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Re-implementing the Nix protocol in Rust.
https://tweag.io/blog/2024-04-25-nix-protocol-in-rust/
saved 2024-05-06

Re-implementing the Nix protocol in Rust
We re-implemented the nix remote protocol, declaratively

❝I have noticed that we people privileged by supremacy have a tendency to take this same stance toward newly aware people, a stance which is not ours to assume. We seem to feel that it is our business to meet people who are in the same place that we were just a few short years or decades ago, and meet their shock and surprise and anger and dismay with a skepticism and an impatience we haven't earned.
We say things like "are you surprised?"
We say things like "why does this shock you?"
We say "oh so you're only angry now?"
We say things like "where have you been?"
…
Instead of asking “are you surprised?” say “I was surprised once, too; here's what I know.” Instead of “what took you so long?” say “I just got here recently; here's what I've learned.”❞ https://mastodon.social/@JuliusGoat/114847074342312772

GMail:
"Be careful with this message.
This message appears to be sent from your account but Gmail couldn't verify this. Someone might be impersonating your account. If you're not sure the message is from you, use caution when clicking links, downloading attachments, or replying with personal information."
I sent it while logged in to GMail using multiple authentication steps from my home network using a secure laptop. What are they talking about? Serious question: how could they not verify it? It's either an idiotic engineering problem on their end or I'm terrified that security is meaningless. Probably both.

Ugh, they're banning[1] self-importing sunscreens from Europe and Asia. I can only use like one specific Japanese sunscreen that doesn't have crap in it that I'm allergic to.
I guess because freedom and small government or something. /s
[1] https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDHSCBP/bulletins/3e8b084

Happy #WWDC25 y'all
If you're around, feel free to say hi over at the Business & Education in-person labs later

If you're still following this Mastodon account today, might I interest you in also following @… (at hachyderm dot io)..

“I’m usually fine with surveillance capitalism but this is too much, even for me.”
#surveillance #capitalism #BigTech

Filippo Valsorda :go: (@filippo@abyssdomain.expert)
Attached: 1 image I usually get where big tech is coming from, but this is just malicious tracking. If you're an engineer and you're asked to implement something like this, it's time to whistleblow. I hope the IE DPA will look into it. Anyway, Local Network Access (https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/local-network-access) can't come soon enough. https://localmess.github.io

#Rust is mummy's new favorite, hm? 🤔
Ubuntu 25.10 Replaces sudo With a Rust-Based Equivalent
https://thenewstack.io/ubuntu-25-10-replaces-su…

The future's so bright, I gotta wear 😎
#work #future cc: @…

Something I've seen over and over, the constant claim of right-wing politicians that they're "just joking" about killing people put into better words than I could:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/10/right-progressive-societies-joke-glastonbury-starve-benefit-rod-liddle-lewis-schaffer

I wish to re-emphasize how strongly I support Canadian boycotts etc. against the US. I don’t take it personally and I’m not offended. On the contrary, I appreciate the help.

@… i was about to write the same here. Looking at this glass design they show I was like lol, I'm not even mad because I just moved to android.
I am mad though that they still didn't make iPad a proper laptop replacement. This is what I'd like to see. Just give me normal dev tools on Safari and we're friends again!

Tonight #Maven and Maven Exec plugin in combination with Weld brought me to me knees.
Weld refused to load my classes and resources even if Maven reports compilation is successful, I can see the classes in target/classes, and when using -X I see it adds the jars and target/classes to the classpath.
Still Weld throws a bunch of ClassNotFound exceptions.
To make things a lot worse, there're no good hits when searching.
😖 emoji-with-pulling-my-hair emoji-with-me-banging-my-head-against-the-desk 😩

"You happen to have the benefit of knowing what you're talking about."
An actual "compliment" I received on a conference talk, only to realize a few days later how loaded it was. It still hurts when I remember it, and it happened in 2006. 😖
#AlmostACompliment
#HashTagGames

If you're trying to do the trick that was shared for #nintendoswitch2 where you can use a USB HDMI capture dongle HDMI to USB-C cable to use your iPhone as a camera - don't use the True Visage app mentioned in the video
That will rely on screen sharing mirroring and you'll potentially get an aspect ratio mismatch and see the dynamic island floating in your view
I'd personally suggest the free "Blackmagic Camera" app instead, and then go to:
Settings->Monitor->HDMI Out
Switch from Mirror Display to Video Feed and it will cleanly output your camera. Works for a Lightning to HDMI out adapter for older phones, too
Then just tap on Lense and FPS and pick which combo you like.
Also, if you're not getting any output signal make sure the capture dongle you're using supports 1080p out - not sure the Switch 2 supports anything higher as camera input

People keep making the same mistake, again and again and again and again forever, of thinking that it is syntax that makes software development hard.
Oh honey.
Re this from @mathaetaes:
https://infosec.exchange/@mathaetaes/114656764053846137
(P.S. Visual coding is actually really cool, and IMO an underexplored PL design space — but is very much coding, and very much tricky for the same reasons as any other kind of coding.)

"If you're a single person who can't do art, how else can you get an image for your blog post other than AI?"
This is a thing someone actually asked me.

Letzter Feinschliff an meinem Vortrag „So helfen uns LLMs beim Programmieren“ beim Tübix heute um 14 Uhr in V2:
https://slides.cusy.io/ai/how-llms-help-us-with-programming.slides.html

#IndieGames I played and finished in June. Mostly demos, due to NextFest. Strange Horticulture is the only full game I played, recommended as a chill experience.
The top 2 rows of demos I'll likely buy near release (depends on pricing, of course!) The next row I'll likely buy at some stage, the final 2 rows ... perhaps not for me.
Feel free to ask for more details if you're interested in any of these!

Ich spiele gerade ein wenig mit #MastoTags von @… herum.
Ihr könnt der Webseite einen Hashtag vorgeben und es sucht nach ähnlichen, beliebten Hashtags. Daraus könnte man eine #Mastowall

Because essentially no one who has done conscientious online moderation before ever wants to do it again.
It’s been 24 years since I did any of it and I never miss it. https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/114608973862859551

This is exactly what I was afraid of when #laravel took VC money.
https://hachyderm.io/@j3j5/114784445289560905

So the main "arguments" when I say "AI doesn't work" and "it will collapse" are:
1. "You don't know what you're talking about"
2. "It's inevitable and here to stay, might as well go with the program"
3. "But it's almost there! Just last week they released [name of model] that is so close!"
Literally no one ever replies with any concrete examples with how it reliably, ethically and non-wastefully works for them to increase their productivity and improve their and other people's lives in any meaningful way.
It's always ad hominems, hypotheticals or deeply flawed "it sort of works for this".

Bot or not? A short history of web bots and bot detection techniques
– from @…
🤖 https://sinja.io/blog/bot-or-not

A short history of web bots and bot detection techniques · OlegWock
Did you know your favorite website can detect when you're browsing it in public transport or when you scroll it in your bed? Moreover, this info sometimes helps them to fight bots.

One of the most important lessons I've learned in life / continue to learn / managed to forget is the importance of "stopping." It is so easy for life to become overwhelming with all the things I must do. Work, family, friends, volunteering, community, finances, chores, taking care of my health, the list goes on...
"Life is a very simple thing. We make it more complex." - Anonymous
"When we are making our life more complex, that is precisely the time when we are totally incapable of seeing what we are doing. The more complex our lives are, the more we need to be present to them and, surprisingly, this is exactly the time when we are most distracted. When we are distracted, we tend to have poor judgment and make more mistakes . . . usually adding to the confusion . . . and so it goes."
"....We usually respond by trying to become even more controlling and, eventually (or immediately!), this just makes things worse."
"It's time to stop, take stock, take some deep breaths, rest, listen to others, and regroup...We may miss something. We may even miss something we think is important. That's okay. We're more important."
"Taking time to stop may be just what I need to move ahead."
-- Anne Wilson Schaef, Meditations for People Who (May) Worry Too Much, Ballantine Books, 1996, entry for May 6th.
#life #quotes #health #productivity

I also want to re-up this thread, which links to two different funds providing direct mutual aid to people in Gaza. If you are looking to help •right now•, in this dire moment, this a place you can do that.
4/
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/114593006896846609

Re-upping this magnificent image from @…:
“egomaniacs standing on each others shoulders wearing a fascist trench coat, and each is trying to be the head” https://mas.to/@FantasticalEconomics/114628527538664417

You travel 15 hrs to arrive on the eve of a 6am event.
5am: no running water. So, can't go to that event.
Do you hope this is a building problem (misery for many) and addressed soon. Or assume it's just your rental?
And oh, you're now 36hrs fasting and you can only break fast at the event. #life

Re this from @…: YES.
My first job out of college, I successfully built several high-profile executive darling software projects. I was celebrated for it (someone once use the phrase “white knight,” yikes), which was heady for a 20-something fresh out of college.
Despite that, I don’t think a single one of those projects actually mattered diddly to the company in the long term.
1/2
https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/114785755537309714

Puh. #HomeAssistant wirft native Installationen und 32Bit-Systeme (incl. ARM) ausm Support. Sehr schade. Jetzt geht nur noch VM oder Container, also noch mehr Abstraktion und Rumpaketiere zwischen HA und dem System, was kaputt gehen kann. Alles sehr unschön, da HAOS viele Geräte nicht sauber unterstützt und Container viele Einschränkungen bei Netzwerk und Sicherheit hat. :/

This is a dangerous level of squinting at tea leaves, so •serious• grain of salt here, but:
The sudden re-plunge of Tesla’s stock price during this Musk / Trump spat suggests that maybe, maybe its utterly wild overvaluation had nothing to do with Tesla’s products, or its market position, or Musk’s phony brilliance, or even (the usual explanation) with investors getting hyped about a self-driving car future and magical robots.
Maybe it was investors expecting the company to be the beneficiary of kleptocratic pillaging of the US Federal budget. Which — unlike all the other explanations — would not be an irrational expectation.

To whoever voted on "I like clicking buttons" without boosting it... You're lucky I don't see who you are sir/madam!

I've just cleared out a bunch of hashtags I was following. I feel like they filled my timeline but didn't encourage me to reach out in friendship. And often the hashtag was the thing I scrolled past fast, thinking it was a bit ick.
(The hashtags you follow are in profile, then click on the 3 dots).
Let's see how a quieter Mastodon feels, and which hashtags I want to re-introduce...

Totoro spoilers
Re the quoted post from @…:
The very first time I saw My Neighbor Totoro, it was because a friend cajoled me into attending the student anime club’s showing with absolutely no context whatsoever except “you •have• to see this movie, Paul.” I had no idea what genre it was. I had no idea that it was a movie considered suitable for kids. The last anime I’d seen was IIRC Ghost in the Shell; I was ready for anything.
When Mei went missing, I thought, “omg, is this a tragedy? I think this story is a tragedy!” The whole time they were looking for her, I was absolutely terrified. I thought for sure they’d found her sandal. I still tear up when they find her now, on every rewatching.
I’m so glad for that first viewing. It’s a much better movie that way. When you’re expecting an innocent movie about cute forest plushies, you see that. But when you see that it could be a tragedy — the mother’s shadowy illness, the lost child — it hits hard. https://wandering.shop/@Violinknitter/114792748619083661

I've been using the #HelixEditor as my daily driver for the better part of a year now and I couldn't be more happy with it. I've managed to get a near-IDE setup and experience thanks to zellij and some awesome TUI tools.
This article aligns well with my experience, I recommend reading it if you're "modal editor curious" or dissatisfied with your (neo)vim config maintenance burden.
#helix #modaleditor #vim #neovim

Tay got shutdown so Grok could have a voice.
#Grok #Tay #GrokAI #xAI #AI #LLM #bigotry

Re this from @…, of the biggest tells about the current AI hype bubble:
Instead of replacing the work humans don’t want to do, it’s purporting to replace the work executives hate paying for.
Instead of an end to drudgery, they’re pushing an end to purpose and meaning.
And yeah, we’re going to end up cleaning up the AI’s messes. And doing its laundry.
https://mastodon.social/@PavelASamsonov/114598616057210141

Re this from @…, of the biggest tells about the current AI hype bubble:
Instead of replacing the work humans don’t want to do, it’s purporting to replace the work executives hate paying for.
Instead of an end to drudgery, they’re pushing an end to purpose and meaning.
And yeah, we’re going to end up cleaning up the AI’s messes. And doing its laundry.
https://mastodon.social/@PavelASamsonov/114598616057210141

If you're traveling and need to conserve data, an easy way to do that is to defer watching Old Guard 2 until you're where you have data to waste.
At least that's the decision I came to after watching 40 minutes of that #movie.
#Netflix #entertainment #OldGuard2

Mastodon’s chronological feed is downright oppressive if you treat it as an inbox, as homework that must be completed.
But if you take it as an honest timeslice-based sampling of what people are saying and thinking about? It’s pretty awesome.
Re this from @…:
https://mas.to/@kims/114724380498198624

I see @… has a similar reaction about a study that says something we want to hear.
Re that second remark, “The *point* of AI is to make cognitive abilities irrelevant,” well, that’s the thing that’s up for debate right now. Making cognitive abilities (and thus labor, and people) irrelevant is very much the marketing pitch of the hype bubble. That pitch is about cost cutting, and about fear and intimidation — an intoxicating, investor-frothing mixture of fantasy and terror.
It’s not the only vision of AI, however.
https://hachyderm.io/@datarama/114693869134389025

#Steam #Apple #macOS PSA for my fellow #gaming friends
If you're attempting to patch in Game Porting Toolkit 3 beta 1 libraries into CrossOver and following the instructions in the Evaluation environment for Windows games 3.0 beta 1 README - there is a missing step which will likely cause your Steam's steamwebhelper.exe binaries to crash repeatedly.
In addition to ditto'ing over the "external" folder that the instructions mention - you also need to ditto over the "wine" folder as well to the same lib64/apple_gptk destination
Doing both of those things, I was successful in getting it running in CrossOver Preview (20250507 / 26.0.0.39135)
Have fun and enjoy

My knee-jerk reaction to this article from @… was a cynical [citation needed] re “artists from all mediums emphatically support the use of AI.”
On further reflection…well, that’s still my response to the eyeball-grabbing lede, yes, but the actual article is what I wish we’d had instead of this inane hype avalanche:
Artists poking at the new thing, playing with it, finding its possibilities, critiquing it, problematizing it, asking us to ask what it is, helping us see it with fresh eyes from many angles. https://infosec.exchange/@adamshostack/114704865574139727

"Donation to Presidential Library" is what we're calling bribes now.
#uspol #corruption #Trump #CBS #60minutes #Paramount

For when you're #fasting but you want to eat and still not break your fast. 🙄
(Part of a #menu at a #restaurant in #Udupi #Karnataka #India; from Dec. 14, 2024)
#food #diet #strategy