eidolon @shaderphantom@awoo.space
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Belarusian anarchists wrote a long read explaining situation in #Belarus in perspective of longer political and social development. Must read - https://pramen.io/en/2020/08/how-did-the-belarusians-come-to-rebellion-against-the-dictatorship/ #Elections #ACAB #Anarchism
(To be clear, Shift-JIS is still the clear winner in terms of encodings for Japanese text; I'm just making the observation against UTF-16 in a context where I'm using widechars)
TIL CJK character codepoints often need 3 bytes to encode in UTF-8, which is significantly worse than the 2 bytes needed for Japanese in UTF-16. No wonder UTF-8 has poor Japanese adoption.
re: uspol, not useful doomerism
Telling people to vote isn't going to help if Biden wouldn't even be in office before the winter starts and there is mass starvation and homelessness that easily could have been prevented by the federal government. And there's no guarantee an election is even going to happen, or that its results would even change things.
uspol, not useful doomerism
We are going to be so catastrophically fucked in 4 months. I'm not really convinced this country is going to exist in 2021, without people mass rioting burning everything down because there is literally nothing left to lose.
Fly the black flag, seadogs, the age of digital piracy returns.
As the film industry moves away from physical media, we are going to end up with the shittiest possible encodings of films and shows because they don't want to spend more than the bare minimum on streaming.
uspol
Oh so now he's issuing executive orders to give out financial support/student loan deferment and threatening to revoke them if he isn't re-elected?
Gee, that sure doesn't sound good.
eidolon
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try confidence
Final Successor Class is called Luster and holy fucking shit it is so broken
eidolon
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covid tests are bad
A friend wrote this longer, less technical explanation of what it means to have a high false negative rate: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/22/opinion/what-does-negative-coronavirus-test-really-reveal/
- If you have COVID symptoms, assume you have COVID.
- Testing when you don't have symptoms is pointless. Don't use a prophylactic test to shorten the isolation period before you visit vulnerable relatives or w/e.
- Don't tell your wedding guests to get COVID tests. Cancel your fucking wedding jfc what is wrong with you.
eidolon
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covid tests are bad
Okay so I just looked up the actual false negative rate for COVID tests and omfg, I knew it was bad, but I didn't know it was THAT BAD.
67% of tests on day 4 of illness (which is on average the day before people start getting symptoms, when they are deffo super contagious) are false negatives. 𝟞𝟟％. TWO THIRDS.
It drops to 20% during the first few days after people develop symptoms. That's still bad.
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic was made by Arkane Studios?
yume nikki rave monke time
Funny that the day PSO2 finally came to Steam is the same day that the game's story officially concluded in Japan.
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Yesterday, I finally pushed my current source code implementing the Exposure Notification API to the @microg git repository.
This will allow using apps that use the Google/Apple framework for COVID-19 contact tracing on Android devices without the Google tracking it usually involves.
The current code is already functional, but still needs some improvements before it's ready for general public, but I am certain it's going to make it in the next @microg release.
Disgaea 6 real
Kaiji Ultimate Survivor, or alternatively, "how do we keep unreasonably escalating the tension of this scene"
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