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Tuesday, January 31, 2023

[03:49:00] ski/rizon i remember, during a long car drive, i wrote programs on my calculator to visualize a bunch of simple sorting algorithms, like bubble sort, insertion sort, selection sort, shell sort

[03:49:42] ski/rizon (visualizing them as "straws" of different lengths, being moved around to the left and right)

[03:50:24] ski/rizon yea, i've since seen such YT videos

[03:53:31] ski/rizon apropos bills, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation> might also be interesting

[03:55:49] ski/rizon (icopus's link, cleaned up<https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.NsaChgk9YHmZSODRRMNUcQHaGa&pid=Api>)

[03:56:23] ski/rizon NiniGeo2 : in this case, there was someone with surname "Tits"

[03:56:49] ski/rizon "mgba" ?

[03:59:06] ski/rizon icopus : "The ACM and Me" in 2011-09-30 at <https://r6.ca/blog/20110930T012533Z.html>,"ACM Followup" in 2012-05-05 at <https://r6.ca/blog/20120505T173911Z.html>, by roconnor

[04:00:30] ski/rizon icopus : academic journal institutions scamming researchers, putting their publicly funded research behind paywalls, and having huge fees for institutions who want to get access

[04:03:19] ski/rizon having a problem with your ligament ?

[04:26:18] ski/rizon talk about nepotism

[04:35:05] ski/rizon (the marriage one ?)

[04:42:44] ski/rizon nini

[04:46:53] ski/rizon pleasant dreams

[06:05:39] ski/rizon la la la

[08:42:24] ski/rizon doki doki, ComputerTech

[08:42:32] ski/rizon heya, ChRoNiC

[08:48:17] ski/rizon franstam : haven't really listened that much too them .. i was just thinking about them a little bit, earlier

[08:49:34] ski/rizon mm

[08:49:59] ski/rizon (i happened to stumble upon them, when searching for "Doki Doki Literature Club")

[08:51:40] ski/rizon there are some people who record scamming the scammers back, wasting their time, or tracking them down, or in some cases even getting into their systems (e.g. deleting their data, or asking them about stuff found that way, &c.)

[08:51:49] ski/rizon KitBoga, iirc

[08:52:50] ski/rizon in one of those, it turned out some guy somewhere in the U.S. was, unknowingly, a front for it, they'd opened a company in his name

[08:53:18] ski/rizon it seems they like using gift card things

[08:54:22] ski/rizon take a leak ?

[08:54:44] ski/rizon sounds likely, Kanabit

[08:56:02] ski/rizon mm, aha

[08:56:23] ski/rizon (there was someone, in a game, named "Kanae" .. which was what it made me think of)

[08:57:18] ski/rizon same old Nigerian scam, just a little changed

[08:59:32] ski/rizon perhaps that it's insecure, volatile

[08:59:40] ski/rizon or even "illegal"

[08:59:58] ski/rizon who would've thought :)

[09:00:29] ski/rizon presumably they get enough fish in their net to make it worth their while

[09:00:41] ski/rizon and the platform doesn't want bad publicity

[09:09:54] ski/rizon "wannacry" ?

[09:11:07] ski/rizon oh. ty, login

[09:13:25] ski/rizon still, CT

[09:13:58] ski/rizon Twitter doesn't really have much of any support for local community building, iiuc

[09:17:42] ski/rizon login : .. i dunno. maybe if i knew (at least parts of) the community from elsewhere, beforehand

[09:18:49] ski/rizon .. i did frequent a "Bike Kitchen", for a while .. it was quite nice

[09:19:39] ski/rizon (but then the nearest local instance had to shut down (city decided quartering ought to be demolished, for new building plans) .. and the next nearest one is on the other side of city)

[09:20:38] ski/rizon Kanabit : sounds more or less like me

[09:22:43] ski/rizon login : a place where you can borrow tools to repair your bike. you can also get some instruction, but the point is not for people there (volunteers) to do the work for you, but to empower you to do it yourself .. and spread the knowledge onwards, as you see fit. used parts are gratis, new parts can be purchased for a low prize. if you become a member, you get to have one (used) bike a year

[09:22:49] ski/rizon fix it yourself, though

[09:23:21] ski/rizon the one i was at, also happened to house a hackerspace / makerspace, a sewing room, and a "solidarity fridge"

[09:24:01] ski/rizon (they also had stuff to repair electrical stuff .. i remember i did a little soldering, of bike lantern)

[09:25:30] ski/rizon login : quartering, or lodging, like the locale/apartment that housed the activities. at first, it was in the basement of an apartment building (with rent fee subsidized by city). later, in a sortof shack thing that also housed a flea market

[09:27:35] ski/rizon anyway, it was nice to hang around the place. sometimes i just sat in the sofa, reading some research articles, or perhaps listened in on, and occasionally participated, in some conversations. also sometimes i volunteered a bit with helping or giving advice to people who were there fixing their bikes

[09:28:37] ski/rizon oh, reminds me, they also had equipment for welding .. there was one guy there, who were into more heavy machinery stuff, who used the welder several times

[09:30:15] ski/rizon on fridays, the regulars there would make a meal together, from food ingredients from the solidarity fridge. like rice, or soup, &c.

[09:30:44] ski/rizon yea, there was no fee for using (borrowing) the tools

[09:30:51] ski/rizon (but it had to be done there)

[09:33:41] ski/rizon residential houses would donate used bikes that had been culled from their bike rooms, that noone had laid a claim on

[09:35:53] ski/rizon no, these were apartment buildings. around once a year, they'd inform residents that they'd be cleaning out, and ask people to mark bikes they wanted to retain, with a sticker/note. also, they'd initially put them in some storage space somewhere, and you could go there and get a bike back, if you'd missed that

[09:36:14] ski/rizon then, a few months later, they'd donate the remaining ones (previously, they'd just scrap them)

[09:37:08] ski/rizon part of the point would be to reuse bikes and bike parts, rather than letting them go to waste

[09:37:29] ski/rizon oof

[15:21:38] ski/rizon > which computerduck123

[15:21:41] ski/rizon computerduck123: Command not found.

[15:25:01] ski/rizon ergo my query

[15:57:09] ski/rizon oh, you were using Mibbit, more than casually ?

[16:01:10] ski/rizon ooc, what made you switch ?

[16:35:59] ski/rizon ComputerTech : ah, i meant client, not network

[16:41:39] ski/rizon (in our hall, we had like a bunch of wooden planks (with some space inbetween), up near the ceiling. my cat would sometimes jump up there, and sit there, looking down upon us, as a ceiling cat)

[16:44:57] ski/rizon cats are fickle creatures

[16:47:16] ski/rizon .. reminds me of a cat, Tonia, in a game, who sits on the desk, and nonchalantly pushes something over the edge, apparently to see the reaction of their human

[16:48:01] ski/rizon (if you pet the cat, you get an achievement "10/10 game")

[16:49:14] ski/rizon cats can teach people how to relax, and to not care about stuff

[16:49:23] ski/rizon whyfore, ComputerTech ?

[16:49:54] ski/rizon oh .. right, i forgot

[16:50:19] ski/rizon (here i was thinking you were slapping yourself, or perhaps your alter ego)

[18:38:30] ski/rizon heppy happy, joy joy

[18:55:59] ski/rizon Ahsoka : are you thinking of faces like <https://www.deviantart.com/anton-constantin/art/DEMENTIA-452166639> or <https://www.deviantart.com/anton-constantin/art/THE-FLOWER-THAT-PRODUCED-SICKNESS-403333330> ?

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