Notices by kline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (kline@mastodon.sdf.org), page 2

I don't know much about Apple computers, is this a reasonable price?
I'll probably just put NixOS on it, but might play with MacOS a bit.

Apple Mac Pro 6.1 (2013 trashcan) - 12GB ram / 256GB SSD, £270 (britbux).

Ok - the chains that bind us, TPM, and a-moral software.

I strongly believe that software, as much as possible, should be without morals. I'm the same way that postgis can be used for humanitarian disasters, it can also be used to build surveillance databases. The same crypto that allows us to talk privately and with confidence in our partner can be used to sign firmware to prevent user control. @Mae @ubergeek

@Mae @ubergeek it's a difficult field to navigate, and there are definitely instances that are really fucking horrible, where free software can be used to abuse and oppress both users and bystanders. I don't think this makes that those foundational technologies like databases or TPMs inherently a bad thing, but we do need to ensure they're free - for any purpose - and to absolutely stop at the social (moral, even!) level from the abuse of such tools.

Starting my #fosdem thread here. I've already managed to get one of the gold dust "M" size hoodies, one of the last, as well as see some stuff about open transit.

For now, I'm at "vanilla Debian on an industrial embedded device".

I missed you there tonight, hope to see you around!

#fosdem house is genuinely called The Source House

heyyo fosdem tomorrow

Google maps giving me important and relevant images to orientate myself to the local shops

Lol, apparently ISIS have taken responsibility for the Iranian bombing in what is possibly the biggest strategic own goal in my lifetime.

If Iran was left to believe this was some kind of American-led attack the ongoing destabilisation would be far more exploitable for ISIS, with Iran and the West at each others throats.

Instead they owned up to it and just made everyone hate them more. On the flip side, we're in the timeline where ISIS possibly prevented WWIII?

I need (desperately, the screen is falling off this one) a new phone.

Do people have any recommendations for a good, reasonably affordable mobile that runs Android?

For reference, the one I have now is a Pixel 3a bought for about £350 in 2019.

19:53:59 <snip> found kline's date:

@coin maybe stop driving over the nailfield

`watch -n 0.1 date +%s`
1700000000 soon

You can't render the entire unicode catalogue because you can't figure out the font configs

I don't render the entire unicode catalogue because i reject the existence of non-latin scripts.

We are not the same.

NixCon sponsorship: https://chaos.social/@nixos_org/111007010535962541

Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Luckey

Selected quotes:
"In June 2017, Luckey founded the autonomy-focused defense co. Anduril Industries, along with former Palantir Technologies executives"

"In November 2022, it was announced that as a commemoration of the anime Sword Art Online, Luckey created a VR headset that kills its human user in real life when the user dies digitally in the video game, by means of several explosive charges affixed above the screen"

If this sounds too cliche for you, I have great news:

This is the actual bio for Palmer Luckey, the Oculus Rift founder who was acquired and fired by zuckerberg, and now leads defence contractor Arundil, the NixOS conference sponsor everyone is mad about.

Guys I have a great comic book idea:

Talented, optimistic engineer develops bright new tech, before being exploited by megacorp. In the heat of his betrayal, heel-turns to a mad scientist, instead developing autonomous killer drones and a VR video game system that kills its losers by blowing their heads up with explosives.

@coin I have great news. What if I told you there was a way for your wish to come true, and get money for doing it?

Every time I restart work on this program I think about how much more sensible it would be to write in Erlang, but now everyone is using Rust and I have to reinvent OTP but shitty.

Seeking goth gf to upgrade to witchy wifey