Notices by Oliver Jensen (ojensen@hachyderm.io)

@thomasfuchs I am very fortunate. It has been a lot of work over the last 11 months but at this very moment I, and my family and pets, are at the Chicago airport about to board a 1 way flight to Germany, which is our new home starting tomorrow.

For the past few months I have been cycling between "I need more time to prepare" and "I hope end-of-October is not too late".

@thomasfuchs yeah but what if you say "but no pickles, and extra ketchup", then it's a transformative work using your creative input.

(/s)

@skinnylatte I think that we, as a country, have generally been using "urban", "inner-city", etc as a euphemism for Black. It lets us do things like acknowledge a lot of systemic violence and neglect while pretending it's not about race.

@thomasfuchs "our brains are ineffable, and they got us this far, it stands to reason that we should want our programs to be ineffable too"

@dalias @trysdyn implementation-wise, weird stuff can happen (eg I've seen length from one on the buffer of another, etc) so inadvisable. I didn't repeat keys though 😁

@inthehands people like to think programming is while loops and if conditionals. I like to remind people of their programmable TV remotes.

@mekkaokereke I cannot express enough how much I want you to cheat.

@mekkaokereke ok. I will bet against you, for the simple fact that if I lose, I win.

I bet $150 that mastodon will not have both quote tweets and composable moderation by January 1 2026.

If I lose, I'll pony up the cash to the destination of your choice (a charity, a mastodon server, someone asking for MutualAid, your own Venmo, whatever). If I win, 🤷 I've gotten way more than $150 value from your posts so we'll call it good.

@mekkaokereke It really did feel like there might be enough of us here to actually make a difference for once.

@inthehands this was the subject of one of the earliest XKCD what-ifs!
https://what-if.xkcd.com/11/

@thomasfuchs do you have a link to it? I'd love to watch it

@aral I have not, and probably won't in the near future, but I can say this:

Installer to get a working fully-encrypted system with my preferred DE was trivial and fully GUI'ed. Time to a working system with the software I wanted and configured the way I like was ~15 minutes after that.

I'm sure there's a lot of power i'm not yet taking advantage of, but time and effort to get started is essentially zero.

OK so I *finally* gave NixOS a shot and oh gosh it's a game changer. The thing NixOS solves is *everything I hate about linux* that I apparently mistakenly believed was "just how linux works".

I honestly did not know it was possible for a linux system to not suck as much as NixOS doesn't suck.

#linux #nixos

@thomasfuchs I think this is actually a feature of the analogy. If you have a low interest rate and you can earn more from the capital than the debt is costing you, you hold off paying down the debt. Debt is not a de-facto bad thing. Using a credit card is taking on debt. But just like technical debt, you need to be strategic about when and what you take on, and when you commit to paying it off.

@inthehands I've never seen us reject someone who impressed us for not having a requisite number of years. I would still apply.

@inthehands we're hiring:
https://jobs.lever.co/regrello?team=Engineering

TIL if you track a package on ups.com, it will send your full tracking link including the tracking number to both Google and Facebook.

This is just "normal".

Use an ad-blocker, folks.