I use NixOS because I love that every time I install an app or tweak a setting, I can document it with a commit in git. So if I fuck something up, I can revert the change. And if I get another computer, all my apps and settings are already there. And if I wanna help another NixOS user do something I’ve already done, I can just share the code.

Paper money

Thank you for telling me how to feel, now I don’t even have to read the article!

Apparently the keyboard controls on Kdenlive are really good

https://youtu.be/9dIqJDy78TI

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Burger King will teach your grandmother to suck eggs!

I’m a programmer who’s never used AI. Instead of spending my time correcting and confirming the correctness of generated code, I’d rather figure it out for myself. I think this helps me reinforce my skills and understanding in the long term. Plus it’s one less thing to rely on/maintain/pay for.

People with “nothing to hide” typically still have blinds on their windows and locks on their doors, so you know that statement isn’t true.

Maybe you think you have nothing to hide now, but what if you need to take sensitive photos to send to you or your kid’s doctor? There’s been at least one case where Google decided to delete a father’s entire account for that.

My current setup isn’t available outside my house so I was planning on hosting something like WireGuard. What’s the advantage of Headscale over a more traditional VPN?

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I tell everyone who will listen about that video lol

You just saved me a click

I know this is a meme and not GitHub, but I thought some people might like to learn that if you do please shutdown && thanks it won’t say you’re welcome if the shutdown failed

I use Pay Respects now

I suspect I’m at least a little bit autistic and I’ve been obsessed with NixOS since I installed it on my primary computer over a year ago.

Before that, I always appreciated the concept of making a lot of tweaks and customizations to one’s computer, but I never did it much because it was never as easy to review and document those changes as it is with NixOS + git.

I suspect they came up with a process for doing the conversions / redactions that worked for the documents they tested it with, and then applied the process to documents in a slightly different format and just didn’t notice. The Verge looked into it and couldn’t get a more specific answer than this:

With MIME, the “=” is used to signal either that a string of text should be broken for transmission and rejoined — a “soft line break” — or, when followed by two other characters, that it should be converted to a particular non-ASCII mark.

it doesn’t fully explain why the “=” sometimes replaces letters, like the “J” in “Jeffrey.” No one I spoke to could definitively answer this question, except to say that email is hard and converting it to PDF is harder, and the DoJ was converting a lot of documents in a hurry.

https://www.theverge.com/policy/879016/epstein-files-emails-text-errors-encoding

Expensive things tend to attract the worst kinds of people. The vibes are way better at free or cheap DJ sets

This sucks, but honestly I’m surprised this isn’t more common. How do most registrars deal with spam and abuse?

I often wish I could live without a soul like these ghouls. They seem so much happier

Luckily, in my personal experience, I rarely hear anyone mention Bluesky’s supposed decentralization features. So hopefully there aren’t too many people that are falling for it.

However, the fact that so many people are signing up for what amounts to Twitter 2.0 is troubling in its own right.

postmarketOS, Mobian, Ubuntu Touch, and Mobile NixOS all seem to have recent activity.

As for hardware, although the PinePhone Pro got lukewarm reviews, maybe they’ll iterate and get better or at least prove to other companies that there’s a demand for Linux phones.

I’m hopeful there’ll be at least one usable option within 5 years or so. And if not, I’ll be sticking with GrapheneOS.