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

fun fact: if you design a product that takes a barrel-jack plug, and don't specify anywhere if it's center-positive or center-negative, you go to hell when you die

OH “This train will be diverted to the classic line. Our delay will be 20 minutes”

Train then takes the fly-over to the high speed line 🙃

🇬🇧 The failed cover-up of the EU Commission's anti-encryption group shows: #Chatcontrol is the product of the lobby of an international intelligence-industrial complex. Netzpolitik.org reports (in German): https://netzpolitik.org/2023/geheime-liste-wie-der-sicherheitsapparat-die-chatkontrolle-praegt/

instead of just telling them to "use linux" maybe we should work on legislating more rights for software users across the board legally instead of making them reinstall their OS

"If you ever see a black light but the bulb itself glows blue: that's not a black light but an unshielded UV lamp" is not something I thought would have to be survival knowledge but here we hecking are I guess.

@actuallyautistic @neurodivergents

In case this helps anyone, here's one of my best Autistic hacks for dealing with intrusive thoughts and anxiety spirals. ( This works for me because I'm by myself a lot.)

When the thought spiralling starts, I choose a mildly complex subject that interests me, and explain it out loud. Over and over again, trying to get the explanation as clear as possible.

I do this when I go for a walk, when I'm driving, or just pacing at home.

Topics that work for me: how binary numbers work in comparison to decimal numbers, the rules of a board game, the various ebook formats and how they compare, the motivations of characters in a book I'm enjoying, the best way to introduce a new rat to an established group of rats, how to set up an aquarium, and so on.

Apart from soothing my brain, it also helps me to assert this behavior as normal for me, where previously I was hyper aware how others might judge it as weird.

#ActuallyAutistic

I click the little box, but honestly I’m not sure that I’m not a robot.

A new acronym that just muscled its way into my head: MOLaR

Megaproject
Of
Last
Resort

Action films are chock full of MOLaRs:
- Shuttles in Armageddon
- Jaegers in Pacific Rim
- Nuclear Sun Rebooter Spacecraft in Sunshine
- Magma Doom Trains in The Core
- etc.

A lot of #geoengineering proposals also have a MOLaR vibe to them.

I wanted to share a part of a recent conversation I had which triggered my old defense mechanism related to often being put in situations where the expectation is that I adhere to any line of questioning, and rarely consensually, in order to be “understood” and in turn validated by others

So much harm can be inflicted because “you just want to understand”

I've written an MSC that should, if it gets approved, make the review and approval process for #Matrix spec changes *much* faster and less painful than it is today: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/4073

Review comments are welcome - do make sure to stay constructive in your comments, and follow the usual review process! In particular, try to avoid 'peanut gallery'-style commentary.

At the risk of opening Pandora's discourse I am so curious what people think the ideal, landlord-free system of commercial real estate looks like. Does the state use tax revenue to allocate office & manufacturing space to corporations for free? Should businesses need to purchase an entire building in order to operate? Are banks considered landlords for profiting off of mortgage income or no? If condos, are their fees a mutual aid scheme or extractive rent-seeking evil? https://dads.cool/@alex/111369160655657656

One of the best feelings in the world is to find someone thinking about exactly the same things as you at exactly the same time but further along. Then you get to see into the future, only its a different future where you are also a different person that can see the problem in a different way than you can. It seems like the healthy response is to want to talk to that person and hear what they think and tell them what you think, since you are both thinking about the same things.

How sad is it that many of our friends in academia feel exactly the opposite: you need to constantly be watching out for someone thinking about the same things as you to beat them, cut them down, or coopt them. The last thing you would do is talk to them, because they might "steal" your precious ideas.

The prestige cult is depressing, and if that's an inroad to help our colleagues help themselves to not do DoD supersoldier research or pay for another RELX/ICE surveillance apparatus it seems worth taking

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