Notices by istván (istvan@noagendasocial.com), page 4

@Genen @Sir_JBoy @darrenoneill You're not poor enough.

@Genen @Sir_JBoy @darrenoneill Who wouldn’t?

But when you can afford to choose to eat healthy instead of just buying the absolute cheapest garbage that will last the longest you aren’t that poor of a slave.

@Zerglingman @sjw @mia That could be the case if the word was attested to existing in a European or Semitic language before that. It wasn't.

I don't know if anyone has studied Awawak-Lokono well enough to understand the roots of "canib" in their language. It could even be a loan word from the other tribe.

With around 2,500 living semi-fluent speakers of all dialects in the family I don't think it's likely that mystery will ever be solved.

@sjw @mia @Zerglingman Cannibal was actually a term invented by Christopher Columbus. It was never attested in literature prior to his travels.

It comes from Caníbales, which is what the Arawak injuns in the Bahamas called a neighboring island of man eaters.

Caníb also got rendered as Carib, which is where we get the word Caribbean.

This etymology error bugs me every time this video gets posted.

@bonifartius For anyone who doesn’t know the context, video is Tom Brier, the video game ragtime piano guy of like 15 years ago.

Guy was a recipient of the Scott Joplin award and was incredible. People got him covering Mario and such.

A few years back the videos stopped because he was crushed by a car and completely paralyzed.

https://youtu.be/AM3HMeKPtmw

🥲

@billiam @BroDrillard @Ghislaine @poastoak @PunishedD @WashedOutGundamPilot A plain band should never cost most than $600 for a men's ring by gold weight and $300 for a woman's. The melt value will be about 60% of that.

If you work with independent jewelers or jewelers catering to middle eastern customers you can get 18K or 22K which holds more value, and it will cost less than at a typical American jeweler where 18K is a premium charge because they exclusively do mass market 14K.

@Ghislaine @BroDrillard @poastoak @PunishedD @WashedOutGundamPilot This table shows resistance to impact and torsion, or what we call toughness in a gem.

Impact is what will fuck your stone: scratches can always be polished out by any gem cutter.

@Ghislaine @BroDrillard @poastoak @PunishedD @WashedOutGundamPilot If you find yourself needing a gem cutter and are on NoAgenda or Poast, I’m offering value for value gemcutting services at the moment until too many people fuck me over.

Check the pinned post on either of my profiles.

@Ghislaine @BroDrillard @poastoak @PunishedD @WashedOutGundamPilot There is no resale value on the wedding ring. This is a lie. If it costs you $10,000, you will be lucky to get $1,000 for it.

The ultimate immediate value of the ring is the value of the metal, which in most women's rings is about $150 worth of gold.

Also, diamonds are dead. The scam is falling apart hard and jewelers who were heavily bought into it are cratering left and right.

New couples want color gems.

@Ghislaine @BroDrillard @poastoak @PunishedD @WashedOutGundamPilot Buy a stone she will want to wear and put it in a setting that reflects her taste.

Diamonds crack as easily as cheap quartz: go corundum (sapphire or ruby) for the best balance of durability and resistance to scratching. Alexandrite of chrysoberyl is even tougher. Diamond doesn't even crack the Top 5.

@furgar @apx @Dan_Ramos Phantasy Star IV is the Sega Genesis RPG that’s worth playing. Phantasy Star II has a good story but damn it’s old and hard to forgive the gameplay.

There is also Surging Aura, but I don’t know much about it except it has a history of 27 years of failed translation projects: the only ways to play it are in Japanese or French.

Had three people so far today come through the shop and remind me that I need to turn off my phone and hide in the basement bomb shelter.

Surprised how far this conspiracy has spread into the general public.

@sysrq @p @Zerglingman @MK2boogaloo Good luck. Tencent has always been pretty evil. They ban the accounts of people who connect to the server through alternative clients.

There used to be a few implementations of QQ that worked for exchanging messages, but the actual money functions and dumb shit like QQ Show were all Windows only.

Even the Linux compatibility client Tencent produced one time after a sizable government grant wouldn't do it.

@p @Zerglingman @MK2boogaloo @sysrq I think so, since one of them made this:

https://crontab.guru/

Because crontab is that fucking hard.

@p @Zerglingman @MK2boogaloo @sysrq So Zhang Fuxin was bullied into bolting on the entire X86 instruction set on a formerly MIPS3 compatible RISC chip that had its own SIMD additions. Then they forked QEMU to pass all the X86 opcodes directly through virtualization.

The result was the Loongson 3 series: dog shit CPUs that failed at being X86 and failed at the concept of RISC by having more instructions than every big instruction chip.

Retardation abounds in IT.

@p @Zerglingman @MK2boogaloo @sysrq > If you produce the next shit from the ground up, people will complain that it doesn't have a web browser, so you're fucked if you're trying for consumers as a source.

This is the story of Loongson. When the 2F dropped, the government goons bankrolling Lemote via Chinese Academy of Sciences whined because it didn't have QQ and Tencent wouldn't port it.

Gotta have QQ, otherwise you can't do the important political work of paying camwhores in QQ coins.

@p @Zerglingman @MK2boogaloo @sysrq This is a great summary of why modern computing is completely fucked.

Look at Linux these days and how many layers of abstraction and constantly running services there are - to things that were already abstracted!! - because code monkeys couldn't handle ALSA, X, rc.d, and even the fucking crontab.

@sysrq @p @Zerglingman @MK2boogaloo Even among hobbyists it's rare to find people excited to write a windowing system while bitbanging their own VGA.

I still prefer X11 and a nice startx script to Wayland.

@p @maija @Zerglingman @justnormalkorean @meso That’s az really interesting fact. I’ll need to read more about the history of why it is so oddly specific.

But I am just for the entertainment. Don’t think I have a dog in this fight.