silent_water [she/her]

China also appears to be improving on this in real time, though official policy still lags behind e.g. Cuba.

FOSS hacks the copyright system to build a software commons independent of corporation, guaranteeing the freedoms of users and developers - what part of that statement isn’t political?

how can privacy ever be stripped of political content? it’s inherently about social forces - ie politics.

youtubers/streamers have a parasocial thing going with their audience that makes the idea of donating a smaller mental step for their audience (senpai might notice me if I donate type brainworms). FOSS projects historically have really struggled with funding, unless they’re able to secure funding from an org/corporation.

adhd posting tip: when you inevitably write a 2000 word response to someone, go back when you’re done and rewrite the first paragraph so it actually sets up what you ended up writing about - cause otherwise it’s confusing for other people to read.

vegan archbishop also sounds pretty cool but then people are gonna assume you’re catholic

nix overall is a much better solution to this problem.

oh briar looks promising. I’ve been looking for a simple e2ee chat app that doesn’t involve the internet. thanks!

no joke it’s how I learned linux, bootstrapping a gentoo install from the toolchain on up, with a printed manual. it’s surprisingly effective, if time-consuming (took me about 2 weeks to get to a booted system, though most of that was compilation time - took ages back then).

I don’t want Google to have my info. the ads are secondary.

jesus christ read at least one book about the history of the conflict you’re describing before you confidently spout nonsense.

literally every other distribution can solve this problem but Ubuntu can’t?

it’s a play on "communism means no toothbrush*

of course they do. we actually understand that production doesn’t require middle men. we’re communists, fool.

landlords don’t build housing

I think one of the issues with nixos learning materials is that they eschew talking about how to write your own packages. but to really understand anything, you have to get your head around writing and modifying packages. in nix, a package is just a build step that can do I/O during particular phases and produces an output to the nix store, so they’re an essential building block for anything that isn’t utterly trivial.

the other major stumbling block is working out how modules (the things that let you write config for the system) can actually be composed. adding a new module to imports gives you new config params you can set so you can organize your system config in terms of modules and packages to make things work the way you like.

Nix Pills are the canonical learning material for packages. I don’t know of any good learning material for modules - I learned by working on nixpkgs and another involved project that made extensive use of modules.

lastly, nix config files are written in the nix language and it’s a bit idiosyncratic. it almost looks and feels like Haskell but it’s slightly different in important ways. there’s no way around learning it if you have multiple systems and want to share config between them.

frustration, usually, hoping against hope that the answer is relevant.

I use stackoverflow for minutes at a time and it almost never has answers to the questions I need answers to. if it has an answer, it’s usually “you can’t do that”. reference docs are 100% of the time more helpful. so no, I don’t think so.

the owners of SO make far more than the benefit provided to any single dev. if that were not true, they wouldn’t be in business.

proper earbuds will block out most everything. get ones that actually fit into your canal and play something you’d rather hear. when I put mine in, I literally can’t hear anything but my music.