https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DydIK14AvXI (I think qualifies more as brown noise than white noise)

I’ve had a couple systems that started with nothing more than vi, but rather more that started with nano (don’t think I’ve come across any that started with vim) – that being said, I’ll tolerate vi long enough to get micro installed

“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”

—Hannah Arendt

“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

—Captain G.M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (1947)

“A user you’ve blocked has previously contributed to this repository.”

“Europeans pay for health care. Americans pay for health insurance.”

escapism is a perfectly valid coping method

(now if AppImages would work on musl systems …)

Anthony Bourdain

one of the big things we’re already seeing is the cost asymmetry – F-15E original price was $31M and costs roughly $19K per flight hour – a Shahad-136 drone costs $20K total

Pretty sure “pro-US sentiment” in Iran died back in 1953

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seen Liberty in City

Quarantine: when food service workers weren’t allowed to call in sick because they were “essential” …

Fandom did such a horrible job with the Path of Exile wiki that the game fans not only rebuilt it elsewhere but got Grinding Gear Games to host it

Bluesky isn’t federated (another privately owned monolith that’s promised it’s coming Soon™) and recently got funding from a company with “blockchain” in its name (and there’s already rumors that despite claims otherwise, ads will be showing up in the next year or so)

that being said, Bluesky does offer much better blocking, muting, and moderation options than Mastodon (Mastodon devs have been digging in their heels) as well as better on-boarding and curated follow lists

• Bluesky and Enshittification
• It’s Bluesky. The Nazi Bar is Bluesky.

“Look what you made us do.”

the whole concept of immutable is focused on stability and safety of your system – yes, it is still possible to break an immutable distro, but it’s a LOT harder and takes some actual effort – there’s also a few concepts wrapped up into the “immutable” phrasing:

• immutable filesystem – the root filesystem is set as read only, updates are queued up and applied during an upgrade (some distros require a reboot, some don’t)
  • VanillaOS keeps two copies of the root system (ABroot), upgrades the inactive copy and then swaps them out
  • NixOS has everything defined in a master config file and keeps an archive of previous generations of the config file allowing you to boot into whichever generation you want
• atomicity – updates are applied individually and checked, if the update breaks then it’s reverted to the previous working state (ie. you are never left with a borked system)
• containerized apps – user space apps isolated or sandboxed in some way like Flatpaks or Docker containers or OCI so if they break, they don’t take anything else down with them
• declarative systems – the whole system (and packages and configs) are defined (declared) in one master config file – back up that config file and if something happens to your system, you just need that one file to do a full rebuild (or make an identical copy of your system on another computer) – NixOS and GNU Guix are the two more well-known in this space
  • EDIT: minor side-effect of this is you can easily tell exactly what packages are installed on your system at any given time – no hunting through history or trying to remember what you installed last month when you were testing out video players

• NixOS has been around almost as long as Arch (20 vs 21 years)
• you can install the Nix package manager on other distros as an intermediate step to start to give you the feel of things – ie. use Arch to manage your system packages and use Nix to manage your user & GUI packages
• the Nix repository has more packages and more up-to-date packages than AUR
• two recent videos making the rounds on NixOS
  • NIX OS: the BEST package manager on the MOST SOLID Linux distribution – The Linux Experiment
  • NixOS is Mindblowing – Chris Titus Tech