irfan

@irfan@sakurajima.social

AH. DevOps Engineer. I post about #Gaming, #SteamDeck, #Linux, #Anime, and #Tech in general.

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irfan, to fediverse

Hi all, I've just migrated from @irfan to this account on sakurajima.social. I'll also be attempting to migrate my main account @irfan to this one in the coming days, but I'm expecting nothing on that front since it's failed so far.

I've moved to multiple servers throughout my time on the in pursuit for a "permanent" instance to be on, and I've never had the chance to write an post lol so this will be my first.

I'm a 26 year old (in Nov 2024) (gfdi) programmer obsessed with languages such as and , frameworks like , and shenanigans like , , and . I'm also obsessed with and , and promoting them to be more viable each day for the masses so everyone could have not just free but secure access to daily computing.

Entertainment wise, I'm into both English but mostly Japanese content - including . I also often play western and Japanese on and . My primary devices are my , my / based , and my old and dusty . My fav animes include (as per my pfp), , and . My fav games include , , and . My fav genres include anything that evokes strong emotions and grabs my full attention like , , and .

I'll be using this account to mostly document my passions through mini reviews or rants. I have another picture-based account over on , @irfan. All images I have posted and will be posting will include descriptive/alt text, including my pfp and banner. I also have some bots for posting local (to me, ) and other relevant data cos the API is just so fun to play with.

irfan, to Games

An #itchio Palestinian Relief Bundle which comes with 373 #games/items (physical games, books, soundtracks, etc.), all DRM-free, for just 8 USD.

Some popular video games on there include #AShortHike and #CoffeeTalk (an Indonesian-made game).

🔗 https://itch.io/b/2321/palestinian-relief-bundle

rakyat, to random
@rakyat@hachyderm.io avatar

The scammers pretending to be hot single ladies targeting Malaysian chinese-speaking users have arrived on Threads, and they fully understand that their audience love food pics more than boob pics.

(The food photo was in fact stolen from one of my mutuals)

Another scam account masquerading as a pretty & single Malaysian lady shares the exact same food photo.
A third scam account masquerading as a pretty & single Malaysian lady with huge boobs also sharing the exact same food photo.

irfan,

@rakyat they should’ve used the MakanApaToday tag to reach more food lovers

irfan, to random

If I was born Filipino, I would have been a much healthier individual bcos I wouldn't be eating desserts like Cendol, I'd be eating Buko Pandan Salad instead.

🔗 https://www.facebook.com/AsianSEAStory/posts/similarities-of-desserts-in-sea-traditional-sweet-desserts-made-by-green-flour-j/574366498059957

irfan, to random

The obedient little brother. Except when it comes to EU and the rest of the world.

RE: https://mastodon.online/users/9to5Mac/statuses/112295369416758586

irfan, to linux

There's a huge backdoor ( -2024-3094) allowing remote SSH access (as far as I can tell at this moment) caused by a util called affecting a ton of systems ( and , well not really) and it's causing quite a huge panic. I honestly don't know much about it just yet, but just sharing some pieces to read about the huge vulnerability.

The person who had maliciously planted this vulnerability into xz-utils, Jia Tan, has made at least 750 contributions to the project over the past 2 years. They even have direct push access to the code repo, allowing them to have pushed commits with forged authors. Being "free" from this vulnerability is not as simple as reverting to a previous version due to just how much and how long they've contributed to the project, and people are rightfully suspicious that this person might have hidden other backdoors in xz.

Unlike most other vulnerabilities, it's a lot harder to pinpoint versions affected by this but the most likely case is most systems out there have xz installed on their system that are impacted - which at this moment, the info being thrown around is any version past 5.3.1, 5.4.6, or 5.6.0 (latest is 5.6.1).

🔗 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3094

🔗 https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/03/29/reported-supply-chain-compromise-affecting-xz-utils-data-compression-library-cve-2024-3094

🔗 https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/urgent-security-alert-fedora-41-and-rawhide-users

🔗 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1068024

irfan, to random

TIL Malaysia has never grown its own onions before, and somehow the thought of that being viable was previously impossible, until ~today when they've managed to harvest 2.3 tonnes of it. AFAIK red onions here have often been imported from India and several other countries including China and Thailand. Pretty weird but good job, I guess.

🔗 https://x.com/MSabuOfficial/status/1775694836999623050

🔗 https://www.bharian.com.my/berita/nasional/2024/04/1231135/tuaian-pertama-bawang-malaysia-23-tan

irfan, to random

Taiwanese commented about Malaysian driving culture

🔗 https://twitter.com/anthraxxx781/status/1775665670510002322

irfan, to KDE

Carl Schwan from #KDE has updated the list and the number of apps on there now that apparently already have builds available for #macOS MAKES ME HAPPY.

There's #Kate! #Filelight! #Konsole! #Okular! I'VE NEEDED THEM ON MACOS SO BAD AND THEY'VE BEEN HERE ALL ALONG <3

Pushing my luck here but #Dolphin on macOS, when? 🥹

🔗 https://apps.kde.org/platforms/macos

RE: https://floss.social/users/carlschwan/statuses/112343012896137821

irfan, to random

Our national hero Lee Chong Wei made an appearance in the latest #LTT video in the most unexpected way possible; a test to see if SDR -> HDR content makes greasiness/sweatiness pop more lol.

▶️ https://youtu.be/seoaDLWuHtU?t=422

irfan, to Steamdeck

This is wonderful news but seeing the list of patrons, why does not join the sponsorship programme though? - I know (or I think at least) that they often/occasionally sponsor (as an org, or devs) to do some work for them, and I'm not denying that they contribute a lot through funds/code to /, but seeing that the comes shipped with (which I still think is a really smart decision) and since Plasma is a huge part of the Steam Deck (literally half of the software exp), it'd be great to see Valve commit to a recurring sponsorship programme to the KDE folks.

They certainly have the money for it, surely. I hope this will be true someday.

🔗 https://ev.kde.org/supporting-members

RE: https://floss.social/users/kde/statuses/112400865241036055

irfan, to windows

' upcoming feature is enabled by default btw in the OOBE setup and CANNOT be disabled directly - you will need to disable it in the Settings app instead, afterwards.

I don't know if you'd trust to actually respect that setting either, wouldn't be the first and only setting on Windows that doesn't actually do anything you'd want it to (or not to) do.

OH and also - Microsoft stores all the Recall data in an database in plaintext, so you KNOW it's secure and definitely not easy to steal away from you by anyone that gains physical or remote access to your device <3

🔗 https://x.com/tomwarren/status/1796681578984182066

🔗 https://x.com/GossiTheDog/status/1796218726808748367

irfan, to ai

The Singaporean government has joined the Malaysian government in using generated (pictorial) content in their public materials instead of shelving out the money to get original content that they need (be it photos, illustrations, etc.).

🔗 https://twitter.com/sighyam/status/1789975574179406237

irfan, to random

TIL there's a "Gereja Ayam" (literally Chicken Church) in Indonesia that looks like it'd fit right into #NierAutomata lol, maybe the theme park and feature a secret boss fight with the chicken head if you hit it just enough times.

🔗 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gereja_Ayam

irfan, to iPhone

It's insane thinking about how #iPhone has nailed touch scrolling right out of the bat from the first phone, and #Android phones still have not figured out how to do it right. Not just on touchscreens but on trackpads too, only #Apple has managed making something as "simple" as touch scrolling as intuitive, magical, and true to life (instant response, the exact amount of weight and inertia as you'd expect from what you just did with your finger) SYSTEM WIDE (and not app-dependent) while #Windows laptops still makes you feel like you're better off with a mouse. I use an Apple Magic Trackpad on my #Linux PC and it feels great and was one of the best investments I've made, but it will never be as good as it'd be on #macOS and that feels like a crime. Since no one has figured it out, I unjokingly wish the EU or CCP make it compulsory for Apple to teach everyone else in the industry how to implement this seemingly simple thing, so right.

irfan, to iOS

, the legit retro emulator on has finally made it to the (for free, and most importantly - legitimately) 🎉

(consoles) supported by Delta: , , , /, , and (requires your own BIOS files).

Also , you could connect to a remote share right from the native Files app on your . Did just that and copied over some BIOS files and ROMs, now I'm off to the races.

🔗 https://apps.apple.com/my/app/delta-game-emulator/id1048524688

🔗 https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1780663639092916488

irfan, to Disney

I think the news about essentially "reinventing" cable channels again into their streaming service, is pretty hilarious, though I'm not exactly surprised by that since I too honestly have been wanting such a feature on or for really long time.

The idea is, you could still watch things on demand, unlike cable channels of old, but you could also just tune in to a channel and be "served" different things to watch by episode, or by movie, based on what is available. That'd be perfect when you just want to leave the TV on and have it play random stuffs all day.

🔗 https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/15/24131034/disney-plus-fast-channels-streaming

irfan, to random

I was mad when I learned that Perlis (Malaysia's smallest state) is actually bigger than Singapore, because people often joked that Perlis could only fit 8 citizens and it broke my immersion knowing/recognising that Singapore isn't that small (hence, Perlis too) lmao.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/users/skinnylatte/statuses/112412019091798957

irfan, to random

This only happens right after I'd be back from said country to even benefit from it.

After I went back from my work trip to Singapore ~last year, QR payment between Malaysia-SG suddenly became compatible. Afterwards I went back from Bali for vacation, QR payment between Malaysia-Indonesia became compatible.

This time I'm set to head to Osaka by the end of this year, Japan's QR payment is set to be compatible with Malaysia's QR payment and other countries the following year in 2025.

The force in this (cashless) chosen one is strong.

RE: https://mstdn.io/users/sohkamyung/statuses/112387076575029681

irfan, to microsoft

says it needs like Hi-Fi Rush THE DAY AFTER KILLING THE STUDIO that made (games like) Hi-Fi Rush GOD there's a lack of functioning brains over there HOW

🔗 https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152137/xbox-hi-fi-rush-tango-gameworks-matt-booty

irfan, to random

I don't fancy Malay privileges until Hari Raya when I will only give angpao or duit raya only to folks who've not started working yet.

But I also invoke my Chinese privileges by receiving angpao from my Chinese side of the family just bcos I'm not married yet ​:neofox_boop_woozy:​

irfan, to iPhone

My partner’s #iPhone 11 has restarted randomly thrice in two days and each time it’s booted it doesn’t provide any reason/error message why it did.

Looking at the Data Analytics section, there are 3 log files with naming scheme that starts with “panic-full” which to my understanding/finding means it’s an indication that it’s a hardware issue.

The log files are gibberish to me though and are extremely long, is there any #Apple/#iOS expert out there that might be familiar with this at all that could possibly parse/make any sense out of these .ips logs?

rakyat, (edited ) to random
@rakyat@hachyderm.io avatar

Recently there was this discussion about the growing numbers of Malay students in Chinese schools and as a result got to see great comments from Malays who write and speak better Chinese than myself. Honestly if I’m the minister of national unity I’d have put them on TV already.

Which begs the question, what the fuck is our expensive minister of national unity being paid to do?

irfan,

@rakyat I think the same thing lol. There are plenty of people inciting racism, which is expected and an easy thing to do - sometimes even if they're not racists themselves but do so for many other reasons (i.e. popularity grab, orchestrating a false narrative, etc.), but I always question where the fuck are the people that PROMOTE the opposite; unity, harmony, rather than just argue and fight with said people inciting racism? Fighting against these people, I doubt will be as effective as inspiring/calling people to unity as the former group's "firepower" will always be louder and more aggressive, hence more enticing esp to the simple minded and the naive.

irfan, to fediverse

Moderation in #Fediverse currently works this way (as far as I can tell):

  • Instances could enforce their instance block and mute list. This gets passed down to all members of their instance.

  • Users could have their own block and mute list of users or instances. This only applies for them, on top of the home instance's list.

This works great for the most part, but previously there have been plenty of discussions/arguments of instance members perhaps not agreeing to certain blocks/mutes enforced by instance maintainers - in cases such as this, since individual members have no power to "override" these rules for their account (i.e. to federate with users of another instance that's been blocked by their instance maintainer), their only choice as the last resort is for them to move to another instance.

I imagine it'd be great if it works this way instead:

  • Instances could enforce their instance block and mute list. This gets passed down to all members of their instance by default.

  • Users could have their own block and mute list of users or instances. This only applies for them, on top of the home instance's list.

  • However users could also override the home instance's list granularly, if they would want to for example, federate with an instance that's been blocked by their home instance.

As someone who's not really delved into the workings of the Fediverse/#ActivityPub or any of the projects using it all too much, this "feature" suggestion might totally be technically nonsensical or maybe expensive though for it to make sense or be possible to achieve. Just thought this might be an improvement for what I think is already an excellent moderation system that we have here.

irfan, to random

Life as a consumer in Malaysia is easy: see "Produk Melayu" or "Produk Buatan Muslim" and the like -> don't fucking buy.

Otherwise if it has no stupid mentions of race or religion, and if it's a good or safe product for you (i.e. for consumption) then please buy all you want. If it's a local product, I say that's better.

irfan,

I'm adding this in case my point isn't clear to some: I'm not saying you shouldn't buy a product made by Malays/[insert race here] or Muslims/[insert religion here], please do.

What I'm saying is that you shouldn't buy a product that proudly states that it was made/sold by Malays/[insert race here] or Muslims/[insert religion here]. The reason why should be obvious.

Also for context: this is referring to the new "Darsa Fried Chicken" brand that are dubbing themselves as (what should be) a Malays/Muslims' choice of alternative to #KFC (due to boycott).

For one, I don't find the need to boycott KFC because it's NOT in #BDS's list and I'm not one to go willy nilly boycotting brands just because - but if you are trying to look for an alternative to popular, foreign brands due to their rising prices and deteriorating quality (which most people say as their true reason for boycotting KFC in Malaysia), get your fried chicken and other fast food meals from #Marrybrown.

I'm sure most Malaysians already have heard of it but yes it's local, it came from Johor and used to be something I could only (easily) get from there but they've expanded to pretty much everywhere for a quite long while now. If you've not tried it, or it's been a long time since you did, please try them when you're feeling up to it because their foods and also just as important, selection of foods are actually really good and much improved from their old days.

🔗 https://bdsmovement.net/Act-Now-Against-These-Companies-Profiting-From-Genocide

🔗 https://marrybrown.com

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