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RE: @Khrys@mamot.fr
Amazing how fast Linux went from being the first and last name in digital counterculture to now being full of compliance bros seeking online clout.
This guy and his one-man mission to implement bad faith age verification at all costs is a warning for the open computing community.
Blog post by @luj@chaos.social that escaped my attention until now asking just how reproducible nix and NixOS is at scale? Turns out, he's been studying this exact question since 2017 and did a part of his PhD study on it.
https://luj.fr/blog/is-nixos-truly-reproducible.html
The answer? In 2017, about 60% of builds from nixpkgs were bitwise reproducible.
Now, it's over 90%.
This is great news! Especially since we don't have any tools that actively monitor this, so there isn't any active process that enforces reproducibility outside of nix itself (and the reproducibility team, let's not forget)
Great work, and great writeup. I look forward to reading more in the paper he teases in the post.
Trying out the Cinnamon desktop with NixOS and I'm pleasantly surprised by how good it is! It's mainly x11 right now, but I can live with that.
One hiccup though, the online accounts tool wouldn't work until I added
services.gnome.gnome-online-accounts.enable = true;
The official wiki didn't have any notes about needing to do that, so I added them. Now I'm wondering how much of my config could be extrapolated into fixing the docs for the tools I use.
RE: @firestorm@kolektiva.social
Our city's independent bookstore needs your help!
My local anticapitalist, antifascist, LGBTQIA+ friendly, anarchist, super ultra crunchy, cooperatively owned, and self described "radical bookstore" is falling on tough times.
Hurricane Helene was a doozy y'all, a ton of small businesses like this are closing with no plans on reopening. The FEMA payments meant to help Asheville and WNC are being bogged down in a bunch of red tape, so many of us haven't seen a dime of them yet, even though some of it is earmarked to help small business. And, although tourism is coming back (and we're very very open for business!) the shock to the system was just too big for a lot of folks.
I've seen long-standing cornerstorne-of-the-neighborhood places just like this wink out of existence without any warning, only to be replaced by exploitative, soul-sucking corporate owned chains run by people who don't even live or pay their taxes in our community. I don't want to keep seeing this happen to the town I grew up in.
These are good people who provide an essential service to our city: being some of the loudest, most outspoken defenders of our human rights, and providing civic minded reading material you won't find anywhere else.
They sell books other people don't want you to read, and that generally means those are books you're obligated to read.
Also, they once hosted the backroom of their bookstore out as a viewing space for a no-budget student film I helped make like a decade ago and they were real cool about it so-long-as everyone we invited to the screening bought a coffee or a book. Do you think Barnes & Nobel would do that? Would Amazon?
Check 'em out! Buy a banned book! Become a sustaining member of one of the best independent bookstores around!
#Asheville #WNC #HeleneRecovery #Helene #SmallBusiness #LocalBusiness #ShopLocal #Bookstodon
RE: @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place
This!
I didn't get into programming via computer science. In school I studied....
POETRY!
Thar's right. My undergrad thesis was a chapbook of minimalist poems.
The draw to programming for me was the thought that you could express an idea succinctly in a super concentrated form of language and witness it come to life.
Writing poetry isn't sooo different. I mean, it is, but the base ideas are still there, just in a different form.
The effect you're creating with language is more to play on people's emotion, their memories, and their assumptions, and there are a lot of cool tricks you can use to do this.
I remember one of my professors tell us in class that a good poem DOES something. It makes you move. It makes you experience something.
It's like a little play captured in a music box. You wind it up, set the stage, set the mood, and script certain elements into life, and you slowly dictate their movements and transformation through the poem.
The beautiful thing about it is that everyone receives it differently! I.e. its non deterministic, on purpose! But if you want to make the effect of your writing more predictable, or more universal, you need to understand how people think, how they feel, and how they receive language. You need to read the docs! Only the docs are living breathing experiences. It's your life.
To claim that computer programming has nothing to do with expression, artistry, people, or anything other than I/O is nonsense.
RE: @stefan@stefanbohacek.online
The secret sauce to solve spiking bounce rates because of AI in Google Search?
Replace your landing page in real time with a slop homepage that Google thinks will perform better!
