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@jonn I'm also surprised that something like "mask-shaming' exists. In my region in France, people wear masks if they want and nobody would ever dare to ask them to lift it off.
Sad to hear that masks could be a problem. In Asia, they are a sign of politeness even if you have only a normal cold. @luckytran

My plan for refactoring for :

github.com/numtide/system-mana — allows to configure non-NixOS systemd declaratively using Nix programming language.
github.com/serokell/deploy-rs — allows to do non-privileged deploys using flakes. Works on non-NixOS linuxes via home-manager.
github.com/getsops/sops — for secret management capability, integratable with deploy-rs[1].

[1]: samleathers.com/posts/2022-02-

I understand that fetchers "set a dangerous precedent" and this is why, say, fetcher or other fetchers won't ever be accepted and shall have that socially privileged status...

But I also want to confess that the existence of fetchers make me so happy.

I really don't mind hosting or mirroring my stuff on because I don't have the time to pick _alll_ the battles.

A reminder that Visual Studio Code’s marketplace is still an absolute security clusterfuck that Microsoft have engineered.

There’s active supply chain attacks in there nobody has reported on. (That, yes, will get a cartoon porg blog on one day).

Oh funny timing for my tweet. It's also time.

I helped organise the first ever NixCon back in 2015. I should at least attend in 2025.

i am once again asking for mobile operating systems to have a "lie" option next to "allow" and "deny" for permissions like location, notifications, files, camera, nearby devices, etc. that generates sensible garbage to poison tracking profiles

a global "lie" toggle that causes all but a few trusted apps to receive false information would also be nice, if you're going to a protest or a sensitive medical appointment

wouldn't do much if your os vendor was an ad tech company (which is the case on pretty much everything but a linux or rooted android phone without google play services) but it would be a very cool feature for an android custom rom to add at the very least

#privacy

Without FFmpeg, we couldn't watch YouTube, yet the people who maintain FFmpeg don't get paid. Tell your employer to join the Pledge and #PayTheMaintainers!

Help make social media less shite!

When replying to a post, assume the person who posted about a subject knows something about that subject!

That's it, that's the tip!

When you meet people that can type out `openssl` commands from sheer memory, be kind to them, because they've been through a few things.

The frenemy of my frenemy is my frenemend

What a start of the season for ! Tick-tack-toe!

4-1 is as good of a start as one can dream of. But that's curse though. Our team often starts strong. Let's hope that will continue.

So cute when hockey players smile and joke with each other as the game unfolds.

quotes Patricia Highsmith as the author of his favourite mystery stories. As a big genre buff, I figured I'd check her out. But hold on, she was a raging xenophobe, probably, clearly was living with an ASPD and abusing people around her.

Here I invoke my solution to the paradox of the author's death.

Assuming mystery novels as a form of art (which they oftenn are), when we're talking about artists who were people-hating monsters, there are two options:

A. Their art was good. Then it relays the of the author. Gauguin's Thaiti is perfectly relaying colonial fantasies and act as a seductive commercial for French exploiting native population. Gauguin was an ideological colonialist and his good art weaves colonialism into it. If Highsmith was indeed good, her art then weaves racism and sociopathy into it.

B. Their art was shit. But then it contains no ideas beyond, perhaps, delusions of the person interacting with the art, but then one can just look at the clouds and interpret their shapes. There is no reason to interact with shit art.

Thus, the answer to "artist vs art" paradox is simple: don't interact with art which was made by shitheads.

I don't blame Žižek for entertaining Highsmith's works, however. He is the world's best stand up comedian and stand up comedians are meant to provoke.

I have the most random standalone / glitch just now.

For some reason, after I switched to home-manager-managed , after a reboot, I lost my profile being sourced. So I had to add

```
if [ -e /home/sweater/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh ]; then . /home/sweater/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh; fi
```

to `bashrcExtra`.

Full disclosure: the variable wasn't empty before last switch, but still it shouldn't affect anything? Idk, weird.

Conclusion from the recent Apple article on LLM performance (arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05229). In my field, large variations in output from small variations in input is called chaos. Not something on which you can build a robust and reliable system.

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