Thursday, May 20, 2021

The Deception of Antivaccine

[Knowledge Wins It All]

[Malay translation]

In the midst of this COVID-19 pandemic we are hearing the ugly and annoying voices of anti-vaccine movement trying to fool people into believing their propaganda. These movement has long been motioned by these people. This ideology does not come alone. It would be coming together with flat Earth teaching, anti-moon-landing propaganda and the like. Stupidity doesn’t come as one. Once you are stupid, forever stupid.

In this writing I would like to group 3 of their propaganda videos that have been viral around the social media. They are claiming that vaccination injects microchip into the hands of the takers. They prove it by putting magnet at the place of the injection and showed that the magnet pulls the microchip and stick at that arm area.


As a person who graduated as computer engineer I know that this is total BULLSHIT. These are my arguments:
  1. First, do they even know what microchip is? Microchip is made of what? Silicone. What is silicone? It is just sand and its wafer form is sometimes called glass wafer because silicone in that form is actually glass. Now, do sand and glass attract magnet?
  2. Second, there is metal used in microchip fabrication, but hardly any ferromagnetic metal that attracts magnet. The metal used directly on the wafer to complete the circuits of the transistors is mainly aluminum – not ferromagnetic. The only ferromagnetic metal used could be nickel that might be used as the wire connectors from the microchip to the outside world. And this is rare as copper is more common. So how is the magnet going to pull this?
  3. Last but not least, there is no such thing as liquid microchip. At least not yet. Technology has already created organic semiconductor, but no, not yet the liquid microchip. Even liquid crystal can only work with power. Where the power comes from in human body? And, yes, liquid crystal is also not ferromagnetic.
And I have completed my 2 doses, and I don't see any magnet attracted to my shoulder. 🤣🤣🤣

Judging from the level of lie they are willing to tell shows how desprate they are. I don’t want to waste my time investigating what kind of magic trick they use to make those videos, but my suspicion seems to be true in at least in the second video. They glued the shoulder at the area where the vaccine is injected with iron foil or iron paper then painted it with color similar to the skin. You can see it in the following snaps:

At certain angle you can almost see the edges of the iron patch they put on the shoulder. The next snap highlights it.


The edge of the painted patch is highlighted.


The part that is not sticking is outside of the patch.

🤪 Stupidity 🤪
🤪 Repeats Itself 🤪

Sunday, April 19, 2020

I'm Introvert in Lockdown

[Awesome Lonesome]

* Image from tenor.com

I'm an introvert - a big one - and pround of it. As a super hyper introvert, lockdown or movement control order (MCO) is like a blessing. Staying at home and doing work from home is something that I have been doing for so long as I have educator's privillege.

As introverts, what is in our mind is basically our decision. Our point of standing is little influenced ny other people. WE ARE WE.

Many extroverts (normal people?) are cracking under this lockdown as they need to see other people as part of their life - and get the mainstream ideas to believe in.

Boredome comes quickly to then. But for me, not only that I'm introvert, I'm also a programmer and multimedia producer. If I get bored, I do programming. Yes, I actually put programming as my hobby in my resume.

As if lockdown is not enough, in few days, it is Ramadhan 2020 and of course Aidil Fitri in a month time. It is like a disaster for most extroverts. No bazar Ramadhan, and no raya. Even though MCO might be ended by Aidil Fitri, but the Aidil Fitri solat and visitings might still be restricted as we are just finished MCO, and if social distancing is - all of a sudden - being ignored completely, coronavirus might re-appear and we may have to go through another lockdown.

But me? No, I'm okay with it. I have had Raya in KL twice and in US also twice - almost completely alone. So lockdown is nothing for me. I'll survive. Ø¥ِÙ†ْ Ø´َاءَ ٱللَّٰÙ‡ُ



🤷 I'll Survive 🤷
👑    Coronavirus    👑

Friday, December 1, 2017

Downfall of IT Books

[Knowledge Wins It All]

If memory serves, the years between 1995 to 2005 was a golden age for IT books. I remember feeling the joy just by browsing those books in the bookstores – let it be Borders, MPH or Popular Bookstores. After that period, IT books, and also engineering books, started to disappear from the shelves.

It didn’t just happened here in Malaysia, but worldwide. I was in USA, or exactly in Orange County, California, and I witnessed the same phenomena. It was only a half year time from early Fall 2008 to early Spring 2009. There was a shopping mall called G-Orange, around which you can find Borders bookstore. At the beginning of my staying there, I saw an abundance of IT books, then towards the end, I saw the shelves was shrinking. And too bad I think even that Borders itself closed down.


Not only to technical books, this also happened, and is happening to other types of printed media like magazines and newspapers. I saw this happened to my favorite humour magazine – Gila-Gila. Even my favorite new paper, Utusan Malaysia, reported of lost.

Why did this happen? The immediate reason is obvious to even a novice IT people. It is due to the fact that there are so many PDF format e-book nowadays. And many of those are free. With the digital book who needs physically printed books? Ironically enough, PDF e-book was invented by IT people. So IT people were responsible for the disappearance of IT books.


Specifically for IT books, there is another reason. There are many books on specific versions of software. For example books on Microsoft Excel 2013. When there is a new version of Microsoft Excel released, do you think people still need the book on version 2013? And do you think the books on version 2013 will be sold out by the time the new version was released? Publishing books on specific expiring products like this is so bad an idea.

Perhaps in a few decades these books will be in museum.


📖 Books 📖
📕 will never extinct 📕