[log][personal][ot] digital strangenesses

[Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many]

i'm experiencing some digital difficulty with my laptop broken and html
gmail disabled early at the same time and this ipad running at a slower
crawl than usual. I also may be having heavily site-dependent internet
bandwidth.

At https://github.com/rofl0r/agsutils/pull/36 :

> > i'm using busybox myself. it appears the issue in your version seems to
be that printf must use parens - so the obvious fix would be to just add
parens, rather than remodeling the string for print usage.
> The problem was that the % escapes were getting output verbatim into the
minishilka file, such that %type became %%type and %%\n became %%%%\n,
preventing parsing with either minishilka or dino shilka. This was hard for
me to find, involving comprehending the shilka format from your code. I
have busybox v1.33.1 on alpine linux 3.14.2 .

For some reason awk's printf didn't parse escaped %'s for me. This seems a
very  very strange behavior of a printf function, which the other developer
also did not intuit. I'm worried the pull request could get closed if it is
a weird local change to my device.
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