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philpax @philpax.me · 3h

holy shit... is there a future in which the degree of my "you should use NixOS, but" will be severely reduced?

freyja-lynx.dev @freyja-lynx.dev · 4h

woah what

GitHub - Glistix/glistix: Fork of the Gleam compiler providing a Nix backend, compiling Gleam to Nix

Fork of the Gleam compiler providing a Nix backend, compiling Gleam to Nix - Glistix/glistix

github.com

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philpax @philpax.me · 3h

holy shit @her.dog

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philpax @philpax.me · 3h

looks like the article's dated to the end of last month, so you're probably safe from having caused this particular one, but I'm sure there will be more to come

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philpax @philpax.me · 3h

surprised to see someone unironically retarget theonion.com/this-war-wil... to the concept of consciousness

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

theonion.com

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Stu ~Bat Country~ Nugent @thatsextoyguy.bsky.social · 21h

this is the funniest thing the internet has produced in a long time, but only for the small group of us millennials who came of age around south london. amazing that an american has nailed this so perfectly

youtube.com/shorts/NZtfn...

can i get a curry goat with rice and peas

YouTube video by QUIX

youtube.com

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philpax @philpax.me · 4h

non-strict-by-default is wrong. fight me

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philpax @philpax.me · 5h

see Rudy's recent posts - they're actively spinning up their own AppView now

don't think a relay exit is necessary yet (I don't think they do relay bans?), but it shouldn't be hard for them to spin up if necessary

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philpax @philpax.me · 5h

the initial paragraph is also quite technical; I'd look into simplifying it if possible, with the assumption that this email was being received by a non-technical user wanting to migrate to another PDS with as little fuss as possible

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philpax @philpax.me · 7h

thumbs up in a formal context: +1, sure, let's do this
thumbs up in a nonformal context: be fr now. i have nothing but contempt for you. i never want to talk to you again

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 9h

This is the aesthetic of the future

Kyle wolf
@CRXSSF4DE
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someone on the Motorola forums was having the same problem with the camera I've been having, but I just have to share the image they posted to demonstrate the issue.
it's the funniest shit I've ever seen in my life dude

The photo is of an elderly woman in gray clothes that has been so bizarrely processed that it looks both totally over and desaturated

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philpax @philpax.me · 7h

`for.shame.wtf` feeling shame about being used to shame people. good stuff

Follow Tracker @for.shame.wtf · 7h

Some of you are blaming @jay.bsky.team or @bsky.app in general, or claiming that this is being forced by @moderation.bsky.app. That could not be further from the truth. I'm shutting it down of my own volition because some of you can't be trusted to use this information reasonably and responsibly.

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philpax @philpax.me · 7h

I have two 3090s idling in a machine and it's fine as long as it's not summer

I can strongly recommend not having 700W of heat output next to you in summer

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philpax @philpax.me · 7h

violently wrenching hands away from keyboard before I preach Rust to the choir

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philpax @philpax.me · 10h

I think things will eventually work out and we'll reach a new normal, but the intermediary period is going to be horrific

I'm not looking forward to the crimes that will be perpetuated and/or justified by barely-restricted videogen, foisted upon a population who won't understand until it's too late

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philpax @philpax.me · 10h

the use case I can see, and approve of, is for creative productions: filmmaking, especially for those on a budget or for shots that would otherwise be impractical to create with current tooling

but that should be done with thought and care, not by giving everyone a reality-destroying machine gun

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philpax @philpax.me · 10h

they're working on it bskye.app/profile/rude...

Rudy wants revolution. (@rude1.blacksky.team)

I've been radio silent because I'm in the process of standing up an app.bsky.* API server (aka app-view aka Barnes & Nobles). This is an expensive and time intensive operation that I didn't want to do...

bskye.app

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philpax @philpax.me · 11h

Plex and Jellyfin have a feature to auto-download subtitles from OpenSubtitles, which helps when I'm watching through those; a similar solution may be available for local playback

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philpax @philpax.me · 11h

I've had to leave some of my left radical circles because the reactionary behaviour was simply too hard to ignore; it's easier/safer to self-exclude than to protest, because then you become a target

I want to be a part of circles that grapple with the problem, instead of trying to wishcast it away

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philpax @philpax.me · 11h

my understanding, and the reason I haven't looked into them further, is that they're also very, very slow - as in 2000s-era spec

which is probably fine for fun experimentation, but unusable for a personal machine

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 20h

i set up an extra blog to dump my trash in. anyway this may prevent me from further engaging on this subject

gyges-blog.ghost.io/robot-slur-d...

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philpax @philpax.me · 22h

disclaimer, I have a pro-AI bent, but this probably wouldn't work; it would drive demand up, which would encourage them to figure out ways to optimise it (they're already doing this, but more demand would speed up the process)

best bet, imo, is still to lobby against them, including politically

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philpax @philpax.me · 1d

@l4.pm did something similar but couldn't justify the compute github.com/lun-4/bsky-dot

GitHub - lun-4/bsky-dot: the bluesky dot

the bluesky dot. Contribute to lun-4/bsky-dot development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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philpax @philpax.me · 1d

I respect the effort, dedication and *commitment* to the bit, except it doesn't seem to be a bit...

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philpax @philpax.me · 1d

people bitch about this but, after years of getting owned by languages failing to draw the distinctions, I'm so glad that they exist

my only complaint is that it's not always obvious how to convert between various representations, even for a seasoned Rust programmer

How We See Strings, Rust v C, 13 representations vs char*

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philpax @philpax.me · 1d

be careful what you ask for github.com/IBM/fp-go/bl...

fp-go/samples/readerioeither/example1/reader_test.go at main · IBM/fp-go

functional programming library for golang. Contribute to IBM/fp-go development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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