Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

Packaged #hexDescribe with #Nix, now not just #textMapper is trivially self-hostable, but also a way to describe your hexes with tables!

https://github.com/cognivore/hex-mapping

#TTRPG

My plan for #CD refactoring for #ZeroHR:

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

[1]: https://samleathers.com/posts/2022-02-11-my-new-network-and-sops.html

#numtide #serokell #systemManager #deployRs #sops

Mood

I understand that #nix fetchers "set a dangerous precedent" and this is why, say, #srht fetcher or other fetchers won't ever be accepted and #github 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 #github because I don't have the time to pick _alll_ the battles.

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

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

https://github.com/numtide/system-manager

I want to cry from how close from useful #Linux we are thanks to #Nix and #NixCommunity. 😍

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

4-1 is as good of a start as one can dream of. But that's #NJD 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.

#nhl #NHLTV

#Žižek 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 #ideology 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.