Maiq
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- Comment on There are probably fediverse instances being run by governments for surveillance purposes 19 hours ago:
Remember to avoid the ask lemmy posts like:
Whats your favorite pets name, what street did you grow up on, do you like cut or uncut, etc…
- Comment on I wanted to learn OpenGL and shaders so I made this thing 1 day ago:
With every project you do that is over your head you are brute forcing more that just the project. You are shaping yourself. The knowledge gained is a hard fought win! Those are the ones that stick with us the most. The ones that teach us that we can do anything, if we stick with it long enough.
As you continue to learn and progress with anything it is important to remember what you have accomplished and what it took to get there.
- Comment on I wanted to learn OpenGL and shaders so I made this thing 1 day ago:
Looks like a fun learning experience!
- Comment on It's no longer easy to play April Fool's jokes on Americans because their reality is so chaotic that it's no longer easy to tell what is real, funny, fake or sad. 2 days ago:
This is basically the reason i picked my lemmy nom de plume. A sad small quip to remind myself and maybe others that they have made truth out of lies and lies out of truth.
- Comment on Rocky rock rocking 3 days ago:
Just downloaded it, it was a .png.
- Comment on Napster to become a music-marketing metaverse firm after $207M acquisition 1 week ago:
Obligatory, FUCK YOU Lars Ulrich!
- Comment on Meow 4 weeks ago:
Maiq has heard its dangerous to be your friend.
- Comment on Chad rule 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Life goals 1 month ago:
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 1 month ago:
M’aiq is very practical. He has no need for mysticism.
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 1 month ago:
To expand on this with some small context albeit way older than the Romans. Egyptians gave the Peleset land in the Levant. Theorised that they were warrior peoples of the sea and the Philistines of biblical text somewhere in the late second millennium BC before the bronze age colapse. There is an incredible documentary by Pete Kelly (History Time) on youtube. Well worth the watch. Another great video he did about the Akkadians called The first Empire. He also did a great video about the Hittites. His whole channel is a goldmine of knowledge of the ancient world.
Any way the ancient world is filled with peoples from all over, moving around. Trade was a major factor. War was another. People from all over the Mediterranean and beyond mixed knowledge, their trades, their crafts, blood on battlefields and likely genes. Probably long before there was a written word pressed in clay.
Were all muts.
- Comment on Ukraine Prepares Response to $500B US Rare Earth Deal Ahead of Munich VP Meeting 1 month ago:
A deal with Trump will surly be a worse deal with no guarantee but betrayal.
- Comment on U.S. investors, Big Pharma race to find new medicines in China 1 month ago:
Tiger piss?
- Comment on Ukraine Prepares Response to $500B US Rare Earth Deal Ahead of Munich VP Meeting 1 month ago:
Ukraine should make a deal with the EU for those minerals. Their word still means something, the US makes empty promises it has no intention of keeping.
- Comment on Is AI making us stupider? Maybe, according to one of the world’s biggest AI companies. 1 month ago:
Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this, the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization which is of course what this is all about. Evolution, Morpheus, evolution, like the dinosaur. Look out that window. You had your time. The future is our world, Morpheus. The future is our time.
- Comment on Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 1 month ago:
Remember back in the day when you could get apple users emails through a simple number incrimination in i believe the app store website?
The documentary The Hacker Wars highlighted the issue and if i remember weev went to jail for it. I probably need to rematch it again.
Also if people are interested in that kind of documentary The Internet’s Own Boy is a heartbreakingly excellent story of what the US put Allen Schwartz through.
- Comment on Apple, Microsoft Joining Google Using Gulf of America in Maps Programs 1 month ago:
That’s exactly how I think of it, Americans are the peoples of the America’s, North, Central and South. The people in the US should not hold a monopoly on that name as it somehow infers that the rest of the Americas are somehow less American and their just not. Maybe I’m looking at it wrong as i grew up in the US and we regularly refer to ourselves as american and the rest of the America’s just don’t do that because of our cultural and linguistic differences. Maybe more a remnant of imperialism than a quark of the english language.
- Comment on Apple, Microsoft Joining Google Using Gulf of America in Maps Programs 1 month ago:
OsmAnd still holding out! I will never not call it the Gulf of Mexico.
I think the world should stop calling USians americans. America is a huge place spanning 2 continents encompassing so many different cultures uniquely American. I always thought it was weird calling Mexicans in the US, Mexican American. It’s like saying American American. Wouldn’t Mexicans in Mexico also be Mexican Americans? Just never felt right to me.
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 1 month ago:
What is it, dragons?
- Comment on Day 206 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 1 month ago:
I have seen dragons. Perhaps you will see a dragon. I won’t say where I saw one. Perhaps I did not.
- Comment on what if another country staged a coup in the US and deposed trump? 1 month ago:
It could be argued that another country has already staged a coup, russia was pretty successful in its endeavour to install trump.
- Comment on Asteroid’s chances of hitting Earth in 2032 just got higher – but don’t panic 1 month ago:
I’ve got my towel, I’m ready.
- Comment on 🎵 🎶 🎵 1 month ago:
Thanks, love me come Cohen.
- Comment on 🎵 🎶 🎵 1 month ago:
Reminds me of The last call of his species..
- Comment on 🎵 🎶 🎵 1 month ago:
Which one?
- Comment on Anyone want my 12 year old old Ubuntu install DVD before I toss it out? No? Your loss. 1 month ago:
It came with postfix, thats awesome. I setup a makeshift security system on asus g-14 that recorded video while i was away. I used Motion to capture and PHP to parse the files to folders and build a html file that used stills. Then used postfix to send me an email.
Probably still have the crappy code somewhere if I looked hard enough.
- Comment on Anyone want my 12 year old old Ubuntu install DVD before I toss it out? No? Your loss. 1 month ago:
I love this kind of thing. Datahorders unite!
Support for Windows NT NTFS filesystem (read only at this point)
- Comment on Anyone want my 12 year old old Ubuntu install DVD before I toss it out? No? Your loss. 1 month ago:
Damn wizard, keep your spells off me!
- Comment on Mexico asks Google to reject U.S. renaming of the Gulf of Mexico. 1 month ago:
With all the illegal shit they are already doing and are going to do I personally don’t think there will be another election and if there is it will be like those in russia where the opposition gets imprisoned, released after the election and eventually murdered.
The gulf is renamed by fuckwits. Who says we have to use it. I refuse to call it anything but the Gulf of Mexico.
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 2 months ago:
Roal, role, roll, maters not to this one. If you need words ask the Telvanni, if you need maids seek the Argonian, if you desire paths follow the moon.
