I have two questions.

1. After the revolution, how to you prevent the people that were influential during the revolution from seizing power for themselves, becoming the new bourgeoisie. This happened time and time again in practice.

2. Even in the best case scenario, the decisions on what to produce become centralized in the hands of politicians. Political systems that we tried so far don’t work that well in practice. Is this really the best solution?

I started exercising, I quite embarrassingly couldn’t do even a single push-up, I can do 20 now.

My Ender 5 has been lying around for 3 years, maybe I’ll dust it off during the weekend :)

When does the narwhal bacon?

None. I’m kind of surprised most people don’t use lemmy the same way as reddit, I assume nobody just browsed /r/all?

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

It’s a time machine that teleports you to 3am the next day.

Sanmill

Basically nine man’s morris, it’s pretty fun trying to beat progressively harder AI. Each difficulty requires a different (better) strategy. It’s like unlocking levels in a puzzle game.

Play chess.

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Just buy a new SSD to install Linux on. If you decide to switch back just plug the old one in.

I quite enjoy Nix flakes for this. Only certain languages have good support though (C, Rust, Haskell, OCaml, …).

A package is reproducible if you use the same inputs, run the build, and get the same outputs.

The issue is that the build can produce different outputs given the same inputs. So you need to modify the build or patch the outputs. This is something that is being worked on by most distributions: https://reproducible-builds.org/who/projects/

NixOS is not special in that regard nor are all NixOS packages reproducible.

Nope, nix doesn’t ensure or require that the builds are deterministic. It’s not any better in that regard than other package managers.

It’s not really fully reproducible either.

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The implementations mostly don’t matter. The only thing that you need to get right are the interfaces.

Well, most people installing Arch for the first time have no idea what a typical Linux install does under the hood. That makes it a worthwhile learning experience. The same commands you use during the setup you can later use to fix or change things. It basically forces you to become a somewhat proficient Linux user.

On a phone with spyware installed that wouldn’t do anything. There are probably ways to get rid of it, but how can you be sure?

You can probably replace it with ImageMagick.

Some people consider working on programming languages fun, so they create new ones.

I usually kill them with my phone with the screen turned on (the background needs to be blueish and the room needs to be completely dark). For some reason they don’t see it, they just sit there until they get squashed.

This doesn’t work for tiger mosquitoes.