Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Ever wondered how many CI systems are involved in Nixpkgs and #nixos? Where they're configured and how they integrate with each other?

I wanted to figure this out and document it somewhat, so here's a blog post about how NixOS is built.

https://blog.erethon.com/blog/2025/07/31/how-nixos-is-built/

every once in awhile we must challenge our assumptions and do the thing wrong. otherwise, how will we know how to recover, or if we could make things better?

Most types of business exhibit linear growth. But VC will only fund exponential growth.

The result: companies that would create a lot of jobs and actually maintain their products never get funded and never start. If you must hire more to make more product, that's unacceptable linear growth.

We live in an exhausting VC hype machine because it's more profitable to repeatedly hype up and cash out of short-term exponential growth spurts than to build something real.

Paragraphs by @Mer__edith

Packing for #why2025 @why2025camp

Yes it's early but I also need to pack all the camping gear, pack an order of magnitude more things for Team:Warehouse, write half of a talk, make 75% of the slides, pick up deliveries (personal and Warehouse), get groceries, and more.

And I leave extra early for the earliest of build-up.

And also somehow eat, sleep, survive, repeat.

would anyone who's driving to #why2025 and/or #nixcon with their car be up for giving me a ride from somewhere near Berlin? i'm currently dealing with a dire financial and legal situation due to my landlord illegally trading me to another landlord which means i now have like 30 EUR left and need 5000 EUR in a month or have sued them until then

alternatively give me money so i can afford food at https://liberapay.com/alina/ but dont feel pressured, i'm trying to find a way to not become homeless again on my own and dont mean to stress others with this,,,

boosts appreciated

if you use an "ai" code review bot, you deserve all the shit "ai"-fueled pull requests you ever receive imo: live by the sword, die by the sword

as a long-time depressive, I've always disliked the idea that consent has to be enthusiastic. if I only ever did something if I was enthusiastic about it I would spend all my time in bed

similarly I dislike when people are so focused on my pleasure. I can't make any guarantees that I'm going to enjoy a thing. sorry! I've got the brain worms.

I am grateful when I can have people around me that trust me enough that they will help push me into doing things, and believe me when I say that I consent to whatever the thing is, knowing full well that probably within the first half hour to an hour or so my brain will finally start behaving and start to enjoy whatever is happening. but it does mean having to push through and just do a thing despite not enjoying it to begin with

(AS ALWAYS, this discussion of consent is solely about me and should not be taken as an argument to erode other people's boundaries or requirements for consent.)

ah

that feeling

that feeling when you've been diligently figuring out how to work within the constraints of a plugin API...

... but you concluded it doesn't let you do what you want ...

... so you patched the upstream source code. you know, to help your plugin out a bit.

When I was in trade school, we had a half-semester homeroom course called "workplace safety and unions" and given all the red flags in the software industry, it should be mandatory for more than just electricians.

🪭A new cis friend I made on BlueSky found this article on the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot after I told them about it.

We had a good conversation about the ways in which the black Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 60s informed queer activists in the 1960s and 1970s

We talk about how Marsha Johnson threw the first brick at #stonewall , which is good symbolism, but I think vastly undersells how much our rights are built off of the success of the fight in the US against segregation, as well as off of the fight for Indian independence

#trans #transhistory #lgbtqhistory #queer

https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/comptons-cafeteria-riot

People are no less chronically ill or disabled if they do these things:

- Are working
- Are studying
- Are out shopping
- Are wearing makeup
- Are wearing a nice outfit
- Are enjoying hobbies
- Are making jokes
- Are posting online
- Are texting more often
- Are smiling and laughing

#ChronicIllness #Health #Disabled #Disability

anyone have a large pushpin or needle?