If you're looking for good individual actions, #NoBrandNewTech. #BuyUsed.
- Saves a bunch of CO2 (22kg to make a new smartphone v maybe a few grams for shipping)
- Saves money
- You get pretty much the same device anyways
- It tells companies that you care
Sidenote: you can now add Floor Jansen and Tarja Turunen to my list of favorite musicians.
@SeanAloysiusOBrien even my yearly “for people who don’t actually have to do any of these dangerous things (just be around them sometimes)” safety training is 12 hours god
seattle, politics, current events
tons of voices echoing the same words, whether protestors or people sitting in their own homes:
the rioters and looters aren't scaring them. the police are.
Ok, that's it, I'm reaching my limit on time since my last attempt to write an operating system. Since x86 is extremely not a beginner's instruction set, ARM? (I'd go for RISC-V, but I don't have any hardware that could run an OS.)
First problem to solve: emulating the Pinebook Pro. I know QEMU has the CPU down, but I'm not sure about all of its I/O.
opsec/protest PSA
Check out Briar if you need a secure way of communicating, it's fully end to end encrypted and can send messages via bluetooth to allow you to continue communicating with nearby people even when there is no internet, for example, if a cell phone jammer is being used.
If someone else has a format to recommend - that's accessible on a college student budget - I'll go for that too.
There's no excuse for this inaction. As David Sirota writes, there are ten meaningful actions the Dems could take RIGHT NOW that would yield concrete, significant results, RIGHT NOW, for the people facing out-of-control, armed "peace officers."
https://sirota.substack.com/p/10-things-dems-could-do-right-now
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Strong opinion generator. Autistic/ADHD. Transbian, maybe polyamorous, definitely queer. Some kinda leftist. There is no apolitics, only status-quo-ism.
Fangirl of RISC-V, ARM, 65xx, and anything with a rotating register file. X86 can die in a misspeculated cache flush.
Feel free to interact with my selfies.