Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
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automated domain block scrapers
As a follow up, the following IPs tried to scrape domain blocks today, despite the endpoint being in /robots.txt. As you can see, the top one reported in the post I'm replying to is quite aggressive and it is the one I reported in my previous post.
I've excluded traffic coming from known Tor exit nodes.
IPv6 addresses might be blockable in a /64 subnet.
The "line format" is: Count "IP address" comment (optional)
15 "2605:6400:30:f1cf:bc96:423a:b37e:41a4" ryona dot agency scraper (see previous post)
3 "138.37.89.34"
1 "54.237.170.218" run on AWS
1 "54.159.204.56" run on AWS
1 "3.90.1.250" run on AWS
1 "3.86.254.32" run on AWS
1 "35.171.20.113" run on AWS
1 "35.170.187.122" run on AWS
1 "2a0e:1c80:1:1:45:15:16:60"
1 "193.110.95.34"
1 "18.212.195.148" run on AWS
1 "104.219.42.235" social.chocoflan.net, chocoflan.net
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Waarom is de sociale norm dat je 2 dezelfde kousen draagt? Als er 1 van kapot is, dan smijt de doorsnee mensen de andere sok ook weg.
Ik pleit voor het normaliseren van verschillende sokken dragen!
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Last night, I ate a clock. It was very time consuming..
Especially when I went back for seconds.
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Not left or right but a secret third thing (right)
re: long, mobile/ARM NixOS
@ebi Whoops, that one was supposed to be attached to this toot: https://khiar.net/@ebi/109496437685841174
long, mobile/ARM NixOS
@ebi Heh, that's a tricky one!
So I would say that there's not really any *fundamental* difference between ARM/mobile and other systems, in that all the same benefits are still useful on those devices for all the same reasons.
What *is* different, however, is the typical hardware configuration of such devices - and I can see some issues there with the current state of Nix and NixOS.
Some things that come to mind:
- Nix is currently not exactly resource-efficient. It requires quite a bit of CPU and RAM to evaluate a system configuration, which is not great on many mobile devices, which are often specced lower.
- The atomic upgrade model is great, but also very space-hungry. Again, mobile devices are frequently not very generous on storage space, and this could cause issues, at least without a deduplicating filesystem.
- Nix is still heavily keyboard-oriented, and well, most such devices don't have a keyboard :) So it's probably *even more* important for there to be good management UIs on such devices. Less of a problem for embedded ARM stuff like routers.
I don't think that any of these issues are impossible to overcome, but there's definitely quite a bit of 'core work' left to make this viable outside of an experimental context.
That having been said, there *is* https://mobile.nixos.org/ as an ongoing project. I've also seen various efforts for running NixOS on eg. ARM routers, but I'm not sure what the status of any of them is.
Perhaps more interesting in the immediate term is using Nix as a build system for eg. Android images; and there's actually active work ongoing here! Robotnix can build customized AOSP systems, for example: https://github.com/danielfullmer/robotnix
Maybe other "off-device" approaches might be viable as well - if it doesn't need to run on the device itself, that'll at least eliminate the CPU/RAM constraints.
In summary: I think it would be really cool to run NixOS on mobile/ARM devices, but I think that in practical terms we're still quite a way away from it - further than for desktop/server usage.
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Three separate times this morning I've had to look at Musk's latest transphobia as I review Trending posts.
Please.
CW this stuff.
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Big Tech platforms can’t build for worst case scenarios (like Elon-style fascist takeover). First, they can’t acknowledge that there is a worst case; that it is possible, because that’s an invitation to regulation. Secondly, building is the problem. The only solution is dismantling
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For most of us it's a holiday tradition, but HVAC contractors use add-vent calendars throughout the year.
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it's a brilliant move.
no one can criticize the problems with your software if it never fucking runs
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Huh, I wonder what [thing] is. *searches online*
*opens article*
*article is actually a video*
WELP, guess I'll never know! *closes tab*
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(follow up on previously blocking lain.gay for homophobia)
Had a bunch of emails with the admin, who didn't realise that 'limits' are local and were wondering why they were being accused of hosting bigotry - they had limited the user to give them a chance to migrate but hadn't deleted the offending posts 'cause they thought nobody would be able to see the user.
Anyway, since they *have* now removed the user and I haven't seen anything else problematic, we've lifted the suspend to silence.
Finally got around to publishing my HDD rack design!
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18qHf6oyXV8
STL can be found here: https://git.cryto.net/joepie91/modular-hdd-rack
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chpol
switzerland is once again having a normal one, the blackout/low power availabilty plans rank ski lifts at higher priority than hospitals
so like if we are running low on power hospitals would get their power cut before fucking ski lifts
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
so like if we are running low on power hospitals would get their power cut before fucking ski lifts
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
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Let's do a #NixOS Q&A thread! Ask me anything conceptual about Nix, NixOS, or related tools, and I'll answer honestly and to the best of my ability (including if the answer is that it's not a suitable tool yet!) 
Please don't ask specific "how do I fix ____" questions, though - those require too much energy and back-and-forth for me to answer right now, and are probably best asked in the support room on Matrix instead.
Anything about the concept, the governance, whether certain problems are already solved, etc. is fine though! Particularly the kind of questions that are difficult to find a coherent answer to by yourself.
My perspective is that of someone who has been using NixOS for a long time, and is somewhat adjacent to governance, but who holds no formal position in any of it. I'm enthusiastic about where NixOS can go, but also critical of where it is today.
(And if your question is about what utility function to use, it's probably in this chart that I made: https://nix-cheatsheet.pixie.homes/)
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The way I see it, the only thing to gain by continued empowerment and uplifting of the wealthy elite are future failed empires -- while we have everything to gain by empowerment and uplifting of the oppressed and marginalized.
If this isn't enough to radicalize the non-disadvantaged, consider the divergence between you and billionaires. You are also a threatened minority. We're all in this together, whether you're mildly privileged or not.
Related: https://solarpunk.social/@valkyrie/109445605345010563
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Masto Admin Tip:
Extend your team Before it becomes a problem, before you burn out.
Have a reliable team you trust, and keep extending it.
Who is engaged in your community? Do they want to work with you to preserve that community?
Keep documents of how you enforce your policies, review them every time a new person jobs (write them together as a team with all mods first time you make the documents).
I should write a whole blog /article about this
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In Finland skiing is still a popular winter sport. It is however expensive, so not a hobby for us poors. It also demans a level of able-bodiedness not nearly everyone has.
Many cities close the local outdoor areas from all but skiers during the snowy months. However in the forest areas outside these maintained paths the people themselves manage to create inclusive paths for everyone without any supervision. Barriers are built on the systemic level. #SocialistSunday #solidarity
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
