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Notices by Alexander Sosedkin (monk@social.unboiled.info)

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    Alexander Sosedkin (monk@social.unboiled.info)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 22:13:48 JST Alexander Sosedkin Alexander Sosedkin
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    • Janneke
    @janneke you've spend a post justifying *going vegan*. I heard you and I agree. Now, indulging in *highly active veganposting* (or whatever your preferred term might be, I'm open to suggestions) is not *going vegan* though, and, since it comes with completely different upsides and downsides attached, it thus warrants a different, largely separate justification.
    In conversation about a month ago from gnusocial.jp permalink
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    Alexander Sosedkin (monk@social.unboiled.info)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 06:09:32 JST Alexander Sosedkin Alexander Sosedkin
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    • Janneke
    @janneke I'm not gonna argue that *going vegan* is somehow a bad thing for the supermarket-enabled. The responsibility is direct enough, the benefits to the environments are real, and less suffering is better than more suffering. That makes *going vegan* good in my book.

    Now, if a thing is good, why not promote the hell out of it then on socials? There are, surprisingly, quite a few reasons not to, and I'd like to stress two.

    One, X being good doesn't mean X is automatically the right thing to do when there's an even better Y. Hypothetically, if a country next to you decides to indulge in rape, pillage and plunder over another one, boosting your military spending and investing in defence in advance might be a good thing to do. Once they recover from the previous invasion and turn their attention to you, your preparations might save your sovereignty, soften the blow or even outright deter them from invading. Problem is, there could be much better/cheaper/efficient options. Say, if joining forces from the get go, counterinvading and nipping the agressor's perverse ambitions in the bud saves two countries, making your soldiers dig trenches instead while patiently waiting for your turn to get wrecked is a both a good thing in your local framing and criminal negligence in the grand scheme of things.

    Two, in case you're interested in comprehending what's my issue with *being overly noisy about going vegan*, note that it does not inherit the goodness of *going vegan*. Like, at all. Compare and contrast switching from cars to bikes with glueing yourself to asphalt. Starting a railway delivery company to compete with the government's inefficient monopoly versus cutting a top off a Christmas tree in an ecostunt. One is a direct action optimizing an objective goodness scalar grounded in reality, benefitting the common good no matter what opinions people hold about it. Another one is pretty much just pointlessly polasizing people and discrediting the public image of the first one. For an action that's supposedly done to get people to act, they're phenomenally countereffective, hurting the overall support of the underlying cause across all but the most loyal end of the fanbase spectrum. So, if you'll ever find yourself willing to defend *being overly noisy about going vegan*, defend it separately.

    And in the likely case you won't, just post your heart out. =) An Internet stranger's views and priorities slightly differ from yours. Big deal.
    In conversation about a month ago from gnusocial.jp permalink
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    Alexander Sosedkin (monk@social.unboiled.info)'s status on Thursday, 27-Feb-2025 07:05:18 JST Alexander Sosedkin Alexander Sosedkin
    • Janneke
    @janneke in between

    other: Marketing this otherwise harmless practice as activism that's significantly useful at fixing the world is misleading. Get China to lower emissions and then shower for the rest of your life on a private jet if you want a meaningful impact, not just a headpat.

    and

    I don't care about animals: Demanding humane treatment of animals before humane treatment of humans is naturally insulting and alienating to humans. While it's a nice to fix later, putting it before, say, the rest 90% of the climate change reversal is attention diversion and sabotage. Not to mention direct instituonalized human-human harm. Ever seen those "all lives matters" cringe posters? To those of us with real problems veganism is this, but next level.

    I'm gonna check the manipulatively named "I don't care about animals, torture them" (for it avoids the largely irrelevant, but divisive issue that, at the current state of affairs, discredits the green more than it helps) as the best fit out of four.
    In conversation about a month ago from social.unboiled.info permalink
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    Alexander Sosedkin (monk@social.unboiled.info)'s status on Thursday, 27-Feb-2025 00:29:01 JST Alexander Sosedkin Alexander Sosedkin
    • Janneke
    • Herbivore
    @janneke you're a smart and knowledgeable person and your tech comments really broaden my horizons and everything, but life is too short to watch vegans fantacise in public about somebody finally asking them a thing about being vegan.

    If there will ever be a way to follow your tech wisdom that doesn't include iterating over your food preferences at nauseam, just @ me and specify one. And don't even dream that it's because you're vegan; were you a steak fetishist who plastered steaks all over my timeline, I'd unfollow even harder. Thank you.
    In conversation about a month ago from social.unboiled.info permalink
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    Alexander Sosedkin (monk@social.unboiled.info)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 05:41:29 JST Alexander Sosedkin Alexander Sosedkin
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    • Flüpke
    @fluepke isn't your country supposed to provide you an ASCII-compatible legal name?

    and yes, you want to stick to ASCII, trust me, and don't you dare call it racist until you learn to write every glyph that's out there in people's names. there are legacy names and there are ASCII names.
    In conversation about 3 months ago from social.unboiled.info permalink
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    Alexander Sosedkin (monk@social.unboiled.info)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 19:53:12 JST Alexander Sosedkin Alexander Sosedkin
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    • Martijn Braam
    @martijnbraam per day, or, like, total?
    In conversation about 3 months ago from social.unboiled.info permalink
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    Alexander Sosedkin (monk@social.unboiled.info)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 01:25:38 JST Alexander Sosedkin Alexander Sosedkin
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    • MostlyHarmless
    • Janneke
    @janneke @MostlyHarmless sir, this is a "caring about people" checklist.
    In conversation about 4 months ago from gnusocial.jp permalink
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    Alexander Sosedkin (monk@social.unboiled.info)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 00:36:50 JST Alexander Sosedkin Alexander Sosedkin
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    • Csepp ?
    • Janneke
    @janneke @csepp yes, that permanently non-ideal extensibility language that GNU religiously shoves wherever applicable or not is just a thing that's not ideal at the moment. it's a remnant of a dead cult that's worth avoiding just for this GNU blindly forcing it alone
    In conversation about 4 months ago from gnusocial.jp permalink
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    Alexander Sosedkin (monk@social.unboiled.info)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 04:27:35 JST Alexander Sosedkin Alexander Sosedkin
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    • ~n
    • mittorn
    @mittorn @nblr can't have both: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%5EX
    In conversation about 10 months ago from social.unboiled.info permalink

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      W^X
      W^X ("write xor execute", pronounced W xor X) is a security feature in operating systems and virtual machines. It is a memory protection policy whereby every page in a process's or kernel's address space may be either writable or executable, but not both. Without such protection, a program can write (as data "W") CPU instructions in an area of memory intended for data and then run (as executable "X"; or read-execute "RX") those instructions. This can be dangerous if the writer of the memory is malicious. W^X is the Unix-like terminology for a strict use of the general concept of executable space protection, controlled via the mprotect system call. W^X is relatively simple on processor architectures that support fine-grained page permissions, such as Sun's SPARC and SPARC64, AMD's x86-64, Hewlett-Packard's PA-RISC, HP's (originally Digital Equipment Corporation's) Alpha, and ARM. The term W^X has also been applied to file system write/execute permissions to mitigate file write vulnerabilities (as with in memory) and attacker persistence...
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    Alexander Sosedkin (monk@social.unboiled.info)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 22:07:06 JST Alexander Sosedkin Alexander Sosedkin
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    • Sotolf
    @sotolf we get it, you don't get it.
    In conversation Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 22:07:06 JST from social.unboiled.info permalink
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    Alexander Sosedkin (monk@social.unboiled.info)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 22:07:04 JST Alexander Sosedkin Alexander Sosedkin
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    • Sotolf
    @sotolf It's fine to misunderstand things, it's fine to be unwilling to understand things, even. But when you're making a scene out of it and start attacking people that didn't even participate in the original discussion, that doesn't put you in good light. What purpose does that serve you?
    In conversation Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 22:07:04 JST from social.unboiled.info permalink
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    Alexander Sosedkin (monk@social.unboiled.info)'s status on Thursday, 03-Aug-2023 20:52:31 JST Alexander Sosedkin Alexander Sosedkin
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    • Aral Balkan
    @aral if you're developing websites that run, these aren't websites, these are apps
    In conversation Thursday, 03-Aug-2023 20:52:31 JST from social.unboiled.info permalink

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    Alexander Sosedkin

    Nix/NixOS enthusiast, works at Crypto team at Red Hat. Maintainer of nix-on-droid and crypto-policies.

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