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Another detour through 19.09 because of a Nix >= 2.2 requirement...

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Also, even a remote deployment via morph didn't work on this system, because the protocol underlying nix-copy-closure has changed enough that my local copy of Nix was incompatible with the one on the other system

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almost done. just need to print some more spacers for assembly (to get the space between drawers right)

lessons learned:
- there's soo many fasteners. and almost every time I ordered some, I forgot something else
- 3030 b-type and 4040 i-type have the same slot width but sometimes you get hammer nuts which are incompatible with the 3030
- don't just get the very cheapest slides from ebay. the second cheapest are much much better
- check for interference if you're mounting wheels under it, I can only fit the small ones because the lowest slide is higher than 30mm and interferes with the larger wheels.

Let's take a detour through 18.03 instead! Which ships Nix 2.x but also evaluates correctly with Nix 1.x, it seems

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The problem seems to be the Nix 2.0 release, as newer versions of nixpkgs require it, and 17.09 still has a Nix 1.x. Also for some reason mapAttrs is missing

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@vlrny My wishlist for #spoonieTown :

Universal Basic Income
Extremely good insulation & soundproofing in all buildings
dimmer switches installed within reach of every bed/seating area
All clothing labels are just printed, or made of very soft fabric & stitched into the seam.
Within walking distance (like 2 long blocks, 4 regular ones)) of every home there's a weather-tight outbuilding where you can drop off things you're done with (e.g. leftover yarn), and pick up things other people have dropped off. It also contains a community fridge & closet. Once a month, the contents are rotated between outbuildings.

#spoonieTown is a tag open for anybody, btw.
It's an imaginary place where we've already solved all the problems.
Drop your dreams here.

Let's see what happens when I try to upgrade a 17.09 system to 24.11

A slightly funny dimension to how strongly Iceland is associated with Viking culture is that the settlement of Iceland finished at around 930 CE and converted to Christianity in 1000 CE, so we were only pagan for a few decades of our history.

honestly sometimes though, the objections to Rust for Linux seem to be "the queers are coming" as a lot of the talking points are very simular to homophobic talking points, but with gay/queer replaced with rust

"they are forcing their sexuality on us" becomes "they are forcing rust on us"... when they are not, its a layer maintained by the rust team

also getting a big vibe that Chris Doesn't even seen to be bothering to find out infomation

I'm considering offering free (encrypted) Borg backup space for marginalized creatures (mainly meant for personal stuff, space is somewhat limited, think tens of GB per user rather than hundreds) in two locations, NL and US.

Would anyone be interested in this? No availability guarantees but it's the same backup space that I use for my own stuff as well. Note that the server for the NL location is operated by a US company.

fedi meta, positive: floss.social 

Apparently, false alarm about floss.social, folks!
They don't hate antifa, the tag was auto-blocked due to spam.

RE: floss.social/@OddDev/114040785

This is not only extremely adorable, it also lends more credibility to Kropotkin's theory of mutual aid as a factor of evolution and shows that helping each other out is a fundamental part of the nature of not only humans, but also other animals

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TIL that mice perform first aid on each other, including an examination to try to find the cause, and clearing blocked airways

science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

> Nice people made the best Nazis. Or so I've been told. My mother was born in Munich in 1934, and spent her childhood in Nazi Germany surrounded by nice people who refused to make waves. When things got ugly, the people my mother lived alongside chose not to focus on "politics", instead busying themselves with happier things. They were lovely, kind people who turned their heads as their neighbours were dragged away... You know who weren't nice people? Resisters.

(Naomi Shulman, 2016 wbur.org/cognoscenti/2016/11/1 )

People complain about 'leftist infighting' and how that supposedly means leftists can't get anything done but like, have you ever really looked at what the social dynamics within actual operating governments are like?

Because every time some story about it comes out, it sure sounds awfully similar.

I've said this over & over here and before that on Twitter:

Do not fucking use ableist slurs to describe willful fascists!

Fascists exterminate disabled people, including people who are actually insane instead of rhetorically "insane".

You cannot fight eugenicists with eugenicist rhetoric, even in "humor". It actually strengthens eugenics and ableism.

This goes double for any scientists perpetuating this claptrap. Think about the words you use, FFS! #Ableism #Fascism #Eugenics

can just one of the foss-oriented instances please Be Normal?

This makes it sound so easy and it's not, but remember that you don't have to save the world all alone. Millions of people all over the place, millions of people who never cared that much about politics are rising up right now demanding an end to all the nonsense. You can be a link in that chain - pull your weight and do whatever you have to do to avoid breaking under the pressure.

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