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istvan

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Content Recipe: 9 part horse shits to 1 part gemstones

Ferrum ferro exacuitur, et homo exacuit faciem amici sui.
Sarcastic but unable to convey because of my crippling autism.
A férfi nem nő, és a nő nem férfi.
Spiritually trapped in Jaipur, physically in 西宁市, hail from Piripócs, by way of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Slowly dying of the silicosis, the tuberculosis, and the beryllium disease.
我的梦想？Nagy-Magyarország feltámadása!
I love #HaikuOS.
Curse my name correctly: [ˈiʃtvaːn]

#nobot

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sun, to random
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I was serious about the China thing, but it seems like everybody that comes from there says about the same thing, it seems like culture just got flattened

istvan,
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@sun @lain I lived in China 15 years.

Culture was essentially murdered during cultural revolution, and the majority of people born in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s barely had any idea about traditional culture.

The 2000s generation has gotten into rediscovering what was killed, and many things have come back in a big way.

Kind of funny to think about, but "China Wave" in music and fashion is actually a big thing in China right now.

istvan,
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@sun @lain Hard to point to anything "really influential" that isn't mass directed from CCTV, which is losing popularity.

Things are more regional and fragmented now.

I'd say get on Xiaohongshu and doomscroll for a while.

istvan,
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@sun @lain It's really fragmented.

There isn't much going on in regards to Chinese webspace at the moment aside from a few porn BBSes clinging to life. Otherwise just news, and that's all propaganda. Weibo is corporate spam and a channel people maintain for their work only if they have to.

Life has really sectioned off into niche interests. Most of what's going on is in small WeChat groups, and video content on Xiaohongshu.

istvan,
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@lain @sun Hell of a lot easier to learn than Japanese.

istvan,
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@sun @lain You're looking for something hard to find.

You either need a Chinese person who cares so much about random shit in China that they will go through the huge effort of making it accessible to foreigners, or a foreigner who cares so much about what's going on in China he will make it accessible to foreigners.

That's not much of a thing outside the crazy wuxia fiction fan translation community.

istvan,
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@lain @sun I did.

istvan,
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@sun @lain Always been the case. Few people have the passion to bridge the gap, and so few people give a fuck about that work that they usually don't keep it up for long.

More often you just see retards like SertpentZA giving their smooth-brained political takes. That seems to be the only China content foreigners care about.

istvan,
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@sun @lain Is there anything in particular you are looking for? If it happens to be something I have some interest in maybe I can make a recommendation.

istvan,
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@sun @lain If you are into idol pop, someone has taken the time to subtitle a lot of the songs by SING女团. They are very much in that "China Wave" category.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49d95ni5J9Y

istvan,
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@sun @lain You might also poke around YouTube more.

There are tons of Chinese dramas with English subtitles on there.

If you are looking for stuff without a modern setting, can look for historical dramas, immortal fantasy (仙俠), or swordsman fantasy (武俠).

Main difference between the two is 仙俠 is usually gods and demons and magic, and 武俠 is fictional martial arts. Some stories cross between the genre.

istvan,
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@hakui @lain @sun May be tldr depending on how deep moon is going.

I think hes just curious and not up for full Chinese fiction autism yet。

sun, to random
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Probably my biggest pet peeve is people that think that an entire mental condition is just "neurodivergence" because they have a version of it that is manageable, and ignore all the people that have a severe version of it that cripples them.

istvan,
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@sun So true, king.

kaia, to random
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only way to regain sanity

istvan,
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@kaia He decided to stop hurting everyone and get a job that made the world a better place.

lain, to random
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it's cliche but i must admit that stonehenge is probably my favorite henge

istvan,
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@lain It’s where the demons dwell and the banshees live and they do live well.

r000t, to random
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Fool.

istvan,
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@eriner @r000t mfw when I scrapped out 400 feet of useless 75-ohm cable one year before I got into radio and realized it could have made a house-sized loop antenna in the attic.

kaia, to random
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:IfritSweat:

istvan,
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@r000t @kaia @graf Perhaps you should try being Indian? It does seem to be much more important than being able to do the job.

p, to random
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It really bugs me how often ntpd produces slightly out of sync clocks by trying to be overly clever with skew and with trying to not break software that relies on a monotonically increasing clock. If something breaks when the clock fails to increase monotonically, it's shit, I don't care if it crashes. I'd rather it crash so that I know to uninstall it.

So, I tried to do it "right" this time, but I am going with the strategy that works: run ntpdate pool.ntp.org after the net comes up and then periodically run it again from a cronjob. ntpd(1) has some warnings about how if you do it that way, you don't get the cool skew detection, and it should be the opposite

In other news, cargo is a total piece of shit and this should come as no surprise to me because Rust is a language made by children that have no idea what they're doing but every time I have to interact with software written in Rust, the compiler and the tooling find new ways to disappoint me. I should just get a bunch of RISC-V gear so Rust shit won't run and I don't run into problems like this.
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istvan,
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@p I think POWER is similarly immune to rust. Also go.

istvan,
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@p Looks like go has some support for ppc64, no ppc32

istvan,
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@p @allison Mostly.

Some POWER chips can do LE.

https://lwn.net/Articles/408845/

r000t, to random
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ohboyohboyohboyohboyohboyfreetherapist

istvan,
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@r000t Very nice work.

sun, to random
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video/mp4

istvan,
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@mia @icedquinn @sun You need to level up and drive the steppers into an acoustic resonator.

video/mp4

PNS, to random
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video/mp4

istvan,
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@djsumdog @PNS Upcycling really. It’s the crazy woman who makes copper wire wrap jewelry at the craft fair.

istvan,
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@djsumdog @PNS I can see the pitch now.

“This is made from 100% upcycled copper taken from electric car charging stations to fight the war on greenhouse gasses emitted by the coal-fired power plants used to power green electric cars.”

lain, to random
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Wait, bomberman is lode runner?

istvan,
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@lain Only in the NES port.

Original PC/Apple Lode Runner developed by Doug Smith is Jake Peril.

r000t, to random
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>people legitimately believe their headset with two speakers has 7.1 channel audio

I bet you also believe David Copperfield actually cuts off his finger.

istvan,
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@r000t You can sell literally anything to an audiophile if it ends in a stereo jack.

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