Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
A piece of advice regarding #NixOS: You know how it's really difficult to find something similar to replace it with?
That also means that if worst comes to worst, a fork is very likely to happen - because there are going to be many other people *also* looking to replace it.
I would recommend not panicking yet, and instead keeping an eye out for further developments. Even if NixOS dies, that doesn't mean the community does.
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Apophenia and model overfitting together form one hell of a drug.
At one point in my life, I encountered a sequence of unrelated people who were (a) all assholes, and (b) were all named Carl. It was very tempting to form a new understanding of the world around the supposed fact that "Carl => asshole."
Obviously, this isn't actually a fact, but damn if it's hard not to convince a pattern-obsessed bag of salty soggy carbon that it's anything else.
And I mean "that they know nothing about" very literally - making statements and inferences that are obviously factually incorrect in the first sentence to anyone who has actually been involved in the events.
I am growing increasingly impatient with random people who have never been involved in governance discussions before, suddenly feeling like it's their duty to start relitigating circumstances that they know nothing about. #NixOS
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"I heard someone at the market say there are monsters walking along us."
"Monsters?"
"Masked, trying to appear as normal as you or I!"
I keep my expression neutral. "Yes, there are people wearing masks, but they're not the monsters."
"Then who are?"
"Those who make masks needed."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories #NotAboutRespiratoryMasks
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Estrogen, help wanted
The twice per week schedule of patches just isn't working for me, does anyone know of a type that is taken daily and does not have the long term risks of pills?
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the upside of having ADHD is that I can complete a month's worth of work for a whole team in the space of a weekend and a couple of evenings.
the downside of having ADHD is that I keep putting myself in situations where I need to complete a month's worth of work for a whole team in the space of a weekend and a couple of evenings.
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Great article listing many Rust issues.
To keep Rust viable for gamedev, it's important to address these, not deny them, on both language + library level.
godot-rust values pragmatism over purism, and deviates from common idioms where it helps ergonomics -- even if sometimes controversially.
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Advertisements are basically Dick Pics from Corporations.
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in 2009, on totally homebrew software, The Pirate Bay served 20 million simultaneous peers on 10 servers (20 for the website) for $3,000 a month.
i wonder how much serving 20 million simultaneous users costs netflix. there are ~260 million total subscribers of netflix (of which a fraction are active at a time) and its total operating expenses (which is obviously A Lot More Different Things Than TPB) are ~$7 Billion a year.
the comparison isn't all that ridiculous. netflix is about 10% of all bandwidth, and bittorrent used to be >30% of all bandwidth - of which TPB tracked roughly half.
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Lots of people in the Nix project: I would really like eelco to stop just doing things without discussing them with other members of the community
eelco: hold my beer
It certainly feels like a lot of things around the #NixOS situation that were set in motion some time ago, are starting to resolve themselves
radical education meta
"But how would we have <some technology> if not for capitalism?" is a misquestion, and you should not attempt to answer it. It is not relevant and will detract from the point.
We already have that technology. Abolishing capitalism does not require reinventing it. It can simply be used as-is, if it is needed. That problem is solved, and there is no moral imperative that says we should stop using it if we abolish capitalism.
What actually matters is whether a non-capitalist society could provide for people's needs going forward, and continue to improve itself over time, and *that* is the question to be answering. You don't measure that by considering work that has already been done.
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i've had this little sarcastic banner at the bottom of my nextcloud instance forever and i keep updating the line count each time i do a major upgrade
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everyone i have figured it out, cats just have unchecked integer operations
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> The assertion that Determinate Systems “owns” Nix or seeks to exert outsized influence over the project, the community, or the foundation is patently false: I am the only member of the Nix team who works for Determinate Systems.
Posted on the Detsys website, later pointing to the Detsys CoC and Detsys-controlled Discord.
The guy did not even posted that on a community-owned medium and went full corporate.
🤦
I mostly gave Eelco, Graham and Detsys the benefit of the doubt so far.
I was wrong. Not being an insider, looking how they communicate, it really seems like they are definitely trying to fork the community project and release something on their own…
Posted on the Detsys website, later pointing to the Detsys CoC and Detsys-controlled Discord.
The guy did not even posted that on a community-owned medium and went full corporate.
🤦
I mostly gave Eelco, Graham and Detsys the benefit of the doubt so far.
I was wrong. Not being an insider, looking how they communicate, it really seems like they are definitely trying to fork the community project and release something on their own…
nixos, subtoot
That having been said, I am cautiously optimistic about how many people deciding to leave #NixOS are still open to returning to a hypothetical better community if it were to come into existence. This might end with a bit less collateral damage than usual for these sorts of conflicts.
nixos, subtoot
"All the people opposing weapons manufacturers must be from the US" is one of the more hilariously absurd takes that nevertheless seems to keep coming back. #NixOS
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
