crafting a search term has changed over the years though. the old approach of “type 3-5 keywords into the box and get a list of pages that use those words close to eachother” isn’t supported anymore, and the new approach is “type a phrase and we’ll look for things semantically related”.
at that point, the input box isn’t that different from the chatbot box.
that’s a lot to remember and i don’t see the point of it. android girls are perfectly alright with me 👌
what keeps you using Nix or NixOS?
a sort of one-man network effect?
i wanted to load books onto my e-reader (runs NixOS) wirelessly: i already have a media server which i use for TV (Jellyfin). the e-reader speaks NFS, so i enabled NFS on my media server, added the auth to the e-reader’s Nix config, and since all my NixOS devices use the same repo for their config, my laptop and PC both get that NFS setup “for free”. incrementally, that makes everything else easier: i have a MAME arcade cabinet in the other room running Arch. if it had been running NixOS instead, suddenly that task of “load books onto my e-reader wirelessly” would have also solved the issue of “load games onto my MAME cabinet wirelessly”.
once you get going it’s just so easy to keep building incrementally. “tech debt” is a bit less of a thing than with other distros (still a thing, just smaller) because of determinism and nix flake check and so on. honestly once i care enough about not being able to load games onto that MAME cabinet easily, i’ll solve that by flashing it with Nix, and so grows my network effect.
to challenge free will is to challenge the idea of the self. if the universe is mechanistic, and you within it are equally mechanistic, then you can’t point at your mechanism and say “i stand apart from the world.” you are literally but a part of the larger whole.
morality could be compatible with determinism. the most compatible moral frameworks seems to be a type of universalism, which on the surface resembles altruism. there’s nothing special about ‘you’, so you’d never trade someone else’s well-being to make your own better (it’s a nonsensical exchange, like building a house and then selling it to yourself). when confronting determinism, why do people gravitate toward defeatism instead of this more optimistic conclusion?
i switched all my devices to UTC about a year ago when a surprise DST transition caught me in a pissy mood.
it’s fairly internalized by now. i don’t think it’s that much harder than developing an intuition for both Celcuis and Fahreinheit temperatures. sometimes i’ll glance at the clock while at a friend’s house and it says 09:00 and i do a double-take because “how is it already going-to-bed time?” before i realize it meant 9PM local time, not 09:00 UTC (1AM local).
but it’s the things you don’t think about that make it difficult. set your phone to UTC and 24hr time. first thing you’ll notice is that every weather app blissfully ignores your settings, because they’re showing you weather for a specific place, and assume you care about the time local to that place. second thing you’ll notice is that half your IM apps are going to actually be using AM/PM still. they’ll even mix AM/PM with 24hr within the same app. you read “message received 11:20” and it could mean like 3 different things.
not to mention all the physical stuff: car clocks, oven/microwave clocks, … a lot of these in the US don’t even give an option for 24hr time, and “11:20 PM UTC” is just so cursed.
what if joker kills joker?
oof, yeah that’s me & Spotify rn. each time they send me a marketing email i reply to it asking them not to send me marketing materials and i CC all the addresses which would reach a human (support@, help@, marketing@, abuse@, and if i’m feeling pissy then legal@).
and each time i get a human reply instructing me how to unsubscribe, and sometimes we’ll back-and-forth a bit about how that’s not the point. Spotify’s special: most companies will just unsubscribe you and get it over with if you ask, but not Spotify. i don’t really enjoy doing any of this but like you said: some of us have weird obsessions.
are you describing the history of an actual town somewhere? or am i just reading someone’s extremely vivid daydream?
is this the thread you’re talking about? https://www.fark.com/comments/45086/NEWS-FLASH-PLANES-CRASH-INTO-WORLD-TRADE-CENTER-PENTAGON-Our-link-to-CNN-works-thanks-Metafilter-We-have-news-pics-in-comments-section-if-you-have-any-post-it-there
some unexpectedly prescient comments in there
I agree with Mme.Mersault, but I’m not sure we’ll nuke the right people. :/ There’s no such thing as too much force.
i’m not pitching. if you need to launder money or evade sanctions, then use Bitcoin (with all the caveats). if not, then don’t.
the amount of (well-deserved) hate against cryptocurrency interacts with Poe’s law in a way that makes it difficult for someone who’s not actively involved in that area (me) to track reality. like, i see this meme and think, “oh, is it finally, actually dead?” and then check and it’s not. but other people don’t check, and then every family reunion i have to deal with a dozen relatives asking “is (colin’s misguided libertarian friend) ok? i heard crypto crashed.” he’s not ok – he’s a misguided libertarian – but the premise of the questions are just false, and it’s not hard to trace where they formed the beliefs that would have them ask it.
i won’t stop anyone from shitting on crypto, but i do hope the “haha anon lost all his shitty crypto ‘’’investment’’’” memes are understood to be memes above all else.
Bitcoin’s sitting at $25000. that’s up a bit from before the pandemic, 3x the March 2020 low (when everything crashed), and half its all time high. same story with the second most used cryptocurrency. sure, that’s bumpy, but nobody literally goes from millionaire to McDonalds for parking their $ in the things you or i are likely to have heard of before. it’s the person who hears some random crypto name on Twitter (or from Elen Musk) and YOLOs in on some thing which didn’t exist a year ago specifically because they’re trying to catch a hype wave.
idk maybe everyone knows that. i just get annoyed every time a “crypto crash” story breaks the mainstream news and i check the price and it’s like “none of the names i actually recognize here are doing worse than the last time you ran an article about them”.
well that settles it: Cascadia is the land of weebs.
you’re not gonna believe this, but i’m at exactly generation 1000 right now.
i use NixOS on my Pinephone daily, more as a PDA. it’s my primary device for music, audiobooks, podcasts, ebooks, RSS feeds and manga reading. i’m 50/50 for using it vs my iphone when it comes to IM (mostly Matrix), Lemmy, and maps.
there’s decently mature software for all of those applications (with a big asterisk for maps); i’m surprised that bluetooth is actually super usable (with Megi’s kernel, at least). but anything touching the modem is where the dragons lie. i’m trying to get GPS working, but having to actually read the Qualcomm manuals to get the details right. ModemManager is smart enough to initialize most of the modem — so that you can use the earpiece from any userspace application — but even if you plan to use it without a cell plan you still need a SIM card for it to not fail during initialization… it doesn’t have to be activated, but still a bizarre quirk.
anyways, NixOS will get you a working PDA if you’re a fluent user. to use it as a proper cellphone, that’s within sight if you’re dedicated but not something that you should expect to get working “in an afternoon”. btw postmarketOS is fantastic to use as a reference for how to wire all the parts together. the Nix User Repository has a few actively-deployed mobile configurations in there if you grep through it too.
go ahead, next time you meet a group of non-tech people, introduce yourself as “i’m makeshiftreaper and my favorite hobby is editing Wikipedia”.
GET REAL.
wtf it’s just not right to get actually good music recs from a greentext
while “justice” has meaning in both a political, moral, and philosophical scope, “crime” is more narrowly (though still not entirely) political/legal. consider that you agree to pick me up from the airport today in exchange that i pick you up on your next trip. if i reneg, and leave you stranded at the airport, that’s probably unjust and triggers implications for whatever system of justice we operate under. but it’s not a crime. it’s only a crime if our agreement had been made in some legally binding manner.
Take the idea of the Christian Underwear Bomber in 2009 who took the lives of many innocent people because it was the “will of God”, or the more recent situation of the Islamic State; targeting the lives of thousands in the name of extremist religious beliefs. […] The viewpoint that one may victimise others for the will of a higher authority is highly detrimental to our society, as what it results in is the innocent being targeted as a means to an end.
my friends tell me that they quite enjoy psychoactive substances, that the ocassional trip helps them stay level-headed in their day-to-day, and that MDMA helps them grow strong social bonds. the impacts from this activity onto anyone distant from it is effectively nil, they are more or less “innocent” for doing it, and yet the state victimizes them for it all the same.
the choice of words in “higher authority” in this quote is telling. many of us would consider it just to hide Ann Frank from political persecution, yet doing so is unambiguously a crime. the quote actually reinforces that notion: to commit a crime is to act against the authority of the state; to view the state as anything less than the absolute authority.
Moreover, crime punishment has progressed over time in terms of the groups of people it benefits. In the past, crimes were punished to enforce normality in societal standards and prevent rebellious characters.
citaton needed, particularly for the second part there. another telling is that with more people living in democracies, societal standards are more likely to reflect the typical citizen’s natural tendencies; and that as the background rate of violence between states decrease, the tolerance for violence within states (including punishment for crime) has similarly decreased – but that the remaining punishments are still just as much for “enforcing normality” as before.
sounds like one of the more battle-tested routes, yeah 👍️
oh god, Cybertruck culture is just incel culture applied to a different topic. different groups, maybe, but the same culture.