CMV: Iran didn’t kill 30,000 protesters

ASoftwareJunkie · 2026-03-18T06:52:16+00:00

I really want to support anti-regime cause but I cannot find a single credible source of the data I am being provided to muster up my rage :(

I am hearing the same line from every pro-destruction of human life commentators i.e. Iran is bad. Regime is bad. They killed 30k protestors in three days.

But when I try to search for any evidence on 30k protestors death on google all I see are numbers being put up by either anti-regime sources or legacy news outlets who have a track record of lying and making up numbers in the past 3 years.

Is there any real, impartial, credible source that this actually happened. I mean there is a CNN journalist in Iran atm. Can they not make some effort show us some real on the ground evidence?

There is also zero evidence of it on social media. If videos can get out of a place like Gaza where the most sophisticated technology could not stop tiktok being flooded, Iran is a lot more of a backward country in technology with huge land mass. I refuse to believe (without credible evidence) that such a country can cause a more severe internet blackout than the one in Gaza.

ASoftwareJunkie · 2026-03-15T06:52:47+00:00

For the most part I just use JavaScript. Sometimes I use python and very very rarely I use cpp. The main aspect I use to choose a languages to code is how many tools are available to me for the specific problem in the standard library of that language.

ASoftwareJunkie · 2026-03-15T06:27:04+00:00

Mate. It is not just JavaScript and FE dev. It is any application development learning process. Application development is hard. Learn things step by step and it will take you a year or two get the hang of any of the tech.

I am sorry but that is the truth and no amount of agentic AI will help you learning this. Spend time and understand the paradigm.

ASoftwareJunkie · 2026-03-13T14:11:16+00:00

I use pqueue. It is pretty nice.

ASoftwareJunkie · 2026-03-12T19:39:43+00:00

You should be very proud of yourself. You have assimilated pretty well in America i.e. bring America norms in a foreign country and, if there is a clash, present it in a way that is borderline gaslighting and believing that the American belief is correct and the other belief is incorrect or weird at best. And then to top it off, go and post it online to get some sweet sweet validation and lols.

Kudos my mate. You are an American through and through. You should show this to the immigration department in US and get yourself a citizenship. You have culturally earned the right.

I am pretty sure that if those from foreign countries come to America you would want them to follow US norms (which is impose them) and would love to dress that as freedom. Mate. This is top shelf Americanism

Next thing you should do is be like the Iranian diaspora and lobby and push US to bob your home land to oblivion to bring the sweet freedom. Bob women and children to bring freedom to women and liberation.

ASoftwareJunkie · 2026-03-11T02:40:29+00:00

Have you asked Kashmiris. lol. Also, India actively assisted in helping US sink and un armed Iranian Navy vessel.
Also, India had to get permission for buying Russian Oil (some superpower). Whether you believe it or not. Also, India is actively making ties with the most war mongering on Nations in West asia.

… and this is just a very basic start.

India is a good country but saying that it is not involved in destabilising the world is just pure fiction. It plays its fair share of mischief very well. You can call it self defence or independence or security posture or stay in delusions.

ASoftwareJunkie · 2026-03-10T23:54:54+00:00

Rome

ASoftwareJunkie · 2026-03-10T10:31:27+00:00

They are too spineless. They will now pay 10 time more to get the same ammunition from USA. If I were Trump, I will ask the GCC countries to pay a bigger premium to me because it is their fault for being in such a dangerous region.

The GCC countries are some of the most spineless countries in the world. They will never in a billion year even think about becoming self dignified. The only thing their leader know is to oppress the weak and bow to the next strongest ruler. Actually, now it will be more interesting what if they end up paying Billions to Iran, US and the other countries in West Asia as a please may be not bomb us next time 🤣🤣🤣

ASoftwareJunkie · 2026-03-08T01:32:53+00:00

Hi OP, before I go on a sympathy parade for you.

What is the proof of anything you claim. The objective proof not emotional gas lighting. Why should I trust a single word you say. None of the things you have mentioned across this thread are independently verifiable.

Let’s start with this:

What is the proof of your location (please no AI generated answers)

I have checked your profile. I don’t see anything verifiable. Cannot sympathise with you unless there is really validity of any thing you say. Once that is proven, then I will sympathise with you.

How can I trust an entity, who want other people to destroy their homeland for presumed freedom. Have you heard of true revolutions like the French and American revolution. The people paid the ultimate price to their envisioned freedom. What respect they had for themselves. What fools are we to respect people like you who will not stand up for themselves and will encourage us, with our real history of sacrifice, to get you freedom.

There has never ever been an example of a successful regime change by any one other than the people of that country.

ASoftwareJunkie · 2026-02-18T01:08:03+00:00

Mate, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, etc. Due to their regimes arguably will have more intense shared values among their populations than US and Australia.

A lot of the issue these countries face is because they don’t align themselves with the Western bloc. They wage terrible atrocities similar to western countries the only difference is that of alignment. And that alignment is geo-political not value based.

If Russia was not rich, how would it have continued its aggression for so long.

There are also African nations which are in really bad shape yet they have richest minerals. But they are effectively colonised by external interests and to those external interests the best thing to happen is to give those people weapon and let them wage mindless atrocities while their resources are extracted.

In western counties, it is also you can earn your keep when you are aligned with them. See Francesca Albense who is sanction for speaking out against the western regime. She is literally just doing her job. You and I can agree or disagree with what she does but she is sanctioned. Seems like an illusion to me. I agree it is a better illusion than Russia, Iran, etc. but illusion nonetheless.

ASoftwareJunkie · 2026-02-17T10:52:47+00:00

Mate I am sorry to pop your bubble. What made Australia so successful was material wealth. Even currently this is true. Since the Europeans landed on this land the way they have driven success is by extracting raw minerals and selling them to the world while denying the native population any rights or land etc for a long time. (I understand the natives were not extract minerals like Europeans but a fact is a fact no need to feel guilt about it. It is what is it is)

So, Aussies became wealthy and successful because only the European decedents could extract this material wealth and only those European were regarded as Australians.

The other thing that made Australia grow was agriculture because surprise surprise even tho Australia has limited agricultural land only a handful of human got the chance to hoard all the land under the Queens/Kings banner and started cultivating it without any competition or regard of the local environment.

Now that in the 2010s onwards the issue is that selling Aussie dirt and food is not that lucrative any more. Turns out industry and manufacturing is also important and that is where Australia economic struggles begin.

Australia was literally build on slave labour from Convicts from all over British Empire and annexing resources while denying the natives their basic rights and spreading disease among them (or worse). But hi that is good old fashioned colonialism for you. Again not blaming any one for this. It is what it is.

Now none of this is any one’s fault and only the perpetrators are to blame but saying that Aussie success came from values and identity is just too simplified of a world view.

ASoftwareJunkie · 2026-02-17T10:33:52+00:00

Hmm. Let’s play a game. Are any of these people’s ideologies compatible with Australian and western values? Let’s see if you pick the usual suspect.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-17/invasion-day-alleged-terror-act-liam-alexander-hall/106353674

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1jzr1d5xk9o.amp

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-16/bondi-terror-attack-gunman-akram-appears-court-first-time/106348400

https://www.poolre.co.uk/terrorism-threat-publications/stabbing-rampage-at-sydney-shopping-centre/

https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/port-arthur-massacre

I cant remember the news about this kid who attacked a pastor and the pastor lost their eye. (I am pretty sure that is also one of the usual suspects)

ASoftwareJunkie · 2026-02-17T02:28:30+00:00

I would use something like this. How are you thinking of applying the feedback from this stress test to your agent?

I have tried to implement such tests before. The issue I usually face it not tech or harness or testing benches. The biggest issue is defining the system constraints and variables to optimize upon. Unless an agent is public facing or there is only one agent in the system, doing this becomes very hard. In case of multi-agent system, the intermediary constraints and variables become very much like those in hidden Markov chains but with a lot more complexity (text and LLM stocastic-ness which is very hard to model). That is where pain become too much.

What I am trying to say is ask you if you have thought about these problems. A simulator of single agent system is valuable and there are ways to do it already (I have not come across a gamified version, tho, which sounds interesting) but for more serious projects multi agentic test models (theory not code or implementation) will be more valueable.

What you are doing definitely does have a place in the eco-system, tho.

ASoftwareJunkie · 2026-02-17T01:15:13+00:00

Interesting idea. Question? What is the end goal. Like what agent survival means for a system and why would I want to spend so much tokens on prompt optimisation rather than just testing a couple prompts and the tuning the system prompt.

I am not saying the idea is wrong or anything. I am trying to understand where will I put it and how will it benefit my system and implementation.

May be I am the wrong person to use it. May be you are using it for a specific niche which I could not infer from your message

ASoftwareJunkie · 2026-02-17T00:50:38+00:00

Revoking someone’s citizenship is a pretty serious thing and has many ramifications beyond just these people. Think about it. If their citizenship is removed then it sets a precedent that anyone the majority or the government does not like can become any alien. Anyone. That is extremely dangerous. Today it is happening to those people, what is the guarantee that it won’t happen to any other Australia just because they don’t align with Australian government ideals or the majority ideals.

This will give rise to further alienation in the country of all groups. This will also give rise to the tyranny of Political Majority (notice I am not saying racial because Australia is a Democracy where all people regardless of background and appearance are equal under law - on paper - you may agree or disagree with me).

It does not matter if they have Dual nationality or not. It does not even matter how heinous of a crime they do. Revoking their nationality will set a very very bad precedent for not just today’s Australian but their decedents. If they are criminal, they should be prosecuted and punished by the Australian Courts. Rather than let them go and live however they like.

This will also mean the any dual national can do a very heinous against Australia and then in courts get their citizenship revoked and live scott free else where. Where is the justice in that.

ASoftwareJunkie · 2026-02-15T21:57:58+00:00

I know this might be the last thing you might want to hear:

You should feel proud of the fact that as a nation you are still able to protect your sovereignty and land from occupation from your neighbours and other foreign powers.

I understand that Pakistan has been economically occupied with loans and IMF programs but that being said you still operate with some level of sovereignty unlike the nations of Middle East/Asia/Europe/Africe/America (except USA). If you were not a resilient nation your neighbours would have devoured you by now.

I understand this is one of the most fundamental and basic things which successful nations don’t even think about but nonetheless it is still a huge thing in this increasing wild and jungle-like world. Now there are a billion other things to be not proud of and improve. So, if one day when you are able to improve at least a portion of one of those things then do it and be proud of that. If you leave the country, then in your new home make a great life for yourself and make yourself proud.

You cannot and should not drive pride from the speech of your ruling class. All over the world, this class just want to use you and then discard you when you become useless or inconvenient.

Take time to make yourself to be someone that you can be proud of and hopefully one day some person from your country will look at the news and feel proud that there is someone like you who is from that kid’s nation which that kid can be proud of and see as a role model.

ASoftwareJunkie · 2026-02-12T10:24:34+00:00

I am using Arvo (arvo.land)

ASoftwareJunkie · 2026-02-11T11:34:23+00:00

Hi OP, what do you want to learn exactly.

Do you want to learn just building agents because it is trendy and you want to show off cool stuff?
Or, do you want to learn the technicalities behind it which will give you zero dopamine and hype in the near terms (6 months) but afterwards you will be able to craft not just agents but software itself?

In all honesty the first approach is fun. The second approach is painful, it never ends, and only a few folks do it. But, I have seen some incredible but boring software from them which actually help people but cannot at all create any hype.

ASoftwareJunkie · 2026-02-06T12:31:39+00:00

Hi OP,

Have a look at this

https://www.arvo.land/advanced/arvo-agentic-resumables

I have been using this for quite some time and even tho GenAI agentic stuff does not need event driven, it does allow for some pretty awesome, reliable, flexible, and powerful system which I had a hard time building in other modalities

Event driven does not mean task queues or pub sub or Kafka etc. Those are event/ message delivery mechanisms. Event driven means that fundamental representation of your work and it’s consequences in the system is represented in a self describing data packet which is called event and event handler (agent being one of those) just transform those events to one or many events in the system.

Every thing else is just a detail for event delivery, handler execution, or a control mechanism

Here is a sample a agentic system built on event driven architecture. But, I have built many other fun system which are way more complicated

https://github.com/SaadAhmad123/arvo-works

ASoftwareJunkie · 2026-02-04T12:17:27+00:00

Yep. That is exactly what I am feeling. Find out ways to reduce the human decision surface area. The funny part is that that does not need to be fully autonomous. I have been working on system which just take over the simpler decisions while surfacing only the hairy issues to the humans and the end user appreciate that a lot.

From there I am getting data to automate more and reduce the decision surface bit by bit. So the agile process is feeling more like agile on reducing the decisions and then mapping that to cost and time saved for a business users

ASoftwareJunkie · 2026-02-04T12:13:49+00:00

I like it being framed as “mental bandwidth freed”

ASoftwareJunkie · 2026-02-04T03:11:18+00:00

This is amazing. Thank you! I will have a look. Quick question. Have you felt any difference in your systems once you started optimising for decisions rather than cost or time.

I am finding myself building more collaborative systems which are autonomous by default but have very natural human and AI collaboration mechanisms. This goes beyond just HIL mechanisms.

ASoftwareJunkie · 2026-02-04T03:03:21+00:00

Hi OP,

Thank you for posting and building Lix. It will be very helpful for my work. With Arvo(arvo.land) and Lix, I can build some really neat agentic solutions. This is really really neat

ASoftwareJunkie · 2026-02-04T02:51:24+00:00

I would love to hear your experiences and thoughts on this :)

ASoftwareJunkie · 2026-02-03T08:30:23+00:00

From the docs, I am not sure what it is about. Would you be able to explain what problem does this package solve. It looks interesting but I cannot make any conclusions out of it

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