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

In case you have a purely flake based NixOS system you may want to have this neat little thing: https://git.shell.bsocat.net/infra/commit/?id=02a7bc522f7ceae85021b3e86f43587ae77e7fb8
Edit: my apologies, the from key is implied, you can remove it if you want (or you could rename the key to nixpkgs-local for no reason)

What it does is it adds the nixpkgs repo with which the system was built to the nix flakes registry and adds the flake from the flake registry to the nix path. This means that running nix-shell or anything similar will by default use the nixpkgs with which the system was built which minimizes the number of dependencies to download, and it also avoids having channels and flakes and having to always think of both when updating your system to the next release lest they diverge.

The reason why you should use the flake registry for this is because then you can specify a version agnostic form for the path, since you don't want to have to logout and log back in for all your processes to use the new store, usually. When I update my system I don't want nix-shell to pull packages for the old version whenever I run nix-shell from my desktop environment which wasn't restarted since.

The matching is set to exact since the version used there will always be the same so when you pull something like a different version/branch (unstable for instance) or such it will go through the regular processing.

Internet debates would be so much more fun if people didn't go into them gloating about how correct they are and you aren't before even verifying it

Like honestly I don't even care, I don't want to make anyone feel bad, but that becomes so much harder if I have to "dethrone" you instead of us talking about it with an open mind

And I'm not perfect at that either, but please just remind me if I ever do this, because I genuinely just want to learn and grow, and help others do the same in the end.

I found the network rack gacha! Assumed it was so niche it would only be found in like Tokyo but there was one around my neck of the woods as well.

This is the cutest thing ever! Look at the little cables and cable management hoops, the PDU, all of it is so well-done!

#japan #gacha #networking #sysadmin #mb

today i learned that theres a vs code extension that lets you use fucking computercraft computers as remote editing targets. just straight up edit the contents of computer files in vs code. it works on multiplayer servers via websockets and also includes remote terminal functionality

so tonight's group server session was like 25% looking at minecraft and 75% looking at vs code

i'm extremely normal about video games

that feel when someone hits the #fediblock tag with a complaint about their personal instance being defederated by

wait for it

poa.st

and just like that you have a new domain to suspend! :D

(white supremacist? check! women aren't actually people? check! but aside from all that jfc what do you have to do to get defederated from fucking poast? i mean goddamn)

(The instance is postnstuffds dot lol if you're wondering.)

me: hey big companies, can I download all of your copyrighted movies and music and images in case one inspires me to make something someday?

big companies: lol no get rekt

also big companies: btw we're downloading and using all of your copyrighted works to stuff into our machine learning models

A useful browser extension to automatically check if any scientific paper linked to in any webpage has been disputed, critiqued, or commented on by their peers: https://pubpeer.com/static/extensions

I installed it for my academic work but when I read general-audience articles outside my field on say, a new drug or cancer agent, I often get a notification that a paper in the article has comments on PubPeer, which can give a nice insight into how controversial the development is/isn't

@PubPeer

small websites are countercultural. self hosting is countercultural. web 1.0 is countercultural. user experiences that aren’t pillaged by advertisers are countercultural. a completed project is countercultural. a small, reliable tool is countercultural. independent maintenance is counter cultural. useless programs are countercultural. caring is counter cultural.

Finally, the end seems near for yet another big passenger airport in the Netherlands: a ridiculous plan in the middle of the climate crisis. Only the PM's VVD plus three far right parties still want to open Lelystad Airport.
#ClimateChange #emissions #aviation #Airports

Wip

type of strong AI that just *sucks* at computers

keeps calling its maintainers in the dead of night because it needs help "making the youtube smaller"

Modern e-commerce sites a great. If you search "toilet gasket" you get, as the first result on multiple sites, a "toilet wax ring", which looks similar but does something different and isn't interchangeable

Hey transfems in trans spaces, this is a sporadic reminder to not talk about testosterone like it is inherently an evil or poison. To our transmasc brothers and siblings that take it, it is life saving medicine! [and talking about it like that makes a space less welcoming for folks]

Keep references related specifically to you and how it effects your mind and body.

[This reminder brought to you [generic] from a distant land [not fediverse].]