Bernie @codewiz@mstdn.io
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Nomadic Linux systems engineer, currently living in Tokyo.
Likes: #cycling #scifi #animals
- Website
- https://www.codewiz.org
- PGP
- 0xDD0AC837C3FAA57615747A2FC451030771FF4BAC
THIS IS IMPORTANT!
We need people to call their MEPs. Most importantly:
- Romanian S&D:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search.html?country=RO&politicalGroup=4280
- Romanian EPP:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search.html?country=RO&politicalGroup=4269
- British S&D:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search.html?country=GB&politicalGroup=4280
- British ECR:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search.html?country=GB&politicalGroup=4271
- Italian S&D:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search.html?country=IT&politicalGroup=4280
- Polish EPP:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search.html?country=PL&politicalGroup=4269
Please report back (in a private message, preferably) what they say! This would help us a LOT!
What if, tomorrow, we had a little #AMA about #PeerTube and #Framasoft on r/freesoftware...? Just to celebrate the last days of our crowdfunding: https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform
Stay tuned!
We need TWO great Project Managers to join our team - one focused on team projects, the other on product. Please help us spread the word! https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs
@kitdarko I've had two meetings with MEPs so far, one leaning our way, and Voss.
Both complained about the template e-mails. The one leaning our way said specifically they are an annoyance, and that they make it hard to find actually important e-mails in the deluge of such (what he called) spam.
I asked them what would work better and that's what they gave me: calls. or at least e-mails actaully written by the sender.
I trust them. These are the people we try to reach, after all.
I'm in Strasbourg, lobbying hard. Updates soon, but was able to talk to Axel Voss, the main guy behind the current (bad) versions of #Art11 and #Art13. Doing my best to #SaveYourInternet.
Lessons from today:
- Pro-Art11/Art13 MEPs do not know how copyright law works (no surprises there, the copyright law is a mess!)
- Wikimedia Commons is a very good example of a service that could suffer very much.
- As during #ACTA, MEPs are not entirely against sitting down and discussing the issues.
Are you a C veteran? Then take this quiz: https://stefansf.de/c-quiz/
Also good reading: https://stefansf.de/post/pointers-are-more-abstract-than-you-might-expect/
You might be a fake left-wing radical, aka a "Nixon Republican" neoliberal/organic conservative if you:
Think the rights of ethnic or other social groups are more important than the rights of individuals;
Think it's okay to prevent others from speaking if you disagree with them;
Advocate hitting, threatening, intimidating or hurting others if you disagree with their political views;
Think there are certain natural laws and that the laws of governments are subordinate to them.
And there are more awesome graphs... but I don't have the guts to install random javascript code in my browser...
https://community.wanikani.com/t/progress-chart-script/20735
Hmm... looks like I took the JLPT N5 test knowing only 77% of its kanji content...
I definitely saw a few unfamiliar ones, but what was really hurting my score today was being a slow reader, and not the occasional unknown kanji.
Stats for nerds. Using https://www.wkstats.com/ with the data pulled from my https://www.wanikani.com/ profile, I was able to estimate that I should be able to take the JLPT N4 in December even if I slow down a little (the current pace is killing me).
Wow, the JLPT uses an uber-complicated method for scoring the answers: http://www.jlpt.jp/e/about/pdf/scaledscore_e.pdf
After reading the pdf, I still don't know whether it's best to answer a question randomly or leave it blank.
I should have read more manga instead of studying kanji! @Vamp898
Ahh,finished... Phew!
I can't believe I spent *16* years sitting in classrooms for 5-6 hours every day, Saturdays included!
ๅญฆ็ -> Study + Life = student
I think I answered well pretty much every question in the second part... Up until I ran out of time!! ๐ Yes, again! I had to answer randomly to the last two pages of questions... about ~30% of the test.
I didn't do too well on the first part. I ran out of time and answered the last 7 questions randomly (out of ~35). Assuming that missing answers count the same of incorrect answers, each random answer should be 0.25 of a point, I lost ~5.25 points for reading too slowly โน๏ธ
Test starts in 10 minutes!!!
La caffetteria nel campus dell'Universitร di Tokyo serve spaghetti perfettamente al dente, e con una dozzina di salse diverse! ๐๐๐
New words I can write using ่ช (self):
่ชๅ: self + minute = oneself
่ช็ซ: self + stand = independence
่ช็ฑ: self + reason = freedom
่ช่ปข่ป: self + turn + vehicle = bicycle
And many others: https://jisho.org/search/*%E8%87%AA*
Today I bough this beautiful potted hydrangea for my share house. I didn't know it was a native species of Japan and eastern Asia... In Italy they go by the common name "ortensia".
Tomorrow I have the JLPT test, but I'm not reviewing the content nor preparing specifically for it.
Why? I want to validate if the way I've been learning Japanese until now was actually effective.
I worry that I'm still too slow at reading, and thus today I'm reading stuff. During the practice test, I ran out of time on the last question of the grammar session.
