ktemkin

ktemkin, 3 days ago to random

today in "linux version number discontinuities", the latest linux release has been bumped to "linux mint 21.3"

ktemkin, 6 days ago to random

search for nix, & you get lice cream
search for lix, & you get ice cream

the choice is yours

ktemkin, 16 days ago to random

apparently there are rumors of lix being “lesbian nix”* and I can only say that were this the case, I would expect the project to be entirely coated in queer iconography down to a bright pink color scheme

checkmate, atheists

ktemkin, 20 days ago to random

Thanks so much to everyone who hung in this week as we’ve all worked to fix the state of the Nix community. It’s been a ride; but I think things are going to get better.

Here’s the last major piece of the puzzle — the product of several months of work from an absolutely incredible team. It’s not ready for a full announcement, but we’ve opened our beta so people who are fleeing the core Nix community have a place to go.

https://lix.systems

ktemkin, 21 days ago to random

someone> hey kate, is this your main dev machine? it has 256GiB of ram!

me, trying to keep up with discord, signal, mattermost, matrix, another matrix client, slack, zulip, and google chat channels> what? this is the one I do office stuff on

ktemkin, 21 days ago to random

OH: “the purpose of a system is who it does”

ktemkin, 25 days ago to random

some good news: solutions to the nix stuff are coming; so if you’re thinking of mass evacuating the ecosystem please hold off a little to see what’s coming this week

ktemkin, 1 month ago to random

amazing seeing people personally write out things for days on end, and then seeing their detractors look at the length and go “stop having chatgpt write for you”

ktemkin, 1 month ago to random

just signed: https://save-nix-together.org/

if you're one of the people who have recently told us you'd felt ostracized by the Nix community, it may be of interest

ktemkin, 1 month ago to random

okay: time to do my social good for this century

proceeds to prepare her various queue of derivations for nixpkgs submission

ktemkin, 1 month ago to random

diogenes, having had opencv identify four stop signs: behold! google’s man!

ktemkin, 1 month ago to random

I don't know who "kenneth temkin" is but he typo'd his e-mail as ktemkin@<common provider> at one point and now every once in a while I just get a reciept showing me his various charitable donations to animal shelters

it's like a tiny window into a single positive aspect of someone else's life

ktemkin, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

correlation doesn't imply causation, but the link between "actively participates in the NixOS community" and "is legitimately a masochist" does make you think~

ktemkin, 1 month ago to random

okay, time to try adding beat saber back to our morning routine, again

(I wonder if we can still do a bunch of expert+ content after taking the break~)

ktemkin, 1 month ago to random

tired: “solipsistically speaking, nothing but me is real, so what does anything matter”

wired: “solipsism is bunk; it doesn’t matter what’s real; if everyone were just hallucinations, would it actually change how you treat them?”

inspired: “solipsism is correct, this is all in my head, and that makes the entire world my headmates”

ktemkin, 1 month ago to random

toki! jan ale o jo e tenpo suno pona a <3

ktemkin, 1 month ago to random

hey — if we know you (we were mutuals on twitter, we’ve talked in any non-fedi context, or similar) and we’re not following you, please say something and we’ll follow <3

ktemkin, 1 month ago to random

looking for a burnout coach, by which I mean someone to coach our burnout so at least it can make some progress towards its goals

ktemkin, 1 month ago to random

wow, being plural has gotten way more complicated in this modern working age

ktemkin, 1 month ago to NixOS

nix users: what bothers you most about nix (ux-wise or otherwise)? what seems the most mysterious to you?

#nix #nixos

ktemkin, 1 month ago to random

wearing poorly-glued fake mustache

hello, yes, I have heard about all of your recent xz troubles! I am real m4 auditor; just let me in to PR your repos and I will fix, for you, your m4! very non-suspiciously priced, mhm!

ktemkin, 1 month ago to random

also in general if your advice to the average server owner is “audit every piece of every piece of code you’ll ever run” then it seems very possible you’ve lost your sense of scale and perspective

ktemkin, 1 month ago to random

for everyone waxing poetic about the xz backdoor: please, please, please remember that risk acceptance is as important to threat modeling as risk reduction / abatement

you’re not going to come up with a single, all-encompassing piece of security advice that works for everyone — security always is a balancing act between capability, risk, and potential outcomes

sometimes you legitimately have to accept that these kinds of things are possible and move on*

ktemkin, 1 month ago to random

hot take: english needs the essen/fressen distinction because it is just so useful

ktemkin, 2 months ago to random

can we just mention: girls