AmpBenzScientist @AmpBenzScientist@qoto.org

@PawelK Romania is allegedly part of where my ancestry is from. I will Czech into it but Poland seems overly policed. One of the last things I heard of from Russia was people stealing a goose from a zoo and feeding it by a beach. Russian Police said they were drunk.

@PawelK What is sk? Slovakia?

@PawelK That's part of the solution. Cooper Sulfate is a biocide. Trees and other small plants can be used to remove radiation from the soil over time. The Elephant's foot and the old hospital are worrisome. The sub basement had a corridor directly to Chernobyl. This is where the workers were decontaminated. Very hot zone.

@PawelK That's a difficult choice. I judge countries based on small arms among other things.

@PawelK Ukraine is brutal.

@PawelK Pripyat is an old model that could be a new model for the world. Applied Science could repopulate the city. The area around the city would be the real problem.

@PawelK It is quite similar in theory to how we treat asbestos in the US. If epoxy resin was used to impregnate and coat it, it doesn't have to be removed as long as the epoxy is in good condition. The same could be done with Pripyat and a special epoxy blend. Carbon and Lead would effectively block the radiation from the surfaces. There is a large communication area with a working Nuclear Power Plant a few Km away.

@PawelK My health is okay. Covid-19 mainly effects my digestive system so I have to gain weight back. I have considered Eastern Europe before but it was usually Russia or Ukraine. I have a dream of Pripyat being made livable again.

@lupyuen No more mysterious pins to chase down now?

I'm planning on getting back to the BL602 and making my own programs. I will also likely be double checking my code on github to make sure that it compiles correctly.

@lupyuen I suspect one of those problems is with something that takes people's minds off of the bad circumstances. I'm sorry to hear that. It's not an encouraging thing to see.

@itnewsbot They should have done it much sooner. In the short period of time it caused gasoline prices to go up by 50% for a separate state with other sources of petroleum products.

@lupyuen I only miss the nightlife, gym and "jobs". I moved 9 hours away for work and I was making nearly nothing working on heavy equipment. I moved back after 7 months and it's not much better at all.

The situation in your country will improve along with the economy and job market.

@lupyuen I have recovered and the only lasting symptom is GI issues which persisted for about a month last time. I don't want to catch it a third time but I should have a natural immunity for up to 3-6 months now. I don't know if the vaccine is still available for me at this point. I was eligible for vaccination after I was already symptomatic during finals week(s). I assume that I will get no valid excuse as I didn't email them until I was able to string together an intelligible sentence. I really despise University and how broken it is. I don't know if I will graduate. I'm quite upset about the way they have treated me in the past and I don't know if I can continue.

Perhaps I sent a link to my github and your reference to it as a way of saying, "I did this without a degree in CS, on my own time, on my own hardware and no one in the faculty taught me any of this."

@lupyuen I'm considering making my own image to flash to the BL602. I have waited so long for real embedded programming in C and it's RISC-V. I want to do many things with this MCU but I will have to limit myself to a single image that does a few things. Hopefully I can get it operational without too much trouble.

@lupyuen The second time I contacted Covid-19, 14 months after the first time, it seemed to hit me faster and had the same effect. My duration of illness was a little shorter than before and so was the incubation period. The symptoms were a little different but mostly the same. It's not pleasant and I've now contacted Covid-19 almost as many times as I have contacted the flu in my life.

Covid-19 is absolutely fascinating and I think it's going to change how we deal with infectious diseases going forward. I say this but HIV is still spreading.

@lupyuen That's okay. I expect that it will be worse than the BL602. It is Allwinner so there will need to be Reverse Engineers.

@lupyuen I think I will want to get more involved in projects and show my abilities so they will see what I can do. The Cube blobs are in my repo under verbose-chainsaw as C code.

Do you know how I could get my hands on the Allwinner D1 and resources before it's released officially by Pine? I don't want another BL602 type release. I will work on open source implementation of firmware and do whatever I need to for it to be truly open.

@lupyuen I don't know why I said Shenzhen. California would definitely be possible for me. If nothing else, I could collaborate remotely. I'm going to build a virtualization server for my own computational use and image compilation.

@PawelK @lupyuen Pinephone Braveheart v1.1 it barely escaped the Covid lockdown even though I placed an order immediately after it became available.