Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

The massive disparity between what managers and politicians think of “AI” and how rubbish everybody else thinks it is, continues to boggle the mind

It’s hard to think of a more concrete demonstration that tech is an oligopoly that doesn’t need to worry about competition or customer demand

big day for screamo enjoyers in vancouver

i often lament that people don't share show posters on mastodon (all the vancouver punks are still just on instagram...), but i admittedly haven't been great at posting here either. so i'm gonna change that. perhaps it'll start dragging the music scene people off the big tech platforms.

The “not-a-fork”[sic] fork of Nix has decided to go ahead and take over the next major version number out of the hands from the official Nix package, and from there, take over the mindshare of the version 3.0.

What the actual fuck?

This is effectively a hostile takeover of the Nix name. Nix 3.0 will surface the “not-a-fork”[sic] fork.

They will surely be using the excuse that it's “Determinate Nix”, which is a different name. But in practice, you know how it is. They are polluting the mindshare with their “not-a-fork”[sic] fork.

Also, this is absolutely 100% a fork, even though they say it's not.

This is a fork that has made the current state of Flakes stable. A major fork in the road. Either Nix will have to become "incompatible" with the stability “promises” from the “not-a-fork”[fork], or bow down to what Determinate Systems decides for compatibility, for their future.

I guess it's a good time to jump over to Lix, for anyone who hasn't done so. It work just fine with NixOS.

Hopefully we'll have a statement from the Nix project regarding this.

#NixOS #Nixpkgs #Nix

Hoi Den Haag, hoi Burgemeester van Zanen,

Leg eens uit waarom XR niet mag, maar NATO wel?

https://nos.nl/artikel/2558379-belangrijke-verkeersader-den-haag-vier-maanden-dicht-om-navo-top

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Determinate Nix, is in fact, a hostile proprietary fork of Nix by its former project lead, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Dix.

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/determinate-nix-3-0/61202

Did you know that there is a 1:1 scale replica of the world-famous #Shibuya Scramble intersection that can be rented by TV and film productions located 80 km northwest of Tokyo in the city of #Ashikaga? The real intersection is so busy that nobody can close it down for controlled filming.

This set was notably used in the hit Japanese TV series Alice in Borderland.

Location in OSM: https://osm.org/go/7Q9Mdm_mk?m=

#DYK #Tokyo #Japan

I think part of the reason so many trans women are uncomfortable being dommes is because being dominant is often treated as something that is antithetical to being cute. You hear “If you’re surrounded by stuffies then clearly you want someone to take charge” or “if you use :3 I’m going to assume you want to get bent over and railed” or “real dommes wear intimidating outfits, not cute colors.”

And I’m here to tell you: Fuck all of that.

I’m a domme. I sleep in a bed of stuffies. I once broke a riding crop across someone’s back. I use :3. I sometimes get a consenting person so deep in hypnosis she’s literally drooling on herself. I wear pastels when I’m in the mood. I have the will and skill to absolutely leave a partner a whimpering, quivering mess barely able to speak.

You can be cute and dominant, you can be soft and in control, you can be a caring and a sadist.

So if you want to be the domme, don’t think that means you have to sacrifice being cute. Embrace both. Wear pastels as you lock someone onto a St. Andrew’s cross, give a sub one of your stuffies. Go :3 as you make someone scream.

As long as you have consent and are following proper safety and aftercare, find the style that works for you.

Banning swearing in Formula One could be bad for drivers – a linguist explains

https://theconversation.com/banning-swearing-in-formula-one-could-be-bad-for-drivers-a-linguist-explains-251424

#swearing #profanity #linguistics #F1 #racing #motorsport #FormulaOne #censorship

When your human won't buy you a running wheel, so you improvise

#Caturday

This is my favorite photo for demonstrating the impact of #LightPollution on physiology. The image was taken by shows a soybean field illuminated by a badly directed streetlight.

What's happening here is that soybeans are supposed to grow leaves in the early part of summer, and as nights get longer, they should make #soybeans and turn brown. In the green area, the plants don't understand what time of year it is, and it's therefore a complete loss for the farmer.

The reason I love the photo so much is because you can see the shadow of the light mast on the field.

The photo was taken by Dwaine Eddie McGriff & Ben Tankersley, and originally posted to Xitter (the post no longer exists).

The problem could be entirely solved by using a streetlight with strong backlight shielding (i.e. shining the light only on the roadway).