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ipv6 is cool because you can just.. netcat someone over the internet

very cute imo (haven't written a custom fetcher/motd script for ouroboros yet)

aww seem NixOS can't quite do seamless boot + plymouth with luks entry yet :\

maybe tomorrow i will

- write the pixie pages DNS stuff (for custom domains)
- think about gotosocial things

I WILL NOT DRINK WATER NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU GUYS TRY TO MAKE ME #FUCKWATER

0:50 seconds left till drop pod extraction so stressfull aaaa

> No space left on device

what how, goes checking things, huh there's still 50gb free

realizes that was something running over ssh..

wow barrier is pretty magical (network KVM switching), I can just move my desktop's mouse over to my laptop and type too

the Javascript ecosystem is essentially a failed anarchist society (long) 

What it used to be:
- many early adopters were anarchists/communists/etc.
- a huge public commons of highly reusable, high-quality, collaboratively developed libraries on npm, built for the benefit of the public, not for profit
- high degree of interoperability between different people's work, no need for pointless busywork to redo the same work over and over again
- successful(!) 'community specs' designed through community consensus (Promises/A+, CommonJS, etc.), gaining near-universal adoption
- fundamentally different structures from other language ecosystems, both technical and social, to make this work

What went wrong:
- large influx of users from other ecosystems due to hype in startup circles, unfamiliar with the established practices and reasons why
- early adopters failed to effectively convey and explain the ideological basis
- corporate adoption and subsequent capture; increasing "business value", leading to corporate steering of many essential pieces of the ecosystem (language spec, Node.js, etc.)
- npm became npm inc., a for-profit corporation, eventually being acquired by Github due to its large userbase, placing control over the public commons and its namespace in private hands
- ideological basis was forgotten, early adopters eventually left for greener pastures, now an almost purely parasitic environment of people leeching off the commons without guarding its integrity or health
- community-consensus specs started being replaced by "official", by-decree-from-up-high language specs (CommonJS -> ESM, Promises/A+ -> ES Promises)
- widespread adoption of these "official" specs, even though they were in many ways worse, due to their "official" label and many people assuming that what a central authority says must be correct or better
- rapid increase in shiny, well-marketed new tooling that is not interoperable with the existing ecosystem at all, and frequently works less well
- more and more commercial/proprietary 'sidecar' services (eg. Snyk) that you are expected to use, sometimes replacing open initiatives
- now an ecosystem and public commons that is rotting in every aspect with no real hope for recovery

... we should probably learn from this?

i should really look at clothing other than tshirts + hoodies but what even is there

ok i thought I lost this in weird git fuckery but I just had to do even weirder git fuckery to get it back

git.pixie.town/f0x/nixos/src/b

that's the custom ISO generator with install script for my Framework, after that it's borg extract for /home and /persist + morph deploy

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me peering at the screen

oh i can just turn up the brightness way more

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