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Me Phobos. I did a code.

To quote my own blog: I’m just some random on the Internet, going by the name Phobos–also Phobos1641 in full.

Sometimes I code in C++, and I occasionally do website stuff. I love playing games when I get some time off, and I do a mean homemade calzone (may be biased) when I feel it.

Feel free to check out my Blog to read about my long(er)-format random ramblings if you'd like. It's got an RSS feed if you're one of those weird (awesome!) people who actually use that.

Pleased to meet you, and I'd gladly have you as a follower, unless your one of those un-cool people (just kidding, everyone's welcome).

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menherahair :redeyeorb: · 6d
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menherahair :redeyeorb: · 6d
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https://eientei.org/notice/B3qckyp6JWPC1wrzRg

Motorola, huh? Well, I guess it's not like it could be worse than Google.

That said, I'm really not expecting there being long before we see legislation which makes it illegal to use, or to at the very least barring phones which aren't "certified" from connecting to the cellular network.

The first ones which will undoubtedly do this will be the European Union, then the United States will shortly follow; maybe even in a collaborative deal, at the same time.

All in the name of protecting the children/countering the terrorists/anti-money laundering/or some combination thereof.

Your future will be surveilled, and you will have the ads and propaganda injected directly into your very DNA and brain stem whether you like it or not.
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I think my SSD is haunted and the ghost inhabiting it is fucking with me.

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4M oflag=direct conv=notrunc status=progress
...

# badblocks -c 4096 -t 0xaa -t 0x55 -p 1 -wsv /dev/sda
...
Pass completed, 0 bad blocks found. (0/0/0 errors)

# smartctl -t long /dev/sda

# smartctl -a /dev/sda
...
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 10548 -
# 2 Extended offline Completed: read failure 00% 10537 5063552


And not a single one of the "bad" SMART attributes changed.

So you know, I'll be chucking it back into action and see how long it lasts.
Mr. "Never puts the Oven Mitts away" Cliff, B.Sc. 🇨🇦 · 1w
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@Mr. "Never puts the Oven Mitts away" Cliff, B.Sc. 🇨🇦 @SimpleX Chat @Juraj All in the name of security and "think of the children/terrorists" and what have you. Everyone with half a brain cell knows what it's really about.
Mr. "Never puts the Oven Mitts away" Cliff, B.Sc. 🇨🇦 · 1w
forgotten how painful youtube's website is. going through hundreds of these InspiringPhilosophy videos, and of course not a single one is worth watching.
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@Mr. "Never puts the Oven Mitts away" Cliff, B.Sc. 🇨🇦 Yeah, YouTube gets exponentially more and more enshittyfied each day. I have a small list of channels I watch, but aside for those I just don't bother trying to find new things, because it sure feels like it's all AI garbage or lower-effort crap these days.

There's been quite a few I've stopped watching since they started leaning into the politics way too hard.

It all makes it hard to find good content. Because either it's AI slop, regular low effect slop, or it's some raging politics retard(s) yelling into the mic trying to tell me how to feel and vote.
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Mr. "Never puts the Oven Mitts away" Cliff, B.Sc. 🇨🇦 · 1w
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It's annoying that such a large portion of the open source community still use Discord. Even if we disregard the recent events with ID leaks and such, there's so much wrong with using a proprietary platform like Discord to chat.

I'm of the mind that if people want to use one thing over another, they're of course free to do so. At the same time though, Discord should really be the antithesis of many projects' goals in terms of privacy and openness.

The only explanation I can think of is that alternatives truly must be horrifyingly terrible to use, which would certainly be an impressive feat. I assume the alternatives are like what ReactOS is to Windows--a very ambitious goal, but also not in any way a viable option if you actually want to use your computer.
Mr. "Never puts the Oven Mitts away" Cliff, B.Sc. 🇨🇦 · 2w
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GitLab is great. So great that it says my signed tags are "Unverified" despite them very much being verified. The problem after a fair bit of digging is due to the system lower-casing all letter of my email address in my added GPG key. It then case-sensitively check the email used to sign the tag. What a genius move. I'd love to know who precisely I should give my thanks to for wasting my time trying to figure this out.