so we are out of support. humans. just like those cars that you cannot get official parts for. nobody will give you a liver, suitable and produced for you.
well, there are some early experiments, to get stem cells from your skin, then print a liver from it. but that’s a research stage. until we have the industry, we have unsupported organisms and have to use whatever we have carefully. #human #biology #support
my dell latitude e6410 is amazing. first of all, it has very convenient keyboard. it is a pleasure to use its keyboard. i don’t like the keyboard on my dell latitude 7400.i don’t enjoy island type keyboards, made popular by apple, as i understand. not convenient to type.
secondly, e6410 can see and connect to hotspots no other device is able to connect. the hotspots located far away. i don’t know why is this, if it has a longer antennae, or something else. but that’s also enjoyable.
it is not slim, doesn’t look cool, probably, but i like the way it looks. it has an old cpu - nehalem, but may be that’s an advantage, it has no known critical vulnerabilities, and patches don’t impact its performance.
#dell #keyboard #e6410 #latitude #wifi #antennae #cpu #nehalem #usability
some carriers provide internet plans only for tablets.
i tried such a sim card in several devices - it did not connect. checked the apn on the tablet where it works. same.
as i understand the carrier only sees the imei, is there a way to find out if the device is a tablet or phone via imei number?
#imei #mobile #internet #carrier #provider #isp #telecom #network
so, we were getting spam on our prosody xmpp. it never happened before, and i wonder where the spammers get our jids from. may it be they were able to scan diaspora pages and get the jid’s from there?
still, so i tried to configure mod_firewall and it wasn’t that easy, i just blocked everything. (: then i used the block-spam.pfw script from the mod_firewall, and tried to send me a message from other server’s users that is not in my roster. did not help.
so eventually mod_block_strangers helped me, and i believe i won’t get spam anytime soon.
#jabber #diaspora #prosody #xmpp #spam #antispam #internet
so, we were getting spam on our prosody xmpp. it never happened before, and i wonder where the spammers get our jids from. may it be they were able to scan diaspora pages and get the jid’s from there?
still, so i tried to configure mod_firewall and it wasn’t that easy, i just blocked everything. (: then i used the block-spam.pfw script from the mod_firewall, and tried to send me a message from other server’s users that is not in my roster. did not help.
so eventually mod_block_strangers helped me, and i believe i won’t get spam anytime soon.
#jabber #diaspora #prosody #xmpp #spam #antispam #internet
#green #energy with #solar_power and #pine64 #pinebook #pbp
#still_life with #sunflower
#stilllife #still-life #photo
@{ Կողմնակի Անցանց Մ․ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 03.09.2020, 21:13:52
#առօրեայ
#doge is looking at me from the #pebble classic screen.
@{ Կողմնակի Անցանց Մ․ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 03.09.2020, 21:13:22
#ժամացոյց #դոջ #դոգէ #շուն
#sergey_kolesov is a #painter whom i discovered at #artstation, and follow for several years. recently he published a #poster of ashot who makes #kebab - as i guess from the name - #armenian #immigrant. #art
@{ Կողմնակի Անցանց Մ․ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 02.09.2020, 17:32:39
#սերգէյ_կոլեսով ֊ի #աշօտ ֊ը։
#նկար #աշոտ #քյաբաբ #քեաբաբ #արուեստ
i hope #gnustep will get more developer involvement because it has #swift now.
Joke in Russia right now: the #covid19 vaccine Sputnik V has been tested on two people with a 50% success rate. Putins daughter and Alexei Nawalny.
today microprocessors are cheaper than cables.
source: project oberon, chapter about the computer
enjoy the fragment of my #set in #vanadzor, a couple of days ago:
#techno #electronic_music #music #electronic
encountered this in #vanadzor. those vertical lines are part of old soviet design, this was probably a line of shops, all of them did belong to the gov, and all of them had this strip with vertical lines, and denotations.
this shot is made with xperia xa2 running sailfish but i have film shots, as well as i have corresponding shots of other recently published pictures, i will get the chemistry and develop and probably share those in a couple of months.
i usually share on my blog and flickr, and not here. links are in the profile.
@{ Կողմնակի Անցանց Մ․ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 03.09.2020, 21:14:42
#վանաձոր #գրախանութ #գրքեր
#sergey_kolesov is a painter whom i discovered at artstation, and follow for several years. recently he published a poster of ashot who makes kebab - as i guess from the name - armenian immigrant. #art
@{ Կողմնակի Անցանց Մ․ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 02.09.2020, 17:32:39
#սերգէյ_կոլեսով ֊ի #աշօտ ֊ը։
#նկար #աշոտ #քյաբաբ #քեաբաբ #արուեստ
#stilllife with #sunflower
@{ Կողմնակի Անցանց Մ․ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 03.09.2020, 21:13:52
#առօրեայ
#doge is looking at me from the #pebble classic screen.
@{ Կողմնակի Անցանց Մ․ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 03.09.2020, 21:13:22
#ժամացոյց #դոջ #դոգէ #շուն
i have showed these tiles back a couple of years ago. this time the tiles have been spotted at the remote village farm. i asked where they did get the tiles, and they answered that someone brought those from an old factory.
other places i spotted those - nissan service in yerevan - i guess they did not change anything, just use the old industrial building, and tapastan cafeteria on sarian street in yerevan.
btw, tapastan[տապաստան] is a wordplay - they refer to tapas, so it is a land of tapas (stan is an old persian suffix for a place or country) and, tapastan (but not with p[պ], but p’[փ], like in paris) means desert.
@{ Կողմնակի Անցանց Մ․ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 01.09.2020, 18:04:44
արդէն գրել էի այս սալիկների մասին։
ահա, հարցրի ո՞րտեղից՝ ասին ծանօթ ա բերել ինչ֊որ գործարանից։
#յատակ #դիզայն #սալիկ
#tiles #tile #industrial #indusrial-design #industrial_design #design #interior #interior-design #interior_design #history #yerevan
Scratches in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
https://aphelis.net/scratches-kubrick-2001-space-odyssey/
#kubrick #2001 #odyssey #gif
this is a very good blog post՝ back to basics about strings in C and Pascal. i suggest you to read it, and now i’ll tell you something else:
in Oberon, Wirth decided to give up on Pascal strings, and use zero terminated strings.
however, there is no need to run by the whole array to find out the length of the string. we don’t even need to have a separate field that holds the length՝ compiler knows the length of the static string.
thus it can do compile time tests. for example we have the following Oberon source՝
MODULE tst;
IMPORT Out;
VAR i: SHORTINT;
str: ARRAY 1024 OF CHAR;
BEGIN
FOR i := 0 TO LEN(str) DO
Out.Int(i, 0); Out.Ln
END;
END tst.
lets try to compile it՝
[2020-09-02 16:00:20] $ voc -m tst.Mod
tst.Mod Compiling tst.
9: FOR i := 0 TO LEN(str) DO
^
pos 102 err 113 incompatible assignment
Module compilation failed.
[2020-09-02 16:00:21] $
voc compiles Oberon source to C, which is very good to illustrate what happens. if we have՝
str: ARRAY 16 OF CHAR;
then the output C code will be՝
static CHAR tst_str[16];
nothing more։ no field for the length.
still, this՝
FOR i := 0 TO LEN(str) DO
will translate to՝
tst_i = 0;
while (tst_i <= 16) {
as i said we know the length at compile time. doesn’t matter if you generate C or assembly, you already know the number, you can put the number to the output assembly code as well.
when we write a function which receives strings, we should not knowt the length of the received string, we just use ARRAY OF CHAR as an argument՝
MODULE tst2;
PROCEDURE addStrs(VAR a, b: ARRAY OF CHAR);
BEGIN
(* do smth useful here *)
END addStrs;
PROCEDURE test*;
VAR
s0: ARRAY 32 OF CHAR;
s1: ARRAY 64 OF CHAR;
BEGIN
addStrs(s0, s1);
END test;
END tst2.
therefore C code will be՝
static void tst2_addStrs (CHAR *a, ADDRESS a__len, CHAR *b, ADDRESS b__len)
{
/* here we think we can do smth useful */
}
void tst2_test (void)
{
CHAR s0[32];
CHAR s1[64];
tst2_addStrs((void*)s0, 32, (void*)s1, 64);
}
as we see՝ the function also gets the length of strings. and if we do LEN(a) we get the length without any calculations.
now let’s see how dynamic strings work՝
MODULE tst3;
PROCEDURE addStrs(VAR a, b: ARRAY OF CHAR);
BEGIN
(* do smth useful here *)
END addStrs;
PROCEDURE test*(i: INTEGER);
VAR
s: ARRAY 32 OF CHAR;
ps: POINTER TO ARRAY OF CHAR;
BEGIN
NEW(ps, i);
addStrs(s, ps^);
END test;
END tst3.
now we hase a static string՝ s and we allocate a dynamic string with its pointer ps.
lets assume we don’t know the size of ps^ string (^ means dereference) and we will receive the length of the allocated string as a function argument. it is not known at compile time.
first function remains unchanged, second function gets translated like this՝
static void tst3_addStrs (CHAR *a, ADDRESS a__len, CHAR *b, ADDRESS b__len)
{
/* do smth useful here */
}
void tst3_test (INT16 i)
{
CHAR s[32];
struct {
ADDRESS len[1];
CHAR data[1];
} *ps = NIL;
ps = __NEWARR(NIL, 1, 1, 1, 1, ((ADDRESS)(i)));
tst3_addStrs((void*)s, 32, (void*)ps->data, ps->len[0]);
}
the _NEWARR is a bit more complicated function, which is a part of the runtime.
but we can understand what it does՝ it allocates a space in the heap, and the pointer ps we get now points to the struct, which has a data field and len field.
this is a runtime information, and in this case we have to keep a separate field for the length of the string.
that’s it.
#oberon #c #pascal #wirth #programming #programming-languages #programming_languages #design #implementation #vishap #voc #compiler #compilation #strings #string #heap #stack #storage #storage-management #storage_management #length
you should look closer to see all FOUR moons of Jupiter.
@{ Khurram Wadee ; mkwadee@diasp.eu} 02.09.2020, 11:03:15
#Jupiter and the #Moons
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200902.html
#APOD
these are old industrial tiles, now i have encountered on a remote village farm. i asked where they got those tiles, and they said - someone brought from the old factory.
tiles like that i also saw in nissan service centre in yerevan - they rent an old factory, first i saw the tiles at the “tapastan” cafeteria on sarian street. i’ll publish a photo from there too.
@{ Կողմնակի Անցանց Մ․ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 01.09.2020, 18:04:44
արդէն գրել էի այս սալիկների մասին։
ահա, հարցրի ո՞րտեղից՝ ասին ծանօթ ա բերել ինչ֊որ գործարանից։
#յատակ #դիզայն #սալիկ
#tiles #tile #industrial-design #industrial_design #design #yerevan
first they have had dismantled the asbestos roof, now only the walls remained. and we can see how the walls were painted.
@{ Կողմնակի Անցանց Մ․ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 01.09.2020, 17:39:30
էս տունը քանդել են ու ներկած պատն երեւում ա։ի դէպ քանդելիս հնդիկներ էին աշխատում՝ մեր փայ միգրանտները։
#շէնք #պատ #դիզայն
#building #wall #design
If you put users’ home directories on NFS-mounted drives (one abstraction), and your users create .forward files to forward all their email somewhere else (another abstraction), and the NFS server goes down while new email is arriving, the messages will not be forwarded because the .forward file will not be found. The leak in the abstraction actually caused a few messages to be dropped on the floor.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-abstractions/
#abstraction #leak
For example, the recent standardisation of DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) pitted advocates for dissidents and protestors against network operators who use DNS for centralised network management, and child safety advocates who promote DNS-based filtering solutions. If the IETF were to only decide upon technical merit, how would it balance these interests?
https://www.mnot.net/blog/2020/08/28/for_the_users
#ietf #internet #dns
this answer to @{Dennis Schubert; denschub@pod.geraspora.de} post seems reasonable.
it is indeed seems possible to map some subset of activitypub to the current diaspora functionality.
moreover that ruby libraries for ap already exists, there needs to be work done on integration, which is not easy, of course, but i think necessary - because otherwise diaspora stays isolated from the rest of federated world.
i think we have to try to create a social demand for this. if there is a demand, these functionality is more likely to be implemented - whether by diaspora team or by the fork.
well, the main problem is, that we have lack of developers, which is because diaspora is not that popular, and it is already a miracle that we have diaspora, and we have the existing team.
#activitypub #diaspora #activity_pub #ap #decentralization #federation #internet
and indeed, sounds like #Hamasyan (:
https://immortalonion.com/about/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WigtpRE3oc0
#immortalonion #immortal_onion #jazz #music
so sometimes, though rarely, i need to reload #windowmaker. today something happened, i opened a ‘run’ menu, tried to type in it, and it hung in foreground of all windows. i could move the mouse over the firefox window behind, i could scroll it up and down, and i guess i could close the tab, because on mouse over event wos working. however i could not change to other windows, move to other workspace. dockapps were working.
so i changed to tty with alt+f2, made ps aux | grep wmaker and got two wmaker processes, i needed the second: wmaker --for-real=, got it’s pid. Now issued kill -s SIGUSR1 that pid.
that reloads wmaker. every window stays at its workspacke. you don’t notice any change.
#wmaker #reload #linux #unix #ipc #processes
An #AI Just Embarrassed the US #Air_Force in a Virtual #Dogfight
developed the film shot 35 years ago by his father: https://www.lomography.com/magazine/169603-expired-film-developing-ancient-black-and-white-film
#development #film #expired
the construction industry is currently facing two major challenges: the demand for sustainable infrastructure and the need to repair deteriorating buildings, bridges and roads. While concrete is the material of choice for many construction projects, it has a large carbon footprint, resulting in high waste and energy expenditure. Today, researchers report progress toward a sustainable building material made from local soil, using a 3-D printer to create a load-bearing structure.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/08/21/0210253
#concrete #building #architecture #sustainability #soil #construction
the construction industry is currently facing two major challenges: the demand for sustainable infrastructure and the need to repair deteriorating buildings, bridges and roads. While concrete is the material of choice for many construction projects, it has a large carbon footprint, resulting in high waste and energy expenditure. Today, researchers report progress toward a sustainable building material made from local soil, using a 3-D printer to create a load-bearing structure
In your speech you said Xi forced through the amendment of China’s constitution to abolish term limits in 2018, giving him the ability to stay in power indefinitely. Why was that such a turning point?
He forced the third plenum of the national congress to swallow it like dog shit. He first completed it and then forced everyone to accept it. This is obviously going backwards politically. Even with these two major issues, no one came forward to oppose it.
When no one can oppose him, that means that his power is unchecked. Under the Chinese system, starting with Mao, no one can restrict or limit the power of the highest leader. That is why you had disasters like the Cultural Revolution.
Because of the power he holds, he can punish whoever he wants so no one dares to give him different opinions and no one dares to report the real situation to him. Since people don’t tell him the truth or hide it from him, he doesn’t necessarily know the truth. So it is inevitable that he will make wrong decisions.
It is a vicious cycle. After a wrong decision is made, the result is not good. But those below are too afraid to tell him and wrong decisions continue to be made until the situation is out of control. In this vicious cycle, there is no way to stop the country from sliding toward disaster.
Third, the disciplinary code for party members [adopted in 2016] contains a measure that says you cannot distort the policies of the party. As long as you express a different opinion, you are in violation of party discipline, and he can use that to deal with you. Before, you could still speak out and you would be subjected to enormous pressure, but they couldn’t prevent you from speaking.
China is bound to go through political transformation, toward democracy, political freedom, rule of law and constitutionalism. This is the inevitable trend of modern human political civilisation. China will enter this stage sooner or later.
Because the CCP has been in power since 1949, they have made many mistakes and even crimes. Between 1959 to 1961, nearly 40 million people starved to death. The anti-rightist movement of 1957 and the Cultural Revolution hurt almost all Chinese elites and intellectuals. Also the Tiananmen protests in 1989 when the CCP used its army to shoot the people. No matter what, this is unacceptable to Chinese people. It is the People’s Liberation Army, right? It is the people’s country
#china #ccp #politics #democracy
#fp-100c #polaroid #photography #photo #peel_apart_film #technologies
omg so beautiful walls, such a beautiful process. this is my dream. i just enjoy this so much!
https://www.designboom.com/architecture/kamp-c-3d-prints-two-story-house-08-17-2020/
#3d_printer #house #architecture #building
that’s why i would invest in #pinephone, and #pine64 devices:
Portage 3.0.0 released, with up to 50-60% faster dependency resolution (and dropping Python 2.7 support)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Gentoo/comments/huczqb/portage_300_released_with_up_to_5060_faster/
#gentoo #portage #python #emerge
schroedinger’s cat spotted!
#caturday
Instead of a flat string, Erlang — oops, did I say Erlang? I meant Elixir — creates a nested list containing four leaf elements that add up to the string we expect: “Hello “, “&”, “amp;”, and " Goodbye”. At first glance this may seem like a pointless complication, but let’s see what the computer thinks about the situation.
If you look at the man page for writev, you’ll see it’s a “gathered write”, which means it writes data from multiple memory locations in a single system call. I wrote a little DTrace script to unpack the writev call we saw earlier, and peek at what that Elixir code is actually doing with this system call.
https://www.evanmiller.org/elixir-ram-and-the-template-of-doom.html
#erlang #elixir #dtrace #write #writev #syscall #string #strings #programming
RSS, or why lack of developer imagination will be the end of the open web
#rss #decentralization #web #open_web #openweb #development #internet
In order to allow concatenation of strings to be efficient in both time and space, it must be possible for the result to share much of the data structure with its arguments. This implies that fully manual storage management (e.g. based on explicit malloc/free) is impractical. (It can be argued that this is true even with conventional string representations. Manual storage management typically results in much needless string copying.) Though an explicitly reference counted implementation can be built, we will assume automatic garbage collection.
https://www.cs.rit.edu/usr/local/pub/jeh/courses/QUARTERS/FP/Labs/CedarRope/rope-paper.pdf
#paper #string #strings #rope #gc #storage
Every time a new assignment or parameter passing is made, the reference count of the String has to be increased, this is an atomic lock, and is related to memory management, so it’s there whether you’re using simple reference-counting or copy-on-write.
Under a GC, no atomic lock is required, a simple reference (pointer) has to be copied. This is very efficient, locally, but the memory management costs are just deferred to a later garbage collection phase. Since immutable strings don’t have reference to other objects, the GC for them can theoretically happen in parallel without any drawbacks (assuming the GC supports it).
So under a GC, an immutable String type makes a whole lot of sense, as implementing a copy-on-write one requires a lot of effort, and a mutable one is problematic multi-threading wise.
https://www.delphitools.info/2013/05/13/immutable-strings-in-delphi/
#pascal #string #strings #immutable_string #delphi #gc #programming
Inappropriate deallocation of dynamic storage is a well-known source of catastrophic program failures. In the context of nonextensible applications, such as statically linked programs, this problem can (in theory) be mastered by a careful programmer; for extensible programs, it cannot! There is always the possibility that a module may be added to a program later on; such an extension can introduce additional references to objects of which the implementor of the core modules is unaware. Therefore, Oberon neither requires nor allows explicit deallocation of dynamic storage.
#oberon #gc #programming #programming_languages
The language, however, makes veryfew assumptions about the environment. If not available from a given operating system, dynamic module loading, command invocation, and automaticgarbage collection can be introduced by a small run-time system. In principle, it is possible to forego dynamic loading and to create traditional, staticallylinked applications, but this is anachronistic for the challenges of today’s software systems. Automatic garbage collection is indispensable for reliable,extensible software systems and is probably the biggest culture clash between Oberon and other compiled languages such as Pascal, C, or C++.
#oberon #gc #programming #programming_languages
#caturday #cat
The point is: the colder the better. However, there are some practicality issues as well. Frozen papers last longer than refrigerated papers, but they need to be thawed before use, and well packaged to avoid moisture. That’s too cumbersome and not without danger for general and frequent use. A good compromise is refrigerator storage well above freezing. I have used papers as old as 10 years that way without ill effect other than a small loss in speed and contrast, which is easily compensated for.
#photography
We have been informed that we’re not allowed to ship devices with the encryption capabilities of the PineTab, PinePhone and Pinebook Pro into the Russian Federation. Shipping these devices could (and has multiple times in the past) lead to confiscation of the devices at the border by customs and even to being outright banned or barred from entering the country.
https://www.pine64.org/2020/07/15/july-updatepmos-ce-pre-orders-and-new-pinephone-version/
those are good devices, try to get your hands on!
#russia #pine64 #pinebook #pbp #pinephone #pinetab
https://www.archdaily.com/943939/suburban-sprawl-increases-the-risk-of-future-pandemics
#sprawl #pandemics #future #city #design
Gerard Exupery is a very interesting photographer who just started to publish his photos. Also he has a very interesting blog.
@{ gerard exupery (unofficial) ; gerardexupery@spyurk.am} 30.07.2020, 20:22:01
The Waitress, the Tarantula, the Body in the Bathtub and Why I Had To Buy My Girlfriend a New Pentax
posted by pod_feeder_v2
did you think that you need a usb condom?
https://www.instructables.com/id/Making-a-USB-Condom/ #usb #condom
i have a feeling that there is a widespread delusion at azerbaijani side, that armenians gonna run and leave once they attack, and only the mystery forces are keeping them from taking “back” “their land” and exile armenians, and then exile them more, and then take “back” their “irevan” as they call the capital of armenia.
and they are searching for this answer, they are desperate to hear that we are panicking. and we are not. nobody is in panic at the border. no panic here. they say: “then we’ll attack your nuclear plant”. no panic. now they were caught calling different phone numbers with having the cover of “sociological research” asking the same question “are you frightened?”. nooo. we’re not. comon.
i don’t want to talk about the balance of power etc, that also holds back a full scale war. because i don’t enjoy living in one of the most militarized places in the world. i mean that could be different!
i just want to say that is so surprising they have this image of the other side. this is the small piece of land this people live. they will not vanish. they have no way to vanish. even if they want - we don’t have the necessary i/o bandwith to vanish. and why would they? we are not vanishing. accept it. not afraid.
Soldiers of Tavush units refuse to discharge https://mediamax.am/en/news/armypolice/38662/
well, i was thinking - is it indeed that much touching, thrilling as it sounds? may it be that this is a misinformation? or the ministry of defence would like to keep them longer, and had to cover the deal with “their own will”? no - the ministry of defence already refused to satisfy this. and i think it really happened, they asked to delay demobilization, because we have rather transparent society, and nobody would fake that, by knowing the truth will be known anyway.
so this is indeed impressive. these guys spent two years endangering their lives, and now their military service is over, and they miss their families, and obviously would like to return home. but here we see they have this feeling of responsibility, that they’d like to stay a bit more. they already know a lot about military and about the space, and they feel they cannot leave in this situation.
what does it tell me? it tells that the military isn’t very corrupted, it is not bad. that the soldiers don’t behave like prisoners, and probably are not regarded as prisoners. they behave and regarded as people who have and acknowledge the function in defence system. also, they can trust each other, and it means, they can stay for each other.
this is good and impressive.
the problem with #fediverse and #diaspora is that when you get a new instance/pod, then the new user of that instance, if they did not have other fediverse presence before, don’t see anyone, and have limited means to discover/find other people: your new instance is not aware of them.
solution often used: create a bot and follow a lot of people from different instances, so that new users have some content. but may be the user would follow someone else, than the bot followed
today again. probably they understand that full scale war is too ‘expensive’ by casualities, so they just keep tension on borders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_foe27sxfw
this cat loves adores the birthday gift he got.
https://i.imgur.com/4EAKF6u.mp4
#caturday #birthday #cat
#Azerbaijan’s Hint At Missile Strike On Armenian Nuclear Plant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJGA_V1LdPI
so imagine, people have #demand for #war. these are rallies in Baku, capital of #Azerbaijan, with the demand to start a war, to get control over #Artsakh. They shout “Karabakh” as you can hear, also something, our media translated as “death to Armenians” which is very likely and usual, if even their president declared Armenians of the world their enemies.
enjoy. people can desire war.
Armenian officials claimed that Azerbaijani drones launched an attack on the Tuvush province town of Berd, targeting civilian infrastructure. Defense Ministry spokeswoman Shushan Stepanyan said that one of Azerbaijani drones was downed.
Stepanyan also charged that the Azerbaijani military used civilians as shields, placing artillery close to the village of Dondar Gushchu in the Tovuz district about 10 kilometers (six miles) from the border.
“The Azerbaijani side has surrounded its own population with artillery batteries, making them a target, and then complained that the Armenian forces fired in that direction,” she said on Facebook where she posted images of the Azerbaijani artillery around the village.
not the first time.
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/07/14/world/europe/ap-eu-armenia-azerbaijan.html
and it’s not Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh), as someone was claiming here, assuring me that the semi war situation is only there, while I live here and I was telling him it’s everywhere.
Now it’s not that semi.
#nokia indeed bought #bell-labs, omg, so cool. i hope they’ll come up with something interesting.
if i subscribe to someone on mastodon from other instance, and the unsubrcribe, and i am the only follower to them on my instance, does that mean that my instance will forget following that account? or it’ll bring their posts to the global timeline anyway?
#mastodon #federation
#photolightmeter ported to #maemo-leste running on #motorola #droid4
i made a new avatar inspired of this images. (:
when someone with ‘fedorafan’ nick enters #funtoo irc chat.
armenian word for space is տիեզերք [tiezerk’], which literally means ‘big edge’: ‘ti’ - big, and ‘ezerk’’ - edge.
other dictionary states that first time the usage of the word was noticed in 6th century manuscript.
i wonder how people did know (or guess?) so much time ago, that the space is not infinite.
#armenian #dictionary #word #space
It’s not just endlessly reinventing the wheel, it’s often dropping the new wheels onto the piles of old wheels underneath. I’ve noticed similar things on Linux where looking for how to set something up in ALSA, I find many forum posts telling someone to just install PulseAudio (I’m yet to find anything that I need to do that PulseAudio can do and ALSA can’t)! The answer to how to solve one simple problem should not be to install an additional layer of complexity over the top of whatever you were using.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/03/29/1625233
#complexity #alsa #pulseaudio #linux #design
#quarantine #covid-19 #covid19 #street
i spent a year in space and i have tips on isolation to share https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/21/opinion/scott-kelly-coronavirus-isolation.html #isolation #space #tips
#armenian #revolution cap
italian mayors ask to stay home: https://youtu.be/9RZskmcAgbc?t=897 #italy #covid19 #covid-19
#dukhov #duxov #revolution
my colleague @{Գուրգեն; rasjonell@spyurk.am} will build a web site for you. (:
https://www.fiverr.com/rasjonell/make-you-a-reliable-secure-website #ad #web #site #website #development #job #developer
this is sort of alien invasion, except that it’s not that alien. we are at war. but not country with country — but something wild with all humans. and that is why it is like alien invasion. but this something originated on earth, and lives on earth, it is a dangerous, arguably not alive creature, of very small size, and we cannot shoot very small animals with our arms, otherwise we’d murder it as we did with other arguably dangerous creatures long ago.
it is interesting that in order to fight alien invasion the most effective way is staying home and watching movies. (:
#aliens #alien_invasion #invasion #humans #war #covid19 #covid-19 #infection #humanity
who needs a sound server of there is already dmix in alsa? except you need to stream audio over network (pulseaudio) or need low latency mixing (JACK)
from the #pinebook irc room.
couldnt agree more.
#alsa #dmix #pulseaudio #jack #linux #audio
the handwriting says: to use buttons.
people put toothpicks in the social realistic elevator to press the buttons, and a cup to throw them after using.
photo by martin khachatrian.
#covid-19 #covid19 #covid #coronavirus #pandemic #solution #elevator #yerevan
#oberon for #ARM (32bit) running on #aarch64 #pinebook.
feel https://www.reddit.com/r/azerbaijan/comments/fjjk5p/why_is_azerbaijan_not_more_well_known_in_world/ #armenia #azerbaidjan #talk
says
to be precise I’ve only ever seen extlinux.conf read by bootloaders that are not extlinux
#extlinux #linux #talk
note the version number՝ 1.9.0.8.1.1 because texas instruments because proprietary
https://github.com/maemo-leste/pvr-omap4/blob/master/debian/changelog#L1
#development #maemo #maemo-leste #droid4 #maserati #omap #powervr #pvr #version #culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCnErJnkWQM
#maemo-leste on #motorola #droid4 (#maserati)
#maemo
guardian featured one of the photos from yerevan: https://gu.com/p/depev/stw#img-19
all the photos are here: https://www.yerevan.am/am/news/erewani-k-aghak-apetarane-akhtahanowm-e-k-aghak-ayin-transporte/ #photo #covid-19 #yerevan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7ve_i0uXNg
Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concerts Complex,swivel tribune. #yerevan #architecture #design
need to go to find those lakes. photo from here #lake #heart
in the following posts you’ll see our videos from the last trip to Lori, you’ll see #coaf - children of armenia building designed by Paul Kaloustian, 12th century Kobayr monastery which looked much cooler when they did not start the restoration work, and Odzun church and village. #walk #armenia #kobayr #odzun #friends
protonvpn opensourced their clients https://protonvpn.com/blog/open-source/
why xz compression is not good to keep files, see what wget developer writes about it: https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html
see also ycombinator thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12768425
#compression #xz #bz2 #wget #developer #opinion #technology #utility #unix
how do you ensure privacy in this day and age https://forums.funtoo.org/topic/3025-how-do-you-ensure-privacy-in-this-day-and-age/
#privacy #funtoo #thread #age
maemo-leste has now extras repositories https://maemo-leste.github.io/maemo-leste-repositories-and-community-packages.html
some things already ported from maemo fremantle http://maedevu.maemo.org/extras/pool/main/
also, maemo-leste is now available for pinephone.
#maemo #maemo-leste #pinephone
https://xn--69aa8bzb.xn–y9a3aq/system/media_attachments/files/000/803/771/original/2ffe005552f8080b.mp4
#loop
https://xn--69aa8bzb.xn–y9a3aq/system/media_attachments/files/000/803/771/original/2ffe005552f8080b.mp4
#loop
david revoy managed to print the book successfully https://www.davidrevoy.com/article757/the-english-book-printed-project-production-report-3 #book #software #comics
this is kodak vision 2 50D film. shot as iso 50. note muted reds of this film. mamiya zm #yerevan #backyard #sundukian #street
Modula and Modula-2 went nowhere not because they’re particularly high level languages (they’re not much higher than C!) but because they didn’t have a quasi-free operating system spreading like a virus to bolster their popularity. At the time Unix was almost unique in being a semi-capable operating system written in a portable language that wasn’t wrapped up in billions of proprietary licensing arrangements (because AT&T didn’t notice there was a potential market for it until after the cat had escaped the bag).
#modula #modula-2 #modula2 #c #programming-languages #programming_languages #unix
mamiya rb67; 50mm lens; fujichrome 400 (slide)
#yerevan #aygedzor
instant #photography: developing the film same day after shooting it.
Mamiya RB67; 50mm lens Kodak Tri-X 400 (pushed to 1600)
#Kond #Yerevan
Mamiya RB67; 50mm lens Fujichrome 400 (slide film)
#Kond #Yerevan
Mamiya RB67; 50mm lens Fujichrome 400 (slide film)
#Kond #Yerevan
brown is a social construct https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU #brown #colour
mtp is extremely slow. i am used to #sailfish, and i use #sshfs with it, and i get surprised every time how “custom” “corporate” solutions like #mtp suck in that #android and #enterprise world. if i do tests, the speed difference might be more than 100 times.
so if you know #gmic (https://gmic.eu) it can work with luts (colour lookup tables). and gmic comes with a set of tables by itself.
so it is easy to apply luts to images by using these default luts. i don’t know yet how those luts originated, did anyone test, for instance, films, shooting colour checkers under reference light, but i wanted to see how the luts look. all of them. so i made a small script which callse gmic with all presets.
gmic -input $i map_clut $l -output ${j}_${l}.jpg
and now i can compare those.
as $l represents lut name, the names of files have lut in them.
i did not choose any particularly good image in terms of colours or scene, just something what i found in my phone that day.
so you can find my tests at http://norayr.am/gmic_test/0/ and http://norayr.am/gmic_test/1/ #lut #graphics #photo
my friend @{antranigv; antranigv@spyurk.am} have been written a series of posts on mastodon on his communication with isp support.
Every time I call my ISP support, I wish this was a real thing. https://xkcd.com/806/
— Can you please change the cable? — SIr, I did my homework before calling. — Okay but can yo… — Yes! I changed the cable, I even connected to my own router and I was able to get an address using DHCP, so not the cable nor the “adapter” are an issue.
— What DNS resolver are you using? — I run a local DNS resolver. — Can you please set the one provided with our document? — But… the issue is… I don’t get ARP responses from the gateway…
— Okay, can you please disable and enable back the adapter? — Pardon? — Click on the adapter’s icon… — I’m running Unix. — Can you please type “ifconfig eth0 down” ? — Oh no this is a BSD Unix, yes I restarted the network. /me thinking, those guys never met enp13s42 yet
Then he was asking me if I had a windows machine in my house. I said no, he said if I had a Linux machine with Network Manager, I said no.
At the end I sent him the tcpdump output (not the pcap file, just the text output), so he opened a ticket “gateway not responding”.
this is the most favourite film of mine՝ https://www.casualphotophile.com/2017/08/28/fujifilm-provia-100f-slide-film-profile/
it is just breathtaking when i see the pictures with small diascope or projected. scans are never as impressive.
this is an amazing building, designed by paul kaloustian, i know him. it belongs to coaf - children of armenia, they have buses, which bring kids from the vicinity to classes - drawing, music, theatre, dances, yoga, programming, various natural languages. they also have a hotel, in that building, so staying in it helps the project. it is not expensive, but the location and design are amazing. the centre built with modernistic aesthetics in mind. in hotel you can see naked concrete walls. i like that very much. stayed there a couple of days ago, hostpitability was extra ordinary even by armenian norms.
#coaf #debet #sheep #smart #armenia #lori
added calculations of FOV, replaced most of the ugly like code. also now program loads sensors database from csv file, which i got by copy pasting from wiki article.
#photography #optics #program
when i have no strength to concentrate to write something which requires more computational power than i have, i get satisfaction by gluing together such small programs like this:
https://github.com/norayr/focalLengthCalculator
#photography #optics #program
#architecture #sevan #armenia
dont know exactly who is the author of the photos
so if you put a phone on a #screen, you risk scratching the screen. if you put a #phone on a #camera, you risk scratching the camera.
#architecture #drawing #art
it seems people usually understand “nothing” as dark, black. in the techno subculture, where “we don’t show off” — people choose no colour — black colour. in other words - blank, empty.
wait, but blank means white in a number of languages. first i know it from esperanto, where blanko is white. ‘blanc’ in french means white. ‘blanco’ in spanish. ‘bianco’ in italian.
so emptyness, depending on perception, can be black or white. or other colour?
indeed, if we think in rgb colourspace way, then nothing — 0, 0, 0 is black. however, in cmyk way, nothing is when you print nothing on a white paper. so nothing is actually white. so is the paper. in number of languages empty list of paper is blank.
#perception #colour #language #techno #esperanto #french #spanish #italian #zero #nothing #empty #culture
interesting, win10 during setup tells you “create a super memorable password”, doesn’t tell “create a super unbrutforcable password” or something more security oriented. because super memorable is an alias to easily breakable, right? probably. (:
#microsoft #security #password #windows10 #usability #privacy
At that time, we didn’t really like to see grain in the images… The first thing you heard when you showed your photos to others after a lot of “it was over (or under) exposed”, was “you should have taken that at 50 ASA!”, “There’s too much grain, it’s not beautiful”.
(:
https://emulsive.org/reviews/camera-reviews/mamiya-camera-reviews/a-complete-guide-to-the-mamiya-rz67-part-five-conclusion-and-personal-stories #photography #aesthetics
is it already a well known fact, that default sailfish camera on xa2 gives a choice of 16mpx (16:9) or 13mpx (4:3), while piggz’ camera: 5984x3392 (187x106) max, which is 19 mpx? at the same time lineage os default camera gives: 22.9mpx (4:3) and 20.2 mpx (when using 16:9 resolution), strange.
#sailfish #camera #xa2 #sony #lineageos #photo
left a comment under vsauce video:
the username/email crisis is easily solvable. decentralized web doesn’t imply there can be only one norayr on twitter, it implies that there can be norayr from mastodon.social and norayr from թութ.հայ. so more people on the net should theoretically not create huge nodes, but a lot of smaller nodes. just like towns in Austria - I believe except Vienna most of the towns have population less than 500.000. And, having user accounts on different networks don’t mean they cannot communicate. The oppressive strategy of forcing people to have account on your server should vanish in the future. #decentralization
We’re incredibly excited that Mozilla just announced that they’ve selected Matrix as the successor to IRC as the communication platform for the public Mozilla community!!
https://matrix.org/blog/2019/12/19/welcoming-mozilla-to-matrix/
#mozilla #matrix #irc
Third, and this has been touted by others already (and even rebutted), the disappearance of the public web in favor of mobile and web apps, walled gardens (Facebook pages), just-in-time WebSockets loading, and AMP decreases the proportion of the web on the world wide web, which now seems more like a continental web than a “world wide web”.
https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/
#internet #web #design
Get your product to be something useful for others as fast as possible. Until you deliver something valuable, you only have a hobby.
https://www.mattlayman.com/blog/2019/failed-saas-postmortem/
sad story worth reading. about overengineering, about difficulties of today’s fast changing world, about technologies, about meeting others’ needs. #technologies
photos of Masha Ivashintsova are now exhibited in Tallinn. the official website, run by her daughter features worse quality scans, than the links below.
Just like Vivian, Masha had not seen most of her photos - those are undeveloped negatives. It is obvious for me, that she was trying to make art, she did know what is photography, and she was working, and she loved what she was doing.
latest petapixel article: https://petapixel.com/2019/12/16/russian-vivian-maier-becomes-a-star-20-years-after-her-death/ old petapixel article: https://petapixel.com/2019/12/16/russian-vivian-maier-becomes-a-star-20-years-after-her-death/ rfefl article, very good one, it gives you also political and historical perspective: https://www.rferl.org/a/leningrad-photographer-never-showed-her-photos-of-soviet-life-to-anyone-years-later-relatives-discovered-her-work/29088470.html artnet article featuring more beautiful photos: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/masha-ivashintsova-1251347
#photography #masha_ivashintsova #ivashintsova #ussr #history #photo #amazing
i made a same shot with mamiya rb-67, polaroid sx-70, lomography instant wide, mamiya zm and canon 6d. so you know something about my camera collection.
my kitchen, yesterday.
kodak tri-x pushed to 800 in olympus xa-2, developed in d-76. scanned with pacific image xa2 se.
#tri-x #mamiya #photo #film-photography i am getting free so i’ll publish photos on flickr soon
shot on kodak tri-x pushed to 800. olympus xa-2, 35mm lens.
me at #tapastan #yerevan.
says
I really don’t know what a “rich pastel” color is. The terms “rich” and “pastel” would seem to be mutually exclusive.
https://www.photo.net/discuss/threads/digital-camera-with-a-film-look.500195/
#photography
This resolution has passed at a time when there are still survivors of the Genocide. Menendez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lRPnf8LMp0
https://www.reddit.com/r/armenia/comments/e9r1xj/breaking_us_senate_just_passed_resolution/
on #pixelfed, there is this guy Ben Kramer. I found him by looking through #film related tags. so on one of the photos he has his name.
wow, is that hardcore #watermark?
#photography
other question - what do you think of diaspora, as an image sharing platform?
is there any #pixelfed protocol compatible federated image hosting software implementations?
i would like to avoid having php on my server, though it seems that’s unavoidable.
also is there a commandline script that allows upload to #pixelfed instance?
today analogue aesthetics is often mentioned here and there. this usually means colours, film grain, sometimes imperfections.
how would you describe digital aesthetics, or do you think it exists? #aesthetics #digital #analogue #photography
If you’ve ever wondered why people say tools like Scribus aren’t ready for professional production work let me share this blog post by @davidrevoy
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article747/the-english-book-printed-project-production-report-2
This should be a slam dunk. David knows what he’s doing and One Bookshelf provides instructions that clearly show how to produce a PDF to their specifications.
We need to do better, folks. Color Profiles that work for everyone except FOSS tools are unacceptable. Period. There are no excuses for this.
source #scribus #graphics #foss #libresoftware #printing
one of my friends reminded me of this channel. i have actually been in the recording studio in Vanadzor, which you can see at the end of the video, and Lernapat is the village very close to Vanadzor, like almost a suburb. the guys visit villages, film the life there, talk to the people, and collect songs. then record those with the aesthetics close to them - they like rock.
i personally have mixed feelings, i am tired of rock, and i am not sure turning folk songs in to rock is good idea, but anyway - this will be interesting for you to watch and listen, i believe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpbwV_By5Lk #armenia #music #lernapat #vanadzor #music #armenian-music #armenian_music #mountains #folk #song
i am playing with pocket operator synth.
from the last batch of photos by @{Սոնա Մանուկյան; sanyokot@spyurk.am} on olympus xa-2, kodak tri-x, pushed to 800. you can find very yerevanian photos at the flickr stream.
i just like this image. it’s a screenshot from vnc screen to the other computer, which is connected to the scanner.
i took it in early spring i guess, in #kond district of #yerevan.
i remember i liked it when i shot it, but i like it more on a scan.
shot with #mamiya_rb67 on #kodak_tri-x, at EI 1600. from hand.
i have so many unpublished photos, i am just under very high load and have no time to publish. it’s good now i have a scanner which scans 35mm automatically. hope i will catch up and upload all the photos to my blog and flickr. i gave up uploading to diaspora, but sometimes think that may be it worth to open separate photo stream? #photography #photo
(06:30:16 ) ***jedb considers starting a list of technologies that have been unfairly maligned through propaganda
(06:30:28 ) jedb: no, wait, that's not the way to put it
(06:30:48 ) ***jedb considers starting a list of technologies where the general population's view is completely wrong due to propaganda
(06:32:17 ) specing: like wind turbines?
(06:32:26 ) jedb: hadn't considered those yet
(06:32:49 ) specing: or electromagnetic radiation?
(06:33:12 ) specing: or vapes?
(06:33:14 ) jedb: the list so far in no particular order includes Ada, monorails, nuclear power, and bicycle helmets
(06:33:34 ) specing: Hmm, what is the view about helmets?
(06:34:21 ) jedb: the general population, at least in a lot of the English speaking world, thinks they're an important/essential safety measure when cycling, when in actual reality they're generally pointless and mandatory helmet laws are demonstrably counterproductive
(06:34:57 ) jedb: bicycle helmets was why I had to be careful with how I titled the list, as they're a bad tech that the public thinks is good
(06:36:02 ) ***specing has had too many close encounters with pavement to declare helmets generally pointless
(06:36:13 ) specing: I agrre about the laws, though
(06:36:27 ) jedb: did you study physics in high school or equivalent?
(06:36:32 ) specing: yes
(06:37:02 ) jedb: then you should know that whether you're standing still or going along at 30km/h, if you fall and hit your head on the ground the hit is going to be the same amount of force
(06:37:09 ) jedb: plus or minus some road rash
(06:37:28 ) specing: not if you have a helmet that can crumple
(06:37:40 ) specing: the make those as well, and they are hideously expensive
(06:38:17 ) jedb: still the same amount of force applied in the accident though, which directly implies that the risk of injury for pedestrians and for general cycling should be similar, which they are
(06:38:32 ) jedb: the horizontal speed only matters if you hit a wall or a tree or something
(06:39:13 ) jedb: bicycle helmets don't really crumple either; they're generally pretty bad at protecting against concussion
(06:39:30 ) specing: search for MIPS helmets, they have energy absorbant foam
(06:39:41 ) specing: I think MIPS is what the foam is called
(06:40:10 ) jedb: I was thinking of the hovding, aka a head mounted airbag that some swedes invented
(06:40:15 ) jedb: *that* would protect against concussion
(06:40:52 ) specing: I wouldn't want to cycle without a helmet though, even the road rash protection is worth it
(06:41:07 ) ***jedb shrugs
(06:41:26 ) specing: two years ago my glasses also intercepted a 5mm stone, which lodget itself between the frame and lens
(06:41:28 ) jedb: if that's what you want to protect yourself from then sure, that's mainly what bicycle helmets are good at doing
(06:42:02 ) specing: I was thinking of buying myself a downhill helmet (chin/teeth protection) for city cycling
(06:42:09 ) specing: with a nice gas mask underneath
(06:42:31 ) jedb: you're gonna cook your head, I think
(06:42:42 ) specing: I have an electric bicycle
(06:43:02 ) jedb: oh, nevermind then
(06:43:22 ) specing: its broken though :(
(06:43:40 ) specing: I managed to fry its motor going uphill, haha
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(07:21:18 ) Lucretia: jedb: the issue with bike helmets is because there were a lot of injuries here (uk) involving brain damage and that's why they have to be worn here.,
(07:21:42 ) ***Lucretia crashed a few times, never hit his head but damagaed a bike tho
(07:22:12 ) jedb: Lucretia: I actually looked up UK stats a little while back, apparently there was no noticeable change in injury levels despite helmet use rising from 0% to 40%
(07:22:39 ) Lucretia: probably not tbh#
(07:22:50 ) Lucretia: because if we crash, we don;t fuckign die
(07:23:10 ) Lucretia: imean i collided witha girl, both bikes came out worse
(07:23:30 ) Lucretia: herse was from the side,. but mine was head on
(07:23:43 ) Lucretia: it's just a thing that happens
(07:23:59 ) specing: we mostly die from collisions with cars
(07:24:02 ) specing: ban cars
(07:24:21 ) Lucretia: cars are cool, so fuck that shit
(07:24:39 ) ***Lucretia imagines specingin an air balloon
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(07:25:15 ) Lucretia: with his ilver foil hat
(07:25:35 ) Lucretia: there's way too many bacofoil people here :D
(07:29:16 ) jedb: Lucretia: ever seen the stats on what happened when mandatory helmet law was introduced in Aust and NZ?
(07:30:12 ) Lucretia: mandatory helmet law sounds rather pervy :D
(07:30:26 ) Lucretia: so no :D
(07:30:51 ) jedb: http://cycle-helmets.com/imgs/nz-injuries-participation-per-cyclist.gif
(07:33:48 ) Lucretia: you may as well tell me, i;'m not reading that
(07:33:58 ) Lucretia: can't be fucked tbh
(07:34:02 ) jedb: that should be just a simple graph...?
(07:34:16 ) Lucretia: hanfg on
(07:34:48 ) Lucretia: tyhoght that said pdf
(07:34:53 ) jedb: but anyway, when the law came in the number of cyclists more or less halved, while the injury rate more or less doubled, in a very conclusive looking fashion
#bicycle #helmet #safety #city
today i connected my #xa2 with #sailfish to the docking station of dell 7400 laptop at work, then got a jabber message, and… i was unable to answer, the onscreen keyboard did not appear. hmmm, i thought, and disconnected it fro usb type c. then the onscreen keyboard appeared. then i thought - may it be, it recognized the keyboard connected to the dock?
and tried to write something with keyboard, - and yes, letters on the screen of xperia appeared.
so sailfish works now almost like a real computer.
before i already created hardware keyboard layouts - i used those with bluetooth keyboards.
i have converted xkb layouts to special qt format.
the only drawback now is that i cannot change the input language with alt+shift or something like that, i need to go to sailfish settings, and change the input language every time. but well, that’s less an issue when i write english, because i have all the symbols at hand, but when i write armenian and need to use the hashtag symbol, i need to switch the keyboard. (:
Programming makes me think that people value the things they do because they were hard, not because they were useful. Once I master the hard thing, I’m proud of myself and find it easy to forget that perhaps that damn thing should not have been so hard in the first place. Probably true for a lot of human activities. Stuff should simply be easier, that is all.
because author’s toots expire, i want to put it here. #programming
a lot of people on the internets say that with the developer subscription you can see the knowledge base of redhat, but i faced it so many times, when you cannot. #redhat
i noticed that first in the army, back twenty years ago. i was listening tarkus with my sony walkman, and it wiped the headache away.
@{ NaturalNews Diaspora ; naturalnews@share.naturalnews.com} 11/11/2019, 18:05:13
Music naturally improves health and relieves pain without harmful side effects https://www.naturalnews.com/052974_medicinal_music_pain_relief_side_effects.html #music #health #pain #naturalremedies
says: do you know who is the main promoter of armenia? it’s turkey. if not turkey, nobody would remember us. if not turkey, who time after time remembers and says something about armenia, that we are bad guys, or that there was never a genocide. thus someone living in island may think, stop, wait, which armenia, and try to find it on the map, which is indeed not easy.
continues: i would go further and claim, that turkey saved armenians. when turkey conducted genocide of armenians, armenians practically did not exist as nation. in turkey and russia they were forgetting how to speak armenian, and were speaking empire languages. there was no single party that would claim the independence of armenia is its goal. instead the goals were to make turkey or russia a better countries, so that equality for all, would mean also equality for armenians. the genocide is what forced armenians to face that they are different. because they are treated differently. the genocide was the reason for them to remember that they need security, army, borders. if not the genocide, most likely we would not have this armenia today. so thank you turkey, this nation would not exist, if not you. we would dissolve like every old nation does. we did not want to survive, but you were saying - hey armenians, comon, lets play war, hey you, defend yourself, take this weapon. yes, take the weapon, we are gonna play with you.
#sarcasm #armenia #history
#manual #xscreensaver #unix #linux #systemd #design #screenshot #nonsense
things like this we’ll see over and over again. because we use centralized services, therefore, vote for single point of failures. nice.
@{ Christoph S ; christophs@pluspora.com} 29/10/2019, 17:59:25
Security researcher gets access to all Xiaomi pet feeders around the world | ZDNet
I’m sure the pets appreciate some extra meals ;)
#InternetOfShit
says: now this scotland wants to prevent brexit, they say, we wanted to stay in eu, what are you doing, we want to get out of britain now. continues: these english people didn’t learn, they were friends with turkey for so long, and still did not learn anything. they had to genocide these scotts, and solve the question once and for ever. and now they hear - we want, we don’t want, we like your brexit, we don’t like, hey england, if you’d murder those guys priorly, you would not get these problems.
#sarcasm #turkey #genocide
now i thought a long before publishing this in english, because i need to tag it with sarcasm, otherwise you won’t get it. also, the context is, it is said by an armenian guy, obviously, the side which was not a beneficiary of the genocide.
so the translation is: such a free country, such a privileged people. how cool is that!
i am writing a bash script, and think of, how convenient it would be to be able to call a particular function from a script from shell.
and realize that it is already done in #oberon.
now in shell i can do source myscript && myfunc smth, instead of neat and clean myscript.myfunc smth. :/
#oberon #bash #linux
how to survive without adjustment layers in gimp https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/120401/gimp-level-adjustment-as-layer-like-photoshop
#gimp #photography #editing #linux #tips
#photography
#linus #linux #amiga #kernel #mutt #utf-8 #mail
i understand: using apple is like being in an unhealthy relationship with an abusive person. you cannot leave it because it’s so beautiful, but it keeps humiliating you. #apple #bdsm #freedom
roy uses #hongkong flag as an avatar. yay!
#hongkongstrong #watermovement
this guy publishes photos from hong kong՝ https://www.flickr.com/photos/n_ipper/ #photography #hongkong #hongkongstrong #hongkongprotests #watermovement #freedom #2019 #networkofnow
Superia X-TRA 400 and Superia Premium 400 are both different films and are sold side by side here in Japan, theres a chart in some of the shops illustrating the difference
階調 translates as tone, 硬調 on the high side of the up/down scale means high contrast
色調 translates as colour tone.
So up is high contrast, down is low contrast, left is low saturation, right is high saturation.
#photography #japanese #film #film-photography #film_photography #film
we climbed a hill near the lake, well, to be precise, water reservoir, and the map, maep with openstreetmap tiles, showed that we are in the water. i switched to google maps, and it showed an island. and them microsoft satellite photos showed that there’s a water. so apparently water goes as high, probably in the spring, and we saw the traces of water on nearby mountains even higher, and the hill remains under the water fully.
there were a lot of small burs on the ground, probably very fresh, they don’t have time to grow up.
#map #trip #osm #screenshot #lake
so we went to the short trip, and i can say, that it is so pity, that fujifilm fp-100c is not produced any more.
this is an amazing instant technology, the best ever made.
and we lost it, and we most probably won’t have it. :/
these shots i made in the night, before going to sleep. i’ll show scans later probably, but may be it’s visible that polaroid originals’ polaroids have no correct colours, that fuji instax shots are okay, but peel apart film shots are just amazing, of an amazing quality, and of an amazing colours. black stripes on shots because i used a polaroid back for mamiya rb67, and the original frame is a bit wider than mamiya frame. #photo #trip #fp100c #polaroid #instax #mamiya
#riot syncs “indefinitely” and vibrates the watch indefinitely.
#sailfish #matrix #pebble #screenshot #notification
the world went mad: there is trump in usa, putin in russia, and matrix works over http.
#why #screenshot #programming #compilation #technology #matrix #design
Why I use Object Pascal https://dubst3pp4.github.io/post/2017-10-03-why-i-use-object-pascal/
#pascal #programming #article #object_pascal #design
first of all, the article does not mention the most important thing - modules. pascal has modules. modules were introduced to c++ just in 2017. modules are why you can have type checks across boundaries of modules.
and pascal units are modules. if they do those loadable on demand, that would be cooler.
Pascal is very strict, so the programmer has to differ between subroutines that return values, in Pascal called functions, and subroutines that does not return something, called procedures. Functions and procedures can also be passed to variables or other functions thanks to procedural types.
well, in pascal successors the function keyword removed, leaving just one procedure, or to be precise PROCEDURE because Wirth decided to make successor languages case sensitive and decrease the number of lexems.
It is possible to overload operators for specific types. With this feature, you have the power to define, let’s say, the result of the addition operation of two or more instances of the same class.
That’s one of the reasons why Wirth doesn’t like modern pascal implementations. The author tries to say - Pascal has all the features, while Wirth was trying to create a minimalistic language by following “less is more” principle.
Pascal is modular
okay, he said this. but did not connect to the type checks.
Pascal has good documentation
indeed, freepascal.org documentation is good, understandable and comprehensive.
well, for me Pascal today is like ‘better c++’, but why would i need better c++ if i have Oberon?
i will use it to write gui applications, or if i need to write something very fast and i don’t have libraries for Oboren and time to create libraries or bindings.
#pascal #oberon #modula-2 #wirth #design
and then, i thought, what did we gain with wayland. ok we loose things, but for what?
https://openbenchmarking.org/result/1905024-HV-FEDORA30D09&obr_sgm=y
11 years after the first release, what we have is comparable performance to X.
11 years is a lot of time. you had everything, all corporate resources, political force to push this technology, money to develop, and still, 11 years after the first release - comparable performance.
should i believe to wayland?
#xorg #wayland #benchmark #politics #technology #linux
p. s. if i use wayland + gnome | kde (and those are cpu hoggers, let’s say you cannot deal with audio + gnome/kde, gentoo-studio recommends and ships by default xfce, but even xfce is too heavy for me) then i loose speed anyway, because gnome/kde.
and if the speed of xorg vs wayland is comparable, then windowmaker on xorg is faster than gnome on wayland.
p. p. s. phoronix has to remove ‘php’ letters from its url apis, to be free to change underlying php and get rid of it.
The Wayland architecture integrates the display server, window manager and compositor into one process. You can think of Wayland as a toolkit for creating clients and compositors. It is not a specific single compositor or window manager. If you want a different window manager, you can write a new one.
I don’t know much about Wayland but the immediate question is: Why would you want to do that? If Wayland has it’s own window manager built in why do you need another one? It’s like support for Windows or OS X. Not needed as those systems have their own window managers and not really support replacing it. This is contrary to X which has no window manager by default and allows and encourages others to implement it. Window Maker is a window manager for X (as stated in the info box) and Wayland aims to be an incompatible replacement of X. So they are not really a good match at first sight.
now, they say - use wayland, it’s a new and good thing. this is a dealbreaker for me. i can’t live without windowmaker.
also, says
If Wayland has it’s own window manager built in why do you need another one?
wait, how? seriously? if there’s a one brand of bread, why would you need another one?
this is centralization again.
#quote #technology #wayland #xorg #linux #unix #windowmaker #design
in 2014, after getting a #jolla phone, i started a thread on #tmo, which stated what i miss in #maemo, and what is not yet available in #sailfish.
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=94283
i forgot about the post, and the search engine brought me as a result, when i was searching for something.
so, almost nothing changed.
the only things that changed so far are
has Mappero, I did not find comparable program for Sailfish.
we have maep and pure maps. that’s a relief.
external bluetooth keyboard cannot be used with non qwerty layouts. I use dvorak or programmer’s dvorak for Latin, and I also use Armenian typewriter layout. It’s not possible with Sailfish yet.
i did this https://github.com/norayr/sailfish_h...yboard_layouts but it only works for me on jolla device. which died.
and sony xperia xa2 doesn’t recognize my bluetooth keyboards.
funny event in the old industrial building.
@{ Կողմնակի Անցանց Մ․ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 8/21/2019, 2:20:47 PM
մի հատ հաւէս, ծիծաղելի, պոպսա իւենթի էինք գնացել, շատ լաւ շէնքում։
#sevan #instax
@{ Կողմնակի Անցանց Մ․ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 8/21/2019, 2:21:50 PM
շեքսպիրը խնդրեց սեւանից նկար ուղարկեմ, սա արի։
#yerevan #sarian
@{ Կողմնակի Անցանց Մ․ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 8/21/2019, 2:32:31 PM
@{Artin Barseghian; artin@spyurk.am}֊ին էի ուղեկցում, սէնց բաներ տեսայ։
#երեւան #սարեան
i was searching for vector ui libraries, and would like to understand, whether it is a good idea today, and found this library, so cute and nice. https://littlevgl.com/ not what i was searching at all, i was searching for a desktop library.
#programming #technologies #it #embedded #gui #library
btw, firemonkey started as a vector gui library (was called vgscene back then), then got purchased by embarcadero, and now it is a raster library, probably for performance reasons.
we are all jockeys, j’s, sharing interesting materials, and constructing our streams.
#media #communications
nice to know it’s not me.
#funtoo #linux #1.4 #upgrade #kms #nomodeset #modeset #kernel #graphics
there are people, who research migration patterns of humans. humans migrate toward countries/places with more developed economy, also to the places with a better climate, to the places where many people already live.
do you aware, of a internet human migration related researches? how do they choose places, how they migrate between services?
i wrote “internet human”, because the “user”, well, doesn’t really express all the people on the internet.
#internet #migration #people #humans #research #web #tendencies
It’s such a big deal that I really don’t know what the heck are features like “port to GTK3”, “improve animation features” and such doing in front of it in the roadmap pointed out by /u/eXoRainbow. I wished the GIMP guys could hear of this. I’d tell them that the Layers box (or an eventual nodes view) is almost as important as the viewport itself.
#linux #gimp #open-source #open_source #freedom #nondestructive #non_destructive #feature #gtk #competition
@{artak@spyurk.am; artak@spyurk.am} just published recording https://soundcloud.com/bohemnotsradio/inky/s-lnjmp i was playing on #bohemnots #radio live, that is a complete improvisation, i did not prepare these three and something hours.
#electronicmusic #music #djset #set #house #deephouse #techno #progressivehouse #tsarav_aghbyur #yerevan
“Think about wind,” says Ching. “It can blow open doors, blow cool air off a body of water to the land surrounding it, or fire from one part of the forest to another. The door analogy relates to TCM’s understanding of how exposure to wind can weaken our body’s defenses.”(Perhaps as a permutation of these ideas, East Asia has numerous ancillary superstitions about air and wind, the most notable of which is a deathly fear of sleeping in rooms with running electric fans, a belief that has its epicenter in Korea, where “fan death” phobia remains rampant even today.)
@{քամի; o_o@spyurk.am} #wind #masks #asia #culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAWWcKtgzG8 ancient capital of #armenia - #ani, and pantheon of armenian gods on the #nemrout mountain in the vlog by the #russian historian.
interesting, important discussion https://github.com/modula3/cm3/issues/42
i think the requestor is right. may be i need tot initialize the array with other values, why spend time to initialize it to zeros?
#programming #programming_languages #modula #modula-3 #design
https://youtu.be/MV5UkVB2JcI apparently you can play on those things from laptop batteries #techno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo_TvYxUhzU #vermona #gdr #synth
vivian’s colour photos are even darker than black and white https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-vivian-maiers-never-before-seen-color-photography #vivian_maier #photography
medium format look. #film #photography
who’s a good boy?
breakfast with ektachrome
#film
booting, daemons. #unix
Hovsep (HOV) works in a different way.
His setup includes a laptop with ableton, and a lot of midi controllers.
These are my video recordings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAYw_JV8RLY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQYKScr-a6g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZTwbiBXJZI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iID7qPZiY3I
and this is his recording on soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/eychovi/live-set-embassybohemnots/s-5amB7 #bohemnots #yerevan #hov #electronic #electronic_music
this guy’s name is ben wheeler. he currently lives in tbilisi. has vermona synth made in gdr, hardware drum machine, and a lot of hardware effects.
somehow we’ve talked with him before he started to play, i did not know he’s playing.
he joked, when he plays, many people just leave. (:
so he has a soundcloud page, with only 11 followers including me.
https://soundcloud.com/benmwheeler
and these are my video recordings of his set (set?) at #bohemnots event at embassy, #yerevan.
this was in friday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZQTDC1kniM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq1qVmLtUus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKCCjyIP_u8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02wtSCTtXMk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbCIoXC4hM0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB_2CC_UQ_4 #synth #electronic #electronic_music
https://t.me/lseliq/411 this is a very good piece by trentmoller and kalkbrenner.
i don’t know if this research was conducted properly, etc, but i feel the same
since @{Fla; fla@diaspora-fr.org} told me diaspora keeps the full versions of the uploaded images, and it will be possible to get full versions via click after update, and also since #flickr changes the way it works, i may consider to again show off my photos on diaspora.
for that i think of ways to automate that, because i did not share on diaspora for years, and i’d like to have many photos in my profile.
i guess i might use this https://github.com/produnis/myscripts/blob/master/python/pic2diaspora.py and try to not flood here by posting one picture in an hour? because i have so many pictures that haven’t been uploaded to diaspora.
or may be there’s a better script. i am not an expert in python, i see the https://github.com/marekjm/diaspy/tree/master/diaspy gets deprecated, and may be i’ll end up writing something myself from scratch.
#diaspora #automation
when you do opengl tutorials for “fun”
source #opengl #fun
https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/tokyo-street-photographer-mikiko-hara/
#photography #japan #tokyo #street
the software i linked to is written in crystal. very interesting language itself: https://crystal-lang.org/
Crystal’s syntax is heavily inspired by Ruby’s, so it feels natural to read and easy to write, and has the added benefit of a lower learning curve for experienced Ruby devs.
very useful software: lightweight frontend to youtube.
experience it at: https://invidio.us/
this picture is from the datasheet of superia 1600, which is the same, as i understand, natura 1600.
so what for is the fourth layer? we know the three: red, green, blue. so we see that the fourth layer is sensitive in the area of greens.
now, question: who designed x-trans sensor which contains more green reading elements? fuji, who applied the knowledge from film area to its digital designs.
#photography #design #engineering #sensor #photo #superia #superia_1600 #natura_1600 #film
aaa this manual of arp 2600 moog synthesizer.
#manual #moog #synth #arp2600 #synthesizer
despite being fire-breathing creatures, dodongo dislike smoke.
#dodongo #smoke #fire
Currently, humans risk becoming similar to domesticated animals. We have bred docile cows that produce enormous amounts of milk but are otherwise far inferior to their wild ancestors. They are less agile, less curious, and less resourceful. We are now creating tame humans who produce enormous amounts of data and function as efficient chips in a huge data-processing mechanism, but they hardly maximize their human potential. If we are not careful, we will end up with downgraded humans misusing upgraded computers to wreak havoc on themselves and on the world.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/ #humans
Can parliaments and political parties overcome these challenges and forestall the darker scenarios? At the current moment this does not seem likely. Technological disruption is not even a leading item on the political agenda. During the 2016 U.S. presidential race, the main reference to disruptive technology concerned Hillary Clinton’s email debacle, and despite all the talk about job loss, neither candidate directly addressed the potential impact of automation. Donald Trump warned voters that Mexicans would take their jobs, and that the U.S. should therefore build a wall on its southern border. He never warned voters that algorithms would take their jobs, nor did he suggest building a firewall around California.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/
#ai #harari #politics #clinton #trump #wall #california #firewall
New technologies will continue to emerge, of course, and some of them may encourage the distribution rather than the concentration of information and power. Blockchain technology, and the use of cryptocurrencies enabled by it, is currently touted as a possible counterweight to centralized power. But blockchain technology is still in the embryonic stage, and we don’t yet know whether it will indeed counterbalance the centralizing tendencies of AI. Remember that the Internet, too, was hyped in its early days as a libertarian panacea that would free people from all centralized systems—but is now poised to make centralized authority more powerful than ever.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/
#ai #harari #blockchain #distribution #concentration #power #cryptocurrencies
The biggest and most frightening impact of the AI revolution might be on the relative efficiency of democracies and dictatorships. Historically, autocracies have faced crippling handicaps in regard to innovation and economic growth. In the late 20th century, democracies usually outperformed dictatorships, because they were far better at processing information. We tend to think about the conflict between democracy and dictatorship as a conflict between two different ethical systems, but it is actually a conflict between two different data-processing systems. Democracy distributes the power to process information and make decisions among many people and institutions, whereas dictatorship concentrates information and power in one place. Given 20th-century technology, it was inefficient to concentrate too much information and power in one place. Nobody had the ability to process all available information fast enough and make the right decisions. This is one reason the Soviet Union made far worse decisions than the United States, and why the Soviet economy lagged far behind the American economy.
However, artificial intelligence may soon swing the pendulum in the opposite direction. AI makes it possible to process enormous amounts of information centrally. In fact, it might make centralized systems far more efficient than diffuse systems, because machine learning works better when the machine has more information to analyze. If you disregard all privacy concerns and concentrate all the information relating to a billion people in one database, you’ll wind up with much better algorithms than if you respect individual privacy and have in your database only partial information on a million people. An authoritarian government that orders all its citizens to have their DNA sequenced and to share their medical data with some central authority would gain an immense advantage in genetics and medical research over societies in which medical data are strictly private. The main handicap of authoritarian regimes in the 20th century — the desire to concentrate all information and power in one place — may become their decisive advantage in the 21st century.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/
#ai #harari
and, if it sometimes fail, it also may lead some people, or in some cases, the whole country to a disaster. because you have single point of failure. and single point is not guaranteed to not make mistakes. just not all mistakes will be vital for all. some will be vital for some. some will be vital for all.
Imagine, for instance, that the current regime in North Korea gained a more advanced version of this sort of technology in the future. North Koreans might be required to wear a biometric bracelet that monitors everything they do and say, as well as their blood pressure and brain activity. Using the growing understanding of the human brain and drawing on the immense powers of machine learning, the North Korean government might eventually be able to gauge what each and every citizen is thinking at each and every moment. If a North Korean looked at a picture of Kim Jong Un and the biometric sensors picked up telltale signs of anger (higher blood pressure, increased activity in the amygdala), that person could be in the gulag the next day.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/
#ai #harari
The conflict between democracy and dictatorship is actually a conflict between two different data-processing systems. AI may swing the advantage toward the latter.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/
#ai #harari
In one incident in October 2017, a Palestinian laborer posted to his private Facebook account a picture of himself in his workplace, alongside a bulldozer. Adjacent to the image he wrote, “Good morning!” A Facebook translation algorithm made a small error when transliterating the Arabic letters. Instead of Ysabechhum (which means “Good morning”), the algorithm identified the letters as Ydbachhum (which means “Hurt them”). Suspecting that the man might be a terrorist intending to use a bulldozer to run people over, Israeli security forces swiftly arrested him. They released him after they realized that the algorithm had made a mistake. Even so, the offending Facebook post was taken down—you can never be too careful. What Palestinians are experiencing today in the West Bank may be just a primitive preview of what billions of people will eventually experience all over the planet.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/
#ai #harari
The same technologies that might make billions of people economically irrelevant might also make them easier to monitor and control.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/
#ai #harari
On December 6, 2017, another crucial milestone was reached when Google’s AlphaZero program defeated the Stockfish 8 program. Stockfish 8 had won a world computer chess championship in 2016. It had access to centuries of accumulated human experience in chess, as well as decades of computer experience. By contrast, AlphaZero had not been taught any chess strategies by its human creators—not even standard openings. Rather, it used the latest machine-learning principles to teach itself chess by playing against itself. Nevertheless, out of 100 games that the novice AlphaZero played against Stockfish 8, AlphaZero won 28 and tied 72—it didn’t lose once. Since AlphaZero had learned nothing from any human, many of its winning moves and strategies seemed unconventional to the human eye. They could be described as creative, if not downright genius.
Can you guess how long AlphaZero spent learning chess from scratch, preparing for the match against Stockfish 8, and developing its genius instincts? Four hours. For centuries, chess was considered one of the crowning glories of human intelligence. AlphaZero went from utter ignorance to creative mastery in four hours, without the help of any human guide.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/
#ai #alphazero #stockfish8 #chess
harari https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/ #harari #technology
i don’t understand mastodon. why on mastodon people care who follows them? like if bots follow them. or they block some people from following.
does it make sense? if you block someone, but you write publicly, (s)he can read your public posts anyway, without logging in.
or why would you care if somebedy follows you? it does not make you automatically follow them. and if you don’t follow them, why would it bother you who follows you?
#mastodon
i have deleted my twitter. created it in june 2017. to stay in touch with local community. from envy, i saw people who know each other, who socialize online, and that’s where the envy were coming from. I also wanted to socialize, and be part of the community. to not feel disconnected.
if there is a discussion, i also want to be able to be heard. may be i have a good argument, nobody else has? may be not, all arguments are already known to anyone? but then i want to express myself regarding of what is directly around me. not in the world. not about the people who fight for their rights in europe or states. but about the coming elections in my country? about the political system i have to live in. about the questions regarding trash management in my city? about the #nkpeace or processes at our borders where people die very often?
and when i express myself on diaspora, nobody hears me. local community is too small. and i don’t hear “them”, because diaspora community does not represent the local society. so we don’t or cannot have discussion. may be we already agree on many things. that does not leave the place to discuss. it’s like, i’ve heard that there is a such political situation/problem/discussion, and I stand near the mirror, and tell myself what I think. How can I think something of it, if I don’t even know the context as much, as the people who socialize?
so anyway, i had a seizure of not participating in the deal, de facto deal, that centralized services suggest. i get rid of the “celebration of life” and communications with locals online, and go back to the state I was for years before that. this leads to, sorry for this word, marginalization, isolation and being disconnected from locals, and local publicly important themes.
i’ll try to compensate, may be, this, by staying connected with foreigners here, people what have different contexts, other level problems, etc, which may lead me to even more not understanding the atmosphere around me. I don’t know how long will it take, but I guess, it took years last time, why not now?
still, I don’t think rare real life connections will also contribute to me not being disconnected. So this is it. I know it’s tough, but it is also hard to participate by the suggested rules. I also don’t know if I’ll be active here, I have two jobs now, and get pretty exhausted.
still lets see.
and i keep telegram for now. if i cut it off, i will loose even a couple of remaining contacts i have, in, lets say, small film photography community which has a telegram group.
when you teach, it’s like you have an exam at every class session. so i have an exam three times a week. #exam #university
#akai
“We used to think our fate was in our stars,” James Watson, one of the scientists who discovered the structure of dna, declared in 1989. “Now we know, in large measure, our fate is in our genes.” The implications were clear. Unravelling the genetic code would bring an exquisite understanding of bodies and their afflictions but also of minds. After the completion of the human genome project, which Watson initially led, such hopes faded. Individuals’ physical or mental characteristics, and their susceptibility to diseases, turned out to be extraordinarily complex. Some of the swagger went out of genetics. Now it is back.
For much of the 20th century, psychology was dominated by the idea that human nature is a blank slate embellished by upbringing and environment. “Blueprint” begins by describing how Mr Plomin and others have demonstrated that, on the contrary, behavioural differences are strongly influenced by genetics. Studies of adopted children indicate that in disposition they more closely resemble their genetic parents than their adoptive ones. Even when they are reared apart, identical twins are more alike than the non-identical kind (who are as genetically different as any brother or sister).
Such research shows that, on average, dna accounts for about half of the psychological differences between people, with the remainder due to environmental factors; the actual proportion varies with the characteristic in question. More recently scientists have combed through human genomes to identify thousands of genetic variants associated with particular traits, from height and weight to educational attainment and neuroticism. Tests costing less than £50 ($65) can measure genetic propensity to different outcomes—to be overweight, or to go to university.
For those who imagine all that leaves enough wriggle room for benevolent parents or teachers to exert an influence, Mr Plomin has bad news: these environmental factors are themselves substantially influenced by genes. For example, his work shows that genes account for about a third of the differences between the television viewing habits of children. Worse, the remaining tranche of environmental influence appears to be mostly attributable to unpredictable events rather than, say, being brought up in a house full of books.
These findings, says Mr Plomin, imply that “parents don’t make much of a difference in their children’s outcomes beyond the genes they provide”; dna is a “fortune teller” that “makes us who we are”. Environmental effects are “important”, but “there’s not much we can do about them”.
Mr Plomin insists that, armed with their genetic test scores, individuals can take action to counter or augment their innate proclivities; but they are hardly likely to succeed if their psychology is as delimited by genes as he suggests. An equally plausible possibility is that these scores will be used to stigmatise genetic “have-nots” or to justify discrimination. This is the high road to eugenics, about which Mr Plomin is largely silent.
Instead he advocates the use of such scores when choosing between candidates for a job. Yet a person with high scores for traits associated with coding skills is not necessarily a good programmer—they merely have a higher likelihood of being one. A candidate who had demonstrated their aptitude for the job would feel rightly miffed to be passed over in favour of a genetically gifted incompetent. Likewise, though doctors may find it useful to know that a patient is genetically predisposed to be obese, the best way to establish their weight is to ask them to step on the scales.
These are problems of emphasis rather than accuracy. But in a field as ethically fraught as genetics, even that can be troubling. For instance, as Mr Plomin notes, the size of the genetic component of a particular trait—its “heritability”—varies between different populations. The heritability of educational attainment in Norway has increased since the second world war as the country widened access to health care and schools, flattening out environmental effects. That trend seems, worryingly, to have reversed in America in the 21st century. The irony is that the heritability of many traits rises if states do more to provide for all their citizens equally.
You might conclude that without broad measures to tamp down inequalities of opportunity, genes have fewer opportunities to shine. “Blueprint” instead touts the importance of dna in shaping the individual. Hubris indeed.
i had to register a free account to read this. some people say if you just enter with the private mode, it’ll show the article. i don’t know.
#genetics #humans #heritability
source #art #city #night
i might have shared something about this guy and his car.
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/rafik-ordyan-gt-77-1977.315706/ http://www.armeniapedia.org/wiki/Rafik_Ordyan
#gt77 #yerevan #ordyan #ordian #gt-77 #car #diy #handmade
First things first: printf is expecting a valid (i.e. non-NULL) pointer for its %s argument so passing it a NULL is officially undefined. It may print “(null)” or it may delete all files on your hard drive–either is correct behavior as far as ANSI is concerned (at least, that’s what Harbison and Steele tells me.)
#programming #c #null
do you understand how telegram makes money?
or it still does not?
just uses the initial investment?
#telegram
these are very interesting, cheap and powerful devices: https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-ar300m/
the company not only uses opewrt, but also provides several types of firmware for the devices, notable one is tor firmware - route all you traffic through tor.
the only disadvantage that the device has no battery space, but you can use powerbank to power it.
#device #internet #tor #anonymity
my major lifegoal is to keep #oberon alive.
unlike digital sensors that use Bayer interpolation, a scanner captures the RGB data for every pixel. single pass, three pass, whatever. you get the full monty. it doesn’t make much sense to degrade the data so it can be interpolated from a RAW file. instead the user can save the data as either a (8/16bit) JPEG, or (8/16bit) TIFF file. Vuescan let’s you save the scan data into a special kind of extendable TIFF called a DNG. the DNG wrapper lets the scan program separate the tonal data from the color data. using LR or PS one can then apply their own secret sauce. :)
#photography #film-photography #film_photography #scanning #tiff #jpeg #dng #vuescan #bayer #photo
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are there decentralized photo communities out there? i only know mediagoblin. diaspora is not actual since they started to reduce sizes of photographs.
what would you suggest? the ideal solution is not only the software which i can host on my server, but also a community of photographers. #photo #diaspora #mediagoblin #decentralization
just created this gif, with this script։
#download
youtube-dl -k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oBx7Jg4m-o
mplayer -vo jpeg 'This is Fine-0oBx7Jg4m-o.f137.mp4'
RSZ="-resize %25"
DEL="-delay 1"
set -x
str=""
for i in `seq 50 92`
do
#apply a patch (draw rectangle) to erase '[adult swim]' writing.
convert 000000${i}.jpg -fill '#f9ec50' -draw 'rectangle 1620,950 1820,1050' 000000${i}.png
convert 000000${i}.png $RSZ 000000${i}_.png
if [[ -n "$str" ]]
then
str="$str 000000${i}_.png "
else
str="000000${i}_.png "
fi
#echo $str
done
#make actual gif
convert -loop 0 $DEL $str test.gif
#gif #dog #this_is_fine #fire
may i rant a little about sailfish 3.0 ?
omg, why this android like top menu? is it the urge to not, accidentally stand out? i really don’t understand.
my gesture to close programs was to swipe top down. and people were amazed by that. now to close the program we need to minimize it first, then close. aaah, dull? in order to close minimized app one needs to press on it, then leave and press the ‘x’ button. so three steps to just close the app.
why? sailfish was supposed to be convenient, geeky, other.
i also dislike recent gallery changes, where we lost going back by left gesture, and need now to use an icon ‘x’ to close the photo and get a gallery view.
ok and if you wanted to know, i guess my favourite sailfish is sailfish 1.
p. s. i think i appear in my english stream moarmore.
#jolla #sailfish
chief of pm’s staff is playing techno set at the celebration of the independence of armenia.
his playing hydrae by frankie and sandrino.
#yerevan #armenia #independence #set
when you read about the magical ring or the marodeurs map, you wonder, why those are the rare exemplars, why they could not be recreated. i thought that if the humanity once had the technology, and went further, it means it can create better devices, and certainly can recreate the past ones.
now i understand, that there are a lot of pieces of disappearing technology in our world.
apparently, it took ~10 years for impossible project to achieve comparable quality with the polaroid integral film. and still, they cannot fit 10 papers in to the cartridge, they fit only 8.
apparently, no one is able to produce peel apart film comparable in quality with fuji fp-100c film.
and even if the company would document and publish, as patent free, open source, the whole process, still, there are things you need to learn from others. lets say if there’s a team working on some project, it cannot document everything, but new members of the team get the knowledge which is not documented. or they need to stare at the source code for weeks to guess what those 3 lines are for.
so now i understand, that i have a piece of disappearing technology in my freezer. it’s fp-100c, and i understand, that i have cameras, that will be very hard to produce again. that is one more reason to value old things. only starting to produce something comparable is not realistic, needs a lot of resources.
these are my adventures on connecting bluetooth keyboard to jolla sailfish device.
first of all, the keyboard would not connect. manual says just ‘press the connect button and let them pair’, but devices were not able to connect. i have tried to type ‘1234’ on a keyboard and press enter, then sailfish asked me for a password, i typed ‘1234’ and again got the message indicating that device is not paired. then i repeated the same with ‘0000’ and somehow, the device works.
now, how would i use my favourite programmers dvorak layout, and armenian typewriter?
it turned out i need to
so there is an utility called ckbcomp that can convert xkb layouts to kmap files:
emerge ckbcomp
…
ckbcomp -keycodes evdev -layout us -variant dvp > /tmp/usdvp.kmap
ckbcomp -keycodes evdev -layout am > /tmp/am.kmap
now, i was searching for kmap2qmap utility, but apparently it absent in all linux distributions. so, my qt version on my laptop is 5.9.4, so i went to qt site, and downloaded version of qttools source for that version.
https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.9/5.9.4/submodules/qttools-opensource-src-5.9.4.tar.xz
well, these was not as easy, it took me a lot of time to understand that i need to compile the source, where to get it, etc. i also tried to install it on sailfish, but there was a problem:
[root@Sailfish keymaps]# pkcon --allow-downgrade install qt5-qttools-kmap2qmap
Resolving
Testing changes
Finished [ ] (0%)
The following packages have to be installed:
qt5-qttools-5.6.3+git1-1.4.3.armv7hl Development tools for Qt
qt5-qttools-kmap2qmap-5.6.3+git1-1.4.3.armv7hl The kmap2qmap tool
Proceed with changes? [N/y] y
Installing
Starting
Refreshing software list
Querying
Resolving dependencies
Downloading packages
Finished
Fatal error: File './qt/armv7hl/qt5-qttools-5.6.3+git1-1.4.3.armv7hl.rpm' not found on medium 'https://releases.jolla.com/releases/2.2.1.18/jolla/armv7hl/'
[root@Sailfish keymaps]#
but from this output i guessed that i need the package called qttools to find the utility.
so, i have got the package, then:
tar Jxvf qttools-opensource-src-5.9.4.tar.xz
found the source directory with find, and went there:
cd src/kmap2qmap/
now there is a .pro file, and .cpp file, how do i compile them?
i just tried qmake and make, and it worked!
noch@aygepar /tmp/qttools-opensource-src-5.9.4/src/kmap2qmap $ qmake
Info: creating stash file /tmp/qttools-opensource-src-5.9.4/.qmake.stash
noch@aygepar /tmp/qttools-opensource-src-5.9.4/src/kmap2qmap $ ls
kmap2qmap.pro main.cpp Makefile target_wrapper.sh
noch@aygepar /tmp/qttools-opensource-src-5.9.4/src/kmap2qmap $ make
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -c -O2 -march=native -pipe -std=c++1z -fno-exceptions -Wall -W -Wvla -Wdate-time -Wshift-overflow=2 -Wduplicated-cond -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -DQT_NO_NARROWING_CONVERSIONS_IN_CONNECT -DQT_NO_EXCEPTIONS -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_INPUT_SUPPORT_LIB -DQT_DEVICEDISCOVERY_SUPPORT_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -I. -isystem /usr/include/qt5 -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtInputSupport -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtInputSupport/5.9.4 -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtInputSupport/5.9.4/QtInputSupport -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtGui/5.9.4 -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtGui/5.9.4/QtGui -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtDeviceDiscoverySupport -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtDeviceDiscoverySupport/5.9.4 -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtDeviceDiscoverySupport/5.9.4/QtDeviceDiscoverySupport -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtCore/5.9.4 -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtCore/5.9.4/QtCore -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtGui -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtCore -I.moc -isystem /usr/include/libdrm -I/usr/lib64/qt5/mkspecs/linux-g++ -o .obj/main.o main.cpp
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -o ../../bin/kmap2qmap .obj/main.o -lQt5InputSupport -lmtdev -linput -lxkbcommon -lQt5DeviceDiscoverySupport -ludev -lQt5Gui -lQt5Core -lGL -lpthread
now, ls does not show the compiled binary
noch@aygepar /tmp/qttools-opensource-src-5.9.4/src/kmap2qmap $ ls
kmap2qmap.pro main.cpp Makefile target_wrapper.sh
where do i find it? what if i try to install it?
/usr/lib64/qt5/bin/qmake -install qinstall -exe ../../bin/kmap2qmap /usr/lib64/qt5/bin/kmap2qmap
Error copying ../../bin/kmap2qmap to /usr/lib64/qt5/bin/kmap2qmap: Cannot create /usr/lib64/qt5/bin/kmap2qmap for output
Makefile:348: recipe for target 'install_target' failed
make: [install_target] Error 3 (ignored)
(reverse-i-search)`wget': ^Cet https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.9/5.9.4/submodules/qttools-opensource-src-5.9.4.tar.xz
this failed, but aha, there it is.
at ../../bin directory.
cd ../../bin
cp kmap2qmap /home/noch/test
I also put my usdvp.kmap and am.kmap files there. now generating qmap file
./kmap2qmap usdvp.kmap am.kmap noch.qmap
copy it to jolla device:
scp noch.qmap root@10.23.23.5:/usr/share/qt5/keymaps/
now on jolla i had to backup the existing boston.qmap file, and replace it with my file.
cd /usr/share/qt5/keymaps/
cp boston.qmap boston_.qmap
cp noch.qmap boston.qmap
how do i now change the settings menu to indicate the change?
apparently, by editing /usr/share/jolla-settings/pages/text_input/textinput.qml file.
I have added there
ListElement {
layout: "am"
name: "Armenian"
}
ListElement {
layout: "us(dvp)"
name: "Dvorak"
}
reboot, and now it works!
well, there is a problem, that if the bt keyboard is on, then the login screen of jolla requires you to use hardware keyboard to login, not the screen keyboard. so i turn off the bt keyboard during restart.
also, make sure you have wifi connection via ssh to the device in case something goes wrong, you would need to login to device and change things. #jolla #sailfish #keyboard #bluetooth #layout #dvorak #armenian
^ and $ are new alpha and omega.
since i know sailfish, it’s even hard to read texts on the internet, because those are either black on the white background, or whitish on the dark background, and all these themes are predefined by the designer.
while i got used that i generate the theme from the picture i like, therefore text can be on a blurred image i have chosen, and the colours are chosen by me, and its not just white on dark or black on white, or whatever.
#sailfish #design #text
our PM in his own town Ijevan with kids.
can you see how relaxed are the kids? nobody afraids or tries to be ‘decent’ because he is with an important person.
i like this man so much. #armenia
and did you see what he have had done with Merkel? he took her to the people, to the streets, they were making photos with people, her bodyguards were shocked, never experienced something like that.
Israeli dronemaker said to have bombed Armenians for Azerbaijan faces charges
#israel #armenia #azerbaijan #war #drone #bombing #military #2016 #artsakh
new #set, live at #KIROVAKAN event at #Vanadzor https://soundcloud.com/inkyfromthetape/live-at-kirovakan-25-08-2018
enjoy
i have uploaded more photos to flickr and blog this photo is from http://norayr.am/weblog/2018/08/08-19-42/
blog: http://norayr.am/weblog flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/norayr_chilingarian/
A good language design may be summarized in five catch phrases: simplicity, security, fast translation, efficient object code, and readability.
http://norayr.am/papers/Hoare_Hints.pdf #hoare #programming_languages #design #programming #computer_science
aaa, i succeeded in connecting my midi keyboard to bristol synth.
when i connect it, /dev/midi1 file is created.
qjackctl does not work in my windowmaker — when i start it, whole windowmaker hungs unless i don’t kill the process from pure terminal or via ssh.
so without jack, just alsa:
startBristol -mini -audio alsa -midi alsa -channel 1 -mididev /dev/midi1
now it is necessary to connect midi keyboard’s output to bristol’s input:
aconnect -l shows:
client 20: 'Impulse' [type=kernel,card=1]
0 'Impulse MIDI 1 '
Connecting To: 128:0
1 'Impulse MIDI 2 '
client 128: '/dev/midi1' [type=user,pid=11247]
0 '/dev/midi1 input'
connecting:
aconnect 20:0 128:0
works:
noch@hactar ~ $ aconnect -l
client 0: 'System' [type=kernel]
0 'Timer '
1 'Announce '
client 14: 'Midi Through' [type=kernel]
0 'Midi Through Port-0'
client 20: 'Impulse' [type=kernel,card=1]
0 'Impulse MIDI 1 '
Connecting To: 128:0
1 'Impulse MIDI 2 '
client 128: '/dev/midi1' [type=user,pid=11247]
0 '/dev/midi1 input'
Connected From: 20:0
noch@hactar ~ $
now i can play on midi keyboard and get sounds of moog mini. aaa.
#midi #linux #bristol #alsa #midi_keyboard #keyboard #console #sound #audio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2UyevkGvRA #viken_arman #armenian_music #armenian-music
you know this is yerevan, when you meet the organizer of the event at the event and tell her, that you had troubles entering and had to fake a ticket, because they only used facebook for the event promotion, and she says that she is sorry, organized it poorly, and next time it’ll be better, without a need to fake tickets. #yerevan
aaa such a nice project, aaa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC7ho9gV6IA https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-armenian-velvet-revolution-comic-book-part-1-books-adventure#/
new set https://soundcloud.com/inkyfromthetape/yellow_friday_setpp
@{Gerda de Vos; nypa@sysad.org} did you happen to meet them? lets say in a bus. i guess you live in the same city. https://medialeaks.ru/3007dalex-barnaul-terror/
and do you know Viken Arman (Վիգէն Արման) ? He’s very nice, and I also have been at his lives. Indeed very interesting, and this video from Cercle is very beautiful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_npZfZmRiM&t=5219s #armenian-music #viken_arman #music #electronic
enjoy the other work of Armen Miran՝ https://soundcloud.com/armenmiran/armen-miran-precious-story-105-mix #armenian #music #armen_miran #armenian-music #electronic
and this colud be interesting as well, i will be more cautios with expired film.
april 29, rally, revolution Vanadzor. #vanadzor
I just noticed that I have published the other photo with umbrellas from April 29 rally in Vanadzor. I wanted actually to publish this photograph. #vanadzor
microkernel operating systems follow ideas of liberalism. on the contrary, monolitic kernel, is like a leftist idea, where you have big government which has to deal with everything. it can be efficient, though, as dictatorships as well, butif it fails, you’re screwd. microkernel means less central power, not as efficient, but more reliable. #liberalism #operating_systems #os #microkernel #engineering #design
fujicolor prenn 400, expired, april 29, rally, revolution, #vanadzor
agfa agfaphoto 400, pushed to 1600, april 29, rally, revolution, #vanadzor
agfa agfaphoto apx 400, pushed to 1600, #vanadzor
kodak t-max 400, pushed to 1600, #vanadzor
kodak t-max 400, pushed to 1600, #vanadzor
kodak t-max 400, pushed to 1600, #vanadzor
kodak t-max 400, pushed to 1600, #վանաձոր
kodak t-max 400, pushed to 1600, #վանաձոր
kodak t-max 400, pushed to 1600, #yerevan #dog
#yerevan
#barcampevn18
#yerevan
#yerevan
#yerevan
#yerevan #kond
#yerevan
#yerevan
#yerevan #summerhall #architecture
#yerevan
#yerevan
#yerevan
#yerevan
#yerevan
#yerevan
#yerevan
#yerevan
#aygestan #yerevan
#aygestan #yerevan
mamiya rb67, polaroid back, fuji fp-100c, #kond #yerevan
Pashinian met with Venediktov.
Pashinian: Ilham Aliyev should send his son to serve in Karabakh as well, this would mean - like me - would have a personal stake in peace; interview with @aavst @EchoMskRu “We don’t want war, but we are determined to defend ourselves” https://echo.msk.ru/sounds/2246298.html #russian #artsakh #armenia
people, i have published photos for april-may-june at http://norayr.am/weblog btw, now i use hugo, no wordpress, no php, and this is fun.
so today (yesterday technically) russian soldiers were shooting in armenian village. what was going on is described pretty well in this video in russian language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSP7AaudUWE #russia #armenia
see my comment there: https://spyurk.am/posts/3191543 where i explain why it’s not possible to just translate the text to let’s say english and post it.
I have made two mashups this night: https://soundcloud.com/inkyfromthetape/are_you_going_to_read_the_kubark_mashup
and https://soundcloud.com/inkyfromthetape/are-you-going-with-me-forever-mashup
recorded live on pioneer xdj-rx. #music #mashup
Борьба приобрела децентрализованный характер и застала врасплох полицию, которая до этого привыкла действовать по привычному сценарию: протестующие собираются в одном месте, где-то рядом силы полиции, и в случае необходимости они силой разгоняют акцию, задерживая лидеров. Если раньше полиция задерживала несколько десятков человек на несколько часов, и акции сводились на нет, то теперь методы полиции уже не действовали. Более того, чем больше полиция задерживала людей, тем больше протестующих выходило на улицы. Кроме того похищение лидеров протеста 22 апреля сыграло злую шутку: на улицы вышло как минимум в два раза больше людей, чем Пашинян собирал до своего похищения.
Правозащитник отмечает, как на практике выглядело применение этого закона: «Заявляешь о начале стихийной акции и можешь на протяжении 6 часов проводить собрание. Через 6 часов, заявляешь об окончании акции и тут же сообщаешь о начале новой стихийной акции. Но власти хотели изменить положение дел в этой части закона. К счастью, им этого не удалось». Важным фактором является также то, что по закону за административные нарушения не предусмотрен арест, а только штраф. Причем задержание может длиться не более трех часов, после чего задержанные должны быть либо освобождены, либо обвинены в уголовном преступлении.
about online niches and misery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmHj0kgos_Q
did not even want to watch it but my coworker insisted it is worth seeing. well indeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2blcr747NGM #travel #azerbaijan #russian #omg
surprise surprise https://yalantis.com/blog/whats-wrong-telegram-open-api/ #telegram
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8R76gTRM6A
surprisingly this guy knows what he tells. about #armenian #language in #russian.
Kenton Nelson “Such a Sight”
#art
In the film envelope, there was a ‘sac’ of developer gel. When you processed the film by pulling it out of the holder, the two stainless steel rollers crushed the pod and spread the gel over the image surface. That’s why it was critical to pull steadily and carefully.
https://www.photo.net/discuss/threads/rb67-w-polaroid-back-first-tests-and-failures.5509574/
So, Samvel Martirosyan writes on telegram, that he spoke with Artsakh military and other gov people, and
a. The probability of new offensive (Azerbaijani, obviously), is extremely high now. b. Because now it is hard for them to be invisible while approaching our positions (we have cameras and drones), the easiest way to bring military to the border is conducting military exercises. And now Azerbaijan is conducting military exercises without a pause, and it looks like those are very expensive. c. The probability of war will be much higher after July 14, when the football championship will be over. Before that starting the war can offend the Russian side. By the same logic, now they almost don’t shoot at the borders. e. The offensive probably will start from the south, so that less people will be affected, to decrease response of international community.
#armenia #artsakh #war #peace #nkpeace
this is how it is supposed to be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyBRHH2jIGs
and this is how i fail https://www.photo.net/discuss/threads/rb67-w-polaroid-back-first-tests-and-failures.5509574/ #photo
tells that ccd colours and picture details are much bettec, is it the case?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCi8-mYxpRE
also, its interesting, that he tells that the camera is very power efficient because it has no motor to move the shutter, but the lever.
#photography #camera
p. s. how can i remain silent that i know the camera since long time ago, and i wanted to get it for my collection, but it was too expensive, and somehow unreasonable. (:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuLRJLJjCz0 #exactly #russian #armenia
well, our NSS works very well, when they are allowed to.
very old paper i quote often http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/
#rob_pike
A great shot by a Polish photographer Maciej Dakowicz #Armenia 2017: Few seconds before the catastrophe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRFQ_amDp_U everything you ever wanted to know about living in diaspora, but were afraid to ask.
#armenian
i was playing today, preparing new set, and noticed that these two can work together https://soundcloud.com/inkyfromthetape/electric-horovel-relaxation, mixed live and recorded on pioneer xdj-rx deck. thank you.
#horovel
yesterday evening i spent with iranian armenian architects who live and work in usa now, and they were telling me, that they are amazed, that they are able to see and greet our ‘stars’, people whom they know from theatrical performances, which hey watched on youtube, in cafeterias on the streets of the city. #yerevan
so our new pime minister makes lives on facebook every day, even several times per day. first he showed how the gov rooms look like, then he tells us about the news and decisions he made, and why did he make those. these all without pathos, tables, very simple, he continues to be that simple guy who, it seems does not enjoy these luxurious rooms, and tries to be useful to us. #armenia
https://newrepublic.com/article/148241/armenia-breaking-post-soviet-mold
i think if the language marking feature will be implemented one day, i will merge back two my streams, english and armenian. merging, it seems will be soon possible.
there are two good #telegram channels to follow events in #armenia in #russian` https://t.me/hetqinrussian https://t.me/infocomru
Four months ago, Armenian parliamentary deputy Nikol Pashinyan, his spouse Anna Hakobyan and their daughter Arpi were on a New Year’s Eve programme on Armenia’s state-controlled Public TV. They were making idle talk about holiday routines when the anchor wondered if Pashinyan had asked Santa for anything political.
“I think in politics, people are the Santa Claus,” Pashinyan said. “And I want our people to realise that the notion that they cannot change anything is wrong, that in fact they decide their destiny.”
i understand this is not exactly for you, but i run a telegram channel with music recommendations. texts are in armenian, but you still might enjoy the music. mostly electronic, but not necessarily. http://t.me/lseliq #telegram #music #channel #electronic
tomorrow parliament has to vote for the new prime minister.
looks like for now republican party did not suggest a candidate. so KK is out of the game for now. the other big party which belongs to the rich oligarch, and was in the alliance with the ruling republicans said they will vote for our candidate. then his party, which has %7 in the parliament. (faked elections) and then dashnaks, who also were in the alliance with the ruling republicans said they’ll vote for our candidate. so the rats flew the sinking ship.
republicans did not say they will vote for Nikol, and even if everybody above will vote for him it is still not enough because republicans have majority. so if 7 or 8 of them vote, then Nikol will become a prime minister for some time. If not, then the parliament has to kill itself and new elections should be conducted. This will be the survival way of republicans because the laws still allow them to fake elections, also they have city/village majors, etc, so they have the resource. On the other hand if Nikol is elected, then he will propose his new election laws to decrease the probability of falsifications, and then according to his plan we have to have new elections, fair this time.
so this is a long process, and the road is hard. anyway tomorrow everybody will be at the streets to support him so that he could be elected.
so to me it looks like everything is much worser than it could be. if we just left serj it would be better. this guy ‘karen karapetyan’, former gazprom chinovnik, who has close connections with oligarchs, and is now leading republican party, is much worser than serj. so many reasons, it needs time to explain. in short nothing will change, except that this guy has no local background, has nothing to loose here. he can just burn the country and fly to russia at any moment. but he gets already established system, he is obviously more controllable than serj, nothing will change - again business spheres will continue to be divided between a couple of people who don’t even pay taxes.
karen karapetyan (men’s name in armenian) tried to establish an emergency state already, but police/army refused.
my expectations are - if parliament will not vote for our, people’s candidate, and he or someone from republicans will become a prime minister, use own people as police/army heads, and because they cannot control the country, they will declare emergency state and solve their problems.
there are questions - will army or police be ready to shoot own citizens? police was ready last time, 10 years ago, when serj kame to power. we had 10 deads that time.
i sincerely don’t see any ways out, looks like a dead end.
so the parliament will gather to choose a new prime minister at may 1, and we have to continue protests till and after that.
but this is not inspiring, when government obviously is not legit, have absolutely no support in people, but they persist on ruling.
https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/why-has-putin-not-intervened-in-armenia-yet-opinion-61261
april 21 video, so that you can imagine how the movement which was not very strong yet looked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2_CIZ7DKK0
something like that.
ok not so bright. republicans canceled tomorrow’s negotiations. they still have majority in the parliament, and i don’t know what they want to do. so we have to continue civil disobedience, till they also realize they have no country.
yesterday people were celebrating https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nb3hneruz8
and today they are cleaning the republic square together https://www.facebook.com/CivilNet.TV/videos/vb.195018463901371/2327181687351694/?type=2&theater
this decentralized strategy worked! they have detained Nikol, but realized it does not matter. Nikol did not control the situation. everybody was self-organizing and showing the government has no control over population. we with IT people created a couple of telegram groups to coordinate our civil disobedience actions. police was running from here to there, and they had no enough forces to control everything. they were asking each other for support and people, and had no resources, though we have a lot of police, unfortunately.
authorities were desperate, they detained leaders of the movement, then started to use criminals to threaten protesters. just unknown guys in masks, armed, got out to streets and started to beat protesters.
that caused even more waves of disobedience and more people at the evening protests. around 180.000 people in one of recent meetings.
so they realized they have no country to rule and have to leave. DDOS - Distributed Denial of Serj worked.
The ruling republican party seems dead. They are nothing without the head. And the dictators seem to surround them by toads, so they have even noone to replace them. They cannot trust those toads they nurtured for years.
That’s probably one of the reasons why Serj tried to stay for the third time. They just had noone to trust.
I am very proud of my people, who did not tolerate Serj, and it is indeed unbelievable that we succeeded without a drop of blood. we had several injured people, when police was trying to pressure us, not more than 10.
And Nikol said during the rally - “remember that christian saying, give the second cheek, if someone heat you? every one who answers to violence with violence is against our movement, because it will make government an excuse to use the force.”
So this was sort of other example of satyagraha, when nobody was listening to the regime, and people on streets were supporting protesters by signalling. first days they did not get it, and was annoyed, but after three days most of them were happy we are blocking streets. many people around were joining us, and drivers were getting out of the cars, and behaving like the cars are broken, so they have to repair those.
and the very emotional thing is showing open palms of hands. whenever police were trying to pressure people, they were showing open palms of hands, raised up, that they are not armed, it’s peaceful protest. this was very impressive and beautiful.
unbelievable! we did it! velvet revolution succeeded! (:
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1927943233902715&id=260603653970023 #saakashvili #armenia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_iTStVljbs #tankian #armenia
#photo #yerevan #protest #rejectserj #night #street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZMmqzNlWpY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_ONOmyyiDI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cljWEITquU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRAgSN9GDhU
#rejectserj #yerevan #protest #rally #dence #night
nice explanatory video. https://twitter.com/CurrentTimeTv/status/985885135965966337 titles in russian.
there is civil disobedience, clashes with police, and protests here. i am of course with the people. authorities brought a lot of power. let’s see what happens this night. https://www.evnreport.com/politics/armenia-in-crisis-again #yerevan #armenia
so today we found out interesting things. the fact that telegram was banned in russia is not as interesting alone, but more interesting is that it is the only messenger that got banned. from which we can speculate on how the others work. #telegram #russia #yarovaya_law #surveillance
iranian propaganda poster #women #iran #poster #propaganda
https://store.dieselsweeties.com/products/i-want-to-believe-in-rss-enamel-pin #pin #shop #rss
shot with mamiya zm, 28mm f2.8 mamiya sekor e lenses on fujifilm eterna 250d film. #firstoftheroll #robot #balloon #film #35mm #film-photography #film_photography #kanaker #qanaqer #yerevan #rust
https://soundcloud.com/xeneder/kin-dza-dza-main-theme-2a03-cover #kindzadza #cover #2a03 #nintendo
i’ve set a dark gtk theme with gtk-chtheme, and realized how amazingly cool is sailfish’s ambience idea. you don’t have just applications with dark, or metallic look, you have a look, you have generated from your own picture. and every app is semi-transparent, and you see a blurred wallpaper through it. that’s so cool. and never been done before. and nobody loves sailfish. it struggles to get market, vainly. #sailfish #ambience #jolla
my #artsakh ian friend have been drawn.
#kemerovo #кемерово #кемеровомыстобой #rip #screenshot
hey, #diaspora #podmin, #podmins, #devs. yesterday evening i have logged in to my server, and noticed, there are delays. run ‘top’ and saw ~120 load average. opened a production.log, it was scrolling like crazy.
then noticed that someone somewhere, may be on irc, wrote that geraspora is down, and then, that geraspora is back. and i guess, may be geraspora came back and started to send a lot of messages to other servers, and my machine is weak small server, and it was under the load because of that? i have tried to reboot, and saw that my server is ok, just it has to process a lot. so did anyone experience sloweness (my server was under such a load it was unusable) . and then i saw that the log does not scroll as fast, and load average started to go down. and then i did not touch anything, just server became useable. do any of you have monitoring logs, did you have cpu/memory usage peaks in the evening?
i have been written this comparison two months ago in armenian, when set up local mastodon instance. let me try to translate.
so diaspora vs mastodon.
technical:
— diaspora has markdown support — mastodon has not. — diaspora provides atom feeds — mastodon does not։ (the comment under armenian post says that mastodon version 2.3.1 actually provides atom feeds) — diaspora has mail like system — mastodon has no։ — diaspora has real time chat — mastodon has no։ — diaspora can strip geolocation information from images. — diaspora can crosspost to twitter, facebook, tumblr, wordpress. mastodon cannot. — diaspora has post preview. — recent feature - diaspora provides embedded players for media links.
— it is possible to follow/subscribe to the tag in diaspora. in mastodon as i understand, you can pin the tag and see it always in one of the columns of desktop web view.
— mastodon streams are autoupdating. as i understand they use push, and it’s very fast. also i like it because you see life is happening. diaspora page has to be reloaded manually, it only shows notification count. — diaspora has no API, mastodon has. — that’s why there are several useful applications for mastodon, but no one for diaspora. — mastodon allows to customize your page a bit more, and to choose that long header image. — mastodon has user data import/export, therefore migration, but that’s coming to diaspora. — mastodon provides a feature to silence not only a person, but node or tag. — mastodon provides separate stream for all public posts on a node, and that i find useful. — it’s much easier to set up local community rules from the admin interface. — admin interface has much more features.
cultural:
in diaspora, in my opinion, people not from our node usually tend to not write, but share links or images. also, they are mostly from europe, and leftist. let’s take in to consideration, that american lefts are right compared to european lefts.
in mastodon people from not our node usually come from twitter background, therefore the text is more common there. even if it’s realtime shitposting, i love that. also, they seem different to me, not necessarily mostly left. there seem to be more people, and more technical as well. it looks like there are more life than in diaspora.
#diaspora #mastodon #community #technology #culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IzKoQQuyIU
tigran hamassian and serj tankian. i also know tolstov, hes yerevanian. tigran is from gyumri.
#music #armenian-music via
https://www.instagram.com/p/BW0mBFwl8PO/?taken-by=haroutunianmariam very yerevanian #yerevan #architecture #love
people, i need a web software, cms, preferrably not php, for a film photo community. need to have some customizable front page, user blogs, user invites, image uploading. that comes to my mind now. markdown, if possible.
anybody has this track? Orche/Strada ft.Claire Chase - Calligraphy please please #music
#friendzone
https://www.britishcouncil.org/organisation/press/statement-british-council-russia
on jolla encryption https://together.jolla.com/question/2158/optional-encryption-of-the-device/ #jolla #sailfish #encryption
#hyperspace #lofi shot with Polaroid i-Zone 550
at box film lab. #yerevan #box_photolab #lofi shot with Polaroid i-Zone 550
#lofi #achajour @{անկապ; ach94er@spyurk.am} shot on Polaroid i-Zone 550
https://www.buzzworthy.com/jakub-rozalski-fuses-history-fantasy-captivating-paintings/ #art
today everything not over http (let’s say IRC) is sort of underground. #irc #underground
i love the grain of black and white film. hp5 400 EI 1600.
#vanadzor #saxophone #bw #film #outofthescanner #35mm
bye bye slack. #slack
why i like social networks is because those contain traces of life, just like walls do. it’s interesting that one of the first things kids do with text, is they write their names on the wall near the house.
#photo #outofthecamera
#photo #outofthecamera
#photo #outofthecamera
Just as it helps our politicians to know when we want change, we can tell Kodak just how much we want Kodachrome back in production. Share this article with your friends. Tell them to call and email and write to and about Kodak. Tell them how much we want Kodachrome back, how much it would be in Kodak’s best interest, how much we do love it, and the responsibility that they have to deliver on that love. After all, Kodachrome: sounds an awful lot like something only Kodak could bring to the market.
https://fstoppers.com/film/kodachrome-might-make-comeback-and-you-could-help-161128 #kodachrome
very interesting article about Joel Meyerowitz https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/mar/07/photography-legend-joel-meyerowitz-phones-killed-sexiness-street-most-stunning-shots #photography #ny #street
#architecture #regjevingskvartlet #oslo #1958 #1969 #erling_viksjø
#charles_angrand #impressionism #city #evening
#rodin #erwitt #photography
#putin #photography photo by associated press photographer. #orwell
i believe, very necessary feature in diaspora is search for user’s posts, tagged with some tag.
let’s say i want to see what i, or this user have been written about it. #diaspora
this openbsd’s theo is just crazy. and that’s amazing. because of openbsd we have openssh, openntpd, mozilla’s memory allocator, and atheros chipset. just what i remember right now.
#openbsd
#architecture
While turntablism and broader DJ practices should not be conflated, Katz suggests use or lack of use of the turntable broadly by women across genres and disciplines is impacted upon by what he defines as “male technophilia.”
Lucy Green has focused on gender in relation to musical performers and creators, and specifically on educational frameworks as they relate to both.[49] She suggests that women’s alienation from “areas that have a strong technological tendency such as DJ-ing, sound engineering and producing” are “not necessarily about her dislike of these instruments but relates to the interrupting effect of their dominantly masculine delineations.”
i know this guy for more than 15 years, and he is amazing and crazy. (:
first world problems.
impressive http://stuffin.space/ #earth #space #satellites
https://issuu.com/urbanlab_am/docs/ind-scape-preprint #yerevan #armenia
affordable backup solution with open source client https://tarsnap.com
https://medium.com/@_neerajpal/explained-difference-between-x86-x64-disassembly-49e9678e1ae2
idea for horror film https://mobile.twitter.com/Vartan84/status/967119721597456386 (:
kodak t-max p3200 is back. #kodak #film #photography
yesterday i have tested and sent this piece of code to one girl, it calculates only the size of directories, the sum to be precise.
find -type d -ls | awk 'BEGIN {a=0}{a+=$7}END{print a}'
and she said she did not receive the email, so i have checked and apparently i sent it to other girl because of the thunderbird autocomplete.
then i replied to the other girls email - no offence. #bash #scripting #awk
dirk de herger #photography #foto #girl #city #bw
But of all the games, I prefer the one about the other Asterion. I pretend that he comes to visit me and that I show him my house. With great obeisance I say to him “Now we shall return to the first intersection” or “Now we shall come out into another courtyard” Or “I knew you would like the drain” or “Now you will see a pool that was filled with sand” or “You will soon see how the cellar branches out”.
https://klasrum.weebly.com/uploads/9/0/9/1/9091667/the_house_of_asterion.pdf #borges #asterion #story
aljazeera published an article about Artsakh.
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/nagorno-karabakh-silent-war-door-180215082611944.html
#artsakh #nkpeace
Vatican releases special postage stamp depicting Pope Francis and Armenian Genocide Memorial behind him https://armenpress.am/eng/news/913872 #armenian-genocide #armenian_genocide #pope #francis #stamp #vatican
wow such a nice video about one decisive fragment of armenian history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d4FHivSplU #armenia #history #persia #empire #politics #freedom
because you’re a fool when you start something new. so if you’re not willing to start anything new, and if you’ll never start anything new then you won’t develop. and so the willingness to be a fool is pre-curse for transformation. and that’s the same as humility.
so if you gonna write your destiny, do a bad first job. you gonna get smarter when you get forward.
may be the star you pedalled wish for is the wrong damn star. but at least it was a star. at least it was in the sky. at least it moved him forward. and so you say in your life something grips you and fills you with interest. and you think should i do that? and answer is if not that then something.
you’ve been informed by the results of you errors. what happens is you follow the light, and you’re blind, you don’t know what like is, its deeply apprehended only, and you’re afraid to follow it. but you decided to take stumbling steps towards it, and as you take stumbling steps towards it, you become illuminated, and enlightened, and informed, because of the nature of your experience, because you were pushing yourself beyond when you are, and you’re going in to the country you have not yet been in. and you learn something. and what happens next is the star moves. you move ten feet towards it, and you think, no that’s not right, it isn’t there, it’s actually there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z1vRF4L-sE
#peterson
i know there are problems, even one time i have mixed up the button and it stopped this my first set https://soundcloud.com/inkyfromthetape/live-b4-room-feb-9-2018 #inkyfromthetape #set
it looks like a very good design decision of mastodon developer(s) to show in the mastodon instance window posts of the contact your node knows about, but if you want to see all the posts, there is a link to the person’s original page at their instance. diaspora has no such link, so we cannot explore posts by someone which our pod anaware of. #diaspora #mastodon
this is 3d rendering. https://twitter.com/SmallLebowskii/status/960208966717464578 #3d #history #render
the excerpt from an email sent by someone i used to serve with in military ~20 years ago, he lives in usa now. one of my early nicknames was chnorik, which i did not choose, btw, and never liked. i also don’t like when people use shortened version of my name like here. and not that i adore che guevara either. but still.
Privet dorogov Che Norik!
Yes, there is no mistake. Che Norik, like Che Guevara. Quote: — What is the most important quality of a revolutionary? — El Amor…, Love… Love for humanity, for justice and truth. (http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/che/)
This is how I remember him. In the gray environment, created by *****nyans, carnations, toadies, ****kians, there was a bright person, who used to smile, greet other people and stay just a normal human.
surnames closed by me.
well thank you. it is a pleasure to get such an email.
Featured artist: Cressida Campbell
We stayed at the Eastern and Oriental Hotel, which was built by the Sarkies Brothers in the 1800s. They were the Armenian brothers who built the Raffles hotel in Singapore.
https://www.dumbofeather.com/conversations/featured-artist-cressida-campbell/ #art #cressida_campbell
Nasturtiums, (2002) by Cressida Campbell. #art #cressida_campbell #nasturtiums
enjoy this piece by nalbandian brothers and dzuk (fish in armenian) https://soundcloud.com/brothersnalbandyan/brothers-nalbandyan-and-dzuk-ashun-instrumental #music
ah fckn-serious.de has instagram channel https://www.instagram.com/fckng_serious/ and they have published this https://www.instagram.com/p/BSa-3Z_ACsP/ #techno #music #edm
contract based programming http://www.jacob-sparre.dk/programming/contracts/fosdem-2018-slides #ada #spark
ali li pona
#tokipona #toki_pona
this is something like a breakthrough http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2018/01/cancer-vaccine-eliminates-tumors-in-mice.html
on #telegram plans, somewhat sceptically https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2710410.0
aaaaa this is an amazing possibility, if you want to transfer files from one host to the other without scp/rsync, just by using ssh. apparently, ssh can take data from standard input, so the pipeline works like this:
tar -cf - env/novation | ssh arnet.am "cd /tmp; tar -xf -"
https://github.com/norayr/home_sweet_home/blob/master/scripts/ssh_sync.sh #openssh #ssh #network #unix
so one french armenian dj came here recently, and this week-end he goes to tbilisi, to bassiani. i have asked, if he did know bassiani before coming to the region, and he said - of course, it is one of the best clubs in the world. #tbilisi #bassiani
— did you sign a contract with satan so that you don’t get old? i think you haven’t changed for the last 10 years. — yes, how did you know? the deal is that i don’t get old but always fail with the girls I like.
Lebanon pre-civil war, Byblos, 1965.
#lebanon #byblos #1965 #history
i did not share it, how get physical presents itself, they are those who brought you whomadewho. (:
#get_physical #getphysical #whomadewho #screenshot
Apparently, rhel/centos 6.5 sssd version ioesn’h have -E option, but 6.6 already has.
I think #nxs price will skyrocket when they skyrocket the sats. Literally.
so #telegram #tokipona group has 99 members.
@{Քսելջեն; xelgen@spyurk.am} տես https://medium.freecodecamp.org/designing-a-font-from-scratch-and-submitting-it-to-google-fonts-in-24-hours-152a30c57095?mc_cid=4ed259619b
list of tlds. http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt #internet
new lens new me.
never never going do~wn~~ https://soundcloud.com/m-a-n-d-y/whomadewho-hi-low-mandys-higher-and-lower-remix
the best hi & low remix ever
i have norayr.am/tmp, for temporary data, now need to create norayr.am/pmt for permanent. (:
march 2017. i did not publish it back then, because i was ashamed of those small carpets, and got rid of them soon after seing them on the photo. but i would like it to be published. yes, not a good photo, but i have an emotional connection with it.
fujichrome velvia 50, mamiya zm, 28mm mamiya lens. #tea #girl #yerevan
when i see videos like that, which i usually don’t, and i see that attractive racing game, i have a feeling that i am not developed and narrow minded person, who because of that misses important things in life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIZY8pofpy4
#game
i collect this sugar envelopes, get them at the cafeterias. it started because i never had sugar at home, and one of my friends was getting very frustrated that i would suggest him tea without sugar. so, instead of buying sugar i started to get those small sugar envelopes i was getting at the cafeterias with tea. then i became obsessive about it. and today i don’t allow anyone to touch my collection. though the friend also learned by himself, that the sugar is not the best thing to use sugar, and gave it up.
this was said because now there’s such an envelope on my table, given to me by another friend when we met last time. when she was somewhere last time, she got the sugar envelope to bring to me. and that’s extremely nice feeling.
there’s a turkish chewing gum, called ‘love is…’, it shows small sketches on relationships.
so i would say, friendship is… getting sugar envelopes for him, so that you can give it when you meet.
#friendship #sugar
my diaspora uses postgresql-9.5. i have also postgresql-10 now, and two different startup scripts.
how do i move (or should i?) the diaspora db to postgre-10 ? #diaspora
@{Սև կատու; alils_@spyurk.am}, may be you can answer?
if i upgrade prosody to 0.10, will diaspora modules continue to work? #diaspora #prosody
very interesting photo stream https://www.flickr.com/photos/robof07
this guy used nikon p7000, small sensor camera, and now uses ricoh gr. you cannot really distinguish by pictures.
i guess, may be preference for tabs or spaces is connected to how low level person is that, if it’s a person who prefers more granular control, even when not necessary, they would prefer spaces over tabs. #programming #tab #space
how does it feel, to be a disappointment? #nth
when people play chess, they sometimes say “i have every step written down”. so we have every step written down in the blockchain. #blockchain
#smile
Seen some great charts this week from the #Meltdown patch, here’s memcached getting hammered due to RDS latency.
modern game with pixelart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pupdeq1MoVw
via https://spyurk.am/posts/2940805 #game #pixelart
i guess we get this satisfaction from the small tools we build, because at least something in our lives works and is controllable. to some extent.
new gimp splash screen. (:
#gimp #splash #design #autumn
This combination of the defender’s advantage and the positive feedback loop in mining creates a property called censorship resistance.
https://taylorpearson.me/why-is-bitcoin-valuable/
very good article on bitcoins, and it relaits to all cryptocurrencies. #bitcoin #decentralization #censorship
summer or autumn 2013. mamiya ze-2, 50mm f1.7, kodak cft. #kodak_cft #film #street
The curious star appeal of Jordan Peterson Why are young Brits flocking to hear a psychology professor talk about morality?
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/01/the-curious-star-appeal-of-jordan-peterson/
@{չարանենգ վիշապաքաղ; tanamasi@spyurk.am} @{կաֆկաէսքի հերոս; hrexen@spyurk.am}
so interesting, in armenian we use wave like sign ՜ in order to stretch or stress words. and i noticed that people in japan use ‘~’ sign, and it turned out the usage is very similar. see the screenshot. (:
This 1831 Armenian language book on how to fight fires and survive fire published in Venice.
#armenian #1831 #book #survival #venice
today is friday, right? is it caturday? so i can post a caturday picture. not very funny may be. still have a good sleep. #caturday sorry, this was scanned with not an excellent scanner. mamiya ze-2, kodak cft #kodakcft #film
p. s. may be saturday is the day? whatever.
@{չարանենգ վիշապաքաղ; tanamasi@spyurk.am} in shoushi realschule ruins, summer 2013. kodak cft, mamiya ze-2, 50mm f1.7.
#shoushi #shushi #artsakh #2013 #realschule #building #kodakcft #film
someone else. #screenshot #mastodon #someoneelse
fashion show in in yerevan, 1985.
inscription on the wall says something about soviet-czechoslovakia friendship. i guess the design is from czechoslovakia. note how ‘sad’ everything is, in this try to make something shiny and attractive. this expresses sovietness a lot.
http://history.armenpress.am/photos/5479-նորաձևության-ցուցադրություն.html
#yerevan #ussr #cccp #czechoslovakia #fashion #1985 #design #history #girls
when you try to fit in where you don’t belong.
Study: Chickens prefer beautiful humans.
Abstract: We trained chickens to react to an average human female face but not to an average male face (or vice versa). In a subsequent test, the animals showed preferences for faces consistent with human sexual preferences (obtained from university students). This suggests that human preferences arise from general properties of nervous systems, rather than from face-specific adaptations. We discuss this result in the light of current debate on the meaning of sexual signals and suggest further tests of existing hypotheses about the origin of sexual preferences.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-002-1021-6
omg, that might be because we all are relatives, and have similar taste, or because there is universal concept of beauty, and we all get some of it. but i think first is more probable. #taste
#armenian #fashion #1903 #constantinople
they way homeless walk and talk. that’s my stream.
shot by @{դինջ; lubekar@spyurk.am}, it was her birthday. @{չարանենգ վիշապաքաղ; tanamasi@spyurk.am} and @{Allergic Designer; alex@spyurk.am} are also taggable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbgELsq75Yw
#birthday #fun #kite
in the dream i was making photos of a girl, in a flat, in a high floor building.
when looking through the made photos, i first thought that probably she’ll like this and this picture, because her face is expressive there, but then i saw a photo, i have chosen.
i made a shot against a window, and she is not very well seen, there is also a mirror on the wall, and the city is visible through the window.
and i thought that’s the best shot, though i cannot see her face, but i see the pose, how she sits, by the way with her back turned towards the city, and the room in the mirror and the city behind her, tell us about a context of her life.
something like that. #dream #photo
In Armenia, Mount Aragats looms overhead as a permanent fixture in the sky binding people from all walks of life together
text about one of armenian design companies.
probably no other service affected internet as much as facebook, which by having an ambition to cover as many needs as possible, turned internet in to the universal access to one global BBS, not more, not less. i don’t know, may be it’s because of us as well? may be if we were more literate, it would not happen?
factory in yerevan, march 2012, nokia n900, fcamera.
#photo #yerevan #factory #nokia_n900 #n900 #fcamera #lofi
i thought this is a failed shot because of the light leaks, and now i think, it’s better because of the light leaks.
mamiya ze-2, 50mm f1.7, kodak cft. september 2013.
https://norayr.am/weblog/2017/12/20/19380/
#photo #horses #lightleak
this is a very bad scan. shot in june 2014. airport of goris, armenia, near shinuhayr village. my father told me, he was a pilot, that they were calling this airport an aircraft carrier, because the runway ends at the gorge border. no other place for an airport in the vicinity.
mamiya 1000dtl, zenitar fish-eye 16mm (i did not have other ultrawide angle lens that time), kodak cft.
#architecture #armenia #airport #goris #shinuhayr #photo #film
says:
the global warming is a myth, it’s just funtoo/gentoo popularity is much higher each year
#gentoo #funtoo
i watch people who walk at the street and think that every time has its spirit, and there are people who are out of that, in some way.
talking with @{անկապ; ach94er@spyurk.am} about the negative sides of globalization at burger king, in yerevan.
well, sincerery, the shawrma made by syrian armenians at let’s say, pushkin street, is just amazing compared to all this crap. cannot resist being judgemental, it’s all too much unbearably uneatable.
the problem with esperanto, i understand today, is that, if many people adopt it, and it’ll become really alive, if tumblr kids will write in it, they’ll screw the language up, it won’t be the language without exceptions, because humans are the creatures who treat languages freely, so it would loose its essential properties of the language which is easy to learn, has no exceptions, etc.
#esperanto #language
https://www.flickr.com/photos/116685283@N05/37092036076/in/dateposted/
#photo #photography
Map those instances, and one thing becomes clear pretty fast: Mastodon is mostly a Japanese phenomenon. The two largest Mastodon instances – pawoo.net and mstdn.jp – have over 100,000 users each, significantly more than mastodon.social, the “mothership” site that Rochko himself administers. Three of the top five Mastodon instances are based in Japan, and the Mastodon monitoring project estimates that 61% of the network’s users are Japanese.
In one sense, this isn’t a surprise. Twitter is massive in Japan, where it has more users than Facebook, and is projected to be used by half of all social network users and a quarter of all internet users this year. But that’s not the whole explanation.
#mastodon #federation #decentralization
i feel so stupid, i was browsing through my bios to turn off hyperthreading, because some build scripts run 4 processes on my actually 2 core machine, so i went to bios to disable hyperthreading, and i have noticed the setting for charging, and an instruction, that if i press fn+f2, i can stop the charging, and not overcharge the battery! of course there had to be such a feature, but i thought it’s too good to be true.
i even remember the bios update of somene’s, i guess asus, which would not change the battery more than 80%, and it is not always convenient, what if i know i need the fully charged battery today?
thinking that something is too good to be true is a pattern, by the way, i usually think that something good is not really possible, but that gives me opportunities to not keep high hopes in people, if someone promised to do something, i still have to have a backup, and i check if anything went successful, whatever i do, if it’s a copy of the file, or new function in the code. thus i keep better relationships with people, because i don’t expect them to be responsible, trustworthy, good, willing to help, etc, but on the other hand i don’t manipulate them to be responsible by let’s say being offended, so that may be does not make world a better place.
my new sailfish ambience, made from kenji tsuruta work, from the memory of emanon.
#kenji_tsuruta #jolla #sailfish #ambience #emanon
tokyo has TLD and there’s a pod social.ciubotaru.tokyo. amazing.
#night #day
Once on her own, Manana is shown enjoying the small satisfactions of single life: listening to music, reading, noodling on her guitar, changing her clothes without disturbing others, shopping at leisure, nurturing tomato plants on her deck, and eating cake instead of an entire meal without attracting any criticism. She builds her new life slowly, fighting to resist attempts by needy family members to draw her into their time-sucking circle again. But when she attends a school reunion and proudly tells her female friends about her new status, they share some news that comes as a shocking revelation to Manana, and almost shatters her newfound peace of mind.
http://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/my-happy-family-review-1201962787/
looks like this georgian film also worth watching. well, georgian cinema is amazing.
hmmm i’ve been in this village https://massispost.com/2017/12/village-armenia-may-teslas-next-powerpack-location/
http://www.mangahere.cc/manga/memories_of_emanon/
http://www.mangahere.cc/manga/memories_of_emanon/
#kenji_tsuruta #emanon #manga
source #art #girl #airplane #trip
looks like pixelart, but that’s oil.
#eyvind_earle #painting #oil #coast
this type of connection is called ‘half duplex’ connection.
think how different America would be, if every American knew that this is fifth time western armies have gone to Afghanistan to put its house in order. And if they had some idea of exactly what had happened on those four previous occasions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vpqilhW9uI
this guy is hilarious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_tI21aUHrw (: #sofort #instax #fuji
i guess, instax film is more sensitive to being expired, because it’s a film and developer in one. regular film is only the film, and you can develop it in fresh chemicals. also, of course usually cameras won’t allow you to set iso manually and compensate by overexposing. #instax
city of ani on theatlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/01/the-ancient-ghost-city-of-ani/100668/ #ani #armenia
because those are beautiful!
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-power-lines-anime-electrical-infrastructure
#anime
I can’t describe what my brain experiences by looking at this photo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HwanHVDKQU There is something amazing in buildings and windows. I shot a roll of superia 400 at 1600 iso recently and it’s all just buildings and windows at night.
today we had buttle/tuttle kind of problems at work. this happens in reality. indeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWrUl3uemb4
http://www.rimac-automobili.com/en/supercars/concept_one/ yet another electric car.
#artsakh #freedom
i’ve shared it but let me share it again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hER0Qp6QJNU
there is a guy, he got deported from usa several times. last time he tried to enter usa via mexico with the guide by mountains. so these guy could do any dirty job in usa, but of course he does not work in armenia.
and i think, how am i different, i would photograph anything with pleasure, any other city, but not yerevan.
i found it, i found it, i found it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI_ge2VYYAI
it’s on seventh minute of the mandy mix by whomadewho.[1]
#music #whomadewho #Christian_Löffler
i want to not have fomo and do a lot of work. i want to read on the internet less. i want to leave stupid comments less, not because of embarrassment, but because time is limited. i want to accomplish some work. and i want to be in the warmer place, where will be no snow or haze.
and i feel myself a philistine, when i talk about tbilisi. because i lack to appreciate the city i live in. and i would not like anyone who does that.
i want to feel that the most frightening thing is not what i am afraid of, but not making work.
i want to be able to photograph yerevan, but it is very hard for me. i don’t love it. i don’t. i cannot.
how he was able to understand?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ4c54rCJ_k
amazing.
i have a feeling that diaspora is a trap you don’t invite people in. trap in the sence, you give them false hopes, they come and try however they can to find themselves here, and they leave frustrated. how does mastodon feel? it has community and ‘life’, right?
having commitment and integrity to who you are keeps you away from those who may bring you frustrations, and brings you closer to those you would enjoy socializing with. if there are any.
this is not even a problem of a small society. it is on the scale of the planet.
relationships have dependencies and prerequisites. for a friendship or romantic relationship to exist, the participants have to meet. meeting means that they exist in the same world.
i say world, and mean dimensions and time. i say dimension, and mean, shared environment, existence, way of life. in one world everything most important exists around the theatre: discussions about directors, current performances, unanswered questions. in the other world, it’s when and where to harvest food. in some world the main, big and fat tag in the tag cloud is politics. somewhere it’s literature. some people live in a world where it’s important to know modern hardware, models, trends. some people live in a world of mathematical proofs. the worlds have to overlap, this is a prerequisite.
worlds can overlap somewhere outside of the main tag area. people go to clubs, pubs, political rallies, film festivals, art exhibitions, IT conferences. so if one does enjoy friday nights, and the other has no idea what people do on friday night and where, then they won’t meet and get acquainted. and even if they have been acquainted somewhere else, in order for the relationship or a friendship to sustain there must be willingness and readiness to merge the worlds, existences, or at least some parts of those. but why?
what can decrease the amount of frustration in the world, is the recognition that the person you had an idea to be involved with somehow lives in the other world. you don’t get involved with someone from the mars. so it’s not stupid to recognize that let’s say this young girl who talks about the theatre all the time, has her own world, and options to consider there. and that may be if you cross the world border, and establish your troops there, because you think you need this, that’s an aggression, and unjustified behaviour to mess with someone’s life.
this is a very good article https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article #golang #go #rob_pike #programming
these are film photos, but lofi, taken with ‘soap’ automatic, fixed focus camera.
https://aniramsky.com/portfolio/hayastan-3-autumn/ - bw photos https://aniramsky.com/portfolio/hayastan-2/ - colour photos
check his site for more work. #lofi #armenia #photo #sketch
photo of the day.
by gleb garanich/reuters.
#saakashvili
vanities. marla maples, donald trump and imelda marcoss. march 1991 by dafydd jones.
#1991 #trump #vanities
#sevan #architecture #modernism #armenia #mazmanian #kochar #photo #lake
the cheapest fuji film - c200, mamiya zm, 28mm lens.
#sevan #architecture
mamiya zm, mamiya sekor e 28mm f2.8, fujifilm eterna 250d film. my weblog link: https://norayr.am/weblog/2017/10/07/18856/
Saakashvili’s greatest dreams have come true and Tbilisi’s hybrid of exoticness and refinement has reached the tastemaker’s class. You no longer have to worry about getting hit up for a bribe or randomly shot. Tourists come to Tbilisi, and more importantly they overwhelmingly love the place. It is the closest thing to the last unspoiled place in Europe. There is a new Tbilisi that is dynamic, on the vanguard of culture, and they have first class accommodation for all the posh journalists that have come to marvel in the fact that Tbilisi is not some Soviet backwater.
http://www.postpravdamagazine.com/tbilisi-fucking-documenting-sexual-awaking-omara-gogichaishvili/
here it is also very interesting how georgian journalist would like to present georgia and tbilisi, independently of what’s the reality. i know what’s the reality. (: people are creatures that believe stories they tell about themselves.
#tbilisi #georgia
What I found out was that even though there are frustrating moments when inheritance IS actually the optimal solution, being forced to use composition has helped me think differently about how to structure my code for the better. Inheritance makes it too easy to design yourself into a trap where refactoring becomes extremely expensive even when necessary. Go is designed to make refactoring much easier by doing things like forcing the use of composition.
https://www.quora.com/Why-should-someone-choose-Go-as-his-main-programming-language
#golang #programming
Competitive programming means you are generally skipping some solid philosophies and patterns for stable development. Training to be competitive is thus developing bad habits on purpose.
https://www.quora.com/Computer-Programming-Is-there-any-top-competitive-programmer-using-Go-as-main-language #programming
this is why its easier to get blown up highlights on digital https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEsqbe8Gwi4 #photography
aaa fpm’s don’t you know main riff sounds like sweet child o’mine (((: #fpm #gunsnroses #music
apparently the director is mamoru hosoda. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg7f4Eu4XKQ i did not know him when i first watched this fpm clip. take a look at this as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7p5mTYw0cs and this is takashi murakami.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzwenXbTIm8
https://the.me/unprecedented-retro-rangefinder-yashica-y35-digifilm/ #yashica #camera #kickstarter #japan
the reason of doing this is not because we want to be entrepreneurs, i actually hate being called entrepreneur, cause i’m not in to these whole ‘i want to make money and be successful and buy rocket ship’ or whatever people would do with their money nowadays, i think that most entrepreneurs are, when they are successful, they turn in to idiots. and they want to be rockstars, because we have this view of entrepreneurs as the new rock stars, they same thing with entrepreneurs and rock stars, like big egos and lots of money and privileges, so we should stop celebrating entrepreneurs, and just celebrate innovation instead.
shoushi on architectonictravels stream. not the most iconir shoushi architecture of course. according to the new constitution, it is called republic of artsakh, no ‘nagorno karabakh’ any more.
#shushi #shoushi #artsakh
i like this too. #photo
this is an outstanding shot of khanjian’s house. it is made with 50mm lens, and it is not easy to shoot buildings with that focal length. by @{noon; noon@spyurk.am}, or actually, this is the real user page on instagram.
shot on #fomapan 400 film.
#khanjians_house #dilijan
the second photo I would like to share with you today is taken with Nikon FM/35mm F2.0 lens on Eastman Double X 5222 film.
#eastman #35mm #doublex #eastman_double_x #5222 #film #film-photography #film_photography #girl
i’d like to share a couple of photos with you, those are not taken by me. this shot was taken with 50mm Carl Zeiss Sonnar ZM F1.5 lens on Adox Silvermax film. I guess Helios 85mm F1.5 is one of its descendants, well its design is taken from Biotar 1.5 but I guess it is related with Sonnar F1.5 too.
#photography #adox #silvermax #film #35mm #sonnar #sonnar_zm #film-photography #film_photography #zeiss #girl #photo
watched the circle. would like to discuss it with someone irl.
#robot #programming
bringing the sound of tbilisi to london, berlin, india, tokyo, world wide! fuck yeah!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYlzQjAhyA8 #set #tbilisi #newa
I have added a grouped tag cloud on my blog, so the photos are browsable by film, by camera, by location, by lens, and by scanner.
https://norayr.am/weblog/ #photo #photography
you know, i love georgia, and i love tbilisi, and i would like to spend a month there, because i am extremely tired of the constant high load, i would describe tbilisi as a best city in the world i have seen, and the second would be new york. i mean, now you can imagine how i do love tbilisi. i also love the georgian language, i sincerely would like to be fluent in it, it sounds very beautiful to my ear.
now after this disclaimer i would like to tell you, that it’s surprising, how we, in caucasus can feel ourselves losers, if the neighbour could achieve something which we did not.
once i was in tbilisi, and there was this girl, who was sharing her experience with the mentioned by me in the previous post application ‘picsart’. she said - “it’s an amazing application, i do not use photoshop any more, you don’t need to as well, you can edit photos in picsart, and it has outstanding features”. well, i doubt you don’t need photoshop or gimp if you have picsart installed, but still, i said, not without feeling good about it, of course, that it’s an armenian startup.
now, because i write it here on my english stream, i need to justify why did i feel good. i know i personally did not participate the development of the app. but those are people like me. i did not study with them, they are a bit younger, but they share the same university teachers (not the best in the world, obviously), the same blockade, and crappy political situation, they went to serve in the army near the borders, like me, and they had some good ideas to create/participate the development of the application. i think it was possible to make it technically much better, i dislike the implementation, but still. the same feeling i do have, when i see good architecture. i know those who did the projects - again, people i know, those are some of us, i am one of them, not better, not worse, and that means we, are actually capable, as a society to produce good buildings, make good design, i would like, and not ashamed to show. even less ashamed than to show picsart, i would not be proud to show picsart. but that means, that though the ruling elite has its own toy architects, who are, of course stupid, because no sane person with dignity would collaborate with the regime, and that’s why we have a lot of buildings i am ashamed of, we as a society are able to produce something i won’t be ashamed of.
so if i can be ashamed of something, then i may allow myself to be proud of something as well.
and yes, i know the yerevan is completely spoiled place, it’s not what it was, it’s not what it could become. one of my friends (friends? acquaintances) uses the tag #independentlandscape for that, which is really sad, because yes, in the independent armenia we are not able to have the ruling elite we would choose. there are different global factors, including russia’s support of our current government, and the real war situation. i used to say ‘semi war’ to describe the situation, when no active military actions are taken every day, but the shootings are real, and every day people near border live under the fire. it’s real. just those in yerevan, or those who don’t take their noses out of yerevan don’t feel that. don’t know that. don’t understand that.
so back to the story, the girl in tbilisi was showing the picsart as an app, because of which you won’t need photoshop. and i said - yes, i know the app, it’s our local startup. and she said - ‘no, it’s not possible, it’s a good, important application, how could it be developed in armenia?’. and i said: ‘yes, my friends work there, i know the people who does it, i have been in their office.’ and she was in denial for some time, and then she was very upset.
so to me, georgian successes in fighting corruption, let’s say, those give me a hope, that we also can do that. this is something very close to us, and it demonstrates that we also can do that, it is real, observable, tangible. so i am glad we have georgia as a good example and inspiration.
what is frustrating, is when your neighbours have this competition feeling with you, you cannot be good for them by definition, because they are superior. it is sad when they, instead of being glad for your achievements, feel upset about those. we go to georgia, but they mostly don’t come to us. the only case a lot of young people from georgia came to yerevan was the concert of the ‘system of the down’, the armenian group at the main square of yerevan. so this is the story. sorry for bothering you. till.
i do not like the armenian startup ‘picsart’, the pride of many, because of different, mostly technical reasons, but i really like that it’s the first successful company, which promotes remixing, and encourages you to upload a photo under a license which provides opportunity to remix. they even have a hash tag, #freetoremix, if i am not mistaken. #picsart #instagram #photography #mobile_photography
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kGhk0fPhyY
the video found via @{rareloveboy@diasporing.ch; rareloveboy@diasporing.ch} #facebook #piratebay #young_turks #social_media
omg fl studio is written with delphi.
#flstudio #fl_studio #daw #delphi #pascal
i have shown you this building several times http://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/9184/lake-sevan-writers-resort-history-armenia-modernist-masterpiece #sevan
indeed
Me being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.
#wirth #pascal #modula #oberon
yep. #phone #call #dinosaur
girl from artsakh.
#artsakh #nkpeace
from the instagram stream of the girl from artsakh.
#artsakh #nkpeace
The files show that in 2011, VTB funded a $191m investment in Twitter. About the same time, Gazprom Investholding financed an opaque offshore company, which in turn funded a vehicle that held $1bn-worth of Facebook shares.
this building is usually (and now) on my desktop.
#architecture #georgia #modernism
#georgia #architecture #design
http://simula67.at.ifi.uio.no/50years/ 50 years anniversary of Simula, the first object-oriented programming language.
#simula #programming-languages #programming_languages #programming
isn’t the google wear better than pebble? no.
#pebble
Baku Blacklists Anthony Bourdain for Artsakh Visit
http://asbarez.com/168025/baku-blacklists-anthony-bourdain-for-artsakh-visit/ #artsakh
what you see on the photo is called ‘jingialov hats’, bread with herbs, more than twenty of them.
#always (that’s an armenian twitter meme, #միշտ)
#lewis_carroll #stark #screenshot #alsa #sound
#ararat #city #yerevan
http://www.shondaland.com/live/a12919749/amy-tan-interview/
i read, therefore i am in the basement, near the wall, listening the set.
teenager garage band from yerevan https://soundcloud.com/drowner47/khio #yerevan #band #khio #armenian
dream different!
#dream #different
#dirkgently #dirkgentlybbca #mandelbrot
usually i don’t enter jabber any more. i am tired to turn it on by knowing noone will write me. there are a couple of contacts anyway. all of them had other ways of communication with locals, except me.
since june i have twitter. i don’t keep that thing opened, and don’t receive emails from it with the account i always check.
recently one guy tried to contact me for a very important for me opportunity, i had to be somewhere at exact time, and he did it via twitter, so i missed that.
i’ve asked why didn’t he use email and he said it did not pass through his mind. several people also agreed that email only has an association with work and tons of emails they need to read but don’t want to.
What’s a bit unclear at this point is the company behind this Ektachrome relaunch. The original announcement at CES was made by Kodak Alaris, a separate company that’s owned by the Kodak Pension Plan in the UK and which runs Kodak’s Personalized Imaging division. But this latest comment was made by the Facebook page verified as being operated by the Eastman Kodak Company, based in the United States.
https://petapixel.com/2017/09/13/return-kodak-ektachrome-film-nigh/
#ektachrome
let me share it with you as well, it’s amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGRIjeN7Yjk #whomadewho
barev (բարեւ) means ‘hello’ in armenian, and probably means wishing the good cause ‘bari’ (բարի) means that.
#tbilisi
i have shared it a lot of times may be, but it won’t harm, one of my favourite buildings ever, photo not mine. #tbilisi
I FIXED MY CAR! I FIXED MY CAR! I FIXED MY CAR!
well, it was way too easy and duckduckgo helped me, also i had that idea myself because it was similar to the other car issue, and i was reading about it before, once in the mountains, but still, i bought the tool, opened the hood, looked very serious and cool, and apparently it worked,
I FIXED MY CAR, I FIXED MY CAR, I FIXED THE CAR!
#tokyo
#architecture #dog #berlin
: This is a picture of a couple of dogs on a farm called Cabeça Gorda in the Alto Alentejo province of Southern Portugal, which I took when I was a teenager. A shepherd entered the room, and they turned their heads to his direction.
http://emulsive.org/interviews/i-am-luis-barrancos-and-this-is-why-i-shoot-film #photography
obviously armenian guy https://soundcloud.com/herztoene-musik/herzfrequenz-von-armen-miran #armen_miran #music
this is an amazing project. #yerevan
https://www.behance.net/gallery/57668225/Armenian-intellectuals-role-pIaying-llustrations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbtJ-IvDzGg #woz at pozner’s show in #russian.
i met him in yerevan, have his signature on sweet16 documentation. (:
me by @{Սոնա Մանուկյան; sanyokot@spyurk.am}
#gyumri #photography
wow. xkb? doesn’t xkb work only for X? wayland has it’s own keyboard mappings.
#jolla #xkb #wayland #x11 #keyboard
i have new photos of #lori-1 wind farm. well, “new”, made in summer. i thought it’s kodak ektar, but it turned out to be kodak cft inside the kodak ektar roll. if i would new it’s b/w i would process it myself. whatever, i get this roll developed just recently, among other 9 rolls, and my slides are still undeveloped, because the lab in the other city did not have chemicals.
btw, i mentioned it again, i love this film. that film never stops to amaze me. as well as the place, it’s always always always different. unfortunately, it does not look possible to find kodak cft film in the vicinity any more. it was medical film, and some people got their hands on it in hospitals, and sold. now the resource is exhausted. it is not available on global markets as well. it was only possible to find in the region.
now i would say, that #լոռի֊1 tag in my blog, which features the place i always revisit, shows my development, but not (merely?) as photographer, but as a person. so these are the photos, attached to this post.
#kodakcft #kodak-cft #film #mamiya-zm #28mm #evening #stars #wind-farm #powerplant #lori-1 #lori
Golshifteh Farahani
me in one sentance.
roller coaster bridge http://themindcircle.com/terrifying-bridge/ #bridge #japan
English translation of the newspaper cut:
“in Omsk,
somethingwill be repaired till 15 Sep”.
According to the tender results to repair backyard spaces in Omsk, there is a list of 10 lots, each from 8 to 15 mln rubles.
The winners are companies belonging to Melik Petrossian, Artak Hakobian, Karen Martoian, Aramik Grigorian, Abgar Hayrapetian, Lazar Poghossian and Hamlet Saroian.
https://twitter.com/inkyfromthetape/status/915865312834326533
#russian #armenians #everywhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAawr32cVBM #dating #horror
trail along the whole territory of artsakh. https://armenpress.am/eng/news/894015/artsakh-offers-incomparable-hiking-experience-in-its-popular-trail.html #artsakh
i am not sure it’s good but it’s true. #armenia #artsakh #georgia
amazing
One day in 1999, after having been in the Ku Klux Klan for about 20 years, Kelly, who had risen from grand dragon to imperial wizard, called me, said he was leaving the Klan and apologized for having been a member. He told me he could no longer hate people.
#kkk #ku-klux-klan #hate #people
so there are these entertainment sites with that kind of ads for attraction like “which one question to ask, in order to know whole inner world of someone?”.
my friend shared facebook screenshots of such an ad, in russian. should be picture number zero here.
and the comment on the second screenshot suggests such a question: “whom crimea belongs to?”.
the background to understand how brilliant the joke is: what you may not know about russia, is that when the crimea annexation happened, there was a lot of euphoria and excitement about that, and the phrase which became a meme, and was often written without whitespace - крымнаш, which means “crimeaisours”.
when someone says “crimeaisours” you can make a lot of assumptions about them. as i am against militarism and aggression, and for me aggression is evil, you can imagine that i do not share that excitement. and when someone labels that as “annexation”, then you know whom do you talk with. i found one of my best friends by that phrase, i’ve just heard around “was it before or after crimea annexation?”. so she became one of my best friends, and later she was pressured by the government and police. btw she is ethnic russian.
“The great difficulty is thus considering the unity of the many and the multiplicity of the unity. Those who see the diversity of cultures tend to overlook the unity of mankind; those who see the unity of mankind tend to dismiss the diversity of cultures”. Edgar Morin, L’identité humaine.
https://hdelhumeau.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/language-and-globalization/ #globalization #language
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/globalization-helps-preserve-endangered-languages
do you think globalization harms or helps more small community languages? how globalization and colonization differ in that respect? how globalization relates to decolonizatdon processes?
#globalization #colonization #decolonization #language
amazing article
I cannot remember all the details. But I remember one peace conference with the French where the Vietminh were not invited. On Sept. 14, when ho signed this basically hollow document, he was heard to murmur, “I am signing my own death warrant.” But to a colleague he concluded, “there is noting else to do but fight.” Ho returned to Vietnam, but then fighting broke out in Haiphong, Mus said, that Ho had been betrayed, adding, “I use the word betrayed with full knowledge of what it means.” After that, Ho never placed faith in negotiations.
At one point, Ho went to Paris for talks again, but the French put him aboard a very slow ship while behind He’s back, they tried to install a French puppet government in his absence.
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2017/09/ho-chi-minth-by-richard-sale.html
#politics #article #life #history #story
https://lwn.net/Articles/702177/
#email #kernel #development #github #automation
#haskell #people http://argumatronic.com/posts/2017-09-27-haskell-is-useless.html
#car #film #photo
rock was music of hope. techno is music of solace.
#rock #music #techno #hope #solace
#girl
#girl #makeup #photo
#girl #photo
roadside america http://blog.flickr.net/en/2017/09/29/forty-years-and-eleven-thousand-images-of-roadside-america/ #flickr #photo #loc
cool gadget http://www.instructables.com/id/Modern-LED-Desk-LampPowered-by-5V-USB/
i don’t like material design. a also don’t like emboss/3d buttons.
i also don’t like retro. though i like vintage.
i think there’s no sense in making buildings today, like in 17th century. not a good design.
same with the design of the on screen buttons - if they are trying to pretend to be real, have shadow, or look like real, it does not make them real. and emulation/simulation like that is not about good design.
so the ‘back’ button on android. it emulates the phones with keyboards and those legcy interfaces. but why when you have a touchscreen? here jolla approach is much better - you don’t have that ‘back’ button. why would you? no need for that on a touch screen.
see you. #design
minolta xg-m has an amazing viewfinder, bright, big. i think i never seen any like that. mamiya 1000dtl has a good one, but not that good. also, it has the led panel near the scale with the shutter values in the viewfinder, like mamiya z series, which is very convenient. and also shows the aperture value. the film advance lever is of an amazing quality. you just feel the quality while moving it, and holding camera in hands. #minoltat
our pod is 5 years old. photos of an attempted dignity attempted birthday party here. #diaspora #attempted_dignity
C, Rust, Pascal and Go are the best in terms of energy consumption!
https://jaxenter.com/energy-efficient-programming-languages-137264.html
#golang #c #rust #pascal #energy #programming-languages #programming_languages #programming
i have a lot of film scanned with noritsu scanner at the lab. at first i was happy, especially with the results from the consumer fuji films. but the cinema fuji film - eterna, was obviously out of balance, with green shift. i’ve tried to colour balance, and was again sort of satisfied by the results, but then decided to scan same pictures with my minolta. hmm, here i think the quality is much better. there are even colours noritsu did not capture, the photo on the right have deeper colours, but if i try to do something like that with the noritsu scanned photo, i get red skin, and artefacts. so i am confused, i paid for the scanning, because i have very limited time recently, and wanted to get cool out of the scanner photos without spending much time on the process.
#photography #scan #film #film_photography #fuji_eterna #eterna #kite
this photographer has a lot of armenia photos made on leica monochromatic sensor. https://www.flickr.com/photos/74638417@N03/ #armenia #monochrome
what would an entirely flood proof city look like? #city #architecture
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/sep/25/what-flood-proof-city-china-dhaka-houston
#esperanto on #freakonomics http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-learn-esperanto-special-feature/
Turkish nationalists: there was no Armenian genocide Also Turkish nationalists: well there was but the Kurds did it Also Turkish nationalists: we’re gonna kill the Kurds like we killed the Armenians
https://twitter.com/mathaiaus/status/912952351178104833
#armenian_genocide #turkey #1915 #kurds #nationalism
#yerevan #1988 #carldekeyzer #photo
#tbilisi #spacehall #nicolas_jaar #concert #hands #outofthecamera #unedited
#caffeinebrewlab #dilijan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-Step_Sequencer #linux #sound
#book
This is the IP address for the entire nation of Qatar. As such it is a very sensitive IP address to block and any prolonged blocks are likely to wind up in the news. As such please exercise extreme caution when deciding to block this IP address. Only block if there has been a long succession of disruptive editing or vandalism in a very short period of time. Please use very short blocks, generally anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:82.148.97.69&oldid=760432863 #wikipedia #qatar #ip #internet #screenshot #history
Black is a statement. It gives you a “look,” and fairly uncomplicatedly. It says you’re damn serious about life, and have neither the time nor the inclination to faff about with silly colour combinations and patterns. Nobody should ever mistake you as the type of person to listen to anything but dark music played in dark rooms with unsmiling people who want their clothes to be the physical extension of the abstract ideas that techno brings to the dance floor. And for the most part, it works. Nobody sees a monochrome press shot of two dudes dressed in tight black tee shirts and skinny jeans staring forlornly away from the camera and thinks, “maybe those guys play lots of disco!”
But most importantly, wearing black tells people you’re “in the know.” And in a subculture like dance music, where superior knowledge is traded like cultural capital, being in the know is basically everything. Showing up to an after party as the only dickhead dressed in yellow screams “I’m new here,” which won’t exactly earn you a surprise invitation into the green room for a cheeky one with the cool kids.
http://www.onlytechno.net/techno-djs-fans-wear-black-want-bring-colours-back-techno/
also this https://www.reddit.com/r/DJs/comments/2shjhx/why_do_most_djs_wear_plain_blackt/
#black #techno
#independence #sep21 #armenia
looks like i don’t need ableton because there is bitwig. (:
Live 8.2 works perfectly except for this one problem. It’s much more stable than under Windows and I can get much lower latencies (really important) using wineasio.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15695
#linux #wine #ableton #sound
If this does not help and you use pulseaudio (default on Ubuntu), kill it. Kill it with fire. (sudo killall pulseaudio).
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2113
#pulseaudio #linux #ableton #audio
that’s me!
do we have an estimation of real, active diaspora users? not the quantity of accounts, because obviously, if we don’t delete old accounts, quantity should slowly grow, which we see. so we see the slow growth, but i have an impression, when i go back several years and see some posts, that diaspora was more alive place back then. with more comments, discussions and posts.
i also have an impression, that mostly the core of dedicated users remained, others left, some came, but the social economics is sustained mostly by that dedicated core, which may be cannot imagine itself in some other place, but should anyway notice that the economy stagnates. economy with circulating likes and comments. (:
so is that only my impression? #diaspora
he also called azerbaijan a nazi state. and i must admit his words had an effect on many - we here are disconnected from the existence in azerbaijan, we read the words spoken there, and the propaganda, but we don’t take it seriously, because we on a deep level, cannot believe it happens and we are longing for peace so much, we can believe it’s indeed reachable. situation here is that people are much less aggressive-nationalistic, would like to integrate, feel themselves the part of the world, not being isolated, solve problems peacefully, and many would accept significant trade offs to establish the stable peace. and the question is, will those trade offs, that weaken de facto armenian security on the field, for the some recognized by both parties intermediate status for artsakh, will those trade offs indeed pay by peace, or we may end up in a worse situation with more aggressive azerbaijan which knows it has even more power, and gaining the remaining territories back in a short war is much more real for them. and in that scenario, would they stop by getting back artsakh by war (which is already a disaster, and means ~200.000 refugees plus a lot of deaths among both military and civilians, and everyone here would be sent to war, and we cannot handle all this), or they would go further by establishing a connection to nakhinchevan and cutting armenia from the iran. and in that case, would be armenia a country which can sustain it’s life, or that would just be the end of the state?
i always say, that feeling the situation on the ground is very important. going to artsakh and closer to the armenian borders, and seeing what is happening there is very important. driving by the road close to the border and knowing you can be shot at any moment is very important. watching the mountains and identifying who controls which one is very important. that brings you down to earth, to the reality. so freed lapshin also brings many to the reality, because he just experienced the azerbaijani reality, where one of the faults he had to pay for, he was ‘guilty’ for was calling artsakh by it’s armenian name, ‘artsakh’. that alone cannot be tolerated there. while that’s completely normal thing even in case of not political, but merely geographic entities - same places, rivers, mountains are called differently in different languages.
so Lapshin is free.
In a separate Facebook post, the blogger reflected on the Karabakh conflict and made an emotional appeal to Armenians.
“I am ashamed of admitting that before I found myself in the Azerbaijani prison I sincerely believed that the Karabakh conflict is a very disputed one and should be resolved on the basis of respect for Azerbaijan’s national borders,” he wrote. “What an idiot I was! Already in 1988 Azerbaijan began [a campaign of] terror against Armenians in [the Azerbaijani city of] Sumgait, Baku and Karabakh.”
“Armenians, hold firm!” he said. “These people want to see you dead full stop. And if you lose Karabakh as a result of negotiations or a weakening of Armenia’s position, be aware that they will come to slaughter you. Just like the Turks did 100 years ago.”
i took the English translation for you from here
#artsakh #lapshin #azerbaijan
նոր յօդուած ջոշից՝ https://www.joshondesign.com/2017/08/18/idealos_essay #օհ #դիզայն
i’ve changed my pin. because TRUST NOONE!
https://www.troyhunt.com/face-id-touch-id-pins-no-id-and-pragmatic-security/
armenians, armenians everywhere.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/05/iphone-fingerprint-search-warrant/480861/
btw my german friends, if you know danito and athina, i am listening for their set in yerevan now. (:
i have seen the scan of the original paper in russian.
high hopes
cool, of course.
It remains unclear what the real motivations of the Culture Ministry were for shutting down the exhibit that was to run until late autumn.
https://www.evnreport.com/raw-unfiltered/eclipse
to flatter russia?
on conlangs https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/101265/constructed-languages #language #conlang
Three things you should know about RT and Sputnik https://euvsdisinfo.eu/three-things-you-should-know-about-rt-and-sputnik/ #rt #sputnik
make happen
#make
blogging is for losers http://modernreject.com/2012/01/blogging-is-for-losers/
RT, Sputnik and Russia’s New Theory of War https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/magazine/rt-sputnik-and-russias-new-theory-of-war.html
is there a prayer for successful compilation? give me a link please.
Meet KARYYN Syrian-Armenian-American electronic musician and ‘visual composer’ http://sugar-zine.com/music/meet-k-a-r-y-y-n-syrian-armenian-american-electronic-musician-and-visual-composer/ #music #audiovisual #syria
the most popular show in Armenia (among netflix users) is Sherlock. (:
#sherlock #tv #netflix #show #armenia #map
TIL swift allows emojis as variables
yes, that’s a very useful feature of the modern languages, and unicode will allow to use one exact symbol instead of =>, <=, and most importantly ==, by mapping keys, so that we’ll avoid problems like if (a=b) which is always true. (:
#programming #programming-languages #programming_languages #emoji #unicode
— … and there is no uber in monte carlo. — you had to call gg[1]. — imagine how opel astra with ‘gg’ sticker appears from behind the corner. — they would not let opel in to monte carlo, they only let ferraris and lamborghinis, because the tunnels are low, and only low cars are able to pass.
#talk #tourism
1 - local armenian taxi startup.
early eighties.
#gagik_haroutiunian #photography #shadows_of_time #black_and_white #film #book #armenia #photo #autumn
early eighties, yerevan, phone booths.
#gagik_haroutiunian #photography #shadows_of_time #black_and_white #film #book #armenia #photo #yerevan
#gagik_haroutiunian #photography #shadows_of_time #black_and_white #film #book #armenia #photo #war #artsakh
bread queue, artsakh, early nineties.
#gagik_haroutiunian #photography #shadows_of_time #black_and_white #film #book #armenia #photo #war #artsakh
early nineties, artsakh.
#gagik_haroutiunian #photography #shadows_of_time #black_and_white #film #book #armenia #photo #war #artsakh #girl
again, 1988, liberty square.
#gagik_haroutiunian #photography #shadows_of_time #black_and_white #film #book #armenia #photo #yerevan #protest #history #1988 #liberty_square
this photo is taken during the protests of 1988, probably early morning. yerevan, liberty square, back then theatrical.
#gagik_haroutiunian #photography #shadows_of_time #black_and_white #film #book #armenia #photo #yerevan #protest #history #1988 #liberty_square
i would like to share some photos from the exhibition, and the book, by Gagik Haroutiunian. I’ve already shared this one before, but this photo is of a better quality. or may be not.
so, the photo is called ‘president’, and dated 1991. however, we can see the flag of armenian soviet socialistic republic, and obviously it’s 1990, atd LTP was not a president yet, he was a speaker.
#gagik_haroutiunian #photography #shadows_of_time #black_and_white #film #book #1990 #1991 #armenia #photo #ltp #flag
We in illumos were indisputably on our own, and while many outsiders gave us no chance of survival, we ourselves had reason for confidence: after all, open source communities are robust because they are often united not only by circumstance, but by values, and in our case, we as a community never lost our belief in ZFS, Zones, DTrace and myriad other technologies like MDB, FMA and Crossbow.
In stark contrast to proprietary software, open source does not — cannot, even — die. Yes, it can be disused or rusty or fusty, but as long as anyone is interested in it at all, it lives and breathes. Even should the interest wane to nothing, open source software survives still: its life as machine may be suspended, but it becomes as literature, waiting to be discovered by a future generation.
http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2017/09/04/the-sudden-death-and-eternal-life-of-solaris/
#oracle #solaris #open-source #open_source #free_software
Oracle didn’t deserve them and now it doesn’t have them — they have been liberated, if in a depraved act of corporate violence.
http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2017/09/04/the-sudden-death-and-eternal-life-of-solaris/
#oracle #solaris
amazing, mac version of Ableton is just a windows version running on wine.
The Azerbaijani Laundromat is a complex money-laundering operation and slush fund that handled $2.9 billion over a two-year period through four shell companies registered in the UK.
#photo
that moment when you notice an armenian surname.
let me complain about life. i believe that’s okay to complain. may be that even has genetic base. there was a research which showed that some people, who have some genetic pattern, love to complain to friends. but that’s in usa, in korea, where complaining is considered bad, nobody does that.
so i believe it’s ok to complain. what alternative do we have? you go to instagram and you see that everybody is happy. there are couples (have have resistance for those photos, never feel bad because i know they are not as happy as they show), and there are companies, friend photos, community photos. on the opposite, armenian twitter community is rather complaining. because as i understand those are people who don’t fit in this or that way, and are refugees from facebook, of course to the known, and not isolated from the world place - twitter. not diaspora.
so to me twitter is a very nice place. i can feel connection to the local community. i don’t follow anyone interesting from the outside world - i have interesting people here. and for celebrities, well, IT celebrities, I don’t follow them on twitter, though I would like to, because I cannot handle and digest big streams. I just cannot.
and the twitter here is the place for losers, for “refugees”. and i believe that’s ok to be a loser, and accept it, and live with it. so i perceive that community as community of complaining losers, and i guess that’s much more healthy environment than the happy instagram. first of all, because the happiness is not true. especially theirs. secondly, because we see that everybody around have problems, and everybody struggling, and everybody is unhappy, and that’s okay. it’s not only you, the loser, we all are.
thus the popular tags or meme replies on the twitter armenian community are “always”, “as well”, those that confirm that everyone has the same unhappiness. and by using those as memes people make fun of themselves.
so my today’s complain is - i hate my pidgin. i hate to turn it on every day to know i won’t chat with anybody. even the IRC communities i am part of, the most interesting to me, are rather silent, because nothing, no life is going on there.
i love tbilisi because of the life. not sweet, sometimes really tough, but there’s life. something is going on. armenia is a really sad place, because it is separated from the world. now also by the curtain of the “eurasian union”. we’ve got two guests in may, for the conference, so one of them was from russia, one from europe. on the road from the airport, the russian one panicked - ‘why don’t you have anything written in russian?’, and the european one said “why do you use so many latin inscriptions, if you have own letters?’. i have answered - i guess because we want to feel ourselves the part of the world. desperately.
this Tomas Barfod song is used in David August’s epic mix. I just felt I need to hear it right now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh-jLy3ttEU #tomas_barfod #pulsing
the great man was wrong.
from the book and exhibition of photos made by Gagik Haroutiunian, called ‘shadows of time’.
this photo is called ‘president’, and dated 1991. however, we can see the flag of armenian soviet socialistic republic, and obviously it’s 1990, atd LTP was not a president yet, he was a speaker.
#1990 #1991 #armenia #photo #ltp #flag
p. s. i remember those sessions of the parliament, i was following them every day from the beginning till the very last minute. every day. i was 13 years old.
today’s haul.
this is very characterizing and sad, when the sentence like “you can only love armenia from afar” gets many likes and retweets.
i do believe that
one of the defining properties of love is being highly motivated to stay close.
#emigration #armenia #love
#william_egglestone #photography #egglestone #art
eventually. it is an astonishingly beauhiful road.
https://www.azatutyun.am/a/28709821.html #armenia #road
i love rob pike http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~adnan/pike.html
Rob Pike’s 5 Rules of Programming
Rule 1. You can’t tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don’t try to second guess and put in a speed hack until you’ve proven that’s where the bottleneck is.
Rule 2. Measure. Don’t tune for speed until you’ve measured, and even then don’t unless one part of the code overwhelms the rest.
Rule 3. Fancy algorithms are slow when n is small, and n is usually small. Fancy algorithms have big constants. Until you know that n is frequently going to be big, don’t get fancy. (Even if n does get big, use Rule 2 first.)
Rule 4. Fancy algorithms are buggier than simple ones, and they’re much harder to implement. Use simple algorithms as well as simple data structures.
Rule 5. Data dominates. If you’ve chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.
Pike’s rules 1 and 2 restate Tony Hoare’s famous maxim “Premature optimization is the root of all evil.” Ken Thompson rephrased Pike’s rules 3 and 4 as “When in doubt, use brute force.”. Rules 3 and 4 are instances of the design philosophy KISS. Rule 5 was previously stated by Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month. Rule 5 is often shortened to “write stupid code that uses smart objects”. #programming
she says “traditions of our backyard”. (: #yerevan #backyard #coffee #tradition
apparently, the good style when programming PLC’s or even microcontrollers, is to not write to the ports directly from different functions, but set flags, then have only one function, which looks at the flags and sets ports.
i’ve seen the schneider’s development environment, and apparently you cannot copy the code, let’s say to compare (diff) it in the third party tool. you do everything in one, sluggish, big, slow IDE, not only the code development, but also you write to the device, you read from the device, you configure connection settings, everything.
just the opposite of unix philosophy - do everything, and do it bad.
i guess that’s because most of the developers who use schneider products are electrical engineers, otherwise if they would be programmers, then by being acquainted with the cool development tools and culture, they would not tolerate such a product.
#schneider #plc #programming
#vanadzor
he compares kodak color 200, cheapest kodak consumer film with the high end samsung device.
well, actually the camera matters too, in a way how it calculates exposure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d5qE7A6NGM
#film #kodak_color_200 #kodak #samsung #comparison #filmphotography
from #mirzoian_library birthday party.
#yerevan
nice effort to create a site about armenian modernistic architecture.
#modernism #armenia #architecture #site
#6502
#existence #film #room #colour
#mirzoian_library #yerevan
today i found some sweets, that were expired long time ago. and remembered a status, i did not write long time ago.
you know it’s time to give up and forget, when the sweets you’ve got because she likes them, are getting expired.
well, knowing is not being able.
Mirzoian library is 3 years old. #mirzoian_library
#achajour #yerevan #parpetsi
article by Mikayel Zolian in Regional Posh on repatriation. #armenia #repatriation
#gravity-falls #gravity_falls
http://www.thewindpower.net/windfarm_en_7409_lori-1.php
these italian turbines are used at lori-1 wind farm.
https://en.wind-turbine.com/wind-turbines/55062/vestas-v47-660.html #lori-1 #wind-farm #wind #power
atmel solar panels https://www.manz.com/markets/solar/system-solutions-for-bipv/
Iowa Becomes the 47th State to Recognize the Armenian Genocide
https://ditord.com/2017/08/24/iowa-becomes-the-47th-state-to-recognize-the-armenian-genocide/
This photo is so telling… with the members of the Turkmenistan delegation carefully writing down everything, while the Armenian officials look like they don’t give a damn.
https://ditord.com/2017/08/24/photo-of-the-day-sargsyan-berdimuhamedov-meeting-in-yerevan/
this twitter, under every armenian post, writes ‘translate from indonesian’. comon, it’s not so hard to detect armenian language, it has unique alphabet, no other language uses.
https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
runs #debian, not clear about window manager/desktop environment.
let’s see if it gathers community. #linux #phone #privacy #surveillance #matrix #decentralization
i am gonna have 24 students, 5 from them are from diaspora (armenian), and i am gonna teach operating systems.
i am very excited, and i hope i won’t fail it. this is very responsible but is an amazing opportunity.
my ta is @{Antranig Vartanian; antranigv@spyurk.am}, the syrian armenian guy, hey, you cannot sleep, you have to be there earlier than everybody, ok?
the university has this moodle system, but i don’t like it. why would we need to use web software? i think we can use git instead.
new game for oric atmos! inspired of google chrome t-rex runner. (: with this music.
https://www.oric.org/software/run_t_rex__run____-2359.html
#oric #game
this is my map which shows which places i do recommend to explore in tbilisi, with my photos and stories. stories in armenian, sorry.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Dbppkt6KdvUG3JlAiYHAKP4s41M&usp=sharing #tbilisi #map
btw i don’t know how could i create something like that by using osm. do you? tell me. #osm
let me share with you my playlists https://github.com/norayr/music - i know it could be done with just one makefile, but something stopped me from doing that. don’t remember. #music
so i was trying to establish sshfs connection to jolla, i remember i was doing that without problems, but probably not with this update, and it was failing with the message:
remote host has disconnected
i’ve tried to run
sshfs -odebug,sshfs_debug,loglevel=debug nemo@jolla.arnet.am:/home/nemo/Music /mnt/jolla
i’ve got a lot of debug messages, but no use.
then i examined /etc/ssh/sshd_config on device.
turned out it contained the line Subsystem sftp /usr/lib64/misc/sftp-server.
what? why lib64?
changed that line to just ‘lib’, did not work.
then tried to understand what that should look like.
[root@Sailfish ~]# rpm -qa | grep ssh
openssh-7.1p2+git2-1.10.1.armv7hl
openssh-clients-7.1p2+git2-1.10.1.armv7hl
openssh-server-7.1p2+git2-1.10.1.armv7hl
[root@Sailfish ~]#
[root@Sailfish ~]# rpm -ql openssh-server | grep sftp
/usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server
/usr/share/man/man8/sftp-server.8.gz
aha!
commented out that line and added new instead in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
#Subsystem sftp /usr/lib64/misc/sftp-server
Subsystem sftp /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server
now
systemctl restart sshd
and sshfs works. (:
#ssh #sshfs #jolla #sailfish
https://www.flickr.com/photos/yukihiro/ ah! #photo
Wes Anderson & Yasujiro Ozu: A Visual Essay
three germanies. regional gdp per capita.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/6v3fma/three_germanies_regional_gdp_per_capita_op/
#map #germany
so i had an experience with expired (in 1991) fujichrome 50, and all the shots look overexposed by one-twe stops. after some research i found out that:
Negative films fog darker with age (or temperature), as grains get thermally, chemically, or cosmic ray exposed. Negative films have a large exposure latitude, so you can increase exposure to get above the fog.
Reversal films fog lighter with age. That is why photos may look overexposed. But they don’t have the large exposure latitude, so you can’t increase exposure to get above the fog. You are squeezed between fog and the top of the curve.
#photography #slide #reversal #negative #positive #fujichrome #film #filmphotography #expired
i have a guess that there is a correlation between being socially active, like to socialize, and not being aggressive.
it may even have an evolutionary explanation. it looks like there is a connection between us being less aggressive and us being juvenal creatures - animals that look like kids when adult.
also, who likes to communicate and socialize more - kids, they need it.
so, i guess those of us who like to socialize more are likely to be less aggressive.
well i have an impression that in the armenian twitter community there are sort of, sometimes even infantile people, very liberal, accepting differences and each other, they are chatting there being far from the eyes of the “everybody”, who in armenia are of course on facebook.
also many of them don’t use their real names on twitter in order to not be found by those relatives or coworkers/costudents who would not understand them.
so my impression is that in armenian twitter community there are mostly very liberal, open minded people.
who comes to the armenian diaspora community? i don’t really know, it’s so small, i probably cannot speculate about that. yes of course i know that i speculate. (:
so i don’t understand. i guess part of us are people who value some ideas, the old core, and the newcomers are usually those who are willing to communicate but don’t always have proper skills for that, because they lack experience. also when they come, they see that they are pretty much alone, and it’s possible to get some kind of feedback elsewhere, and go there. they could of course change the language, but most of them would prefer to express themselves in a wave, without thinking is the sentence grammatically correct. (:
very funny (:
#not_pascal #pascal #component_pascal #oberon
same with software
another lofi photo featuring @{չարանենգ վիշապաքաղ; tanamasi@spyurk.am} and @{utopianlab*; utopeanlab@spyurk.am}.
#lofi
so i’ve got this old device, Polaroid i-Zone 550, it makes 5mpx photos. it’s an interesting and exciting toy. makes this lofi look i really like. so several photos. one of them is not by me, obviously. (:
#lofi at #achajour on #parpetsi street (: #աչաջուր
armenians and greeks in 1900 and 2000.
#1900 #2000 #armenians #greeks #map #history
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/6uwh6d/armenians_and_greeks_in_1900_and_2000_1097x1070/
today twitting is like getting accepted to study in the university - your scores should be enough: https://www.wired.com/2017/08/instagram-kevin-systrom-wants-to-clean-up-the-internet
— i miss that ‘delete’ button, can i press it? thank you.
#mac_user #talk
book to read: Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation by Alexei Yurchak. #book
such a nice screenshot by @{Fla ; fla@diaspora-fr.org} from this amazing video from an amazing event!. thank you for all the seemingly unnoticeable but very important contributions.
#diaspora
materiel industriel en bois pour l’industrie chimique
#book #1903 in #dilijan w/ @{tanamasi ; tanamasi@spyurk.am}
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/staring-the-zeitgeist-right-in-the-face/
november 23, 2014, vanadzor. nokia n900. #vanadzor
explorer, not finder.
well
https://twitter.com/Fullscreen/status/869720091289460738/video/1
An ode to the men who wear shirts over T-shirts in clubs, the heroes of our time https://thetab.com/2016/04/26/ode-men-wear-shirts-t-shirts-clubs-87672
Ina Baghdiantz McCabe: Armenian Merchants and the Origins of European Café Culture
november 2012, me, booting spyurk.am server, probably.
probably nothing really new.
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/armenian-family-fled-raqqa-describe-years-living-isil-video/
they speak arabic i guess.
my stream was too big, more than 1000 people, and i realized, i cannot use groups, i mixed everything up, and it takes time to enter, choose the group, and for some reason syntax with a_ids[]= did not work for me, and i decided just to remove most of my groups of people, and then add those i communicate with.
this will help me to communicate, i hope. may be i needed to remove more people, in order to make the stream maintainable and then only start adding from scratch, from zero. so when you get a message that i followed you, it’s not that i did unfollow long ago in the past, it’s because i indeed followed you. (:
if i don’t follow you, then i will, if we have some kind of connection. i want to make this diaspora useful, and indeed to be able to follow those i know, well i know on the internet, as people i’d like to socialize with, and not get a huge stream, when i never notice those whom i want to talk to.
and i’ll try to comment you. it’s hard. i need to convince myself to comment, when i know, i will say something stupid. just because the stupid comment will create a connection.
Table tennis players. A 1970s painting which I would attribute to Sargis Muradyan (the work is unsigned). Oil, canvas. Title is unknown to me. Currently hangs in Armenian Public Radio headquarters, Yerevan.
#yerevan #tennis #sport #art #armenian-painters #sargis-muradyan #sargis_muradyan #sargis_muradian #armenian_painters #socialrealism #neoromanticism #painting
the text is astonishingly stupid, but you can see some pictures. https://vimeo.com/213748725 the place with the rock paintings in the beginning, well i have been there, not easy to get there, the mountain above (it’s 3500 m above the sea level) is called “ughtasar”, from “ught” - camel, and “sar” - mountain. it has two peaks that remind camels. #armenia
please like me.
this one is very clear. full version http://norayr.am/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/MG_1903.jpg #hrazdan
i like this building. #vanadzor
ok and these two, kodak portra 400, artik, armenia. #artik #armenia #landscape
these two are from vanadzor, after the rain. film, hp5 pushed to 1600. #vanadzor #night #rain #street
this is ilford hp5 400 pushed to 1600. developed at home. #yerevan #night #tree
these three are rather old, 2003, 2007. shot with 0.3 mpx camera, genius smart 300 v2. #zurich #street #sky
this one shot with jolla. #room
#yerevan #charents #street
@{չարանենգ վիշապաքաղ ; tanamasi@spyurk.am}
many things we learn are about culture. the culture is not less important than the actual ‘knowledge’. let’s say you write a program. you may write it in hundreds of ways, but when you have a culture of unix programming, you may prefer to make it usable with pipeline. that’s not about programming, purely, that’s about the culture. or may be you have the culture to write a markdown, or you know the wiki syntax. that’s about the culture, and having the culture is as important as other skills.
and i am very much frustrated, that when somebody around has culture, it’s not close to the culture i have adopted. well i have chosen my culture, so i have chosen to not be understood. but it’s not on purpose. it’s just the way it is.
i sometimes notice that i differ. when i communicate. during the barcamp meeting someone sent me an attachment, and i’ve received it, saved with alpine, and a girl sitting next to me said something like ‘i swear by my mother’s name!’ and i realized she experienced some cultural shock, and then i noticed that i am different.
however, it’s not a pleasurable feeling, to be different always. i would prefer not to. i would prefer many people with similar culture around, so that i would feel better understood, and i would have more fun socializing. something like that. aha. #culture
i can get the gnome 3 development (sorry the same topic) if there would be some effort to create gtk tablets. and i would like that idea. i would like the existence of such tablets.
but there’s no such tablets, there’s gnome 3 on desktops, sometimes at work? why?
i don’t get it, why mainstream linux distributions on phones and desktops tend to hide the boot screen. no i understand, that probably the designers think, why would someone stare on something he does not understand, but does he understand the moving things better? may be he’ll start to read, well, some of them, and get interested in what’s going on underneath. #linux
catastrophic example. #oberon
indeed, insane
Forty-six years ago, in the midst of the Cold War, 44 scientists from the USSR and the United States gathered at the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory in Armenia. Each scientist had impeccable credentials, most of them were well-known in their field, and three were Nobel-Prize winners. The theme of the conference? Communicating with extraterrestrial intelligence.
https://haypopup.com/2017/08/03/the-soviet-era-conference-on-communicating-with-aliens/
#carl_sagan #victor_ambartsumian #frank_drake #marvin_minsky #armenia #aliens #conference #ceti #byurakan
#elna sewing machine, #1940, #design
and the wheel is located below, not where we expect to see it. #green #book
new delorean http://mashable.com/2017/08/14/delorean-flying-car-vtol/?utm_cid=hp-r-14#FHQ_._zdWiqQ
new version of alpine: http://alpine.freeiz.com/alpine/release/index.html #alpine
so many dialogs, so little time.
http://www.graphicsgroups.com/16-gimp/a266d1befc5afaa9.htm #gimp
by the way, you don’t get that it is not really fare that palestine gets a lot of attention, but artsakh(nagorno-karabakh) problem does not, and those who managed to not be expelled or killed, are now considered occupants just because they were able to stay alive and not become refugees. if they would become refugees, the international community, and people like you would say that “it’s very sad”, but now, when these people, well some of them, managed to live with dignity already more than 20 years, well, by paying with lives of many, of course, but live where they used to, now some think that this gives them right to tell that “these barbarians are killing each other”, which is actually very imperialistic thinking, but clearly, these people would not live there if not the failure to expell them because of the armenian resistance. and armenia does not get sanctions from the international community, because everybody knows the truth - there would be no single armenian in artsakh, if they would not defend themselves. and yes, if we would not help them.
actually, i really understand the importance of not changing the borders. because that could kindle the war, and many could be killed. so i am the first, seriously, who thinks, that changing the borders even on post soviet space, where those borders were drawn by colonial administration without taking in consideration what’s “fair” but because of their short term political interests, let’s say good relationships of early bolsheviks with turkey, and trading armenian land (i mean the actual republic of armenia, not some historical, virtual land) for the port cities (batumi), so still i think that changing borders is a very bad idea. but! when there is a choice - you don’t change the borders, and people live peacefully, even discriminated, but in peace, then let’s keep borders, bad peace is better than war.
but when people anyway get exterminated, then you don’t have peace anyway. whether you fight, or you die/leave without it. and i mean really exterminated, not like in crimea, where nobody had a danger of being even expelled. (well now tatars and ukrainians have that danger). i am already used to participate discussions why crimea and artsakh cases are absolutely different, but that will be too much for you. anyway this post won’t get much attention.
and yes, this is very important to me and each and every armenian, not because those are armenians, or we dream of an expansion, or “armenia from sea to sea”, there are armenians in georgia, and guess what, they live, well, sometimes get discriminated, but still, nobody exterminates them, and such a surprise, nobody said that armenia occupied parts of georgia, right? while i know, that during the russian-georgian war russia tried to ignite armenian-georgian conflict. i cannot prove that, but military people who knew, told me, - so this is important to each of us not because of imperialism we cannot actually afford, but because anyone has a friend or relative in artsakh. just anyone. when you know someone, you feel their pain, and you can identify with them as well. they always were, and are a part of our society. they were coming to study to armenia, they were working here, and though soviet azerbaijan made everything that there would be no feasible physical connection - for instance no real road from artsakh to armenia, but it was impossible to cut the connections that way. and when you know your friend’s sister or brother is under the fire, it’s very influential, you cannot be indifferent. it does not matter that’s not your sister. that’s too close to not care deeply.
i strongly believe there are cases, when you need to pay, but stay with dignity. let’s say, you are in a country where you can be punished for what you say, no free speech. first they burn your car, then they put you to jail. or you go to the political rally, and they catch you. that does not mean that you don’t have to go to the rally. that means that when you want to live with dignity, it means, you go to the rally, and you know you can end up in jail. that’s what you have to pay. it’s inevitable. otherwise you don’t respect yourself. so to me this is similar. they tried to eliminate the population, first by the help of soviet army, then by themselves. they failed miserably. now they sold a lot of oil and have a lot of military power, got a lot of arms from our “strategic partner and alley” called russia, and the military budget of their country exceeds the whole budget of armenia. we already paid by the years of blockade, huge emigration, stagnating economics. but that’s the price, when you have hostages. and we have hostages there, in artsakh, actually. that’s not a pleasure. nobody feels that we are occupants, we feel that we have people who live under constant threat. and one year ago, during 4-6 days war, that got confirmed. azeri army entered the villages, they could manage to, and killed, cut years, the elderly people who could not leave. the whole rhetoric of their media was along the lines of “armenians run from karabakh, it’s our land”, and after that they want to use all their resources to make us leave artsakh alone, to get control over it by using international community and the law. well that’s very nice. so we do not feel occupants, we feel like someone who has close hostages would feel. i don’t even talk about people who live in other places near the border, not necessarily in artsakh. or actually any of us could go to war at any moment, we know that. we are not happy about that. just it is what it is.
#armenia #artsakh #karabakh #freedom
i don’t like the building, however let me share the story https://www.evnreport.com/arts-and-culture/grand-hotel-yerevan-a-living-legend-of-the-city #yerevan
#brin_marling #girl #photo
p. s. i was reading a wikipedia article about her ‘another planet’ film and apparently i have watched it somehow, and have no idea how, because i do not usually watch films, i did not watch this in the cinema, i have no tv, i don’t remember i have downloaded it, i don’t remember anyone make me watch it. but everything sounds so familiar i guess i have watched that.
i like the other mixes, this i did not listen yet, but will do now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN-qP1b7vcg #mix #armenia #viken_arman #dj #music
may be those ties are indispensable. may be they are colonial and exploitative. think of who controls energy in the country. but in many ways the relationship of armenia with today’s russia is far more colonial, than those relationships were before 1991.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8s8K_a1EMM #suny #armenia
about armenian language in russian https://postnauka.ru/video/79035 #armenian
#armenian
https://soundcloud.com/vikenarman/viken-arman-live-set-38-katzen-katerblau
this guy is armenian obviously https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_npZfZmRiM #mix #armenian
so kicking saakashvili out means that ukraine has serious problems on their way to become a normal country. still, it’s better to have these kind of seizures, but try to move to the future, than moving to the past without breaks, as russia does.
#1942 #airplane #photo #history
people on the internet are like music genres: pop people - write about eternal love, breakups, rejection, rock people - write about protest, non conformism, hip-hop people - write honestly, sincerely, sometimes a bit blunt. #people #internet
#ussr #cccp #history
don’t forget to give chocolete or express somehow appreciation to your sysadmin. today. #sysadminday
http://cse.aua.am/sms/ yerevan has stable wind patterns (:
#yerevan #wind
the mountain chained by clouds. i had an attempt to get there, but failed. i’ll do that one day. (:
blog about making blog with make https://reykfloeter.com/posts/blog-about-my-blog #blog
Iranian tourist wearing ‘Armenia’ shirt stopped in an Azerbaijani mall & forced to change his shirt by security after too many complaints`
@{չարանենգ վիշապաքաղ ; tanamasi@spyurk.am}, @{անկապ ; ach94er@spyurk.am} are preparing Psycamp Vanadzor 2014.
Achajour Parpetsi, Yerevan, 2014. Ultrafine Extreme 400, Mamiya ZE-2, 50mm F1.7
#psycamp #vanadzor #2014 #achajour #parpetsi #
http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/10109
those are armenians who accepted islam and haven’t been eliminated. #armenian
over edited for my taste, but still: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xglsaK4C5ng
#armenia #yerevan
The “Repatriates”: Deception, Sacrifice, and Now Scorn
http://hetq.am/eng/news/80649/the-repatriates-deception-sacrifice-and-now-scorn.html
ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing? WITNESS: No.. ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor? WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar. ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless? WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.
#court
If you had ever wanted to go on a tour you should have had your play list approved beforehand. We could have never stated that we were going to perform the Beatles’ songs. Hrayr Kotoyan’s father, composer Vagharshak Kotoyan, was authorized to approve the roster. We cheated a little stating that we were going to sing the English coal miners’ song written by Lennon and McCartney.
http://www.mediamax.am/en/news/special-report/24330/
#beatles #music #armenia #dreamers #history #film #ussr #censorship #sixties #1969 #sevan
#tbilisi #kodak-cft #kodak_cft #kodakcft #vake
#tbilisi #kodak-cft #kodak_cft #kodakcft #vake #barnov
#tbilisi #kodak-cft #kodak_cft #kodakcft
The “Dreamers” film found 48 years later. http://www.mediamax.am/en/news/special-report/24330/
#armenia #rock #film
#kodak-cft #kodak_cft #kodakcft
#kodakcft #kodak-cft #kodak_cft
love muted colours. unfortunately they did not realize that sarian’s proposal was much better. #armenia #flag
#font #design
shot on ultrafine extreme 400 film. (: #dog
so according to the internal light meter of my camera, yellow filter makes a difference in one stop, red filter - three stops, and polarizer - exactly two stops!
so i can use it to push while pushing iso 400 film to 1600. in the evening take out the polarizer, and shoot at 1600, in the afternoon, shoot with polarizer on by setting light meter to 400. unfortunately neither red nor yellow filters will work.
i wonder if two stops neutral density filter would suit this purpose of pushing better than my polarizer, it shouldn’t right? #photography
#photoquote
#photoquote
meanwhile, Tamar Kaprelian is in Armenia!
#screenshot #tamarkaprelian #tamar_kaprelian
#kodachrome
interesting iranian photographer.
he uses #outofthephone tag. well, the photo looks edited.
i decided that publishing photos made not by me is better by quoting them with the context as a screenshot.
#nocomment
very funny to hear armenian with strange pronunciation. because foreigners rarely speak it.
i can recognize artsakh and gyumri dialects. (:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ1RL-NOAMo #armenian #song #cover #gyumri #artsakh
#antistalking
lori, fioletovo, may 2013, kodak cft, mamiya-ze2 with 50mm f1.7 lens. i have no idea why i did not publish this photo before. may be i did not consider it to be good enough for publishing back then, and now my taste has changed and i can appreciate it more.
#armenia #lori #fioletovo #kodak-cft #kodakcft #film #filmphotography #landscape #village
good morning. i decided to publish some very old shots. this one was never published. i also find myself liking the quality of the lab scanner, which i did not like before. i guess i’ll publish today several photos, unedited, out of scanner files.
still life with sunflower seeds, neo freerunner phone and debian cds. may 2013. shot with mamiya-ze2 on kodak cft film. #stilllife #openmoko #neofreerunner #debian #kodak-cft #morning #film #filmphotography
girl, flower, and detained robot. #yerevan #aygedzor #robot
#yerevan #aygedzor
#yerevan #aygedzor
“The Russians don’t really care about Armenia,” the European diplomat said. “What they care about is their military base. They want to keep their soldiers here – they have soldiers on the border with Turkey, they have soldiers on the border with Iran, and they’re looking forward to deploying peacekeepers in Nagorno Karabakh. That’s what their interest is in.”
Curation by Anahita Ghabaian and Newsha Tavakolian #iran #photography
mozilla factory space https://www.behance.net/gallery/53022847/MOZILLA-FACTORY-SPACE #mozilla
these wolves also decided that life in ocean is much cooler http://www.boredpanda.com/swimming-sea-wolves-pacific-coast-canada-ian-mcallister/
https://www.recode.net/2017/6/28/15886560/democrats-raffi-krikorian-chief-technology-officer-dnc
other gifs here or may be i’ll publish them here as well later.
Despite the challenges it faces, Armenian civil society remains energetic and defiant. Armenia has its share of human rights problems, but so far has resisted making the sharp authoritarian turn seen elsewhere in Eurasia in recent years. This is due to the dynamic nature of Armenian civil society, the importance of a semi-open political system to competing oligarchic groups, and political elites’ understanding that such a turn would aggravate the West and some influential diaspora figures, which Yerevan sees as hedges against Russian geopolitical and economic domination.
http://carnegieendowment.org/2016/12/07/armenia-at-twenty-five-rough-ride-pub-66351
#armenia #democracy
#lori-1 #lori #bazum #bazum_pass #pushkin_pass #armenia #wind-farm #power_plant #electricity #cloud #mountain
i feel a bit guilty that i don’t share texts with you recently. i write in the armenian stream but not here.
so let me tell you something which i did not write there because i have been written there the same in the other context.
i want to tell you why i feel reluctant to use instagram. years ago i wrote here (and if diaspora navigation would be better, here would be the link to that post) that i have many questions, in particular, is it ethical to post to instagram photos made with dslr or on film?
now i see that well that’s a standard behavior of many photographers. though there is an irony - photographers come to instagram because there is market - a lot of people, and a lot of people they know in person. on the other hand if i would be on instagram, i would follow the photographers, not the people i know. and if the stream would get bigger, i would not be able to follow everyone. i don’t even talk that i try to avoid saass, that’s okay, i would use it, it’s not the only saass i use after all.
but there’s another reason. the maintenance of instagram stream is too much of overhead for me. i find myself trying to avoid unnecessary overheads. to me updating funtoo is not an overhead. it’s a pleasure. as well as driving. if i would be rich i would not have a driver.
but putting photo to a phone ir order to upload to instagram, because instagram only allows to upload from it’s own software (i even don’t mention it’s proprietary, you see?), just the absence of the api to do so is a hustle. and i find myself saving movements. i feel humiliated by obeying those rules. every time i would do that i would feel humiliated.
i am trying to have less ovehread. i have jolla, so often when i have downloaded new track or an album, copying it to the phone takes seconds before getting out of home. i do scp that to the phone, and then while i take the backpack and get out, it’s already there.
but somehow instagram feels like unnecessary overhead i am just trying to keep me away from. #instagram #jolla #hosting
#usa #europe #uk #eastern_europe #surveillance
night over margahovit.
#margahovit, #lori #trees #night #stars
cloud over the lermontovo village, lori, armenia.
#cloud #lermontovo #village #lori #armenia
there was a short talk on quality of photographs and i decided to showcase my photo which has no technical quality, but i like it.
#lori-1 #wind-farm #bazum #pushkin_pass #bazum_pass #girl #wind-turbine #electricity #armenia #stepanavan #vanadzor
Don’t think you can come back tomorrow and get it. Won’t happen. Light won’t be there, subjects will have second thoughts, and there’ll be a parade right where you want to shoot. Don’t ever assume you can do a picture “later.”
#sotrue
http://gogreenarmenia.com/ apparently
who is therealtalk.org podmin? #diaspora i need to contact him regarding one user who cannot login, and probably forgot the email she’ve used. (:
#aragats
found in the phone. #impact_hub #tbilisi #building
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bawgaj/32037992580/in/dateposted/
by Przemek Strzelecki #photo
this guy suggests to use separate stream for each of the languages you write in.
so that’s good i have two separate streams. i even think, what if i move English language posts from my earlier account to this stream, and if db hacks would help me. #diaspora #language
a formal grammar for toki pona http://www2.hawaii.edu/~chin/661F12/Projects/ztomaszewski.pdf #toki_pona
it is always a nice feeling when you are the first in the list.
According to the study (in the Turkish media), the most targeted group is Armenians followed by Syrians, Jews,…
https://bianet.org/english/religion/187429-media-watch-on-hate-speech-january-april-2017-study #hate
#vanadzor
#vanadzor #girl #kid #armenia
#lori #lermontovo #armenia
UPPER CASE lower case Title Case camelCase snake_case kebab-case Train-Case ǝsɐɔ ʇɐq çt̶̀͢͞h̴̷̨̡̕u̴̸̴l̡͜͞u͜͠ ̡͜͝c̀͞á̷̧̧s̷̀͠͠e̸̶͟
profile says he also writes in English, so I am sharing this #newhere post.
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Սամս ; martiros_yan@spyurk.am} 13.06.2017, 15:08:36
ինձ բարի գալուստ սփյուռք։ գրեք ինձ ձեր հաշիվները եթե ունեք #սփյուռք
i’ve read about this way of debugging. #duck #debug #programming
#dilijan #architecture #book
what i enjoy very much in discussions on our #oberon channel in IRC, is that it becomes obvious that knowing the language, does not mean knowing how to use it, i. e. how to program.
#programming
whomadewho brilliantly mixed their own this work here։ #musig #mix #whomadewho
#dog
When I am shooting with my film cameras and someone asks me if I can still buy film I politely answer “no” and keep on shooting. They usually walk away and leave me alone.
source #photography #film
old, but interesting:
https://www.instagram.com/p/mKT8uArKoq/ https://www.instagram.com/p/mKS4NGrKni/ https://www.instagram.com/p/mKXNVdLKrJ/
#kodak #cinestill #ektar #film
they talk about creativity, blues, LP’s, beliefs and reading. very interesting part about shooting concerts with mobile phones and enjoying concerts at the moment.
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դինջ ; lubekar@spyurk.am} 05.06.2017, 16:16:40
Խոսում են ստեղծագործելու, բլյուզի, վինիլի, հավատքի ու կարդալու մասին։ Շատ հետաքրքիր մաս կա, երբ խոսում են համերգների ժամանակ հեռախոսներով նկարելու ու պարզապես համերգը նայելու/լսելու ու հենց այդ պահին վայելելու մասին։
let me tell yo usomething, people of diaspora.
though some times what i read here is very frustrating, but i have to tell you that the quality of discussions and the kind of topics, and the level of education of some people here is outstanding. i really enjoy being a part of this community.
thank you. #diaspora
the important part here is their awareness of cher’s armenian ancestry. that was irony, as many other things i write, in case you wonder.
#armenian #quote #cher #book
as i understand first uploaded to the post picture is not necessarily shown first. i cannot understand how, based on which criteria, diaspora chooses the sequence to show uploaded pictures. #diaspora
#vote #chomsky #elections #democracy #politics #book
good morning.
this song is used in ‘blind dates’ georgian film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN_bLcGrVrE though i don’t like neither this exact performance nor the video. of course.
but the film is worth watching. #blind_dates #georgian #song #georgian-music
left frame: film. middle frame: out of the camera photo. right frame: edited digital photo with a film preset.
http://www.iandriyanov.ru/blog/sravnenie-plenki-i-tsifry
#film-photography #film #photography
(:
you use VAR because you want to get the pointer to the array, instead of copying the whole array to the procedure’s stack.
so the suggestion was that if you want to make sure the array won’t be modified, you use “-” mark.
what about optimizations, they say, that in principle compiler can understand that you did not write to the passed array, and instead of passing it to the procedure by value (by copying the whole array), pass it by reference (by copying only pointer to it).
i disagree, because i believe, it is important to mark your intentions. if you intent to make sure you pass it read-only, you pass it with “-”, if you intent to pass it read-write, you pass it just with VAR. passing with ‘OUT’, when you cannot read it, but can only write to it is not supported in Oberon.
@{Antranig Vartanian ; antranigv@spyurk.am} 01.06.2017, 19:08:27
#oberon #programming #language #design ##
colour and contrast, in russian
http://ezhe.ru/data/vgik/zhv-cvet_kontrast.html #book #russian #colour
Here’s a great example of the problems with having only a few red pixels from an outing a few years ago, comparing a Canon 5D Mark II with 4×5 Velvia. Obviously the 4×5 Velvia has more resolution but we downsampled it to match the 5D Mark II and got the following result (show at 200%)
On the right (the 4×5 image downscaled) we can see all of the berries on the tree but on the left (the Canon 5D Mark II image) a lot of the berries have disappeared. The only berries shown are where there were larger groups of them (i.e. a single pixel size berry is unlikely to match up with a single red pixel whereas a group of berries covering 2×2 sensor pixels will definitely hit a red filtered one).
https://petapixel.com/2014/12/18/comparing-image-quality-film-digital/ #film-photography #photography
Petre Otskheli and Elene Akhvlediani
http://idaaf.com/petre-otskheli/ #petre-otskheli #georgian-painters
don’t crowdsource your self-esteem. (:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e-cz_Unwpc
#photography #instagram
I wear a t-shirt with Petre Otskheli work on it. (:
#petre_otskheli #georgian-painters #self_portrait
Armenia has one of the most educated work forces in the world, outpacing not only the South Caucasus, but the EU AND the US.
though the quality of education… (: #armenia
A series of maps showing locations in Turkey that have been re-named over the past century. #turkey #map
Jan was saying that the pull request has to be immediately approved, even if it breaks the code. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdyOOGwSdbs
This is also about so called “instant gratification” which our limbic system likes so much.
#social_architecture #community #programming #open-source #barcampevn #barcampevn17 #software
http://oe1.orf.at/player/20170530/481820
Radiokolleg - Land der Steine
Kleiner Staat, große Diaspora (2). Gestaltung: Brigitte Voykowitsch
#armenia #deutsch #german #radio
how to trap a self driving car https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/17/laying-a-trap-for-self-driving-cars/ #selfdrivingcar #trap
poor creature can enter it, and is unable to exit.
#barcampevn17 #barcampevn #barcamp #armenia #yerevan
#photography #dynamic_range #chart
text is a very nice place to hide behind it. #text
how desperate and miserable one has to be to show off on the internet like i do. #show-off #internet
just met Jan Wildeboer at #evn #zvartnots #airport w/@{անկապ ; ach94er@spyurk.am}. he’s a #redhat guy. #free-software evangelist. we are really excited to have him at our event.
already discussed #wayland vs #xorg and other political and technical questions. (: i’ve heard some very interesting stories.
#barcampevn17 #barcampevn #yerevan
@{Antranig Vartanian ; antranigv@spyurk.am}, i guess you might enjoy some debates with him. (: @{utopianlab* ; utopeanlab@spyurk.am} he’s Dutch, you know. (:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sop220/22511142519/in/dateposted/
my understanding is, he uses x-pro2 with 35mm lenses.
towel day!
the problem with showing off is that usually those whom you’d want to show how cool you are, don’t care. and won’t care.
so you have to show off for yourself only. show off, then like yourself, don’t hesitate, and accept that’s it.
my bot is live and chatting. https://github.com/norayr/irc_client/tree/vocbot for that i’ve implemented sockets wrapper, IRC library, and some list classes. written from scratch in Oberon, it only uses socket related system calls.
#oberon #irc #bot #vocbot #screenshot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exxCV-_8WTU https://github.com/in0rdr/diary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOkRZrvqQ9k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6meNYo3rFI i love it so much!
emerge bubblemon
it is also a very good idea to scp it to your phone and use as message notification sound. (:
scp /usr/share/bubblemon/wak.wav nemo@jolla:/home/nemo/Music/
#wak #bubblemon #duck
Startup nation or left-behind nation?: Israel’s economy is a study in contrasts: http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21722037-dazzling-high-tech-firms-divert-attention-serious-productivity-problem-israels
#israel #economy
btw my bot is live and chatting. https://github.com/norayr/irc_client/tree/vocbot
for that i’ve implemented sockets wrapper, irc library, and some lists. #oberon
‘how raw file looks’ - an #article in #russian. (features #odzun monastery in #lori, #armenia) there are a lot of greens because of the design of bayer matrix. #raw #matrix #sensor
http://www.japancamerahunter.com/2014/10/film-news-new-cinestill-50-iso-daylight-xpro-c-41-film/
#cinestill #film #colour
Judah Vs. The Machines https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/22/judah-vs-the-machines/?ncid=rss
This is not suprising, since the entire tonal palette for Kodachrome was based on rendering the skin tones as pleasingly as possible of those who would be its principal consumers: caucasians (hence Stalin looks less “caucasian” because he actually came from the Caucasus). “Color” is literally the colour of American consumerism. Japanese Fuji colour film followed the same imperative, but for Asians. Pinks and reds are the colours which “color” recognises and amplifies most dramatically, though sometimes the effect is akin to a mortician’s make-up: people occasionally appear as if they have been painted after death to give the illusion of life, which of course is, historically speaking, exactly what has happened.
http://www.marksimpson.com/blog/2007/09/07/the-color-of-whiteness/
#kodachrome #colour #photography
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/kodachromes-lasting-color-and-memory/?_r=0
#kodachrome
#kodachrome #history #london
divided d-23 developer http://unblinkingeye.com/Articles/DD-23/dd-23.html
this is like gentoo use flags. compile it yourself with this or that option. #gentoo #d23 #developer
i cannot forgive myself. i don’t know how can i live with this further. the only thing that gets me off touch with the feeling of guilt is diving in to the work. obviously i want you to not comment and i needed to let this out.
the man who develops the world’s found film. #film #photography #photo
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-man-who-develops-the-worlds-found-film
@{Martin Sand Christensen ; martinsandchristensen@joindiaspora.com} so you know how to use flash in daylight.
I’ve discovered this flickr photographer recently, Tod Gross, most of his photos are daylight street photography, and we know that it’s hard to make daylight photos because of the shadows and high contrast. So I guess what he does, is he uses on camera flash in order to decrease a contrast of the picture. (it may sound counter intuitive, to use flash when it’s sunny, and not use it when it’s dark). there is even some evidence of that in the mirrors or sunglasses.
so i remember you asked if i used flash for one of my daylight photos and i said no. how would i use flash with film cameras? i never used it, but i happen to have a couple. one has some buttons on it, and one does not. so these cameras have sync? what does it mean? to fire the light at the ‘right’ moment? but what shutter/aperture values should i use then? do these flash units use standard light amount or those are different? there is X on one of my mamiyas which is fixed to 1/90 and serves for a shutter i guess. i’ve seached in the web, but i actually want to socialize, and to hear your opinion on that.
Daidō_Moriyama #photography http://digitalmuseum.rekibun.or.jp/app/selected/syabi?no=200803
btw i eventually solved my pidgin sound issue. just filled out ‘aplay %s’ in the command textbox in the settings.
http://boingboing.net/2013/06/10/el-candigato-fed-up-with-ra.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/09/candigato-morris_n_3565971.html #caturday
on money, in russian but with english subtitles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nob0wutM-Xo
old, reminded via this post. #caturday
i used to think that i am a good person. in generally. it turned out that i am a regular evil person like everybody i don’t like for that. :/
now it’s better (than the commented version)
@{Antranig Vartanian ; antranigv@spyurk.am} 17.05.2017, 22:29:36
solving https://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/comments/68oda5/20170501_challenge_313_easy_subset_sum/
#DailyProgrammer #Oberon #Oberon-2 #voc ##
#programming #screenshot
this is also very interesting stream: https://www.flickr.com/photos/quarlo/
source https://www.flickr.com/photos/bit_sikari/33494787084/in/dateposted/
Tears of rage.
I had not visited Cinthia and Peter for a while. The day was sunny and they looked older, as if we hadn´t met for years, as if their faces were disappearing, getting away. They didn´t say a word about what happened to them. Maybe they were more silent. Maybe Peter smiled at me in a way more sweet. But I noticed that something was going wrong. They were doing so good lately! The farm was very clean and they were being taken care of by someone, a highly recommended nurse. But the other day I found their house all messy. Cinthia looked unkempt and one of the dogs is very sick and doesn´t move. I asked a neighbor who lives nearby, a true angel who watches them. She told me that she got a call from a worker of the bank office. He was worried. The nurse who was taking care of the old brother and her sister was driving Peter to the bank very often lately. Too much, he said. Peter signed papers, money was removed from the account every time. Peter will turn 90 years old in March and he is the youngest brother. This supposed nurse took advantage of a very old man´s trust and age. The neighbor checked everything and kicked her out. And now they are all alone and uncared of.
Tears of gratitude.
Knowing about what happened to them broke my heart a little bit, I guess. I couldn´t understand who is able to do something so mean! After the neighbor told me, I stayed in the farm a bit longer. Cinthia got a plate of old rice from the freezer and warmed it up. She also cut a few slices of chicken while Peter was getting the grill ready. I looked at them, they were so beautiful! There’s no one in this world, no thing in this world, that can change them now. There´s not a betrayal able to disturb a long life of kindness and trust in its end. The peace of their faces was a revelation suddenly, shining as an everlasting sunny day.
— what is the difference between redhat and centos? — the hat. centos does not have the hat.
#redhat #centos
my comment here
once i have found a definition of an ethnicity which i like: people who share common existence. by living in Armenia we share the same politicians, the same blockade, same prices, same political and economical situation, same fears, same teachers in the universities, same roads, and same little joys.
thus i think repatriation, or not emigrating is an act of solidarity with the others, like not using the hood under the rain, if you know your friend does not have one.
since i was a child i did not think about an ethnicity as of something which is connected to the genes. and genetically we all are homo sapiens, that’s pretty obvious.
another old photo, old edit is darker, i’ve edited raw file again, and it was interesting that then i found out that i like the old edit more.
the inscriptions say - ‘no flats for sale’ and ‘no don’t ask for job, we have no any’. #yerevan
some old photos i accidentally found. ranging from early 2000ths till 2010.
I was watching a video about someone’s camera collection, and I recognized a thought I had many years.
The tool is a very important thing. It is complete, because it has a purpose and it can serve it.
The camera can make photos. Someone may use it to make “art”, someone to document something, someone to play. It absolutely does not matter.
The camera can make photos and that’s it. The qualities and properties and purposes of those photos are not important. The camera is complete because it is a tool that can make something.
And I love making tools. Making photos is a nice game to play, but you never know if your photo has any value. But the camera always has value because it is a tool that can serve to make photos. It’s purpose is not creating this or that kind of photos, good or bad, artistic or random snapshots. It’s purpose is to make sure the film or the sensor have been exposed to the light for the necessary time. That’s it. And by that it is complete. So creating a tool has sense, and creating it is motivating.
When you create something with the tool, let it be the hammer, and you create a chair, you never know if your chair is any good. But the hammer is important.
So I think that I love making tools. I want to make tools.
Human existence is overwhelmingly sad. It does not matter what choice do I make. Anyway the life is sad. And making choices in order to “improve” life sounds funny to me. Me feeling a bit more or less good or not so much, is so unimportant. So by making the choice why would I consider that? People who are so concerned about their well being are so funny. They are ready to fight, they get angry or sad because they did not get something, because they feel something is not fair, or because they don’t care what is fair. And in any case everything is so unimportant.
May be it’s better that we can be sad. It’s better than being a bunch of self obsessed violent monkeys, who would never get sad because of what they or other violent stupid monkeys do.
May be it’s better to understand how spoiled is everything and be sad, rather than feel good.
Vegetarians say, that by not eating meat we vote, contribute to the existence of less animals, therefore less animals are suffering. Not only when they die, they suffer when they live.
So by following that logic, if we don’t want to contribute to human suffering, we can vote for that by not propagating. If you don’t have kids, they won’t experience this overwhelming sadness.
if there are no humans, they don’t exist and they don’t suffer. humans are suffering creatures.
Adams was writing that some ask if getting out of oceans was a good idea? Yes, life in the ocean is easier and less painful.
But still, I don’t get it. Is it better to be a dolphin than a human? Because of dolphin’s experience? But it’s not important. Experience is not important. Just someone got more or less lucky with the way of life at some time frame.
Then is it better to be a hydra than to be a human? Is it better to have a brain? Is it better to be a stupid human? Why life happens, and is it good, that there are some animals that live and die, nobody knows why. Then does it matter what language we speak? Does anything that ever seemed significant or important to me really matter? And what matters? And what’s really? What’s important?
I don’t know why do I write this, and what’s the sense of getting to this after what i’ve been written above. I want to tell you that I feel so much pain when I return to Armenia. It is so insignificant, of course. Why would my feelings be important?
There are gorgeous mountains and gorges. Breathtaking landscapes. Beautiful houses. With dark winodws. Roofs with the holes. Empty houses. Nodoby lives there. You can see that almost nobody lives there. It is such a lonely place. The owner of the flat in Georgia described his life “I live in a God’s gifted country and city”. Then I would say I live in a god’s forgotten country. Some place nobody wants to look at it, because it’s so sad. Easier to forget that it exists. Get rid of it. Hide it under the carpet. Get out of it. Never remember.
I don’t know why do I love life. It’s amusing. It’s cute. I want to photograph it. And I want to make tools for someone. Because tools are usable. What they do with the tool - I don’t know. But the tool itself is an important thing. This was a reprise. Take care.
Thorens New Century radio with separate receiver, controls, and speaker. Front and back of prospectus, 1949, Thorens S. A., Saint-Croix. #1949 #design #radio #thorens #saint-croix (սուրբ խաչ , երեւի քաղաքի անուն է)
in lightroom mobile it’s possible to edit dng’s. and ricoh gr sends raw dng files over wifi!
I follow amazing photographer on flickr. He’s name is Masashi Wakui. He makes photos of night Tokyo. Hes cameras are Fuji x100F and Ricoh GR, both are APS-C sensor cameras with prime, 35mm ond 28mm equivalent lenses. #masahi_wakui #tokyo #x100 #ricoh #photography #city #japan #night
Masahi Wakui’s flickr page.
#city i guess #tokyo #japan #art #graffiti #girl #shop #welcome
The shadow economy is not just ‘poor’ people. It’s potentially anybody who hasn’t internalised the correct state-corporate narrative of normality, and anyone seeking a lifestyle outside of the mainstream. The future presented by self-styled innovation gurus has no scope for flexible, unpredictable or invisible people. They represent analogue backwardness. The future is a world of endless consumer choice built upon an inescapable digital uniformity of automated rules, a matrix outside which you can neither exist nor think.
Brett Scott, thelongandshort.org via @{-Alessandro- ; flam3boy@joindiaspora.com}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS5GxSR3jPI #photography
https://www .youtube.com/watch?v=RS5GxSR3jPI #photography
oh no, firefox now requires pulseaudio to play audio.
and I have USE=”-pulsaudio” always. well, I have actually MINUS=”-pulsaudio -systemd …”, and then I have USE="$MINUS $GENERAL $CODECS…”.
sigh. time to quit firefox? i was saying that chromium is a very attractive girl but i would not leave my lovely firefox. may be seamonkey would be my default choice now. i am really confused. #firefox #seamonkey #pulseaudio #gentoo
#armenian national #radio #1978 http://www.intervalsignals.net/sounds/arm-z-national_radio_external_210200.mp3 #radio
aaa, ode to joy http://radio.garden/jingles/bestensee/deutscher-freiheitssender-904/ #radio (((:
radio ddr (: http://radio.garden/jingles/frankfurt-oder/radio-ddr/
http://mymodernmet.com/cinema-palettes/ via @{անկապ ; ach94er@spyurk.am} #design #palette #colour
f2f protocol, face to face.
struggling to understand how this linearity works https://sourceforge.net/p/ufraw/discussion/434060/thread/63d7dec9/ #photography
#Einstürzende_Neubauten is demanded at #Achajour #Parpetsi, #Yerevan (:
#window #shadow #fish #love
by @{Antranig Vartanian ; antranigv@spyurk.am}
#achtung
my friend’s book on photography is out.
#photography #armenian #book
in addition to this - and whatever happens walk with straight back and hold your head up high.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHvsvLr91dU
difference between night vision device and thermographic camera.
night vision device is “active” in the sense that has an infrared light source, and a sensor that captures the reflection of the light.
thermographic camera is a “passive” device, it only captures the temperature.
thermographic camera cannot “see” objects with temperature close to the temperature of the air, or the objects behind the glass, because the glass can screen the thermal radiation. the night vision device cannot see objects in the haze, also warm and cold objects are hard to distinguish.
“Book publishing isn’t the healthiest industry in the world, and individual authors don’t make any money out of out-of-print books,” Cunard said to me. “Not that they would have made gazillions of dollars” with Google Books and the Registry, “but they would at least have been paid something for it. And most authors actually want their books to be read.”
veri interesting article https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/
via @{անկապ ; ach94er@spyurk.am}
on memory.
so, garbage collector is a good solution when you have two threads, or two programs that use shared memory, and you need to free memory automatically. it is very hard to do that in other ways (let’s say with smart pointers). which is obvious, one process does not know how the other behaves.
on safety. wow, in rust you have no null pointer. and you cannot dereference it therefore.
#programming
apparently, linux kernel has “holes” in it, and yaboot does not work with holes, thus the kernel after compilation has to be copied with cat, not cp, otherwise yaboot may not boot it. (:
#powerpc #yaboot #linux #sparse #mac #powermac
i have learned an interesting way of developing b/w film.
first of all, you don’t need to buy a developer, like d76 or rodinal. you can make a better developer yourself. (:
for that you need: solution number zero:
Dilute this in one litre of water.
solution number one:
Keep the film for 7 minutes in the first solution, then 7 minutes in the second solution. if you feel you need more details in shadows, then keep up to 15 minutes for the second time.
what is important, and what distinguishes this process, from d76 is that you never can “spoil” the negative. whatever ISO is it, however long you keep the film in the fluids, it will “expose” what is on the film, but it won’t go beyond that. I even got to know how does that work chemically, but i cannot explain that myself.
this solution is also known as Kodak D23, or “hungry development”.
By the way, you don’t need to buy a “Stop bath” solution as well. Just get %5 solution of Acetic Acid and dilute it in one litre of water. That’s your stop bath. (:
For instance, this one works very well:
Also, it is possible to get a fixer from the med lab, which works with x-rays processing, but i haven’t learnt that yet. (:
#photography #photo #developer #development #d76 #d23 #black_and_white #black-and-white #bw #negative
since pretty long ago i don’t feel comfortable telling others about my sad life, about how unfair somebody treated me, etc.
because whenever someone tells me, how unfair they have been treated, or even left/dumped by someone, what I think is, well, may be it’s not them who haven’t been good friend to you, or haven’t been loyal, may be you are the one, who haven’t been a good friend at the first place, and that’s why it happened?
this does not mean, that i have always been treated as i deserve. it does not mean that people have to stay in relationships, if they believe they haven’t been treated as they deserve. this rather means, that may be the “negative feedback” is not always necessary. and that if i tell someone, that somebody haven’t been fair to me, then that listener has a right to raise a question, very understandable, though may be silent, if it isn’t me, who are responsible for that?
i also believe that indeed, i have “earned” most of the treatment, which i have got from others, and i am not happy about.
and today i am very thankful for all the obstacles, “misfortunes”, and the chains of pain i have got, because if it taught me something, may be it made me a better person. for instance, it taught me that if i feel hurt by something, it is not necessary to hurt back. and it is better to try hard to keep staying calm in any situation.
#vanadzor
#yerevan #street
#bicycle
#backyard
#graffiti #street-art #dog #girl #street
#dog #street #tree
just updated spyurk.am certificate by using let’s encrypt service and acme.sh script. very convenient.
those who had issues with chrome/chromium should not have them any more.
house with little horns. #house #building #tbilisi #backyard #windows
#selfie #people
#dog
@{Սոնա Մանուկյան ; sanyokot@spyurk.am} #portrait #provia
there are filters in the paper bag which we have to take to Dilijan’s #caffeine which is run by two girls.
#tbilisi #Coffee_LAB #window
#tbilisi #sololaki #street
#building #tbilisi #sololaki
#vanadzor #train
#vanadzor #train
#vanadzor #train
#vanadzor #train
#vanadzor
#fioletovo #lori #armenia #landscape #village
#fioletovo #lori #armenia #landscape #village
now on velvia (:
#fioletovo #lori #armenia #landscape #village
#fioletovo #lori #armenia #landscape #village
#fioletovo #lori #armenia #landscape #village
i almost never can resist stopping at that place.
#fioletovo #lori #armenia #landscape #village
#mariam #caffeine #dilijan
#caffeine #bicycle #dilijan
irresponsible newspaper. #caffeine #dilijan #newspaper
#chiaroscuro #dilijan #caffeine #Caffeine_Brew_Lab
however i scan it, the cup remains burned. but it is not on the original slide.
#chiaroscuro #dilijan #caffeine #Caffeine_Brew_Lab
#chiaroscuro #dilijan #caffeine #Caffeine_Brew_Lab
deathworld
#picsart #yerevan
#yerevan #bridge #provia #film
#yerevan #bridge #gorge #provia #film
#yerevan #dog
#yerevan #provia
dancing with the kitten https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InGjaAG-pwQ #sololaki #cat #dance #backyard
i’ve shared the backyard photos of this building a couple of times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0kPdV5vhLA #sololaki
#dilijan
#dog
i am sorry for the stream but you have to admit that it’s not every day. (:
#street
#sololaki
#cat #cats #gate #sololaki
#sololaki
#sololaki
#sololaki #bicycle #street
#sololaki #backyard #staircase
#sololaki #dog #cat
#tedx #sololaki #entrance
#sololaki
#sololaki
#sololaki
#staircase #sololaki
#sololaki #backyard
#sololaki #backyard
#sololaki #backyard
#sololaki
#sololaki
#sololaki
#sololaki
#sololaki
10 #abovian street in #tbilisi, #sololaki. #house
#backyard #sololaki #window
#cat #backyard
#tbilisi #backyard
#design
#tbilisi #entrance #windows #staircase #building #sololaki
#backyard #yerevan
zombie balloons.
there was an event in the frame of tbilisi fashion week at the “fabrika” space - there were talks, photographers with cool cameras, designers and elite youth. and these women were engaged in catering: preparing food and drinks for the participants of the event. they were watching the event from behind of the hung clothes. taken with jolla phone.
#fabrika #tbilisifashionweek #tbilisi_fashion_week #tfw
theoretically the word “entrance” in russian has to be written as “подъезд”, not “под’езд”. this practice to use the apostrophe sign instead of the letter have been widely used back in 20ies, when bolsheviks were enforcing new orphography. armed people in loose-fitting uniform jackets and armed with mausers were confiscating the letters used in old orphography from printing houses, among them this “hard sign” letters. that is why people were using apostrophe signs instead of them.
this photo have been taken in tbilisi with jolla phone. (:
#tbilisi #russian #georgian #orphography #entrance
special armenian hamburger and anthony. #rhcp
@{Սև կատու ; alils_@spyurk.am} 12.04.2017, 23:36:34
#աչաջուր #նկար /w @{կողմնակի; norayr@spyurk.am} @{անդրանիկ; antranigv@spyurk.am}
#achajour
#mirzoian_library #yerevan #tree #backyard
#landscape
#courtyard
#dog #house
#cat #caturday #house
The M-3 could have also remained a one-of-a-kind machine (its development was not officially sanctioned by the government), had it not been for the academician Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian. Upon his arrival in Moscow in 1954, he asked his friend Andronick Gevondovich Iosifian, Director of the All-Union Soviet Scientific Research Institute of Electro-mechanics [today the Vserossiskii nauchno-isledovatel’skii institut elektromekhaniki, or VNIIEM], to help him obtain a computer for the Armenian Academy of Sciences. Iosifian turned to Brook, and the two of them agreed to manufacture three M-3s at the Institute of Electro-mechanics, which had its own manufacturing facility. One computer was to be built for the Institute of Electro Mechanics, one for the Yerevan Institute of Mathematics of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, and another for Korolev’s space program. They formed a joint group of specialists: Matyuhin (from Brook’s laboratory), Boris Moiseevich Kagan, George Petrovich Lopato (from Iosifian’s Institute), and others. In 1956, the first of the M-3’s was fine-tuned and presented to the State Commission, together with technical documentation required for industrial mass- production.
…Because the M-3 was actually a self-initiated project, independent of any state plans, the State Commission headed by Bruevich and assisted by Shura-Bura showed its true character by not wanting to acknowledge this computer, claiming that it was “born illegitimately.” Although they did eventually accept it, two years went by without it’s going into mass production. During this time, the Yerevan Institute of Mathematical Machines was founded and began producing its own computers using our documentation for the M-3. 27 At the same time, the first industrial computer factory in Minsk, Belarus, was built, but had nothing to produce. The factory managers learned that Iosifian had a model of a computer but nobody had given him permission to make it. Only then were the M-3’s documents transferred from the Institute of Electro Mechanics to the factory in Minsk and the M-3 computer became the basis for computer manufacturing in Yerevan and Minsk.
#book #quote #computing #yerevan
apparently, this soviet song’s hebrew version was popular in 70ies in Israel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLo_LhfLy5M
the difference is, the hebrew version has the god, Elohim, in it. soviet version, obviously did not have that. (:
#hebrew
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Antranig Vartanian ; antranigv@spyurk.am} 07.04.2017, 15:48:06
Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL. HAL: I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that. Dave: What’s the problem? HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do. Dave: sudo open the pod bay doors, HAL. HAL: There you go.
#HAL9000 #SpaceOdyssey #sudo #gnu #linux #unix
#hal_9000
The diagonal of the 18x24mm half frame is 30mm; the diagonal of the 24x36mm full frame is 43mm; so the “normal” focal length for a half frame would be about 30/43 x 50 or 35mm. The “35mm equivalent” of the 28mm on the Pen would be 43/30 x 28 or 40mm.
https://www.photo.net/discuss/threads/lenss-focal-length-for-half-frame-camera.72488/ #half_frame #equivalent
@{Սոնա Մանուկյան ; sanyokot@spyurk.am}
via @{YA ; ya@sechat.org} (sorry cannot tag you) from this post.
the author’s original post, maybe. I believe this photo have been taken in Geghard, Armenia. Exactly here I guess.
#armenia #geghard #monastery #flowers #photo
#trees #snow #sevan
#trees #snow #sevan
#sevan #velvia #ice #lake
Same location, almost same time, as here, but the film is different - old photo on fujifilm c200, this photo on fujichrome velvia 50 slide.
#sevan #winter #lake #ice #velvia #film #slide
http://www.airbusgroup.com/int/en/news-media/corporate-magazine/Forum-90/PopUp.html #airbus
I have met a family in one of the Armenian towns.
They both are educated.
The wife works as a teacher at the local school. The husband, however, decided to become a farmer. That was an efficient way to support the family. All the day long he works at the farm, and she, after the school, makes cheese and matsun, which they distribute to sell at the town shops.
When he was a teenager, he was an M. C. Hammer fan. He said he had to go to Tbilisi to get shoes like those Hammer had. Also, they did not have any interesting clothes, so they were asking tailors to make custom clothes for them.
They are able to support a rented apartment for their kids, who study in Yerevan. One of them was able to get and keep a free education at the medical university, which is very hard. They say, that according to the other brother, this guy only studies and sleeps. Another brother, however, who had chosen the IT way, has more free time usually and enjoys the city life.
The wife dreams of having a room with bookshelves, but they send all the money to the kids. “It has to wait” - she said.
We, of course, also talked about coming elections. She said how the teachers have been forced to go to “stand” at the faked rally when the current “prime minister”, from the ruling party came to the city.
She also said she wonder how some people can engage in such a dirty thing to do, as distributing ads of one of the parties. They get paid around $100 for that. “Well, some people have no choice” - argued her husband. “There are more important things, I would do anything, any kind of hard work, but I would never distribute those papers” - she said.
She said - “they’ll never get our voices. they’ll never win in our town. whichever falsifications they do, they won’t win.”. “It’s you, your town, who give them voices, where they are able to fake” - she condemned me. (:
She said that one of the kids - the one who studies to become a physician, already decided to emigrate. He has a feeling that the corruption in the field is huge and he’s not gonna fit the system.
The other one can see how he can live in Armenia. He’s a programmer and he hopes to find a decent job, or maybe, found a startup here.
Everything in the house had been built by them. The husband built the furniture, the walls. The walls are still naked concrete. I have noticed that the walls are built very well, very accurate. I’ve seen different walls and I believe I can notice and appreciate a good work.
Her sister sends her books from Yerevan. She showed me books she reads currently - one of them was an Armenian translation of Hermann Hesse. She is proud that she can convince the pupils to read. She said recently she found out one of them have read “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde, by following her advice.
There is no bookshop in their town, she said. Though recently one had been opened, but it only sells books in Russian. “I am not reading Russian fast” - she confessed.
Overall, they both left an impression of advanced, smart people in very hard circumstances, but who still can find their way to live with dignity, and without betraying their values.
When you stand in front of someone (with your car) and you horn at that person, … In my opinion, it’s like pointing a loaded gun. It is a threat. One you probably wouldn’t execute, but that is also one of the biggest uses op weapons: threaten. The victim never knows for sure what you are going to do…
from comment by @{Eddie G ; eddygz@pod.disroot.org} under this post. #quote #threaten #weapon
#sevan #winter #lake #ice
bbc presence in yerevan.
#caturday #cat #bbc #yerevan
the best cat ever. #yerevan #backyard
Saint Petersburg photos by Alexandr Petrossian
also his blog http://petrosphotos.livejournal.com/ #photography
#photo #yerevan #street
NSA tools to hack macs https://wikileaks.org/vault7/darkmatter/document/
it looks like those tools have been developed by the NSA. so it is not obvious if Apple have participated in that process at all. also these tools are somehow outdated. #wikileaks #apple #nsa #sonic_screwdriver (this is an allusion to dr. who) #seapea #nightskies #triton #derstarke #efi
i have three problems with my pod.
server closed the connection unexpectedly
This probably means the server terminated abnormally
before or while processing the request.
The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Failed.
it’s a same host.
i am unable to make web chat to work. everything seems to be configured according to manuals. need to chat about it.
if I use prosody modules from https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Integration/XMPP/Prosody - roster from diaspora friends is not being built. however if i use old custom modules sent to me by @jhass then the roster is built.
#diaspora
testing friend’s headphones. by qualia.
amazing:
Remember, when advertising is involved you the user are the product. […] When people ask us why we charge for WhatsApp, we say ‘Have you considered the alternative?'”
Brian Acton and Jan Koum, June 20121
“Facebook today announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire WhatsApp, a rapidly growing cross-platform mobile messaging company, for a total of approximately $16 billion, including $4 billion in cash and approximately $12 billion worth of Facebook shares.”
Facebook Newsroom, February 20142
“[B]y coordinating more with Facebook, we’ll be able to do things like track basic metrics about how often people use our services and better fight spam on WhatsApp. And by connecting your phone number with Facebook’s systems, Facebook can offer better friend suggestions and show you more relevant ads if you have an account with them.”
Brian Acton and Jan Koum, August 2016
from here via @{ranrad@diasp.nl ; ranrad@diasp.nl}
Sci-Hub is an online search engine with over 58,000,000 academic papers and articles available for direct download, bypassing publisher paywalls.
Created by Alexandra Elbakian (:
x100f is out! https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/fujifilm-x100f #fuji #x100 #x100f
#wikipedia #wikisource #wikidata #wiktionary #wikicommons #armenian
‘come and hug me’ in Lori province dialect.
#armenian #caturday #cats
from dmesg output of two different servers, may be the same tigran:
icrocode: CPU39 sig=0x406f1, pf=0x1, revision=0xb00001e
platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-4f-01
Microcode Update Driver: v2.00 <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>, Peter Oruba
iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Adding 43455816k swap on /dev/sda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:43455816k
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14a <tigran@veritas.com>
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
tg3 0000:01:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex
#dmesg #linux #microcode
by Melissa Findlay | source
#photo #street #urban
by .tom troutman | sources
#hebrew #east_coast #photo
radio run by kids of tumo dilijan.
http://diliradio.out.airtime.pro:8000/diliradio_b
http://diliradio.airtime.pro #tumo #dilijan #radio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxcvng_CpMQ smth to watch. (:
backstage like something https://www.behance.net/gallery/50000053/anison-bulldogyerevan-backstage #bulldogyerevan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzVISeygFGk
less saturated colours - means less contrast - means more tones.
made a gif with this script.
and this is a youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-u0oghSA_M
i have prepared set of scripts to tag my film photos and now flickr shows more information (:
by Arsen Terzian. #film-photography #photo #saint-petersburg #night #kodak_portra #film
there is a village in Armenia called Malishka. it sounds like a Slavic word, but it is not. and there were no molokans living around.
in some dialects, ‘mal’ means an animal, cattle. ‘ishka’, also known as ‘ishel’, ‘ashel’ means - to ‘maintain’, look after animals. so this is a village of animal maintainers. (:
#malishka #armenia #etymology
yesterday i have seen jesus. he was driving a car by the Sevan lake surface. the frozen surface. i also have seen frozen waves. i’ll share some nice photos one day. not the jesus, probably. just landscapes.
so the children game, when two try to bash with the ball the third(or the rest), who stands in the middle of them, and has to avoid the ball, is called ‘duck hunter’ in gyumri. (:
#gyumri
they were talking passing by:
— …i was making diffs of diffs…
#work #talk
from my comment to someone in my stream:
i don’t like so called ‘women’s day’. in ussr it was about a lot of hypocrisy, lost the original meaning, but instead was just a day to give flowers to women(does not matter that the same women will be humiliated for the rest of the year). as my girlfriend stated - the slogan of the day is ‘woman - is human’s best friend’, by referring to the similar sentence made about dogs.
i, and almost any girl or woman around me, including my mother, were extremely happy, that after the collapse of the ussr, our new government eliminated this day. unfortunately, it returned back together with authoritarian regime. the next so called ‘president’, or better, ‘ruler of the country’, who started to gain absolute power, and pressure any kind of opposition, free speech in media, etc, got the day back - it’s much better if citizens be busy by giving or receiving flowers, rather than by political activities. then, the next ‘ruler’, who was the spiritual follower of the second, and managed to made the authoritarian regime even more stable, made the day non-working, so the increase of authoritarian power goes hand in hand with the popularity of this ‘celebration’. no wonder.
this time, btw, the musical clip by the popular armenian band appeared online, where the head of the government was playing drums, slogans of the ruling party were visible here and there. the musical clip had to announce the march8 dedicated concert.
so, let me again quote kin-dza-dza - ‘why aren’t you happy? mr. pzh ordered to be happy. so be happy. yes, like that, good boys.’ so be happy and obey the orders. (:
Dust cloud coming up from a flock of sheep by dawn of day. Geghama Mountains, Armenia.
by Tsovinar Martirossian, source #photo #armenia #flock #sheep
#scream #unix #sudo #horror #dark
from the same chain, one music video - performed with Tesla coils via @{Antranig Vartanian ; antranigv@spyurk.am}, and Smells like 3 1/2 inches spirit via @{Patient13 ; patient13@framasphere.org} (:
this i know from whomadewho mix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J481lmae4_c
backstage like something
#tea #mirzoian_library #yerevan
generated this scripts https://github.com/norayr/curves/tree/master/gimp2ffmpeg/scripts to apply curves to videos.
Cross-platform open-source compositing software. https://natron.fr/ https://github.com/MrKepzie/Natron #natron #compositing
static blog generator in go https://github.com/spf13/hugo #blog #golang
blog dedicated to airport photos https://tls-airport-photo.tumblr.com/ #airport
photos made with fujifilm x100t (:
https://github.com/suapapa/HUMA human madeable arduino compatible board. #arduino
this guy also has many nice go programs. #golang
People who promote the idea that scewed colour tables and grey blacks represent the “look” of film are mostly people like VSCO who can make money selling software that does those operations to digicam images. What makes film look like film can’t be done retrospectively to digitial images because they result from the different way the light is captured in the first place.
https://petapixel.com/2015/09/01/comparing-a-vsco-film-emulation-to-the-actual-film/
#film #photography
according to https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=18171
English BR’s will be published in October 2017
your name. [UK] (Blu-Ray) 2017-10-30
Blu-Ray + DVD combo
your name. [UK] [Collectors Edition] (BD+DVD) 2017-10-30
DVD (Region 2)
your name. [UK] (DVD) 2017-10-30
#kimi_no_na_wa #makoto_shinkai #anime #tokyo #itomori
https://twoleftears.bandcamp.com/album/lazy-trace the whole album.
https://soundcloud.com/kendallmilesmusic/dream-sequence-kendall-miles-x-i-eat-plants-for-a-living
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsLxTo0bQbQ this is amazing,very interesting.
business can get tax privileges, if it is involved in charity. however, individuals do not, right? not along the lines of a society where individuals matter.
may be then both business and individuals have to get some tax privileges, in case they are involved in creation of free software, let’s say if a company produces free software, or may be individual contributed to free software somehow, be that by code, or donation,they also could gain benefits. i know this is really hard to measure, and i have no idea how to.
In one study that set out to investigate this question, young chimps observed a researcher using a stick to retrieve candy from a clear plastic box, employing both effective and ineffective motions. The chimps quickly discerned the candy-releasing moves and proceeded to repeat only those. Four-year-old children who watched the same demonstration, however, imitated the entire routine, including the unnecessary moves. The children seemed to put their trust in the experimenter and thus invest some magical significance or “blind faith” in actions of no practical value—perhaps a symptom of the human predisposition for superstition, de Waal posits.
The ease with which our brain suspends reality—call it irrationality, imagination or faith—has been crucial to the development of religion in human culture, according to de Waal, a respected primatologist and avowed atheist.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mind-reviews-bonobo-and-atheist/#
#religion #atheism #study #research #bonobo
#1984 #past #future #jerewan #yerevan #radio_yerevan #radio_jerewan #radio
lewis lloyd made a nice clip for ghost culture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM0ZU3NvfX8 #ghost_culture #mouth #lewis_lloyd
Foxes and magnetic fields
@{Կողմնակի Անցանց Մ․ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 24.02.2017, 19:49:51
source #photo #girl
This is the dumbest publishing platform on the web. https://txt.fyi/about/
build your own lisp - very good book online http://www.buildyourownlisp.com/ #programming #compiler #lisp #book
Type safety and its strict enforcement is our religion - No blasphemy please.
#programming #religion #blasphemy #screenshot #modula-2 #modula
film dating quiz https://www.oneyearwithfilmonly.com/film-dating find the best film for you (: #film #photography
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNwDcUBBVbk i like he’s works. #pixelart
Beej’s Guide to Network Programming http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/html/singlepage/bgnet.html #network #programming
Igor Mukhin has a photo album called ‘born in ussr’. this is interesting, because we here, in armenia, do not consider us to be born in the country which now does not exist. we never identified with it. i never did. my parents never did. i could only hear jokes and irony about the regime, when it wasn’t too cruel to be funny. we were living in armenia, and now we live in armenia, which is more part of the world than back then. which is good, because we want to be a part of the world.
— these private schools are the opposite of the state schools: in state schools parents are honeying, fawning the teachers, while in private schools they demand both from them and the management.
#education #capitalism #school #talk #yerevan
sailfish now has vpn. this trustworthy shield means it’s activated. very nice and good for health.
#jolla #sailfish
Fuji Provia 100F. I set brightest part of the sky to +3.0 and the dark mountain fell at -3.0, using almost the entire latitude of the namesake film. No filters were used to obtain this photograph.
Mark Schlocker is a Yokosuka, Japan based photographer.
https://www.filmshooterscollective.com/analog-film-photography-blog/a-practical-guide-to-using-film-characteristic-curves-12-25 #photo #mountain #film #provia #sky
#firefox
https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
#assange #google
manouchian, tavitian, tebirian are armenian surnames.
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#Résistance
via @{Louise Michel ; carotte46@framasphere.org}
#armenian
Shirley Ghent by Géraldine van Wessem on kodak portra film. (: #photography #portrait #film #kodak_portra #portra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BWzxclb5eY
— Stop your advertising. I’m not buying tickets to win. Peddle these tickets to our tenants. — a… a… — If they won’t buy, I’ll cut off their gas.
russian politics today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zE3SWEkOGo #cubicolor #music #electronic
indo-european languages tree by levenshtein distance #armenian #languages #tree
#alfred_aho from here
waiting for kimi no na wa blueray release. https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/531lcx/kimi_no_na_wa_bluray_release_date/ #kimi_no_nawa #screenshot #reddit #anime
#horse #gargar #village #post #armenia #photo
i don’t always photograph monasteries, but when i do, it’s usually haghartsin. #haghartsin #armenia #photo #monastery #church
another photo of haghartsin is here, shot from not very balanced position.
opening #barcampevn16, @{անկապ ; ach94er@spyurk.am}, @{ditord@spyurk.am ; ditord@spyurk.am} #yerevan #aua
#khanjians_house #dilijan #photo #building #architecture
#girl #window
#girl #wall
#yerevan #kond
#yerevan #kond
#yerevan #yeraz #backyard
#yerevan #backyard #dog - now some 2016 photos i did not publish before.
#hands #girl
book store “Gir” in Tbilisi, late 19th or early 20th century. ‘Gir’ means ‘writing’ in Armenian. #tbilisi #photo #book_store #armenian
the same building as in this post, but two years ago had a garland in the window.
#sololaki #garland #newyear #building #window
#moulen_electrique #tbilisi #cat #cafe #breakfast
#dog #street
#stairs #entrance #green
anaglyph made with anacam and jolla. december 2014. #yerevan #subtitle
one of the photos is made on fuji superia, other two with jolla - hdr and regular photo. #tbilisi #street
#tbilisi #building #pavement #street
this is kote apkhazi street in tbilisi. yes, i like that the light is measured by the sky. #tbilisi #street #tree these film photos, that i publish today and yesterday, mostly have been made in early 2015.
tbilisi botanical garden and a building built in saakashvili presidency period. #tbilisi #building #botanical_garden
#tbilisi #building #cafe
same place, same day as in this post, but taken with 50mm lenses on a film camera. #tbilisi #backyard #cats
#room #photo #window #table taken with fcamera, n900.
#yerevan #photo again taken with jolla.
menu in Western and Eastern Armenian. at Carahunj, Stepanavan. ‘drained matsun’ is called ‘labne’ in Western Armenian - it comes from Arabic ‘labna’, which means ‘white’. the word Lebanon also comes from that root - that is the arabic country where you can see snow. #armenian #arabic #stepanavan
super heroes die in the summer. book by amazing contemporary armenian writer, signed for me. (: #book #batikian #armenian
my typematrix keyboard. it supports dvorak by hardware. i like it. (: #typematrix #keyboard #dvorak #layout
in case anybody needs ‘zhestyalshik’ - metal expert in tbilisi, that’s the phone number. #tbilisi
expotition to find the north pole a good place to photograph yerevan. you can see the earth’s axis part of tv tower and ararat mountain. these ‘long’ photos have been made with jolla phone. #expotition #yerevan
it says - “smile, the space is under surveillance”.
they are proud that they have both socar (azerbaijani petrol company) and mcdonalds in batumi. in the same line - socar and mcdonalds, one after the other. #batumi #book
we entered the auto parts store together with a friend, and see - there is a dog in the box, watching us. friend asks - “do you have dogs in other boxes too?” and starts to open and close all boxes, searching for the dogs. #dog
#girl #dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RhbYpgVpg0
#rust #servo #firefox #mozilla
adox (photographic film produces) gets new space.
http://www.adox.de/Photo/new-factory-building-in-bad-saarow-near-berlin/
The most important improvements will be:
#film #adox #film-photography #photography
i already have reshared it once from here but would like to share it again. (:
#programming #software #development
So I think as long as you’re dating somebody and you keep the half an eye open for others, this is really a problem. Because you’ll keep on asking yourself all the time: Is this good enough? And when you go on online dating, humanity looks amazing; everybody’s so wonderful and thoughtful and loves poetry and running and hiking. I think if you date and still remain online at the same time, that’s a really bad recipe for success.
#relationships #love #commitment
A programmer had a problem. He thought to himself, “I know, I’ll solve it with threads!”. has Now problems. two he
#programming #threads
why prince of persia characters’ movements look so naturally and why it took four years to make the game: http://levik.livejournal.com/315745.html (in russian)
#game #prince_of_persia
Goood photo is a failed bad photo.
G. Pinkhassov. #photography
From a software engineering point of view, of course, a program must “work” according to its specifications. But this is not sufficient. The manner in which it is designed and written is as important as whether the program works. The ease with which the software can be changed to upgrade performance, meet additional specifications, or rectify errors that are later discovered is directly related to the quality of design and implementation. The “hot-shot” programmer who can quickly throw together cryptic lines of code that only he or she can understand is of questionable value. The programmer who boasts of using clever tricks to reduce the total number of lines of code has probably missed the point. Computer memory is relatively cheap, whereas the modification of software (a process greatly enhanced by program clarity) is generally expensive. Thus, given a choice between a little less economy of code or greater program clarity, the latter is often preferred.
From the ‘Software Engineering with Modula-2 and Ada’ by Wiener and Sincovec.
#programming #modula-2 #ada #wiener #sincovec #quote
haha, very funny, accidentally found own old post about a hackathon in 2011. (:
#parallel_programming
autumn in yerevan backyards, colour.
#photo #yerevan #backyard #autumn #rain
autumn in yerevan backyards, bw.
#photo #yerevan #backyard #autumn #rain
So, why, you ask, does FujiFilm use such strong chroma NR if it causes this ugly rendering? If you’ve been paying attention you might have already guessed. The answer is simple: To suppress moiré! Ah ha, you say, but, according to FujiFilm’s marketing department (there’s that smell again), X-Trans is immune to moiré! Well, I’m here to tell you that it’s no more immune to moiré than Bayer and, in fact, probably a little less. It all comes down to the signal processing, and in this case, that processing is not without its side-effects.
https://petapixel.com/2017/01/27/x-trans-promise-problem/
#photography #fuji #x-trans #moiré #bayer
omg, Belarus Extradites Russian Israeli Blogger To Azerbaijan. for visiting Artsakh.
that’s that guy, i follow him on livejournal. these are his posts about Armenia (and Artsakh) - reason for being arrested. interesting, so even Israel was not able to get him free.
#artsakh #lapshin #puerrtto #blogger #belarus #azerbaijan #freedom
kevin mitnick’s grandmother is armenian. (: #kevin_mitnick #armenian #grandmother #screenshot
#rip #solaris
love this photo. let it be tagged with #transistor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH1SvGMY4Qs
#german
I watched him walk a short block and shoot an entire roll without breaking stride. As he reloaded, I asked him if he felt bad about missing pictures when he reloaded. “No,” he replied, “there are no pictures when I reload.”
everything is connected!
#garry_winogrand #photography
You’ve been making choices out of desperation for too long, That much is obvious. You’re backing yourself into a corner. Break the pattern. Take control of your life. #dirkgently
#armenian #alphabet
two years ago i had a post about the project of the new apple campus. this is a drone video footage of how it goes so far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZTRTv56k58
#apple #campus #architecture #city #work #workplace
apparently (british scientists found out), that it’s much easier to try to fix a camera like this rather than a much ‘simpler’ plastic compact like this. because the latter has flash, therefore it has a pretty big capacitor, therefore, it makes an electric shock to you whether you accidentally touch some contacts on board. well, several times. also, the former camera is more like a clock, you can understand how it works after some time of tinkering. the latter one remains a complete mistery. or misery. #kodak #camera
photo by Tigran Ghahramanian. canon eos 300, canon ef 50mm f1.8, fuji film. #armenia #film #photo
my favourite thing about reddit is that it’s almost %100 content based. though millions of people contribute to it, they do it anonymously. it’s not mixed up with the pathetic local fame obsessions of facebook and instagram, or the much larger fame obsessions of youtube personalities like myself. in the social media world, between platforms that represent social, and platforms that represent media, reddit is the purest representation of the nobler side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe0SmaBUZT0
Rafik Ordyan (Armenian: Ռաֆիկ Օրդյան; Russian: Рафик Ордян; September 25, 1948 – May 31, 1979) was a Soviet-Armenian engineer and handcrafter of automobiles, who designed and built the GT-77 race car which went on to capture 1st place in the 1977 Soviet Grand Prix.
http://isralove.org/load/7-1-0-185
#armenia #yerevan #gt-77 #racing #car #design
#photo #film #city #street
#photo #film
#city #photo #street #film
#faces #photo #film
when you get back to the office how many calls did you miss? obviously #23. #photo
my new travel companion. #photo #biplane #airplane
#city #landscape #photo
#city #landscape #photo
#photo #landscape
#photo #landscape #traces #snow
#girl #hall #bassiani #tbilisi #photo #people #dj_set
#girl #hall #bassiani #photo
#city #street #dogs #photo
#city #street #sololaki #photo
#city #backyard #sololaki #photo
#city #backyard #sololaki #photo
sololaki 4ever #city #photo #sololaki
#city #street #photo
#girl #evening #photo
the line following cat. #photo #cat #street #city
#lens #photo
#tea #photo
#tea #photo #hands
#tea #photo
#photo #hands #tea #sugar
#photo #hands
#photo #hands #film
#photo #hands #leaf #girl
#photo #painting #museum
#photo #self_portrait #self #lab25
#girl #cat #photo #film
#building #street #city #photo
#photo
#photo
i have a yellow shutter button. (:
#photo
#photo
#photo
#photo
i love free market also because there is a place for entrepreneurship, initiatives, and creating something new.
this is one of the founders of ‘Caffeine’ - place that changed Dilijan town.
#caffeine #dilijan #photo #girl
#photo #girl
#photo
ok let me add all photos. some of them are by me, and some of them by Sona.
rot-54/2.6
all photos here and at behance project page.
#photo #orgov #radiotelescope #armenia #science
rot-54/2.6
all photos here and at behance project page.
#photo #orgov #radiotelescope #armenia #science
rot-54/2.6
all photos here and at behance project page.
#photo #orgov #radiotelescope #armenia #science
double facepalm by bekarian sisters. may be 2010.
#facepalm #double_facepalm #photo
i found these photos and i like them. it’s 2012. @{չարանենգ վիշապաքաղ ; tanamasi@spyurk.am}. we met to make a very important and secret thing. did not edit again, posting as found.
#photo #yerevan #girl
scanning hadidian archives.
#photo #slides #reversal #armenia
Yerevan in sixties. Slide from @{melizoic musings ; melizoic@spyurk.am} hadidian archives. Diasporian tourist group. Probably kodachrome.
#armenia #yerevan #60ies #sixties #kodachrome
Yerevan in sixties. Slide from @{melizoic musings ; melizoic@spyurk.am} hadidian archives. Diasporian tourists on Republic Square. Probably kodachrome.
#armenia #yerevan #60ies #sixties #kodachrome
Yerevan in sixties. Slide from @{melizoic musings ; melizoic@spyurk.am} hadidian archives. probably kodachrome.
#armenia #yerevan #60ies #sixties #kodachrome #kids
#armenia in #sixties. slide from @{melizoic musings ; melizoic@spyurk.am} hadidian archives. probably #kodachrome. #vagharshapat #etchmiadzin #etchmiatsin #church #60ies
#armenia in #sixties. slide from @{melizoic musings ; melizoic@spyurk.am} hadidian archives. probably #kodachrome. #vagharshapat #etchmiadzin #etchmiatsin #church #60ies
i’ve made this video with ffmpeg. you can start listening it, and i’ll try to upload some new photos soon:
Some of you saw the video about ROT-54/2.6, radio optical telescope. This is a paper by it’s creator.
The next important question is what means so low Self Noises (2,6 K or 2,8 K). According to the theory of the Big Bang in Universe it must have been Relict radiation of 2,7 K. If it is right, then our measured noises near Zenith had to be 2,6+2,7=5,3K. But they are absent. It is also impossible that our 2,6 K is 2,7 K of Relict. Because it will be only in case, if our Antenna is ideal and its Self Noises are equal 0 o K. But it is impossible on Earth. So there is only one explanation, that Relict radiation is absent in Universe, and it is that there never was any Big Bang [3, 4, 5] in Universe.
can anyone explain why he is may be wrong? (:
#big_bang #universe #orgov
Some things you don’t fix, Todd. Sometimes when you fall down, you fall all the way down. You blew it. That’s just the way it is.
#Amanda_Brotzman
Kodak Alaris Reintroduces Iconic EKTACHROME Still Film
#ektachrome
this is my gravity falls wallpaper. when i look at it, i think - technicolor.
if it would be film, this would be technicolor. very technicolor like colors. (: #gravity_falls #technicolor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xlb-BDf6aqU
read by Tilda Swinton.
i’ve been asked to help to find a specific bios version for some notebook. first of all. why specific? why not the latest?
and then, finding a bios update is already a solution. in such cases i ask - which problem do you try to solve? there might be a better solution, and the solution you want me to help with might be unnecessary.
also, it’s never lupus bios.
in many cases there is someone who advises to update bios in order to solve some problem, and it doesn’t help because it has no connection with the problem. however there were other solutions.
so eventually i met the notebook. the problem was, as they said, that they were unable to boot it from cd or usb. they said the problem is well described in internet forums, and the bios update fixes it.
srsly? it doesn’t boot from cd or usb? how hard could it be for a modern bios?
i’ve taken out of pocket my bootable flash drive with gentoo, and it booted. then found a debian cd and it booted. they spent days in vain efforts to update the bios, and did not suspect that the bootable media they used is to blame.
it’s never bios, i said, that’s your bootable media, which apeears to be not that bootable.
did u ever use bios updates to solve a problem, and did it help you?
some went underground. some went underwater.
#dolphins
#film #screenshot #tarkovsky
new year photo from igor mukhin.
#newyear #igor_mukhin #photo
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/greetings.html
source #voyager
And one more thing. Back in my youth I used to muse about why I was born, and what was the one role that only I could play. I wanted to feel that my own life was not just emptiness, that—even if it was only for an instant in the great current of time—my life was connected to a greater destiny. I don’t believe in any specific religion, but that feeling may be a sensation close to believing in a god. So given all that, I do have a desire to write stories that can bind together that tiny scale of one individual’s feelings and the vast scale of the cosmos and the stars.
http://www.nippon.com/en/people/e00107/?pnum=1
#makoto_shinkai
exists only for ios. not even for windows. (:
coming soon, never published before, yerevan and armenia in sixties from hadidian archives. (thanks to @{melizoic musings ; melizoic@spyurk.am} hadidian).
i believe it’s kodachrome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0nVzvD9QYk
#sixties #yerevan #armenia #kodachrome #film #reversal #slides #archive #scanning #minolta #scanner
holding clothes. #makoto_shinkai
programming is not only about writing the code. (: it’s about ELIMINATING THE CODE! without any pity. #programming
these makoto shinkai’s animations are so beautiful, it’s breathtaking.
‘word garden’ has words in it: ‘that’s because she never worked hard even a day of her life’. (:
i’ve been asked if we can downgrade diaspora* software to the previous version, because this version, since the update works slower.
and i rememdered thoughts i had about downgrades. downgrades are difficult, or often impossible.
downgrade from land to ocean? only a couple of species made it, though life on earth was more hard and painful.
downgrade from agricultural revolution state to hunters-gatherers state: in ‘agricultural’ world people had to work more, and had much more difficult lives. but the downgrade was hardly possible. then industrial revolution. humiliated workers in the early days. no way to go back to the previous state.
it’s not possible to downgrade Debian from Jessie, to let’s say, Woody. or Sarge, or even Wheezy. It’s not possible to downgrade from Win10 to Win7 or XP.
it’s also not feasible to downgrade from good relationship to a good friendship. well, of course it depends on many factors, but still:
downgrades are painful, and not feasible.
‘cultural’ improvement as an advice to a friend, who solved the case problem I have suggested: https://github.com/vgratian/misc/pull/1
will see if he accepts pull request. (:
this github is such a nice toy for me i just cannot resist. (:
— mr. pzh ordered to have fun! hey, you, why you do not have fun? it’s an order of mr. pzh, you have to.
from the soviet steam punk dystopia by georgian director Danelia.
and this is an example of how to survive in Oberon without enumerated types.
https://github.com/norayr/enums_example
and it’s even cooler than enumerated types.
#oberon
this one is too big for diaspora but too beautiful to not share.
#makoto_shinkai #anime #screenshot #gif #tokyo #itomori #kimi_no_na_wa
i’ve discovered an outstanding anime director, Makoto Shinkai, and first anime, which I was able to watch, is not published yet. there is only leaked dvd version with hardcoded subtitles. i decided to share with you how beautiful anime is made, and prepared several animated screenshots.
for that i also have been written a script which is easy to use.
#makoto_shinkai #anime #screenshot #gif #tokyo #itomori #kimi_no_na_wa
those blog posts, that humans usually do not read, machines will. and machines will learn by reading those. and machines will enjoy reading those. and machines will fear by reading those. and machines will comprehend those. and machines will understand humans.
eventually humans will be understood.
#artificial_intelligence #humanity
attempted dignity.
Writing for people to read is an act of trust, and acceptance.
whatever I write someone may interpret other than as I intended, however carefully I choose my words. When you write you invite people to look into your mind while not getting to see inside theirs, unless they respond. Of course, reading too is an act of trust: trust that he writer is dealing in honesty and good faith. In the end all of our social intercourse is based in trust.
by @{Stuart Duckworth ; stuart_duckworth_1@joindiaspora.com}
#trust #acceptance
i already don’t write in a way i used to. in more than the half cases, i do not write, or it goes to the dedicated mailbox, which i never open.
the reader impacts the text. and i am not the best reader for my texts. i need no explanations. thus texts may be do not benefit from me being a reader.
on the other hand, regular reader i can imagine needs too much explanations, and that limits me.
right now i have a text on my mind which i cannot write down and publish. it’s technical. but i have reached the level of not being naive enough to write it.
not because i am so ‘noble’ and ‘different’ but it’s like i am from the other planet, and i have already some shaped culture, perception and perspective, that in order to be understood i need to put a lot of efforts to write and explain things, approaches, views, much more efforts than i want or able to spend.
also i need opposition, but on the different level. not on the level of ‘why do that?’ but along the lines of ‘there’se a better way of doing that.’. i am sick of explaining why do that. i do not need to do that.
Bulgakov’s Master was sure that things have to be written, even if there will be no reader ever. Sigh. That’s Bulgakov and it’s Master. Not me.
I don’t know how to write when the reader is /dev/null. Well may be I need to invent an imaginary reader. I never wrote ‘dear diary…’. Do you already have your own imaginary reader?
I don’t trust imaginary friends and readers.
I’d better stay alone. (:
Various dialects of Pascal, such as UCSD Pascal, provide the separate compilation unit, called UNIT, as a half-way measure in the right direction. Unfortunately, the Pascal UNIT facility (interface portion) does not allow a physical separation between specification and implementation, which are tied together in the same compilation unit.
Because the interface section and the implementation section of a Pascal compilation unit are required to be in the same physical unit, the data structure for any Pascal data type must be completely specified in the interface portion except when only one variable of such data type is to be allowed. In such a case the data structure can be hidden in the implementation portion of the compilation unit. This restriction is rather severe. For example, only one complex number variable, only one stack variable, only one string variable, only one list variable, could exist in a program at a given time. This is unrealistic in most cases.
In the Modula-2 dynamic string abstraction presented in section 1.3, each procedure contains a parameter of type string. This permits many string variables to coexist in a program. Each individual string variable may be manipulated independent of the others. The data structure for the type string is not specified in the interface unit (definition module) because of Modula-2’s opaque type facility and the separation between specification and implementation.
To allow each Pascal procedure in the interface portion of a string compilation unit to contain a parameter of type string, the data structure for string must be completely specified before the first parameter reference to type string is given. Thus the essential feature of data hiding is lost in Pascal, even with the limited facility of separate compilation available in some dialects of Pascal.
#pascal #modula-2 #modula #encapsulation #interface
https://soundcloud.com/carlos-delgado-146/glenn-gould-goldberg #bach
i am only happy on the road.
when it’s not the source already and it is not the destination yet.
i remember from the last trip the town and the white mountains behind the buildings from the pink stone under the bending low sun rays. the rays made clouds also slightly pink by proficient stroke of cyan shift.
i was too sick and weak to get out and make a photo.
then the road back on the ice. low gear. higher rpm numbers. do not touch brakes, noch, do not.
i remember stars over the lake from the other trip and that thin girl who was looking at them through the manhole in the car roof, stunned, unable to deviate her eyes.
i remember the alternate route to the village, deep canyon right near the edge of the road. the line of aragats mountain seems only a bit higher than the road i am on. and then the plate at the entrance with the non standard funny font.
cup of water with pieces of ginger to drink while driving.
white foxes. green lightnings in their eyes.
hama wire from the phone to the aux line of the audio system. german speech is interrupted for a moment - means email. ‘it’s snowing here, be careful. please.’ - i’ll read later. as well as the other, more excited text along the lines of ‘it’s snowing here and it is so nice’, from the other author.
no breaks, noch. turn the steering wheel a bit left then right, left then right.
one route. one tree there. one moon there. one cup. one. and many many bright stars.
stars, narrow serpentine, sudden spans of ice, canyon, contented rumbling of the engine, stars, reflections on the surface of the river far far below, stars, ice, river, rumbling, stars, shining river, ice, stars, river, ice, ice, stars, stars, stars, stars.
i am only happy on the road. #road
#saikio #lake #tokyo #film #photography #japan #sky
#film #screenshot #Winona_Ryder
on digital minimalism http://calnewport.com/blog/2016/12/18/on-digital-minimalism/
#minimalism #digital_minimalism
one better than the other.
#book #books #programming #photo #modula #modula-2 #modula-3 #ada #components #algorithms
#photograher #interview #photo
not bad at all. nice findings. #film #short #magic #stop-motion #yerevan
— Hello, be acquainted with my guest from Russia. — Hello, is CrimeaYours or not? — Not mine for sure. — Nice to meet you. And welcome.
#talk
“Indifference” is a poetic illustration of the challenges and strengths of the individual versus society. At first glance, all of the distorted white cans seems the same. Like crumpled up pieces of paper, it is impossible for each can to be exactly like its neighbor. The artist points out how quick we are to judge, and how our desire to group and categorize obscures our ability to distinguish and appreciate the subtle differences.
someone left a comment under one of my very old blog posts, noting that ‘life strikes from different sides and shapes a better suitable for life person’. that sounds very alien to me. because it’s about accepting the things as they are, playing by the already defined rules. instead of changing the rules? at least by contributing to the change by not following them? the ‘suitable’, ‘shaped’ ‘for life’ person would behave according to the rules, in order to gain benefits (or avoid troubles). as taught by regime, teacher, whoever. thus i would tell such a person somehow communistic sounding phrase /s like “are you an opportunist?”
i guess i value people who would not behave as it is taught by shaping, by demand, by the environment, which becomes the system. who would not follow the goal of benefits, because there are more important things than those.
and now I’ll tell that I like the color of the wall, the girl in front(i know her! i know her!), and the wires with both of them. (:
inky taken a selfie and changed a profile picture.
these corporate meetings are called ‘all hands’ because some of the workers have no heads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yv9IT1Dh2s
http://www.metrolyrics.com/stand-by-me-lyrics-john-lennon.html?ModPagespeed=noscript
— if they ban facebook, nobody would come to work at our company. — to work? those who work would come. those who do not work, will leave.
#talk #facebook #work
if you don’t quote yourself, nobody does. /s
it’s not about being lucky, but about integrity and loyalty. when you are loyal to your interest, you get benefits. if you check for a specific camera from time to time, you can find it for an affordable price. if you want a good job or apartment in a specific city, and you live in that city, you get it. if you are a loyal customer of some cafeteria you get benefits. whether you get a discount card, or barista suggests to add water to your teapot. so that’s about loyalty. loyalty is rewarded. well, not in case of relationships, may be, not always, but still.
#luck #integrity #loyalty
tetris in sed https://github.com/uuner/sedtris #tetris #shell #unix #sed #bash
childhood tunes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1NFbD7_63A
my favourite film camera today. (:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl-lPihWfkA
#fpm
we say, that the robots are those machines, who can make decisions by themselves. shell the drone shoot the tank or the bus? shell this toy bot turn left or right in order to get out from the maze?
humans are creatures that also can make decisions, in spite of their benefits. in spite of their predilections. i think it’s very important, and distinguishes humans from other animals. it might be politics, it might be romance. it might be friendship. it might be about someone we do not know and care. it might be about building technology.
we can be driven by benefits, feelings, profits, propensities.
however there are more important things, than those. thus we can think and make decisions, not based on benefits but values. behave somehow even by knowing that we loose, not by knowing that we gain.
may be those are about dignity and self respect.
To continue the previous post, or break it in to pieces.
Thus I avoid participating the work I know how to do good, and I know ‘we’ as a team cannot do it good enough. Because I cannot do everyone’s work myself - then it’s not ‘we’, it’s me. Usually I don’t have such control. Luckily. Because I don’t want to.
It’s very sad for me to participate in something where even if I contribute, the result will be awful. Also I value my efforts, and don’t want to spend them to something I know won’t be good. Sometimes I just cut myself from the reality. You need me to press this button? I am doing that. And pressing the button is a metaphor.
However there are exceptions. The most obvious is I know we cannot build a good country, I know I’ll not be satisfied with the result, and still I am here. And it has to be painful. Because I am not satisfied with what ‘we’ do. I have some ideas, but ‘we’ have others. I believe in ‘this’, but ‘we’ think differently. Still I cannot accept, or to be precise, afford other choices. I accept ‘us’, and that it’s not what I dream of.
Somebody told me recently ‘you cannot feel good, especially in this country’. Well, yes, I agree. But wait, why do you have to feel good? You don’t have to! Feel bad! You’re a human.
In the Simak’s ‘City’, humans decided to give up and go to live as seal like creatures on Jupiter. In order to feel good. And the remaining one city is not enough for humanity to continue development.
There are more important things than just ‘feeling good’. You don’t have to. You are not obliged to. Actually you hardly can anyway.
#unconnected
She was very upset.
Because she decided to take the class she could skip, it wasn’t a major. That might be a good opportunity to make the work done, as she thought, because that would be a university assignment.
Eventually she was very upset, because she did not like the result. In spite that it was appreciated by the teacher. Also, she realized that it was impossible to make the assignment good enough with her experience, and this time frame.
What I think is, that is normal and even amazing! Firstly, it’s normal that she does not like the work she has had done, because she understands that it’s a crap. However, if she would be very happy about the result, that would raise questions.
Secondly, this is very similar to relationships. First romantic relationships are “predestined” to be bad and painful. Because you don’t know yourself, your needs, expectations yet. Thus relationships must hurt, and they are condemned to breakup. At the same time, if you don’t get through it, you don’t know yourself better, don’t get relationship skills, and don’t have potential for better relationships in the future. Or a better work results.
Would I suggest to someone I care about to not get in to romance, or to not take the class, by knowing it’ll end up painfully? No, because that’s a human existence. Humans have to be hurt. Since we got out from the ocean, and “decided” to develop there’s no other way. Human’s life is spiked with pain, and that’s the best destiny they can have. Otherwise they are whether too naive, or too stupid, or too lucky. The latter is very unprobable.
#existence
— And so they’ve killed our Ferdinand. — Which Ferdinand, Mrs Muller? I know two. One is a messenger at Prusa’s, the chemist’s, who once drank a bottle of hair oil there by mistake. And the other is Ferdinand Kokoska who collects dog manure. Neither of them is any loss.
You know how I look at the cost of film? Let me share. I use mostly medium format cameras. My rough math suggests that on average I spend a dollar each time I press my shutter button. That can quickly become costly. But you know what that cost means to me? It means that I have to give each image more value to balance that cost, to make that cost worth it. You could easily replace the word “cost” with “investment” and this might be a good mental exercise for some. But I prefer to just redefine how I am aware of cost. Because my photos have cost, they have value to me. Because they have value I labor over them more, I am more careful, I am more thoughtful, I love them more. But monetary cost is not the only cost, pinhole taught me this. There is cost in time as well. If I am working with my pinholes, or lately with my ND filters, each image might cost me several minutes of my life, maybe even hours. I stood on the Broadway Bridge for about 20-25 minutes making this photo. I could have wandered a lot of ground in that time, found many other snap shots, but instead I invested all that time in this one image. It had a higher than normal cost and I gave it a higher than normal value.
When you start thinking about the value of each image, when you start applying a greater value to each image what I have found tends to happen is the results improve, or your enjoyment of the process improves, or both. To swing back to digital for a moment (and this is not a dig at digital) if each shot is theoretically free and you can make hundreds of images in one go, how much value do you tend to attach to each of those images? Not much, right? 9 out of 10 of them will get deleted or filed away to obscurity on your hard drive, maybe more than that. We shoot freely and hence the tendency is perhaps to shoot valuelessly.
Yes, film costs. It costs money. It costs time. It costs sweat and sometimes blood. I welcome those costs, I don’t see them as a negative, I see them as a reason to value what I am creating, to strive harder for a more meaningful process or result, to inspire greater patience and vision and practice on my part. I don’t want my film photos to be free because I would be afraid I would not value them as much then.
Something to ponder.
#pentax67 #medium_format #film #photography
cover.
#cover #bind #book #armenian #manuscript
morse?
#armenian #book #manuscript
#armenian #french #postcard #1877 #book #text
other handwriting in the same book.
#armenian #handwriting #manuscript #book
the text was written before the book was binded. these signs help to bind the book correctly.
#armenian #manuscript #book #letter #text #bind
his lowercase ք looks like latin x.
#book #armenian #manuscript #page #x #letter
book worm traces
#book #armenian #bookworm #worms #page #manuscript
#vishap #manuscript #armenian #book
— He was so liberal, that he was almost conservative.
#talk
one of the most important messages for me from Simak’s “City” is that number of speakers matters, size of the community matters. Not that I did not know or acknowledge that, but the book made me sober again about it.
Humanity cannot develop if there’s only one city of us.
Social network cannot develop if there’s not enough people. Diaspora pretty much stuck, because many say ‘it’s lonely here’, life happens at other places, like twitter.
Culture, and national culture cannot develop if there’s not enough people.
(I believe very good example of it are animes and Hayao Miyazaki, or Satoshi Kon. If there would be no possibility to be an animator in Japan, and Hayao would work as an animator in let’s say USA, nobody would allow him to make the films he would like to and as he would like to. There’s a different culture of making films. And there was a necessity in big enough Japanese, local market, to cover anime production costs, in order to make possible sustainable creation of them. And after they have been made, they can be exported to the other countries as is. And people in other countries would appreciate the difference of making.)
Operating system, and even flavour of it (like Sailfish) needs a number of users and developers. (Which it did not get, just like diaspora.)
And of course programming language needs a number of speakers to create an ecosystem around it.
#communities #city #simak #culture #programming
it’s interesting how many of us also use twitter, facebook, gplus, vkontakte, etc. i have a hunch that majority. let’s see. (:
#x100 #dogs #photo
probably announcement of a project or exhibition.
he’s teasing me:
— i don’t have a github account. shell i be ashamed? — no, why would you? — but instead, I have a microsoft visual studio account! — that you should be ashamed of, man, yes.
#github #programming #talk
there’s always (at least) one more bug.
Russian-Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin has been detained in Minsk, Belarus, by the request of Azerbaidjan. For what?
Because he have been at Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) in 2015.
Belarus is a dream, not a country.
http://en.apa.az/azerbaijan-politics/foreign-news/blogger-alexander-lapshin-detained-in-minsk-at-request-of-azerbaijan.html https://news.am/eng/news/363156.html http://en.israel-today.ru/in-minsk-detained-blogger-alexander-lapshin.html
LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1
Link by Wicky Wau source
#photo #film #bw #clouds #link #sky
bypassing firewalls and iptables:
http://opennet.ru/tips/2999_iptables_block_tor.shtml
in #russian
#tor #firewall #network #linux #ip
#book #xkcd #Randall_Munroe #explainer
Computers and automation, August, 1969, vol 18, No 9.
SDC Magazine
#computers_and_automation #1969 #sdc_magazine #magazine
Dirk Gently is a product of the liberal society. The book. And the series. Because there are different kind of people and therefore powers at play. And it’s about tolerance towards different people and powers. Of course they have their own interests, like sucking emotions out of other people, but still, nobody is absolutely evil. Even the guy with the dog from the tape from the hotel, he was kind of cute when he spoke, or expressed the love to that girl.
Same can be said about Harry Potter sequence.
There are different kind of people and different powers in liberal society, because different people have different advantages. Some people are not sustainable, and they disappear. But still, there are a lot of different people. And even those, who disappear, appear in others.
On the contrary the soviet system, or other dictatorships have their own Maxwell’s Daemon, who decides, which is an image of the ‘right’ person, and who gets advantages. Whether you correspond to that concept of the right man, or not. You have to become the one who is accepted by the regime, otherwise you die, or don’t get opportunities, depending on the state of the regime: is it or more bloodthirsty or vegetarian. In vegetarian times one doesn’t get a job, or good job, or promotion, but does not get killed or sent to Siberia for 25 years.
And I see that today. Often. How the daemon makes and watches people dance. In this ‘geopolitical’ (oh man, how ‘they’ love that word) area. How this person jumps trying to be seen above the level of others, shouting something to please those in power. That’s a metaphor. That could be simple fireworks after the successfully faked election. Somebody has to stand out and show himself by organizing that. That might be a law proposal. To forbid something else as well. That might be publicly expressed opinion, made to fawn someone. Or some dirty trick. To get exposure. To tell authorities “Hey, that’s me! See what I’ve done? Do you like it?”. And get the approving pat on the cheek. Get on the list of those whom the daemon chooses. You have to behave/look/be this in order to be chosen, allowed, tolerated.
Even in Japanese (eastern) animes, in Miyazaki films I see the liberal concepts - different powers, interests, and even those who do harm, are not necessarily evil. In the end that’s really beautiful.
Is diversity about relatively recent human societies? In previous times, you had to be the ‘right’ ape, or the ‘right’ giraffe to survive. Only one type of those survives. Even flu virus is one, and only type every year.
However humans are different.
May be that’s also what I like to photograph. And like to observe. May be that’s why I like to be in suburbs of Yerevan, because there is the level, where everybody are poor and daemon has no noticeable impact, I can see different people there more often, than in the centre. That’s the woman that runs a small ‘cafeteria’ in a trailer. She feeds cats. She looks very unique. There’s only one of her. Those who wants to get an approval from the daemon, and access to the government feeder, look the same. While she is different. Probably that’s why I also enjoy smaller and poorer towns more.
I know people who like to control. Others. Or like when there is a strong control, that’s why they like dictators. They like people with power. Adore them. They also like to talk about punishments. What I want to tell them - just leave it. Don’t control. Leave it to live. As is. Please. Relax. (:
It’s also interesting how Paris would look like without the dramatic changes made by Haussmann. The central and strong power. After all, roundabouts don’t seem a very good design decision today.
Someone in my stream said she misses people she barely knows. Which made me write this. I miss people who are more or less not strangers to me. Whom I in generally know.
It might be a banality, but I do realize that I do not really miss exactly them. I miss the idea, the concept of a someone, they could possibly be, but they aren’t, or decided to not be, or was unable to be, they are not. Otherwise I would not miss them.
Because they would be around. (:
nice, i’ve updated #funtoo at home, which i did not touch since… max 2012, to the current state. and it was not that hard. actually it didn’t take much efforts.
article in #russian about armenian #modernism. #architecture #armenia
I’ve been asked if I would work (go to work in the morning every day), if I would not have the necessity of earning money, if I would be from the rich family. I didn’t even have to think about it in order to answer - of course I would work. I do not work for money today.
(When I had an opportunity to go to the other company for the much better salary, I realized I do not feel the connection between the money I earn and the work I do. I value my efforts, and I do not want to spend my efforts for the gambling industry, what I would do at the other place. This is also about me working not for money.)
I remember the episode from the “How to steal a million”, where Nicole Bonnet treats the Simon Dermott’s wound from her gunshot. She says that she has to go to work early in the morning. “You work?” - asks Simon. “Some people do” - answers Nicole.
Btw, I love Audrey Hepburn. She’s probably my favourite American actress.
P. S. I anticipate the reactions on diaspora. (:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lptQsWD0LDQ
i have been there several times, enjoy the drone footage of ROT-52-2.6, radio optical telescope high in the mountains.
#armenia #physics #science #radiotelescope #orgov
https://youtu.be/zOXPGCGxRrQ?t=11m55s
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa~ #armenia #philosophy #opposition #revolution #democracy
Belarus (finally) bans Tor https://ooni.torproject.org/post/belarus-fries-onion/
#tor #belarus
i like new #dirkgently series more - it’s closer to the book, it has the original, adams’ spirit.
also dirk is not a swindler/cheater, he believes in what he does. and both of them, the detective and the assistant are not “muzhik”-like, adult menfolk/mankind at all - they are very young and unripe. well, even police detectives are not, which is very appealing and trustworthy as well.
these too.
#23 #dirkgently
#42 #dirkgently
#dirkgently
hehe
today i don’t understand, sincerely, i don’t understand why do people tend to have romantic relationships.
i understand friendship. i understand communities. i understand circles of friends.
i don’t get romance. why? that’s actually has good impact on me. no, i know what i was looking for in relationships. i was in search of close friendship. today i understand i’ve got it wrong. i can have friends without relationships. (surprise, surprise!) i mean close friends. not just people whom i can talk with. i did not recognize that before, because i did not, and do not have close friends.
today i understand that apparently people usually do not think that they have to be friends in order to become romantic partners. well, for me that is weird, because how can you let close someone who is not close? i would not let not close people even close to my apartment. i would not tolerate them around, if we have no serious reason to be in the same space, like the work environment.
so, i understand friendship. i don’t get romance. i know i had relationships. it’s just so far from me today. if i can have good friends without relationships, why would i need relationships? it’s an extra bother, extra concern, extra responsibility. no reason to want them.
I have allowed myself to buy three books. among them one of the volumes of “The Modula-2 Software Component Library”. It has four volumes. I just found one cheap, one of the volumes costs $400 for some reason. These are books about programming.
i’ve tried so many types of b/w film, now i can tell.
i am not a trix person. i believe salgado’s photos would be much better, if he would not like trix so much. but then he would not be salgado.
i don’t like tmax and delta. fomapan is not bad, not good. i like apx. i like hp5. i like adox silvermax. i like kodak cft - this film does not stop to amaze me.
still need to try panx - i’ve obtained it because i like it on cunningham’s photos. but i will see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3LuCqySqGQ
Lass uns träumen, Lass uns liegen, Lass uns nicht verstehn.
http://norayr.am/papers/Dijkstra%20-%20Efficient%20String.pdf
by Eelco J. Dijkstra (:
#strings #programming
so funny, “low budget”, hehe.
destroy at all costs!!
trust noone!
turns out there is also Eelco J. Dijkstra, also very interesting researcher. #the_other_dijkstra
so long since we met last time, TMultiReadExclusiveWriteSynchronizer
#fpc #pascal #delphi #library
The Golden ratio is mathematical ratio and it is 1: 1.618 and arrival of the ratio is from fibonacci series and The Fibonacci Sequence is the series of numbers: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, … The next number is found by adding up the two numbers before it.
#golden_ratio #fibonacci
#atlantida #girl #girls #film #screenshot #dog
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
Matthew 7:13 http://biblehub.com/matthew/7-13.htm
also there is a Russian meme: ‘We do not seek for the easy ways”. The snail in question does not. (:
@{melizoic musings ; melizoic@spyurk.am} 25.11.2016, 11:57:27
Photo 15: snail / խխունջ
As we gathered for the hike above Shushi (photo 16), I was mesmerized watching this fellow slowly, painstakingly, successfully make it across this hurdle. My first thought was curiosity that he chose to go up and over, rather than going around. But then I wondered if I would have noticed him at all if he was just easily slinking underneath the metal fence like it was no big deal. Instead, I watched his entire journey until he was no longer visible on the other side of the wall, just as our hike was ready to depart.
It’s worth noting, perhaps, that this guy would have nearly filled the palm of my hand. I had never before seen (land) snails as large as those I saw in Armenia and Artsakh.
#photo #armenia #artsakh #shushi #snail
#muppets #muppet #screenshot #film #german #frog #kermit #wanted #belohnung #evilen_froggen #froggen #deutsch #kino
do you know how the settlement beneath is called? i believe it is Karin Tak (Քարին Տակ) which literally means ‘under the stone’. (:
@{melizoic musings ; melizoic@spyurk.am} 24.11.2016, 11:45:08
Photo 16: Above Shushi, Artsakh
Four weeks into my stay in Armenia, I took a trip to Artsakh with a rambunctious busload of other diasporans. The entire time, I wished I could ditch the group and just explore on my own time. Learn about a history I had, up until that point, simply not known, much less understood. I wished I had more Armenian under my belt so I could take time to talk with the families we stayed with in Shushi, to listen to their stories, understand their pain, their strength.
The morning of our departure, after three jam-packed days of being bussed from place to place to place and back again, we were given the opportunity to go on an optional hike above Shushi, at 7:30am, with just a few hours sleep under our belts. Only nine of us showed up. And during the two hours that followed, we hiked quietly, nearly too tired to talk, up the hills above Shushi. The hills were rich with scads of fragrant, wild herbs. The rocks dropped off dramatically around each bend, giving way to the valley below. After days of rain, the sky was clear, the air crisp, and we stood on the edge of this valley, just taking it all in. The current moment, beautiful, peaceful, and quiet under a morning sun. But also the layers upon layers of history, trauma, fierce pride, reverence, and unwaivering resolve amongst those we met to do whatever it took to keep calling this breathtaking place home.
#photo #artsakh #armenia
#jdr_douz #hounot #shoushi #shushi #karin_tak #canyon
I was searching for this film since I noticed it was cited in one youtube video, which did not mention the origin. google images, tineye, etc search did not reveal anything. after several weeks i’ve repeated the search. google brought only one link to the xml file, which was generated just in the late october and contains links to 791 screenshots.
after a couple of unsuccessful tries to extract only images list from the file with xmlstarlet, i decided to switch to more known to me tools. eventually this, of course far from being the optimal, way helped:
wget https://halfacanyon.com/sitemap.xml
cat sitemap.xml | sed -ne '/<image:loc>/s#\s*<[^>]*>\s*##gp' | sed -e 's/http/\nhttp/g' | sed -e 's/jpg/jpg\n/g' | grep jpg > images.list
mkdir img
cd img
wget -i ../images.list
Then I’ve looked through all downloaded files and vouala, the film is called ‘the son’s room’.
Why did this part drawn my attention?
It looks like photos I imagine and would like to make. I believe that the normal state (normality42) of human being is sadness, and loneliness. This is conditioned by human existence/experience. In particular because he lives among other humans, and that’s the best destiny he can have. (:
I also believe that the most authentic way of human connection is sharing sadness, not sharing fun.
I tend to dislike photos with smiling people. It makes me surprised each and every time, when I take for a walk western friends, and they readily prepare the smile when I point camera to them. I guess this is more deep and unconscious way of hypocrisy. To show they have fun. To show that they feel excellent. (Which, by the way may make their facebook friends even more sad, because it looks like everyone around is having fun, but only them are not). I believe that if person usually feels good, then the person doesn’t understand many things or is delusional. (Is this why we need alcohol, to make us less rational and more happy at the same time? Douglas Adams claims to get normality we have to use tea?). Well, this is completely okay and legal to feel happy all the time.
The question is what am I doing around the happy ones? Not may way of connection. (:
#photography #film #screenshot #script #sed #research #cinema #frame #normality #people #shining
note the price. #walkman
— today we need to discuss that issue with 32bit field overflow, which caused qualcomm production halt recently. (:
#talk
our intern told me about music streaming service, which is called ‘deezer’. I’ve tried it and apparently it requires flash, which i obviously do not have. i said i wonder why any service would use flash nowadays. he responded: ‘you write in pascal, but you don’t like flash in web?’. (:
#talk
me by ZONO - shot with Nexus S, not edited. #photo #armenia
clibing the bridge.
#photo #bridge #yerevan
credit to the cows and still life with milk, cacao and mandarines.
#photo #cows #milk #mandarines #still_life #book #cacao
[messaging] Modern anti-spam and E2E crypto
https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/000780.html
#e2e #messaging #email #mail #gmail #crypto
I had been a photographer for about a year, yearbook photographer, had taken a few basketball pictures, and John Kennedy comes to Salt Lake City on a little visit. And my mom and I, she was always involved politics, local, we decided to go and see the president. We get down there and she’s standing in line where at the little vestibule when you come through that rotating doors, and he walks in, shakes a few hands, walks right by me.
I couldn’t really even get my camera up to see, so I juts, I figured I had a Vemar 135mm f2.8 on my Pentax, so I just put it on infinity, and it was like from here into the back wall of the, of the store. Anyway, I get home, develop the film, I look at it, and I wouldn’t learn this phrase until later, but the French have a way of looking at a picture like this, which is “sous-ex, flou, et bougé” - underexposed, blurry, and out of focus.
Well, I mean I was so pissed off that I didn’t have a sharp picture of him. Now I’m looking at it forty years later, and thinking - “you know, it’s not so much blurry, as it is interpreting his dynamic, sense and youthfulness, and it isn’t really out of focus, but it’s kind of an artistic way of playing with energy of the dynamic and president”. Before long I had convinced myself that was a great picture. Well, may be not a great picture, but it was one I could show.
from this video.
JFK’s picture at the David Burnett’s site.
#david_burnett #photography #jfk #kennedy #photo
just fixed the stuck shutter of porst compact reflex sp (: because how hard could it be? (:
btw the camera itself is a piece of art. and lightmeter lights panel in the viewfinder with arrows and green led looks quite impressive today.
because good design is out of time. (:
#porst #camera #design
Marish, shot by Sona with my participation. #photo #armenia #night
#photo #armenia #sevan #architecture #building #stars #sky
#photo #armenia #lake
#photo #yerevan #dog
this case belonged to someone’s mother. she wrote there the date when she came to yerevan to obtain the camera.
#photo #camera #case #yerevan
#photo #armenia #autumnt #building #alley
#photo #armenia #backyard #kids
#photo #armenia #factory #abandoned
#photo #armenia #girl #portrait #shadow
#photo #armenia #entrance #building #windows
#photo #armenia #car #cars #house #backyard
#photo #yerevan #dog
#photo #yerevan #car #house #sky #tree
#photo #armenia #town #backyard #kids #cat
#photo #armenia #town #backyard #kids
#photo #armenia #town #backyard
#photo #woman #armenia #town
what’s up bro?
#photo #armenia #town #cars #sky
#photo #armenia #door #design
two-headed. #photo #armenia #counter #pipes #town
#photo #armenia #town #design #door
#photo #armenia #town #car #volga #street
#photo #armenia #backyard
#photo #armenia #backyard
#photo #armenia #backyard
#photo #armenia #room #window #girl
at the electronic music concert in yerevan, armenia(six photos).
#photo #yerevan #music #concert #people
military software screenshot. talish and mataghis are names of armenian villages in artsakh captured by azerbaijani forces and taken back by armenian forces during 4 days war back in april.
#screenshot #talish #mataghis #artsakh
screenshot of kakach-3 portable weather station software.
#photo #screenshot #software #weather
old persian house in yerevan.
#photo #house #yerevan
#photo #portrait #girl #cyan
sun shine on the ‘our mileage’ book by Hrant Matevossian.
#photo #book
still life with dishes.
#photo
still life with tea and cookies.
#photo #still_life #tea #teapot #cheese #tomatoes #bread
#photo #street #yerevan #homeless #water #bulletin_board #underwear #shop
still life with pasta, hard drive and tea.
#photo #pasta #still_life #hdd #tea
sentry (two photos)
#photo #armenia #guard
inside out: abandoned factory in yerevan, armenia. two photos.
#photo #factory #abandoned #yerevan #armenia
girl in a village kitchen. and a kitchen without a girl.
#girl #photo #kitchen #armenia #village
kids in a village study sculpturing and making khachkar stones.
#photo #village #kids #armenia
davit has decent Armenian nose and bushy eyebrows.
#photo #kid #mask
agbu building in yerevan with solar panels. #photo #yerevan #armenia #solar_panels #building #agbu #solar_energy #green #backyard
syrian armenian refugee kid and his mother at the ‘halep’ (aleppo) trade centre in yerevan, armenia.
#photo #yerevan #armenia #syrian #armenian #halep #aleppo #kid
yeritasardakan metro station. (three photos)
#photo #yerevan #armenia #yeritasardakan #metro #building #architecture #street #people
time to drink tea. iranian truckers use such kitchens. (two photos)
#photo #tea #truck #trucker #road #kitchen
dominik’s notebook with ‘artsakh’ symbolic.
#photo #notebook #artsakh
controlling camera remotely to make selfies. while dominik writes postcards to send to friends in germany and other places.
#photo #yerevan #self-portrait #selfie #remote #jolla #green_bean #cafeteria
#photo #kitchen #lavash
#book #photo #dogs
#photo #yerevan #building #backyard #courtyard #pipes #counter
dystopian
#dystopian #yerevan #photo
#armenia #yerevan #photo #street #musician #building
#photo #armenia #lake #jacket #sweater #sand
From a Buick Petrol Station 8.
#photo #armenia #abandoned #petrol
let’s go, bro, let’s go to the canyon
#photo #armenia #kids #building
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3h2Rw1mHew
#tom_hanks #germany
@{Antranig Vartanian ; antranigv@spyurk.am} told me that he met Paul Vixie, author of vixie-cron. (: Here, in Yerevan. At some conference. And Paul said that he loves Modula-3 and Wirthian languages. And he was writing in Modula-3 and he has an article about it. http://www.redbarn.org/node/20
#Modula-3 #Vixie #programming_languages #programming #Yerevan
of course upon return I should see this number. #23
i am back.
airplane mode mood.
imagine an ocean with big, high waves. When you’re at the top of a wave – when things are going okay, when the depression isn’t at its worst – you have perspective. You can see that you’re at the top of a wave, you can see that there are other waves coming that you might be on top of at some point. You can see the sky, the land, other people swimming. You can also see that there are troughs, dips, in between those waves, but from up there, they are only part of the picture.
When you are at the bottom of a wave, however, in that deep trough in-between two peaks, all you can see is the sides of the waves on either side. All you can see is the water pushing around you. The sky feels so far away, just a speck in the distance. No one else seems to be around – you are alone in the trough. You forget that it was ever possible to be on the top of the wave… you can’t see the tops any more. The only thing you see is more water, the only thing you feel is the inevitability of the walls of water closing in on you.
It can be painful to watch someone you have loved (continue to love – at least the idea of her) do things that you support, would feel proud of, would make you care about them all the more. Because it’s a reminder that you’re no longer “allowed” to care in the ways you want, to show that care, to have it reciprocated in the ways you would need.
#love #relationships
#ducky #duck #calvin #hobbes #calvin_and_hobbes
today at police.
— do you recognize this guy? there is a bald guy with red skin, with big tattoo - christian cross on his big, trained arm, he looks down to his feet, or closes the face by hands. — no. (i did recognize him). — he is one of those who have beaten you during that incident. — oh, nice to meet you.
#talk
i just simply miss her.
i wonder if missing is compatible with dignity.
when you miss someone, you recognize important parts of your identity.
During and after wwii many ethnic germans were expelled: firsly, afaik from Baltian countries, as a result of Stalin/Hitler agreement (division of Poland, Baltia…) and later also from Poland, Chekhoslovakia.
To describe these people in FRG the word ‘vertriebene’ (expelled) have been used. While in GDR the word was ‘umsiedler’ (resettled).
#politics #words #german #language #expell #resettle #vertriebene #umsiedler #freedom
the first part comes from ‘chocolate’, the second part is french diminutive, like in cigar - cigarette.
#language #chocolate #schogetten #brand #german
it’s interesting how taste changes with time.
kids love bright colors, and some insist that they are even unable to distinguish between shades and tones. when we grow up (and it looks like purely cultural thing), we start to enjoy not those bright and pure colours. Even instagram or vsco prepare filters which decrease saturation. (:
for the last months i prefer thymus (not thyme) tea. when i was a kid, and my parents were takng me to the cafeteria at sevan highway, that was the only place i could try thymus tea, and this is absolutely not about armenia, because probably everybody else had it at home, so back then i did not like it at all. i hardly could drink it and i was asking for mint or just regular tea.
today it’s my favourite. why do i write it? just try it if you’re interested. (: #tea #thymus
this is an amazing film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUZrM2sitQk and i like the girl so much!
aaa~, such an amazing video, about centered compositions of Wes Anderson.
#wes_anderson #composition #centered
and I like this photo the most, shot by Nare, colour dye material for ancient Armenian books
#colour #paint #books #armenia #matenadaran #dye #yerevan #history #technology #art
another shot from Nare, Book of Lamentation by Grigor Narekatsi(951-1003), scribe by Stepanos Tyuriketsi at 1366 at Avag monastery.
#1366 #avag #monastery #grigor_narekatsi #stepanos_tyuriketsi #book_of_lamentation #armenian #armenia #book #literature
my friend Nare sent me some photos she made at Matenadaran, institute and archive of Armenian manuscripts.
this is Horses Medical Book by Faraj, written at 1296-1298. (:
#armenia #matenadaran #horse #horses #medicine #book #armenian #history #miniature
my friend from Germany, Dominik, bought this book, to learn Armenian. But, apparently, it’s not a very good book to study with. The author is an Armenian from Germany, who probably changed his surname Avakian to Avak. And he does not know Armenian well, from the book I understand that he is someone who probably left Armenia in late 70ies, early 80ies.
My friend is amused with the photo on the cover - guys in black jackets, and there are similar photos inside, they are also amusing to me, but still, something disturbs me, because Armenia cannot get known only by that limited subset which he represents on his photos.
He obviously does not know Armenian language well. He uses Russian words often probably he does not know Armenian ones, those which are in use in today’s Armenia.
Also, notice the difference in quality between shots I made with Fuji x100, and Jolla phone.
#armenian #language #book
I compare my Mitsubishi Pajero IO with C or Oberon (low level, puristic, simple, almost no syntactic sugar, but it can be efficiently used, if you know how), and my new Isuzu Trooper to Delphi(not object pascal, but specifically Delphi, with it’s big IDE, because it’s heavy and sluggish).
Probably I would compare some more fat and round SUV, which people in Russia call parquet cars, with Java - looks like powerful OOP language, but only looks like).
The Trooper has automatic transmission, but still you have a manual control over the transmission: there are this options: ‘low’, which correspond to 1’st step, 2nd gear, which means the automat will change the gear, but it won’t be more than the 2nd step, then 3rd gear max, then ‘Drive’ mode, which means, 4nth speed max, then you have Neutral(yes!), etc. So it’s still gives a lot of contral. And the so called ‘Limited speed differential’. And the ‘winter mode’ to drive on higher promptness.
It is hard to drive in the city on a Trooper, it’s indeed too big for that. But it behaves very well outside, both on the roads, and without roads. Last days I was testing it by driving in literally, desert, with stones and bushes, and climbing the mountains. I was keeping in mind, though, that I need to be very careful, because as Russian proverb says, ‘the more cooler the jeep, then from the more deeper dirt/swamp it has to be taken out by the tractor).
I like the Trooper for it’s modernistic look - straight corners, no visible glamorous details, no unnecessary convexities. It’s on a frame, and when you drive it, you feel like you’re on a truck. In my friend’s Kia Sorento, which is also a pretty big car, but not that big, you don’t have this feeling. Also, like on a track, you need to turn the wheel more, than on Pajero. From the inside, it’s also has this appealing to me vintage look, no futuristic details, but unpretentious and usable, simple interface. There is some sugar, like automatic cruise control, but I did not feel the necessity yet, I like to control things myself. And the audio system has much better quality than the default on Pajero.
On the other side, I feel much more comfortable on Pajero very often. Firstly of course because of full manual transmission, and It’s more manoeuvrable, it’s more responsive, and it’s simple. So I won’t sell it. I really have this sport car feeling, when I drive it. And I drive it with much more courage, partly because it’s more responsive, and partly because I know it better. And the heavy trooper has longer breaking distance.
If I will go out of the city only by myself, or with one companion, and the offroad is not hard, I’ll take a Pajero. If I climb the mountain, and there are more than one companion, then the more spacious and stable Trooper is an option.
There are things that make me a bit sad - this is that people afraid me on this car. I am a kind of person, who usually don’t hurry, and I am happy to give the way to others, if they ask. I like to drive, I don’t like to hurry. There are people, who may be enjoy being as they may think ‘smart’, and they change lines often, go very fast, then break very fast, and may be they get to the destination several minutes earlier, but well, I don’t need this. I don’t feel the dignity by being that kind of ‘smart’ guy. Is it about the dignity, to be anxious on the road, squeeze through, rather than to be calm?
Another thing about dignity, or, may be, lack of it: many people in Armenia hack the machines and add natural gas fuel equipment. I don’t understand why one need to use it on a big car - if you want to save money on fuel, get the small car! There is a gas system on my trooper, but I want to get rid of it. I’ve tried to drive on gas, but I feel, that I don’t get the performance I need. It’s not necessary in the city, but it’s very important outside. Also, what disturbs me a lot, is that it’s necessary to wait for 10-15 minutes, to ‘charge’ the gas balloon, and you can only make 80 miles on that full charge. On the contrary, if you feel it’s fuel tank with 80 litres of petrol, you can go without need of ‘recharge’ to much longer distances. Also, I cannot imagine how would I put a companion, especially a girl, to a such uncomfortable situation, where she has to leave the car, and wait for 15 minutes or even more among that kind of guys and men, she would not normally want to hang out with, and who may not be very tolerable to her appearance, or would like to make fun of her because let’s say of her shirt hair(yes, if I would have this look of the brutal dog, with the thorned collar, not the good dog, it’s less likely to happen, but I am good dog). But the most important reason - I need the power, I need my space in the trunk, though it’s still huge, I need the possibility to make a comfortable sleeping place by using that space in the trunk, which is taken now by the balloon, and I don’t really care about the fuel expenses - that’s what you should have if you have a big car. Otherwise take a small and lightweight one.
However, if I try to sell the car, then it would be much easier with this gas system. As the previous owner told me, he spent $1300 on it, and if I get rid of it, and manage to sell, I’ll get max $500. He said, if you travel a lot, in two years (we’ve counted) you can save money to buy a comparable car. Well, I don’t care.
What’s interesting to me, is technology. I’ll dismantle the gas system anyway, but still, it’s interesting. Apparently, from what I have found on the net, looks like the oil remains much cleaner when you use gas, and this technology is even good for the engine in some aspects. On the other hand, because the burning temperature is higher, it’s bad for the valves, which get prematurely worn-out. So I don’t understand, is it really better for the engine, or not? After all, the engine was designed to burn petrol, not something else. You are not supposed to use diesel in it for example.
The funny thing is about the numbers. Well, I believe numbers on cars is a form of oppression. We don’t walk around the city with numbers on us, and luckily face detection still does not work very well, and authorities cannot follow your movements if you have no cellular phone. But when people walk around the city, they also can kill or rob or beat someone on the street. Then it’s a problem of the police to find someone who did something bad on the road, why would we need to help the police to do that? And help the government to trace all our movements. So, I don’t care about the numbers, but people here care. Many tend to buy more expensive, but as they think, ‘cool looking’ numbers, with repeating sequences like ‘999’ or ‘777’. (: People even know, that this or that number means that car belongs to this or that business group. For example, recently I had an incident, and the apparently the car belonged to one of the biggest oligarchs. Whatever.
What I want to tell is, apparently, my new car number, which was chosen randomly, is the coolest one, I could not even imagine to get such a number. It’s 374, which is an post index of Armenia, and index of Armenian telephone numbers.
So, as government propaganda slogan says ‘I am Armenia’. (:
In the film ‘Eurotrip’, they come with British football hooligans to France, and their bus is going by the wrong side of the road, and this British guy is shouting at all the other car drivers: ‘froggers, you’re on the wrong side of the road, go learn driving’, and so on. (:
I have experienced something like that in Georgia. The reason apparently is, that Armenia probably the last country in the world, which still uses Soviet legacy rules for roundabouts - the priority gets the car which enters roundabout, while in the all other countries, including, I believe Russia today, the rules have been changed - priority is for those, who are inside the circle already, and I believe it makes more sense.
So, Armenians like to say that Georgians are not good drivers, they drive fast, crazy, and don’t obey rules that much. Well, it’s partly true, and yes, they drive fast, but they have the city, environment, which makes it possible, and also, they do it pretty well. As one American told me about me driving in Yerevan - he said - ‘you are amazing, you drive in such a traffic, with the roads of this quality, with no space between cars, with all of the people signaling (which is extremely rare in the west), and everybody tries to change the line, and in the night at the dark road you manage to notice these people who cross the street in black clothes!’. So, when I was driving it Tbilisi, I was also thinking - ‘these Georgians don’t care about the rules! They never let someone to go, when they have to’, and that was especially about roundabouts! Then they’ve marked roundabouts with signs on the road and I realized, that the rules are simply different. They don’t have to give me the road when I enter the circle! They don’t have to. (:
#Tbilisi #legacy #Yerevan #driving
if you want to raise issues on php, raise some of the actual issues that still exist, such as their naming of functions and objects, which is using every possible naming scheme you can think of
#php
this one is so important that i will quote it again
My idillic childhood came to a crashing end at age 16. In summer camp that year I realized I was a geek and didn’t have any friends; and more importantly: for the first time I actually cared about this. This horrible realization kicked off fifteen years of low self esteem and poor dating choices.
I beat myself up for being too short (which I had no control over), too intelligent (which is a stupid thing to be upset about), and uninterested in “guy things” like football, cars, and beer. (Did I mention I grew up in the south?)
http://joshondesign.com/2015/08/17/turning40
#childhood #life
Haghpat monastery, Lori, Armenia.
photo from here
In Haghpat for some time lived poet Sayat-Nova, and philosopher Hovhannes Sarkavag.
#photo #haghpat #architecture
“UNIX Security” is an oxymoron.
http://phrack.org/issues/7/7.html ((:
#history #vintage #unix #security #archive
Almost all Jews in Lithuania were exterminated in the Holocaust. It sounds correct, but I tend to say it differently: the Jewish part of Lithuanian society was exterminated during the Holocaust. It seems the same, but there’s an essential difference which demonstrates one’s attitude towards the country and its past. In the first case it is admitted that, besides Lithuanians, Jews lived in this land, who did not survive. Their history ended, while ours, so far, continues. Two separate paths. In the second case, we say that Jews, while different from Lithuanians, are part of that same Lithuania, like an arm and a leg; while separate, still part of the same body. While Jews lived in a rather closed community, their centuries of proximate existence and work made them part of Lithuania. It seems like the simple truth, but it’s so hard to accept it. Because then there will come a time to explain what madness possessed Lithuania that one of her arms cut off the other and pulled the gold rings from its cold, dead fingers.
R. Bogdanas.
#holocaust #lithuania
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPTUuef3h4o
#moloko
if you want your own diaspora pod, but have only shared hosting with php, then this might be good for you.
https://github.com/TheBojda/Diaspora-in-Wordpress #diaspora #wordpress
yep
#programming
summer cinema hall in Yerevan (which i am in lovi with). shot by Mark Krymski back in early eighties, on a German Orwochrom slide film.
the architect Spartak Knteghtsian was often making solutions like this - there is some space as an entrance. Holes with trees may be refer to Le Corbusier’s experiments.
I was searching for this photo in vain, because original source does not show pictures, however they are visible at archive, luckily.
#armenia #yerevan #orwochrom #film #photo #modernism #architecture
Very old photo. Tu-154b-2 from Armenian Airlines is landing in Amsterdam. source
#armenian_airlines #airplane #tu-154 #amsterdam
Jewish grave with Armenian eternity sign near Yeghegnadzor, Armenia.
photo by my friend Dominik, I only made some post processing.
#Hebrew #Eternity #Armenia #photo
in couples, and they should not even be turing ‘complete’ couples, there is a collective responsibility, and collective punishment. like in army.
one is able to punish both. or one can be the reason to punish both. or one can force the other to play ‘loose-loose’ game.
plenty of variants, and the most important is, nobody has to teach any of those - all known by heart, intuitively, and it is not necessary to make an effort.
#love
#yerevan #mosque #street #night #girls #people
#yerevan #night #street #road #photo #windows #building
ok, I am sharing this one (may be some photos will follow), and decided to leave in colour. (: shot with fuji x100.
#yerevan #workers #photo
found workaround that works with my latitude e7450’s sd card reader.
rmmod sdhci sdhci_pci sdhci_acpi
sleep 1
rmmod sdhci
sleep 1
modprobe sdhci debug_quirks2="0x10000"
sleep 1
modprobe sdhci_pci
via this post.
made it during the night/morning.
#proof #friends #film #movie #gwyneth_paltrow #2005 #talk #birthday #mathematics
probably best from the recent photos of Levon Ter-Petrossian. by Nanda Gonzague
#photo #armenia #ltp #photography
David Alan Harvey #photo
author: Sergey Maksimishin.
#color #photo #cat
this is chiaroscuro/tenebristic/caravaggistic picture for you.(though it lacks wax paint)
took this with Jolla a couple of days ago nearby my flat.
#photo #chiaroscuro #tenebrism #caravaggio #yerevan #crimea (who, what a moron would go there?) #bbs #board #epilation #picture #light #dark #erebuni #2797 #anapa #bulletin_board #street
I need to talk with my therapist, but she left Armenia (surprise, surprise), still, she can meet me by skype, but even if i would like to install skype on one of my systems, it would require me to make a lot of lifestyle changes:
I don’t like and use pulseaudio, but skype requires it, thus I would need to enable pulseauduo USE flag and recompile half of the system, which I don’t want, I don’t want pulseaudio on my system.
I have a pure64 system, and I am perfectly happy with it. Why would I need this fat 32 bit compatibility layers / multilib system? And skype does not work without 32 bit compatibility.
Eventually I don’t like Qt very much and apparently I don’t have Qt libs installed (but I do have motif for tkdiff, I believe), though this is the smallest problem, just to add Qt to the system.
That is why in order to contact my therapist I was using my old friend’s computer with Win7, but tomorrow he leaves Armenia for ever (surprise, surprise) together with his laptop, of course.
And the ironic part here is that may be, if I would have more normal system( i. e. without -systemd -pulseaudio -qt…), I wouldn’t need therapy.
#unconnected
750 Jahre Berlin - DDR Propagandafilm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNjXYPdXfDc
#berlin #ddr #propaganda
this also relates to the language of people. recently i have noticed, that, it looks like, those armenians who communicate in blogs or social media, they use much better, cleaner spoken language than those, who don’t. i guess, because they see what they write, and they can process it, like or dislike it, do something about it. #unconnected
more on my post on social networks and responsibility
i think this is more about seeing and acknowledging what you have been written. seeing yourself from the side. one teacher was saying ‘write it down, dear so that you can see the stupidity of it’. you need to express something in order to see it. and then do something with it - label it, understand it, judge it, disagree with it. so may be this is more about being responsible for your own self. because you yourself have seen what you have done. what did you say. what did you write. you are the one who not only thought of something but registered, witnessed something. and it’s not that easy to reject what you have witnessed yourself.
you can see that may be the relationship is actually more important for you, than it seems for some moment. when you write it down, show it, you put it out of the moment. make it more timeless. not that dependent on momentary feelings.
#unconnected
if you are forced to use a subset of the language due to its complexity, then they failed to offer an useful language.
from #oberon room on freenode.
#programming #programming-languages #programming_languages #chat #talk
shared as separate post:
in USSR, you have one great monopoly. your life belongs to one monopoly.
you want to start something? you need funding? well, there is only one power you ask.
this is exactly about what we call democracy. what happens in russia (or armenia, because it’s under russian influence). putin needs to control the business. because otherwise there will be powers which do not agree with him. therefore he has less chances to preserve the power. that’s why business is done by those whom he can trust, or in the best scenario the government allows to do business while you are loyal.
which means monopolies and preferences.
so this is not about free market. this is more like central planning.
when we have free market, and equal opportunities to make business, and be protected by the law, then balance of different powers with different interests emerges.
of course interests can be contradicting. and when nobody can take control, then these parties have to agree on something. make compromises. thus interests of different layers of society are more likely to be satisfied.
in case of authoritarian regime, like in russia/armenia, judge has no obligations for me, for the people. but has obligations for those who set them to that position. mayor of the city as well. did i vote for him? no. whom does he responsible to? not to me. i have nothing to do with him. thus his decision will reflect interests of the authority(ies).
but the drawback is, when you don’t have free market, those who are in charge, who make business, who are in government, are not those who does they work better, but those who are closer/more loyal, who can take bribes, and share them up.
so democracy is when interests of different layers of society are at least considered. but pre requirement for that is balance of powers. different powers. and not one power that decides everything. you can point out Singapore. yes, but firstly power corrupts, you know that. and you know that absolute power can corrupt absolutely. secondly, but there you have only one warrant of your business: the leader of the country. what if he dies? what if there will be revolution? democracy implies the machine, which is a better warranty for business, than one person. and on the contrary - if Tramp wins in USA, then… well, the machine will digest him. nothing very bad will likely happen. Because the person in USA does not decide everything without considering interests of different parties. But it can in Russia, or Turkey. That is why those countries are much more unpredictable, than countries with established democracies. Also, that is why democratic societies are less aggressive. Can you imagine today’s Germany or France to invade some part of let’s say Slovakia? But we can imagine Russia to invade some other part of Ukraine or Kazakhstan or Georgia, right? well, it already happened with two of them. Because obviously, France and Germany are much more democratic. And it is connected with the more free and equal business opportunities.
btw on social networks. they make you feel more responsible. like marriage does.
(i mean real social networks where you share* your life, photos, thoughts, not something like diaspora stream today, where personality is hidden behind the propaganda posters or cats. oh, you’re so great person, i like the cats you share. those are better cats than the other person shared.)
it is harder to get out of marriage than of a relationship. it is harder to get out of a relationship, when you live together in one flat, and the other partner has no own flat to go at any moment.
which makes both more responsible in their decisions. they can think more before moving in, and they can think more before moving out.
so when partners or friends (or even it can be son and the father) do share information about their life together, about their co-existence, trips, problems, jokes, make selfies together, after all, it brings this new level of responsibility: whom you hang out with, and would you leave/dump them easily?
if you can look irresponsible it the eyes of your friends, you can indeed become more responsible. responsibility is not a bad feature of humans, i believe. because it makes us hurt others less.
#unconnected
sometimes i feel completely disconnected from what i have said in the night. or day. or an hour ago. did i say that? why would i do that? is it better to remain silent?
well it is definitely better to wait before publishing new photo.
#unconnected
some people believe things it is convenient for them to believe. or it is beneficial for them to believe in some way: they may feel more comfortable thinking/deciding that. or hey may feel less guilty. or they may feel better about themselves.
(and one of those is my father. i cannot endure how he thinks and what he talks. most of the time. he can even blame Jews in any problem in the world. this also makes me very sad and disconnected from him. i don’t know what do we have in common, and how can we be connected, especially when he talks.)
and this is exactly what prevents me to be very self confident in my opinions.
i especially, specifically question my beliefs when i understand that it is beneficial/convenient for me to believe in those.
some people adore c#. some people adore perl. i do not like these technologies. some self confident people believe the same ideas i do. it is rare, but still. usually self confident people believe the things it is safer to believe(and sometimes people believe in outsider ideas just to look outsiders).
but this presence of confident people who believe in same ideas does not make me more sure, more self confident. not a bit.
what i know for sure, is that i cannot be different from what am i. i cannot vote for the other candidate, than i have chosen. i cannot choose the other shirt. i cannot choose that programming language. i won’t feel good by doing all these. but well, i can try to be friends with this guy/girl, though it does not look like there is an outlook to be friends.
once, many years ago, i managed to cure a street dog. that street dog used to not have half of the hair, be very calm, hide in hide in hard to reach places. when it became better, it made friends with some nervous female dog. female dog was attacking people, and he started to accompany her in that. then someone killed the dog i have cured. i have no idea was that intervention i did right.
i sometimes do not intervene on purpose. very often at work. let it be like they do it. who said that my solution is better? who said that it suits them? i do not intervene in people’s taste: they want this phone, they are happy with that, then who am I to ‘open their eyes’? i believe very often, people who make propaganda of something, even if it’s free software propaganda, do it in order to prove themselves that they are right.
well, i don’t know if i am right, and i am got over it. i don’t know. i just do what i do.
is this too self centered that i write about myself? well, this is me. sorry for that.
#unconnected
Diaspora differs from Facebook or Google in the same way, as free market differs from central planning.
#diaspora #facebook #google #central_planning #free_market #freedom
There is this concept of ‘wilderness’. When Moses took Jews out of the slavery, on the way to their own country, they had this transition period called ‘wilderness’.
This is the time when they were wandering and wondering what’s so cool in being free, because they felt they lived better lives with free food and less suffering back in Egypt.
I think when we care about our freedom, we loose a lot of opportunities. Among them - opportunities to socialize at centralized social networks, to be flattered there, opportunities to gain friends, opportunities to use web services to convert files or edit pictures, etc. And people wonder if they did not loose freedoms, instead of gaining them.
To me that is very similar to the transition period Jews had in a desert. So we are in the wilderness. We are wilderness wanderers in search of freedom.
#wilderness #freedom #decentralization #slavery #moses #history #bible #wilderness_wandering #wander #wandering
to reset config for mnemosy (harbour-mnemosy) on sailfish, you need to erase/rename .config/dconf/user file. found it out with strace. #sailfish #mnemosy
by Sherry Akrami, Iranian photographer. she makes remixes. this photo features Geghard monastery, very close to Yerevan, Armenia.
#geghard #armenia #photo
well, yes, nice that they’ve put it in a simple form https://genode.org/documentation/general-overview/index but why the assumption that micro kernel modules should necessarily have separate address spaces?
that’s called, i’ve invited my friends to join the chat. alas, both of them are in the west now. alas for me, good for them. (:
(09/01/16 10:37:12 ) sssilver: Stroustrup has this amazing quote I really love (09/01/16 10:37:30 ) sssilver: it goes something like “Inside C++ is trapped a small, beautiful language, desperately trying to break free” (09/01/16 10:37:47 ) 10098: more like four of them lol (09/01/16 10:37:52 ) sssilver: totally
09/01/16 10:34:50 ) 10098: but yeah move semantics + smart pointers solve memory and resource leaks as long as you don’t use anything else (09/01/16 10:35:04 ) sssilver: minor correction (09/01/16 10:35:39 ) sssilver: as long as neither you nor anyone else contributing to the code don’t use anything else
#talk
(09/01/16 10:29:14 ) sssilver: C++ is like the 50 year old dude that finally divorced his wife and is now trying to go to night clubs and hit on chicks lol
#talk
(09/01/16 10:22:54 ) 10098: Oh and btw let’s not forget that the Java folks have been working on their GC for years like its the cure for cancer (09/01/16 10:23:08 ) 10098: if there’s any GC I trust, it’s Java and .NET (09/01/16 10:23:47 ) sssilver: why would you trust something you don’t understand that consistently underperforms
#talk
— Do I want to have a lunch with you? I wanted to hug you every night, have a child with you, and die the same day with you. But lunch, no, I don’t want lunch.
From the blog post I’ve read long ago.
The whole world does not contain such wealth or such fine lands that we would accept them in payment to join Persia and enslave Greece. So much forbids us, and not least the burning of the temples and the statues of our gods, now nothing bu dust and debris. To avenge such violation, not to clasp the hands of those who did it, is our duty. It would be shameful to betray the Greeks, our people, united in one blood, one language, in our temples and our rituals, our common customs. So, know this: as long as there is one Athenian left on this earth alive, we shell never make peace with Xerxes.
I believe this is very touchy. Since the time when money, trade and wealth were ‘invented’ people did already know that the most important things in life cannot be traded. There are things that matter more than money.
#dignity #freedom
today we were discussing different spacecraft accidents caused by/related to software, discussed Arian-5 case, and I remembered a Soviet case, where there was a problem with decimal separator and Fortran compiler. Decimal separator in USSR was comma, but in Fortran code it should be the dot.
Also, Fortran compiler did not consider using comma instead of the dot as an error, but as different code. And my friend said - the same is possible to do in C++ - and sent me the illustration.
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
cout << "Hello World" << endl;
if (1,2!=1.2)
{
cout << (1,2) << endl;
}
return 0;
}
if you run it, you’ll get
Hello World
2
(:
#safety #programming #mistakes #safe #c++ #code #example #programming-languages #programming_languages #arian #fortran #source
remember these airport timetables?
there was a whole industry to provide them. now this industry is obsolete. (:
there are big screens instead.
remembered a story: there was a huge Lenin sculpture at the Republic, previously Lenin square in Yerevan. When it was dismantled, for years the place remained free. Then there was a huge cross, for a couple of years. Then - huge tv screen. That was very symbolic. Today, thanks god, it’s empty.
#airport #yerevan #screen #city
photos by Christina Malkhasyan.
#photo #photos #armenia
i would make this a user pic.
#outsiders
When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.
Steve Jobs, in interview to Wired, 1996.
#conspiracy #tv #steve_jobs #1996 #interview #business
same way as the government sponsored “street art” is not street art, the government sponsored “hackers” - are not hackers.
#hack #hackers #street_art #art
#20 #game #screenshot
#shuttle #space_shuttle #oberon #rendering #board #render #airplane
Telling 26 of 28 EU countries that of course they can keep their cute little languages, but that all serious stuff (business, academic work, legislating) must be done in English, is asking them to accept second-class linguistic citizenship. Languages that are not used for science or business fail to develop the up-to-date vocabulary and style needed to do so. Over time, if neglected, they shrink to fewer and fewer domains. In the long run, they may be spoken only at home or between intimates, like Swiss German or Scottish Gaelic. Already today, in liberal and pro-American countries where English ability is outstanding, like Denmark or the Netherlands, people fear that their languages are considered fit for fewer and fewer arenas. Populist and xenophobic parties, the kind that say Europe tramples on national uniqueness, play on this fear.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2013/09/language-diversity
#language
source via @{Oszka ; oszka@therealtalk.org}
#photo #מָגֵן_דָּוִד #hexagram #star
e seme tempo la toki nasa pi sina li pini oko pini pi sina kama anpa tawa mi tempo lon ala e tempo pimeja li kama anpa. tempo lon ala e tempo suno li kama anpa. e seme tempo la oko pini pi sina li lukin tawa mi kon - mi kama sona: pimeja anu suno - ni li lon ala. ni li lukin lape… pimeja li lon ala, suno li lon ala. seli li lon ala, lete li lon ala. lon kon pi lukin ala, lon sewi pi mi mute lon luka selo pi waso pi lukin ala. luka selo pi waso li tawa lili…
https://github.com/norayr/salens_lon_toki_pona/blob/master/waso
#waso #toki_pona #charents #translation #poetry
o tawa lola! o tawa!
#toki_pona
the secret of floppy paper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63ILZ9cZ2d4
people should not get anything for granted. when they don’t need it. when they did not struggle for it.
even if it’s a freedom.
that’s what happened with many freedoms, including the freedom of speech in some post soviet countries. most of the people did not really need it. and when the freedom of speech was withdrawn, they did not mind. “did we need it? did we fight for it?” - so it was not hard to revert many changes happened after the regime change.
this one from new yorker is also amazing.
#dog #dogs #blog #internet
nobody knows you’re a dog updated. (:
#dog #internet #nsa #surveillance
#aaa #pixelart
animals need energy. evolution process is also connected to /caused by the need of getting energy.
we, humans, have a concept of dignity. humans give up energy/power in favour of dignity.
humans make not economically beneficial for them choices because of the dignity.
#humans #dignity
aaa
#forecast
apparently, moc (music on console) uses librcc - library that can autodetect the language and fix id3 tag encodings.
I was reading id3 tags with my program and just found out that encoding of these paparazzi mp3’s is 8bit (georgian-ilia(georgian academy) standard, not unicode however mocp is showing them!
#apparently #moc #mocp #music_on_console #georgian #armenian #paparazzi #music
The first part – “I was like…” The linguistic Zika virus – “like.” Not “I was” or “I am” or “I shall be.” No. “I was like,” meaning an approximation of reality. This is the current subconscious cover for the dread of a real feeling—or real moment—or the real story.
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/08/19/i-was-whatever-lochte-abroad-and-idiocy-home
via @{Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ; schestowitz@joindiaspora.com}
photographer Davit Abrahamyan has managed to photograph different corners of Armenia from a sky height in all seasons and time of the day, portraying the uniqueness and specificity of each location, emphasizing both cultural singularity and mesmerizing beauty of every landscape.
http://www.boredpanda.com/full-fledged-beauty-of-armenia-captured-with-the-drone-photography/
#photo #photos #photography #drone #armenia #tavush #ijevan #dilijan #azat_reservoir #garni #byurakan #odzun #lori #tavush #vorotan
this is not a very known, but good place in Saint-Petersburg to get/develop film (:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/4461253#map=19/59.93459/30.33666
It’s in the backyard of Malaya Sadovaya street. (:
#saint-petersburg #film-photography
on positive thinking https://aeon.co/essays/thinking-positive-is-a-surprisingly-risky-manoeuvre #positive #thinking
You gave me days of sunshine You gave me nights of cheer You made my life an enchanted dream ‘Til somebody else came near Somebody else came near you I felt the winter’s chill And now I sit and wonder night and day Why I love you still?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1q4Ir2J8P8 #defcon #zoz #talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpcUxwpOQ_A #ode_to_joy #muppet #muppet_show #muppets
#sesame_street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_tupPBtWQ
#mana_mana #muppet
if you write slow program, or you write it in a “slow”, interpreted language, you have to remember, that if it’ll be run on many many computers/devices, then you are responsible for the excess of the consumed energy in the whole world.
go green, use compilers. (: go green, optimize for speed. (:
#programming #energy #go_green #performance
so this is an intentional design decision.
The Airbus and Boeing FBW computers design considerations for generic errors… The ELAC is produced by Thomson-CSF using Motorola 68010 processor, and the SEC is produced by SFENA/Aerospatiale using Intel 80186 processor
Airbus (or the DGAC) was not willing to accept that a fault with the same piece of code in two separate computers could cause the loss of an aircraft.
#programming #airbus #boeing #fbw #elac #design
i have found these photos here. vachagan made them back in the winter 2014.
that was the next day after a car crash accident. in front of me there were two girls and one guy from azerbaidjan. vachagan was asking them about differences and similarities between azerbaidjani and turkish language. they said that formerly they were watching movies on tv or in cinema in russian, they were receiving films from russia. now they receive films from turkey, with turkish translations. she said, when the film comes to the end i realize that i didn’t even notice that it was in turkish, not in azerbaidjani.
we also asked them about the orthography. she answered that they’ve changed orthography 5 times - they were writing with arabic letters, then, during short independence in 1918-20 in latin letters, then cyrillic letters, then now again latin. she said “our president gave a promise that in two years all books will be reprinted with the new orthography”. “and, did they manage to reprint them?” - i have asked. “no” - she answered.
also she said very interesting and typical thing for someone from a country with authoritarian regime: she said she does not see any other good candidate rather than their ilham aliyev. she said “if not him - then who?”. well, isn’t it obvious that he did everything for you to think like that, my dear?
then they started to ask us about the language. they’ve said “we know there are eastern and western armenian languages. do you understand each other? how do you live in one small country and speak two languages?”
i have answered, that well, languages do not differ that much, and we perfectly understand each other, except for a couple of words that may have a bit different meaning. and i have added, that western armenian is spoken in the west only - in europe, usa, latin america. not in armenia as a rule.
and she asked naively - “why?” i hate mentioning the “genocide” word and the theme, so i remained silent for some time.
then the azerbaidjani guy who sat next to her, a guy in a shirt with some horizontal fur line on it, he smiled happily and started to whisper something in her ear. his face exprecced great satisfaction.
she said “ah, i understand”.
#film #photo #zenit #helios #tbilisi #restaurant #girl #chatting #armenia #azerbaidjan #armenian #azerbaidjani #turkish #genocide #armenian-genocide #language #orthography #evening #talk
@{չարանենգ վիշապաքաղ ; tanamasi@spyurk.am}, @{դինջ ; lubekar@spyurk.am} and your obedient servant
#photo #friends
Generics may well be added at some point. We don’t feel an urgency for them, although we understand some programmers do.
Generics are convenient but they come at a cost in complexity in the type system and run-time. We haven’t yet found a design that gives value proportionate to the complexity, although we continue to think about it. Meanwhile, Go’s built-in maps and slices, plus the ability to use the empty interface to construct containers (with explicit unboxing) mean in many cases it is possible to write code that does what generics would enable, if less smoothly.
https://golang.org/doc/faq#generics
#golang #go #generics #programming
Golang has generics
http://blog.jonathanoliver.com/golang-has-generics/
#golang #programming
When I see the “Intel Inside” stickers it reminds me of the “smoking kills” labels on some packets.
http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Intel_Crimes_and_Offences
via @{Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ; schestowitz@joindiaspora.com}
this is an amazing photo.
#photo #ansel_adams #landscape #moon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un4CeV_l3pI #music #hardfloor
http://radiooooo.com/ — listen radio by different countries and decades. #radio
https://aeon.co/essays/dewey-knew-how-to-teach-democracy-and-we-must-not-forget-it
#democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1JsBhRCRH0
#music #chet_faker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPy5igZJnVw
#music #chet_faker
this is not a pipe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Teu5qXJDFow
#stasi #surveillance #archive
i am working on some source code. i took it from someone else and was working while ago for a while.
and i see a comment there:
(* who writes like that? -- noch *)
(:
#perseids #sky #photo
if everybody like/adore/love you, it’s time to think, what and where went wrong with you. (:
#dog #dogs
https://www.amazon.com/p/feature/d8j6je99gnx65bk?ref_=doa_red
this night, closer to the morning will be the peak of the perseid meteor shower. http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-perseid-meteor-shower get out of the city to the place without distracting light to enjoy it.
#perseids
I have bought this Jermuk mineral water bottle in Yerevan. Probably they wanted to export consignment to Israel, but something happened and these batches appeared at Yerevan shops.
#hebrew #jermuk #water #label #yerevan
i love her in this film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZThOaBpFIGg&list=PL611A803946D6C793 #proof #gwyneth
good night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UwFcuLwSEs
Hue Laury in the film PIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRn3gr8Pt_o
#hue_laury #film #pip #dickens #trailer
photo by former diasporian. source #photo #yerevan
Armen T. Marsoobian offers us the unique lens of the Dildilian family of Armenian photographers in provincial Anatolia. Around the turn of the twentieth century, the Dildilians worked to memorialize portraits of fragmenting families and to document everyday scenes in provincial cities such as Sivas, Samsun, and Merzifon. Marsoobian, himself a descendant of the Dildilians, has woven together the family’s remarkable photographic archive along with their memoirs and oral histories, to describe how through ingenuity and professional connections, the family and with them much of their art survived the genocide in 1915-16.
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/08/armenian-photography-anatolia.html
#armenian #armenia #photography #history #1915 #armenian-genocide #marsoobian #family #photo #anatolia #podcast #photographer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyeEdiuJlVQ
#yerevan #dog #street
#windows #systemd #linux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL4JK_bDo0A
#armenia
hard link vs symbolic link.
#unix #filesystem
#book
the economic argument
#xkcd #capitalism #remote_viewing #dowsing #oil_prospecting #aura #auras #homeopathy #healthcare #remote_prayer #prayer #astrology #tarot #planning #crystal_energy #curses #hexes #military #relativity #quantum_electrodynamics #gps #semiconductor #design
#sotrue #love
leaf portraits
#leaf #tree #portrait #photo #photos #leaf
#kite
switched to postgres. don’t know yet if everything works.
My friends helped me to measure radioactivity of my lenses. I had some yellowish lenses, and had an assumptions that some of them are possibly radioactive. However, I did not know until this time if it’s true.
These are the results of our measurments. We have been written down only the maximum values.
I am not able to disclose information about the person who conducted the measurments, the place, and even the device name.
| background | front el. ( μSv/h) | rear el. ( μSv/h) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asahi | Pentax Super-Takumar | 35/3.5 | 0.08 | 0.08 |
| Asahi | S-M-C Super-Takumar | 135/3.5 | 0.086 | 0.08 |
| Carl Zeiss Jena | Flektogon | 35/2.4 | 0.098 | 0.083 |
| Carl Zeiss Jena | Biometar | 80/2.8 | 0.1 | 0.091 |
| Fuji | Fujinon | 28/3.5 | 0.091 | 0.086 |
| Helios(KMZ) | 40-2 | 85/1.5 | 0.062 | 0.089 |
| Industar | Industar-61 (i-61) (FED-3 lenses, lanthanum optics) | 55/2.8 | 0.085 | 0.085 |
| Mamiya | AUTO Mamiya/Sekor (DTL series) (identified thorium-232) | 50/1.8 | 0.24 | 1.164 |
| Mamiya | AUTO Mamiya/Sekor | 55/1.4 | 0.09 | 0.09 |
| Mamiya | Mamiya-Sekor E | 50/1.7 | 0.056 | 0.056 |
| Pentacon | MC auto | 50/1.8 | 0.14 | 0.13 |
| Zenit | MC Zenitar-M2.8/16 Fisheye | 16/2.8 | 0.095 | 0.075 |
Apparently, Mamiya/Sekor 55mm which is reported to be radioactive[1] is not active according to our measurments. May be there been different 55mm f1.4 lenses in production?
The only really dangerous lenses we found in my collection were Mamiya/Sekor 50mm f1.8 which came with my Mamiya 1000 DTL. It’s also yellow. The device could identify the radioactive element, which is, no wonder notorious Thorium-232.
When measuring Helios 85mm, the radiation level went lower than the background, when the device got closer to the glass: that’s because it’s built from solid metal, and it filters background radiation at it’s front part which has small hood. These lenses are also a bit yellow.
What was surprising, that lenses from the FED-3 camera, officially promoted as lenses with lanthanum optics, seem to have no dangerous level of radiation.
We have also measured the Mamiya-1000 DTL viewfinder, and FED-3 viewfinder, they are clean and safe to use.
Another test we conducted - we were trying to get the device notice the radiation when the thoriated lenses were on the camera. We could not detect radiation by moving the device sensor arond the lenses, near m42 mount, everywhere around the camera. It seems that the metal parts filter radiation well, and even those lenses are safe to use.
I may update this information here
#radioactive_lenses #radioactive #radiation #thorium #lanthanum #thorium-232 #camera #viewfinder #m42 #mamiya #carl_zeiss #carl-zeiss #jena #asahi #pentax #super-takumar #takumar #fuji #fujinon #helios #industar #fed #fed-3 #mamiya_1000dtl #zenit #zenitar #pentacon
Children are trying to convince geese to not work as hard and go home to take rest.
#children #kids #geese #goose #country #village #armenia #road #evening #pursuit #lori
cows are returning home from work.
#cows #evening #armenia #road #street #landscape #village #country #sky #mountains
i have not been in yerevan at vardavar, but destiny is more powerful than people’s tricks: i got wet laying at the swamp to make some photo, and later ended up running in the field under the thunderstorm to meet these guys. well, i enjoyed being showered by the sky. (: #armenia #landscape #shepherd #cows #mountains #rain
I am used to go to Aragats or Sevan to watch, or even catch on camera a falling star during the nights when Earth meets Perseids. However it’s not necessary to wait for perseids or leonids: when you are tired from work, you still may try to catch a star with your camera phone. For instance an animated star when bookmarking a page. I’ve got it at the first try. (: Can you?
#star #screenshot #bookmark #firefox #windowmaker #programming #development #engineering #catchastar (:
or full size here
#landscape #photo #dog #river
#city #pixelart #flood #art http://www.pixelshuh.com/scene-22-the-flood
http://pixelshuh.com #aliens #ufo #night
#pixelart #cat #moon #night #stars
armenian fortresses served a purpose to defend from the invaders.
thus they were building fortresses at mountain passes.
persian or turkic fortresses were built around the residence of the ruler.
in order to protect him from the local population.
http://www.tourister.ru/responses/id_14438 http://www.tourister.ru/responses/id_14462 http://www.tourister.ru/responses/id_14058
#shoushi #armenia #artsakh #photos #impressions #history
today’s internet is not decentralized, but multipolar. it has many centers.
it becomes something, which it would become, if there would be no arpanet with it’s decentralized design. it becomes something, which it would become, if usa would not contribute years of research to the public.
there was minitel. if someone remembers it. there were different online boards.
it becomes an universal access to different centers like minitel.
email still works as designed.
who will still use it after several years? #internet #minitel #bbs #decentralization #design
for home server http://www.mitxpc.com/proddetail.php?prod=EKGBH170MX500
one cannot have a relationship without participating in it.
very banal and obvious. and may be a pop song has to be written about it.
Do yourself something good and stop scanning like crazy. Listen to your eye doctor and get your nose of the computer screens.
Print and enjoy the real advantage of the analog imaging system by holding a superior product in your hands: a fibre base silver print from an analog negative. Paper consumption is what keeps the factories running. Not film.
http://www.japancamerahunter.com/2014/06/film-news-adox-interview/
#film #film-photography #film_photography #photography #adox #35mm #interview
ukrainian game “ancient war in chetraney” for dos, 1995, i believe. probably ega monitor graphics. #screenshot #dos #1995 #game #dragon #war #chetraney #satan #ega #pixelart #graphics
may be this one is better.
#sevan #sevan_lake #lake #radio #photo #landscape
#yerevan #kond #slums #kids
sevan. radio towers. there are two opinions - those were used to silence western radios during ussr, and those were used for radio reconnaissance. i have no idea which one is true. still there is a military base. now armenian. luckily not foreign.
#sevan #sky #clouds #radio #tower #cloud #lake
behind the abandoned police building.
#yerevan #police #abandoned #building #zhiguli #courtyard #backyard #smile
https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability?language=en# #vulnerability
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4kRciR7Eo4 #music #yann_tiersen #tiersen #naval
Kwatrijnen van Omar Khayyam. De Bezige Bij, 1944. Illustrator John Buckland Wright.
#Omar_Khayyam #Khayyam #1944 #John_Buckland_Wright
#game #dos #hebrew #sci-fi #mirror
#cat #gif #pixelart #window #rain
#fioletovo #lori #armenia #photo #village #horse #landscape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXWzLCz8dK8
არა - კი (ara - ki) yes - no.
#georgian_music #song #yes #no
#sevan #writers_house #lake #armenia #photo #self_portrait #fisheye #photos #modernism #architecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPcKHR0t_P0
Paparazzi - Mombezrda / პაპარაცი - მომბეზრდა
#Paparazzi #Mombezrda #პაპარაცი #მომბეზრდა
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYxxfA8-zZA
#anitek #sartech #lost_hours #music
#arzakan #armenia #kids #village #bicycle #photo
#arzakan #armenia #village #kid #bicycle #photo
coca-cola graffiti in arzakan village.
#coca-cola #graffiti #arzakan #village #armenia #photo
#village #arzakan #armenia #dog #photo
this puppy found something like a fur and was determined to take it somewhere.
#books #everyday
found guest’s badge at the street, after the barcamp yerevan.
#barcampevn16
i liked the Russian trailer of the Georgian film by Levan Koguashuili. (:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUSg7utDtz8
#blind_dates #trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyl1Ir2P99c
#trailer
I have accidentally found film photos i have made of these kids and maize in Shoushi, Artsakh. First I did film photos, then to make sure, i have them, the digital one. Then, I had an impression, that film photos have been spoiled and have had published only the digital version. The third photo was made with canon 450d, pentacon 28mm lenses on a crop sensor. I have already published it somewhere on this or my Armenian language stream, I believe. The first two photos are on black and white film, Kodak CFT (which is not a film for photography, but for the medical purposes), and Mamiya-ZE2 with 50mm lenses, and that camera, unfortunately, leaked light.
#photo #shoushi #artsakh #kids #maize #comparison #film #diigtal #mamiya #mamiya-ze2 #kodak-cft #kodak_cft #mamiya_ze2 #light_leak #leak #black_and_white #scan #canoscan_9000f_mark_ii #28mm #50mm #2013 #city #street
actually started to enjoy solving these captchas where one needs to check rivers. (:
mutual
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTzlaTMUiO4
#dogs #cats
— what would you say, would i be able, capable to get let’s say Vanadzorian girl, from, as it’s assumed, average patriarchal family, who used to, learned the traditional male role model from her father, to get in to relationship with me?
(pause)
— No?
— Yes, you can, but… well, it depends from her age.
— You mean, if she’s young, and has no experience, she might fall in love with me?
— No, no way, if she’s young. But if she’s old, and desperate to find…
— Okay, I see your point. Thank you.
(pause again)
— You know, actually I thought that no, average Vanadzorian girl could consider you - you have a good profession, you earn enough money, more than average Vanadzorian guy, who drives bus would…
— Do not continue. Thank you.
— What did you want from me? I am sincere.
— Yes, thank you.
#talk #relationships
#dog #building #window #workers #house #bottle #photo
Marx taught that luxury is as much a vice as poverty and that our goal should be to be much, not to have much. (I refer here to the real Marx, the radical humanist, not to the vulgar forgery presented by Soviet communism.) Erich Fromm, “To have or to be” #erich-fromm #fromm #marx #philosophy #psychology #socialism #communism #bourgeois #future #values #quote #ussr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsjZ2r9Ygzw
#encryption #crypto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rnq1NpHdmw
#science
http://receive-sms-online.com/
#sms #online
“A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” tells us, that the idea that the democracy and civilization can be brought from the outside, modern, civilized society, is not realistic.
#mark_twain #yankee #democracy #civilization #modernism
http://www.humansofnewyork.com/
#photography #stories #photo #ny #new-york #city
#tetris
apparently, when you configure a windows software raid, it works… not convenient…
in linux rebuilds use limited i/o, it’s configurable, let’s say, %10, and users still can use the array while it’s rebuilding, while in case of windows, the i/o value is %99, and it seems impossible to find a way to change it. and mouse movements are interrupting. (:
#raid #linux #windows #rebuild #mdadm #software_raid #input_output
#daily #photo
#screenshot #route #itineracy #maemo #mappero #map
my friend from Germany have been written
By the way, Thursday I have been in the German parliament when the deputies finally passed a bill on recognising the Armenian genocide. Brilliant discussion, very good argumentation. The cool thing is that the government didn’t want this decision, but the parliament just did it. Merkel and her most important ministers didn’t attend the session, because they had promised to Erdogan not to vote in favour of the recognition.
Even the deputies with Turkish roots have voted in favour of the recognition. Unfortunately, they have a lot of problems now and are threatend by Turkish nationals. They even get murder threats now and Erdogan has personnaly called these deputies “terrorists”.
#armenian_genocide #germany #turkey #armenia #merkel #erdogan #recognition #nationalism
http://www.radiolab.org/story/update-new-normal/
about non violent baboons and human loving foxes.
#evolution #violence #aggression #normality
http://thomasbyttebier.be/blog/the-best-icon-is-a-text-label
#design #icon
#work #interview #future #comic #cartoon #job
https://m.soundcloud.com/millenniumjazz/endurance-by-the-jazz-jousters-vinyl-digital-out-now
#jazz #music
accidentally found very old blog post with talk:
— do you know about inotify?
— what’s that?
— when you change a file it notifies…
— notifies Jobs about that change?
#apple #inotify #talk
someone sent me the screenshot #screenshot #armenian #photo #1968 #letter
Data suggest that couples who have sons are more likely to stay together than those that don’t.
https://www.1843magazine.com/features/its-a-boy-thing
#togetherness
It’s the person who, when they take something out, they don’t put it back; when something breaks, they don’t fix it; when a relationship falls apart, they don’t repair it.
don’t they? or they are unable to?
#alienation
Here’s where things start to go off the rails: what this means is that all of the DPRK’s national network is non-routable IP space. You heard me; they’re treating their entire country like some small to medium business might treat their corporate office. The entire country of North Korea is sitting on one class A network (16,777,216 addresses). I was always under the impression they were just pretending that they owned large blocks of public IP space from a networking perspective, blocking everything and selectively turning on outbound traffic via access control lists. Apparently not!
https://www.whitehatsec.com/blog/north-koreas-naenara-web-browser-its-weirder-than-we-thought/
#naenara #north_korea #linux #browser #network #redflag
http://www.radiolab.org/story/91640-choice/
#radiolab #choice
#linux #authoritarian #libertarian #redhat #fedora #ubuntu #debian #puppy #gentoo #arch #chart
would like to share this small work by I believe Russian musician “kasqa”.
just generated the video with ffmpeg.
#kasqa #jazz #video #music
I’d like to share with you a short poem, by Charents. I did translate it, of course not good, but whatever. I did not find any other translation. It’s called
==The invisible bird==
When your sob ceased You sat near me with dimmed eyes The false and dark evening came down And we looked with the extinct eyes To my sad, fallen, gathered up soul, Suddenly I understood, that the light and dark Both do not exist, both are the dream… Neither the dark have been, nor the light. Neither fire, nor snow. Only in the mist, on the our soul, Spread the wings some invisible bird, And those wings were shivering.
#charents #poetry
Indeed, cannibalizing a federated application-layer protocol into a centralized service is almost a sure recipe for a successful consumer product today. It’s what Slack did with IRC, what Facebook did with email, and what WhatsApp has done with XMPP. In each case, the federated service is stuck in time, while the centralized service is able to iterate into the modern world and beyond.
https://whispersystems.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
#federation #xmpp #irc #slack #whatsapp #http #internet
I think, that GPLv3 is a license for which there came historical necessity.
Some people do not want their code to be used to lock devices. These people need a corresponding license.
And, I think that there is a historical necessity for the license, which does not allow to use the software by/for dictatorships/authoritarian regimes.
Because there might be someone who do not want let’s say his software to be used in order to prepare lists of political prisoners. I would not want to help even a soft regime.
The question which comes, then, who/how to decide which regime is authoritarian, which is dictatorship. Should the license contain direct pointers to the number of countries, or to refer to other organization’s assessments.
#software #free_software #open_sourge #gpl #license #code #regime #dictatorship #freedom
C++ is a horrible language. It’s made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it’s much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do nothing but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds, here.
#linus #linus_torvalds #git #programming_languages #programming-languages #c++ #c #programming
— in order to join our order, you need to refuse from having a family, house…
— i use gentoo.
— ah, you had to say it earlier, come in, please.
#order #gentoo #funtoo #linux #talk
#backgammon #game #people #city #yerevan #street #photo
#yerevan #kond #pigeons #photo
proud to present this project http://imaginaryguardians.com/ i know some people in the crew. (:
well, I even wonder how is it possible? i do not know anyone. (:
#book #game #music #site #web #screenshot #project #graphics #design #illustration
when I was approaching he started to shake his tail. apparently Arjouk turned out to be a very positive and cheerful dog. (:
#yerevan #kond #slums #city #dog #photo
#dog #yerevan #flue_market #photo
#tbilisi #courtyard #photo
i never photograph churches, but well i had a feeling that i want to do this photo.
#church #monastery #armenia #photo
Astghik got a new job, and she needed a photo to upload to the new workplace’s employee database. So i did a couple and she have chosen one of them and uploaded. I do not know which did she choose. I am uploading this one because I feel it’s more about the Astghik I know.
#portrait #girl #photo
#dog #photo
#dog #photo
yes, eyes are not in focus. whataver.
#dog #photo
#dog #flue_market #photo
#dog #cat #priest #photo
Arno Fischer was saying ‘Mann muss nicht komponieren, die Welt ist die Komposition’, but I had really big trouble to compose this photo. Because the dog is far away, and there is some empty space before the dog. Then I thought that it may be okay, because there is indeed a lot of space between the owner and the dog, and that makes sense so I will publish this.
#dog #photo
I actually have more, and much more touching photos of this dog.
He is not very confident dog. He feels very bad most of the time. When it’s raining, and I remember him, my heart physically hurts.
#dog #photo
#book #content #comic #books
yesterday at the kitchen one of the developers was remembering the time before cellular phones. he said — That girl told me “I’ll call you from 7 to 7.30 pm” and that implied that I had to be at home, which was a regular story, and then, if someone else locks the resource, while you’re expecting a call, you could not resist and ask “for how long do you intent to talk?”.
That is amazing. I do not remember anybody to tell me “I’ll call you at this time”, or I do not remember to use the phone more than for a 30 secs to agree on something, or to ask about homework, if I missed the class.
Well, I remember I locked a line for hours to download software or music, or to prepare my first stupid web sites(with first stupid experiments with js and java applets), or to read forums about digital video and sites about dogs, I was passionately interested at that time, and surprisingly my parents did not ask for a line, probably because my mother was happy nobody would call her, and my father was never at home.
I was trying to chat, but my computer’s soft modem would hang up, if I would use more resources than the system could afford, so I preferred to not, but concentrate on “important” (as it seemed that time) things.
p. s. well, no, I could not use web chats - that was heavy, but i’ve used cyberspace.org and hobbiton.org to chat by console icq clients.
#phone #communication #dial-up #internet
Linus says, he bought a PC after VIC-20 and Sinclair, in order to not write software he needs himself, but to work on a supported platform which has a community, therefore to be able to buy software written by others, and then he learnt about Unix, and wanted to run Unix at home, he said - “How hard could it be?”, and it turned out he could not, because it was “expensive as hell” and targeted and marketed for banks. (:
https://youtu.be/MShbP3OpASA?t=4m37s
#linus
I guess Linus would prefer people to call “Linux” Android based systems, rather than GNU based systems because former are more wide spread than latter. (:
#android #linux #gnu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN6Q--zqroM
#bitcoin #rms #democracy
This RT journalist is very much along the lines of RT: “Europe is controlled by Russia, because it gets gas from Russia”. Oh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFMMXRoSxnA
#rms
#calvin_and_hobbes
#calvin_and_hobbes
probably a self portrait by Alfred Eisenstaedt.
#photography
#photography
found interesting podcast. there is for exampre an episode, about emergence of hashtags. (:
#podcast #design #architecture
Astghik also sent me three photos of the rainbow in Vanadzor she made this week end. (:
#Vanadzor #city #rainbow #photo #sky
Astghik, the girl from Vanadzor, made a simple animation by using one of my photos, with an app she works on. (:
#photo #animation #gif #yerevan #electricity #green
Would Israel sell a used drone to a Hitler?
Suppose the Nazis were not murdering Jews but were murdering ‘only’, say, Slavs, Gypsies, and Jehovah’s Witnesses; and suppose our beloved State of Israel were in existence: Would you agree to our selling arms to the Nazis?
Israel is reported to have sold billions of dollars worth of arms, including to governments that are killing or threatening to attack victim peoples. Last week there came reports that an Israeli drone in the hands of Azerbaijan – a huge arms customer of ours – was responsible for the deaths of six Armenians in the enclave Nagorno-Karabakh. And most recently Azeri military transport planes were reported to have landed in Israel (perhaps to pick up and deliver arms) during the war with Armenia.
I am ashamed.
The Armenians were the victims of a major genocide 100 years ago that has even been called the “Armenian Shoah” by some Israeli scholars, including from Bar Ilan University. A great deal of their national and cultural ethos continues to focus passionately on the memory of that genocide (does that sound familiar to us Jews?). For many years now, we Israelis – whether led by Labor or Likud – have insulted and hurt the Armenian people by failing to recognize their genocide officially and formally. Would we ourselves tolerate another government – say the US or England – refusing to recognize the Holocaust because of their realpolitik interest with the perpetrator government?
One senior Armenian official has written several of us in Israel to express his deep pain as well as indignation, not only at our government’s cowardly and self-serving denials of the Armenian Genocide, but also at our thick military trade alliance with the Azeris, a Turkic people who adhere to Turkey’s bizarre and fascist tradition of rewriting history and denying the Armenian Genocide.
I am reminded of the prophet Natan crying out to King David for an earlier though more delectable murderous act of self-interest, or Elijah remonstrating Ahab about his murderous larceny: It’s bad enough that you killed him, are you also taking a profit from the sordid affair? (In the Hebrew: “Haratazachta v’gam yarashta?”)
In general, how willing are we Israelis to strengthen our economy by lucrative arms sales? Of course, “everyone” in the world is doing it, but do we have to also? Have we given up the vision of Israel as a moral leader of peoples on this planet? Is this idea tiresome, naïve, and childlike in a madly destructive and self-destroying world?
An alternative principle could be that we build arms first and foremost for the defense of Israel, and that we supply arms only to underdog peoples who are facing mass destruction and to allies like the US that are essentially committed to shared democratic values and to peace. Of course we will still make some mistakes, but at least our conscience will be more clear that we have not delivered arms to the ‘Nazis.’
To my Armenian colleagues and friends, I can only say that as a Jew and as an Israeli, I am mortified – and angry.
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/would-israel-sell-a-used-drone-to-a-hitler/
#israel #azerbaijan #armenia #nkpeace #artsakh #war
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbmXSR_QiP8
(:
it looks like at June 2, Bundestag will vote for recognition of the Armenian genocide.
meanwhile, according to several sources, Azerbaidjan brings lot more power to the contact line, and we expect clashes soon.
what a life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Theremin
#theremin
apparently, not only I have experienced this, and this is a known flickr bug - some of the public photos are just not shown when logged out.
#flickr #photography #hosting #service #web
through the Apple Music subscription, which I had, Apple now deletes files from its users’ computers. When I signed up for Apple Music, iTunes evaluated my massive collection of Mp3s and WAV files, scanned Apple’s database for what it considered matches, then removed the original files from my internal hard drive. REMOVED them. Deleted. If Apple Music saw a file it didn’t recognize—which came up often, since I’m a freelance composer and have many music files that I created myself—it would then download it to Apple’s database, delete it from my hard drive, and serve it back to me when I wanted to listen, just like it would with my other music files it had deleted.
https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/
#apple #music
book shop in Tbilisi
#tbilisi #books #book #book-shop #Bouquinistes #photo
#dog #tbilisi #photo
#tbilisi #school #photo
at the Mirzoian library. (books and magazines about photography). text means “Yerevan” in Armenian.
#yerevan #armenian #mirzoian_library #photo
after the “Yelena Ovsiannikova against the RA Police” court session.
#yerevan #photo #court #couple
#yerevan #girl #photo
#yerevan #photo #key #lock #locksmith
Hotel “Europe”, view from South.
#yerevan #photo
Hotel “Europe”, view from East.
#yerevan #hotel #photo #courtyard
Republic street №44. Please do not even try to touch.
#yerevan #gates #photo #bicycle
#yerevan #courtyard #building #city #photo
#yerevan #courtyard #building #city #photo
apparently, my forking server example (:
#oberon #hn #screenshot #voc #vishap #irc #example #programming
#linux #rhel #systemd #screenshot
#photo #yerevan #slums #street #dog #yellow
#photo #yerevan #slums #street
#photo #yerevan #slums #courtyard #cats
#photo #yerevan #slums #street
#photo #yerevan #slums #street
#photo #yerevan #slums #electricity
#photo #yerevan #slums #street
#photo #yerevan #street
#photo #yerevan #labourers #street
#photo #yerevan #republic_square #square #people #street
Even a “FBFeedAwesomeizer” - which alone is a collection of 74 classes and protocols.
This is why the application binary itself is over 114Mb.
on reverse engineering of the facebook application for ios.
http://quellish.tumblr.com/post/126712999812/how-on-earth-the-facebook-ios-application-is-so
#facebook #ios #application #reverse_engineering #programming
No talks with Azeris without security guarantee, Sargsyan says There’s no peacekeeping role in Karabakh for Russian troops
#artsakh #nkpeace
I have seen no place on my journey more beautiful or sadder than Ani
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/04/armenia-massacre-turkey-kurds-history/
#armenia #history #armenian-genocide #turkey #ani
http://screamingduck.com/Article.php?ArticleID=43&Show=ABCE
#pascal
they talk a lot about pascal in comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11563451 #pascal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Bi0YSvxzxQ #zeiss #fotografie
today is a conventional date of the beginning of the 1915’s Armenian genocide in Turkey. Armenians all over the world commemorate the victims. Some of survivors are still alive. Almost all Armenians in the west are ancestors of survivors. Many of us have some relative who survived. My grandfather is also from the family of survivors from Van.
I never liked the date, in particularly, because I felt a link between the date and the victim psychology among the nation. This psychology of the victim was also stimulated and greeted in USSR, as a way to make Armenians more loyal to the empire, and make them sure that they won’t be able to survive without the big brother.
Today is of course, non working day in Armenia, however I came to work, to deal with problems caused by power outage. I was passing through the building and made this photo. This is an A4 b/w print of the We are our mountains monument in Artsakh, and photo of Monte Melkonian, hero of so called NK war. This is what regular radio engineer have printed to hung over it’s table. And though it may seem “militaristic” to hung a photo of a man in uniform, I believe, it’s not really.
(Monte was a very interesting person. when almost all of the Martakert district was lost, and Azerbaidjani army had much more power, he was able to take it back. He had no tanks, but to the end of war he had ~40 tanks under his control, all captured from the Azerbaijani army. He did not tolerate marauding and never allowed that.)
Why is this? Because something have changed. Armenians do not perceive themselves as victims to the such extent as in the past. The important part of an Armenian identity today is that Armenians were able to defend themselves in Artsakh, the population was not eliminated, ethnic cleansings conveyed by Azerbaidjan in late eighties and early nineties failed, at least in most of Artsakh.
They were able to prevent the next genocide. That is why Artsakh is extremely important for any Armenian. That’s a symbol of a victory, probably the most important victory throughout the last ~1000 years.
And what is very sad, that Artsakh has no many chances to be recognized by the International community, and interests of Turkey, which keeps Armenia in blockade, and Azerbaijan, which has oil, are more important to the big players.
It looks like almost any major force is interested to make Artsakh controllable by aggressive, non democratic, militaristic, not tolerant Azerbaijan, which recently again tried to use violence to, as they say, “reestablish territorial integrity”, and in reality, to clean up remaining parts of Artsakh from Armenians. Or, may be make them citizens of the country which conveyed ethnic cleansings, and destroyed every Armenian heritage they were able to.
#1915 #genocide #armenian-genocide #armenian_genocide #armenia #turkey #azerbaijan #artsakh #nkpeace #monte_melkonian #we_our_mountains
romantic relationships are not thread safe. take care of critical sections.
#relationships
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCYOf6H3YI8
#yann_tiersen #concert #sohail #2015 #spain #music
#duck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsH2viODOCY
#miazaki #ghibli
Down to earth interview with David Vardanyan, son of Armenian billionaire Ruben Vardanyan, who moved to Artsakh 9.5 months ago to serve as a simple soldier:
http://repatarmenia.org/eng/artsakh-chronicles-vardanyan/
#artsakh #nkpeace #armenia
android gallery application allows to get image file name, and dimensions. ios gallery app seem to not allow to know neither the file name, nor the size.
#android #ios
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktmS2Te06do
#music
William Saroian (right) and Zori Balaian
found this photograph at the isoc.am office, brought home and scanned.
#william_saroian #zori_balaian #photo #history #archive #armenia
Anoush Babajanian’s photo have taken place in nytimes slideshow for the article.
https://twitter.com/NYTScience/status/722273575516958720
#dogs #photo
what defines us? not what we tell/believe about ourselves.
may be what we imagine, what we believe about those we do not know. yet.
about those we do not know, because when you do not know the environment, you do not know the walls, and hit your head. many times. after some tries you have a certain understanding of the environment, and you can make judgements about it with the pain in your head. I do not want to believe that judgements we do still feeling pain, are those that describe us.
I tend to think that what we imagine, that’s about us.
And then, if our aspirations to cognize someone else find reciprocity, we have the option to get to know the other person better.
#imagination #we #person #i #human #people #belief
(:
#screenshot #gimp
pedudal
this is how in Oregon, Portland, people call the car which has only one of the headlights working.
#pedudal #word #words #english #slang #dictionary #oregon
#relationships
explanation https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/743:_Infrastructures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ03EyR6F8c … deep change in the human experience, when over from territories to science. When we are hanging up on territories, we are permanently at war: whether want more territory, whether lost the war and fight to get it back.
every country had an army to defend itself. so the history is the history of wars.
when it comes to science, there are no wars, because in case of territory, if you win, somebody looses. and the one who looses goes to fight.
in the case of science, you can win without anybody loosing.
you don’t have to kill anybody. you should educate yourself. it’s the first time in human experience that you can win without anybody loosing.
You won’t find the same generic shops, restaurants and bars that most major cities possess. Instead every corner invites you to learn more about Icelandic culture, whether it’s one of the restaurants offering fresh lobster soup, or one of the many independent shops stacked with books and vinyl records. In fact, this is the first capital city I’ve been to that doesn’t have a McDonalds! Though this hasn’t always been the case, the world-famous chain had landed here previously but after the economy crashed in 2008 the fast food outlet packed up, and to be honest, I say good riddance! http://www.theculturemap.com/colourful-buildings-street-art-reykjavik-iceland/
#iceland #Reykjavik
Pedestrian Question - Have You Ever Punched Someone in the Face?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GIS2Gg22ko
aaaaaaaaaa
http://tedx.amsterdam/2014/03/ted-happiness-work-hard-be-happy/
#happiness
Konflikt um Berg-Karabach Frauen an die Front
http://m.taz.de/Konflikt-um-Berg-Karabach/!5292596;m/
#artsakh #nkpeace
nobody seem to want to answer this https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?messageID=818694󇸆
well and this https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?messageID=818696󇸈
#delphi #firemonkey
amos oz was saying that Hebrews were stunned with the force they posses now, and never had before. this reminds about the compensation theory that those from Russia or Arab countries who recently became wealthy or well-to-do, often compensate former asperity and lack of opportunities.
by transferring the compensation theory to the internet, I think, that many of us today are stunned with the opportunity that many acquaintances and even strangers may read what they transmit, and even like it. Which can be roughly estimated as the likes count.
it is of course a natural need for humans to be accepted in the community, and to feel a bit of self importance. probably, those, who were devoid of those, are more obsessed with showing off in the “internets”, as Bush put it.
thus, like the Hebrews are compulsive to use force, like New Russians must use golden lavatories, we write online, and count what god sent us today likes, instead of aiming for deeper interpersonal relationships.
which has it’s opposite side: consuming this astonishing amount of information simply is not easy/possible, thus we learn to swallow it fast, without chewing, in vain hope of not missing out.
that’s the vicious circle of the beginning of the internet age, which is hard to escape.
Now I’ve been written this, I’ve remembered words of my friend about the Mcluhan’s book.
#compensation_theory #compensation #theory #psychology #humans #internet
It is often said that the government is not able to use money/resources efficiently. As efficient as private entrepreneurs can. Well, I agree.
However recently I’ve seen a couple of proprietary software projects, which were closed by the authors. You cannot download the mobile application. There is no website. It’s over.
And I have thought about community projects, collaborative projects. It looks like sometimes community projects can be even more efficient, because(if) they have no(limited) means to earn money. They decrease expenses as much as possible, and design software accordingly. And they can be more sustainable, though they have no income. Of course it depends on the community size. Number of speakers of the technology. (:
An example? Consider failed social network start-up. Now consider Diaspora. Social network start-up had to pay a lot for servers and infrastructure. Keep a space, and developers. Diaspora is hosted in different places, even on cheap one board computers. That’s about design and efficiency. Of course it has problems, and the development is not that fast as desirable. But the project is very efficient in some aspects.
#design #efficiency #free_software #software #diaspora #social_network #web #freedom #technology #sustainability
the only translated to English text about the clashes on meduza https://meduza.io/en/feature/2016/04/08/the-thin-permanent-line
#artsakh #nkpeace #azar #war
#gmail #twitter #mail #email #internet
very interesting discussion for me https://github.com/modula3/cm3/issues/12
What do you think about implementing properties in Objects?
OBJECT
...
PROPERTIES
intValue : INTEGER READ GetIntValue() WRITE SetIntValue();
I wouldn’t mind adding some things like this as long as they are very obviously simple syntactic sugar for existing operations. This looks like something like that…
shouldn’t it be, though
PROPERTIES
intValue : INTEGER
READ := GetIntValue() : INTEGER
WRITE := SetIntValue(to : INTEGER);
to more closely match the syntax for methods.
Also it won’t work on RECORDs, which is a bit odd.
I suppose it follows the existing property (which I would not want to break) that you can almost always change a T = REF RECORD … to T = OBJECT … without breaking anything, but not the other way around.
#modula #programming #programming_languages #modula-3 #cm3 #modula3 #compiler
Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev, BBC News, February 2012.
#armenia #azerbaijan #aliyev #armenians #enemies #peace #war #nkpeace #nkfreedom #nagorno-karabakh #artsakh #bbc #freedom
Collection of war threat statements by President Ilham Aliyev and other Azerbaijani officials.
http://eufoa.org/uploads/AliyevWarThreats.pdf
#azerbaijan #aliyev #threats #war #artsakh #nkpeace
would like to write about protonmail.ch or protonmail.com
It might look like I am criticizing the project, while I do not. Apparently I have even donated them money.
Recently they’ve opened free registration, so you can get your protonmail.com address. Actually I do not understand why sometimes you get protonmail.com and sometimes protonmail.ch domain. Your username @ protonmail.com does not work as username@protonmail.ch and vice versa.
So, protonmail claims that they encrypt your mailbox, and only you can decrypt it. You need to have two passwords - first for the login, and second to decrypt the mailbox. If you happen to forget the second password, then your mailbox will be lost forever, you can create a new mailbox and encrypt it with different password.
It all seems very attractive, however there are questions:
— if the mailbox is encrypted, then when you receive the email, they cannot put it to the mailbox? Then they have to store it at some temporary location? Wait until you login to decrypt the mailbox, so that they can add the email to that mailbox while it’s temporarily decrypted?
— if there is such a state, then if they required to retrieve your emails, they can do that technically, when you are logged in? and when you are not logged in, they can make copies (again, technically) of your emails while they were not added to your mailbox?
— if you send emails to the other email provider, like google, then obviously, your email will be stored and never erased by google. that is why Protonmail suggests to send emails from proton to proton in order to stay safe.
#protonmail #mail #security #cryptography #privacy
when the file gets overwritten, how different file systems handle that?
do they mark the old file as erased and create a new file or rather try to write the information to the same inodes? then what if there’s no space and the new file has bigger size? I guess it’s better to try to create a new file, in case of filesystems which avoid fragmentation.
in other words, is the probability to recover overwritten file smaller, than probability to recover erased file?
#filesystem #forensics #question #operating_systems #design
popular Russian blogger Anton Nossik (I shared his blog post on Artsakh situation recently) published a photo stating “I am Artsakh”. (:
Unfortunately those commenters that I can see, ask “why Hebrew should support Artsakh”, or say that “it’s the same as supporting LDNR”(Luhansk Donetsk People’s Republic). That’s amazing that Nossik understands the difference between those two. Which unfortunately some of you do not. (:
Nossik answers in comments: “in the unmanned Azeri shit there are UAVs made in Israeli. Did you understand that? The oil money doesn’t smell?”
#nossik #artsakh #nkpeace
what I value, and understood recently that it has to be valued, is that not only Artsakh ministry of defence, but also Armenian ministry of defence, publish names of the killed staff. They publish different names.
Armenian ministry of defence does not hide the presence of it’s people in Artsakh.
I did not know this can be an issue, before I saw how Putin’s Russia behave. Russia does not acknowledge it’s military men, when they get catched. Russia shows their wives (or may be those are not real wives) on tv and says - they already left the army. Yesterday.
Like if it is easy to leave army. Like if any one would like to die for Russia, by knowing that his death will never be acknowledged, accepted. They’ve sent him to die, and they reject him at the same time. They won’t bargain for him, in case he will become a captive, but at the same time, they keep captives, or let’s say hostages like Savchenko to bargain benefits for her.
#russia #artsakh #nkpeace
well, Armenian propaganda poster.
#artsakh #nkpeace
it would be understandable, if you, by being marginals, or opposition in your countries, who knows how government controls media, and does it’s propaganda, feel somehow close, have some solidarity with the same people in Russia. To know what marginals and non government controlled media writes. To know what people think.
So the “russia today” which is sometimes shared here expresses the point of view of the Russian government. Which shouldn’t be taken as truth only because you dislike your own government. Or if you dislike USA.
That is why I would like to present to you the site, which describes itself as “the real russia today”: https://meduza.io/en
formerly, lenta dot ru, which wasn’t opposition or pro west news site, was taken under control of the state (as most other media) and some of it’s former employees formed meduza.io site. i think you have to know this side. it’s real in terms that it’s not a state propaganda. it’s one of the remaining free media. very weak, alas.
You may dislike it, because you won’t understand many texts. It’s targeted the internal reader, while government RT targets you, uses the language you can understand, and knows which strings to pull to manipulate it’s market. (:
#russia #media #news #propaganda
— In Mcluhan’s book Understanding media there is one chapter called “The Gadget Lover”. He says that social media (well there was no social media in his time, but that’s what he meant), is like our own extension, a replication of our own image, and that we fall easily in love with our own mirror image, like Narcissus. And btw the name Narcissus has the same root as narcosis. We get addicted to ourselves.
#social_media #mcluhan #gadgets #media #narcissus #narcosis #mirror #narcissism #image
I remember the interview of the, as we call it, third Armenian republic’s, first president Ter-Petrossian to the one of Russian newspapers regarding Artsakh situation back in nineties. He said something like:
— Armenians are those who survived genocide. We cannot afford another one.
#armenia #genocide #armenians #artsakh #nkpeace
today at work:
— I do not believe in any peace agreement. I do not trust Azerbaijanis. It was always the same for the last 1000 years. Turkic people always attacked - the difference lies in the means: when they had swords - they used swords, in Soviet times they had stones or sticks, they’ve used stones and sticks, now they have “smerch” - they use “smerch”.
#artsakh #nkpeace #talk
the armed man on the picture says: “sorry, my boy, it’s a reflex”. (:
don’t know if it’s true, but
Strange fact: Because of Azerbaijan, no country has shot down more Israeli drones than Armenia. Artsakh is a graveyard of Israeli drones.
#drone #artsakh #nkpeace
Fashion week in #Azerbaijan. Spring/Summer #2016.
#tv #militarism
#nkpeace #graffiti in #yerevan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpeje4eQriM
only two minutes are in Dutch, the rest is in English.
#pacifism #peace #peace_activism #fanatism #israel #palestine #writer #amos_oz #book
i’ve been asked to open my backpack before entering the underground metro station. the other time i would tell them they have no right, but the other timo it never happened. police guys were polite and sort of embarrassed that they have to ask that. i did not want to make their day harder. probably authorities increased the security levels afraiding of acts of terror.
#yerevan
Talish: the traces of the 5 days war https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EbMy9uH3UI
The villager doesn’t have the courage to tell that the Azerbaijani army have been in the village. He knows it’s responsible to say, and avoids the question - if they were there or not. Said " I don’t know”. (:
Said his wife kept the child under the skirt during the artillery attack, to calm her down. Said it’s safe there. reminds the Günter Grass’ “The Tin Drum” (Die Blechtrommel) novel beginning.
#talish #artsakh #nkpeace
I saw this play, Nanor talks about, and it’s one of the best Armenian plays to me.
— the one was the dream, the girl was a kind of a dreamer, or a dream, she wants to go out, and to change something, one of the guys was the idea, kind of an intellectual person,who had these really big ideas, but he wasn’t doing anything, he was sitting there and reading books, and we have the hero on a camera, kind of the virtual life, who was all the time acting and pretending to be a hero, and failing all the time…
… Here in Armenia all the heros are getting lost in the virtual life…
… at the end it was a triangle love story…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I932lXqtF5s
#nanor #play #theatre #dream #idea #dreamer #hero #virtual #life
modern girlfriend tasks
http://imgur.com/gallery/xBR5Z
and boyfriend tasks
http://imgur.com/gallery/nyJ6Z
#relationships
the moment when you realize, that dirty written scripts do not surprise you any more. you do not want to quote them, do not want to show them to someone because it’s the way it should be.
#work #acceptance #humans
If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don’t bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don’t bullshit yourself that you’re not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard’s vote.
― David Foster Wallace, Up, Simba!
#quote #elections
The Armenian government has allocated funding today for the completion of the construction of a strategically important road that would link Armenia and Artsakh. source
Well, that road exists, but it had no asphalt covering last time I’ve been there, and is full with pits, and not very much usable. Road from #Drmbon(western shore of #Sarsang reservoir) to Sotk takes 5 hours, though it’s very short. When I was going to drive by that road for the first time, some told me “don’t go there, you’ll break your car”. That was amazing night, yes, night! And we did it!
Imagine, the Ter-ter river flows at the left side of the road, you can hear it, but you do not see it, and at the right side there is a sheer rock, extremely high. And then there’s rusting remainings of the dead tank. And traces of caterpillars everywhere.
That first time was hard but unforgettable experience.
In USSR they’ve used to put hatches not at side-walks, but in the middle of the streets. They were afraid that in case of war, ruined building might prevent to access the infrastructure. That is why these hatches are hated by careful drivers who tend to avoid these hatches while driving, bypass them. I was never really in to that, but since we’ve passed that Drmbon - Sotk road, I realized that bypassing hatches has no sense at all. At least for me. If we have passed that road, then who cares about street hatches? No, no. Just keep going by your line and ignore them.
#road #martakert #drmbon #sotk #ter-ter #artsakh #nkpeace
Google marks Artsakh IP addresses as Armenian, but Twitter marks them as Azerbaijani
That must be very frustrating, to live in Artsakh and to see twitter greetings in Azerbaijani, specifically when you are struggling for your freedom, and get bombed by Azerbaijani military.
I know the feeling. When I am driving in Artsakh, I tend to not open Google Maps, but use some Open Street Map software.
Because once I open google maps, then this is time to panic! Why there are Azerbaijani/Turkic locality names around? Where am I? Didn’t I get lost? Will they shoot me now? Oh, may be that’s google? But wait, then what this locality name means? Yes, I can read Latin letters, but what this locality name correspond to? Aaaaa… God save me! Please.
But openstreetmap shows a line of contact, shows Armenian locality names, and I see native homy letters. That feels safe. Everything is as it should be.
So, no, nobody can force me to use google maps, instead of OSM. (: No. Not possible. No. (:
#google #twitter #maps #osm #openstreetmap #artsakh #nkpeace #panic #dont_panic
— endlessly depressing about someone you lost is also some way of neglecting or not valuing the ones who love you.
#talk #relationships
humans are not perfect. that is why relationships (with humans) are not compatible with perfectionism.
#relationships #humans #perfectionism #compatibility
Putin introduced to Duma a new law proposal, about a creation of National Guards. Corresponding information have appeared in the electronic database of the parliament.
Law defines composition and the tasks of the new force. In particular, guards can check the citizen’s documents, arrest them in order to hand to the police, “if there are enough evidences of law violation or administrative offense”.
Also, National Guards can use force and arms without issuing a warning “in case of direct threat to citizens or other guards”. “Guard has a right to not issue a warning before using physical force, special means, or firearms, if delaying the action can threaten life or health of the citizen, other guard, or can lead to serious consequences”.
Among the “special means” the law lists rubber batons, gas grenades, handcuffs, means of distracting by sound and light effects, the means for breaking barriers and forced stoppage of transport, as well as service animals.
Guards can beleaguer terrains, in particular in order to prevent mass rallies, restrict or prohibit the movement of pedestrians and vehicles.
Opposition assumes that practically, it’s a creation of the alternative army, aimed to protect the regime and Putin personally. Emiliya Slabunova from the “Yabloko” commented that “National Guards is an attempt to secure the authorities from the protests and rallies before the coming elections”. “State turns in to monster, and increases power structures at the expenses of education and healthcare”.
source (in Russian).
#russia #putin #law #yabloko #force
ah, just discovered them, these young girls formed a new band. It’s called “the universe”. (: they perform the coulpe of songs in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev8Lrcbt0Do
#music #armenian-music #armenia #girls
when the openstreetmap editor will show us newer satellite pictures, that’s the time to repaint the contact line, if necessary. and to see the difference. because though authorities cannot be trusted, in these days not everything can be hidden.
#artsakh #nkpeace #diff
there was some political observer, who said: “Azerbaijani military has huge losses, they’ve got their lesson”.
Well, that statement hardly survives critics. Imagine a professional boxer. What if he failed a fight? Will he give up his professional carrier? The purpose of military forces is war. They are designed to, trained and exist for the war. They won’t give up because (even if) they had losses. Moreover if the losses are among soldiers, not the land. Nobody cares about soldiers, of course.
#artsakh #nkpeace
so Aliyev will take stronger positions both in the negotiation process, and inside the country he rules.
He would say, “we were gonna take our land back by force, but the international community asked us to give one more chance to the peaceful resolution. We of course are very peaceful and will let them try one more time.”. Practically he knows that if he had planned the blitz-krieg, to take the whole in a couple of days, then the plan have been failed. However he will pressure the Minks group, to pressure the Armenian side to agree to his demands, because otherwise, he can restart the war. That the previous threats were not just threats, and his patience has limits.
“Meanwhile, dear compatriots, we have to buy more weapons, so you have to live poor lives for some more time, because it’s for the sake of our land, and our territories” - is the message which Azerbaijani population will get.
Similar message has no meaning here - everybody knows, that their brothers and sisters[1] need to be defended.
However, Aliyev would not have this “stronger” positions, if as the result of his latest aggression, he would lost even more land. Then he would be unable to say - we can restart it, because the message they would get - as a result of an aggression we lost more.
Why they did not loose? Because the Armenian side again strived to show that they have no desire and motives to make war, or because the Armenian side simply had no resources to go forward? It’s prepared for the defending war, not the invading war. Or may be both reasons are there.
Armenian side says, that they were able to return all the lost positions before the ceasefire. I hardly believe that. It seems that Azerbaijan managed to take Talish village, came close to Mataghis, then Talish was returned back under Armenian control and Martakert district’s contact line might be indeed restored [2].
So it seems that Armenian side did not loose any populated locality, that would be impossible to hide, but probably have lost space. Well, space is vital for the populated community, that’s where the villagers work. Whatever, when the locality itself is returned, Armenian authorities can safely say that they were able to take back everything they’ve lost[3]. I guess, Artsakh forces have some territorial losses at the southern part non populated areas. Martakert part, northern part is probably indeed taken back, and people can return to repair their houses.
[1] And yes, that is not an ex-aggregation, almost anybody has relatives there. Even during Soviet times though there were no normal road, or connection(probably on purpose), Artsakh people were practically living in the cultural space of the ArmSSR, and contacts were always tight. Huge part of the company I work for, people who are 50 years old and more, are from Artsakh. Their kids are used to go to Artsakh to see their grands. I do not talk about modern times, of course, contacts now are even more tight, Artsakh is isolated, and if during USSR rule, young people who strived for the better education, could go not only to Yerevan, but also go to Baku. Now the world is accessible to them, in direct meaning, only through Armenia, that is the window they have.
[2] Martakert district of NKAO had more space, eastern part of it is under control of Azerbaijan forces, and as it’s visible on the map, they’ve managed to build pretty big populated localities there during these 20 years.
[3] This or that mountain at the border of Armenia and Azerbaijan (not Artsakh, Artsakh is defended much better, as far as I understand) are always exchanged. The border as it pictured on map, the border of Armenian SSR does not correspond to the reality. Reality is, who controls which mountain. I know it from the times I was serving in the army.
#artsakh #nkpeace
15:00 As of noon today, the armed forces of NKR and Azerbaijan have agreed to put a halt to the fighting along the line of Contact given that Minsk Group negotiations are underway in Vienna.
News of the ceasefire was confirmed to Hetq in an interview with NKR Defense Army Spokesman Senor Hasratyan.
14:05 According to Artsakhpress, the aggressive offensive measures taken by Azerbaijan in all directions of the border were relatively passive within the last several hours. With corresponding actions, the Karabakh army suppressed Azerbaijan’s activeness, returning the lost positions.
http://civilnet.am/2016/04/05/frontline-updates-april-5-newsfeed/#.VwOiekn-1hF
#artsakh #nkpeace
Journalist Mark Grigorian likes to write stories about his family. Month ago he have published a story about his mother’s childhood in Artsakh. http://markgrigorian.livejournal.com/903356.html
#artsakh #photo #history #family
well, I know what can be done in order to stop the war. to counter strike, and go forward. that would immediately force the opposite side to ask for the ceasefire. exactly as it was in nineties.
why it’s not done? probably because we are not able to. probably because of incomparable military power.
#artsakh #nkpeace
one of the parliamentarians, who returned from Artsakh today, commented, that probably the goal was to attack from South and North, and if that succeeds, attack from the East to the direction of Stepanakert, and that, goal, at least for now failed.
#artsakh #nkpeace
#propaganda #war #artsakh #nkpeace
Russian writer, Mikhail Veller, on Artsakh: http://echo.msk.ru/programs/just_think/1740954-echo/ (in Russian) #artsakh #nkpeace
well, a bit narcissistic, because we did not have many refugees (yet). but true.
#artsakh #nkpeace
today’s news are, Azerbaijani military forces started to use Smerch. something like this probably. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BM-30_Smerch
It haven’t been used in previous days. Probably that means Artsakh resistance is not that bad, that they’ve needed to use a stronger weapon.
#artsakh #nkpeace
I do not want to post anything like “this child have been killed”, or see this “killed couple”, that is what “they” have done. Because I consider that’s a cheap way of manipulation. The war started. That’s a part of war. I have no right to manipulate you by posting something like that.
I guess same shit may happen at the opposite side. Though NK authorities claim they won’t target civilians, I am not sure, that even if they want to, they always can do that. If they shower each other with fire, civilian deaths are inevitable. :/
#artsakh #nkpeace #war
this Azerbaijani poster is better made. (: more expressive than the previous one.
#design #socute #artsakh #nkpeace
Martakert is under the fire, because the “contact line” is too close to the city. Bus was hit because the “contact line” is too close to the road. I always felt it at that road. It’s too close.
#artsakh #nkpeace
#socute #artsakh #nkpeace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOB0eUBRc94
i don’t know.
Azerbaijan claims they’ve taken Mataghis village. Artsakh Defence Army says it’s not true. If Mataghis is taken, then probably Talish is taken too. I have no idea what is going on in reality.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=40.3242&mlon=46.7393#map=12/40.3242/46.7393
#artsakh #nkpeace
on Russia, as an ally of Armenia.
— when they were selling weapons for billions of dollars to Azerbaijan, didn’t they know where those means might be handy? Didn’t they ask Aliyev what he intents to do with those? Or they have supposed that he will go hunting?
#artsakh #nkpeace #talk
why there are no news about shot down Armenian helicopters? I guess probably because Armenian side does not use aviation. I guess that’s because they know helicopters certainly will be shot down quickly. Probably, aviation has some use like support during attacks, and as far as I understand Armenian side are unable to use itt. Which means they have more troubles to take back positions they’ve lost.
#artsakh #nkpeace
there is a video on youtube, how Armenian soldier shot down Azerbaijani helicopter with RPG. well that happens in Hollywood films, but seriously, why RPG? didn’t we have something that suits that purpose better? well, may be we did not.
#artsakh #nkpeace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNw1Ka05PM4
#artsakh #nkpeace
http://civilnet.am/2016/04/04/frontline-updates-april-4newsfeed/
#artsakh #nkpeace
the bill, brought through the decades: http://www.kasparov.ru/material.php?id=5701503B83E22
Ikhlov, don’t like him, but worth reading. In Russian.
#artsakh #nkpeace
Azerbaijan was waiting for this revenge bore than 20 years.
Military and political preparations for the current events have been done during all these years.
Interesting question - why exactly now?
…
That’s simple: only Azerbaijan needs war today. And certainly known why - to return lost in 1994 territories, where now located not recognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. Return of the territories, populated by Armenians under the control of Azerbaijan - that is understandable, concrete, never hidden, loudly declared task. Which wasn’t possible to solve 22 years by political means, and now, according to the definition of Karl von Klausevitz, is starting “the continuation of politics by other means”. However that is a politics of Azerbaijan alone, not the “all conflict sides”.
And it’s very much understandable, how this war can be stopped in 20 seconds. By one phone call from Kremlin to Baku, and one simple phrase: “Armenia is our ally”. Nobody in Baku is ready to fight Russia. And they would “go back to the previously prepared positions”. And defer “the continuation of politics by other means” to the better times, which are worser.
source (in russian)
#artsakh #armenia #azerbaijan #russia #kremlin #baku #war #nkpeace
I do not like this Russian author, but translated a part of her program:
President of Turkey, Erdogan, also has a right to it’s own “crimea is ours”, especially, when it is necessary to take away attention from the acts of terrorism and put Putin on it’s place. At March 15, after terroristic acts, 2 weeks ago, president of Azerbaijan urgently came to Ankara, to participate high Turkish Azerbaijani strategic council. And 2 weeks later Azerbaijan by using all military means performed an attack by the whole border line with Karabakh. According to the Azerbaijani side version, of course, that were cursed Armenians, who attacked them first. And I have no doubts that Turkey will support Azerbaijani attitude to liberate Azerbaijani “Crimea is ours”. And Putin, who promised to Erdogan different asymmetric responses, will be in difficult position, because asymmetric response was made to us, by using Armenia, the only one our ally, or to be precise, hostage of Russia. Because nowadays Russia has no allies - only hostages.
…
That’s a traditional Turkish answer to the question, what to do in a difficult internal and international situation, since the times of young turks. What to do? Kill Armenians!
source in Russian.
#artsakh #nkpeace
comments to the other article: http://grani.ru/Politics/World/Asia/d.250196.html http://mirror581.graniru.info/Politics/World/Asia/d.250196.html (in russian) #artsakh #nkpeace
April 3- The Day on the Frontline
http://civilnet.am/2016/04/03/nagorno-karabakh-conflict-developments/#.VwJDe0n-1hE
#artsakh #nkpeace
Or, Azerbaijan decided to try to launch a small military operation to try to “change the facts on the ground” that would tilt the situation more in its favour and recapture lost lands - and Azerbaijan is indeed saying it captured some small pieces of territory.
This kind of operation would have the additional benefit of distracting the Azerbaijani population from the economic woes caused by falling oil prices.
Both the Armenian and Azerbaijani publics, who have good reason to be critical of their leaders, have indeed rallied round the nationalist flag in the last two days and forgotten about domestic problems.
There is now a new truce - declared unilaterally by Azerbaijan - but a fragile one and fighting is reported to continue. Emotions are high and the mood for revenge will be strong. This is not a conflict that the world can continue to ignore.
Waal for BBC http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35954969
#nkpeace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1stAKYQtJgI
Analysis of Developments in NKR (in English)
#nkpeace #artsakh #analysis
probably grandmother from the previous post is someone like this.
source Une femme de 106 ans défendant sa maison en Arménie, 1990.
#armenia #1990 #photo #gradmother #war #nk #nkpeace
so, one Armenian guy who studies in Europe, calls to his grandmother, who lives in one of the villages, which are under Azerbaijani artillery fire currently, and asks how they are. she says, that it’s okay, and worries about the grandson, saying - “you won’t go to Brussels, right? it’s dangerous there, I’ve heard”.
#artsakh #nkpeace #talk
Does Armenia need it? Experience of 1988-1992 years, when Soviet army performed as grave differ or chastener of Armenian population, does not inspire enthusiasm in Yerevan and Stepanakert. Moreover, that for preserving “balance of interests” Russia, without hiding it’s intentions, promices Baku to return all liberated during the Karabakh war territories surrounding former NKAO, which became the security belt for the second Armenian republic.
from the war on “april’s fool day”, article by Tigran Khzmalian at kasparov.ru http://www.kasparov.ru/material.php?id=57003A7E96D8C (in russian).
#artsakh #nkpeace #khzmalian #article
state media will always remain incompetent, because competence is not what state demands from them. state demands propaganda, not competence. specifically russian state today. #russia #news #map #competence #artsakh #nkpeace #screenshot
@{Jim R ; jrob@diaspora.hzsogood.net} this screenshot sent me my friend from Russia. This is what happens if you access grani.ru from Russia. (:
There is a special organization, called RosKomNadzor, which can ban sites according to it’s wishes.
#russia #screenshot #internet #roskomnadzor #censorship
also from Waal:
Under this scenario, President Vladimir Putin can then intervene as the real peacemaker between the two sides and demand a peace deal that includes Russian peacekeepers on the ground.
The trouble with this theory is that Russia, although the most important secondary actor in the Karabakh conflict, does not control the situation on the ground. It is not powerful enough to make the Armenian or Azerbaijani military forces do as it wants. They are strongly independent bodies, answerable only to their own presidents. Russia’s ability to shape events is probably smaller than it looks.
#armenia #artsakh #war #nkpeace #nk #azerbaijan #russia #putin
The Azerbaijani side has more reason to break the ceasefire. As the losing side in the conflict of the 1990s, when it lost almost one seventh (or about 13.6 percent) of its de jure territory to the Armenians, Baku knows that one of its few tools of pressure on the Armenians is to violate the ceasefire and remind them that the status quo can be shaken.
by Thomas de Waal, from here: http://carnegie.ru/commentary/2016/04/02/dangerous-days-in-karabakh/iwiu
#artsakh #war #nkpeace #armenia #azerbaijan
i left several comment at grani.ru discussion. http://grani.ru/Politics/World/Asia/d.250165.html#comments
It is very sad that commenters consider Armenia as a blind toy in hands of Russia. Russia, alas, has strong means of pressure and manipulation, however not to the extent of forcing us to sabotage own national security.
Hrachya Arzumanian, who claims that he was working in IT dept. of NKR Defence Army have been written on his facebook(my translation):
Talked with people. Azerbaijan started to work simultaneously at the north and south, trying to take some of our positions. At first they have succeeded, but now positions returned. They’ve used military materiel. Azerbaijani Special Forces, that were used in both directions, have losses - not less than 50 dead. In the North they’ve fall in to ambush. The helicopter came to help them and was shot down.
Ours are getting ready to work hard. Azeris already lost the factor of suddenness.
They’ve stroke also to the civilian settlements. And reached the opposite result - not the panic, but the angriness. Authorities will have troubles explaining to the people why they did not strike back again.
Who knows me, knows that I usually bash Armenian authorities, specifically those who work in Forces for corruption and greediness. However now I have to say that they work with coherence, consistency, hard and well. I have no claims.
Everybody is very angry.
I would recommend Azerbaijani side to think about evacuation of civil population from Mir-Bashir, and other near border settlements. Do it now, in order to avoid panic. I am not sure that radios of our military will not refuse to work when they again get a command to stop.
The Nagorno Karabakh Defense Ministry reports that the southern, southeastern and northeastern NKR Contact Line is under heavy Azerbaijani military attack starting April 1.
The Azerbaijani side utilized artillery weapons, tanks, military helicopters and attempted to infiltrate and take over several posts of the NKR Defense Army. Nagorno Karabakh defense Army’s press release states that, “In addition to the border offensive, the enemy targeted civilian areas and permanent military units deployed away from the Contact Line.” An updated release stats that an Azerbaijani air raid on the Marduni region has resulted in the death of 12 year old Vaghinag Grigoryan and two other children were wounded.
The NKR Defense Army has retaliated and pushed back the advancement of Azerbaijani military units. There are casualties on both sides. According to a 09:10 am update on the Nagorno Karabakh Defense Ministry website, the Armenian side has shot down an enemy helicopter.
Heated clashes continue.
defence forces of Artsakh have downed one more Azerbaijani helicopter, 2 tanks, and one UAV.
source (in armenian)
#Artsakh #war #Armenia
disturbing news from Artsakh/Azerbaijani “border” line:
Armenian Side Downed Azerbaijani Helicopter. Azerbaijani Side Has Losses
Azerbaijani Artillery Fire Killed 1 Child, Injured 2
‘Large-Scale’ Fighting Reported In Karabakh
Looks like Azerbaijan is trying to attack at the whole border line with Artsakh. Martuni is under Grad fire, Martakert is under attack, Helicopter was downed near the Mrav mountain chain. Looks like Azerbaijani press remains silent about it.
#artsakh #nkr #armenia #azerbaijan
found this accidentally today. i have been written this back in 2001. first and only try to make my own “something like music” so far. the name of the “song?” is very much banal, of course, but i prefer to not change it and leave as i have named it 15 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyNs632x4zY
on the photo you can see my room at the parent’s apartment, and my dog Otto, who liked to lay on my “bed”.
i have some internal resistance to share recently, though i am very productive in professional life, and i also have made incredible amount of photos. some of them i even like. found an astonishing mountain, no road to it, but when you’re on top of it, you can see something magical. (:
i of course write, but store it locally. i have troubles sharing. sorry. #music #sound #2001 #room #love #~love
#dog
that moment when you realize that the boot screen of the failed computer reminds you something about yourself. (:
#photo #fail #ok
one of the most important phrases from the “philosopher and the wolf” is definition of humans as
humans are creatures that believe stories they tell about themselves.
yesterday i was trying to write an email, and i understood that i doubt most of the things i did write. i did know for sure that only three things are true from what i did write. so i have removed everything and left those three.
#wolf #book #quote
— you missed an amazing girl on a bicycle, she passed by just two minutes ago. — ah. did you manage to take her nu… jabber id? — okay. subtle slap in the face. thank you.
#talk #girl #bicycle #city
the divided brain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFs9WO2B8uI
#brain #science #research #humans #animals
planet of the lost children
#sci-fi #book #design #cover #spaceship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-5OUxRa38Q
#music
why doesn’t graphics on ios lag as much? apparently, it’s because when you put the finger on the screen, it stops every process, except of a couple of important system services. even if you run a browser, and you put finger on screen, it stops unless you raise the finger.
android, on the contrary, tries to divide resources between processes.
this is why we often notice lags on android, and this is why ios seems to work smoothly. we cannot say - faster. it’s not faster, because other processes don’t even work for some time. it’s responsive, and looks faster to the user.
well, at least, this is why it’s often happens, when android user cannot call, or answer the call, while the same situation is not very much common in case of ios.
#android ios #google #apple #programming #operating_systems #scheduler #priority
Cuauhtémoc was a cousin of Moctezuma. He invented very understandable for the population slogan against the alien invaders: “Struggle till the end”.
Sounds familiar to me. (:
#struggle #Cuauhtémoc #history #America
do you remember which language Paganel have learnt by accident? (: By accident - he intent to learn other language, but accidentally learned that language. (:
#paganel #language
when American Indians asked Cortés - why do they, white people, like gold that much, Cortés answered: “we have this specific illness of heart. it can be cured only with gold.” (:
#gold #Cortés
i love to read threads like this
#oberon #oberon-2 #programming #programming_languages #history #discussion #usenet
It looks like Russia forces us to buy two Su-30 military air-planes. Probably it will cost us ~60.000.000 of dollars. I don’t quite get why do we need these planes.
There is a publication on Russian military blog, that there was some event a couple of days ago, during which “we asked” them to sell us these air-planes.
You probably are not aware, that we always “ask them”. And then they generously agree.
A couple of years ago we suddenly decided to “ask” them to support us in joining their union, which obviously they needed more for some reason, and which brings more problems to us, including, but not limited to the rise of prices, and no tangible benefit. Except if it can count as the benefit that Russia does not lead, or kindle war right now here. Yet.
Back to the theme. Armenia long ago decided to not develop it’s military aviation. It’s too expensive and not reasonable. Buying two Su-30’s sounds like nonsense to me.
These are heavy air-planes, that are able to carry a lot of weight to the very long distances, like a couple of thousands kilometres. What are we going to do with them? Attack ISIS? No seriously.
They are also completely useless, by taking in to consideration that Azerbaidjan successfully manages to block Stepanakert airport with it’s S-300 sets. What is the use of Su-30 in these circumstances?
Even if we would need a fighter jet, MIGs would fit more - they are lighter, more manoeuvrable and suitable for use on short distances.
$60.000.000 could be used to protect our near border villages and towns from the constant fire they get. There are many ways this money could be used instead.
#armenia #russia #war
#photo #julius_meinl #cup #tea
carl zeiss jena flektogon 35mm multicoated. (:
art is our new religion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFnNgTSkHPM
#art
when i drive high in mountains i like to listen antenne bayern love this familiar tunes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBkFT6988Bs
#antenne_bayern #musik
(((:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE7eh5ZiWiI
#antenne_bayern #radio #hund #emma #hündin
this guy from Bogota have been written about his trip and short stay in Yerevan and Artsakh.
it was very funny to read his impressions.
#trip #impressions #blog #link #yerevan #artsakh
by armine shahbazian
#gif #glass #party #newyear #celebration #sparkling #bottle #champagne #new_year #moleskin #sketch
by armine shahbazian
#gif #air-plane #sketch
love it.
#seagram #architecture #ny #new_york #city
not very much successful try to make light painting: @Satenik as Satanik.
#photo #try #light_painting #satan #satanik #test
probably source is this
i am not quite understand what they point is. this does not mean, these people got fat. may be this means, that in 1999 linux users had different demographics. in 10 years many newcomers appeared, and may be 10 years later linux users better represent society than in 1999.
what’s interesting to me is not the second data, but the first. why in 1999 linux users were not obese? may be because those were mostly cool developers, and cool developers think also about their health?
#1999 #2008 #health #statistics #obesity
@{imandes ; imandes@spyurk.am} and the tea.
#thymus #mint #tea #talk #evening #portrait #people #photo
I won’t be afraid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yv9IT1Dh2s
#music #lennon #stand_by_me
We all have seen those tables, which explain which free software can be a replacement for proprietary software.
When I was installing GNU/Linux to my friends, I was trying not to tell them - “this is replacement of that”, but show them some features that they did not even know about, something that exists only in GNU/Linux world.
I think, it’s not a very good sign, when we have many free software projects that tend to implement the same product as proprietary project.
In that case, it means that innovation first happens in proprietary world, then we try to copy and implement it, to not fall far behind. And very often our implementations are not good enough.
We need more “authentic” free projects, and let the proprietary software try to copy/implement it. In that case they will fall behind.
I think it’s not a coincidence that innovative ideas happen in proprietary thinking brains. This is because they think “what new thing can we do in order to earn?”. And we are too busy implementing free analogues of that proprietary software, often not good as original.
May be that’s because we are not used to think innovative enough. We ourselves tend to think more in terms of “repeating”, instead of “innovating”.
Sorry if I hurt your feelings. - may be I need to put it under every post I write.
#free_software #free-software #softwarelibre #proprietary_software #linux #gnu #software #innovation
now that i looked at the pictures, something popped to my mind again. the big advantage of analog is the type of noise you get in the pictures. in digital, the random noise on pixels is just plain ugly in my opinion. but in contrast, the grain you have in analog pictures feels so much more natural and aesthetically pleasing to me. almost makes me want to charge some film into my analog pentax body :)
from comment by @{canvasius schultz ; canvasius@joindiaspora.com}
#photography #film_photography #analog #noise #grain #aethtetics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhfEoavWVTg
where profits come from
#profit #wealth #economy #david_levy #talk
by nika pkhakadze. shot on kodak cft film. (:
#film #photo #kodak-cft #kodak_cft #film_photography #girl
I use noscript thus I see Georgian letters instead of some graphics for some reason. (:
#gif #georgian_alphabet #letters #design #web
I know this is not exactly a good place to raise such questions, bun anyway.
Some people share photos on Instagram, that have been taken with phone. some people share pictures that have been taken with digital or film SLR cameras.
Now, how Instagram is defined? Is it a community of people who shoot with phones? Then, how ethical to post there photos made by other, more flexible and powerful devices?
And how much powerful? If I get a phone with a good camera, does it count? How bad should the quality of the image be in order to be okay to post it on Instagram?
Then, if I happen to have a bad scan of a film frame, or just a low quality shot, because I have messed up settings - is it bad enough to post there?
May be then it’s not a phone pictures sharing space, but instant photos sharing space? Then, is it ethical if I share a photo made by my Canon 6D which has WiFi and allows instantly transfer photo to phone?
Or is it just another photo sharing service, which is popular among those who makes photos with phones, and I don’t have to make bad quality shots in order to put there?
Or shell I necessarily apply Instagram filter? Or can I shoot the photo with another camera? This questions also relate to VSCO service. Should I only apply VSCO proprietary filters in order to publish photo on that photo service? And on the other hand, does it make any sense to publish there something which was not created with the help of their software? Then, they have special software for Windows and Mac. Does that count?
Eventually, what if I just want to be connected with local community, people I know in person, and show off my photos to them, because they have no idea what am I doing? Or it is offensive behaviour?
If we were talking about photography sharing space, I would not have this question. Good photo remains a good photo independently of how it was made. Same is true for bad photo. But this place is called Instagram. Does it assume one has to show off only how can he shoot with weak gear?
#instagram #photography #question #cameras #mobile #instant
today github suggests to read this https://guides.github.com/activities/hello-world/
#github #git #helloworld #manual #tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNttGAaek2U
#Revolverheld #musik #music
made with n900.
#n900 #maemo #photo #photography #lake
work hard, be happy http://tedx.amsterdam/2014/03/ted-happiness-work-hard-be-happy/
#tedx #happiness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C03n4AAiL9w
#musik #music #glasperlenspiel
this is how many of you, diasporians, harm me, and other people of so called “third countries”.
so, we here, in our third countries, also want to move forward towards, as Michio Kaku put this, type 1 civilization. not backwards.
there are a lot of people in power, who wants us to go back to medieval ages. one of their main instruments is religion, when they bind it to the government. does not matter if this is written on paper, it practically occurs.
now, obviously, we don’t want to go there. we want to move toward future, and we have a lot of problems to solve on the way, which you already solved. for example, we have to establish working democracy.
it’s not easy, and you do impede us, most of you, probably unconsciously. you don’t understand whom you serving to. some of you, may be, on purpose.
so, yes, your countries are also corrupted. and democracy in your countries certainly has flows. every system has. you are worried by that. that’s good.
however, when we say about our problems, about our corruption, about corruption in russia, which exports it to territories it tries to control you defend putin.
you say very important thing - “it’s a same way in the west”.
and by doing that, you don’t only devalue achievements of your society, this is exactly what our government tells us, when we try to fight for the better system. they say - “there is no democracy anywhere in the world. it’s not a democracy in the west, so you don’t have to struggle for that. just accept us and let us rob and rape you”.
now i must explain to you, as if you were kids. sorry for that. yes, you also have corruption. of course you have. yes you also have a lot of problems. i see them. i understand you. but that’s another level of problems. you don’t get it.
you see, Obama will leave. Obama won’t do anything to stay third time. You say it does not matter. No, it matters. You don’t get that it matters. It’s not the same as having forever ruler -tsar, khan, whatever you call it. there are so many other differences - in how police works, and how court system implemented, how civil society works, that you don’t see.
without going in to details, what matters is:
when we have corruption, it defines our countries. corruption is the face of our countries.
it happens in the west, but it does not define west. it’s not a face. it happens.
when we have government outrage, it’s a norm. when you have that, it’s not a norm. it’s a problem you raise and often manage to solve. we almost never able to do that.
so yes you have problems, but it’s completely another level of problems.
and when you say - it’s the same, you basically support our corrupted government. they even refer to you in order to control us better.
it’s not the same when the system has flows, and when the system is purulent throughout.
when A robs and rapes and steals every day, when it’s a norm, and when B have stolen a couple of times, there is a difference.
you say - see, B also steals, it’s the same. No, it’s not. By saying that you support A, and you hurt and harm us.
Please don’t be so stupid. Understand that.
#politics #freedom
let’s face it. diaspora is loosing in competition with corporate social networks. most of us don’t have our real-life friends here. i am cut from my society, from local political discussions, from cats who live with my friends, because i am not on facebook. that’s a loss. and that’s because diaspora, and other decentralized social networks loose.
we create our own interconnected world, but we lost connection with the other world, most people live in.
well, that’s not a big deal, may be. it’s just a diaspora. but this relates to other important technologies that loose. we failed to explain why it’s better to encrypt emails. why it’s better to use xmpp/tox. why it’s better to use free software. we failed.
and partly because we are doing “marketing” wrong.
who uses diaspora, and what kind of propaganda do we see here most of the times? leftist/anarchist points of view mostly. where is the other part of the society?
I believe, it’s perfectly right thing to have your own server.
If you think you should have a gun, then you also should want to have your own server and encrypt emails.
But we don’t market technologies with slogans like that. And this is partly why we loose. And when we loose, it’s not only about technologies, it’s about ideas. Our ideas fail. That’s why this is important.
P. S. sometimes we gain power. big part of software developers already want to not depend on corporations and prefer using free software for their projects. that’s why microsoft and apple had to open source their development tools. but these are developers. we need regular people to use free and decentralized technologies, and when facebook/google/twitter will change. facebook will adopt something like ostatus, or whatever it be, if he looses users in case he does not. google was using “don’t be evil” until it did not harm it’s commercial interests. so even company which did not want to be “evil” had to become in order to compete. Why? because of us. And because of our wrong marketing.
People don’t get us. They think we are a couple of religious fanatics. Because we behave like them. So they have a point.
#diaspora #free_software #xmpp #jabber #pgp #gpg #encryption #crypto #marketing #competition
Every image captured by a scanner tends to be softened during the scanning process. Because a scanner does not capture all of the available image data but rather samples an image and averages the values, it tends to slightly lower contrast along high-contrast edges and smooth out the image.
hmmm.
#silverfast #taz_tally #screenshot #book #scan #scanner #film_photography #film #photography
toki pona translation of the Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a very important resource for learning the language. alas, it’s available only in archive now.
#toki_pona #holy_grail #monty_python #language #archive #transation
probably had to use tripod for this.
#gif #girl #dance #photo #shadow
https://torflow.uncharted.software/
#tor #map #flow
Bridge over the Hakhum river, near Itsaqar, Berd, Armenia.
eos 6d, pentacon 50mm/f1.8 lenses.
#bridge #hakhum #river #itsaqar #berd #armenia #photos #6d #pentacon #country #road #photo
this windows console - cmd, if there are spaces in the path you type, puts the path in to the quotes. that’s smart.
however, when you press tab, it does not suggest, but autocompletes the line with the first possible option.
and after that, it moves the cursor to the end of the line, outside of quotes, and you have to come left yourself. which isn’t that smart. (:
#windows #console
Principle of least action applied to humans in the age of internet means, that if one can make an effort, and then get some amount of likes, then make smaller effort, and then make similar amount of likes, then he will make smaller efforts, because it’s more effective.
#people #internet #effort #principle
Edsger W. Dijkstra on Dutch TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCCigccBzIU
#dijkstra
i have noticed several times, and i don’t like this behaviour of diaspora, when I write 0. something, 1. something, … it turns 0 to one, and 1 to 2… why? may be i want to count from zero?
#diaspora #count
https://www.360cities.net/en/image/voelklinger-huette-gebleasehalle
#360 #panorama
— sorry, i feel a bit good. i have to leave now.
#talk #quote
decentralization matters to the regular user: it is very much exhausting to keep several identities and keep them synced. on this site for these people and on that site for those friends. like we aren’t on a one global network, but several not connected worlds.
we had to underestimate what may internet become, and invent rss/openid much earlier, this had to be the foundation of internet, just like smtp was. may be rss/openid is not enough.
even if one chooses photo hosting service, she could choose one, and follow friends on the other services, because all services would provide generic interfaces to exchange the data. and that would lead us to the real competition - where every service has equal opportunities, but must work hard on be a better service.
because otherwise the user will get it’s data and move to other service! and this is what i call a true competition.
now we already lost this. :/ may be something new, in addition or instead of rss/openid will make a change. some new technology, which will define interfaces for data exchange.
#internet #decentralization #web #openid #rss #identity #competition
#tbilisi #entrance #door #building #city #street #photo
I suggest to those of you, who speak know Epseranto, to open a separate stream on Diaspora (or other place) and write there exclusively in Esperanto. You can translate what you usually write in your native language or English and write it once more in Esperanto.
That will
— allow you to practice, use the language online. — create a small Esperanto “bubble”, which newcomers can join, read everyday posts in Esperanto, try to comment in that language. — make a small contribution to create Esperanto culture online.
it requires efforts, but it’s important for making it practically useful, adds one (or 0.001) more reason to learn the language.
#esperanto
we don’t see this kind of sites often now. it’s sad to me when these old sites disappear. it’s like an old part of the city.
#internet #history
If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being “asocial” or “irrational” in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them.
How many lives have been ruined by this need to “explain,” which usually implies that the explanation be “understood,” i.e. approved. Let your deeds be judged, and from your deeds, your real intentions, but know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself—to his reason and his conscience—and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation.
Erich Fromm, The art of being
#erich_fromm #psychology #quote #explanation #freedom
shot this one year ago. made with a camera phone (jolla), postprocessed on a desktop computer. (:
#photos #tbilisi #georgia #balcony #courtyard #city #cat #grapes
freedombox demo last year http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/sflc2015/04_freedombox.webm
i don’t know if it actually commercially available for the end user. currently only these features available, they say they work on adding other options too, including mail server, diaspora and/or gnusocial.
well, i wonder isn’t diaspora too heavy for that device? (never tried gnusocial). i’d like it to be available and i hope people will buy it and run their own servers easily.
#freedombox #freedom #internet #moglen #demo #decentralization #xmpp #owncloud #mumble #xmpp #ikiwiki #privoxy #tor #
here was a video i cannot now find, which explained how market economy works. according to it, if one gets a loan to buy a tv, it’s not very good for economy, because when he has to return money, he does not buy other things, and that’s about stagnation. on the other hand, if one gets a loan to buy a tractor, he makes business, produces goods with it, and it’s good for economy.
now i think: if i get a camera and make photos, i produce something, which not only i don’t intent to sell, nobody ever needs to buy. (: i do it for my own pleasure, so it’s like i got a tv, and watch it. or i have to make very high quality photographs, become a professional and enter the market. which is not my dream.
what else do i like? writing software, (not that i’ve written a lot of useful things) and i license it under free licenses usually. if i write free software, then it’s probably good for economy, if some business uses my free software. even if i don’t get paid. right?
so in order to be useful for economy i have to write free software which not only may, but will be used. am i right? in order to be good for economy efforts i have spent are not enough. they need to have resulted in “product” and it has to be used somewhere by many.
Imagine a country, which created it’s own global navigation system. Soon after that the government obliged certain class of drivers to buy and keep in a car a tachograph. this device needs to be acquired from the government, and the driver must pay her monthly salary for obtaining it. later, all those drivers get the new requirement: before making a trip, they have to visit a special website, and register the source and destination points of the trip. then the site will generate a route for the driver. the website does not work well. sometimes it’s impossible to register, and sometimes it does not generate optimal, or even feasible route. the driver has to buy another device, which tracks him, and if he makes even a small change in the route, then the huge penalty follows. also, this class of drivers needs to pay for the roads.
surveillance system is provided by a private company which got a permit and huge financial aid from the government to create a web site, and the device, as well as to build checkpoints on the roads to get the fees. this company belongs to the son of the president’s close friend. as well as many other private projects that get government money.
in spite of protests, decision is enforced, and president publicly says that his friend’s son is talented young entrepreneur. why not to give him those drivers?
do you think such an utopian country exists? yes, it’s called russian federation. apparently.
#russia #surveillance #tachograph #glonass #corruption #pressure #navigation #obligation #utopia
What they cannot do is lie. And that is why they have no place in a civilized society. A wolf cannot lie to us; neither can a dog. That is why we think we are better than them.
The Philosopher and the Wolf.
#wolf #dog #philosopher #lie #deception #intelligence #humanity #quote
reading fish shell manual following the @{ասոցիալական ցանց ; hanuman@spyurk.am} ’s advise (:
i like the manual very much: it’s written well, describes in a simple, understandable way, and shell seems to be interesting as well.
#fish #shell #screenshot #manual #documentation
All efforts to describe permanent happiness, on the other hand, have been failures, from earliest history onwards.
A book like Brave New World is an expression of the actual fear that modern man feels of the rationalised hedonistic society which it is within his power to create.
For one of the sources of the Fascist movement is the desire to avoid a too- rational and too- comfortable world.
The earlier parts of Gulliver’s Travels are probably the most devastating attack on human society that has ever been written. Every word of them is relevant today.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98010494
#orwell #art #utopia #literature
For two years, between 1941 and 1943, George Orwell - real name Eric Blair - was BBC staff member 9889, hired as a Talks Producer for the Eastern Service to write what was essentially propaganda for broadcast to India.
From recruitment to resignation, this collection of documents reveals the high regard in which Orwell was held by his colleagues and superiors and his own uncompromising integrity and honesty. Internal memos explore working relationships with literary contributors, while letters written from the Hebridean island of Jura colour the background to the creation of ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/orwell/
#bbc #orwell #archive
A striking example of this phenomenon has recently been provided by Ada. If Ada is going to provide a standard, that standard had better be unambiguously documented. At least two groups have had a go at it; both efforts resulted in formal texts of about 600 pages, i.e. many times longer than needed to ensure the impossibility of ever establishing firmly that the two documents define the same programming language. The fault of the patent unmanageability of these two documents lies neither with the two groups that composed them, nor with the formalisms they have adopted, but entirely with the language itself: only by not providing a formal definition themselves, could its designers hide that they were proposing an unmanageable monstrum. That Ada will decrease the pain of programming and increase the trustworthiness of our designs to within acceptable limits is one of those fictions for which a military education is needed in order to believe in it.
#ada #programming #dod #design #programming_languages #programming #dijkstra
there is time when letters (unpublished works) become public domain.
our grandchildren may have letters.google.com, google search for gmail, and/or other server letters, where they can read about affairs, emotions, thoughts, and secrets of their ancestors.
#public_domain
that’s what happens, when proprietary product fails to gather necessary market share, and is not viable by market terms.
if it were free, it would be alive.
moral: don’t support proprietary software on kickstarter.
#proprietary_software #software #pressgram #market #economy #internet #freedom
interest in pascal and haskell rises and fades together with study periods.
#screenshot #programming_languages #ada #pascal #haskell #study #programming
you look amazingly beautiful today. source
#mirror #raspberry_pi #rpi #technology #fun
I wonder what RMS stands for.
#photo #film #kodak #fujicolor #screenshot #print_grain_index #resolution #farbwelt #photography
some armenian from LA prepared this curves reverse engineering method:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-DPJ-UuguQ
#photoshop #gimp #curves #graphics #reverse_engineering
— i looove drinking alcohol. — why wouldn’t you? everybody loves it. it’s not weird or uncommon. — ? — your limbic system gets positive reinforcement. it’s not unexpected to love it.
#alcohol #talk
In Esperanto, to form a new word, it is generally preferred to compound two or more existing roots than to borrow a word from another language. This is recommended in order to keep the number of “primitive” roots low and thus to maintain its learnability.
I like this approach.
#esperanto
waiting impatiently.
#sherlock #armenian #poster
i think i keep my limbic system in tough conditions. i don’t get it to feel good via stimulators, and i really feel good rarely. mostly when i do work i want and accomplish it. or if i manage to solve something. it’s really rare. it’s not easy. at least for me.
process is also rewarding. not much.
thus my limbic system does not “feel good” most of the time.
on the other hand, i see the parallel with dystopian future where people don’t move or don’t think any more, because everything is done by robots. rewards should not be easy. you have to feel good because you’ve achieved something, not because you drunk a cup of coffee. not a big achievement.
however, i feel myself deflated and crippled. people love having fun. it looks like i am not. therefore i cannot join them and/or share it. this is not a problem usually. it’s only a problem when you like someone and realize you are so unnecessary, because you lack features which are good for a relationship.
#evolution #limbic_system #reward #coffee #people
— the most advanced model of interaction for different programs is COM. — and in linux world, it’s not used any more. — because gnome devs decided to write for those “who don’t understand anything”, and people become similar to those they are writing for.
#gnome #com #linux #corba #technology #design
gimp instagram effects http://registry.gimp.org/node/28613
#gimp #instagram #reverse_engineering #flter #graphics #image
sea level and batumi.
#batumi #global_warming #georgia #black_sea #city #map
— you have to know technology, — was saying one of my first university teachers, — that’s the only chance this country has, is that you learn technology. — he kept saying.
this is interesting. we interact with science through the abstraction of technology. that’s why knowing science is not enough. we see it through the prism of technology.
it’s complicated, it has it’s own ins and outs. often you cannot do anything without knowing technology.
#technology #science
And another building at the opposite side - I have managed to walk around it when I was able to escape my attendants - it didn’t even have an entrance. The interesting thing is that in the evening there were lights in the windows, but when I looked at them closely, I have discovered, that all of them were the same lamps. Probably, there is some system, which turns lights on simultaneously in the evening, to create an impression of a inhabited building, though it’s empty, and it has no entrance. Everything is fake there.
source (in russian)
#russian #korea #north_korea #building #fake #lie #freedom
Then, slowly, as the roots settle in the new soil and the tree bends patiently toward the new roots, the old roots slowly lift into the air. The whole process for the tree to relocate to a new place with better sunlight and more solid ground can take a couple of years.
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20151207-ecuadors-mysterious-walking-trees
however our (armenian) trees did not learn to migrate yet. very unadvisably, i would say.
#tree #move #migration #root #trees #forest
I’ve said this before and I’ll keep saying it: the difference between chemistry and alchemy was the sharing of knowledge. Alchemists hoarded their secret knowledge, chemists published. The only knowledge worth knowing is the knowledge worth sharing. This applies in every facet of life, from professional speaking to raising children. Giving a child a passion for learning will carry them through every other challenge in life.
#sharing #knowledge #alchemy #chemistry
Perhaps the best reason to not be an asshole, aside from general human decency, is that you might be wrong someday. Whatever you feel is right, and justifies being an asshole to the other guy, might turn out be wrong. There might be more information that you didn’t know. Or you might simply be on the wrong side of history.
My idillic childhood came to a crashing end at age 16. In summer camp that year I realized I was a geek and didn’t have any friends; and more importantly: for the first time I actually cared about this. This horrible realization kicked off fifteen years of low self esteem and poor dating choices.
I beat myself up for being too short (which I had no control over), too intelligent (which is a stupid thing to be upset about), and uninterested in “guy things” like football, cars, and beer. (Did I mention I grew up in the south?)
http://joshondesign.com/2015/08/17/turning40
#childhood #life
data bill of rights: http://joshondesign.com/2015/10/08/datarights
#data #rights #internet
iTunes is pretty much a galaxy unto itself these days and is in danger of collapsing into a black hole. Time to split it out.
this post has interesting ideas, for example it suggests have a human readable (let’s say json like) interface for different tools (instead of applications) to communicate with each other, and separate, let’s say, email client functionality by modules - service which receives emails, tool to view the list of emails, tool to view an exact email, and every module can be changed without affecting the other.
#itunes #applications #galaxy #black_hole #design #interface
When we meet Dagny Taggart, Rand’s heroic railroad baron, she’s traveling on a cross-country train which gets stuck at a stoplight that may or may not be broken. When the crew frets that they should wait until they’re sure it’s safe, Dagny pulls rank and orders them to drive through the red light. This, in Rand’s world, is the mark of a heroic and decisive capitalist, rather than the kind of person who in the real world would soon be the subject of headlines like “22 Dead in Train Collision Caused by Executive Who Didn’t Want to Be Late For Meeting.”
#rand #ayn_rand #atlas_shrugged #capitalist #hero #decisive
Hello land dog! I’m a sea dog, nice to meet you!
https://twitter.com/SciencePorn/status/630155120207118336
#dog
When I asked Salgado how this was done, he shrugged. He did not know: all he did know is that his technicians could produce the Tri-X look he liked. He never touches a computer and his post-production work is done by assistants at his studio in Paris.
#photography #salgado #computer #paris
sina moku e telo nasa la sina nasa.
#toki_pona #telo_nasa #nasa
https://www.flickr.com/photos/p_wayser/3444322379/in/photostream/
#paris #2009 #photo
on brain context switches
if you’re intrigued by depth, give real depth a try, by which I mean giving yourself at least two or three hours with zero distractions. http://calnewport.com/blog/2015/12/12/deep-habits-the-danger-of-pseudo-depth/
currently top answer to the Why don’t people like Jazz? question.
Perhaps because the layout is different from pop music.. the structure of the songs.. people are subconciously expecting a top40 formula in 4/4 and they’re getting something totally different. It can be quite difficult to stay on top of a jazz song.. the instruments start to sound as if they’re having their own fast dialog with each other.. and its in a language I dont quite understand, so how can I enjoy the dialog when I dont know what they’re saying?
Jazz seems similar in essence to much classical music with that respect.. the music is a lot more dynamic and ‘alive’ (if you will) than most of the top40 stuff playing on the radio..
that and the instruments.. personally, the timbre of a saxophone literally gives me a headache.. I think its the frequency space it takes up.. a squeeling trumpet can do the same.. (actually a squeeling anything can do it hehe)
#music #jazz #question #answer
executable shared libraries on linux: http://rachid.koucha.free.fr/tech_corner/executable_lib.html
#linux #executable #shared_library #library #programming
today I saw a directory with end of line in the name. when ls-d also the part of it were typed on the next line. (: I don’t know (only can guess) how this file appeared in this form.
Apparently Linux (and probably other Unix systems) allow usage of CR and/or LF in file names. if you manage to name a file like that.
#linux #unix #filesystem #file_system #name #filename #file_name #eol #end_of_line
confirmed: at Upiter photo express near Barekamutiun metro station they again develop medium format c41 film.
#film #yerevan
It generally takes me some time when talking to people to understand what they mean by terms like “mobile”, “web” and “cloud”. But when I find out, I can help them with it.
#mobile #web #cloud #programming
how C evolved http://pastebin.com/UAQaWuWG
so it wasn’t designed from scratch indeed. it had to pass evolutionary process. and that’s not always about best design.
#C #programming #programming_languages
amazing story on how he wrote a C compiler in 40 days: http://www.sigbus.info/how-i-wrote-a-self-hosting-c-compiler-in-40-days.html
#compiler #programming #programming_languages #language
peaceful, is it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua2loiGHZ38
calm, peaceful night. #bonobo #black_sands
apparently today software in order to be competitive, must be not only good, but also free and / or open.
software for software developers.
microsoft and apple probably got wind of that, and opening c# and swift compilers followed.
however, developers differ from the “regular user” and they let’s say developed and obtained more needs than they realized ten years ago.
will come a day, when this “regular user” will have a need to use free and/or open software, therefore software producers in order to be more competitive will have to free/open their software? i don’t know. i don’t know.
i don’t know.
#free-software #free_software #need #market #economy #competition #c_sharp #swift #microsoft #apple #freedom
there were one network administrator, and he was saying than he is frustrated that Armenia did not ban free wifi spots. when i’ve asked why, he answered that there is a lot of crime happening because of free wifi spots, and he gets a lot of requests, even got request from interpol.
well, i believe it’s a way of thinking of policeman, not system administrator.
policeman wants to simplify it’s work, and putting everyone to cell they can decrease the probability of crime. by banning open windows they can decrease probability that some thief can use them. but it’s not a way of thinking of administrator. well, i believe it should not be.
when i came to work where i work now, i’ve learned a sentence from my colleagues: “we are not police, we are administrators.” i like it a lot.
#police #surveillance #network #safety #security #wifi #freedom
here was a ted talk, i believe, and one guy from Sweden was saying - if somebody is watching me, i would prefer it to be local NSA, rather than US NSA.
Well, I envy him. He trusts local NSA so much. He believes that it’s not engaged in crime, corruption, unlawful activities. At least, it’s likely engaged less than the NSA of my country. Thus he feels himself more confident than me.
I am afraid of my local NSA more than of wolves, vampires, ghosts. It’s not they who might nock my door at 5am, when I am completely innocent. And definitely not US NSA. It’s my native, lovely, NSA. Which supposedly defends interests of the nation, but I am not quite sure it does not actually defend interests of other parties like their own, government, criminals instead. Sigh.
#safety #naive #sweden #nsa #privacy #surveillance #corruption #crime #confidence #security #freedom
I was scanning negatives for a friend today. And I was feeling that I am doing very important work. Almost as important as developing the film. Film can be developed only once. And these negatives most likely will never be scanned. Therefore I was very careful, if there’s a speck of dust, fiber, I was cleaning the negative and repeating the scan. I was scannig with the best quality possible. And I was tuning settings for every frame - if there’s a burned spot, I was lowering “low curve” in order to get a better scan.
#photo #negatives #scan
the moment you realize that you are data
by @{Armin Sommer ; arminsommer@despora.de}
#moment #realization #quote #data #product #freedom
Cheap means buying something obviously crappy, and only stupid people do that since they usually cost themselves more in the long run. For instance, a cheap person hires the wrong person to do a job, and winds up paying more to have a competent person have to fix the damage done by the first workman. Cheap means giving your girlfriend flowers picked out of a funeral home dumpster, and leaving the wrong sympathy card attached to them, That’s going to cost you a lot more than you just saved!
Frugality is entirely different. Being frugal means using your money well and not wasting. Being frugal often involves spending large sums on the right things, like hiring competent professionals to do a job, or buying a more durable, quality product that lasts far longer than a regular one.
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/how-to-afford-anything.htm
#frugality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1dQEjXKimw
#yann_tiersen
Using Inferno to Execute Java TM on Small Devices
http://doc.cat-v.org/inferno/java_on_dis/
#inferno #java #dis
Hello. When I login to github, it says:
One of our mostly harmless robots seems to think you are not a human. Because of that, it’s hidden your profile from the public. If you really are human, please contact support to have your profile reinstated. We promise we won’t require DNA proof of your humanity.
I guess that might be because my I am often visible to github through the one of Tor exit nodes. I believe it is perfectly normal to not will to share my http request destinations with my Internet Service provider and friends, isn’t it? Or does github require to not use such tools? I did not notice that.
Thank you for your excellent service, amazing site and understanding. In particular understanding that I am a human indeed. (I believe so. I understand that I might be under the delusion, that’s possible.) Peace!
#support #github #text
Social media have provided instrumental means of communication in many recent political protests. The efficiency of online networks in disseminating timely information has been praised by many commentators; at the same time, users are often derided as “slacktivists” because of the shallow commitment involved in clicking a forwarding button. Here we consider the role of these peripheral online participants, the immense majority of users who surround the small epicenter of protests, representing layers of diminishing online activity around the committed minority. We analyze three datasets tracking protest communication in different languages and political contexts through the social media platform Twitter and employ a network decomposition technique to examine their hierarchical structure. We provide consistent evidence that peripheral participants are critical in increasing the reach of protest messages and generating online content at levels that are comparable to core participants. Although committed minorities may constitute the heart of protest movements, our results suggest that their success in maximizing the number of online citizens exposed to protest messages depends, at least in part, on activating the critical periphery. Peripheral users are less active on a per capita basis, but their power lies in their numbers: their aggregate contribution to the spread of protest messages is comparable in magnitude to that of core participants. An analysis of two other datasets unrelated to mass protests strengthens our interpretation that core-periphery dynamics are characteristically important in the context of collective action events. Theoretical models of diffusion in social networks would benefit from increased attention to the role of peripheral nodes in the propagation of information and behavior.
The Critical Periphery in the Growth of Social Protests
via @{Արգելիոն Argelion ; aragev@spyurk.am}
#paper #protest #twitter #social_media #internet #research
The Užupis Constitution
Everyone has the right to live by the River Vilnelė, and the River Vilnelė has the right to flow by everyone. Everyone has the right to hot water, heating in winter and a tiled roof. Everyone has the right to die, but this is not an obligation. Everyone has the right to make mistakes. Everyone has the right to be unique. Everyone has the right to love. Everyone has the right not to be loved, but not necessarily. Everyone has the right to be undistinguished and unknown. Everyone has the right to idle. Everyone has the right to love and take care of the cat. Everyone has the right to look after the dog until one of them dies. A dog has the right to be a dog. A cat is not obliged to love its owner, but must help in time of nee[d]. Sometimes everyone has the right to be unaware of their duties. Everyone has the right to be in doubt, but this is not an obligation. Everyone has the right to be happy. Everyone has the right to be unhappy. Everyone has the right to be silent. Everyone has the right to have faith. No one has the right to violence. Everyone has the right to appreciate their unimportance. [In Lithuanian this reads Everyone has the right to realize his negligibility and magnificence.] No one has the right to have a design on eternity. Everyone has the right to understand. Everyone has the right to understand nothing. Everyone has the right to be of any nationality. Everyone has the right to celebrate or not celebrate their birthday. Everyone shall remember their name. Everyone may share what they possess. No one can share what they do not possess. Everyone has the right to have brothers, sisters and parents. Everyone may be independent. Everyone is responsible for their freedom. Everyone has the right to cry. Everyone has the right to be misunderstood. No one has the right to make another person guilty. Everyone has the right to be individual. Everyone has the right to have no rights. Everyone has the right to not to be afraid. Do not defeat. Do not fight back. Do not surrender.
#Užupis #Constitution #land #freedom #Vilnius #Lithuania #art
#solar_energy #screenshot #energy #solar #green_energy #green
https://500px.com/photo/104608215/the-mechanoid-by-joe-plasmatico
#munchen #photography
there is a call, and callback, there is a tease and teaseback.
#callback #programming #relationships
apparently there was a digital rangfinder, which looks like bessa voigtlander, and probably is modified version of it. it had aps-c sensor with 6.1 mpx resolution. it was produced since 2004 till 2007. amazing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epson_R-D1
#epson #voigtlander #bessa #rangefinder #camera
wer der gute hund?
#hund #gute_hund
#bus #yerevan #photo
Some people think that training dogs - and, even more so, wolves - is cruel, as if you are going to break their spirit or make them permanently cowed. But far from breaking his spirit, when a dog or wolf knows exactly what is and what is not expected of him his confidence, and as a result his composure, grow immensely. It is a hard truth that, as Friedrich Nietzsche once put it, those who can’t discipline themselves will quickly find somebody else doing it for them. And, for Brenin, it was my responsibility to be that somebody. But the relation between discipline and freedom is a deep and important one: far from being opposed to freedom, discipline is what makes the most worthwhile forms of freedom possible. Without discipline there is no real freedom; there is only license.
#book #quote #people #dogs #wolf #wolves #discipline #training #nietzsche #freedom #license #responsibility
— i am somehow sad, because they did not take my money (bribe) - they respected my age. it’s sad that apparently i am that old, and I would prefer they would take money from me. :/
#bribe #money #respect #quote #talk #age #armenia
good to work under it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8AeFgpIu4w
canon eos film camera, when you put a roll of film inside, rewinds it from the roll first, and then, moves it in the opposite (to the common) direction, which means, that part of the film you have already shot goes inside the roll. thus if you accidentally open the camera, only unexposed part of the film will see the light. your shots are safe inside the roll.
#design #idea #canon #eos #canon_eos #film #film_photography #photography
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what’s really going on to be scared.
– P. J. Plauger, Computer Language, March 1983
#expert #plauger #computer_language #quote #programming #computer
there is a difference in being smart and being smartass.
today i was approached by girls in a brightly colored mini cooper.
what did you achieve in your life?
#achievemnt
https://www.fsf.org/givingguide/v6/
I don’t know if it’s worth to buy a refubrished s2. gta04 phone on the other side is too unappealing for masses. jolla could manage to appear on the list, but even if/when they open sailfish, there are problems with drivers or firmware. sigh.
#fsf #gift #free_software #freedom #givefreely
i am reading a paper about making a kernel which supports cooperative multitasking, to replace the current A2 kernel which supports more wide spread blocking synchronization. i wonder if they’ve managed to change the kernel and if current A2 has this lock free kernel or not. i remember i have read something about problems they had with drivers - they need to be rewritten to not use interrupts any more.
#multitasking #cooperative_multitasking #theses #paper #a2 #oberon #operating_systems #blocking_synchronization #preemptive_multitasking #parallelism #programming
i was reading fpc-3.0 release related discussions, and apparently there is a change in perception. not many reactions like “who ever needs it?”, “bury it”, “is it still alive?” any more. apparently more than 15 years was required to realize that it’s a normal project, not worse than many others, not some outdated technology, but keeps developing, there is a community, they do interesting things, have nice solutions, and project doesn’t look like it’s going to die. it’s alive and running. (:
#community #society #free_software #fpc #pascal #lazarus #comment #project #perception
I was discussing something with a friend recently: She said that we leave too many trails and footsteps on the internet, here and there, and we don’t think enough what it will look like to next generations, to our children. Her point was that when generation Z’s kids will become teenagers or adults and will discover our footsteps, then society will rethink many things about it’s behaviour on the net. And that next generations won’t share, at least publicly many things generations before them did. They won’t reveal intimate, personal stuff or won’t do it to such extent.
Well, I think there’s another option: next generations, and we all, will become more sincere, more tolerant, and less reticent. Of course being sincere and showing your underwear are different things. This is culture we may have to learn. However I believe we’ll accept people as they are more than today. We’ll accept that yes, people have many weaknesses, foibles and shortcomings. People behave stupid, say stupid things. People feel bad. People get frustrated. People are jealous and jaundice. People lie. People fake themselves. People are self destructive. They know it’s better to not behave somehow but they behave like that. People are not always fair, say true things, or bring up rational arguments. This is it. We are like that.
And I believe we have an option to learn to accept ourselves as we are, and to be more tolerant to ourselves. To be relaxed and more sincere in public, because people around won’t form bad opinion, make fun of us, and label us. Because we all are weak, have shortcomings, and are not ideal. That’s our chance to be closer to ourselves. This also means - to show off less by faking ourselves, and show off more by who we really are.
#people #internet #society #sincerity
to know better about gsm chip and what can be done to decrease it’s control over the phone:
https://youtu.be/BswN-ZLxwqs?t=23m57s
#gta04 #openmoko #gsm #freedom #linux #neo900
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. David T. Wolf
upload yourself to the cloud.
#upload #cloud
elephants live longer in zoos because they go to dentists. or dentists go to them, to be precise.
#elephant #life #zoo #dentist
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Drug_danger_and_dependence.png
via @{Sean Keene Ⓐ ; psychonot@pod.orkz.net} #drug #danger #dependence #heroin #nicotine #morphine #pentobarbital #cocaine #ephedra #rohypnol #alcohol #marijuana #caffeine #mdma #nitrous_oxide #ketamine #mescaline #lsd #psilocybin
#book #hooked #hook #screenshot #nir_eyal #cover
i’ve discovered SPF records. tested it - it’s not necessary to have records of all domains of your host in the reverse zone. just adding an spf records is enough that most mail servers won’t think you sent spam. that is amazing! (:
#spf #dns #net #email #mail
i’ve drank coffee made by machine. i feel pretty happy now. i never tried it before. i’ve tried some other coffee a couple of times in my life, but did not feel as good as now.
also, i feel that i have anchored good emotions to the person i’ve drank with.
now, i wonder if every time i will drink that, i’ll feel the same? or is it like cocaine, when after some time it’s not enough and one has to switch to heroine?
#coffee #question
THIS CHANNEL DOESN’T EXIST. YOU DIDN’T SEE IT.
#illuminati #irc #freenode #screenshot #pidgin #chat
Light travels faster than sound, which is why some people appear bright, until you hear them speak.
#light #sound #speed #people #screenshot #chat #deadnet #pidgin #irc
Found this project: https://en.vikidia.org/ - such an amazing idea to create an on-line free encyclopaedia for kids.
By the way Armenian encyclopaedia were opened under creative commons, thus many articles from there were used for Armenian wikipedia, and encyclopaedia for kids is also available on-line. Fon example, this is an article about Hemingway.
#encyclopaedia #Hemingway
#fernweh (:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_K%C3%BChn
#Heinrich_Kühn #Selbstportrait #Self-portrait #photography
Mervyn OʼGorman, engineer, took photos of his daughter Christina in 1913.
#Mervyn_OGorman #autochrome #Lulworth_Cove #Dorset #England #1913 #photography #art
didn’t want to share it in the morning but now decided to share it with you:
my activity this day started very early, ~ at 4am. I was asked to welcome friend of my friend at the airport. we went to zvartnots (name of the airport), met her, then i took everyone home and then something happened when I was on my way home.
i saw a man with two dogs on that street when I was going up. i made a sigh. it’s touchy to see that even homeless people make friends with dogs and share food and company with them. they have nothing yet they sort of “keep” dogs. when I was going back by that road, it was dark of course, and i have noticed a dog, who was crossing a road very fast. i realized that i will runover the dog, it didn’t notice me. i pressed breaks but that wasn’t enough. in a moment i would hit the dog, but i have turned the wheel very fast. i hit the border of the lawn, car bended to the one side, then another.
i’ve heard barking. got out of the car immediately. the dog was running and barking. i have managed to not hit it. the other dog was barking too. the homeless man crossed a street and was trying to disappear. i’ve asked him if i hit the dog or it’s okay. he didn’t answer, he wanted to disappear. i have shouted a couple of times my question and he answered that the dog is perfectly okay.
then i’ve returned to the car. one of the tires exploded. i moved the car to the more convenient place, changed the wheel. i didn’t know how to do that, but searched in the internet and found a good article. (: it took me ~ an hour to do that. then i went home to sleep and go to work.
after the work i had to meet my old friend. Last week we’ve chatted and agreed to meet this Monday after the work. She is special and she’ll always be special. We’ve got acquainted when she was a student, she came to Yerevan from the other city. There was a time that she didn’t have where to live, and I was renting pretty big flat and suggested to live in one of the rooms.
I had an old, 13 years old dog named Otto. We were taking Otto to walks together. Sometimes he wasn’t feeling well. I remember how we were searching for an open apotheke in the middle of the night through the streets of our city to get medicine for the dog.
When I was coming late, she was helping me by walking with the dog. I wouldn’t trust my dog to any person. I trusted her. And the dog liked her. (: My other friends would run away by seeing a sick dog. Run away from problems, me, dog, my house.
I was enjoying coming home, getting some food for both of us, I did know we would have a short conversation, would drink a cup of tea before I would go to my room to sleep.
Now she teaches herself and she enjoys that. We see each other rarely, and have pretty much different lives and aspirations.
I’ve taken her to Mirzoian library, and we had hot chocolate.
After the meeting I had to meet someone to see what happened to her Ubuntu, but the meeting was cancelled apparently.
I think I would like to learn, and may be I’ve learned a bit to understand when I am happy and value it. Not to understand it when it’s already became the memory.
(:
I just understood that Ballast der Republik is an allusion to Palast der Republik
#palast #ballast #palast_der_republik #die_toten_hosen #Einstürzende_Neubauten #musik #music #berlin #photo #foto #allusion
people are different. they have different opinions. that is good. silencing or pressuring people who think different in diaspora, just because here are more leftists, only makes this place boring.
#community #freedom
#xorg #screenshot #zaphod
Too often people with some talent go where there is some money to be made. They begin to trade a bit of their talent for a bit of money, then a little more, and finally they have nothing left to themselves. In Czechoslovakia we didn’t have many freedoms, and particularly not the freedom to make money. But that led us to choose professions that we really loved. I always photographed with the idea that no one would be interested in my photos, that no one would pay me, that if I did something I only did it for myself.
#koudelka #quote #Czechoslovakia #freedom
#koudelka #bohemia #1966 #couple #portrait #street #photography #photo
it turned out, firefox detects jumping alerts and suggests to disable them.
#internet #koudelka #firefox #screenshot #alert #browser
Michal Chelbin.
#michal_chelbin #girl #photo
Robert Frank, city hall.
#photography #photo #robert_frank #citi_hall #photos #couple
To my son Nicola, who I hope will love and respect his native land more than the generations before him did.
#book #quote
#domain #kids #screenshot #internet
someone with french accent:
— merci, merci. thank you for being here. i will never forget.
yerevan, france square.
#yerevan #paris #france_square
— the people in my life didn’t feel that I was invested in them. now, that wasn’t true. but it does not matter. it’s not enough to care about somebody. it’s not enough to understand them. they have to feel understood. they have to feel cared about.
#quote #people
compiled and installed Cynthiune media player to see what is it and upon running it shows me Armenian translation. I wonder who would do that with such a marginal player which is written with GNUStep libraries.
#cynthiune #media_player #player #application #gnustep #armenian #screenshot #windowmaker #media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erph1L_XwVQ
#lessig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIlJ3YR6TYs
#rms #free-software #free_software #lawrence_lessig #lessig #freedom
I don’t want to duck your question entirely. I might as well flame a bit about my personal unhappiness with the current trend toward multicore architecture. To me, it looks more or less like the hardware designers have run out of ideas, and that they’re trying to pass the blame for the future demise of Moore’s Law to the software writers by giving us machines that work faster only on a few key benchmarks! I won’t be surprised at all if the whole multithreading idea turns out to be a flop, worse than the “Itanium” approach that was supposed to be so terrific—until it turned out that the wished-for compilers were basically impossible to write.
Let me put it this way: During the past 50 years, I’ve written well over a thousand programs, many of which have substantial size. I can’t think of even five of those programs that would have been enhanced noticeably by parallelism or multithreading. Surely, for example, multiple processors are no help to TeX.
#tex #donald_knuth #interview #2008 #multithreading #itanium #multicore #compilers #parallelism
The success of open source code is perhaps the only thing in the computer field that hasn’t surprised me during the past several decades. But it still hasn’t reached its full potential; I believe that open-source programs will begin to be completely dominant as the economy moves more and more from products towards services, and as more and more volunteers arise to improve the code.
For example, open-source code can produce thousands of binaries, tuned perfectly to the configurations of individual users, whereas commercial software usually will exist in only a few versions. A generic binary executable file must include things like inefficient “sync” instructions that are totally inappropriate for many installations; such wastage goes away when the source code is highly configurable. This should be a huge win for open source.
Yet I think that a few programs, such as Adobe Photoshop, will always be superior to competitors like the Gimp—for some reason, I really don’t know why! I’m quite willing to pay good money for really good software, if I believe that it has been produced by the best programmers.
Remember, though, that my opinion on economic questions is highly suspect, since I’m just an educator and scientist. I understand almost nothing about the marketplace.
Interview with Donald Knuth.
#donald_knuth #photoshop #gimp #open_source #2008 #economy #interview
remembered old Soviet joke:
Young French girl comes to Soviet Union, walks in Moscow, and falls in to the open hatch, gets injuries. When she comes back to her senses at the hospital, says:
— why wasn’t it marked with a red flag? you could at least mark it!
And hears the answer:
— when you were crossing the border, did you see the big red flag?
#ussr #soviet #joke #flag #cccp
quote:
— can you explain what is object oriented programming compared to old fashioned procedural programming?
— sure. first of all you can develop an application without knowing how to write code. secondly you can develop in the graphical user interface environment. thirdly you can easily change or debug that code.
it turned out that object-oriented programming means that you can develop an application without knowing how to write code. according to this human, you cannot write an object oriented code without working in gui environment. and you cannot easily change or debug your code, if it’s not object oriented. never stop learning.
#programming #jan_lewis #object-oriented_programming #oop #procedural_programming #simple_explanation #explanation
There is a discussion now in the Duma about the possibility of introducing of exit visas for citizens of Russia. Radio station “Speaks Moscow” quoted the statement Vadim Solovyov - the deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Construction.
“Now we get a lot of proposals to introduce the exit visas. Official Foreign Ministry officials and security officers will explain the citizen which kind of dangers he might have if he leave a country. And when he got the official information, signs that, says yes, I know, I know the case, I was warned, and, nevertheless, I insist, then he should be given the opportunity to go, “- he said.
source in Russian
#russia #freedom #moscow #vadim_solovyov #russian #duma #speaks_moscow #radio #law
#aspect_ratio #ratio #best #screenshot #photography
My friend Henry [Wolf] once said that I had a talent for being indifferent to opportunities. He felt that I could have built more of a career, but instead I went home and drank coffee and looked out the window.
#photography #saul_leiter #quote
I have a deep-seated distrust and even contempt for people who are driven by ambition to conquer the world … those who cannot control themselves and produce vast amounts of crap that no one cares about. I find it unattractive. I like the Zen artists: they’d do some work, and then they’d stop for a while.
#photography #saul_leiter #quote
I’m sometimes mystified by people who keep diaries. I never thought of my existence as being that important.
#photography #saul_leiter #quote
I realize that the search for beauty is not highly popular these days. Agony, misery and wretchedness, now these are worth perusing.
#photography #saul_leiter #quote #beauty
when a few people steal software, everyone looses.
slogan by software publishers association. 1990.
#software #piracy #software_publishers_association #1990 #slogan #quote
I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way. Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything.
#saul_leiter #life #privilege #art #quote #photographer #photography
Dancer adjusting her shoulder strap,
Edgar Degas, 1895
#dancer #edgar_degas #degas #1895 #photo #photography
Paris, 1959. photo by Saul Leiter.
#paris #1959 #photo #saul_leiter #photography #city #street #girl
he agrees with Bertran Russel (peace and blessings be upon him).
#screenshot #agree #bertran_russel #russel #religion #view
@{Antranig Vartanian ; antranigv@spyurk.am} have reminded me about Psi jabber client.
what I like: — it tells you if someone removes you from their roster (contact list). Even if someone removed you from Diaspora aspects and you use Diaspora jabber. (: — if you get a message, it does not appear at your screen in a new window. You just see notification, you have to click on it to get the message. — you can send a message to an exact client of your contact - to the phone or to the desktop. — i love sounds.
what’s missing: — not sure if it’s good or bad that it lacks user avatars. — otr plugin, and probably extensibility.
#psi #jabber #xmpp #diaspora #client #chat #talk
#simplicity_patterns #simplicity #1971 #vintage
Don’t use “click here” as link text
#hypertext #advice
I like this quote:
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving…
#einstein #quote #life
tale about context freeness.
it sounds the same, or almost the same, while the written chinese text features different hieroglyphs because of different meanings. I believe, the writing system has to be as context free as possible, but not more context free. (:
by the way in the second screenshot it’s already not joky comparison which shows traditional and simplified difference.
#context #context-free #context_free #chinese #lion #poet #shi #language #writing
#dandelion #diaspora #book #history #flower #tudor #ashmole #ashmole_manuscript #picture
photo by Tigran Ghahramanian.
probably not outstanding fuji film, what was possible to find here, canon eos 3000, canon 50mm F1.8.
He has great experience in digitizing film with digital cameras and in post-processing as well. (: Thus amazing results like this. I urge him to write about his tries, mistakes, successes, tests, so far vainly. (:
#photo #photography #fuji #film #film-photography #film_photography #digitization #50mm #landscape #trees
not marked on osm.
#gmaps #map #tbilisi #apple #store #screenshot #fake #image
#photo #armenia #landscape #mountains
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/contacting-the-author.html
#nosh #bsd #freebsd #screenshot #contact #fido #mail #email #author #pollard #jonathan_de_boyne_pollard #fidonet #internet #net #technologies #people #im2000 #smtp #rights #moral
#photo #sevan #lake #armenia #landscape
my comment to this post. I’ve also made a photo of her.
yep, Kochar. We (Yerevanians) was unable to see it for decades because it was located in the Mergelian institute courtyard, which was working on soviet defence projects thus restricted access. Her name is muse of cybernetics.
BTW, leftists. Kochar became famous and accepted in Paris, then decided to get back to Armenia, which was under Soviet rule at that time. So he even wrote an email to Stalin, and he made a Stalin bust with mechanical wheels in his head. Of course, sculpture was destroyed as soon as it reached Soviet Union, and Kochar was put to jail. After two years, his friends who were having strong positions in party were able to get him out of jail, however he already partly lost his hearing.
He was married, he left the wife in Paris, so that she could come later, when he would settle down. However, his wife never got a permit to enter USSR, and he never got a permit to leave USSR.
10 years later he married the other woman. He never did such courageous works, as he did back in Paris.
He found out the secret of wax paint, something similar was used by old Egyptians, this type of paint preserves much longer than oil paint. He got a patent from USSR, but with the remark, than he has no right to show this patent to anyone.
His museum in Yerevan is one of my favourite museums in the city.
#yerevan #muse_of_cybernetics #kochar #art #sculpture
By analysing signalling messages exchanged during a WhatsApp call using an Android device, the researchers were able to closely examine the authentication process of WhatsApp clients; discover what codec WhatsApp is using for voice media streams (Opus at 8 or 16 kHz sampling rates); understand how relay servers are announced and the relay election mechanism; and understand how clients announce their endpoint addresses for media streams.
A paper about the study, entitled WhatsApp Network Forensics: Decrypting and Understanding WhatsApp Call Signaling Messages, was published in the scholarly journal Digital Investigation. The article was co-authored by F. Karpisek of Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic, and Ibrahim Baggili and Frank Breitinger, co-directors of the Cyber Forensics Research & Education Group at the University of New Haven.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/27/whatsapp_forensic_analysis/
via John van Gils.
#whatsapp #android #research #opus #reverse_engineering #forensic
he was signed off from the hospital today (heart disease), and now he has to buy drugs for ~$100 per month. ironically, that’s exactly the amount he was spending to cigarettes and coffee.
#coffee #cigarettes #drugs #medicine #irony
i was searching how to rotate text upside down in mediawiki.
#rotate #duckduckgo #text #mediawiki
In the “Janapar” film, cycler Tom, who left the girl he’s in love with in order to hit the road and cycle the world, some kilometres later says that he made a decision, he gives up the tour, and returns to Yerevan.
I wonder can we call it a decision? When people feel pain, not only physical, they tend to make something to avoid feeling pain. If someone wants to get back with the person he loves, or to rephrase, wants to get rid of pain caused by him not being in the contact with her, is it a decision? Or is it a logical, expected consequence of feeling the pain?
#pain #decision #janapar #escape
my colleague brought this today. chinese socks label with russian “localization” and armenian translation sticker on it. it says
we speculate, that may be one of them is %100 cotton, and the other one… whatever.
#tights #sofia #7393943 #socks #amazing
obtained today: images from the life of turkey armenians.
it’s a collection of short stories. printed in tabriz. today it’s in iran.
#tabriz #1904 #atspet #book #armenian
yesterday at sevan lake.
#sevan #lake #mountains #armenia #panorama #shore #photo #landscape #photography
when Instagram was bought by Facebook back in 2012, I wrote a piece for the BBC News website decrying how the filter-laden sharing app had made everyone’s pictures look the same
from here
#instagram #photography
Yak and the Sea Shell, Donald Bisset, 1971
#yak #seashell #sea_shell #donald_bisset #1971 #tale #story
by Frank Bruynbroek
#dog #portrait #frank_bruynbroek #photo #photography #black_and_white
— why do you think he is nostalgic about Stalin times?
— why?
— because he lacks imagination!
— imagination?
— yes. he is able to imagine himself standing on mavzolei in a hat, but he is unable to imagine himself in gulag. however i can imagine him at both places. (:
#stalin #stalinism #gulag #talk #imagination
i believe i have shared this, but still
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGLKnAvzlg4
How ‘bout dinner tonight?
#joe #volcano #job #quit #dinner #tom_hanks #meg_ryan #epic
installing a new release of proprietary software became something comparable to ritual for me. it was a whole complicated ceremonial where the mistake could be fatal, and you had to choose carefully, and press these important “next” buttons.
there were no automatic updates for paid software, obviously, and when we’ve got them, like in case of chrome, we realized they’d better not be.
#proprietary_software #software #chrome #google-chrome #freedom
#photo #moon #rock #noravank #armenia
#photos #tatev #dzit-han #oil-mill #monastery #armenia #kids
more about oil mill at this page.
#photo #sevan #landscape #geghhovit #martuni #armenia
#sevan #armenia #horse #horses #landscape #aerials
I think, you cannot love a country and live in other country. Because then this country does not exist for you. It exists only on TV news sometimes, but not in your reality. You cannot love someone and never contact her(him). Because love is a process which requires more than one persons to exist.
#love
I have this strong desire to feel local. That is probably why I enjoy taking foreign friends to trips in Armenia. Because I know many things to show, often not obvious, and thus I can feel local. That is when I enjoy tourists who make photos in places regular for me.
However I feel sad when locals approach me as if I were a foreigner and start by saying “Hello” or “Privet”. This is because I don’t correspond to the pattern of a typical Armenian which exists in the mind of a typical Armenian. I am sure I am not alone. Many don’t. That does not make me feel better.
It would be pleasure if it were like in Tbilisi, where people approach me and start talking Georgian. Because why shouldn’t I be Georgian? What’s there that should make them think I am not local? I have this big curved nose, definitely not European or Slavic, but rather something mountainous.
And those taxi drivers, who always ask me where did I come from. And when I explain that I am local, I was born in Yerevan, then they say - you’re lying, it is obvious from the way you speak. Indeed, I cannot make contacts as good as “locals” do.
This is so much frustrating, to not be considered local, though you explicitly decided to not emigrate and remain local.
No matter how determined you are, it’s hard not to be influenced by the people around you. It’s not so much that you do whatever a city expects of you, but that you get discouraged when no one around you cares about the same things you do.
#paul_graham #city #cities
i notice there is certain time i need to post something in order to get it noticed and there are hours when if i post something it won’t get noticed.
this is i believe about bad design of the idea of stream. i believe google reader approach was better. whatever.
what i want to say is that i have shared a video yesterday night which i would like more people to watch. (:
Let’s call things by their names — and stop saying “Users” when we mean “Citizens”!
First of all, it frames the discussion in a very convenient way for the other side. When we’re talking about users, we’re talking about people with contracts signed with companies, or about people consuming cultural works one way or the other. In other words, from square one we seemingly agree to play on the “business turf”, and on their terms.
Then there’s the problem that things that look beneficial for users can be unacceptable for citizens. For example lowering the fee by an ISP if the user agrees to use only certain web services (vide the whole Net Neutrality debacle). This might look like a good deal for a user, but a citizen should be able to see that it’s dangerous for free speech, among others.
And finally — and most importantly — rights and freedoms that we defend are citizen’s, not user’s. We should not be ashamed to call upon them if we’re supposed to defend them! And seemingly all other sides to this dispute (and many beside it) have to be reminded, over and over again, that people are citizens first and foremost; they can be users afterwards.
by @{Michał “rysiek” Woźniak ; rysiek@joindiaspora.com}
#freedom_of_speech #net_neutrality #user #citizen #right #freedom #internet
say No to the constitutional reform ad. “Voch” means no in Armenian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QuK894GaUo
made me smile.
#armenia
In German there is a word Heimweh (from Heim, which stands for home. It means nostalgy for the home, longing for the home, country, homesickness), and
a word Fernweh, it’s antonym, which means longing for far-off places, desire to travel.
#german #language #deutsch #sprache #heimweh #fernweh
ß letter evolution
#evolution #orthography #german #ß #technology #aesthetics #languages #deutsch #sprache #technologie #entwicklung
there is a clear difference between ways of photographing black and white films in ussr and usa. i guess in usa they’ve used red filters, where whites become more white, and blacks - more black.
#movie #film #cinema #black_and_white #red_filter #filter #screenshot #film_noir #noir #style
#retro #computer #computers #room #panorama #photo #vectrex #next #apple #lisa #mac #emate300 #ti_cc40 #amiga #amiga2000 #hp9000 #acorn #acorn_archimedes #das_keyboard #happy_hacikng_keyboard #yoda #nintendo #nintendo64 #nuon #atari #atari_jaguar #dreamcast #playstation #apple_IIgs #tandy #gamecube #sega #nintendo_ds #atari_520st #apple_IIe #ultima #trs-80 #apple_IIc #amiga1000 #newton_mp200 #newton #retro_computing #retro-computing #history #space_invader
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_slang
#raf #slang
i also prefer geeqie and i didn’t know that display calibration possible in linux, and i use ufraw for raw images (:
http://petapixel.com/2015/10/19/my-free-and-open-source-photography-workflow/
#photography
#photos #girl #portrait
— I realize that they are closer friends than me and my friends. Because photos they make, how to say, are close to each other, while photos I would take, and photos my friends would take, differ dramatically.
#talk #friends #art #photography
yet another Hamassian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXYokz5Iwcs
(:
#tigran_hamasyan #tigran_hamassian #music #armenian-music #armenian_music #armenia
ok and this is a modern piece of Armenian jazz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EPxV8xl-e0
Hamassian is from Gyumri, second largest city of Armenia. He also works now in USA. This clip was shot by photographer Karen Mirzoian, dancer girl is an Armenian artist born in Beirut, grown up in NY, now she comes to Yerevan and lives here often.
#jazz #armenian-music #armenia #music
yet another video about Tatevik Hovhannisian, jazz singer. You can download album with jazz adaptations of folk Armenian songs made when she was emigrated to LA, at this link.
https://youtu.be/SSe85EtW3ug?t=16m26s
#jazz #tatevik_hovhannisian #armenian-music #music #armenia #history
while certain music was not welcomed very much in USSR, places like Caucasus were far away, hard to control, and sometimes even intentionally left more free, to prevent separatism. when armenian jazzmen was going to other parts of the empire they’ve got many negative feedbacks for their not conforming to the ideas of social realism beards and bourgeois music.
some then famous Russian performers had “grown up” in Armenia. For instance at 3.50 you can hear Larisa Dolina, ethnic Jewish from Azerbaidjan, who performed adaptation of folk Armenian song. Overall I cannot watch & hear these all now. Too boring for me. Third song seems too vulgar to me. At 13.23 though music gets better. (: No beards here of course. This was too official orchestra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpQnjkuzwHQ
#music #history #jazz #armenia #armenian-music #dolina #orbelian #ussr #orchestra #folk #music
I’ve heard facebook eventually introduced gif animations. do you know how did they do that? it requires flash plugin! in year 2015. seriously! yes.
#facebook #gif #flash #plugin #2015 #animations
#yerevan #self-portrait #courtyard #night #երեւան #ինքնանկար #բակ #գիշեր
waiting for the bus.
#yerevan #street #city #bus_station #photo #kids
wanted to finish the film to take it out, and made some random shots at home.
#kodak_colorplus #scan #phone #book #books #dog #yerevan_magazine #lamp #robot
at the court.
#yerevan #court #couple
according to this site Canon EOS 6D outperforms in terms of dynamic range both 5D Mark II and III.
#photography #technologies #canon #6d #dynamic_range #camera
At a time when staged narratives and rendered images are popular, I am excited by the fact that life itself offers situations far more strange and beautiful than anything I could set up.
Melanie Einzig
#quote #photography #street_photography #art
Before I was a street photographer, or even a photographer, I was a walker - most native New Yorkers are. I would (and still do) choose to walk the long way home. At some point the camera became a part of the warking.
Gus Powell.
#quote #photography
— there are no holes on your gloves anymore. — hm? — you have a new girlfriend?
#talk #relationships
all great civilizations have celebrated the naked beauty of women. all barbaric ages have feared it. in the measly middle ages, nudity was loathed and dreaded; the bare flesh of women was an object of hatred, as were witches.
qoute from this article.
#nudity #women #beauty
i remember there was discussion on the internet, if you are at the beach, and you see that your dog sinks, and some other man sinks, whom would you save?
Apart from that I believe this is not ethical question, I would say - if you have a choice, go for your dog. Because this way you don’t betray her. She expects you to save her. She expects that because she trusts you. When you ask her to stay while you enter some building, or shop, she knows you’ll return. She knows you’ll help because you took out thorns from her paws before.
Btw I cannot imagine a dog to sink. Afaik they swim very well. So this situation cannot really happen, I hope. (:
#ethics #dog #human #life #betrayal
so Super Takumar F3.5 35mm is better to not use via M42 adapter on Canon because it’s back is too long and interferes the mirror movement. It can be used if focused to the object less than 2 meters. Then the mirror can move freely. Otherwise, at 3-infinity mirror hits the back of the lenses.
btw, it works perfectly on mamiya 1000 dtl. some said that it’s better to not use SMC takumars on this cameras, because the screw mount differs and jam may occur. I don’t have SMC takumars, but both my Super Takumars work pretty well. (:
#lenses #super_takumar #mamiya_1000DTL #canon #EF_mount #eos #photography
— people often mix being free, and being solitary.
#talk #comment #mix #people #freedom #solitude
before my German friend left, we went to the place called “12 tables” to eat spas, amazing Armenian soup made from matsoun. I love it so much that I eat it every day. (:
When we were leaving it was late, the place is already closed. It somehow happened that we got acquainted with the owner (she also works there together with one assistant). She started discussion by noticing Mommintroll on my backpack. It turned out she’s from Artsakh. She said her mother was grown up and educated in Baku, and she does not know Armenian well. She married her father and moved to Martuni. They left it during the war, in 1992. By helicopter which took them to Yerevan. She described how they reached the helicopter in the night. She said “the toilet was in the courtyard, and we could not go to the toilet, because azeris would shoot us.”.
Then they moved to Poland, because they had relatives there. She returned to Yerevan several years ago, she spoke only Polish and Artsakh dialect of Armenian. She learned literate Armenian, the alphabet, and the grammar. She opened one of the best places in Yerevan, cafe-flat, with very tasty dishes. She’s proud she eventually made it completely smoke free.
She does not know if she’ll live here in the future. Because it’s not easy, even if you have business. I hope she will. Her assistant turned out to be a girl from Artsakh who came to study in Yerevan.
Her parents come to Armenia from time to time, but they don’t stay in Yerevan, they go to see their home in Martuni. “In Poland they live in rural area too.They don’t like big cities, many cars and noise” - she explained.
#artsakh #yerevan #12_tables #yellow_street #poland #polish #armenia #armenian #martuni #martouni #spas #matsoon #war #story #people
— she’s even more blonde than me.
— in germany nobody would call you blonde.
#talk #blonde #airport #zvartnots #self-portrait #self_portrait #parting #photo
#zeiss_ikon #beauty #camera #photography
i was among some people, they was selebrating smth, and they started to share their dreams. they also asked me, i refused. i thought that will be considered as humble. then one girl wanted to share her dream but stopped. i felt a little guilty, thought that may be if i would share smth, she would have more courage. i’ve talked about it with someone later, and he said, that to him, it looked not humble, but arrogant, to remain silent.
in the books about the war of the Russian authors Rabichev and Nikulin, there are many, usually silenced (especially in Russia) themes.
for example, about layers of dead soviet soldiers, which became visible in the spring. layers in different clothes, because they were just sent to die against very well equipped and protected Nazi positions. two millions of people during months only for one position.
they tell about stacks of dead, raped German women, with bloody hips, at the sides of roads.
they tell about broken spines of those women: it breaks when 100 soldiers rape one woman.
they tell about heroism of those German soldiers, who understood that each hour of resistance gives a chance to be saved to thousands of their compatriots, and who fought to the death for that.
#war #history #book
Raymond Depardon, Santiago, Chili, 2007
#raymond_depardon #santiago #chili #2007 #photography #dog #street
yes, too classical work, but whatever.
source
Imogen Cunningham, Fencer, Cornish School, 1935
#imogen_cunningham #cunningham #fencer #cornish_school #1935 #photography
wgetpaste, handy utility.
#gabi_ben-avraam #street_photography #tel-aviv tel_aviv #photography #girl #dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjzVABY1Yvc
#together #alone
at the left side is the scan, probably made by John Maloof, I guess with Epson V700 and published at his blog back in 2009. at the right side is, I guess, professional digitization, made with, I guess, Better Light Super 8K-HS, from the same negative, published at the vivianmaier.com site. of course it’s not only about technology, but also about perception and sense of aethetics, and experience of the person who made the digitizing.
the left scan is more contrasty and darker. the right scan leaves much better impression.
#digitizing #scan #digitization #perception #contrast #experience #epson_v700 #better_light_super_8K-HS #negative #photography #vivian_maier
Afaik ß letter, “scharfes S” is not used in Switzerland, because they wanted to have a one standard typewriter for three main languages of the confederation. (: That’s interesting, how technology affects and sometimes even shapes aesthetics and even orthography.
#orthography #german #ß #technology #aesthetics #switzerland #languages #deutsch #sprache #technologie
#self-portrait #self_portrait #zvartnots
#train #soldier #photo
flower distributor
#flowers #zhiguli #distribution #photo
#yerevan #muse_of_cybernetics #kochar #art #sculpture
again, not sure which one is better. probably the second one.
apparently, x100’s shutter wheel can turn by itself, it’s not steady, hard to twist, as on older film range-finders. i didn’t notice that shutter was 1/30 at the moment, thus the smeared picture.
#slums #yerevan #children #kids #photo #x100 #rangefinder #street #people
my German friend bought at Gyumri, as he sais, “soviet” phone. It’s a cheap Samsung phone intended to be used at the former (unfortunately, future) union republics. that’s why it contains T9 keyboards for those languages, but not for English or German. Thus he has troubles texting fast. (:
What’s interesting, Armenian language name of the interface is written in classical orthography. Հայերէն, not Հայերեն, with է։ (: I didn’t have a chance to see the interface translation. May be it was done by diaspora Armenians, who refused to use Soviet, new orthography.
#phone #samsung #screenshot #armenian #orthography #localisation #locale
designer from the UrbanLab who was engaged in creation of Ucom! ISP pavilion at digitec exhibition wanted it also to have some retro staff. He contacted me, and we have chosen Atari from my retro collection. He asked how much money do I want for the rent. Of course I refused to be paid.
Yesterday he did return my Atari and brought a present - Achajour cafe gift cards. (:
#yerevan #digitec #urbanlab #ucom #isp #pavilion #design #achajour #atari #atari_st #retro #retro_computing
banal still life with camera and cola cup. at empty vanadzorian kfc. i hope it won’t be closed. it’s good there is one.
this is not a camera, and this is not a cola. the left cola is doubly not cola.
#photo #camera #still_life #cola #fuji #x100
this nicely designed city is empty. streets are empty. courtyards are empty. there are only signs of recent presence of kids. when i was at vanadzor in summer, there were a lot of kids in newly opened kfc branch. now kfc was also absolutely empty.
i guess kids went to school. in russia, where their parents work. they came to their city in summer to see relatives and grands. this also expraitn why they’ve been written something on garage in russian.
#vanadzor #emigration #kids #photos #courtyard #city #street
#vanadzor #city #shop #street
#vanadzor #photo #city #courtyard #willow #tree
#photo #dog #booth #courtyard #vanadzor
#photo #vanadzor #courtyard #kids #children
this works as a flag - indeed very useful to not forget that there’s a film inside, and which is the speed of the film.
#camera #photo #film #mamiya #mamiya_ze-2 #kodak_portra #photography
not sure which to choose
#photo #saint-petersburg #people #street
#photo #saint-petersburg #city #street #people
#photo #saint-petersburg #street #people
#photo #saint-petersburg #people #street
#photo #saint-petersburg #city #street #people
#photo #saint-petersburg #street #city #people
#photo #saint-petersburg #street #couple #bicycle #tokyo #city #evening #people
#saint-petersburg #arc #courtyard #lamp #city #photo
#saint-petersburg #arc #city #electricity #photo
did you already wash the car?
#saint-petersburg #advertisement #carwash #photo
near “graffiti market” shop.
#graffiti #saint-petersburg #street #art
it says “our crimea”
#saint-petersburg #photo #crimea #bw #city
#photos #saint-petersburg #building #city #street #windows
how microsoft banned third party language compilers.
We are very keen on supporting WinRT with native Delphi & C++ code. Right now, the issues surrounding the WinRT space center around the fact that many OS-supplied APIs which are required by anyone implementing their own language RTL are actually off-limits unless you’re the VC++ RTL DLL. You know, little things like RtlUnwind for exception processing and VirtualAlloc (et. al.) for memory management… Any calls to those APIs from your application will automatically disqualify your application from being an “official” WinRT application capable of delivering through the MS app store.
when I read something like this, or even “how to pay to apple, get keys, and become an officially approved developer”, I have a strong desire to never participate windows/macos/ios development and I feel the freedom I have on GNU+Linux/BSDs, etecetra.
#microsoft #compilers #delphi #embarcadero #winrt #api #programming
My German friend, when he lives in Yerevan, rents a room in some family apartment. it’s not only cheaper, but also he is able to socialize and understand locals better.
Last time he was renting a room in the flat of the elderly couple of musicians. they were speaking Russian, and were cursing Putin every day. He was asking, how it’s possible.
— Why, aren’t there people in Russia who disagree with his politics? — asked I and answered myself — Of course there are. Also, they speak Russian because educated people had to know well the language of the empire, and it was becoming a standard, default language for the educated class. it’s normal that educated people understand who is Putin, and don’t like him.
other time our German friend said:
— I’ve got acquainted with Armenian family from diaspora, from LA. They left Armenia in early eighties, but they look like stereotypical Americans - fat, they subsist hamburgers and they drink coca-cola. They were very thankful to Russia, they said: “Russia gave Armenians land to live and breed”.
He recounted it with small sparks in his eyes, wondering how we’ll react. i wanted to start explaining that it might be typical for Armenians who left in early eighties, and why. But my friend was unable to resist, and he shouted:
— it’s bullshit!
Now our German friend rents a room at the old woman’s apartment, previously she was soviet engineer. now she does “alternative medicine”. One of her patients has cancer and she believes that she can cure him with her movements. “When i awake, and see someone lays in the kitchen, i realize i cannot get a cup of water” - complains our friend. He also says that this elderly woman loves Putin.
— Why not? — said my local friend — Putin also can be considered as “alternative medicine”.
#putin #armenia #yerevan #medicine #talk #stories #friends
rephrasing House - everybody betrays.
#betrayal
one of my colleagues told how he was poisoning ants at his “dacha”. i said:
— i’ve read a story about it by Levon Khechoian.
— who is he?
— he recently died, i guess he grown up in the village. he was writing sometimes mystic stories, very often about cruelty, and i believe he has a line about betrayal in almost every his work.
— well, I don’t consider killing ants as a cruelty. — he said.
— why?
— yes, when I was a child, we were killing a lot of them. i was doing carpet bombings, used burning plastic bottles, bulldozed their anthills with my feet, and was making crystal coffins. do you know what’s that?
— no.
— when you put a glass over ant and hit it with the rock.
here chief said:
— well, as we can see, memory about medieval inquisition is still alive.
— yes, — he said proudly, — I was probably one of them in my former lives.
needless to say, he also adores and respects Putin and Stalin, he’s homophobic, and he’s a sexist. Exactly as RAW wrote.
#talk #stalin #putin #ants #anthill #raw #cruelty #betrayal
he came to our room and asked what can i or my co-workers suggest as a theme for his phd researh. they became excited and got engaged in the process of inventing a research topic.
i think making someone’s homework is not as bad as suggesting a research topic. and asking for one is the same as asking what he should write about, if he’s a writer, or what should he paint, if he’s a painter. you’ve got the idea.
and what’s even more amazing is that he didn’t even think that asking questions like that, and especially answering that questions is not something fair.
i mentioned that i do not ask for themes for my photo or IT projects because i do what i am interested in. i didn’t even think ‘what to do?’. if i remember it right he said that i am hypocrytical, because i talk about free software, but keep my ideas away from others. sigh.
#homework #research #relationships #people
appartently, Vahram Martirosian published in 2012 his new book - script for the feature film about Charents. There is also story about Aghasi Khanjian and episode how he was killed by Beria.
(i only found this small size picture of the book cover from the orange competition facebook page. i have an impression that if there were no orange competetion, there would be no about coverage in media.) sigh. #vahram_martirosian #charents #khanjian #beria #armenia #history #book
when i was very young, my friends was introducing me to someone by saying - this is , he does .
they didn’t do it on purpose, that was the natural way to describe others.
and indeed, we are known by what we do.
years passed, and one day i have opened a blog, and started writing there. when i was getting acquainted with someone it was natural to get links to their homes or blogs, and give my links in exchange. many people got to know me by what i was telling, expressing there.
when you write on-line, you have your reader, your sensor. what and how you say is very much dependent on auditory and it’s interests.
one day, years ago, i realized, that i don’t want to be known as someone who writes good statuses/twits, which are cool to consume in a spare time.
i want to do something(and i do), which may not find it’s place in my on-line showcase. sometimes it’s even not approachable or not interesting for most of the people. i talk with friends, sometimes share, explain my passions, but nobody can really understand that, and not many are willing to. (:
#nevermind
aaa my configured pxeboot/kickstart works. i was worrying that pxeboot won’t, and it will require me to make numerous changes here and there. but it works from the first try! i spent only ~10 mins configuring it.
i’ve drawn the route with openrouteservice.org, it’s not exact, because i may not remember the way, or because the service refuses to draw the track without an existing street. it’s a route planner, and you cannot convince it to go through the swamp.
#velo #bicycle #walk #screenshot #track #route #map
i’ve installed gthumb today in order to search for necessary photos through the recovered files. it turned out, I cannot hide the window by double clicking it’s titlebar. this is unlike any other application window running in my windowmaker. probably that happens because it’s gtk3 application. double click on the something like titlebar makes it fullscreen.
sigh.
#gthumb #gtk #gtk3 #windowmaker #titlebar #folding #software
my colleagues said that on russian tv they had a weather forecast like this: “today is a sunny day in syria. this will undoubtedly help our aviation to accomplish it’s tasks”.
#propaganda #russia #tv #forecast
jolla didn’t write the track well, but it’s possible to feel.
#velo #bicycle #walk #screenshot #track #route #map
i have made a mistake by installing proprietary #flckr application on my #jolla. i use native #jockr however not really satisfied with it (surprise, surprise), and wanted to test official app functionality.
this official app synced all pictures from the phone gallery to flickr. not public, but anyway.
this is very symptomatic behaviour for proprietary software. not even uploading data without asking, (i guess i have a checkbox for that somewhere) but assuming that i am an idiot, and it does a good job for me.
#software #assumptions
they do film for out of production polaroids instant cameras.
https://www.the-impossible-project.com
#photo #screenshot #polaroid #instant #photography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_missing_out
familiar?
#fomo
we supposed to share pictures of food, right? let me do that. i have a low blood pressure and sometimes i need something sweet in order to be able to work. i’ve got this honey, it’s from Berkaber. I know this village, i have been around during my military service. it’s located right near the border and overall is really touchy. all those villages near the border are especially touchy.
These villages are always under the fire, however recently there was an escalation, and deaths among peaceful citizens. We’ve been told that our forces had a decent answer and as a result 16 soldiers dead at the other side. As far as i know, indeed our forces strike back their military, not their villages. I also know that very often our military forces don’t get permission to answer. Sadly this only leads to the escalation of the fire from the other side.
So this is a food photo - honey from the village I served near, made by hard-working people (and bees) who live under constant fire near the border of my small country.
#armenia #berkaber #honey #photo
i had a drive failure recently. not an issue since i have a backup. mostly my photos, some docs, i don’t remember what was there. i only did not have time to backup a couple of directories with photos of that day. and there was one picture which wasn’t bad, photo of a couple and i know they would be glad to get it. that’s why i fired photorec to recover files.
what’s interesting, is that i get many images i don’t remember about. then i understood that they come from the home directory backup i kept on that drive. and here it is, all my browsing history in a palm. all my interests, sites i have visited, everything in pictures from my browser cache. and it became very clear to me, that if i were logged in to google or facebook, they would have this too.
#privacy #surveillance
if i would have a cell phone, this would be my ringtone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6Zoezcq1RA
#hg2g
this month Tumo screenings are dedicated to #photography (:
do you feel the difference?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNenHCDaLMI
#photography
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPtoEp5jaDk
#mf #camera
it turned out, it’s possible to use polaroid back with some medium format cameras.
http://snapitseeit.com/camera-review-mamiya-rz67-pro-ii-2/
#mf #medium_format #camera #instant #polaroid #photography
This test proved to me several things. First, c.1956 Rolleiflex Twin Lens Reflex cameras can keep up with modern photographic equipment. Let me put this another way; I’m blown away by the fact that a 50 year old single coated lens camera can produce large prints that show as much fine resolution and detail as the best modern multicoated lens that I currently own. Both Rolleiflex tested at 96 lines per mm against the USAF Resolution test chart. This equals the newer Zeiss Planar optics in the Hasselblad. Both Rolleiflex controlled flare better than the 500CM too. In practical use, a photographer would be very hard pressed to tell the difference between images taken with c.1956 Rolleiflex and the latest greatest mulitcoated wonder-camera. In oh so many ways, this was a staggering realization.
My tried and true Mamiya 7 travel companion came shining through. I had assumed its optics were slightly less contrasty than the Hasselblads 80mm CT* Planar. With the possible exception of its interchangable film backs, I no longer feel that I’m missing something now that I sold the beautiful 500CM. While Mamiya has made consistantly fine camera equipment, I somehow believed that the Hasselblad was a sharper, more constrasty solution. In this test, the Mamiya 7 is the hands down winner on all accounts. On this day, there was none better. But there were these two little 50 year old cameras that gave the young pups on the block a good run for their money. I knew there was a reason I needed to give Rolleiflex twin lens reflex a third try. I’m glad I did.
http://www.hevanet.com/cperez/test/fourcameras.html
#mamiya #rolleiflex #optics #camera #test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNilCJTcJxA
#street_photography #photography
“I have to be leaving, but I won’t let that come between us. Okay?”
Ansichten aus einem Land
Fotografie aus Ostdeutschland 1945-1995
#fotografie #Ostdeutschland #ddr #ausstellung #kunst #jerewan #photography #east_germany #gdr #exhibition #art #yerevan
suno ni la mi wile tawa e tomo sitelen.
mi wile pali e poto sitelen pi jan Tosi poka suno kama.
heute möchte ich an die Nationalgalerie gehen, um DDR-Fotografie-Ausstellung zu sehen.
#toki_pona #deutsch
apparently black praktica’s existed!
#photography #camera #photo #praktica #beauty #apparently
i believe the solution to these and some other unpleasant treatment, is to evaporate yourself from the scene. you don’t want to fight, right? but you don’t want to be treated that way? if you are not available, you won’t be treated bad, and you won’t be forced to fight back. i prefer to be just out of this. to not play those games i don’t like.
#relationships #people #games
IDDEE — Integrated development and documentation and execution environment.
Suggested by Templ for Oberon systems ported to other operating systems.
#oberon #oberon-2 #iddee #ide #templ #operating_systems #blackbox #programming
You only have one life and so many minutes in your day — in your life — to accomplish things and to focus on things that matter
#chess #life #quote
regarding this i would like to add that to me, the most important thing is not which tools do you use, but is you obsessed with making a photo. even if what you can afford (hopefully yet) is only a camera phone.
#photography
#bessa #beauty #camera #bessa-r4a #r4a #Voigtländer
it turned out, rangefinder photo cameras have huge limitations.
#photography #rangefinder #camera #cameras #photo #lens #lenses #design
what do you think about usage of instagram like effects in mobile photography? or about lomo like effects?
I am asking because I also do photos with mobile, and I wonder, shell we use effects, or try to achieve something beautiful by the frame itself, by knowing limited capabilities, and allowing ourselves just a little, may be, color/light correction?
#photography #photo #instagram #mobile_photography #mobile-photography #mobile #question
my friend, from Artsakh writes:
I’m a school teacher in Karvachar, a small town heavily destroyed by war. For me it’s very important to make this place better for youth, to create place where they can spend their free time with benefits for themselves. And also - that will be the place where people can read and discuss their favorite books.
see more at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bookstore-cafe#/story
please contribute. it’s important.
#artsakh #armenia #karvachar #book #library #cafe #campaign #war #development #literacy
very useful tool in everyday life.
http://www.kaiser-fototechnik.de/en/produkte/2_1_produktanzeige.asp?nr=4129
#photo #tool #ilo #poto
if you decide to go to the Yerevan Zoo, take a free bus which goes every hour from the Yeritasardakan metro station. It’s always empty, and it still goes up and down, vainly hoping for passengers. It does not feel demanded, valued.
Go by that bus, so that it would feel useful.
I feel so much empathy towards that bus. May be I identify myself with it.
#bus #yerevan #yeritasardakan #bus #zoo #city
(: #armenia #september21 #independence #screenshot #independence_day #freedom
I woudl like to quote this post, instead of resharing because I don’t agree with everything there. I don’t think we have to forget our native languages, that’s why comparison to the switch from facebook to diaspora, which was made there seems deeply not right to me. I personally value my language, and it doesn’t make me feel good when I acknowledge threats it has.
Also, I have to say that I also fear simplicity in design. Simplicity can mean gaining flexibility and expressiveness, like in case with Oberon operating system and language, and it can mean something like Newlang, the language which was simple but was designed in order to rule those people.
Simplicity can also mean “don’t know what pointer is” which, I believe is wrong, because every programmer should know what pointer is. Simplicity can mean making phonemic orthography, and I am opponent of that. That approach, taken by communists, in my opinion, damaged Armenian orthography and language.
So I believe, simplicity does not always mean good design. However, good design is very often simple. Now the quote.
English vs. Esperanto:
English:
You sang nicely, AND You have sung nicely, AND You had sung nicely, AND You did sing nicely , AND You did use to sing nicely, AND You were singing nicely, AND You used to sing nicely.
Esperanto:
#esperanto #design #simplicity #comparison #english #orthography #phonemic_orthography #language #armenian #oberon #programming #pointer #flexibility #expressiveness
#beauty #camera #minolta_cle #minolta #photography
I went to Orgov to see it, but I was unable to make a photo of it. I’ll try again and may be it’ll be a good photo.
#orgov #radio_telescope #radiotelescope #armenia
We photographers are out freezing ourselves to death every sunrise hoping for the warmest first 60 seconds of sunlight to light up rocks against blue skies
#ken_rockwell #landscape #photography
this is both amazing and frightenful.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aThCr0PsyuA
#microsoft #hololens #holograms #technology
I have managed to port Wirth’s PICL language compiler (which generates code for PIC16F84) to GNU/Linux(used voc to compile it), I mean, it’s possible to run it, compile sample programs with it on my desktop. Now need to make some more improvements and write a manual so that people can use it.
#pic #pic16f84 #embedded #embedded_programming #programming #screenshot #compiler #wirth #picl #programming_languages #hardware #hardware_programming #oberon
— we agreed to meet after 10 minutes. — my 10 minutes are longer than yours.
#talk
photos from Artsakh by Edmond Ter-Hakobian.
http://www.pix.org.uk/projects/karabagh/karabagh_0001.htm
#artsakh #karabakh #photography #photos
this was back ~10 years ago, at the Microsoft event, where they were basically stating that years of freebie passed, and we have to buy officially licensed Windows copies. As an answer to those, who were whining that Armenia is a poor country, and may it be they can sell licenses cheaper, a guy from M$ answered:
— you buy cars, right? why do you agree to pay for cars, but not for software.
Then there was a voice from auditory.
— can you sell us second hand copies of 15 years old windows installers?
#microsoft #windows #proprietary_software #software #armenia
I took the 142 rules of the MISRA-C:2004 “Guidelines for the use of the C language in critical systems” and applied them to Oberon-07. I discovered that more than 70% of the rules are not required when programming in Oberon-07. They are either already enforced by the language or are not applicable.
Examples of MISRA rules that are not applicable to Oberon-07:
Rule 14.4: The goto statement shall not be used. (Oberon-07 does not have GOTO)
Rule 14.5: The continue statement shall not be used. (Oberon-07 does not have CONTINUE)
Examples of MISRA rules that are enforced by the design of Oberon-07:
Rule 14.7: A function shall have a single point of exit at the end of the function.
Rule 16.6: The number of arguments passed to a function shall match the number of parameters.
The remaining 30% of MISRA rules that also need to be checked when using Oberon-07 include:
Rule 2.4 (advisory): Sections of code should not be “commented out”.
Rule 20.4: Dynamic heap memory allocation shall not be used.
#programming #oberon-2 #oberon-07 #oberon #misra #safety #safe #guidelenies
it hides, so we cannot see it.
#city #saint-petersburg #petersburg #building #architecture #street #photo
“smelly jews”, #graffiti #arc #jews #anti-Semitism #hate #russia #saint-petersburg #petersburg #inscription #text #city #street #photo
#saint-petersburg #petersburg #photo #architecture #building #city #street
this should be viewed by listening this music.
#signboard #gazprom #city #saint-petersburg #petersburg #photo #street
#street #city #saint-petersburg #petersburg #shop #advertisement #photo
i like this idea of competitions that get you to know your city better. i have made this photo at the museum of the history of photography.
#saint-petersburg #petersburg #museum #city #history #photography
#arc #graffiti #saint-petersburg #petersburg #yard #courtyard #city #street #photo
it says “no beer”.
the old armenian joke was related to empty petrol stations of 80ies. one comes to the petrol station and sees a paper stating “no petrol at all”. he asks, why did they write this “at all”? they answer, because every person who comes asks us - “no petrol at all?”.
so they had to write “no beer at all” (:
#saint-petersburg #petersburg #petrol #shortage #beer #text #inscription #paper #city #street #photo
#saint-petersburg #petersburg #city #street #photo
#saint-petersburg #petersburg #city #girl #street #bicycle #photo
#saint-petersburg #petersburg #city #girl #awaiting #sweet #shop #street #photo
#courtyard #yard #entrance #photo #saint-petersburg #petersburg #city #building
#saint-petersburg #petersburg #city #street #pupils #arc #dalan #photo #love
#september_1 #people #saint-petersburg #petersburg #city #street #pupil #mother #photo #school
#saint-petersburg #petersburg #city #street #girl #girls #people #photo
Everything you always wanted to know about atomic energy* (*But were afraid to ask)
#saint-petersburg #petersburg #building #energy #atomic_energy #street #city #photo
#saint-petersburg #petersburg #city #street #photo #people
#rms # interview http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/09/09/2252212/interviews-rms-answers-your-questions
#saint-petersburg #petersburg #fontanka #river #sky #clouds #city #photo
#trinity_bridge #bridge #neva #river #saint-petersburg #petersburg #city #photo
@{Midnight Commander ; satenik@spyurk.am} at the trinity bridge
#photo #portrait #bridge #city #girl
inscription on the t-shirt says “the most polite among humans”. it refers to “polite men” or in other words “little green men” used during Crimea annexation.
I saw a machine at the Domodedovo airport, you know those machines that sell sweets and drinks, so there was a machine which was selling t-shirts with putin on them. this kind of t-shirt was there too.
#putin #russia #little_green_men #polite_people #crimea #annexation #ukraine #photo #saint-petersburg #petersburg
#city #petersburg #saint-petersburg #street #building #photo
because there was a plate with inscription “return of the driver license” i guess may be this is a #police building.
#photo #building #courtyard #yard #petersburg #saint-petersburg #city
ordnungs dienst
sluzba porzadkowa
#photo #pin #star_of_david #history
ordinary and not ordinary streets.
(ordinary street, barmaleev street at the sign)
#photo #saint-petersburg #petersburg #city #street
#city #courtyard #yard #petersburg #saint-petersburg #shadow #photo
#elephant #elephants #courtyard #yard #arc #saint-petersburg #petersburg #city #graffiti #street-art #art
@{Midnight Commander ; satenik@spyurk.am}
#yard #courtyard #girl #city #graffiti #camera #photo #petersburg #saint_petersburg
m²
#photo #girl #petersburg #saint_petersburg #shadow #love #heart (:
— I have separated my laundry in two pieces. One piece — for colour clothes, other — for black and white clothes. Then, after washing machine completed the task I started to realize that I did something, well, how to say, not very much right.
#laundry #talk #photography
#photo #photography #film-photography #film_photographf #film #velvia
my new ambience
#jolla #duck #ducks #sailfish #screenshot #ambience
humans are creatures that project themselves into the future. keyword is future. not past. remember that and do not mix directions. yes (:
#existentialism #humans #future #past #time
very interesting resource for those who are interested in compilers: http://turbopascal.org/turbo-pascal-internals
#internals #compiler #source #code #programming #compilers #pascal #turbo_pascal #book #analysis #reverse_engineering #research
#vampires #erection #logic #truth
Problems I have with new Sailfish interface are
— I am not sure it’s a great design decision to show time and battery information all the time. first Sailfish screen was unique in that it did not.
Time did not eat space of your home screen. It was just a “swipe away”, as they say. Because screen had space outside the phone screen. It was more like workspaces. And now sailfish home screen is more similar to any other mobile os. Congratulations, you became “just like everybody” in that regard.
— Swiping left or right to get notifications screen, yes, it’s more like Harmattan, but it makes me feel that constraints. For example, maemo interface with workspaces gave me feeling of space. In Sailfish I feel constrained. Walls, limits. No space. May be too personal. I believe getting notifications by swiping from down to up was much better idea.
— It was possible to access shortcuts (Sperrbildschirm) when the phone is not locked. Now I have to lock it and only then I can get them. It means I get my flashlight much slower than previously.
— there is no “ton an” in those settings anymore. It was there by default.
Now I did not find a way to put the system to the silent mode. I had to choose separately: no sounds for emails, for chat messages, etc. What if I want to turn all sounds on and off without going in to details every time? And it requires to go to the settings application for that. May be I just don’t orient in interfaces well, I suppose I am.
— Covers don’t work any more. May be only for me or may be I am doing something the wrong way. When I press the cover in order to move it left or right, then the whole screen moves and it can go to the notifications area. Previously if I have let’s say email application running, I could use cover action to start a new email, and if it was “notes” application I could use action in order to create new note. It was possible to stop/start players like that. I don’t know why this essential feature does not work.
— locking the device requires two gestures now. First swipe from upside down, then choose lock. Previously it was, I believe more consistent - swiping like that on an app would close it, swiping on home screen would lock it.
— less ambience?
I liked that when you got application’s icons screen first, you would still have some ambience, and only on second or third screen ambience would not be noticeable. I like the ambience idea a lot. Now I have a feeling it’s more like android, when apps don’t feel that ambience. And they are not that alive because I cannot use cover actions.
I believe it’s not about interface change. I am used to many different interfaces. It’s more about design decisions, and I feel now it looks more like regular mobile os interface, less unique.
I like some things too: Effects are not my favourite thing, but probably fade in with vignetting during unlock is a good decision, many will like it. Good decision is to change sizes of running application’s windows at some events.
#sailfish #interface #update #jolla #ambience #ux #user-experience #home #design
Today I’ve got a warning that there is shortage of space on SD card. Was surprised, started to check. It turned out there is a file in the root, called “stream.wav”, and information is actively being written to it. I’ve listened the content - every event, talks, recording from the microphone for last 2 days. Checked my tablet - the same shit. As I am using CyanogenMod on my tablet, I have found out the reason pretty soon(see screenshot). Spying app is Yandex.Navigator. Now I’ll check logs of my home router, happily I have FreeBSD there, and I log everything, will check where my information went. Block this app or better uninstall it for good!
Yandex commented that it’s a bug.
Yes I believe it’s a bug indeed. We weren’t supposed to know that it spies, and it wasn’t supposed to eat such amount of space probably to remain unnoticed. Yandex will fix the bug and it’ll be harder to notice that it’s apps are spying after people. (:
#android #yandex #navigator #screenshot #surveillance #spyware #spy #software #freedom #cyanogenmod #console #research
#photo #girl #dog #petersburg #saint_petersburg (:
good morning!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huBNgxolXFo
#lied #musik #music #song #german #unplugged
Three young pupils (12-14 years old) came and sat to the table near us. They were talking about “coconuts”, referring to “Americans”. Because “Americos” leads to “Kokos”, which is “coconut” in Russian. They were discussing how Russia and Russians are superior, and better than USA and Americats in every aspect. In sports, in military, just everywhere. And they were repeating this “coconuts” often.
We saw them at the Subway cafeteria. They were eating Subway sandwiches and drinking Coca-Cola.
#russia #subway #cafeteria #talk #sandwich #coca-cola #usa #americans #complacency
In the same book store it is possible to buy toilet paper with Obama, and other things linked to USA. However you cannot buy a toilet paper with Putin on it. No, Putin is behind the glass (see my previous post).
#russia #bukvoyed #freedom #democracy #obama #usa #toilet_paper #humiliation #complacency #bookstore #book-store #book_store #america
in the “bukvoyed” book store you can buy portraits of putin and medvedev. they are stored behing the glass, it is the most secured item in the store. can’t touch em.
i guess, this is to simplify your work - you don’t need to make a portrait in order to hung on your wall yourself. moreover, portrait which you have made may not be good enough. so you have these approved portraits.
#portrait #putin #russia #book-store #bukvoyed #picture #medvedev #freedom #photo
to merry. relationship guide from acquaintance to civil registry. it’s time to act!
#bookstore #psychology (yes it was in psychology department) #book #relationships #guide #love #manual #marriage
“Story of Russia from Rurik to Putin.”
like if we would say: story of Armenia from Hayk to Serzh.
sigh.
#book-store #russia #rurik #putin #history #book
spyurk.am at the map of diaspora nodes. I wish there would have been one in Artsakh too. Every time I go there we discuss possibilities of running a node with my friends. But it is not easy, internet is less affordable there and quality of life is not high. After all this state is in blockade and in semi-war situation. By the way, this small, but headstrong and freedom-loving nation deserves attention not less than Palestine. Just it’s not as known and “promoted”. I hope they’ll be able to solve all problems and will have their own nodes. (:
#artsakh #yerevan #stepanakert #shoushi #spyurk #diaspora #screenshot #map #freedom #internet
every time I say something about how Russia does something, in my opinion, negative, like censorship, limiting freedom of speech, some people react by defending it, they say that USA is no better. Like It’s okay to do that if USA does that too.
No, it’s not okay! It’s the same as saying that if Peter have stolen, it does give a right to Vasia to steal. No, it does not. Nobody should steal.
And yes, I believe, USA and Europe are in much better situation. And people have more control over the government. And corruption is incomparably weaker. And courts are incomparably more independent. And yes, Russian imperialism and obscurantism affects me, because it affects my country. It’s like American imperialism affects people somewhere let’s say in the middle east.
I would like to add something for my Russian friends. I love your country, I love your language, I love your culture. I really love them. You are amazing. I just wish you be free from tyranny and become a well developed modern nation. With cool technologies. To become a real player, to signify. Not by selling oil. By creating technologies, by science. You can do that. That’s your government’s fault that you’re going back in time now. I wish you to be able to change it.
#russia #usa #imperialism #people #government #freedom
#photo #photos #street #saint_petersburg #petersburg #street_photography #color #love #girl #evening
one of the main technologies that keeps java afloat, and reasons why java is used today, is android. (so oracle needs to review their patent claims and just let people use java)
and if oracle wants java to be a player in internet of things business, they need to wish android success in that niche instead of suing google constantly.
#android #java #oracle #internet_of_things #business #market #patents #freedom #software
according to the new russian law, free wifi providers should gather information about those who use their wifi. in this particular case, access point at starbucks demands a phone number to send sms to it with code, which needs to be entered to that form in order to get internet connection. i. e. identification via phone number, and in orderbto get a phone number one has to provide passport information.
#anonymity #internet #russia #screenshot #surveillance #law #privacy #freedom
cool place at saint petersburg
#culture #art #gallery #petersburg #city #map #screenshot #floors #cool #hipster #cafe #exhibition #space
one guy from sweden, i believe, said in a talk (may be ted) related to surveillance, that if someone has to spy on him, he prefers it to be sweden service, not foreign.
well, amusing europeans. (: your secret services did not behave like kgb, and did not kill or send to siberia batches of people for the wrong word or even for nothing. of course you would prefer surveillance of your own state.
#privacy #surveillance #patriotism #freedom
talk at Saint Petersburg.
— americans put a lot of effort during these 20 years so that ukrainians hate russia.
— hm, don’t know about america, but in recent years, russia definitely worked in that direction. (:
#russia #ukraine #usa #politics #talk
discussing go, one says:
why this func incTwo(a, b int) (c, d int) not (int c, d) incTwo(int a, b);
and why var v2 string not var string v2;
answer:
because compare
int (*(*fp)(int (*)(int, int), int))(int, int) and f func(func(int,int) int, int) func(int, int) int
#go #syntax #grammar #programming #programming_languages #code #notation
modular pc by acer
http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/02/acer-revo-build-modular-pc/
#pc #design
on services, which have to sell our information or show us ads: we had to came up with better ideas for them. we had make researches in order to find out how they can earn money. i don’t know how. for example, may be ISP’s need to pay to the web sites proportionally to the amount of traffic. may be we have to pay for internet connection more, to support not only the pipes but the content? but that would make internet less affordable. or it would not increase the price considerably? i don’t know. but we had to think about it.
#internet #pipes #content #web #freedom
connecting to the piratebay from my hotel wifi. it asks to accept a self signed certificate issued by gibnet.ru. of course i did not, instead, via tor it did not require to accept any unknown certificate. if i would accept it they would be able to intercept my traffic. (:
#russia #security #privacy #thepiratebay #ssl #https #crypto #intercept #screenshot #freedom
telnet mx1.riseup.net 25 Trying 198.252.153.129… telnet: connect to address 198.252.153.129: Connection timed out
riseup has problems?
#riseup #internet #mail #email
armenian translation accomplished (:
https://www.transifex.com/reviewjolla/jolla-tablet-intro-video/
#armenian #translation #jolla #screenshot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjtyifWTqmc
#nmap #mainframe #hack #ettercap #des #john_the_ripper #cryptography #maintp #hacktivity #philip_young #bash #unix #zos #programming
The biggest impediment of rPi is that it is available from only one place due to Broadcomm hold on the processor and the personal union between Broadcom and the rPi Foundation (both run by the same person). Broadcomm has killed the competing rPi clones by simply refusing to sell the CPUs to the independent developers. Even if Broadcomm changed this policy (which I have not heard of), you simply cannot trust the chip vendor with this track record.
IMHO, investing any effort into rPi is a dead alley if you have any plans of “selling these boards to rural Africa”. Simply put, you are at the mercy of a single source who has a track record of using dirty practices against the competition. This is contrary to the idea of open design.
I am currently working on a BeagleBone which I selected precisely because I can buy the processor chips from Texas Instruments who has never refused to sell their chips to anyone. I am not impressed with performance, quad core or whatever. My only concern is whether I can build what I design, and then “sell to rural Africa”. Therefore, the rPi is completely ruled out forever.
#raspberrypi #raspberry-pi #raspberry_pi #broadcom #rpi #beaglebone #texas_instruments #ti #oberon #quote #freedom
#girl #headphones #night #photo
#photo #city #street #dog #batumi #tongue
#georgian #batumi #city #test #building
my new ambience
image credit http://tankasan.livejournal.com
#yerevan #zvartnots #airport #sky #jolla #sailfish #ambience #screenshot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjtyifWTqmc
#nmap #mainframe #hack #ettercap #des #john_the_ripper #cryptography #maintp #hacktivity #philip_young #bash #unix #zos #programming
The Atari ST was a Motorola M68000 based personal computer, introduced in 1985, quite affordable and for some reason especially popular in Germany, though it also was not unseen in certain circles here in the Netherlands.
The model that probably sold best was the Atari 1040 ST. It had an 8 MHz M68000 CPU and came with a full Mbyte of RAM, which was quite a lot in those days. And even better: you could actually address all that memory from your programs, in sharp contrast with the PC’s of those days, where you had to live with 64 Kbyte segments. This and the fact that the M68000 CPU was so similar to what we used at work in our Unix boxes and workstations, made the Atari ST quite popular amongst technical and scientific users like me.
http://www.beastielabs.net/minix.html
#minix #atari #atari_st #m68k #m68000 #motorola68k #motorola68000 #addressing #memory #atari_1040ST #retro #programming #minix_st
Today I have watched Woody Allen’s “Irrational man” film at the “Moscow” cinema theatre in Yerevan. (: And now I am sitting at my balcony, it is raining outside, and I feel cosy writing this post.
I believe Woody is a great director. He knows people very well. And he tries to make deep works. Alas, not often people notice that. There were only 7 couples at the screening. I think it’s not a coincidence that Woody gave up trying to get money for films in USA. He works in Europe now. I just checked, surprisingly, this movie was produced in USA. This situation makes me think about how to make good films in case of free market? My usual guess is that when you have big enough market, then you have enough minority, which will pay for good films, thus they can be produced. However, it seems that even USA market is not big enough.
Whatever, this is a film about a man, who spent almost all of his life in the struggle for fairness. And he paid high price for it - deaths of close people, suffered a serious illness. Eventually he got despair, depression. He failed to make world a better place.
In particular because he was struggling by peaceful means. While the world around him was struggling against him with not very fair, peaceful means. That’s how fair meed fails.
Now this man decides to make something against the cruel system. Some small, but important thing. The difference is that he feels that he exhausted all the peaceful and legal ways to make a change. He decides to act illegally. And he thinks he can win. However the film is about that he cannot win, that fairness cannot win in this world.
Even if the world consists of beautiful and clever amazing girls around who think they believe in fairness.
So he confesses to his girl under the pressure, by having the naive belief that she can understand him. Wasn’t she understanding before? She had so much empathy for his past privations. Of course girl does not understand him. Firstly, I believe, because she is too young. And secondly, because that is not her struggle in reality. It only seems cool to be around someone who has seen life. Yes, there was a disadvantage - he considered himself a looser. However he very soon got back to life, because he got back to struggle for fairness. And she naively thought that she made him back by her “love”. And as we saw, she was unable to accept the man who fights now. She returned to her nice guy former boyfriend, whom she dumped for the philosopher previously, and who did not show any sign of concerns about humanity, justice, etc. Yes, he could buy a ticket for a political satire. That’s what every decent person should do. Buy a ticket and enjoy politics in the theatre.
May be she was unable to accept him, because she did not love him. Or she was in love more with her perception of him, not the real him, who values many other things, not only pretty young girls. He wasn’t loved by the woman who wanted to get to Spain either. They both were just using him to satisfy personal needs. Why would he take that woman to Spain. What for? Why cannot he find other one in Europe? And why he is sure she won’t dump him in Spain to find someone even more convenient? Does she deserve to be taken there? Because he believes in people.
May be the difference between these women was that the young was not aware of her motives, but the older was. She clearly had known what does she need. And she would not pass the philosopher in to the hands of police, not because of her values, but because she eventually found someone convenient.
Also, this movie is about our inability to distinguish between situations where we have to be honest, and where we don’t. This is what the philosopher stressed right in the beginning of the movie by asking his students if they would tell the police about the thief who is hiding at the neighbour’s flat, or not. Then he challenged them with the question if they would tell Nazis about Frank’s family, just for the sake of honesty.
Roy, young boyfriend of the girl, welcomes her back. However I believe she deserves a the other outcome. It’s not fair when people get positive reinforcement for negative actions. Russians have this tale about broken through. That tale is about fairness. Because those, who don’t get negative reinforcement, take people for granted and tend to continue to abuse their friendship.
I believe Woody makes films very close to real life. Indeed, that guy would accept her back. Without even one salty word. But this time. Not the next.
Also, this abandoned husband. He said: “think again” to her. What about? He had to say “go to hell”. But he did not.
Both of them, the boy and the husband may think that they got lucky. However I believe they’ve missed a chance to know who is their real friend, and who is not. If they wanted to see.
The other question is - do they really need a friend? A close person they can trust? Or they need a cool chick/man who will take to Spain/etcetera? Also, the men. Who do they need?
Roy will surround that girl with love and kindness, will make everything for her to feel comfortable and cosy. Will she answer equally? I doubt it. Because it’s not clear she can love at all.
May be nobody is able to love, just people find convenient variants, coinciding interests. I don’t know.
Woody skilfully exposes people’s behavioural patterns. Patterns, we often don’t notice ourselves. Or even if we do we have no strength or will to behave differently.
That is when I think about how many similarities people have. Not only exterior similarities. And how predictable are they.
And me.
I have noticed “The Idiot” and Hanna Arendt’s name in the frame for a short time. It seems Allen loves Dostoevsky, it is not a first time he refers to him. May be his works will be taught in the future, just like today Dostoevsky’s works are taught or considered as must read, who knows.
#cinema #movie #woody_allen #irrational_man #review #thoughts #people #dostoevsky #hanna_arendt #existentialism #philosophy #understanding #crime #justice #struggle #fairness #patterns #script #love #relationship #relationships #humans #usa #europe #culture #market #freedom
if you write power efficient software on a small microcontroller, you make it sleep for some time, if it has nothing to do, then awake it to continue it’s work. (:
#programming #microcontroller #micro #power
systemd is a political question even more, than technical. and probably a to some extent philosophical.
#systemd #gentoo #funtoo #politics #technology #freedom
Karlsson (who lives on the roof) was doing it wrong. One needs a propeller not on his back, but on his head instead - in order to cool the brain.
#karlsson #propeller #roof #cooler
I had to enter that building, which is called “Dom Moskvy”, exactly like that, there is no translation to Armenian or English, so it does not call “House of Moscow” or something like that. Whatever, I had to enter it. I have entered it, and there are several doors, transparent doors. all of them - locked. I was waiting for some of them to open. No electronics, of course. It is called “Moscow”! Okay, how do I enter this? And then I notice the piece of paper with inscription - “ВХОД”. Just a piece of paper. It means “Entrance” in Russian. Okay, I was thinking where to push, eventually just pushed glass and entered the building.
After I had my conversation at reception I told them:
— you know, it was kinda hard to understand where to go at the entrance.
— there is an inscription - “Vkhod” - she told me.
— yes, but first it’s necessary to notice that, and secondly - I don’t read Russian.
Now yes, I read Russian. I know it perfectly. And I like that I know it perfectly. (: But almost all of my friends - don’t, since they were raised or even born in Syria, Iran, Netherlands, USA, etcetera. And I know how they suffer from the assumptions that each and every Armenian has to know Russian. This is one of those situations - it’s a trifle, but you don’t feel comfortable because of that trifle. Same is at the train station. Since Russia got our railways, they don’t write the list of races in Armenian. Only in Russian. When I asked at the cashier’s desk - they told me - “you can ask us, if you are illiterate, and we can explain you”. Okay, what if I don’t want to ask, can you print it in Armenian as well? “No”, - they said. “We won’t”.
So I told her I don’t know Russian. Can they print the same paper in Armenian, indicating that it’s an entrance?
— No - she answered. It’s a Russian building.
And that’s not a good thing to tell if you want someone just to leave. What does it mean it’s a Russian building? It means you expect only people who knows Russian? You have hell of offices in this buildings, are you sure no other person can come?
— It’s located in Yerevan, Republic of Armenia - I said. We have the law regarding the language.
She didn’t even want to talk about it. “It’s a Russian building” - she said. - “That’s all. We won’t add another inscription”.
That’s it.
I don’t feel happy because of similar stories. I don’t feel happy at all.
#russian #armenian #armenia #language #imperialism #expansion
My father has almost no computer literacy. He used to Debian at home. He only uses graphics, no command line, obviously. Recently he eventually bought himself a notebook. It had Windows preinstalled. Surprise, surprise! He was unable to use it. Asked me to come to install Debian, so that he can use familiar environment. Also, he uses MATE, because that’s what he used to since GNOME 2. Which means, the switch is painful. If someone is used to GNU/Linux GUI first, switch to Windows is not less painful for him, than vice versa. That’s not a matter of usability. That’s a matter of habit.
Same story with my mother. I don’t think she can ever work with Windows.
#linux #windows #habit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhHkMPn5qVQ
#23 #screenshot #mayday #investigation
this actually means, as well as ios and android tablet success, that common people do not need computers with flexible and rich operating systems, with cool software like photoshop. which is sad to me, because there are no place to go deeper in ios, android, and chromeos, though there were place to go deeper even if one were using windows.
Most people reading this will already be fairly tolerant. But there is a step beyond thinking of yourself as x but tolerating y: not even to consider yourself an x. The more labels you have for yourself, the dumber they make you.
http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
#paul_graham #religion #politics #internet #discussions #identity
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interesting, that i’ve got this from 500px regarding the photo i didn’t even touch. just made it with b/w film, scanned in the lab, and uploaded.
#photography #500px #photo #quote
I have stopped at Dilijan for a couple of minutes in order to ask local drivers if the road via Noyemberian is under fire (it is very close to the border), or is it calm there recently. This is when the taxi driver I was talking with noticed that one of my tires needs attention. I went to the nearest “vulcanization” service, came out of the car, returned, and what I see? this amazing girl comes together with me. (:
also, this is my personal record - more than 12 hours behind the wheel :P
#girl #photos #photo #portrait #track #journey #photos #map #screenshot #batumi #yerevan #dilijan
#photos #photo #house #home #dilijan #graffiti #cheerful
#photos #photo #self-portrait #self_portrait #dilijan
#sevan #photos #photo #gull #seagull #lake
#photos #photo #portrait #girl #jolla #mirror
#yerevan #landscape #rain #sun #evening #photo #photos
#hands #photos #photo #tbilisi
#self-portrait #self_portrait #photos #photo
#yerevan #landscape #electricity #photos #photo
#dog #photos #photo #yerevan #portrait
#dog #photos #photo #haghartsin #portrait
#self_portrait #self-portrait #photos #photo #dilijan #tufenkian
if you want to make something, what you do, good, then may be you should not sometimes do that.
there are people, be they acquaintances, business or relationship partners, who don’t understand, don’t value, don’t appreciate the way we do that. and we do that that way in order to make something good, to make good work, to make things better.
well, they may need something else. does it make sense to make what they want if that’s not good? i don’t think so.
i don’t want to endeavour for something i won’t like after all. no, it’s better to make something good and don’t waist time.
#makers #design #good #taste #business #relationships #people #freedom
russian is a very interesting language. they have this “общаться” (intercommunicate), then “общество” (society), which becomes “сообщество” (community) and they also have this word “сообща” - to do something together, verbatim - by communicating with each other.
#russian #language #words
she wrote a bash script and named the file “bash”.
#bash #scripting #naming #console #work
most of the human religions known to me consider that the god is creator, and he created everything. i don’t know how it describes god, but i think it’s about us. it means we ourselves are creators. creativity is essential feature for us. no wonder the word creative usually doesn’t mean something nasty, and used in positive context. nobody says - “such a creative girl, that is disgusting”. we are delighted by creative people. and because early humans were creative too, they thought that other things they didn’t create, and have no idea how to create, were created by someone mighty.
#creativity #creative #idea #thinking #religion #god #humans #people #imagination
@{Կեսգիշերային Հրամանատար ; satenik@spyurk.am}
#photo #photos #girl #portrait #backgammon #smile
@{imandes ; imandes@spyurk.am} studying at subtitle (:
#photos #trivial
— and when i came you weren’t there.
— yes, i went to bank to close a part of my loan.
— you have a loan? what for.
— business, kinda, you know. earning money for banks.
#talk #business #entrepreneurship #banks #loan
apparently shutterstock sales also videos
#wind-farm #wind_farm #power-plant #power_plant
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein relatively unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than is accurate. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to accurately evaluate their own ability level. Conversely, highly skilled individuals may underestimate their relative competence, erroneously assuming that tasks that are easy for them are also easy for others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
#dunning-kruger_effect #psychology #cognitive #bias #knowledge #expertise
added these photos to wikicommons, updated this and this pages.
#trivial
time waits for no one.
also, this wallpaper
#makoto #makoto_ono #chiaki #time #anime #gif #the_girl_who_leapt_through_time
Motives are extremely important. sometimes even more important than actions.
This is why i have very mixed feelings every time i see a poster with Snowden’s words. Because i am not sure he did what he did because of his beliefs or ideology. I am afraid, he did it because he was simply a Russian spy. And because he was paid to defame US. When you get paid, and you get paid by the other interested party, it’s not heroism, it’s something which pretends to be heroism, but it’s not.
No wonder Wikipedia has a rule that those who write articles should not be paid for that. That’s a different motive. And that motive changes everything.
#snowden #fee #heroism #freedom #free_speech #russia #usa #surveillance #motives
the cure from procrastination.
#procrastination #chat #irc #programming #screenshot #cure
just interesting, you are encouraged to comment why you do or don’t.
in the wake of this post and comments.
i accept that free software is often far behind it’s proprietary analogues. we, the society must learn to not take it for granted.
we must pay to the creators to support their work. we must hire developers around us to contribute our desired patches. we must set up bounties for necessary features.
thus we will encourage development of free software.
because free doesn’t mean free-ware, it’s not as free beer but as free speech.
software requires investments like tree requires water.
#free_software #free-software #libresoftware #open-source #open_source #freeware #development #investment #bounty #software #freedom
this galore of information we have, these unlimited amount of options to read something on the internet leads us to want to not loose each and every option. because people are naturally curious. but it’s technically not possible. we feel it, thus we read, perceive superficially. we learn to read many small articles, instead of fat books, then we learn to read small twitter statuses instead of blog posts and articles. add to these various notifications which prod us from different sides.
knowledge, work and development require deep concentration, and not being constantly distracted by notifications and status updates. i myself read less books than before. i myself notice this tempting desire to refresh the feed, instead of concentrating on my project. project requires concentration and a lot of thinking, and environment requires fast context switches between different sources, which drains brain power very fast.
i have no solution for this. may be accept that i’ll loose information. read one article of every ten i want to, read it slow and thoroughly, without hurry, fully perceiving one, not many. chew well one thing, not swallow many things. they cannot be digested after all. i don’t know.
#information #galore #concentration #context_switch #internet
— it’s hard to imagine that if you work, let’s say, in toshiba, your child may work in, let’s say, - sony.
#japan #talk
— we have changed the rules, you don’t need to leave the backpack here any more. you can enter the shop with it.
— great! did you change the rules regarding photo cameras as well?
— no.
— then i’ll just put it in the backpack and enter.
— okay.
#talk #shop #rules #solution
photo by Mikhail Grebenshikov, march of millions
#mikhail_grebenshikov #photo #police #march_of_millions #moscow #OMON #protest
it says “gnu is not unix, not a bit”. erased.
#gnu #unix #linux #penguin #graffiti #stencil #yerevan #qr-code #qrcode
erased.
#leonid_yengibarov #leonid_yengibarian #yerevan #graffiti #stencil
these are erased too. let them be here.
#house #baloon #spray #yerevan #graffiti #stencil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is-SKnOgBb8
#city #street #photo
Burgomaster. All right. What’s the mood around town? Warden. Quiet. But they are still writing. Burgomaster. Writing what? Warden. Letter “L” on the walls. That means Lancelot. Burgomaster. Nonsense! “L” means - “Love the president”. Warden. I see. So, we don’t detain those who are writing? Burgomaster. Are you kidding? Of course we do. What else do they write? Warden. Embarrassing to say. The president is scum. His son is a crook. The president… (giggles) Can’t really repeat the expression, sir. But mostly they write the “L”. Burgomaster. Morons. What do they want with that Lancelot anyway? Any news about him, while we’re on the subject? Warden. Not a word. Burgomaster. Did you interrogate the birds? Warden. Uh-huh. Burgomaster. All of them? Warden. Uh-huh. See this mark? That’s eagle’s present. Got me right in the ear. Burgomaster. And what are they saying? Warden. They say they didn’t see Lancelot. Only the parrot agrees. You’re like: “Have you seen him?” And he’s like: “Seen him”. You’re like: “You saw Lancelot?” And he’s like: “Saw Lancelot.” Well, you know what kind of bird the parrot is. Burgomaster. What about the snakes? Warden. Those would have slithered in themselves if they smelled anything. They’re on our side. And relatives to the deceased to boot. But they don’t. Burgomaster. The fish? Warden. Not a peep. Burgomaster. Maybe they know something? Warden. Nope. We had our scientists look into their eyes, and they confirm - those guys know nothing. In short Lancelot, also known as St. George, also known as Perseus, named differently in each country, has yet to be located. Burgomaster. Screw him, then.
Dragon by Evgeny Shvarts.
#dragon #anti-utopia #book #literature #quote #talk #surveillance #tale #life
mobile device manufacturers are trying to advertise their products as means of creativity. not only means of consumption. which is also good, because it’s about us. we want to be creative, not only consume.
i would like to say, let’s not forget, that we have amazing tool for creative work, right under ours very nose, but it becomes more and more neglected.
it is banal desktop personal computer.
it has terrific operating systems, well developed, toolkits and frameworks for writing software, diverse tools for creative work - photoshop and gimp, inkscape and illustrator, maya and blender, different cad systems for architects and engineers, cool software to create movies and animations.
btw, it’s symptomatic, that gtk toolkit was created in order to write gimp. (: because if you have such cool programs it means you have cool tools to write them.
on the contrary on mobile we have tools like instagram and picsart (btw, latter is developed in armenia, some of my friends work there, it’s founded by my former chief), and those tools are more like toys, too primitive.
and when you have only mobile device you have much more limited possibilities to learn, to go deeper, if you are curious. if you use windows, you can discover cmd, regedit, download real visual studio, use real professional tools like adobe illustrator, even when pirated. on mobile you cannot have such tools. you cannot make creative work which demands more tools, more efforts, and more knowledge, more personal development. that’s why i liked my n810 with maemo, it was basically hildon over debian, and when you have debian, it means whole gnu/linux world in your hands, you have tools, you can go deeper, do and learn a lot.
so this all beauty - development frameworks, toolkits, creative and professional tools, it’s all now neglected by the society which is amazed with mobile so called apps.
#mobile #desktop #photoshop #gimp #illustrator #inkscape #blender #instagram #picsart #console #tools #programming #gtk #debian #maemo #creativity
— They say humour is useful. A joke prolongs one’s life.
— Not everyone’s. It prolongs the lives of those who laugh. But it shortens the days of the one who tells.
#that_very_munchhausen #munchhausen #movie #talk
eventually someone took me seriously. i have a green t-shirt with writing - “nintendo rehabilitation clinic”, and then - “first step is admitting you have a problem”.
he asked me:
— rehab? from what?
— nintendo — I point to the word.
— hmm, it’s like gambling?
— kinda.
#talk #nintendo
#dog
when you choose taxi driver in Yerevan, choose the older. If he is still alive, there is more probability he’ll live some more.
#yerevan #taxi
i have an idea: almost any software will eventually become free, because otherwise there would appear an analogue of that software which is free, and the first won’t survive competition with the second.
because free has an important property/quality - it’s free. and market will choose free software, it would prefer to pay for the free alternative and/or it’s support.
btw, this is about development, about progress, thanks to entrepreneurship and fair competition.
i would also like to add - free software is a way to measure democracy: if it exists in country, if it develops, it means that laws about equal possibilities to make business indeed work. moreover, if authorities choose free software over proprietary, it means that they are less corrupted, less dependent on already existing corporations that sell proprietary software. again, this means it is more about equal opportunities and working law and court, about society where companies must compete by qualities of their production, not by using law, authorities, brute force.
of course this is not binary, but scalar. countries have some value of democracy, it’s not true or false, it’s more or less.
and once the free software idea appeared, it’ll inevitably win. #free-software #free_software #democracy #market #law #court #entrepreneurship #competition
apparently, it is possible to copy file in one remote windows terminal (rdp) and paste it to other. amazing.
#microsoft #windows #rdp #apparently
i usually prefer music without vocal, but it is not about Wir Sind Helden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55smhOwYlLA
#wir_sind_helden #music #musik
apparently…
#dog #cat #screenshot #unix #gentoo #funtoo #console
Once upon a time a boy have noticed that one of the games can turn off the power LED on his Amiga. There were two LEDs on Amiga, he could manage the other, but not this one. He didn’t even know it’s possible.
Boy could not live calmly until he found out the way to manage the LED. Then he lived happily ever after. (:
#amiga #story #tale #commodore #led #hack #life
it’s recently erased, let it hung here.
#graffiti #yerevan #einstein
recently I was reading Thomas More’s Utopia. Well, what did I like, that it does not serve as Utopia any more. Actually with time it became legitimate dystopia. When I read it, I feel what a terribly non free state and society it is.
Also, it made me think again about resources. In liberal, capitalistic society, people have a right for initiatives and entrepreneurship. This means, if I have a good idea, I am free to try to implement it, to bring it to life. Sometimes I need funding, sometimes I can start by doing it on my knees, in garage.
It can be something sustainable, which will survive because of profits, or I can get funding from different places - capital, patronage, foundations, some interested parties, people.
On the other hand, if I want to create something in socialistic, or communistic state, I need to get approval of the state. Because state manages all resources. And it has to decide, if my idea is worth spending money on.
Even if we assume the state is not very much corrupted, and I do not necessarily need relatives in the government, state has all the resources, and has to do such decisions. They should decide if my idea worth giving it a start or not.
First, they already have their own spendings, and may not have resources for new ideas. Thus - socialistic state is not about development.
It is about monopoly. The government has monopoly of resources, management.
On the contrary, in case of liberal, capitalistic society, there are more powers. There can be power which is interested in your idea, and it’ll support it. This power can be some community as well.
No wonder free software was born in the United States.
By the way, I also do not believe in democracy in socialistic state.
Because technically democracy can be preserved, maintained, in case we have different powers. Not in case of government monopoly.
If we have one power, it’ll take advantage very soon, fake elections, change constitution, and make conversion to an authoritarian state.
So, if you do not like monopolies, you should not like socialism/communism. (:
#socialism #communism #monopoly #monopolies #democracy #authoritarianism #dictatorship #collectivism #private_property #liberalism
nice Russian saying goes like that - “he’s a fool, but he does not eat soap”.
Well, not many people who are amazed by North Korea are going to live there and strive for the victory of communistic ideals.
#saying #korea #regime #communism #dictatorship
#screenshot #freepascal #lazarus #solar_energy #code #pascal #trivial
code is here
i think having possibility to search through one’s tags is essential.
may be someone wants to post a bounty for this issue?
https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/6187
#diaspora
chief enters the room and notices that everybody stand close to each other, talking.
— what are you discussing?
— sci-fi.
— oh, I thought you discuss constitutional “reform”, nevermind.
#talk #slap #armenia
this beauty periodically comes to Yerevan. Boeing 727-228(А) cn 22085/1665 was built in 1980. It started flight career in Air France (registration F-GCDE). Today airplane belongs to the Iranian company Iran Aseman Airlines (registration ЕР-ASD) and makes flights to Armenia from Tehran.
#boeing #boeing-727 #boeing_727 #727 #aserman_airlines #iran #tehran #armenia #yerevan #zvartnots #evn #airport #airplane
The way they write functional programs for decidedly non-functional problems is through a trick called a monad, which I will not explain and nobody understands anyway, but the point is, in the hands of a very clever programmer, functional programming “can” be used in many more places than you would naively expect.
And that is really the problem. It works at first and then it keeps working until suddenly it doesn’t. And this
communismfunctionalism spreads ideologically until yourcountrycodebase is saddled with debt and nobody can bail you out because you have a lot of monads and nobody can understand them.
#structs #classes #functional_programming #imperative_programming #programming #monads #apple #siwft #programming_languages #software #development #design
#screenshot #freepascal #lazarus #solar_energy #code #pascal #trivial
Part two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awy0KjK0r_0 - now tagged #armenian-music
*Komitas - Seven Dances:
A.Babadjanyan - Trio fis-moll
#sergey_khachatrian #narek_hakhnazarian #lusine_khachatrian #music #concert #armenian
Enjoy this beautiful trio, their concert at St. Petersburg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaiXNj_HblU
By the way, I like that Sergey Khachatrian tends also to play Armenian composers. Nobody remembered Baghdasarian, but he played him. He also plays Komitas, Babajanian, of course Khachatrian. It’s interesting, that he says, Aram Khachatrian is not very welcomed in the west, probably because he’s considered a Soviet composer. He says, I explain to them, why they should not see him not only as Soviet, but as an Armenian composer as well. Not because he used some Armenian folk themes, but because those obviously Armenian works he created, he didn’t use any existing melodies, that was coming from inside, because it was in his his soul, essence.
#sergey_khachatrian #narek_hakhnazarian #lusine_khachatrian #music #concert #armenian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g30MejRyvLo
#berlinale #taxi #jafar_panahi #golden_bear #cinema
My hero, Mikheil Saakashvili
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XCfu4ybKto
#saakashvili
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJkIsdDG2Rk
#narek_hakhnazarian #cello #musik #musik #armenian
But apps like Instagram are blind — or almost blind. Their gaze goes nowhere except inwards, reluctant to transfer any of their vast powers to others, leading them into quiet deaths. The consequence is that web pages outside social media are dying.
https://medium.com/matter/the-web-we-have-to-save-2eb1fe15a426 #internet
The speed increase of hardware is slower than the speed loss of software
Die Hardware wird langsamer schneller als die Software langsamer.
Martin Reiser
#reiser #reisers_law #quote #martin_reiser #hardware #software #speed
When module stays loaded and can be manipulated from the “shell” by calling so called commands, i. e. exported functions of that module. That’s very beautiful design, I believe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byC98PHZR2Y
#oberon #operating_systems #programming #draw #demo #shell #tui #interface #design
#armenia #yerevan #photo #kids
#photo #armenia #gyumri #film #kids
what is very convenient when you use vim (or it probably relates to any console editor) is that pasted text always goes exactly where you need it to be, not to other place. this helps me to work with texts a lot.
#vim #console
Each new release of Sailfish OS is named after a lake in Finland. You may wonder, if developers may run out of names soon? Nope — because there are ~190.000 lakes in Finland. (: It’s often called the land of lakes.
There is a Finnish legend about this. Some hero have stolen Happiness from some monster (I think it was obviously wrong decision). Then the monster sent bandits to find him and return the Happiness back. Hero was fighting with courage, but he somehow dropped the Happiness. It fell on the ground, and shattered into thousands of pieces.
Each piece became a lake.
#lake #finland #happiness #jolla #sailfish #legend #tale
— your flat is very clean now.
— you know, if program works N times faster after rewrite, it means…
— that initially it was working N times slower.
#talk #trivial
when you configure netapp, in order to turn off snapshots, you have to say nosnap on, instead of snap on or snap off which seems more natural.
#netapp #filer #console #magic #spell
there are small countries in Europe.
no small countries in many other places. because in many other places they would not be tolerated, but swallowed. or divided by neighbours. #politics #civilization
— A. is such a nerd. And he’s always alone.
… Five minutes later
— See, what is written on this receipt, that we bought “4.000 tickets”. (we bought four tickets)
— So we could get 4.001 ticket?
— This actually increases entropy.
— Hm?
— Because it does floating point calculation when it’s not necessary therefore spends more time and energy.
— Comon.
— And if the device has no floating point unit and emulates…
— And?
— Imagine millions of such devices, and every one spends more energy than it could.
— You know why A. is always alone? Think about it.
#talk #programming #people
She: you don’t trust girls’ opinions, do you?
He: hm?
She: But you should take girls’ opinions seriously.
He: hm?
She: Because opinion which girl carries is actually an opinion of one of her former boyfriends.
#talk #people
This article is about people who left Russia because of recent developments, i. e. worsening of situation with rights, freedom, education, and everything, who have abandoned a hope that if they stay they can live in a normal civilized country. Text is in #Russian language.
When you come to Israel, you feel warmth of incredible strength. I never felt that before. People around support you, help you. First two months, when I was walking the streets, those who found out that I have made aliyah, were saying the same phrase: “Welcome home!”. That was so touchy I wanted to cry. Those were people who didn’t know you. Taxi drivers. Sellers. Whoever. They are just happy to welcome you.
I like how Israeli medicine is designed. We make an appointment on the Internet. We arrive - no queues. There is a piece of paper at the door of the doctor with your name and the time at which the office door will open just for you. Almost everything is free, we only pay some coins for special procedures. There are two kinds of pharmacy stores in Israel - regular pharmacies, and pharmacies that attached to hospital cashier desks. When you have a prescription, it does not make sense to go to the regular pharmacy, because if you go to the one served by the hospital then significant part of the cost is paid by the state.
I wish Armenia could welcome repatriates like that.
#fantastic #israel #aliyah #medicine #repatriation #pharmacy #welcome_home
Did you notice, that brand name written on the back of Nokia (at least n900) and Jolla isn’t loud, flashy, blatant? On Samsung devices it’s silver, it shines, and no way someone won’t notice which device you’re holding. In case of n900 and Jolla, brand name is slightly carved, and doesn’t make much noise, does not show off. Which I personally like a lot.
#europe #design #marketing #nokia #jolla #branding #advertisement #brand #taste #taste_for_makers
— Is it Nokia on your table? — Nope. — wait, isn’t it Lumia? — Nope. — Then what is it? — Let me tell you a story. (:
#jolla #nokia #phone #talk
the guardian published some photos of “Yeraz” van, which was produced in Yerevan years ago. Crappy van, actually.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2015/feb/05/campervan-armenia-dream-in-pictures
#eraz #yeraz #photos #link #van #technologies #armenia
In 2011, UN recognized Internet access as a human right. In particular, it was mentioned that states have to
respect online anonymity, adopt privacy and data protection laws, and to decriminalize defamation…
ensure that Internet access is maintained at all times, including during times of political unrest.
Well, I would like to add that you also have a right to not access the Internet. Especially if Internet for you is limited by Facebook, where online anonymity is not respected.
Nobody will punish you, fine you, or pursue you for that. May be some people will be offended, but, most likely, no one will notice your absence.
FAA - Federal Aviaton Administration, which defines US air traffic rules, in November 2013 revised limitations of use of personal electronics in the air. Which means that in USA passengers do not have to turn off their devices any more during take off or landing.
I would like to add, that even if you aren’t in the airplane, it is safe to use “airplane mode” of your device. You won’t be a reason of any accident: airplanes won’t fall, trains won’t leave their lines, ships won’t sink, and satellites won’t be invaded by aliens because of you.
Know your rights! You have a right for airplane mode!
#freedom #rights #airplane #airplane_mode #freedom_of_speech #facebook #internet
the line, which passes through the centre of the lenses, is always straight.
#photography #lenses #line
when we read a book, or watch a movie, we live other, different lives.
may be that is the reason, we love doing that - it gives the possibility to live an extra life, not only ours.
#people #life #fiction
Not verbatim:
We caught these policemen who took bribes, and the judge freed them. There is this “collective responsibility” among them. These policemen can now drink somewhere abroad with this judge making fun of us, who tries to fight corruption.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=eGAbKQfjP-g
#saakashvili #ukraine #odessa #corruption #russian
M. S.: It seems that prosecutor’s office continues to practice superintendence functions. In Vilkovo one enterpreneur started to build a ferry way, and he got a mail from prosecutor’s office: provide documents so that we can open a case against you. Do you aware about it?
Prosecutor: No, no such thing. But it fits, in principle, in the prosecutor’s responsibilities.
M. S.: I’m sorry, scaring investors as soon as they come is the functional responsibilities of the prosecutor’s office? This, my dear, is called racketeering! Is banditry a functional duty of the prosecutor’s office? …
M. S.: I saw those prosecutors like you. By the way, I saw them in prison later …
http://a-s-k-e-t.livejournal.com/336356.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIpn95ikW-w
#saakashvili #odessa #ukraine #corruption #russian
Jig’s series of questions are strongly gender-marked. She uses a proportionately large number of tag-end questions: “wasn’t it?”, “isn’t it?” (Dietrich). She also uses circular and vaguely generalized evaluations of their activities rather than direct statementns— “that’s all we do”— the goal of her conversation being consensus.
Gender-linked Miscommunication in ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ http://www.csus.edu/indiv/m/maddendw/Hem_fem.pdf by Pamela Smiley from University of Wisconsin
#paper #gender #communication #talk #hamingway #consensus
peolpe don’t value people. that’s like a law of nature. so stop the hope that anyone will value you, except if you have a teenage stupid girlfriend, or a dog with infant behaviour.
#noch_nevermind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIpDTBAMVpY
#birthrightarmenia #armenia (@{դինջ վիշապաքաղ ; lubekar@spyurk.am} is one of the authors)
#Electric_power_transmission #armenia #landscape #photo
it turned out, our beautiful modernistic gull, hated by Khrushchev, our symbol of freedom, have been privatized. Now it is located in the restaurant, and her wing stretches above the fence.
#armenia #gull #seagull #freedom #modernism #photo #fence #restaurant #privatization #bird #architecture
#khanjians_house #architecture #armenia #photo
#photo #self-portrait #library #courtyard #yard #yerevan
#photo #self-portrait #shadow #bridge #armenia
#photo #girl #self-portrait
#photo #dog #people
#photo #kids #football #saghmosavank #monastery #armenia #game #children
#photo #street #yerevan #people
#photo #girl #camera
#dog #photo #portrait #street #yerevan
#ashtarak #armenia #radio_telescope #telescope #satellite #antenna #science #evening #research #history #architecture #photo #physics #radio
#yerevan #subtitle #people #breakfast #girls #street
#self-portrait #photo #black_and_white
#self-portrait #shadow #photo
“don’t stand in front of”
#girl #portrait #photo #black_and_white #film
#photo #portrait #utopianlab #black_and_white #film
#grigor_khachatrian #terian_street #afrikians_club #film #photo #black_and_white
gentoo is like quantum universe: everything that can happen does happen.
#gentoo #linux #gnu
#photography #test #lenses #mamiya #takumar #fujinon
old oriental house in Yerevan.
#photo #Yerevan #house #building #courtyard #yard
testing lenses.
#photo #autoportrait
at the screening of Maria Sahakian’s movie “Alaverdi” or “It’s not me” at utopianlab
#alaverdi #screening #screenshot #movie
Vahagn Poghosian from IstigateDesign will have a talk about decentralization.
#decentralization
sometimes when I look at the world from the “capitalistic” perspective, I see, that whoever did something first, he wins. Twitter was the first successful network with hashtags - all the people joined it. The second one won’t work.
I personally don’t have neither facebook nor twitter account, because I value good design, and I believe that decentralization is about it. I want internet to be the network, not the couple of fat nodes. However, this way I become an anchorite, who went to live alone to the far mountains, and I probably must strew ashes on my head every day, to be like one.
Today we were talking with my friend about one guy, who came to live in a small, mostly destroyed after the war city in our country. He is angry. Because he is alone. And he struggles for every small right, and for his dignity. Nobody values him. He hates everybody eventually. Is he a winner? Does it worth to come to that small almost not breathing city to live there in order to support development and decentralization if he is not happy?
John Nash is dead. Killed in a car accident along with his wife.
#hasselblad #35mm #camera #licking_oneself
— Full frame is only good if you’re a kid with small hands. You should get a hasselblad medium format digital back.
#talk #photography #hasselbsad
something about new warning message։
#oberon #voc #programming #screenshot
#journally #screenshot #voc
#photo #foto #abovian #armenia #kotayk #m4_highway #landscape
#photo #ratcliffe #power_plant #power_station #1986 #michael_kenna #art
#byureghavan #armenia #town #photo
#photo #foto
#photo #foto #razdan #armenia #evening #techno #city #landscape #thermal_power_station #power_plant #cooling_tower #industrial #Wärmekraftwerk #Kühlturm
source
#yerevan #airport #zvartnots #evn #photo #air #airplane #photography #architecture
I was unable to find out who is the author of the photo.
#photo #yerevan #charbakh #renationship #evening #underground #subway #armenia #bw #couple
quote of the day:
#programming #race_condition #quote #question #talk
this is a very useful thing in let’s say family life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual-current_device
#current
it is an old paper and I like it a lot.
A Comparison of Ada and Pascal in an Introductory Computer Science Course http://www.sigada.org/conf/sa98/papers/murtagh.pdf
#ada #pascal #programming #teaching #education #computer_science #paper
there is no good in arguing with the inevitable. the only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
james russel lowell
#quote #inevitable #argument #wind #overcoat
free software aquarium management system. written in pascal.
#aquarium #pascal #freesoftware
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe0ZdzO_urU
#interface #gui #turing #a2 #bluebottle #oberon #programming
ot monochrome leica
http://www.reddotforum.com/content/2015/04/leica-m-monochrom-typ-246-review/
#monochrome #leica #photo #photography
my photos won’t be found after my death, like Vivian’s works, not only because nobody would be interested, but also because I keep them encrypted.
#photos #encryption #vivian
Operating systems verification http://ssrg.nicta.com.au/publications/papers/Klein_09.abstract
#operating_systems #os #programming #verification #paper
aaa, my pull request accepted!
https://github.com/devi/uxmpp/pull/2#event-293939170
#github #xmpp #uxmpp #programming #jabber
watched Vladimir Posner’s interview with Serzh Sargsian. One hour of shame and humiliation.
#posner #serzh_sargsian #interview #shame #humiliation
The mirror left on the Moon by Apollo 15 to calculate the distance between the Earth and the Moon by using laser ranging.
#mirror #moon #apollo #apollo-15 #earth #laser_ranging #distance #photo
This page refers to some technologies as “computer science fiction”. Among them to Oberon. This brings another meaning to Vishap oberon compiler. Oberon is like aliens, ghosts. And Vishaps.
#computer_science_fiction #fiction #cs #computer_science #vishap #aliens #ghosts #vishaps #dragon #dragons #compiler #oberon #oberon-2 #compilers #technologies
For the exact reasons the pi-dividers complain about, the planes, in fact, do not crash. Pi-dividers: Please do not apply for a job where my money or my life will depend on your code.
comment from this blog post.
#ada #programming #types #safety #code #pi #typing
aside from polarizing, uv, color and other different filters, photographer needs a small, remotely controllable cloud. when the light is too bright, it can be put between the sun and the scene, to filter the light.
#photography #cloud
Minkin’s article was the best.
When your ally fully depends on you; when he has nowhere else to go; when not only his well-being is in your hands, but also his life… Then the ally like that is called hostage. And if he supports you in anything, that’s very similar to “Stockholm Syndrome”. http://echo.msk.ru/blog/minkin/1535456-echo/
#russian #minkin #echo #article #armenia #russia #hostage #ally #1915 #genocide #politics #quote
#vivian_maier #dog #street_photography #photography #city #photo #street #color
— may be i don’t go to parties in order to not feel lonely there.
#talk #lonely #parties
nevada became 46th state which recognized armenian genocide.
#nevada #usa #armenian-genocide #genocide #usa #recognition
Shai acknowledged that the Jewish state is reluctant to send a more high-level delegation to Yerevan for fear of upsetting Turkey. “We’re a small country and can’t fight with everyone all the time,” he told “The Jerusalem Post.”
#israel #armenia #armenian-genocide #genocide #turkey #1915 #knesset #delegation #recognition
the conspiracy behind totoro http://www.tofugu.com/2013/08/15/conspiracy-theory-totoro/
via @{cedar@spyurk.am ; cedar@spyurk.am} under this post.
#totoro #anime #animation #conspiracy #conspiracy_theory #miyazaki #ghibli #studio_ghibli #tororo #sayama #suicide #spirites #nekobus #catbus #neko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnDdSSFenRk
#bb8 #robot
I have this book, about “my fundamental rights in European Union”. Dignity is the first right apparently. I feel something about that.
I believe Russia should issue a book like this about Eurasian Union. It should start with “You have no rights.”.
#eu #europe #european_union #russia #eurasian_union #book #rights #right #dignity #life #photo
Yesterday I was thinking that Orwell is a very close writer to me. Not Kafka, for instance. George Orwell. I often repeat that language related questions are political. It turned out Orwell has a text about it.
A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks …… English …… becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.
http://wikilivres.ca/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Language
#language #orwell #politics #english #george_orwell
she was telling what did she write when she was studying.
#study
— what do you miss in relationship? why are you unsatisfied?
— i don’t know. nothing in my life changes because of him. nothing depends on him. he could, may be, try to impress me at least with his profession, he’s a cook, but he never did.
— did his life change because of you?
#relationship #talk
Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. It’s got no place here. Better get used to the idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDGNsbLayJw
#shawshank #quote #music #freedom
Kronos quartet kommt zu Jerewan. Und ich habe ein Ticket!
http://kronosquartet.org/news/article/support-kronos-quartet-mary-kouyoumdjian-silent-cranes
#kronos_quartet #yerevan #music #musik #jerewan
if you’re going through hell, keep going.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--ZfS3mgzek
#keep_going #boozoo_bajou #tony_joe_white #music #music
may be Andersen wanted to tell us with “mermaid”, that she betrayed herself, her identity, for someone else.
#andersen #tale #mermaid
i feel empathy towards this fox. if it is a fox. #pirosmanishvili #art
https://soundcloud.com/liquid-youth/david-august-boiler-room
#david_august #boiler_room #set
https://soundcloud.com/tipotheus/bonobo-nicolas-jaar-chet-faker
#bonobo #set #music
i like this site about Jew lives in Europe. they have for instance, such stories.
they work, they smile, they study on this pictures.
#Jews #Europe #photos #history #life #stories #photo
Daron Acemoglu, author of “why nations fail” (he is of Armenian descent) speech via skype at AUA. Bad voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V2NYok4HRE
#why-nations-fail #daron-acemoglu #speech #talk #aua #yerevan #armenia
afaik that’s EU requirement. in English it was saying “I understand”. In German - “alles klar” (:
#eu #german #english #jolla #screenshot #sailfish #Lautstärke #volume #alles-klar
aaa, those cats. and “solve climate change” link takes to greenpeace site. (:
#pixelart #screenshot #pebble #meow #cat
“from my window”, by Seda Grigorian. #yerevan #photo #canyon #schlucht #foto #arch #architecture
#karen_mirzoian #photo #karabakh #artsakh #football #armenia
how to develop kodak-cft film:
— d-76 developer 1 to 7. — 45 minutes. — turn tank upside down every 3 minutes.
that gives not bad results. however, may be there could be more grain. people talk that it is possible to use ilford developer and add something in order to get more grain. i have no idea what.
#kodak #developer #d-76 #development #film #film-photography #photography
as expected facebook closes xmpp api.
#facebook #xmpp #api #jabber #eventually
via @{antranigv@spyurk.am ; antranigv@spyurk.am}
— … virtual robotics competition.
— why virtual?
— for those who don’t know electronics, cannot deal with mechanics, cannot do low lever programming…
— then it is like instagram: for those who cannot make good photos.
#instagram #robotics #talk #electronics #mechanics #photography
View of the concert performed by Robert Moog and the Moog Synthesizer, part of the Jazz in the Garden series, The Museum of Modern Art, August 28, 1969. Photographer: Peter Moore. Photographic Archive. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York
#robert_moog #moog-synthesizer #moma #photo #1969 #peter_moore #archive
#creative-commons #moma #design source
power symbol, location icon and creative commons at moma.
#design #moma #location #icon #creative-commons #license #marker
#adel-tawil #lieder #musik
#armenia #architecture #photo #black-and-white #yerevan
#architecture #color #photo
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#թոթոռո #միյազակի #անիմէ
#totoro #miyazaki #anime #animation #gif #rain
first time i have browsed f-droid store, apprx a year ago, it contained less software that maemo repositories. today i also i think that there is more useful free software for maemo than for android.
and that, i suppose, characterizes maemo and android free software communities.
#maemo #android #f-droid #free-software
if the universe does end when you cast a struct sockaddr_in* to a struct sockaddr*, I promise you it’s pure coincidence and you shouldn’t even worry about it.
http://www.gta.ufrj.br/ensino/eel878/sockets/sockaddr_inman.html
#programming #sockets
So it’s out, it’s commercially produced, it’s available. Not as outstanding as Sailfish for me, it’s more like Android, with the always present bar at the top, but still, it’s a full fledged GNU/Linux operating system. Graphics seems to be smooth, probably that’s because of Mir, on the other hand, I miss pidgin IM on Jolla, so I would like to have more banal X with GTK-2 software porting possibility. Whatever, see
BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu phone review and demo + additional thoughts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR4baLQmU0s
#ubuntu #ubuntu-phone #linux #gnu #gnu-linux #aquaris #review #demo #unix #qml #qt #interface #design #software
critics of go http://dtrace.org/blogs/wesolows/2014/12/29/golang-is-trash/
#critics #golang #google-go #go #programming #programming-languages #plan9 #assembler #language #design
23 séquences d’éclairs à 7000 i/s capturées en France lors de la campagne de recherche Météorage 2014.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=szAMsMa3lYw
@{ Ճաշող Փիլիսոփայ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 09.03.2015, 18:07:50
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=szAMsMa3lYw
#23 #կայծակ #որոտ #ամպրոպ
#lightning #slowmotion #nature #video #xavier-delorme #fadi-awad #raise-my-dust #france #thunderstorm #gewitter #blitz #2014
would like to share this beautiful song with you: Satrpialo
i did not know which photo to use, so i have illustrated it with some of my photos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaIOT1_UqeA
@{ Ճաշող Փիլիսոփայ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 08.03.2015, 12:28:58
ուզում եմ կիսուել այս երգով՝ սատրպիալո | სატრპიალო
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaIOT1_UqeA
պատկերազարդել եմ իմ թբիլիսեան նկարներով։
#վրացերէն #ქართული #սատրպիալո #სატრპიალო #երաժշտութիւն #მუსიკა #երգ #სიმღერა #չաշկա #ჩაშკა #թբիլիսի #თბილისი #փողոց #ქუჩის #քաղաք #ქალაქი #նկար #სურათი #ժապաւէն #ფილმი #ֆոտո #ფოტოგრაფია #ფოტო #սեւ֊սպիտակ #შავ-თეთრი
#georgian #satrpialo #music #song #chashka #tbilisi #street #city #photo #photo #film-photography #film #black-and-white #bw
This is why we’re attracted to people who don’t want us. We know they’re not into it from the gate. We pretend to be surprised later when we find ourselves betrayed and they leave after an intense but fairly short stay. They fit perfectly into our ego’s plan: I will not be loved. The reason that nice, available people seem boring to us is because they bust us. The ego equates emotional danger with excitement, and claims that the nice, available person isn’t dangerous enough. The irony is that the opposite is true: available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy. They might actually hang around long enough to get to know us. They could melt our defenses, not through violence but through love. This is what the ego doesn’t want us to see. Available people are frightening. They threaten the ego’s citadel. The reason we’re not attracted to them is because we’re not available ourselves.
“A Return to Love”, Marianne Williamson
#love #relationships #ego #people #a-return-to-love #marianne-williamson #quote
#purity #math #xkcd #science
why rejection is painful to such extent, much more, than other basic psychological injuries, why loneliness makes us incapable of intimacy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBqoA1V6Fgg
#failure #rejection #guilt #loneliness #brooding #rumination #loss #trauma #self-esteem #psychology #injury #emotions #first-aid #pain #speech #talk #guy-winch #aid
did some “drawing” today.
#dragon #optics #johann-zahn #magic-lantern #gravure #athanasius-kircher #art #science #history #mark-zakharov #movie #fantasy #vishap #quote
@{ Ճաշող Փիլիսոփայ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 03.03.2015, 19:21:10
այսօր մի քիչ «նկարչութիւն» եմ արել այս կայքերի՝ http://oberon.vishap.am http://wiki.oberon.vishap.am համար։
#վիշապ #վիշապներ #աթանաս֊քիրխեր #անդերգրաունդ#վիշապ #վիշապներ #աթանաս֊քիրխեր #անդերգրաունդ #վօկ #վիշապ֊օբերոն #վիշապ #օպտիկա #ֆենթեզի #յոհան֊ցահն #արվեստ #գիտություն #կինո #մարկ֊զախարով #հեքիաթ #մէջբերում #քաղուածք
how to create multi-resolution favicons with gimp http://demosthenes.info/blog/467/Creating-MultiResolution-Favicons-For-Web-Pages-With-GIMP
#gimp #howto #favicon
Election politics is very much a type of marketing, and politicians are starting to use personalized marketing’s capability to discriminate as a way to track voting patterns and better “sell” a candidate or policy position.
Psychological manipulation—based both on personal information and control of the underlying systems—will get better and better. Even worse, it will become so good that we won’t know we’re being manipulated.
#elections #politics #psychology #surveillance #manipulation #facebook #google #tilt
Be careful what you wish for
#coraline #animation #gif #puppet-animation #stop-motion #doll #neil-gaiman #gaiman #henry-selick #3d #dark-fantasy #fantasy
accept and welcome people AS IS, without any warranty.
#people
this might relate to Diaspora, and any other social network.
Facebook use predicts declines in happiness, new study finds
the actual research paper
#facebook #internet #social-network #happiness #study
Now, modular programming is possible in C, but only if the programmer sticks to some fairly rigid rules:
http://www.modulaware.com/mdlt35.htm
#programming #modularity #modular-programming #modules #C #modula #modula2 #oberon #consistency #safety
Why I’m Saying Goodbye to Apple, Google and Microsoft
I’m putting more trust in communities than corporations
https://medium.com/backchannel/why-i-m-saying-goodbye-to-apple-google-and-microsoft-78af12071bd
via @{dolphin ; dolphin@spyurk.am}
#apple #google #microsoft #gnu #linux #cyanogenmod #free-software #freedom #software #communities #corporations
my friend have been written a linux kernel module to count traffic which gets through his tor node.
https://github.com/edwardoid/nc_mod
counter data gets available to user as a file in /proc directory.
#linux #network #traffic #counter #tor #kernel #module #programming
the journalist hardly resists to not laugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoDc9bwdQWk
@{ Ճաշող Փիլիսոփայ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 12.02.2015, 12:34:34
հաւէս հարցազրոյց՝ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoDc9bwdQWk
լրագրողն էլ հազիւ է զսպում իրեն որ չծիծաղի։
#հարցազրոյց #իմպերիալիզմ #ուղղափառ #ռուսերէն #լրագրող #փողոց #ռուսաստան #պուտին #ցար #կայսր #տեսանիւթ
#russia #interview #street #putin #imperialism #religion #orthodoxy #православие #самодержавие #путин #россия #интервью #империализм
i don’t know if it’s usable. isn’t microphone connected right to the gsm chip?
#surveillance #gsm #communication
@{ Ճաշող Փիլիսոփայ ; norayr@spyurk.am} 11.02.2015, 4:08:23
#աղջիկ #ֆոտո #լուսանկար #նկար #ստուեր #լիմբո #սեւ֊սպիտակ #դիմանկար #մարդ
#photo #photos #girl #shadow #limbo #black-and-white #bw #portrait #human
#art #filmmaking #film-making #hillman-curtis #movie #video #portrait #internet
maemo fremantle hildon desktop on ubuntu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuIrRoRPufc
#maemo #fremantle #hildon #ubuntu #linux
Amazing: Quake on an oscilloscope
#game #games #graphics #video #gameplay #play #technologies #sound #quake #oscilloscope #amazing
there’s such a cute technology for android, called privacy guard. it’s developed by cyanogenmod team, and is able to limit application behavior at runtime.
there are similar technologies for gnu/linux, for example this is how to run skype with apparmor.
what’s interesting, is how different apps behave. viber periodically asks to access the camera. skype doesn’t, it’s proprietary, but it tries to behave decently.
what is also interesting, is that we have a proof that viber reads call log, while at the viber site it is stated that viber requests that permission but does not use.
#viber #proprietary-software #software #android #privacy-guard #cyanogenmod #skype #apparmor #surveillance #freedom
it is possible to download chromium (not chrome!) build for android here, or compile it yourself.
#android #chromium #chrome #google #free-software
#music #israel
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phBwXT293FI
#երաժշտութիւն #իսրայէլ
piratebay.se plays this video
@{ Նորայր ; norayr@spyurk.am} 12/24/2014, 5:02:38 PM
փայրըթբեյը այս տեսանիւթն է պտտում՝ http://openbay.isohunt.to/img/bg.webm ահա։
#piratebay #video
and he makes nice comments
@{ Նորայր ; norayr@spyurk.am} 12/24/2014, 5:55:38 PM
շատ հաւս մեկնաբանութիւններ է անում՝ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pOxlazS3zs
#լինուքս
#Bryan-Lunduke #linux #speech #ubuntu #fedora #elementary #gnome #mate #cinnamon #wayland #x11 #mir #arch #openssl
that’s how he sells books
@{ Նորայր ; norayr@spyurk.am} 12/24/2014, 6:21:41 PM
այսպէս է մարդը գրքեր վաճառում։
#գիրք #արտոնագիր #էկրանահան
#book #books #Bryan-Lunduke #drm #drm-free #ebook #screenshot
Create your own Version of Microsoft BASIC for 6502 http://www.pagetable.com/?p=46
#microsoft #basic #6502 #retro-computing #retro #cc65 #programming
a used shipping container costs about $2000, what these 15 people did with that is beyond epic
http://my99post.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/a-shipping-container-costs-about-2000.html
What your speaking style, like, says about you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAGgKE82034 #speaking
Illustration of Armenian Infantry on an Ivory casket saluting their commander, from the book: “Byzantine Armies 886 – 1118″ by Ian Heath (2004). Notice the salute sign that is adopted by modern militaries.
#army #armenian #byzantine #Ian-Heath
On Undecidable Tasks (Or, How Alan Turing Can Help You Earn a Promotion) http://calnewport.com/blog/2014/11/30/on-undecidable-tasks-or-how-alan-turing-can-help-you-earn-a-promotion/
#turing #promotion :)
The Performance Cost of Integer Overflow Checking http://danluu.com/integer-overflow/
#overflow #check #compiler
how to develop kodak cft film:
this way it works, but it could have more grain. one guy uses ilford developer and adds something for grain to make image smoother. i have no idea what does he add.
#photography #developer #film-photography #d-76 #kodak #kodak-cft #film #black-and-white #bw
Someone is making a handheld Steam game system http://www.engadget.com/2014/06/14/steamboy/
“The teacher was trying to teach the class how to draw three-dimensional cubes on paper,” Stigler explains, “and one kid was just totally having trouble with it. His cube looked all cockeyed, so the teacher said to him, ‘Why don’t you go put yours on the board?'” http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/11/12/164793058/struggle-for-smarts-how-eastern-and-western-cultures-tackle-learning
#education
this competition demonstrates that their compiler generates poor code for loops http://www.astrobe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=448
#compiler #oberon #competition
the Mamiya lenses are rated as being just about the sharpest lenses ever made for a 120 camera. The Pentacon lenses, on the other hand, even the CZJ multifoated ones, are adequate at best, and awful at worst(in the case of a lot of the Russian lenses). That’s optical quality. When you look at mechanical quality, you are comparing one of the best examples of Japanese design and engineering, to one the eastern bloc’s best examples of design and engineering.
http://photo.net/medium-format-photography-forum/00BJON
#lenses #mamiya #pentacon #photography #design #engineering
#blackberry #Z3 has #Nokia #N9 like #design and #Jolla #Sailfish like home screen.
for those who not aware, russia blocked github (once again) http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/03/github-russia/ #russia #github #freedom
virtual desktops in pantheon seem nice to me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ksMNkc5pp4&t=8m42s
btw pantheon was written from scratch in #vala and #gtk3
#pantheon #desktop-environment
develop for sailfish https://github.com/hardcodes/developwithsailfishos and link to pdf http://hardcodes.de/SailfishOS/Developing-with-SailfishOS.pdf
#jolla #sailfish #qt #qml
what do you think about it?
#jolla #carrier-iq #ciq #sailfish #alien-dalvik #dalvik #carrieriq #voodoo #surveillance #freedom
what i really miss in sailfish, is possibility to compile/run non qt desktop applications. I was able to run pidgin in maemo. I know it might not be convenient for some to use desktop apps on mobile, but I really miss this possibility. GTK port could improve the situation.
#jolla #sailfish #gtk
My dad used to say, “Slow down, son. You’ll get the job done faster.” http://ventrellathing.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/the-case-for-slow-programming/ #programming
what memories do? fade away. it’s their essential feature.
#memories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jILgxeNBK_8
I wonder is decentralization sustainable by design?
#decentralization #diaspora #friendica #identica #design #sustainability #game-theory #mathematics
Lavash, the preparation, meaning and appearance of traditional bread as an expression of culture in Armenia
http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?lg=en&pg=00011&RL=00985
#lavash #armenia #bread #culture #unesco
Twitter is now tracking the apps you download http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/twitter-is-now-tracking-the-apps-you-download/ #twitter #smartphone #apps #tracking #surveillance
Sherlock: The Game Is On In The First Photo From The Christmas Special
#sherlock
object oriented ansi c http://www.cs.rit.edu/~ats/books/ooc.pdf
#programming
#nasa austronaut’s #photography #manual http://www.hasselblad.com/media/2207875/astronauts_manual_singlepage_lr.pdf #hasselblad
project oberon 2013 on hacker news https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8620053
#oberon #project-oberon #programming #os #operating-systems #hacker-news #book
jolla is teasing “something big is going to happen”. tablet at slush event?
#jolla #slush #tease
Merkle, Hellman and Diffie ended government’s monopoly on cryptography.
https://medium.com/stanford-select/keeping-secrets-84a7697bf89f
I’ve read about it in #crypto too. (:
Smartphones versus DSLRs versus film: A look at how far we’ve come http://connect.dpreview.com/post/5533410947/smartphones-versus-dslr-versus-film/ #smartphones #dslr #film #photography
Sweden Sans: designers create national font http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/14/sweden-sans-designers-create-national-font #design #font #sweden
our room’s door gets automatically locked after 6.30 pm, when working day is over. already three days it always gets locked, which means already three days it’s always past 6.30 and it’s always time to go home. #tea #allice
and how much time it takes for you to compile chromium?
#rhetoric #chromium #compile
when you keep labelling people, then sooner or later by looking at someone you’ll see a tag cloud, behind which real human is barely visible.
#tags #labels #people
Rosetta comet landing - live stream http://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/ng-interactive/2014/nov/12/rosetta-comet-landing-live-stream-watch-live
#rosetta
#funny #intel #commercials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3_OwaHcrw0
The system was called Demon, so dubbed because file names in the computer language he used (APL) could not handle a word as long as his unimaginative choice for the first version, “Demonstration”. Later, in a burst of inspiration, an IBM colleague would change the name, carrying over the satanic theme from Demon to “Lucifer”, thus containing a cryptographic pun.
#crypto #steven-levy #quote #book #feistel #demon #demonstration #lucifer #cifer
Using animals as an example (OO people love animals), define mammal and derive giraffe from mammal. Then define a member function mate, where animal mates with animal and returns an animal. Then you derive giraffe from animal and, of course, it has a function mate where giraffe mates with animal and returns an animal. It’s definitely not what you want. While mating may not be very important for C++ programmers, equality is.
https://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/drdobbs-interview.html
#programming #oop #quote
The problem with object-oriented languages is they’ve got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.
#programming #oop #erlang #joe-armstrong #quote #coders-at-work #book
I’ve read an interesting paper.
The idea that the market is about fair competition is increasingly negated by the facts of extraordinary monopoly, centralization, and internationalization on the part of corporate and financial powers. The startling increase in class and regional inequalities both within states (such as China, Russia, India, Mexico, and in Southern Africa) as well as internationally poses a serious political problem that can no longer be swept under the rug as something transitional on the way to a perfected neoliberal world. The neoliberal emphasis upon individual rights and the increasingly authoritarian use of state power to sustain the system become a flashpoint of contentiousness. The more neoliberalism is recognized as a failed if not disingenuous and utopian project masking the restoration of class power, the more it lays the basis for a resurgence of mass movements voicing egalitarian political demands, seeking economic justice, fair trade, and greater economic security and democratization.
source: Neoliberalism as creative destruction by David Harvey.
You may know him from this RSA video.
#neoliberalism #quote #david-harvey #market #competition #trade #economics #democracy
aber diese kinder wüssten gar nicht, dass man fallen könne, sagt der engländer, und deshalb fielen sie nicht.
http://wiebkezollmann.de/der-weg-zu-gott/
#armenia #noravank #deutsch
systemctl stop aliendalvik.service
#jolla #dalvik #aliendalvik #sailfish
after schengen http://www.ignacioevangelista.com/index.php?/seleccion-natural/work-in-progres-after-schengen/
#photo #photos #photography #schengen
http://repatarmenia.org/eng/lucie-abdalian/
#lucie-abdalian #armenian-painters #story #repatriation #armenia #yerevan #new-york #nyc #canada
We got where we are by ignoring outsiders and believing in ourselves even when nobody else would. The decades have proved that our way was largely right and the critics were wrong, so our habit of not listening has become deeply entrenched.
Pretty much every statistic we can track has shown fewer women getting computer science degrees and working as engineers compared to the 80’s.
http://petewarden.com/2014/10/05/why-nerd-culture-must-die/
#nerd #culture
#hotfix #clock
today Putin’s propaganda makes parallels between Attila and him, by saying that development did not save Rome from Attila’s army, so “it’s okay that Russia is weak economically, because they have nuclear power and strong army”, and by encouraging Russian citizens in such a dirty way, and by continuing to increase hatred toward Western Civilization as a whole.
Today is also the day when first German drone delivery service started to work. http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/09/24/dhl-begins-germany-1st-drone-delivery-service-in-project-serving-north-sea/
Meanwhile we remember Attila as a kinda terrorist leader.
I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can’t really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, ‘If you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then we’ll talk.’ All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don’t want to read manuscripts. They want to read books. Books smell good. They look good. You can press it to your bosom. You can carry it in your pocket.
#books #quote #bradbury
So Putin does not care that Artsakh(NK) Armenians will remain in total isolation from the world. He just needs Armenia to sign Eurasian-Union agreement at any price.
the preliminary treaty states that the customs checkpoints will be created in Kashatagh, Lachin, and other roads going to Karabakh. Imported products from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia with have relatively high tariffs, in accordance to the Eurasian Economic Union. According to the circulating news, Armenia plans to sign this treaty on October 10, and will go into effect on January 1(2015)
http://www.epress.am/en/2014/09/25/257880.html
#armenia #russia #eurasian-union #putin #humiliation #karabakh #artsakh #freedom
Rebuilding a life in Armenia after fleeing Syrian conflict http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2014/09/25/returning-home-syrian-armenians-look-to-rebuild/
#Armenia #Syria #refugees #photography
#iphone #camera #evolution http://snapsnapsnap.photos/how-does-the-iphone-6-camera-compare-to-previous-iphone-cameras/
There’s “hell” in hello,
“Good” in goodbye,
“Lie” in believe,
“Over” in lover,
“End” in friend,
& a “if” in life.
#hello #goodbye #believe #lover #friend #life
already 7 million views http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znK652H6yQM
#apple #test #iphone #video #quality #design
the belief is wide-spread that programming is easy, can be learned on the job, and does not require specific training or talent. However, it is not programming in the sense of coding that is the problem, but design. Applications have become very demanding and their tasks complex. Mastering this growing complexity is the primary challenge. To tackle this task requires experience and an explicit ability for abstraction on many levels. It is difficult to learn this, and even more so to teach it. Not every programmer is a born designer.
https://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/geek-of-the-week/niklaus-wirth-geek-of-the-week/
#programming #wirth #design
#просветление
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test
#bechdel #test #gender #script #movie
aaaaa~ such a cool art project: “The NEURO project is a clue to what the euro can look like.” - this is the one i like (:
#euro #art #project #art-project #neuro #money #dog #canary #canary-islands #10€ #dogs #europe #eu #european-union #design
wow, here Dijkstra writes how he lived at Wirth’s house near Zurich and how he was amazed with he’s works.
#wirth #dijkstra #zurich #modula-2 #modula2 #medos #programming
#fun #cplusplus #virtual-function #destructor #source #programming
GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions.
Doug Gwyn (22 June 1991, comp.unix.wizards)
#gui #commandline #interface #human-computer-interaction #doug-gwyn #june
modern education.
#education
fake profile generator https://fakena.me/random/
#fake #profile
Russia’s Orwellian new history textbooks in occupied Crimea eliminate ethnic Ukrainians and Tatars http://jamestownfoundation.blogspot.com/2014/09/russia-imposes-new-history-textbooks-on.html
#history #book #crimea #russia #ukraine
Scotland referendum has shown that in order to preserve territorial wholeness it’s not necessary to put those who’d like to make a referendum to jail for five years (it’s one of the recent Russian laws).
#russia #scotland #law #separatism #referendum
“If you cannot find, for somebody who has been in power for nine years in a post-Soviet country, anything connected with corruption or enrichment or finding like you know businesses or offshore accounts,” he said, adding, “That makes me very proud.”
#georgia #saakashvili #democracy #corruption #freedom
Putin’s nationalist propaganda resembles the US propaganda used to convince Americans to have faith that the US is the “good guy” in every war, in disregard of all truth. However, Putin’s version is even stronger. https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Russian_writer_Mikhail_Shishkin%29
#putin #russia #usa #propaganda #war #peace #rms #stallman #quote
Russian government discussions on how to cut Russia’s Internet connection http://www.kasparov.ru/material.php?id=541BE2A0A1A0E and http://grani.ru/Politics/Russia/m.233140.html (both links in Russian)
#russia #internet #russian #www #web #freedom-of-speech #freedom
#Tanenbaum presenting #minix3, suggests to kill the #driver and shows how #minix restarts the driver.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlOsy0PZZyc
also https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/minix_3_on_arm/
btw, everybody is invited to his farewell party http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/afscheid/index.php in October #23 at Vrije.
#operating-systems #microkernel #posix #video #arm #beagle-board #design
#spirited-away #animation #miyazaki #sex #sex-industry #japanese #hot-water #water #tale #metaphors #children
I say, that may be places like github are something like a beautiful forest for some creatures. And may be our civilization is needed to produce code, so that some creatures get aesthetic pleasure.
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#quote #number #numbers #beauty #math #maths #mathematics #Paul-Erdos #Erdos
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RT @PANphotoAgency: Armenia From Air: From Tatev to Yerevan #landscapes http://t.co/TvaQfGufat http://t.co/x2sVHKstIQ
2014-09-17 15:42:52
#tatev #yerevan #photography #air #armenia #set #photo #photos
#hitler #stalin #ussr #poland #justification #history
@{ Ani Wandaryan (unofficial) ; goldentent@spyurk.am} 17.09.2014, 19:57:56
RT @DarthPutinKGB: 75 years ago today, after a deal with Hitler, my idol Stalin invaded Poland. Soviet note to Poland “sounds familiar”. ht…
2014-09-17 15:51:42
#ukraine #eu #europe #donbass #russia #referendum #today#numbers #####
@{ Ani Wandaryan (unofficial) ; goldentent@spyurk.am} 18.09.2014, 1:13:00
RT @dszeligowski: If a referendum on NATO/EU/Customs Union membership were held today in Ukraine RT@christogrozev http://t.co/oHTUw3DsLG”
2014-09-17 21:11:44
competition is good. we can see it even by considering free projects: how firefox improved because of chrome/chomium and how gcc improved because of llvm.
btw, did you know about -fsanitze flag which first appeared in llvm and now in gcc? very useful!
#sanitize #gcc #llvm #competition #market #firefox #chrome #chromium #free-software #improvement
Julian Assange Says Talk of Armenian Genocide Censored in Turkey
http://asbarez.com/126864/julian-assange-says-talk-of-armenian-genocide-censored-in-turkey/
#assange #wikileaks #armenia #turkey #genocide #armenian-genocide #censorship
improved a little bit and added readme
https://github.com/norayr/rrro
#oberon #risc #compiler
12 reasons to invest in #primecoin http://www.reddit.com/r/primecoin/comments/2fml0e/12_reasons_to_invest_in_primecoin/ #xpm
#money #economics #crypto-anarchism #math #prime-numbers #crypto-currency #bitcoin #decentralization
fragment from the manual
sed ’s/apathy/empathy/g’ -i /dev/brain
#fix #apathy #empathy #manual
occhiolism
n. the awareness of the smallness of your perspective, by which you couldn’t possibly draw any meaningful conclusions at all, about the world or the past or the complexities of culture, because although your life is an epic and unrepeatable anecdote, it still only has a sample size of one, and may end up being the control for a much wilder experiment happening in the next room.
http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/post/95735249861/occhiolism
#occhiolism #word
#oberon #programming #operating-systems #oberon-v5 #screencast
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Oberon V5 կոմպիլյացիա։
#օբերոն #աւբերոն #կոմպիլյացիա #էկրանահան
#swod is great to work while listening
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=155QgH3J_2g
#music
recent Firefox versions take CPU power just for having some pages opened, (and I use NoScript to block most of the scripts) while recent Chromium versions keep CPU usage close to zero on the same pages.
Firefox JS interpreter, according to my tests made with this tool went again behind the Chromium.
#firefox #js #load #chromium
I have translated one of comments from here
I believe it’s not possible to look at the problem of language in Ukraine from the refined point of view.
Let’s ask the question - should you invite relatives to your house? Yes. But what if relatives are thieves? Then you should not. This is the difference between the “refined” and real question.
In the refined way, - two language state and calling relatives for a dinner is a good way, but in realistic way - it’s dangerous.
Thus I would like to stress two problems. Even three.
First - attacks on neighbor states are started from mentioning Russian speaking people. By mentioning so called compatriots - though it’s hard in Russia, after the defeat of USSR. Everybody is compatriot.
And the second question. Isn’t aversion of a language a reflection? Dislike toward Russian was born in Latvia, Ukraine, may be Georgia. Not because the language is bad, but because it serves as Trojan horse.
It is used to ride in, and then bereave of land. Thus, it is necessary to blame not the language, and not play games by using it, as Kremlin is doing, but give up using the language as a mean of taking away the lands. That’s it.
And supplementary question - why nobody worries about language in Asia? Why only Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, and Georgia?
Why we see that in East European countries, but not in Asia, where it’s stronger?
And the last. Recently, by jesting Klichko, separatists uploaded a video. He makes a slip in speaking.
But I wonder. Klichko, when he was speaking in one of the Kiev schools, speaks great, pure Russian language. And kids can understand him. Ukrainian major, Ukrainian kids, but the language of communication - Russian. That’s even after annexation of Crimea and fire in Donbass.
And then, in the corridors, Klichko speaks Ukrainian, where he’s being “trapped” by separatists.
Can you imagine that any major in Russia can have a talk, even in a Russian village, in Ukrainian language?
Who is more tolerant then?
#Ukraine #Russia #language #law #tolerance #Ukrainian #Russian #Klichko #freedom
http://www.submarinecablemap.com/
#map #submarine #cable #internet
But for many years Fuchs had been, along with a number of other top mathematicians, trying to alleviate the effect of the discrimination against Jewish students by privately teaching young talented kids who were denied entry to MGU.
As part of those efforts, Fuchs was involved in what became known as “Jewish People’s University,” an unofficial evening school, where he and his colleagues gave courses of lectures to students. Some of those lectures had even been held at Kerosinka, although this was before my time.
The school had been organized by a courageous woman, Bella Muchnik Subbotovskaya, who was its heart and soul. Unfortunately, the KGB got on the case, alarmed that there were unauthorized gatherings of Jewish people. She was eventually called to the KGB and interrogated. Soon after that interview, she was killed by a truck under suspicious circumstances, which led many people to suspect that this was in fact a cold-blooded murder. Without her at the helm, the school collapsed.
from the book Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality by Edward Frenkel
quote found here
#moscow #mgu #jews #university #kgb #ussr #love #math #interview #murder #school #cccp #ссср #internationalism #bella-muchnik-subbotovskaya #love-and-math
story about drinking milk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsLXQEeLiI0
found accidentally, when i was lurking through old videos.
while searching for it on youtube i also found this, this and may be this worth watching.
#game #games #conspiracy #conspiracy-theory #video #graphics #3d #animation #trailer #design ############
and yes, I haven’t seen any games almost, except old arcades, limbo and machinarium.
Donald Knuth interview https://github.com/kragen/knuth-interview-2006
#knuth #interview #story #life #programming #science #art
Was it nice by naive Europe and US to support movement in Ukraine toward EU, and then refuse to help in case of Russian aggression? They didn’t expect it? Or they are so afraid of Russia?
Was it nice that when US, Britain and Russia demanded Ukraine to refuse from all their nuclear power, and promised to be warrants of Ukrainian territorial wholeness, that Russia was first who broke the agreement, by aggression, while UK and US just forgot about the paper. US even refuses to sell weapons to Ukraine.
Now, because of absence of western military support, Ukraine cannot fight Russian tanks, and cannot fight professionals from Russia. That’s why Poroshenko had to retreat and do what the monster, the Russian Tsar wants.
but that was predicted back in March by the former Putin’s advisor, and I have shared his talk in Russian yesterday. Putin will go as far as West will allow him.
What can stop tanks? Unfortunately, yes, other tanks can stop tanks. Man with a bag did not stop tanks moving to Tiananmen square. Tanks killed people.
We here know very well that the only reason Azerbaijan did not start war against Armenia yet, is that we are trying to not lag far behind their militarization, which is very hard, cause we are blocked, and don’t have oil money they have. Anyway.
Tanks can stop tanks. Yazidis don’t have military power, that’s why genocide of yazidis in #2014 was possible. And no one, no one helped them from the civilized world. As well, as nobody is helping Ukraine to survive Russian aggression.
This is a very old interview, which dates March 28. Unfortunately there are no good resources in English, and best talks of Illarionov are not available in English.
Now we know, why Yanukovich refused to sign agreement with EU in the last moment. He said to his close people, that Putin promised to take Crimea and Eastern part of Ukraine if he signs the paper. He was pale and frightened as never, as they say.
Also now we know, that military operation in Crimea had no connection with Yanukovich running out of Ukraine, because according to the Defence Ministry of Russia, it started in Feb 20, four days before he run away. Yes, they minted medals, “for taking crimea”, and we can see on those medals that operation started earlier, than they were saying it started.
Also we know from the very careful studies in April, that in all Ukrainian regions overwhelming majority of the people did not feel insecure because of religion, language or ethnicity, and that majority wanted to keep Ukrainian wholeness, continue to be Ukrainian citizens. It’s obvious that there was no people’s movement, but all the troubles were organized by emulating of movement by Russian SpetzNaz.
And corruption, that’s a very good lever if you want to colonize someone. That’s the lever Russia knows how to use.
It’s very pity that by having their great potential, their scientists and engineers they, instead of creating a civilized and developed country, make draconian laws and force free and clever people to emigrate from Russia, so that only controllable and manipulatable, non educated people remain there. I hope one day Russia will become a country, we all would want to be friends with. Not the country which forces Armenia to change national language. Not the country which wants all resources, to control anything, and wants to dictate everything, pressures so hard, by not giving us to take a breath.
Yes, if you don’t like US in Iraq, you shouldn’t like Russia in Ukraine or in Armenia. Let us be free.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jQZOUT_Iog
#ukraine #russia #tanks #military #putin #europe #azerbaijan #aggression #war #peace #nkpeace #armenia #freedom
Seven Commandments
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/09/17/india-declares-dolphins-whales-as-non-human-persons/
#cetacean #dolphin #whale #intelligence #law #declaration #environment #rights #protection #freedom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkpUyB2xgTM
#doll #test #psychology #kids #children #color
Andrey Illarionov - Ukrainian crisis and its aftermath (in Russian)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTMrVK-Gvc4
ნდრეი ილარიონოვი - უკრაინული კრიზისი და მისი შედეგები
#Andrey-Illarionov #georgia #ukraine #russia #russian #politics #economics #history #freedom #aftermath
In der Zeit vom 21.8. bis zum 16.9. bin ich in Georgien und Armenien unterwegs.
#armenia #story #georgia #german #deutsch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOXQo7nURs0
Ikea Parodied Apple’s Product Ads To Promote Its New Catalog
#ikea #apple #idea #ads #catalog
explains how to install Sailfish on Nexus 5, for that one needs to make few steps under cyanogen, one of which is
in case you didn’t know it about playstore. okay. aha.
http://www.jollausers.com/2014/09/how-to-install-sailfish-os-on-nexus-5-the-easy-way/
#jolla #nexus #android #cyanogenmod #linux #gnu #qt #sailfish #install #operating-systems #mobile #freedom
#putin #hitler #war #russia #germany #history
Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev eyes actress Jill St. John at a San Clemente, California party hosted by US President Richard Nixon. Jill St. John was US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s date.
27 August 1973.
Photo by Wally McNamee.
#wally-mcnamee #brezhnev #jill-st-john #san-clemente #california #party #nixon #richard-nixon #henry-kissinger #1973 #ussr #usa #history #photo #photography
Putin is playing this very duplicitous game of keeping the level of intervention low enough that it doesn’t attract major attention and pushback from publics in the West, and he’s been fairly successful at that. I think he does not want to lose, but I think we have to also be aware of the fact that he could escalate much more rapidly and in a sense he’s already passed the point where he can draw back, I think, particularly easily.
http://www.rferl.org/content/fukuyama-interview-russia-ukraine/26566678.html
#putin #ukraine #russia #war #freedom
If there is a resource connected to your gmail.com account called something similar to “MessagingXXXXXXX”, that’s the ‘new’ Google Hangouts (the one that doesn’t play nicely with XMPP). And quite possibly it’s the Android application for Google Hangouts.
So yes, Google Hangouts stays connected even if the device you’ve logged into from is not. Apparently this is a connection that’s created internally, inside Google, from their Hangouts service to their Talk service — from the new IM tech to the XMPP tech. And if you try to trick the XMPP service to sign out Hangouts (for example, by creating a new connection with identical XMPP resource), the Hangouts will happily log back into XMPP in your name and present you as ‘away’. And messages intended to be stored offline will end up in Hangouts, never to be seen again unless you use Hangouts on other systems.
#xmpp #jabber #federation #hangouts #google #internet #messaging
did you notice how it happened? how Vladimir Putin, the man, who robbed it’s own country, centralized power, repressed journalists, raised corruption, subjugated all the media, and courts, repressed minorities, put to jail innocent girls, responsible for dead journalists, like Politkovskaia, killed innocent people, including Russians, in Chechnya, Beslan, etc, supported killers of Magnitski(if it’s not him), made new anti-gay laws, laws oppressing freedom of speech, and bureaus, that have power to shut down any web site just because they want to, etc, etc, etc… did you notice how this man became your hero?
Just because you don’t like some steps of USA, it doesn’t mean that you need to like same steps made by Russia!
If Peter have stolen something, it does not mean, that Vasia can steal! It does not mean you have to support Vasia’s robberies just because you don’t like that Peter were doing that. You cannot justify Vasia for that!
#russia #usa #putin #crime #offence #felony #repressions #freedom-of-speech #magnitski #media #chechnya #beslan #corruption #repression #hero #logic #objective #freedom
#apple #campus #architecture #city #work #workplace
Following his compliments toward Nazarbayev, a certain dog-whistle chauvinism ran through the rest of Putin’s response. He highlighted Kazakhstan’s large-sprawl emptiness, blatantly underestimating Kazakhstan’s population. He offered a slanted comment about how Kazakhstan must remain within the Russian world, which is part of the “global civilization” – noting, by turn, that Kazakhstan’s culture is apparently not.
On multiple occasions, ethnic Russians in northern Kazakhstan have reminded me of their belief that Central Asian states have never existed. Kazakhstan, one told me, is but a Bantustan, with proper civilization brought only by the arrival of Russians. Putin’s comments fall directly within this vein. Kazakhstan can be identified with the persona of Nazarbayev, but once he’s gone, why would there be any reason to continue with this experiment in statehood?
http://thediplomat.com/2014/09/putins-chilling-kazakhstan-comments/
btw, Putin gone from verbal threats to Kazakhstan to army manoeuvres near borders. Ukraine events were on same scenario.
#putin #kazakhstan #russia #nazarbayev #ukraine
True: we made mistakes. We tried too hard to pander to Russia in the Yeltsin era, ignoring the growth of corruption, authoritarianism and revanchism. We overlooked Russians’ resentment as their country drifted from the European mainstream and our vulnerability to the steps they could take in response. We neglected Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and the countries of the Caucasus. The Blair government was bewitched by the Putin regime’s offer of cooperation against Islamist terrorism in 2001. We have been frequently dazzled by the spurious commercial prospects offered by Russia – in particular BP’s decision to form an alliance with Rosneft, the main Russian oil company, was a shameful example of greed and short-sightedness.
very good paper by Edward Lucas
#edward-lucas #russia #putin #oil #gas #caucasus #blair #ukraine #moldova #belarus #rosneft #russian #bp #vulnerability #authoritarianism #corruption #revanchism #europe #politics #world #war #peace #regime #challenge #soviet #ussr #empire #imperialism #freedom
Russia is a revisionist power
Russia wants to rewrite the rules in three ways. First, it does not believe that its neighbours should make their own decisions about their geopolitical future. Russia’s security, in short, depends on these countries’ insecurity. Russia particularly begrudges the former captive nations of the Soviet empire their freedom, their prosperity, and their independence. These pose an existential challenge to the stagnant and autocratic model of government pioneered by the Putin regime.
very good paper by Edward Lucas
#edward-lucas #russia #putin #europe #politics #world #war #peace #regime #challenge #soviet #ussr #empire #imperialism #freedom
To mark the 23rd anniversary of Artsakh’s independence, the Alexander Spendarian Opera and Ballet Theater staged an open-air performance of Avet Terteryan’s Ring of Fire opera in the ancient citadel of Shoushi
http://hetq.am/eng/news/56276/open-air-opera-in-shoushi-marks-artsakhs-independence.htm
#artsakh #Avet-Terteryan #opera #Shoushi #freedom
Did Crimea get freedom? Or it went to barracks, unfreedom?
Crimea’s most senior official has said sexual minorities “have no chance” on the peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in March.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/02/crimea-not-need-gay-people-top-official
#crimea #russia #ukraine #freedom
Putin went on to praise the philosophy of the “Eurasian idea” and to assert that Kazakhs endorse it and see benefits to “remaining in the space of the larger Russian world.”
Solzhenitsyn’s Greater Russian, Orthodox-driven nationalism, Elder notes, “once had him appear sorely out of touch, but today [is] increasingly fashionable.”
http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-putin-solzhenitsyn-1990-essay/26561244.html
Apparently it’s good that we don’t have Russians in Armenia. Otherwise Putin would “protect” them, and we would have bloody events like in Ukraine. But stop! Putin will protect us from ourselves! The paper we signed with Russia, CSTO paper, contains a point that Russia may “help” our authorities in case of inner, not only outer threat. It means they’ll “save” us from having democratic elections, and change corrupted government. They need this corrupted and puppet government to dictate to us. Otherwise, if we try, they’ll protect us from ourselves.
Also, they’ll protect people of Artsakh. They desperately need their forces there. Once they enter, they’ll never get out.
#eurasian-union #russian-world #russia #imperialism #CSTO #Armenia #freedom.
http://lignesdefrappe.com/banksy/
will work for idiots
#banksy #graffiti #street-art #streetart #work
The most miserable Brazilian is happier than the happiest Iranian.
#money #happiness #income #nigeria #brazil #mexico #usa #russia #britain #germany #france #japan #italy #india #china #iran
#debug #debugging #bug #software #hardware #programming #development #history
two texts in Russian about trip to Artsakh: first, second.
Of course the author does not get it, there is no developed democracy, but even less free state than Armenia, if we can relate to them as to separate states. Anyway, might be interesting reading.
#artsakh #freedom #russian
meanwhile, California recognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, or Artsakh Republic, which is the same.
Unfortunately that does not mean anything. I am not excited at all.
#california #nkpeace #nagorno-karabakh #artsakh #freedom
extremely easy. just copy fonts to ~/.fonts and edit two files right on device. this is linux, not android. i enjoy it indeed. though n900 was better.
@{ Փրչրթան✱ Թանաքեան ; norayr@spyurk.am} 30.08.2014, 17:01:32
այսպէս։ ու ինձ դուր է գալիս չորս շարքը։ ու այսքան պարզ՝ https://github.com/norayr/sailfish-armenian-layout #հայերէն #յոլլա #սեյլֆիշ #գրամեքենայ #շարուաթք #էկրանահան #բարեւ #######
#jolla #sailfish #sailfishos #armenian #keyboard #layout #fonts #screenshot #screenshots #freedom
preparing layout right on device
@{ Փրչրթան✱ Թանաքեան ; norayr@spyurk.am} 30.08.2014, 16:06:54
պատրաստելիս հայերէն շարուածքը հենց սարքի մէջ։
#յոլլա #սեյլֆիշ #վիմ #շարուածք #հայերէն #էկրանահան ##########
#ssh #console #gnu #linux #jolla #sailfish #armenian
Cremlin agents know where to push in Caucasus.
They’ve published list (not yet a list of people to be executed, but it’s very much their style to make lists) of people who support and promote “international homosexuality lobbying”.
That’s basically list of my friends - just educated people with open minds. This is what you have when Russia wants you in Eurasian Union.
At the left - Russian and Armenian flags.
At the right side there is a “Komsomolskaya Pravda” banner, they’ve opened Armenian service. It’s one of the most reactionary Russian newspapers. They, for instance, published a text which said like “we’re sorry Hitler didn’t have time made lamp shades from grandfathers of those who support Maidan”.
This also means - “BE CAREFUL WHEN WALK LATE AT NIGHT ALONE”
#russia #eurasian-union #cremlin #komsomolskaya-pravda #caucasus #homophobia #homosexuality #repressions #pressure
I have midori running on kindle, swindle, as rms says.
Also leafpad, galculator and different ebook readers. kterm.
Not bad but still not even close to n810 in terms of usability.
@{ Փրչրթան✱ Թանաքեան ; norayr@spyurk.am} 29.08.2014, 18:15:55
#քինդլ #միդորի #գալկուլատոր #լիֆփադ #կտերմ #ռութ #տերմինալ #կոնսոլ #էկրանահան #ջիջիլ #ուտենց
#midori #kindle #swindle #leafpad #kterm #root #shell #console
he sounded hysteric back in march for you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAdBBDmruYo
#ukraine #russia #crimea #annexation #war #peace #putin #georgia #freedom
Europe likes reading. And borrowing books. While America and Asia are more into movies, not books.
#reading #watching #books #book #literature #cinema #movies #preference #europe #america #asia #taste
it’s not “smart people”, it’s pottering and corporations.
#systemd #linux #gnu #technologies
years ago I saw very nice map. http://www.worldmapper.org/ though it requires flash, alas. so I cannot even be sure that’s it.
#map
added an example from Reiser’s book. IFS, Iterated Function System.
@{ Փրչրթան✱ Թանաքեան ; norayr@spyurk.am} 28.08.2014, 14:49:37
աւելացրի Ռայզերի գրքից մի օրինակ։
#վօկ #վիշապ #ծրագրաւորում #նկար #գրաֆիկա #մաթեմ
#voc #vishap #oberon #programming #graphics #math
#patricia-van-lubeck #art #paintings #dutch-painters #dutch #artist
Social Media and the ‘Spiral of Silence’
A major insight into human behavior from pre-internet era studies of communication is the tendency of people not to speak up about policy issues in public—or among their family, friends, and work colleagues—when they believe their own point of view is not widely shared. This tendency is called the “spiral of silence.”
http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/08/26/social-media-and-the-spiral-of-silence/
They were measuring not in Diaspora, obviously, worked with real people who have real offline friends in those communities. Though I am sure that similar results will be in anonymous communities too. #internet #web #social-media #spiral-of-silence
ok, not politics. very good film, I have watched it at Apricot film festival in Yerevan. Made in Georgia. That means a lot in cinematography.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiJbrhthQ8I
#georgia #levan-koguashvili #blind-dates #movie #trailer #made-in-georgia #cinema #cinematography.
The Israeli-made Hermes 450 drone downed by Iran over Natanz took off from Azerbaijan
#iran #natanz #drone #azerbaijan #nakhchivan #
Geography is hard for military men. They keep getting lost and accidentally enter Ukraine.
Nine Russian servicemen say they mistakenly crossed over into Ukraine, after they were captured by Ukrainian security officials almost a week ago.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/aug/27/russian-paratroopers-ukraine-mistake-video
#fun #russia #ukraine #geography
Garry Kasparov:
You know who doesn’t have any doubt that Russia is at war with Ukraine? Russians.
It’s the supposed leaders of the free world who are in state of denial of Putin’s war on Ukraine. They want to ignore it, so Putin keeps on.
Crimea is no longer mentioned. MH17 is barely in the news. And EU wants to move on, have nice dialogs with Putin?! Why would he stop?
https://twitter.com/Kasparov63
#garry-kasparov #kasparov #crimea #russia #putin #ukraine #eu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52-hertz_whale
#whale #52-hertz
And I guess I know one of the reasons you cannot hear voices of post soviet countries, if it’s not Russia, and if it’s not Putin. That’s something like imperialistic complex - you don’t think these countries are important - what is important for you is US-Russia conflict. And you blame yourself, US government.
Other, smaller countries are so insignificant, they just cannot have their own interests, their own pain, and their own aspirations. That all should be games and manipulations of the greats. #facepalm
#politics #russia #ukraine #armenia #georgia #caucasus #ussr #interests
Mikheil Saakashvili have been written new article which expresses point of view of the people of post soviet countries like Ukraine, Georgia and Armenia. The voice most of you have no desire to hear.
How could the West not have been prepared by now for a proper response? We’ve seen this game before. Putin’s play has always been to raise the stakes, hoping that the West will blink every time tension increases.
…
At the same time, European leaders still refuse to use the word “invasion” – even though tanks and armored convoys have rolled across the border and more than half of the combat-ready troops on the ground in Ukraine, based on multiple credible accounts, are regular Russian soldiers.
…
Once the conflict is thus “frozen,” Putin can continue to destabilize the rest of Ukraine, infiltrating separatist forces from the controlled territory, turning off energy supplies, and strangling the fragile economy. It’s the same playbook he has used in Georgia and Moldova.
#Mikheil-Saakashvili #Europe #Ukraine #Putin #Russia #Georgia #Moldova #invasion #west #playbook
#cfdisk removed from #util-linux ? I will miss it if so.
#carel-willink #art #paintings #dutch-painters #dutch #artist #արվեստ #արուեստ
My Uncle, Catolicos Zareh I of the Holy See of Cilicia http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2014/my-uncle-catolicos-zareh-i-of-the-holy-see-of-cilicia/
#armenia #armenian #cilicia #history
I have updated my Retro-Computing page with extremely old recovered pages:
#retro-computing #retro #fonts #font #history #retrocomputing #armenian #bulgarian-games #electron-programma #electron #game #games #pacman #gobbler #ghost-gobbler #oric #oric-atmos #pravetz #pravetz-8d #restoration #computing
106-year old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47.
#1990 #nkpeace #degh #degh-village #ak #ak-47 #armenian #photo #war #peace
I have uploaded some historical photos of computers and devices designed in Armenia with some descriptions http://norayr.arnet.am/RetroComputing/Armenian/photos/index.html
#computer #armenia #yerevan #mergelian #history #computers #retro #retro-computers #vintage #historical #technologies #information-technologies #masis #razdan #nairi #nairi-3 #nairi-4 #pgp #memory #tape #digital #computing #techno #Informatica #photos #photo #design
@{ Ani Wandaryan (unofficial) ; goldentent@spyurk.am} 23.08.2014, 6:52:54
RT @MariolaRub: “@medievalanimal: Pegasus, Armenian version of the Alexander Romance, Manchester, John Ryl… http://t.co/sKTJ8cHel7” http:…
2014-08-23 02:46:58
#pegasus #armenian #animal #art
Project GITenberg is a Free and Open, Collaborative, Trackable and Scriptable digital library. It leverages the power of the Git version control system and the collaborative potential of Github to make books more open.
#gitenberg #library #git #freedom #github #literature
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Hetq (unofficial) ; hetq_eng@spyurk.am} Ուր 22 Օգս 2014 01:41:36 AMT
The Russian Laundromat
Fri, 22 Aug 2014 13:40 +0400, by none
Call it the Laundromat. It’s a complex system for laundering more than $20 billion in Russian money stolen from the government by corrupt politicians or earned through organized crime activity.
#russia #laundry #laundromat #money #government #corruption
This summer, accounts of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender asylum seekers fleeing Russia’s repressive law on “homosexual propaganda” peppered reports in the English-language media. Meanwhile, a different former Soviet country, Georgia, settled into a period of transition that, rights activists hope, will eliminate LGBT discrimination.
http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/georgia-brave-step-toward-lgbt-rights
#georgia #lgbt #rights #russia #osi #government #law
My country is sick with aggressive ignorance, nationalism and imperialistic megalomania.
Civilization reached dead end. Science, education, cognition, art did not succeed in taming human aggression. Formerly it seemed that culture is able to overcome these self-destructive aspirations, but I’m afraid human race has almost no time left.
In German: https://magazin.spiegel.de/digital/index_SP.html#SP/2014/34/128743771
In Russian: http://www.inopressa.ru/article/18Aug2014/spiegel/ulitskaya.html
#deutsch #german #russian #ulitskaya #russia #aggression #imperialism #civilization #culture #art
Vahe Berberian is an Armenian artist from Bourj Hamoud, Lebanon living in Los Angeles, CA.
#vahe-berberian #armenian #artist #bourj-hamoud #lebanon #los-angeles
this is an amazing story about writing software at #apple http://www.pacifict.com/Story/
We got resources that would never have been available to us had we been on the payroll. For example, at that time only about two hundred PowerPC chips existed in the world. Most of those at Apple were being used by the hardware design engineers. Only a few dozen coveted PowerPC machines were even available in System Software for people working on the operating system. We had two. Engineers would come to our offices at midnight and practically slip machines under the door. One said, “Officially, this machine doesn’t exist, you didn’t get it from me, and I don’t know you. Make sure it doesn’t leave the building.”
Greg was lurking outside one day, trying to act casual, when another engineer accosted him and said, “I’m sick and tired of you guys loitering in front of the building every day!” Later he phoned the appropriate bureaucrats on our behalf. I listened to his side of the conversation for twenty minutes: “No, there is no PO, because we’re not paying them. No, there is no contract, because they are not contractors. No, they are not employees; we have no intention of hiring them. Yes, they must have building access because they are shipping code on our box. No, we don’t have a PO number. There is no PO, because we’re not paying them.” Finally, he wore them down. They said to use the standard form to apply for badges, but to cross out Contractor and write in Vendor. Where it asked for a PO number, we were to use the magic words “No dollar contract.” We got badges the next day. They were orange Vendor badges, the same kind the people working in the cafeteria, watering the plants, and fixing the photocopy machines had.
#Graphing-Calculator #powerpc #programming #software #development #skunkworks #clandestine #motivation
Hetq’s editor-in-chief Edik Baghdasaryan talks with soldiers at the frontline. They say:
…Since we hadn’t responded in kind to them for such a long time they figured the situation would continue like that. That they would attack and we would merely defend.
…They have many Turkish weapons. Their recon units have Israeli manufactured weapons. We have as much as our resources allow. We don’t have oil to buy all those weapons. Our weapons are a bit cheap but they get the job done.
@{ Hetq (unofficial) ; hetq_eng@spyurk.am} Ուր 15 Օգս 2014 06:41:18 AMT
Reconnaissance Scouts on Karabakh Frontline Tight-Lipped About Themselves, Their Actions
Tue, 12 Aug 2014 00:20 +0400, by none
The boys don’t talk and that’s it; they don’t want to describe anything. In response to questions about their actions, they say they were given a job and they did it. I then ask for their opinion about the armies of different countries; I ask about the best scouts.
#armenia #azerbaijan #artsakh #karabakh #nagorno-karabakh #nkr #freedom #defence #army #scout #scouts
@{ Hetq (unofficial) ; hetq_eng@spyurk.am} Ուր 15 Օգս 2014 06:41:23 AMT
How To Kiss Up To Your Boss, Yanukovych-Style
Tue, 12 Aug 2014 19:11 +0400, by none
The list lay on a table used by the custodian at the lavish Mezhyhirya residence of absconded Ukrainian leader Viktor Yanukovych.
#yanukovich #ukraine #maidan #corruption #robbery #museum
@{ Hetq (unofficial) ; hetq_eng@spyurk.am} Ուր 15 Օգս 2014 06:41:32 AMT
Yezidis March in Yerevan in Solidarity with Their Compatriots in Iraq (photos)
Thu, 14 Aug 2014 17:37 +0400, by none
The marchers stopped in front of the embassies of the United States and France before gathering at the Armenian Government building on Republic Square.
#armenia #iraq #march #yezidis #yazidis #yerevan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_RYWsAhxl0
#armenian-music #armenia #mokats-harsner #music #authentic-light-orchestra #yerevan #armenian
Russian military vehicles enter Ukraine as aid convoy stops short of border
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/14/russian-military-vehicles-enter-ukraine-aid-convoy-stops-short-border
#russia #ukraine #war #peace #russian
System of a Down vocalist Serj Tankian has addressed the recent tensions along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border
“Until there is a lasting peace agreement on Nagorno-Karabagh, both Armenia and Azerbaijan will be both militarily and financially constrained and fall deeper into corruptive political practices subservient to one superpower or another. Karabagh, called Artsakh in Armenian, has been an enclave with a majority population of Armenians given to Azerbaijan by Stalin.
“I’ve been to Artsakh on a visit to Armenia years ago and have to say that the people living there are gracious, generous, kind and deserve peace and prosperity as we all do,” reads his post.
#system-of-a-down #soad #serj-tankian #tankian #karabakh #artsakh #nkr #nagorno-karabakh #nkpeace #armenia #azerbaijan #stalin #armenian #war #peace
did you miss it?
#ukraine #russia #yanukovich #war #peace
As Conflict Escalates, Dictator Ilham Aliyev Needs to Be Stopped
While Syria burns, Gaza explodes and al Qaeda captures another Iraqi town, another full-blown conflict threatens to further destabilize the Middle East, this one between Armenia and Azerbaijan. For months now, Ilham Aliyev, one of the worst dictators alive, has been indiscriminately shelling the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh, a formerly Soviet Socialist Oblast located within Soviet Azeri territory populated by ethnic Armenians.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christopher-atamian/as-conflict-escalates-ilham-aliyev_b_5663964.html
#armenia #azerbaijan #aliyev #gaza #syria #iraq #nkr #nagorno-karabakh #armenians #artsakh #freedom
Russian ‘Humanitarian Aid’: What We Know And Don’t Know So Far
http://www.rferl.org/content/russian-humanitarian-aid-ukraine-chronology/26527309.html
#ukraine #russia #aid #war #peace
photoshop of the day
#ukraine #russia #troy #trojan-horse #war #peace
Is ‘Armenian’ an insult? Turkey’s prime minister seems to think so.
(already president)
#armenian #armenia #Erdogan #turkey #politics
I think it’s not sincere for me to post here nice pics, scientific researches, and cool gifs and get attention, while in the reality I am surrounded by not very lofty events.
That’s why I am posting, and I guess I will continue to post information about local events. I think it’s my fault that I wasn’t doing it before.
#armenia #politics #freedom #democracy #artsakh #nagorno-karabakh #war #peace
#un #peace #uninvolved
and this is the trailer of the movie by Fatih Akin, it will be screened at upcoming Venice Film Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA7j6zvApPI
that’s why he receive death threats
#armenia #turkey #armeniangenocide #armenian-genocide #fatih-akin #movie #history #politics
btw, my grandfather is survivor. from Van.
Death threats addressed to the film director and Agos following interview on the film about the #ArmenianGenocide http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/08/cengiz-film-about-1915-threats-armenians-agos-fatih-akin.html
#fatih-akin #agos #turkey #armenia #genocide #movie #threat
The man, identified as 31-year-old Karen Petrosyan, was detained on August 7 after mysteriously wandering into an Azerbaijani border village asking for a cup of tea.
http://www.rferl.org/content/death-border-azerbaijan-armenia/26525206.html
#armenia #azerbaijan
No progress repatriating body
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is holding dialogue with the relevant Azerbaijani agencies on handing over the body of captive Karen Petrosyan to Armenia, ICRC representative said.
Fariza Tagiyeva, a woman who discovered the lost Armenian villager, said the locals asked him why he was afraid, and he replied that he had no weapons with him.
Tagiyeva took Petrosyan to a tea-house of Agbulag village where youth surrounded Karen and began questioning. The local said he had nothing, except for a normal phone. Besides, Karen did not show any resistance, and the questions ended when the military came to the village.
http://news.am/eng/news/223539.html
#azerbaijan #armenia #icrc #red-cross
This poor guy even could not finish the school, studied only three grades, because he was kinda retarded. Living near the border, he crossed the border with Azerbaijan, and got captured there.
This is the video how brave strong soldiers deal with him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqaJA_dIGYM
(Actually, may be he didn’t, and Azerbaijanianian military have captured him in Armenia, but our government tells us he crossed the border)
Then Azerbaijan military publishes photos of him dressed in military uniform.
And then he suddenly dies.
The cause of death reported is cardiac failure. Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defense yesterday declared that Petrosyan is a member of a sabotage group, the four other members of which were killed; meanwhile, Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia spokesperson Artsrun Hovhannisyan informed Epress.am earlier that the Armenian Armed Forces have not suffered any losses and Karen Petrosyan is a civilian.
http://www.epress.am/2014/08/09/256701.html - in #armenian, no corresponding #english article
in english: http://www.epress.am/en/2014/08/08/armenian-villager-captured-yesterday-died-today-azerbaijan-defense-ministry.html
#armenia #azerbaijan #chinari #tavush
“Our army, targeting Armenia with missiles, is ready to fulfil even the order of destroying Yerevan,” the statement says
http://www.businessinsider.com/armenia-and-azerbaijan-approaching-war-2014-8#ixzz39sDQ2k8M
#azerbaijan #armenia #nkpeace #war #peace #yerevan (:
#BBCtrending: The president who threatened war on Twitter
The novelty of his approach was not lost on his audience, who offered a live commentary on Aliyev’s posts. “Shows how far Twitter has come as a diplomatic platform. Now even wars are declared here…” wrote one user. And of course, it left him open to being heckled in real time. “@presidentaz just try :) we will kill you and your soldiers,” said one, “Dream big, fail big,” said another, and “Go home Ilham, you’re drunk,” replied a third.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-28710785
#azerbaijan #aliyev #armenia #war #peace #twitter #threat
the eyes of nature
by Souren Manvelien ( I know him) (:
#eyes #nature #Souren-Manvelien #Suren-Manvelian #Suren-Manvelyan #photography #armenian-photographers #photo #photos #foto
does greasemonkey’s “Quote post” work for you in firefox 31? It seems it’s not working here after ff upgrade.
#greasemonkey #firefox #diaspora
“Russia is further constraining access to the internet and freedom of speech, with new laws regarding public use of WiFi. Nikolai Nikiforov, the Russian Communications Minister, tweeted that “Identification of users (via bank cards, cell phone numbers, etc.) with access to public Wifi is a worldwide practice.” This comes on top of their actions recently to block websites of political opponents to Russian president Vladimir Putin, require registration of prominent bloggers, and more.
#russia #freedom #internet #freedom-of-speech #free-speech #speech #law #wifi #putin #opposition #regulations #identification #anonymity
since today, thanks to @{Jonne Haß ; mrzyx@social.mrzyx.de} we have xmpp on Diaspora* at spyurk.am (:
this is howto from Jonne. Podmins, go on! (:
#diaspora #xmpp #jabber #chat
russian instagram 2015
#fun #putin #russia #instagram #buckwheat
Russians joke about Putin’s “sanctions” - limitations for food import from Western countries
http://tvrain.ru/articles/zapret_na_vvoz_edy_reaktsija_sotsialnyh_setej-373640/
Just epic! (:
#putin #russia #fun #russian
according to this site, #aliyev stands “face to face with enemy” (:
#azerbaijan #aliyev #fun
#SailfishOS alpha release for #Samsung #Galaxy #Nexus done by community
source
#jolla #jollamobile #meego #maemo #gnu #linux #unlike
These attacks are more likely to come from the Azerbaijani side, which has rejected international initiatives to stabilize the ceasefire by removing snipers from the front-line. As the losing side in the conflict, the Azerbaijanis make it their business to challenge the status quo, make the other side nervous and remind the world of the conflict.
http://carnegie.ru/eurasiaoutlook/?fa=56322&reloadFlag=1
#thomas-de-vaal #nkpeace #nkfreedom #armenia #azerbaijan #aliyev #armenians #peace #war #nagorno-karabakh #artsakh #freedom
#armenia #azerbaijan #aliyev #armenians #enemies #peace #war #nkpeace #nkfreedom #nagorno-karabakh #artsakh #bbc #freedom
so, what do I think about it, why after 20 smth years, Azerbaijan military makes much more attacks now?
Because of two possible reasons, IMHO.
a) As you may remember, Russia forced Armenia to refuse joining EU agreement, and join Eurasion Union. Armenia cut it’s connections with EU by demand of Putin. Then, Eurasian Union did not sign the paper with Armenia (how lucky we are) because they demand to put customs between Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh Republic.
BTW, Armenia and NK have the same economic space, and joined World Trade Organization without problems. Why? Because NK has no other connection to the world, it’s in blockade. Actually, Armenia is also blocked by Azerbaijan and Turkey, but we still have Georgia and Iran. WTO asked Azerbaijan, if they agree to shut down NK blockade, then Armenia can join WTO without NK. Azerbaijan refused. But now Putin and Nazarbayev, the dictator club, demand us to leave this people in blockade. (: Our puppet president cannot agree, he has no support in the country, and it’s impossible to leave NK people blocked even by us. They hardly survive even now.
However, Putin does not care. He needs Armenia to sign the papers, whatever it takes. If we need to make customs on the Armenia-NK border, then we have to obey. If we don’t obey, he asks his friend, another dictator, who puts all his oil money into buying weapons (also from Russia) to heat the temperature at the Contact Line, and disrespect the ceasefire which lasted more than 20 years.
b) Putin needs to have his army to control NK. Thus he will control the territory, and can manipulate Armenia and Azerbaijan even more. In this case Azerbaijan, because he got everything he wanted from Armenia. Almost everything, we did not change the language law, did not obey and add Russian as the state language in Armenia. That’s in every paper Russia suggested within OSCE Minks group, that they need to put their “peacekeepers” in NK. When they control the territory, they can manipulate Azerbaijan to join Eurasian Union, by trading lives of Armenians living in NK. Also, they need to have military bases in Azerbaijan, and Aliyev-father promised it to Russia, and refused to do that later. So this is a way they can get what they want.
Thus Putin needs manipulate Aliyev to restart the war, to make war happen, then put “peacekeepers” and control the NK, thus three coutries in the region.
#nkpeace #nkfreedom #artsakh #nagorno-karabakh #armenia #azerbaijan #freedom #ceasefire #politics
#StopAliyev
Join the Social Media Campaign for #NKPeace and #NKFreedom
http://www.anca.org/action_alerts/action_disp.php?aaid=63293261
#artsakh #nagorno-karabakh #freedom #armenia #azerbaijan #aliev
@{ Փրչրթան✱ Թանաքեան ; norayr@spyurk.am} Շբթ 02 Օգս 2014 10:11:11 AMT
#Թբիլիսի #մանկապարտէզ #երեխաներ #աղջիկներ #քաղաք #փողոց #վանդակ #սեւ֊սպիտակ #լուսանկարներ #ուտենց #ժապաւէն
#photo #photography #kids #kindergarten #bw #black-and-white #film #film-photography #kodak-cft #tbilisi #georgia #children #lattice #freedom #foto #schwarz-weiß #schwarzweiß
There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way — and that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay.
#hoar #computer-science #programming #quality #safety #reliability #price #simplicity #software
how to catch a fish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBuPiC3ArL8
#fishing #bird #fish #intellect
seeml familiar, right?
Athenian: “Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can. And it is not as if we were the first to make this law, or to act upon it when made: we found it existing before us, and shall leave it to exist forever after us; all we do is to make use of it, knowing that you and everybody else, having the same power as we have, would do the same as we do”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melian_dialogue
#melian-dialogue #history #politics #if #condition #athens #melians #melos #neutrality #freedom
nice one
source
but let’s remember, that in the West you still have relatively strong freedom of speech, while in some countries, like Russia and others, with corrupted dictator regimes, all mass media is controlled by government, and they can manipulate their people better. Also, they don’t do posters like this.
#freedom-of-speech #usa #twitter #facebook #government #media #mass-media #press #youtube #propaganda #freedom
proof of guilt.
Ukrainian rebels have not protected the jetliner’s crash site from looting or disturbance of evidence
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Richard Stallman political notes ; rms@spyurk.am} Երք 22 Հլս 2014 02:40:39 AMT
Looting at jetliner crash site https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_(Looting_at_jetliner_crash_site)
#guilt #ukraine #mh17 #jetliner #rms #russia #freedom #crash #mas17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5E8kDo2n6g
#mh17 #ukraine
that’s about many of us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVUMjDi4t8c
#idiots #useful-idiots #stalin #lenin #propaganda #support #ussr #russia #history
Imperial Mindsets Survive Empires
What is the responsibility of historians and social scientists in the resurgence of imperial solutions to evaluate the present based on the past through critical lenses? Could things have been different in Russia and Turkey had historians and other social scientists been more critical assessors of imperial history, especially when educating the new generations in schools?
Gerard Libaridian on South Caucasus After USSR Collapsed
#history #imperial #empire #empires #mindset #responsibility #science #past #russia #turkey #iran #south-caucasus #armenia #georgia #azerbaijan #freedom #independence
why you can have trouble entering Russia, (and Belarus, and Kazakhstan) with a phone or notebook.
#russia #eurasian-union #belarus #kazakhstan #phone #notebook #facepalm #customs-union #freedom
This guy was extreme nationalist, and he has changed now. Wow.
Russia chooses a way of dinosaur, who refuses ta take the way of evolution. Ukraine decided to evolve and caused fury of the dino.
#Nevzorov #Russia #Ukraine #war #evolution #dinosaur #revolution #tanks #Chechnya #history
on the road to Tatev
@{ Փրչրթան✱ Թանաքեան ; norayr@spyurk.am} Երկ 14 Հլս 2014 10:25:00 AMT
տաթեւ չʼհասած, կամ երբ թեքւում ես մ2 մայրուղուց
#տաթեւ #շինուհայր #գորիս #բնապատկեր #լուսանկարներ
#photography #photos #tatev #shinuhayr #goris #landscape #armenia #syunik #photo #cc_norayr
the making of #shadowmatic, #hyper-magazine, #april #2014
this is the link which shows banned #books in #Russia for the #kids of all ages.
It includes Karlsson on the roof for the “info which denies family values and promotes disrespect towards parents”, two more #tales by #Astrid-Lindgren, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and two classic Russian tales by #Pushkin.
http://www.zakon436.ru/stop_books.php
#facepalm #freedom-of-speech #speech #freedom #russia #cccp #back-in-the-ussr #literature #law #repression #repressive-law #tom-sawyer #mark-twain #Karlsson
The dotted/striped areas show where multilingualism is common. I love this map because it shows how odd Hungary, Basque, Estonia and Finland are in Europe. You can also notice the split areas in Moldova, Serbia/Kosovo, Cyprus, Belgium, Lapland, India and the obvious Kurdistan. I noticed that Albanian and Armenian are unique, as well.
http://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/post/90847865305/indo-european-languages-within-their-present-day
#internet #map #maps #albanian #albania #armenian #armenia #moldova #serbia #kosovo #cyprus #belgium #lapland #hungary #basque #estonia #finland #europe #language #languages
Well, Tom and Dick, American citizens knew how to code but have not been able to find a job. Tom failed the drug test. Dick didn’t know how to write the algorithm for identifying douchebags while working for a dating site. He was let go. Raj was hired in his place, who copied snippets of 4 different algos from stackoverflow and somehow made them work by putting in 24 hours of straight work. Dick wanted work life balance. Raj thought work was life. Steve, Raj’s boss still didn’t like him because of his poor communications. He fored Raj and hired Harry, who had great communication skills and wrote ninja-level code. However, Harry was an expensive resource but the company needed him, so they let Steve go and hired Raj back in, because they had too many Project Managers not doing anything and they needed more coders. Raj was happy to have a job, great money, Green card in processing and two cute kids. What Raj didn’t have and what he wanted was the drop dead gorgeous blonde that lived next door. But the blonde wasn’t into Raj so Raj was sad. Blonde loved Steve and once made out with Harry, but Steve and Harry were sad because they didn’t have the money that Raj was making. Mark, owner of facebust had money and girls but he got married way to early and his company had recently acquires Wazzup for 18 billion so he was sad for not being able to monetize it. The founder of Wazzup up was sad as he thought he should have put a bigger sale price on the Table.
The point is, no one is happy. Life isn’t fair. Grow a pair. Work withw what you have. Be the best in what you do. And you will have a job. No matter what the H1B cap is. 10 years ago, most of these valley jobs in social media and such didn’t even exist at this scale. And if you’re really particular about made in usa policy, take your clothes off as I bet your wrinkly ass, your clothes are from Bangladesh and that laptop you work on was made in china. Globalization suckers. We all are a victim of it. and Beneficiaries. Live with it.
#life #happiness #globalization #visas #america #wazzup #blonde #job #work #green-card #programming #h1b #silicon-valley #bangladesh #beneficiaries #marriage #stackoverflow #algorithms
new site which is dedicated to the victims of the soviet repressions.
@{ Փրչրթան✱ Թանաքեան ; norayr@spyurk.am} Շբթ 12 Հլս 2014 04:27:15 AMT
կայքը նւիրւում է խորհրդային տարիների բռնադատուածների յիշատակին
#խսհմ #սովետ #յիշատակ #պատմութիւն #կայք #բռնապետութիւն #ազատութիւն
#ussr #cccp #repressions #history #freedom
#caturday #rrr #giraffe #play
@{
լոկի չարանենգ ; tanamasi@spyurk.am} Շբթ 12 Հլս 2014 05:35:29 AMT
#gif #cat #lion #arrr
Getashen village, 1991. Last photo made before “passport control”, conducted by Russian and Azerbaijan military.
#armenian #russia #ussr #ethnic-cleansing #1991 #operation-ring #azerbaijan #armenia #artsakh #nagorno-karabakh #independence #freedom
Putin’s motivations are similar to those of prewar Germany: He wants to rectify what he sees as unjust treatment and humiliation by Western powers after the Cold War. He is trying to reconquer lost lands and grab natural resources. Little has been said about the offshore oil resources in Abkhazia that the Russian state monopoly Rosneft confiscated in 2009. U.S. companies have invested considerably in shale gas fields off Crimea. But Ukraine’s emergence as self-sufficient in energy, and even a major gas exporter to Europe, would be Putin’s ultimate nightmare.
#Mikheil-Saakashvili #Putin #Georgia #Russia #Europe #EU #Crimea #Ukraine #war #peace
Lakes are always granted a by far lesser attention as compared to mountains, seas and especially oceans. There are more than 100 lakes in Armenia, located in cozy, impassable highlands. So here is a top selection we post for the first time.
http://imyerevan.com/en/society/view/5710/
#lakes #lake #photo #photos #photography #armenia #nature #water
#cats #libertarians
http://instagram.com/p/qQwvGbAPzk/
Photos from #Artsakh by @surench “Sunset over the sunflowers #sunset #sun #sky #evening #girasole #tramonto #nagornokarabakh #photography #surench”
Russia’s Putin praises Joseph Goebbels at meeting with Jewish rabbis (video)
#putin #goebbels
Finding the Original Azerbaijan, or Aran
Ara Ghazarians talks to CivilNet about his English translation of Dr Enayatollah Reza’s book “Azerbaijan and Aran” that explains how political motivations, historic ties and and ethnic connections lie behind the use, or abuse, of the names Azerbaijan and Aran on two historic territories in the Caucasus and Iran — the Republic of Azerbaijan and the province of Azerbaijan in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKalUVotH_Y http://civilnet.am/ara-ghazarians-azerbaijan-and-or-aran/
#conflict #Azerbaijan #Aran #Caucasian-Albania #Iran #Armenia #Caucasus #history #geography #ethnography #archeology #translation #English #Enayatollah-Reza #Ara-Ghazarians #civilnet #azeri #azari #research #book #history-abuse #naming #politics #Turkey #expansionism #motives #absurdity #pan-turkism #fake #books #study #education
Armenian Village on Border with Azerbaijan Under Shelling All Night
They are destroying Chinari. Placing the DShK in the direction of the village, they are shooting at houses, on streets
#armenia #chinari #tavush #shelling #war #azerbaijan #peace
A man of Shahumyan who was 12 during those events told how the Russian soldiers shot the last people leaving the village in a Willis car. The child fell of the car with the others but did not die and understood that he should keep quiet. He lay quiet under the car and listened how the Russian soldiers shot the people, then climbed the cherry trees and ate cherries. Hranush Kharatyan says the man who was 12 then told her this picture remained in his memory.
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/32595
#Armenia #Artsakh #Shahumyan #Russia #Azerbaijan #peace #war #cleansing #deportation #Karabakh #Nagorno-Karabakh #cccp #ussr #soviet-union #ссср #freedom ##################################
tor is like unprobability drive, you dive, and never know where will get out.
#tor #unprobability
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0
#economics #depression #credit #money #revolution #inflation #deflation #capital #animation
It comes as no surprise that the efforts of citizen activists to halt the stone by stone removal of the historic Afrikyan Building in downtown Yerevan is proving fruitless.
http://hetq.am/eng/news/55439/yerevans-afrikyan-building-just-another-business-venture-for-minister-khachatryan-and-sons.html
#yerevan #architecture #history #occupyafrikyans #freedom
The airport of Artsakh’s(NKR) capital, Stepanakert, has started serving flights for foreign tourists
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k4DPG6JM8I
#airport #artsakh #aviation #video #freedom #airplane
@{ Փրչրթան✱ Թանաքեան ; norayr@spyurk.am} Երք 24 Հնս 2014 03:31:37 AMT
#գորիս #օդանաւակայան #շինուհայր #բնապատկեր #տաթեւ #սարեր #ուտենց #ալպիական #ավիացիա #ֆոտո #լուսանկար #լուսանկարներ
#airport #goris #shinuhayr #armenia #landscape #tatev #alpine #mountains #aviation #photo #photos #photography
https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/pipermail/oberon/2014/007079.html
#oberon #fpga #programming #operating-systems #hardware-design #computer #photo
In seiner Jugend baute Niklaus Wirth Modell-Flugzeug und hat dabei gelernt, sich auf das Wesentliche zu beschränken
http://www.srf.ch/wissen/digital/computer-pionier-niklaus-wirth-80-und-aktiv
#oberon #wirth #foto
my system does not want to run proprietary software. Another crash happened while handling crash! und so weiter
@{ Փրչրթան✱ Թանաքեան ; norayr@spyurk.am} Ուր 20 Հնս 2014 05:52:04 AMT
ասում ա՝ տապալման ընթացքում մի հատ էլ տապալում եղաւ։ կարգիչս սեփականատիրական ծա չի սիրում էլի։ (գուգլ ըրթ)
#էկրանահան #գուգլ֊ըրթ #ուտենց #տապալում
#screenshot #google-earth #crash #software #fail
if I were a leader of a software development company, I would make sure every project has a team which focused not on new features, not on development of the product, but on improving it.
I have an impression companies don’t invest in improvements, as if they cannot afford doing that. But if they were, they would have valuable advantage on the market.
#software #development #business #improvement #investment
work in oberon v4 system (in this example it’s used over windows).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTIJaKO0iqU
Note how he’s able to compile source which exist only in window (marked by asterisk), how he calls exported module functions from the environment.
#oberon #operating-systems #programming
Autopilot / automatic landing video
The plane starts to appear about 30 seconds into the video.
autopilot is programmed by Shiryaev in #Oberon-07 language.
#oberon #programming #uav #plane #landing #airplane
Niklaus Wirth steuert Ceres-PC mit Oberon @ETH, 27. Mai 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoZuzE7Lq5E
#niklaus-wirth #wirth #ceres #oberon #eth #2011 #operating-systems #video #programming
Kessab returns to government control after Islamists pull out
#kessab #syria #armenian #latakia
The displacement decision lost its power after the ratification of the Granada Convention
#SaveAfrikyans #Yerevan #architecture #capital #history #memory #granada-convention #law #society
Freedom House ranks Karabakh’s democratic credentials higher than those of neighbouring Azerbaijan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN0qjCUigac
That’s a very badly made film, but it’s still more than nothing. This is very important topic for me, for us.
NK(Artsakh) people is a nation which struggles for freedom, and has not less rights for freedom than let’s say Palestine. Nevertheless most of you don’t know about it’s existence. (:
Almost 100 years after Armenian genocide in Turkey, these people decided to not be victims, but defend themselves. And they succeeded. Which is unbelievable. But they don’t have recognition, instead, often Armenian side condemned. Surely, war is not a pleasurable time. But Azerbaijan started the war by ethnic cleansing of Armenian population - no Armenians, no problem. They failed, the brute force did not allow them to get rid of Armenians. Nobody were defending them. But small weak nation was able to win in a war against a big and rich country. Now Azerbaijan has hopes to return the “land” they need (not the people) by the help of diplomacy and oil. I live, may be, in the most militarized region in the world. Russia sells weapons to Azerbaijan, making billions of dollars per year.
#artsakh #karabakh #nkr #nagorno-karabakh #armenia #movie #politics #history #war #democracy #freedom
I know these three guys, who are making that game. One programmer, Bagrat Dabaghian, who have been written also a rendering engine which is used in the game(codes 16 hours per day), one artist(don’t know him well actually) and one composer - Serge (nice one, always liked his works).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CLU7xfcDDI
it will be first available for iOS and PC/Windows then for Android. #shadowmatic #game #armenia #programming #art #app #ios #android #pc #windows #graphics #render #3d #room #shadow #shadows #games #yerevan #bargat-dabaghian #elkony #el-kony #bagrat-dabaghian #game-making #rendering
@{
ասոցիալական ցանց ; hanuman@spyurk.am} Երկ 16 Հնս 2014 01:10:37 AMT
Շատ լավն ա , #sort #algorithms #սորտավորման #ալգորիթմներ Ինչպես են հնչում https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8g-iYGHpEA
@{
imandes0 ; imandes@spyurk.am} Երք 17 Հնս 2014 02:37:20 AMT
One of the photos of the series “Morooq” (Beards of Yerevan). This one is @{Tanakian✱ (Inky dining philosopher) ; tanakian@spyurk.am}․ More here.
#morooq #beard #portrait #photography #norayr #bw #monochrome #vahan-stepanyan #yerevan #armenia #դիմանկար #նորայր #մորուք #ֆոտո #սևուսպիտակ
#armenian-photographers #vahan-stepanian #Black-and-white #schwarzweiß #photo
В течение последних пяти лет я по Первому каналу Армянского телевидения (H1) подготовил много передач об известных русских композиторах - Чайковском, Римском-Корсакове, Прокофьеве, Стравинском. Каждому было посвящено по 4-5 передач. Этими передачами я, как мне кажется, внес свой скромный вклад в армяно-российскую дружбу. Надеюсь, что и дальше смогу своей деятельностью выразить уважение и признательность России, давшему гениев русскому народу и его прекрасной культуре.
И теперь, если мне не нравится политика Путина на Украине, или если я против вхождения Армении в Таможенный союз, то значит ли это, что я вбиваю клин в дружбу между двумя народами? Согласно высказываниям некоторых российских чиновников, получается, что да, вбиваю. То есть, если ты хочешь быть другом России, то должен восхищаться тем политическим курсом, который в данный момент провозгласила действующая власть этой страны. А если, скажем, через 10 лет в России к власти придет другой лидер и начнет критиковать этот курс, мы должны начать восхищаться этой критикой, колебаться, так сказать, в унисон с партийной линией?
http://inosmi.ru/sngbaltia/20140611/220934121.html
#россия #армения #клин #путин #украина #таможенный-союз
In an attempt to spur innovation, Tesla Motors says that it will allow anyone to use its patented technology on electric vehicles — even its biggest competitors http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/12/5804122/tesla-opens-patents-to-all
#patents #innovation #teslo #electric-car #technology #vehicles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rs8Z_h6EYs
#artsakh #armenia #karabakh #nagorno-karabakh #movie #tourism #film #stepanakert #shoushi #shushi #gandzasar #mountains #temples #freedom
It came the other way. Orwell’s great book, in my opinion, his greatest book, Homage to Catalonia, I think was first published in 1937, but it was suppressed – a couple hundred copies published, both in England and the United States; it was essentially suppressed.
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people2/Chomsky/chomsky-con1.html
#orwell #chomsky #book #interview
facepalm,
In a tense exchange with Armenian pro-government lawmakers, Dmitry Kiselyov warned that Armenia will put its security alliance with Russia at serious risk unless it grants Russian an official status
http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/25418743.html
why? it is not enough for them to force us to “join” their “union”, now they need Russian as an official language in our monoethnic country. Btw, Russian is still tought in schools, as a second language.
#facepalm #armenia #russia #russian #expansion #agression #eurasian-union #assimilation
в обществе должно быть всеобщее согласие только о том, что всеобщего согласия быть не должно http://www.svoboda.org/content/article/25416463.html
#демократия #израиль #свобода
indeed, context switch is a heavy task. I have tried to not be multitasking - when I eat, I don’t read, when I read, I don’t chat. That’s so nice, my brain does not get tired as much. (:
#multitasking #context-switch #brain #reading
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JDmb_f3E2c#t=118
gendered marketing
Когда засевшая в Кремле бандитская шайка, по самую маковку вымазанная кровью и грязью двух чеченских войн, объявляет об открытии уголовного дела против украинских военных за “преступления против мирных граждан”, это не может вызывать ничего кроме омерзения и гадливости. Очевидно также, что изящное словосочетание “двойные стандарты” тут совершенно неуместно
http://grani.ru/opinion/skobov/m.229993.html
#украина #россия #война #европа #евразийский-союз #свобода
@{ Փրչրթան✱ Թանաքեան ; norayr@spyurk.am} Հնգ 05 Հնս 2014 12:00:48 AMT
#խատուտիկ #սփիւռք #մակրո #լուսանկար
#diaspora #dandelion #closeup #photo #photos
from bash manual http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Redirections
/dev/tcp/host/port
If host is a valid hostname or Internet address, and port is an integer port number or service name, Bash attempts to open a TCP connection to the corresponding socket
#bash #tcp #unix #gnu
the surest way to improve programming productivity is so obvious many programmers miss it. simply write less code!
#modula-3 #harbison #programming #quote #book
Кстати пережитки патриархальной культуры у всех народов очень схожи. Это клановость-семейственность, религиозность, национализм, ксенофобия, гомофобия, подчиненное положение женщин, ориентация на силу при решении конфликтов, презрение к общегражданскому праву, ориентация на собственный племенной неформальный “адат”. Здесь едины не только многие жители гор, но и жители равнин, типа вполне славянских путинских приспешников и фанатов. Это культурные стереотипы итальянцев в Чикаго 30-х, евреев в Одессе начала 20-го века, многих жителей сегодняшней Москвы (совсем не только кавказцев) и т.д.
http://www.kasparov.ru/material.php?id=51FE193B21826§ion_id=4B56D2CDF201A
#гомофобия #религиозность #национализм #сила #москва #кавказ #одесса #чикаго
I can’t specify one special thing that makes me feel good here. I feel good here in general. I feel connected to everything here. Every single thing, including the motherland statue and Ararat Mountain. They make me feel good. Sometimes, after having a tough day, I walk up Cascade and seeing the Opera just in front of me, a huge smile unconsciously appears on my face.
http://repatarmenia.org/eng/rita-manjikian/
#yerevan #armenia #repatriation #repat #cascade #ararat #walk
nice choice for the first day
The very first day I arrived in Yerevan, I went to the Yervand Kochar museum. It was very interesting. When I went to the Modern Art Museum, I couldn’t believe that I was standing right in front of Minas’s or Rodolf Khachatrian’s works.
http://repatarmenia.org/eng/rita-manjikian/
#yerevan #armenia #repatriation #repat #art #kochar #minas #roudolf-khachatrian
on Putin’s propaganda lies http://avmalgin.livejournal.com/4624159.html
#lie #propaganda #russia #ukraine
1964 NOMDA Blue Book: IBM Font Styles
http://munk.org/typecast/2011/04/25/1964-nomda-blue-book-ibm-font-styles/
#ibm #font #fonts #1964 #typeface #typewriter #typography #letter #alphabet #book #style #design
The Half-Baked Security Of Our ‘Internet of Things’ http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/05/27/article-may-scare-you-away-from-internet-of-things/
I know one of these guys (:
#internet #security #surveillance #internet-of-things #camera #armenian
20 Things I Learned While I Was in North Korea http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/09/20-things-i-learned-while-i-was-in.html
#korea #north-korea
When everyone has a car, it means you can’t get anywhere without one. Instead of freeing you, the car becomes a cage.
#car #freedom #cage
A New “Theory of Everything”: Reality Emerges from Cosmic Copyright Law
In a May 23 paper posted to the physics preprint server, arXiv, constructor theory claims its first success toward that goal by unifying the two separate theories that are currently used to describe information processing in macroscopic, classical systems as well as in subatomic, quantum objects.
#23 #science #shannon #information-theory #quantum-systems #superinformation #copyright #medium #copy
Nagorno-Karabakh – A Fascinating Territory http://europetravelz.com/nagorno-karabakh-a-fascinating-territory/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nagorno-karabakh-a-fascinating-territory
#nkr #freedom #artsakh #nagorno-karabakh #tourism #photo #shoushi #shushi
Yervand Kochar (Kocharian) ’s paintings in space
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNc-NwGP0rU
This guy made a mistake to return to Soviet Armenia, and USSR didn’t let him out anymore. He was put to jail immeditially. He had a wife in Paris. USSR refused her a visa. So they did not see each other anymore. I may tell you something more about this great painter.
#3d #art #paintings #paris #armenia #armenian #armenian-painters #ussr #cccp #ссср #freedom #yervand-kochar #kochar
he insists that systemd is more portable than sysvinit - sysvinit uses linux procfs and they use it’s emulation on freebsd and hurd.
#systemd #sysvinit #procfs #linux #hurd #debian #freebsd
Rights activists claim the running is a form or neurotic behavior brought about by living in the confines of a small cage. Some researchers, on the other hand, have suggested that the mice seemed to like, or enjoy running on the wheel, and even exhibited unhappy behavior if a wheel was removed.
http://phys.org/news/2014-05-animals-wild-wheel-choice-video.html
#animals #mice #wheel #behaviour
A Frenchman in Yerevan: A Day at the Museum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srf83YAkBUk
#yerevan #museum #museums-night #may17
found here
#mask #photo #production #guy-fawkes #guy-fawkes-mask #slavery #culture #freedom
Yes, that’s true. I have been in Armenia during the communist’s rule, 35-40 years ago, for 15 days. It’s hard to compare that Armenia with today’s Armenia. I was limited that time. We were given a car with accompaniment - five men were watching for everything we were doing. They were showing us what they wanted to show. Everywhere we went, they were already prepared to meet us. Headmens were expecting us and greeting with vodka, etc. I wasn’t allowed to make photos of old houses, old villages. One time I was arrested when I was taking a photograph of the beggar. I was obsessed with beggars, poors that time. I was making photos of poor, wretched, blind, outcast. In Armenia at the market I was asked why I am doing it. I have explained that I have no bad intentions, and then some other men explained them that I am under the protection of the government.
For me, who came from Paris, that Armenia was a very strange country. I have seen at the market some people with one flower in hands. I was explained that indeed, they were selling that one flower. For instance, they have a one bush of roses at home, and it bloomed, so they cut one flower and go to market to sell it. I was very strange to me. Here, in France, it was ok to just throw out one flower. But there one flower was a luxury. Host of the house where I was staying, took one orange (it was also luxury in Soviet times) and told me: “this is from Moscow”. There were 5 people around the table, so he cut the orange to 5 slices and put one slice to the plate of each of us. In that small amount orange seems to be more tasty. I had an impression that country is very poor.
This time when I came, there was everything. It was possible to think that you are in a French city. A lot of construction work. Many people at streets. Many many people. I can see that everything moves forward.
“I like to be sad” - intervew with Jean Jansem (in Russian)
#ссср #cccp #ussr #Armenia #Jansem #armenian-painters #art #kgb #history #Yerevan #Paris #Hovhannes-Semerdjian
Да, верно. Я уже посещал Армению в коммунистическую эпоху, где-то 35-40 лет назад, и пробыл около 15 дней. Сложно сравнить ту Армению с сегодняшней. Тогда меня ограничили рамками, нам дали машину с сопровождением – пятеро молодых людей следили за всем, что мы делали. Нас возили и показывали то, что хотели показать. Везде, куда мы приезжали, все уже были готовы нас принимать, руководитель населенного пункта нас встречал с водкой и т.д. Мне не разрешали фотографировать старые дома, старые деревни. Даже один раз задержали, когда я фотографировал на рынке нищего. В ту эпоху я был очень сильно увлечен убогими, нищими, бедными персонажами. Фотографировал людей несчастных, отверженных, слепых, увечных и пр. В Армении на рынке ко мне подошли и спросили, зачем мне это. Я объяснил, что ничего плохого не хочу, и меня отпустили, вдобавок им сказали, что я нахожусь под защитой правительства.
Для меня, приехавшего из Парижа, тогдашняя Армения была очень странной страной. Я видел на рынке несколько человек с одним цветком в руках. И мне объяснили, что они продают вот так вот один цветок. У них дома, например, есть один куст роз, он зацвел, и они носят по одному цветку и продают… Мне это показалось очень странным. Здесь, во Франции, один цветок можно было и выбросить, а там одна роза выглядела как роскошь. Хозяин дома, где я остановился, взял один апельсин (апельсины ведь были роскошью в советское время) и говорит мне: «Это из Москвы привезли». За столом нас было 5-6 человек, и он разрезал апельсин на дольки и положил по одной в тарелку каждому. В таком малом количестве апельсин тебе кажется более вкусным, что ли. У меня тогда сложилось впечатление, что страна живет довольно бедно.
А в этот раз, когда я приехал, было все, что хочешь! Можно даже подумать, что ты в каком-то французском городе. Правда, очень много ремонтных работ. Город кишит людьми, очень много людей. Видно, что все движется вперед.
“Мне нравится быть грустным” - интервью с Жаном Жансемом
#ссср #cccp #Армения #жансем #искусство #кгб #история #Ереван #Париж #Ованнес-Семерджян
yet another “because I’m happy” from Yerevan (:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdG_YiPChdQ
#HAPPY #Yerevan
wow, polymorphism in limbo reminds templates http://9fans.net/archive/2004/05/373
#limbo #inferno #polymorphism #oop #programming
#serart #narina #music #armenian-music #serj-tankian #arto-tunjboyajian
@{ Փրչրթան✱ Թանաքեան ; norayr@spyurk.am} Շբթ 10 Մայ 2014 12:34:53 AMT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkXzo-CMFRA
#սերարտ #նարինա #երաժշտութիւն #հայկական֊երաժշտութիւն #սերժ֊թանգեան #արտո֊թունջբոյաջյան
according to the new Russian law, proposed by Putin, in particular
any service user (like Diaspora node, facebook, wordpress), any web site and/or page owner should have a known identity, with contacts.
user can be responsible for a comment under his post too.
user can be responsible for not disclosing information to the publc.
the last point is very interesting. it may mean, that if user did not write something about some event, just because he does not want to express himself, it means police needs to be interested by him.
#putin #russia #law #freedom-of-speech #freedom
added more beautiful error/warning messages in voc
@{ Փրչրթան✱ Թանաքեան ; norayr@spyurk.am} Չրք 07 Մայ 2014 08:21:34 AMT
աւելացրի սիրունիկ սխալների զեկոյց։
#վօկ #վիշապ֊օբերոն #կոմպիլյատոր #էկրանահան #կոնսոլ #նոչ #ուտենց
#voc #vishap-oberon #xterm #console #noch #screenshot #wmaker
hey, @{Edward Sargsyan ; edwardoid@spyurk.am} this is Lawrence Lessig presentation free culture and the direct link about topicl we’ve discussed today.
#free-culture #lawrence-lessig #creative-commons #copyright #freedom
Most people don’t even know what sysadmins do, but trust me, if they all took a lunch break at the same time they wouldn’t make it to the deli before you ran out of bullets protecting your canned goods from roving bands of mutants.
#mutants #programming #sysadmins #lunch
#photo #photography #dog #dogs #animals
@{ Փրչրթան✱ Թանաքեան ; norayr@spyurk.am} Երք 06 Մայ 2014 12:52:14 AMT
#լուսանկարներ #ֆոտո #արուեստ #շուն #շներ
open source linux compatible hardware for 22 euro
github page
#linux #hardware #open-source #board #olimex #programming #design
Running 4 copies of an operating system at once
Dick explained to me that they were using an operating system from a company called Telesoft. Telesoft, headed by UCSD Pascal author Ken Bowles, was building an Ada compiler on top of its ROS (Renaissance Operating System) product. He told me (and I remember this clearly) that they had the operating system running in single user mode but that they wanted to run it in multi-user mode. At that point I was barely 21 years old. I had written a whole bunch of system-level 6502 assembler code and I had a really good ground-up understanding of the way that contemporary computer hardware worked. After studying the manual for the SUN board, I decided that I could simply break the 2MB of physical memory in to 4 chunks of 512KB each and run 4 copies of the operating system, gaining control via interrupts and device drivers.
#6502 #telesoft #pascal #ada #operating-systems #ucsd-pascal #compiler #ros #renaissance-operating-system #programming #history #computing #programming-languages #sun #intellimac #unix #msx #motorola68000 #68000 #68k #motorola-68k #ibm #stanford #research #memory
netsukuku port to vala completed, so the project revives.
#netsukuku #vala #decentralization
#mariadb #screenshot #emperor #dark-side #empire #republic
@{ Փրչրթան✱ Թանաքեան ; norayr@spyurk.am} Երկ 28 Ապր 2014 12:18:36 AMT
#էկրանահան #մարիադբ #կայսր #ուժ #403 #կայսրութիւն #հանրապետութիւն
Depixelizing pixel art
#research #pixelart #depixelization #science #paper #art
Rasterizing and Antialiasing Vector Line Art in the Pixel Art Style
site | paper | youtube demo
#pixelart #raster #rasterization #pixel #algorithm #research #paper #video #science #art
Author of the program I have been written about here has this fun software too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MAi5ob-LhU
#android #app #software #music #sound #tracker #retro #8bit #pixelart #art
this app uses ANS synthesizer՝ musical instument, which Yevgeni Murzin designed in1937֊1957 years
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzoVnqLy29U
#android #ANS #app #software #music #audio #recorder #paper
via @{sense ∇ ; sense@diasp.org}
give me 512 bytes of coffee, please.
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Ալամբուչիկ Alambuchik ; alambuchik@spyurk.am} Wed 23 Apr 2014 01:30:49 PM AMT
Կես կիլոբայթ սուրճ
#coffee #photo #512 #information-technologies #byte #####
Alex Balashov:
I’m leaving Armenia for a non-trivial period of time. I’ll be back in a few months, but am seriously reconsidering my previous inertia toward longer-term residence. I haven’t fully made up my mind. There’s some novel personal reasons that enter into the deliberation lately, including a very short-lived and spectacularly failed marriage here, but I’m not letting a bad marriage ruin Armenia for me, and I’m not here to talk about that. I wanted to share some more general parting thoughts and observations.
Leaving Armenia: What I’ll miss, what I won’t
#armenia #yerevan #quote
#yerevan #video #video-portrait #girl #tambourine #դափ #աղջիկ #երեւան #տեսադիմանկար
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դինջ վիշապաքաղ ; lubekar@spyurk.am} Չրք 09 Ապր 2014 11:54:16 AMT
դիմավորե՜ք @{կրոուլի ; tanamasi@spyurk.am} #վիձեոդիմանկար #դիմանկար #portrait #videoportrait https://vimeo.com/91519867
@{ Փրչրթան✱ Թանաքեան ; norayr@spyurk.am} Երկ 21 Ապր 2014 01:14:36 AMT
լուսանկարը՝ Բադրի Վադաճկորիա (ბადრი ვადაჭკორია)
աղբիւր
#երեխաներ #ბავშვები #խաղ #თამაში #Բադրի֊Վադաճկորիա #ბადრი-ვადაჭკორია #ֆոտո #ფოტო #պատմութիւն #ისტორია #սեւ֊սպիտակ #վրաստան #թբիլիսի
#photo #photography #tbilisi #georgia #georgian #kids #children #game #play #Badri-Vadachkoria #black-and-white
Zviad Gamsakhurdia
by Badri Vadachkoria
#photo #badri-vadachkoria #zviad-gamsakhurdia #photography #bw #black-and-white #portrait #history #georgia #georgian
@{ Փրչրթան✱ Թանաքեան ; norayr@spyurk.am} Կրկ 20 Ապր 2014 12:32:33 AMT
Զվիադ Գամսախուրդիա (ზვიად გამსახურდია)
լուսանկարը՝ Բադրի Վադաճկորիա (ბადრი ვადაჭკორია)
աղբիւր
#Զվիադ֊Գամսախուրդիա #ზვიად-გამსახურდია #Բադրի֊Վադաճկորիա #ბადრი-ვადაჭკორია #ֆոտո #ფოტო #պատմութիւն #ისტორია #դիմանկար #პორტრეტი #սեւ֊սպիտակ
I was able to attend educational expo yesterday. It was my first time I went to Mergelian institute. Eventually, I saw a Kochar’s sculpture. I think they could find a better place for her. There was a escalator in the building, but only one, for moving up. For other direction there was staircase.
Read the rest and see more photos.
#armenia #yerevan #photos #education #expo #robots #robotics #technologies #school #Ayb #Instigate #armtab #vostan #bzoz #Aygestan #Berdzor #Gugark #computing #computer #cnc #linux #reprap #3D-printing #linux-cnc #scratch #logo #exhibition
hey! seems I am sort of #newhere, though I am not.
Let’s see if I can make an English language stream.
