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Cake day: March 10th, 2024

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  • It’s technology that puts money in the pocket of the billionaire drowning elections in cash, directly aiding the spread of fascism globally, and destroying the planet with his shitty AI plagiarism bot. So long as Musk is in charge, you can’t meaningfully disentangle new tech his companies make from the actions he funds with the profits from that new tech.



















  • just skim the 20 or 30 headlines, open interesting links in a new tab or check some comments and you are informed about what is currently happening in that niche

    I think this is a big part of why they’re trying to kill it. They want to trap you in an endless doom scroll. They don’t want you to be able to quickly see there’s nothing new and get out. Everything you look at needs to be another attempt to ensnare you and shove ads in your face.


  • NixOS is great, but it definitely breaks things. It’s the way it works, though, not whether the software is bleeding edge. Nix lets a package specify its own dependencies, even if those dependencies conflict with those of another package. It does this by breaking the traditional POSIX file system structure that many programs assume they can depend on. It puts all sorts of things where they “don’t belong”, and then uses a small army of environment variables, scripts, and symlinks to stitch it back together so that no individual package realizes what happened. If you only use software from the package manager, this is often (but not always) seemless, but if you download stuff from the web, none of the system libraries it traditionally expects are there. Likewise, if you’re using Nix alongside something like Debian’s apt, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the two package managers doing things in two different ways causes some issues that are hard to interpret to the uninformed.