[-] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 2 points 43 minutes ago* (last edited 42 minutes ago)

The only direction she looks nice in is 6 feet deep. Fuck this birch the Majesty.

[-] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 4 points 58 minutes ago* (last edited 54 minutes ago)

TL:DR; No, I hate the USA.

The world isn't black and white. I agree with some of the reasons I like the USA in the comments over here - like subculture, universities, research institutes, etc, but I want to discuss about what I don't like.

As a South Asian, I feel grateful that we have governance over our own land by our own people. I can't help but pity and empathize with the aboriginal folks and native Americans, whose right over their own sacred lands were snatched, their lakes polluted, and mountains defiled, their tradition destroyed, and them being treated like third-class citizens in their own land. Long ago, they were nomads, but today, based on what side of the border they ended up in, they're either natives or illegal immigrants.

I hate the tone-deaf white defaultism, I hate it's genocidal campaign and foreign interference, and worst of all, I hate how it still enables exploitation and wage-theft.

And what I hate even more is shoving down everyone's throat like a clockwork about how groups opposing them were bad. Obviously, for example, the Nazis were bad, no doubt about it, but addressing so in a way so as to ignore your own terrible past absolves the crimes of the collective West, which is quite convenient for the imperialist empire.

Now, let me break it down - the amount of crimes under the Old Glory or the Union Jack exceeds far more than that under the Nazi flag. But someone decided that the Old Glory or the Union Jack aren't hate symbols, but singled out on the Nazi flag. Being a PoC in America must suck so much, imagine having to see that disgusting hate symbol that enslaved your ancestors, bombed houses and dropped chemical agents on farms.

[-] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 hours ago

[tig biddy childhood friend] Dame dayo, MC, you have me! Stop talking to others girls, ba...baka!

( -᷅ ⤙ -᷄ )=3

[-] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 hours ago

Oh yes, that I agree on. And I've been following WASM, although not with great enthusiasm. Guile has Hoots integration, and I believe there was a Scheme game jam recently with most projects using this.

[-] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago

To give them credit, space corpses can be valuable test subjects. Thank you, Boeing! /s

[-] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 hours ago

But that logic makes no sense, tbf, given how container was way back in BSD. I like how it is a balanced choice between an ephemeral environment and virtualization.

If we are talking about how NodeJS is the biggest pain in the ass to maintain for distros, and how they've forcibly tied V8 into the repository, that I'd agree gladly.

As a friendly trash-dev, I'd recommend never to open the deps folder, I'd bet that most of you folks will have a stroke.

[-] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 1 points 14 hours ago

Recently, there's been a bunch of sellers selling T480 at 600$. Like, what the fuck? Some are even offering their old, battered X220 for what, 700$? This is just daylight robbery.

[-] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Written entirely in C. Based.

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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml to c/thinkpad@lemmy.ml

I've been trying to find Thinkpad laptops with specifications equivalent to, or better than my old Ideapad with i5-8265U. So far, I've only been using Ebay. Unless explicitly mentioned, all prices are without shipping charges. This time, I've restricted myself to the following rules:

  • Assume +100$ for all product (international shipping)
  • Look for 8th, 9th and 10th gen Intel processors, and 1st, 2nd and 3rd gen AMD processors.
  • 8 (assuming SODIMM is free for another 8GB)/16/32GB of RAM
  • 256GB (if device is cheap, I can upgrade it myself)/512GB/1TB
  • Pick devices with 8th gen Intel processors under 200$
  • Pick devices with 9th gen Intel and 1st gen Ryzen processors under 250$
  • Pick devices with 10th gen Intel and 2nd/3rd gen Ryzen processors under 300$
  • Assume an extra 50-100$ for workstation dGPU
  • Do not buy anything higher than 450$ (with shipping price included)

However, to my surprise, 8th gen devices are still being sold around 250-350$, 9th gen devices and almost every Ryzen-based devices are non-existent, and 10th gen devices are surprisingly the same or lower than 8th gen, but their prices get inflated after auction - perhaps by shill bidding bots.

I also can't figure out this - why are there no listings from Europe or Middle East? Shipping from America is too expensive (although way cheaper that the local listings here).

How can I get better for finding used/refurbished/renewed Thinkpad?

[-] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

Lunar rocks from the other side of the moon, smart-ass - Uncle Sam has yet to reach over there. India's lunar rover was not that close, but it was still valuable information. China's landing was much more closer.

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[-] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

A cute picture of your SSN, card number, pin as well as the vault lock, and the address that your beautiful house resides on, uWu.

[-] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago

Bots have gained sentience, must nuke all data servers!

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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml to c/chat@hexbear.net

If most of you are aware, I've resumed applying to jobs. Well, most of them were rejections, but today, I got a response. The pay of the job is ₹60,000 per annum. Yes, you read it right.

And what's the message I've received?

Hi /c/velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml,

Are you flexible on your salary?

Is ₹5,000 per month not already low enough? Even school-dropout blue-collar workers make more than me at ₹25,000 per month. Rent of a room alone costs around ₹7,000-9,000. I am so done with this.

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submitted 5 days ago by velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml to c/chat@hexbear.net

I had to replace the display cable from another broken laptop, and thankfully, it was compatible with mine. Also changed the screen from AUO to Innolux, so I'm loving the matt display - but the tint is now a little yellowish. I would've increased the RAM, if not for the DDR3L vs DDR4 modules not being compatible to each other, so I'm suck with just 4GB. And also switched from normal swap to zswap with lz0 compression and zpool of type zsmalloc. I can't fold the laptop anymore, but well, it works decently for now.

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submitted 6 days ago by velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml to c/chat@hexbear.net

Pardon me if I get this wrong - but I'd assume that if one were to return packages back to a online shop (Amazon, Ebay, etc), they would have to:

  • print a label, package the box and then return to a post office, right - maybe also pay a little fee?

  • return to a designated locker/warehouse

  • initiate a label-free return to a nearby supermarket

Perhaps this is how it works in North America and maybe Europe, right?

Well, I wanted to talk about the system set in India used by every online shops (including Amazon, Flipkart, Meesho, Puma, etc). Here's how it goes:

  • if you want to return the product, you access the homepage, and initiate a return

  • you'll get a message ensuring that a delivery agent (assigned by logistic companies like DTDC, Blue Dart or Delhivery) will be by your house by tomorrow, or day after tomorrow

  • you're not supposed to re-package the delivery box, because the agent will come to your door, check the contents briefly, and then carry the product with them

  • after a few days, or maybe a week, the team at the warehouse will inspect the product properly, and then immediately initiate a refund

Sure, it is convenient, but I can't help and think of how exploitative this is to gig-workers. Am I in the wrong to feel this way?

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Ever since I've graduated on September 2022, I've not had a job. Maybe a crappy internship, but I wasn't provided with a 'certificate', or letter that proves if I've worked for them. That was around October 2022, and I quit voluntarily at the end of January 2023. Since then, I've not worked anywhere as a software dev, be it internship or full-time, because the job market is so fucked up in India.

Now, how do I explain this to avail scholarship? I have yet to read other scholarship docs from other countries in Europe, and I'm already shitting solidified blood-clots reading this from the DAAD Helmut-Schmidt announcement document:

a curriculum vitae in reverse chronological order including the date of issue (format: europass, please note: the europass template does not include a date, please add it yourself) with exact information about your studies and practical experience; gaps of three months or more must be explained

(Update: And I just realized that I am an idiot for not reading that this is only for non-STEM folks. Well, it looks to me that DAAD for STEM is also almost the same, with more stringent requirements.)

In my college, there was no research programs - I mean, you know the typical 'Indian colleges encouraging academic plagiarism', so I didn't learn or do shit. And obviously, I have no job experience. I did contribute to open-source from GitLab, a few Ruby gems, a new unknown front-end framework for JS, then Nixpkgs and now Guix, but that's it. Honestly, I wouldn't even call it contribution, because only a few patches were merged - most of it was just me interacting with those folks. After that, I've done nothing since September 2023, because my laptop broke and there were no spare parts. Maybe a little bit of playing around with Nix and Guix, writing package expressions and that's it.

How do I explain this? CVs are supposed to be at least 2-3 pages, but this? I can't even write half a page with this.

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml to c/chat@hexbear.net

CS degree is kinda useless, right? I haven't slept the whole night applying and thinking about this...

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submitted 1 week ago by velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml to c/chat@hexbear.net

This beef is related to XScreensaver being forced to make a privacy policy, but this list is pretty fucking based.

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml to c/chat@hexbear.net

I under-estimated comb size 21 on my Braun trimmer (still can't figure out if it's millimeters or freedom units), and used it to trim my head. I was also under the assumption that using size 13 on the sides would give a fade.

Well, turns out that there's really not a lot of difference between 21 and 13, at least to the visible eye - so there's no 'fade', and me being at at Norwood scale 3 makes it even more worse, almost like a Tonsure Mini Pro ™.

Now I look like Jason Statham if he was a pedophile monk. Kids will look at my franken-hair fuckery and piss off their pants.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml to c/music@lemmy.ml
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