Farooq Karimi Zadeh @farooqkz@qoto.org

3 years ago on 15th Nov of 2019(24th Aban 1398), in such a day, protests of people without a leadership started against the government of Iran. I remember I had entered university that year and the government had blocked Internet connection for everyone and only government backed instant messangers were available for people's use. Most of students at the same age of myself who were studying CS, had a common belief: These IMs are just spywares which no one must use. I was actually surprised with this insight which my classmates had because most of them didn't have any background of CS and tech before university like I had.

There are different estimations of the number of killed people for that protest. Some sources were talking about few thousands and for some others the scale was lower(few hundreds).

This year, another protest started which in regard to persistance of people, I think it is totally new and unique after the what they call "the Islamic Revolution". Just like the previous protests, this one also doesn't have a leadership but lasted so long(near 2 months at the time of writing this toot).

Because the government doesn't allow free distribution of information, we are not sure what is actually happening in other parts of the country. But we know something for sure: The government is persistance in killing people and arresting them. Even those who are just kids who even haven't reached the age of becoming a student.

In the time between these two protests, I don't remember a country-wide protest but there were some smaller ones like those of Khuzistan and maybe in Isfahan.

I was talking to a friend from #ukraine that your country's army forces at least don't kill their own people. He said the situation of my country is sad and remembered me the invader of his country is the same who sponsors this government of my country.

#Mahsa_Amini #Iran_2022_protests #Iran #murder #mass_murder

There are many #electrical components which either haven't been invented, yet or that are in experimental phase. I've created two new categories on the English #wikipedia for them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Non-invented_electrical_components

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Experimental_electrical_components

Bonus: Some of them could have good use in hardware implementations of artificial neurons and then ANNs.

#electronics #physics #machine_learning #ann #neural_networks #cs #computer #computers

If you are interested in cryptocurrency discussion, a new StackExchange has been proposed which you can support:

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Currently, you can follow it and submit example questions for this SE. If you have enough reputation, you can discuss about the scope of this SE, too. For example I am thinking if mining cryptocurrencies would be offtopic or not. But I don't have enough reputation.

#crypto #cryptocurrency

Last night(Tehran time), students of my university were waiting for the bus. The forces thought they are protestors and beated them.

#iran #Mahsa_Amini #hormozgan

I am trying to calculate factorial of 30 using x86_64 assembly on Linux. Here's my code:

```
.global _start

.text
_start:
mov %RCX, 1 # counter
mov %RAX, 1 # factorial result
loop:
mul %RCX
inc %RCX
cmp %RCX, n
jle loop

.data
n: .byte 30

```

I am converting it using these two commands:

```
as file.s
ldd file.s -o a
```

However when running the executable `a`, segmention fault is raised. checking with gdb it seems that it is raised right at the first instruction after `_start`. Where am I wrong?

#asm #assembly #x86 #x86_64 #linux #debugging #programming #segfault #segmention_fault

It has been a long time which there is a question in my mind. There are cheap #sbc s around. For huge computings on CPU, would many #ARM based single board computers like #Raspberry_pi or #nano_pi replace a single #Intel? If this is possible and considering that softwares are equally optimized on #x86 and ARM, the obvious advantage of a bunch of ARM tiny computers as a whole cluster over a single x86 would be that they consume much less power, thus they generate much less heat and hopefully longer product life. Also if any of them went down, your whole computing resource is still available but with a little less computing power. I have a NanoPi NEO and a 3rd gen Ci5 M series. But a piece of software is needed which could benchmark both my x86 and my ARM and on the compiler-level, is optimized equally for both.

#hpc #cpu_computing #scientific_computing

Among the #GUI programs on my PC, I like my Terminal Emulator only. I have a slow HDD and whenever I want to open one of those GUI programs, they want to load soooo much from my Disk so they are much slower to load. Also when I don't use them for a while and their data on memory get placed in my swap space, having them back is again as slow as loading them almost. It seems that because computers have more and more memory, newer versions of programs want to waste more and more memory. #memory_waste #huge_memory_usage #linux #tech

Latest Minetest CTF video from Farooq:

https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/w/aSoWCo4iCveFKQ2BvLf3KQ

How is my English accent?

#minetest #minetest_ctf #foss #foss_gaming #gaming #minecraft #pvp #minetest_pvp #poll

Hello all. I was thinking of a #static #RSS #aggregator. So that one(possibly myself) could create a unified #feed which is created by combining multiple RSS sources plus a good looking static HTML output. So that anyone could run such a thing only with static hostings which a lot of them are out there these days and a #CI #CD runner like #Github #Actions or the one #Gitlab has. I wanted to know if such a thing already exists. If not, I would be happy to create one myself with #Python or perhaps #Rust

Hello all. Do you any any #federated alternative to Github Gist?

#fediverse #snippet_sharing #snippet #code_sharing #code #snippet #programming #development #github #gitlab #gist