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Cake day: November 12th, 2024

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  • Isn’t that something done by any group being oppressed and not in power, regardless of what kind of cause they are for?
    e.g. those who had capoeira and similar things that had martial arts disguised as other stuff, back when they couldn’t practice partial arts.

    Though I find it hard to understand why they still have to wink now, when there are literal state-sanctioned groups of armed people-robbers around, who are also fine getting filmed in the act.
    When multiple countries’ governments have switched from turning a blind eye, to actually endorsing such actions, what more are these groups trying to accomplish by using these deniability tactics?


  • I also don’t think it makes sense that people who haven’t even taken history as a major, need to be taught each and every phrase that was used by a fanatic group.

    A lot of these words, phrases and symbols tend to be taken from stuff that meant well in the past or even now. See swastika, svaha[1].

    Just knowing those terms, while might help prevent them from being used in accidental cases, is not as important as being able to recognise the pattern of peoples’ actual actions.
    Because a group that has copied stuff from other traditions, can always do that again with other sources, to replace that stuff.

    It’s important that out of history, we make sure to identify the part that we actually need to be against, which is the specific actions that cause grief back then, instead of just picking each and every unrelated thing, which any new group can simply replace, while also getting to keep the original grievous actions.
    This is also to prevent us from getting our willpower drained from always getting outraged by multiple instances of minor similarities that are much more probable to be a false +ive, to have the power to push back when we find the actual problem creators.


    1. which I am not sure of the Nazi reference, but it was being chanted by people being portrayed as Nazis in a game ↩︎


  • So my browser’s reader theme is at black background (#000) with white text (#fff) and I just reduce the backlight at night, while keeping the windows open in the day time.

    Similarly, I reduce mobile brightness indoors, but keep it at full, when using maps while riding.

    When using an LCD monitor, it is beneficial to be able to reduce backlight brightness instead of reducing the colour value in software.





  • Yeah, when you get a “free” sticker, you tend to stick it to something. Even more so, if the sticker is shiny and cool looking.

    I got some MSI stickers with my old GPU and was tempted to stick them somewhere. Ultimately didn’t, because they didn’t match the aesthetic of anything and I consider it as bad for heat dissipation, so wasn’t going to put them on such surfaces anyway.

    ASUS gave a velcro cable-tie though and even though the laptop was shit, I tend to use the cable-tie quite a bit.








  • Open to ideas for alternatives.
    I had opened it with the intent of using it for receiving money, but didn’t really need it until just recently.
    So, just waiting until I actually end up requiring to receive payments, to open an account somewhere.

    As far as KYC goes, the payment processor should ask the Bank (the one that I am connecting to the account) to verify my identity.
    I can then login to the bank via the respective bank’s website, find an entry with the PayPal account no. and be able to Authorise the request.
    That way, PayPal knows that I am a legitimate account holder, without requiring to make my videos.
    Also, casual videos should not be considered a valid method of verification anywhere.