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ooh the firefox screenshot tool magically works again!

whoa @gemma, really nice theming of the GoToSocial frontend :D

background: i've been using my Sennheiser HD4.40BT for years now (no anc), and could get a good deal on a Bose QC 35 (with anc)

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@juliana@eldritch.cafe hmm right, just wondering how much it could add when I don't hear a lot of background noise already (just good passive noise cancelling in the Sennheiser HD4.40BT)

for those of you who've used good over-ear headphones with and without active noise cancelling, how much would you say it adds?

vaguely philosophical tech stuff, long-ish 

So there's an interesting problem that Nix has, which is the "curse of knowledge"... once you learn how it works, suddenly everything else in the space starts looking super fragile. I joke about this a lot, but it's a very real thing.

And that has implications for how Nix(OS) folks interact with other communities - they'll often point out, for example, that some problem isn't actually fundamental or inherent because Nix *did* solve it already a decade ago.

And outwardly this looks a lot like "a fanboy pushing their favourite tool on everybody", but it isn't, really - quite often, it's *genuinely* a case of that person seeing issues that most other people have learned to ignore or accept, and not being able to un-see that.

And they are getting *legitimately* frustrated by other people continuing to build more towers of complexity on top of (to them) obviously fragile systems - not because their favourite tool isn't being used, but because of all the wasted effort and time that other people put into needlessly broken systems, that could've been put to so much better use.

I'm not entirely sure where I was going with this toot, but this is something I rarely see being talked about. It's not exclusive to NixOS, either; there's a very similar thing going on with capability-based security, and undoubtedly a number of other topics that I don't know about.

It feels like there should be some sort of broader conversation about this?

drugs 

@tomxcd@mastodon.coffee overrated and abused by the rich, that checks out yeah

the ball head and the legs from my small tripod are kind of nice fidget toys lol

👁️ 👁️ feeling very seen by this after applying rounded corners to every rectangle in CrytpPad 😅

@anarchiv it's a conspiracy theory that is fairly popular in Russia that basically posits that what we know of as "history" was fabricated during the enlightenment and that actually, russians did everything important in history, were the founders of many disparate empires (including the incas and the mayas) and they are actually the only ones fit to the rule the world

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