xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club
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- Male
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- Linux Mint
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- C/++/#, Python, Java, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, Assembly
- Ioncom Official Site
- http://ioncom.helioho.st/
Joined Jun 2020
xianc78
boosted
I need to find a girl that hasn't taken the vaccine asap before the news about fertility issues and heart complications goes mainstream and they start lying about not having taken it
xianc78
boosted
Imagine being GoFundMe and thinking about how to talk to the Canadian government about why you allowed Canadians to give money to a Canadian fundraising for a legal Canadian protest. Is this just what's going to happen any time a government is unhappy with a protest? They're going to make to testify in their courts and they're going to try to sue you or something?
xianc78
boosted
gamedev as a solo is hard enough let alone a solo with poor mental health.
it's a massive handicap tbh
it's a massive handicap tbh
@Aether Well I'm Hoppean and I realize that "physical removal" is just cancel culture on a micro-scale. I think the difference with that is that there will always be a community that accepts your lifestyle/ideology.
I just never understood why people would waste time digging through people's decade old tweets, blog posts, comments, forum posts, etc just to have their career ruined. Are people now assuming that society was always woke and people always had these woke views? Do they realize that they may have said or done something that is cancel worthy? Don't they realize that they can respect someone's work without condoning their views or actions?
I realize that one reason people do this is because for whatever reason they like drama. People really do enjoy drama.
I notice that the KiwiFarms and Encyclopedia Dramatica types pretty much use the same tactic of digging up old tweets, forum posts, user accounts, etc but for different reasons. It's normally for bullying by bringing up someone's dark past that they forgot to erase from the Internet, not necessarily things that are cancel worthy, but rather things that people want to move on from.
xianc78
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@xianc78 The thing about opposition to cancel culture is that its detractors miss a simple point, every society will inherently have some form of censorship.
There are always blasphemy laws in any culture, even a libertine culture, where it is blasphemy to say, “That is immoral”, or “Maybe you should have self-control,” or, “Do you really need another cookie?”. All those who oppose cancellations from the current 'Woke' culture fall into the trap of believing that neutrality could exist in a nation. That is, we thought a society based on a secular public sphere, allowing a freely expressed marketplace of ideas was possible. But this was always a lie, and this is why such a society didn’t last very long.
There are always blasphemy laws in any culture, even a libertine culture, where it is blasphemy to say, “That is immoral”, or “Maybe you should have self-control,” or, “Do you really need another cookie?”. All those who oppose cancellations from the current 'Woke' culture fall into the trap of believing that neutrality could exist in a nation. That is, we thought a society based on a secular public sphere, allowing a freely expressed marketplace of ideas was possible. But this was always a lie, and this is why such a society didn’t last very long.
xianc78
boosted
The thing about cancel culture is that we all have done things or have opinions that are cancel worthy.
xianc78
boosted
>Meta pivoting to video
This felt so obvious. There was never a realistic possibility Meta would come to market as shown during their announcement. Everything they ever showed implied they were making Second Life, again. They already did that and nothing has fundamentally changed since then.
Even John Carmack openly called out the project since the very beginning.
>Carmack then called the metaverse "a honeypot trap for architecture astronauts," explaining that architecture astronauts is his "chidingly pejorative term for a class of programmers or designers who only want to talk about things from the highest level."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnSUk0je6oo&t=883s
This felt so obvious. There was never a realistic possibility Meta would come to market as shown during their announcement. Everything they ever showed implied they were making Second Life, again. They already did that and nothing has fundamentally changed since then.
Even John Carmack openly called out the project since the very beginning.
>Carmack then called the metaverse "a honeypot trap for architecture astronauts," explaining that architecture astronauts is his "chidingly pejorative term for a class of programmers or designers who only want to talk about things from the highest level."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnSUk0je6oo&t=883s
@michuvon@kirche.social @jfml @DeveloperMemes I don't personally find it offensive or anything. I'm just surprised that something like that would be posted.
@michuvon@kirche.social @jfml @DeveloperMemes Indians loving Java is a common meme.
xianc78
boosted
re: Old Mobile Phones
Sony Ericsson W995, released in 2009 - so far the most interesting looking old mobile phone for me. It could be very well been the very last flagship model of its kind.
Highlights from its very own Wikipedia page:
- Form factor: Candybar Slide
- FM Radio
- 8.1 Megapixel Camera with Autofocus, LED flash, x16 digital zoom, Geotagging, Face detection, Smile Shutter and the Best Picture Feature
- Shake Control (Image Stabiliser)
- Walkman Player 4.0
- 3.5mm audio jack (exceptional for phones in 2022)
- BBC iPlayer and YouTube Compatible (!)
Highlights from its very own Wikipedia page:
- Form factor: Candybar Slide
- FM Radio
- 8.1 Megapixel Camera with Autofocus, LED flash, x16 digital zoom, Geotagging, Face detection, Smile Shutter and the Best Picture Feature
- Shake Control (Image Stabiliser)
- Walkman Player 4.0
- 3.5mm audio jack (exceptional for phones in 2022)
- BBC iPlayer and YouTube Compatible (!)
xianc78
boosted
Old Mobile Phones
As I was looking for a relative for a simpler, easier and sturdier phone, I quickly realized that... older mobile phones are exactly that? Did technology in that sector really regress, in a way? 
Now I spent two hours just looking at semi-recent videos of such, also because I became invested in it - the nostalgia really hit hard.
I didn't have a mobile phone until very late in my life, when smartphones long since established themselves as the standard, so the early mobile phone crazy went by mostly unnoticed by me - but I remember them still a bit fondly, since I was exposed to them in Asian media like South Korean movies, but also in animes.
And when I finally got my first mobile phone, a cheap smartphone, it was, like it always is for me, more out of curiosity for the technology than to connect with others.
And now, so many years later, it repeats in a way: Yet again I am curious, but my curiosity takes me back, for a technology I didn't care for when it was actually relevant.
Since I am a Sony fan, or at least a fan of Sony of old, I quickly pivoted to the Sony Ericsson line and found some really interesting looking models attached below.
But it's a shame older mobile phones simply won't work in a lot of first world countries anymore, because of the shutdown of the 2G networks.
If you have any fond memories regarding this topic, please feel free to share them!
#technology #phones #nostalgia #personal #sony
Now I spent two hours just looking at semi-recent videos of such, also because I became invested in it - the nostalgia really hit hard.
I didn't have a mobile phone until very late in my life, when smartphones long since established themselves as the standard, so the early mobile phone crazy went by mostly unnoticed by me - but I remember them still a bit fondly, since I was exposed to them in Asian media like South Korean movies, but also in animes.
And when I finally got my first mobile phone, a cheap smartphone, it was, like it always is for me, more out of curiosity for the technology than to connect with others.
And now, so many years later, it repeats in a way: Yet again I am curious, but my curiosity takes me back, for a technology I didn't care for when it was actually relevant.
Since I am a Sony fan, or at least a fan of Sony of old, I quickly pivoted to the Sony Ericsson line and found some really interesting looking models attached below.
But it's a shame older mobile phones simply won't work in a lot of first world countries anymore, because of the shutdown of the 2G networks.
If you have any fond memories regarding this topic, please feel free to share them!
#technology #phones #nostalgia #personal #sony
re: Old Mobile Phones
@okabe_rintarou I always was interested in the Nokia E70 only because of Maddox's satirical review back when the original iPhone was announced.
I find it impressive that a phone like this had an SSH client back in 2006.
Old Mobile Phones
@okabe_rintarou My first phone was a Samsung Brightside feature phone back in 2012. I was in middle school at the time and most of everyone had move on to smartphones. I went from the only kid without a cell phone to the only kid without a smartphone.
It was actually a weird time where feature phones tried to be like smartphones without actually being smartphones. To the point that they look like them but still ran dumb phone OSes.
I never really used it for anything other than calling my parents to pick me up and for a cheap MP3 player.
My first smartphone ended up being a refurbished Samsung Galaxy S3 around 2015.
xianc78
boosted
>this makes the iPad generation scream and piss their pants in frustration
@allison Slackware was the only "advance distro" that I even tried. Granted it was a SlackwareLive because vanilla Slackware doesn't have a live environment, but I really didn't think that much of it. I always stuck with Mint because I'm afraid of messing things up.
I find it hard to believe that I've been using Linux for almost a decade and I still don't have a grasp on the inner workings of it.
@allison How many people still even remember Slackware?
xianc78
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http://www.slackware.com/ this is not a drill, I say again, this is not a drill
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@ArdanianRight @BNONews@newsbots.eu They're preparing for the next planned crisis.
@ItsSkyDragonz I've seen one jerking off into the bathroom sink once.
- Sex
- Male
- Primary OS
- Linux Mint
- Programming Languages
- C/++/#, Python, Java, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, Assembly
- Ioncom Official Site
- http://ioncom.helioho.st/
Joined Jun 2020
