i think it depends on what you’re doing, maybe. like I set up sops-nix to manage my secrets, but I wanted to use a Yubikey to protect the master key, so I had to use age-plugin-yubikey… only to discover that sops-nix ignores environment.SOPS_AGE_KEY_CMD for some reason, so I had to point at a random PR on sops-nix to enable experimental plugin support, or dig in and override the sops pkg. then I ran into issues where (I think?) wireguard was coming up before the sops secrets trigger, and failing because it couldn’t read the private key… and then on my WSL2 environment I have to do even more since I cross-compile age-plugin-yubikey to Windows x64 from inside my NixOS build, but then I had to pin a bunch of cargo packages because the repo didn’t ship with anything pinned… and for SWI-Prolog I had to roll my own system for adding modules to it, since the nixpkgs support for that is hilariously broken and fully recompiles SWI-Prolog from scratch every time… and now I’m thinking of setting up a microvm with Wayland forwarding for tor-browser but I can’t imagine how much harder that will be…

…but also like, I can’t imagine doing all of this by hand ever again. once I get my janky-ass nix config working, it’ll keep working for as long as fetch urls stay green (which is a big issue unfortunately.)

cries in NixOS

once it works, it works forever, but it’s really hard getting it to work.

ohgodletmeinpleaseIneedtogetoutofhere uh I mean yeah understandable

there was a libertarian takeover project to use NH as a sort of libertarian exclave. NH also hosts the Porcupine Freedom Festival, which is like a summer camp for libertarians where you pay for booze and wares with slivers of gold. Planet Money has a great episode about it.

it’s not like a majority of NH is libertarian, it’s just the highest concentration of libertarians. and subjectively the vibes are real different from VT.

critiquing both is what makes you a left libertarian.

Libertarians in the US want small government on three axes: they want to eliminate programs (e.g. welfare, retirement or universal healthcare), public utilities (e.g. electricity, highways), and regulation (e.g. antitrust, banking laws.) in economic terms, it’s very right-wing, since it’s pure unadulterated capitalism. usually they want government to “stay out of the bedroom and the boardroom” though, so they’re often progressive on civil liberties. unfortunately, many self-styled “libertarians” are socially conservative, or care only about their freedoms.

Left Libertarians see both the State and Corporations as oppressive power structures, and want to reign both in. think Anarchists, but not as radical. most favor decentralized, collective government with lots of direct democracy. New Hampshire is the most right-libertarian state, while Vermont is the most left-libertarian.

the Libertarian Party in the US is ridiculously disorganized because organizing Libertarians is like herding cats. afaik there aren’t really unified Libertarian parties anywhere in the world, though maybe e.g. the Pirate Party would be close?

I once installed Gentoo on a netbook. emerge world took 3 days…

yeah, they could have been like Belarus!

I support NATO, in the sense that if NATO dissolved Europe would get eaten like a three-course meal by Russia. Ukraine shows that all too clearly. it has many problems, though.

Czechia seems like it’d be pretty based. or Estonia. I like Central/Eastern Europe. or maybe Thailand.

Technology Connections did a video on this rule.

regular US outlets are 120V. regular EU outlets are 240V. P=VI, so to produce the same amount of power as a 240V kettle, a 120V kettle needs to draw twice as much current.

the gauge of a wire determines how much current it can carry without setting insulation on fire. home outlets are typically wired for 15A, around the world. so in EU, 15A service can deliver twice as much power since that’s 15A of current at 240V = 3.6kW, while in the US at 120V = 1.8kW.

so EU kettles are twice as powerful, typically.

is this Das?

Gordon doesn’t need to hear this, he’s a trained professional!

honestly a brilliant move and very on brand for Tumblr.

this surprised me. from what I can tell from your sources and Wikipedia:

✅ the tanks were indeed leaving the square.

✅ Tank Man stopped them, climbed onto the top of a tank and talked briefly with the soldiers inside, then was quickly shepherded away by two people. it’s unclear whether the people were PLA or concerned bystanders. nothing is known of the man.

🤔 sources disagree on whether civilians were killed in the Square itself. some supposed witnesses were shown to have left or been elsewhere.

❌ at least 300 people, mostly civilians, were killed that night, according to the PRC itself. most of the casualties were likely students surrounding the square. from what I can tell it was likely a Kent State situation, where students were throwing rocks and setting fires, and the PLA overreacted with lethal force.

China’s suppression of the media didn’t do them any favors. the Tank Man photo wouldn’t be so infamous but for the Streisand effect caused by PRC’s heavy-handed censorship. rumors of a massacre in the Square would be easy to dispel if foreign journalists were allowed to stay and film. but protests were an embarrassment to China, and China sweeps embarrassments under the rug.

🎵*and you don’t seem to understand…*🎵

Yammer is actually real though 😭

we’re headed for Barry though. 😞

I catch strays because I’m on .ml but I’m not a tankie (I’m left libertarian like Chomsky)

also, people will assume you’re a tankie just because your name ends with .ml 😞