Some people of similar situations to mine have to scan their fingerprints on their phones while enabling GPS location tracking, so the government can confirm their exact location at any time. I thankfully, only have to respond to phone notifications, SMS, and calls. If you run the malware in the end anyway, humanity loses. I agree. Keep fighting the good fight, friend.
@VIPPER@new.asbestos.cafe@david@pl.dav1d.lol@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com I use a GNU/Phone. I use paper, it's more than enough. I used to hack around Android ROMs, trying to get more freedom, but I realized that it's a fool's errand, we're tracked and spied on anyway, no matter what ROM you use. I haven't used Android for years, then I used it again a bit more, but then dropped it again for almost a year now, and I'm very content. Peace of mind is worth all the "features". I have a device with a free-ish ROM that I don't take with me anywhere, and access only through adb / scrcpy, to do some government / bank related stuff that can't be done without a stupid phone. And people's expectations around me (family and work) are adjusted by now, they know I don't respond if I'm not at home (using my computer).
@SuperSnekFriend@poa.st@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com An operating system that includes a lot of free / open-source software, like OpenSSL, Bash, Vi, in addition to an "open-source" kernel, but also includes some closed-source proprietary software in some core parts of the operating system, to improve the user-experience. The direction of development of the OS is mostly driven by corporate interest, funding, and development resources, with the primary goal of reliably satisfying professional users in corporate settings. Is the OS in question:
[ ] OSX [ ] Debian [ ] RHEL [ ] All of the above
If the line is to be drawn, where would it be? Includes proprietary software in the default install is a clear and unambiguous cut, but goes against the hivemind PR of the "Linux development community", who are getting brainwashed little by little into accepting more and more, not seeing Theseus ship changing around them.
The conversation can be had whether having /some/ firmware blobs installed by the OS automatically is not /too/ bad, or that it should be made easier for the user to install them if they wish to harm their freedom, but that doesn't mean the words are suddenly muddy and mean nothing. Free software, really means having the freedom.
I mourn the Debian project, what remains is a zombie wearing its skin.
@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com@wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com@SuperSnekFriend@poa.st also i flat-out disagree with you that free software includes the freedom to use proprietary software. don't overload what "free software" already means, please. I wasn't arguing for this, but the opposite; I prefer the sharp definition of "free software". But I can see how "Free software, really means having the freedom" in my previous message can potentially be interpreted both way, my bad. makes a compelling argument that anything made legally downloadable is implicitly "yours" by nature of how the web works Breakout the reverse engineering toolkit, and all software is free software >:3
@wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com just checked the code a bit, pleasantly surprised that it's not a hellhole of fasm macros in fasm marcos. file systems, mouse driver, tcp/udp stacks, wifi drivers, not a single silly macro in sight. just good-ol' "real programming".