I recently started using compose2nix, and I’m enjoying it.

https://github.com/aksiksi/compose2nix

Reminds me of War Gods. I played that a lot on PS1 as a kid.

different service ;)

They’re funded by a parent organization with a crypto coin, and they explicitly state hosting AI models as one of their main goals. No thanks.

There are, however, also those who simply defer to the powerful — that assume that “this much money can’t be wrong,” even if said money has been wrong repeatedly to the point that there’s an entire website about it. They are the people that look at the current crop of powerful tech companies that have failed to deliver any truly meaningful innovation in years and coo like newborn babes. Look at the coverage of Sam Altman from the last year — you know, the guy who has spent years lying about what artificial intelligence can do — and tell me why every single thought he has must be uncritically cataloged, his every decision applauded, his every claim trumpeted as certain, his brittle company’s obvious problems apologized for and readers reassured of his obvious victory.

Nowhere is this more obvious right now than in The Guardian’s nonsensical decision to abandon Twitter, decrying how “X is a toxic media platform and that its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse” mere weeks after printing, bereft of context, Elon Musk’s ridiculous lies about his plans for cybertaxis. There is little moral quality to leaving X if your outlet continues to act as a stenographer for its leader, and this in fact suggests a lack of any real interest in change or progress, just the paper tiger of norms and values that will only end up depriving people of good journalism.

src: https://www.wheresyoured.at/lost-in-the-future/

as a warning shot and for publicity. it’s a good tactic.

My body, my life, my choice. Get over it, mom.

I mean, we’ll have to wait for real analyses to be done, but I would suggest that a lot of that “shift” has to do with the fact that the Democrat message to struggling working class people was along the lines of “that sucks that you’re struggling, but the economy is really fine”. The Republican party didn’t dismiss them, even if their “solutions” and “causes” were bullshit.

I do own one and I love it, but I have similar complaints about the heart rate monitor. I just don’t use it enough to have it matter. sleep tracking works pretty okay, though.

The bigger oil and gas companies want just enough regulation to make it easier for them to force out smaller companies for whom hitting these targets is more difficult, but no more than that. These big companies often are so vertically integrated that they can design systems across sectors of the industry that do actually emit less than older equipment segmented by lots of smaller companies. It’s a sad fact that increasing climate protections tends to consolidate oil and gas corporate power into fewer and bigger companies because it’s going to make the last mile of the transition from fossil fuels that much harder.

This is one of many direct climate consequences of the the failure of the Democratic party to run a compelling candidate and platform. I can only hope that states like Colorado and California can keep doing what they’re doing, and that the rest of the world can do enough to mitigate at least some of the added damage our country will do over the next 4 years.

the Bangle.js 2 has all of those features and works with gadgetbridge like the pinetime

https://www.espruino.com/Bangle.js2

Also, just a sidenote, while AlphaFold2 training data is available for download (unsure if AlphaFold3 will follow suit), the OSI recently released its definition for open source AI models, and there is no requirement that the training data needs to also be open for a model to be considered “open source”, which is extremely disappointing and will degrade the meaning of open source.

I was very much looking forward to this, and it works great. My instance is back up and running again.

This is extra insane when the exit polls show this is clearly white people fucking everyone over

I use FreshRSS, Read You on Android, and NewsFlash on my PC. It all syncs via FreshRSS seamlessly.

Yeah, I guess I shouldn’t have put that in this comment, I was just airing a tangential frustration. It still doesn’t help me unless I set up a vps on a whitelisted domain at my work.

I cannot access my homelab from my work network, so I cannot sync via Nextcloud. Syncthing would be better, but they just stopped supporting Android sync, which I need. Proton Drive doesn’t sync files on Android. On top of that, I don’t want to deal with sync issues because keepass isn’t designed for syncing like that. I’m not gonna go back to using Google, Microsoft, or Dropbox just for keepass. I’ve considered just keeping my db file on a flash drive, but all of the keepass Android apps I tried won’t automatically detect that the file exists when I plug in the drive.

If someone has a better way for me to use it, please enlighten me.

Bitwarden is slowly turning their stuff closed-source, and I hope they don’t turn to shit, but right now it’s what works.

Yeah, I’m talking about not just Nix, but NixOS. Nix (the package manager) can do a lot, but NixOS + disko + home-manager can literally be all of the configuration for your machine from drive partitioning through to dot files. Throw in nixos-anywhere and impermanence and you can have an insane amount of control over all of your computers.

Ansible, Terraform, Chef, etc. do have some overlap, but the main difference is that those tools iterate through the system modifying it piece by piece and NixOS is declarative.

If something fails in some of my bigger Ansible playbooks, it could mean 30 minutes of just running through all the steps again. I could probably break it into sections, but then I have to worry about making sure they all get run when things get updated. In my NixOS install, it’s way faster, I can roll back to a previous state, and troubleshooting is way easier in my opinion.

You can’t have your entire system configuration in a repository of plain text files, which has lots of advantages, but it’s not worth caring about unless you feel excited to get into it.