Notices by Sorokin Alexei (xrevan86@loadaverage.org)
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Sorokin Alexei (xrevan86@loadaverage.org)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jun-2020 17:45:28 CEST 
Sorokin Alexei
@lnxw48a1 Well, don't think of -18°C or +38°C as those limit temperatures then.
As you said, those are approximate numbers, so it's just circular logic to say that round Fahrenheit degrees are more round than the corresponding degrees Celsius. Just round degrees Celsius then, to -20°C and +40°C. Which do have symmetry as well.
But it's not like running naked in wind with -10°C is safe, so the margin of error is way too big either way.
As a counterargument I can say that 0°C being the point of water freezing (under "normal" conditions) is useful in daily lives too, as it affects weather, reliability of ice, all that kind of stuff. -
Saint Fury (saintfury@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 22-Jun-2020 04:57:19 CEST 
Saint Fury
Downtime was because the server had a SSD that failed. No data from LoadAverage was on that SSD, but the hypervisor OS was, so that made things dicey. Sorry for the fuss. There will be a hopefully short downtime sometime in the future to remove the failed drive. A replacement is already in place.
Why the drive failed is unknown, it seemed rather out of the blue, but as far as we can tell, the controller just upped and went. It won't even SMART test. -
Sorokin Alexei (xrevan86@loadaverage.org)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jun-2020 11:14:34 CEST
Sorokin Alexei
@chimo Well, yea, just as a specific tool to plug some issues of the time travel concept.
It could be seen as "creating new timelines" while travelling, while also not actually creating anything, just throwing out of synch. -
Sorokin Alexei (xrevan86@loadaverage.org)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jun-2020 00:30:57 CEST
Sorokin Alexei
> I always think it's funny that people don't specify.
@musicman @lnxw48a1 And then this happens: https://bugs.debian.org/915209 :-). -
Sorokin Alexei (xrevan86@loadaverage.org)'s status on Friday, 19-Jun-2020 23:12:26 CEST
Sorokin Alexei
> the 90s were definitely cooler than most recent years.
@musicman @lnxw48a1 Is this a climate change discussion? -
Sorokin Alexei (xrevan86@loadaverage.org)'s status on Friday, 19-Jun-2020 22:44:05 CEST
Sorokin Alexei
> so you better be supporting Black Lives Matter
@waifu I don't know enough about everything that happens under that name, and it's not really up to anyone specifically I guess. So I wouldn't expect you to sign up for it all, and I hope you don't expect that from me (the notice's a bit ambiguous).
But I think we can all agree on that police brutality is a thing, black people's lives do matter and George Floyd should've been alive today.
As far as I know, that's the idea. -
Sorokin Alexei (xrevan86@loadaverage.org)'s status on Friday, 19-Jun-2020 22:06:58 CEST
Sorokin Alexei
@waifu@nulled.red Well, I wouldn't really expect someone from the US to prioritise issues in Hungary over local or international (one can argue it is international by being systemic though).
But intentionally inventing offensive connotations to words to then fight them is so Don Quixote I can't find any good reason for this no matter how hard I try.
I stumbled upon this video: https://youtu.be/igtLqhX4BCA, that argues the word "marijuana" is offensive, and even it makes a better point.
It's like people are so unsure what is and isn't offensive they will use their personal judgement no more – if someone on the Internet says it is then it is.
I've seen so much interesting logic around the Putin's upcoming reset. Seeing even more level-headed reasoning is making me anxious. -
Sorokin Alexei (xrevan86@loadaverage.org)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jun-2020 13:29:11 CEST
Sorokin Alexei
> Is it impossible for someone to make many mistakes on his own ?
@mangeurdenuage I mean that when a very big lot of people fails, it is a sign of a systemic failure rather than them not being up to it. -
Sorokin Alexei (xrevan86@loadaverage.org)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jun-2020 02:59:54 CEST
Sorokin Alexei
Though I guess this approach break one important part of a time travel · which is being able to see the consequences of one's actions on a longer span of time.
So a narrative like in Back to the Future cannot be represented with it. -
Sorokin Alexei (xrevan86@loadaverage.org)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jun-2020 00:52:23 CEST
Sorokin Alexei
I think I have an ultimate recipe for solving time travel paradoxes in fiction while retaining most of the perks:
what if there are many other universes, and the only difference they have with this one and each other is the initial moment in time?
The lack of actual time travel automatically eliminates all the issues of time travel like loss of information or consistency issues. And it removes the conceptual issue of time travel of it needing a backlog of the universe to get an earlier state, which is a bit arrogant to think the universe would have for our time travelling needs. So no human constructs like timelines.
Instead it's a series of independent universes that just happen to align through the identity of initial conditions. Like what happened in Futurama but in parallel and with offsets.
Not that I would like to write a novel, I just find it odd that, to my knowledge, this concept isn't already floating around.
Maybe I'm ignoring some great work of fiction, that I wouldn't know :-). -
Sorokin Alexei (xrevan86@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 15-Jun-2020 23:44:43 CEST
Sorokin Alexei
> This the "who is responsible" problem is it the "tool" who is responsible ? Or is it the "people" who did something with the tool ?
If you're referring to all those ideas like "maybe Linux shouldn't boot for Nazis", then yes, that is not constructive.
> It's a self-input loop. Surroundings can influence someone but it will depend on the decision of the said people.
I think you're zooming in too much. This is more about whole societies.
Individual mistakes should not affect the outcome. And if there are too many mistakes, then maybe there's something wrong with the way things are organised.
> so a stimulus doesn't mean that everyone will act the same way.
Individuals are unpredicable. Populations – not as much.
It's like trying to argue that water flow is indeterministic, because water molecules move randomly.
> What I'm saying is that the probabilities of a positive change are small if the actual media/political behavior continues.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -
Sorokin Alexei (xrevan86@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 15-Jun-2020 21:47:36 CEST
Sorokin Alexei
> It's just ideological subversion. Computer hacking should never be involved into politics other than it's own.
I don't know if I have a strong opinion here. I do think though that professionalism and political stunts aren't very compatible.
Like when a website blocks a whole range of IP addresses, because nation leader bad.
But what if someone makes code with an intention to undermine said bad nation leader? That's also political, but not inappropriate.
> This can help but the situation will never evolve if the mentalities do not change.
But mentalities always change. Whole subcultures can disappear with political changes.
It's bidirectional – people define what surrounds them, but they also adapt to their surroundings.
> You can give the best opportunities to someone, if that person as a violent behavior he will either create misery or be miserable or both.
You can't expect humans to be rational. Undesired behaviour should be discouraged, desired behaviour should be encouraged, and mistakes will invariably be made, so there should be room for that too.
So "people cannot change" is not a reasonable position. And "people can easily change" is also flawed. -
Sorokin Alexei (xrevan86@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 15-Jun-2020 21:01:05 CEST
Sorokin Alexei
> When trying to fix historical social ills, people will resort to silly triviality like eliminating "master" in situations where it does not imply slavery, because it is easier to rename things than to reshape problematic behaviors.
@lnxw48a1 What's especially strange is that lately people are more sure in that this works than ever.
Maybe they see annoyance of people they don't like as a sign that they're succeeding. If the adversary thinks it's bad, then it must be good.
> How to go from where we are today to a place where we do not use ancestry in workplace, housing, education decisions is tough.
Well, my personal biased opinion is that on a state level this can be fixed in just a matter of decades by affordable healthcare education and employment strictly based on merit, i.e. with social justice.
As I understand it, the correlation between wealth and skin tone is strong in the US, and I think that it's a self-perpetuating cycle as the need for money to make money is just too high.
And it's also a contribution to the human just-world fallacy, which here means that humans are inclined to think that poor people deserve their misfortunes.
And if most poor people share a trait, then it also becomes part of it. -
Sorokin Alexei (xrevan86@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 15-Jun-2020 15:06:18 CEST
Sorokin Alexei
I haven't made a fuss about the master-slave topology, however now things have become weird.
There's an ongoing effort to deprecated the master branch's name in Git, which I find to be a strange move as the master-slave topology doesn't even apply to git – all branches are independent by design.
Maybe I'm employing an overly rational approach, but shouldn't our actions make sense?
Is making an implication that the word "master", in any context, is a sign of a slave owner a good idea at all? What about headmasters, people with master's degree, master records?
A similiar thing can be said about the deprecation of terms whitelist/blacklist. They even predate the European colonisation of the Americas. I.e. they never had anything to do with skin pigmentation. And they never could, as skin pigmentation is observed with eyes, not lists.
One can argue that it's fair as here "white" is employed with a positive connotation and "black" – with a negative.
But the same can be said about the terms "blackmail", "black market", "black humour", etc.
Is it a half-measure or are they next? I cannot tell. -
Sorokin Alexei (xrevan86@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 15-Jun-2020 01:40:32 CEST
Sorokin Alexei
@lnxw48a1 Very vocal they must have been :-). -
Sorokin Alexei (xrevan86@loadaverage.org)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jun-2020 13:47:24 CEST
Sorokin Alexei
@davehunt Tried joining, no one is in %).
Wrong timezone. -
Sorokin Alexei (xrevan86@loadaverage.org)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jun-2020 20:38:08 CEST
Sorokin Alexei
@lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net You can just cherry-pick it.
Not that I'm against you updating your instances %). -
Sorokin Alexei (xrevan86@loadaverage.org)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jun-2020 22:36:42 CEST
Sorokin Alexei
@mangeurdenuage No, just an OStatus Atom feed pull of all feed subscriptions for no particular reason. -
Sorokin Alexei (xrevan86@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2020 00:54:46 CEST
Sorokin Alexei
@moonman@shitposter.club USB debugging is not the same thing as developer mode.
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