why not recommend Arch to beginners it can be stable if you know what you're doing

i dont think they know what beginners are

got a MRI today and just having a massive objectum crush on the machine. like an mri is the most cozy romantic thing ever. the giant machine takes you inside it and you're in this safe little dark enclosed space and it wants you to just close your eyes and lie perfectly still and be a good little doll for 30 minutes while it sings to you in a voice so powerful that it gently wiggles you, on both a tactile and molecular level. humming and thrumming and making so many pretty noises for you as it peers into your inner workings, taking you apart without even taking you apart. aaaaaaa

Also, a third thing I've realized, and this goes for hacking in general, not just demoscene, it's often done in groups for a reason. No one can do everything, but everyone can do something, if you get just a couple people working together you can accomplish stuff neither person could've accomplished on heir own.

with that being said, I am not learning NixOS lol I would hate every second of that. I want my operating system to Just Work with as little tinkering as possible

my Tech Thing of choice is programming and the thing about programming is that in well-written code, {everything your code is doing} is explicitly visible and usually organized in an easy-to-understand hierarchy. if you want to know how the parser works, look inside of the parser module and recurse until you find the specific function that does the thing that you’re interested in

but administrating a Linux system is not like that at all which is a big part of why I hate it. config files are scattered everywhere, there’s no easy way to figure out what’s installed or what’s running at any given time, and nothing is organized in any way that makes sense to me

so I think I can understand the appeal of NixOS just because it lets you turn your Linux config into a nicely-organized codebase instead of the vague low-level chaos of a thousand config files and 5 different package managers

also it seems like Linux organizes its files based on what type of file they are. for example there’s a directory that contains every logfile for every program on the system, and there’s another that contains every executable for every program on the system. and I really prefer the Windows approach of having one directory per program instead of one directory per type of file. that way I can say “I’m interested in neovim” and go into my neovim directory and see every file related to neovim all at once. and I think that’s roughly how NixOS works too

One thing I find kind of fascinating is the way artistic genres can sometimes emerge from what's essentially pranks and hoaxes.

Pro-wrestling is a good example of that, it has its roots in rigged wrestling matches and it spent a lot of time maintaining this polite fiction that it wasn't staged long past the time where it had gone from being an attempt to scam people to being a form of entertainment and artistic expression in its own right.

(There was a time when just enough people genuinely wrestling was real that you might feel the need to point out that its not, but enough people knew that it wasn't that "wrestling is fake!" was seen as kind of an annoying position to hold, like being the one guy getting angry at model train enthusiasts because their photos of trains are "faked", they are real model trains!")

My most unhinged personal theory that I genuinely believe is true is that the love for sci fi looking gas masks in drone kink is because of Bionicle

@aronia omgg

the more I learn about C# the more it sounds like it has a terrible case of 2000’s era OOP brainrot

at the decentralized nerd internet, services only go down if hetzner or netcup are dead

Pokemon game that never gets around to having gameplay. it just introduces characters, railroads, and tutorializes mechanics for 200 hours and then the credits roll

🤖 SECURITY BOT v0.1 COMMANDS YOU TO WISHLIST RECONFIGURE: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3989530/Reconfigure/

Look at how firmly its feet are planted on the ground thanks to some IK and raycasting magic!
#godot #indiegame #pixelart

@CoyoteTraveller

#ALT4you

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@aronia wait C# doesn’t have union types? how do you do anything in that language then? unless you can make something like Rust’s enums instead, to approximate a union type using a monad

Some highlights from the presentation I gave last month that got us to this situation

Sometimes it is very easy to de-anonymize redacted documents
https://media.defense.gov/2025/Sep/17/2003800984/-1/-1/0/CG-115_INTERVIEW-DEEP-SEA-EXPLORER_REDACTED.PDF

For the folks reading along who aren't ace and want to know what the fuss is:

Our society (at least, that swath of society my English-language post on the Fediverse is likely to reach) is steeped in allosexual (the opposite of asexual) imagery, stories, movies, expectations, norms, etc. Pretty much the whole world seems to tell us that it's normal and right and good to be a sexual being, and from a purely biological-survival standpoint, I get that. The world also tells us that to be asexual -- which means a lack of sexual attraction, and which, as you can see, many of us are -- is bad. It's pathologized, insulted, sneered at, looked down on, and can lead to violence. Many ace folks who reveal this aspect of themselves find themselves ostracized from social circles that previously accepted them.

Asexuality is just another sexual orientation (see https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/asexuality-is-finally-breaking-free-from-medical-stigma/ for example). It's not bad at all, it's just a way some people are, and we can't do anything about it. But to many people, it's viewed with suspicion or dismissal. So it's really nice to have a place to see that no, we're not alone, we're not solo weirdos floating in a sea of normies (no shade to those of us who are also solo weirdos, of course).

So, if you're reading this, and you know that you're not ace? Cool, sincerely! Congrats, you are going to get a lot less flak in your life. However, maybe spare a moment to consider that ace people in your life, who may not have revealed themselves precisely because they worry how they'll be received, are still people. Your friend is still your friend if they mention they're thinking about whether they're ace. None of us choose our sexuality, it just shows up, and we can ignore it or embrace it as we see fit. Ignoring it, however, has led to a lot of strife in the world, and I would love to see less strife.

So, what can you do? Reading through this is a great start. Open your mind to the possibility that asexuality is just another way to be a human. This isn't a call to go out and do some big demonstrative thing to prove what a good ally you are. Just look inward for a few minutes, breathe deeply, and make peace with the idea of people who are different from you still being people (I know many of you already do this, but it's a good reminder sometimes). And the next time someone comes out to you as ace, try to let your reaction be something like, "Hey, cool, I value you just as much as I did before. BTW, you hungry? Let's get lunch."

If you want to know more about asexuality, I recommend https://asexuality.org, the LGBTQIA+ wiki site at https://lgbtqia.fandom.com/wiki/LGBTQIA%2B_Wiki, and there are a bunch of good books, both fiction and non-fiction, on the subject. Like, I just finished Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann, which is a really good ace romance novel, for instance. 😁