Posts by ahelwer@fosstodon.org
(DIR) Post #AVDoYmpluGkwv9Uy4O by ahelwer@fosstodon.org
2023-05-01T20:15:08Z
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@thelinuxcast how does it compare to the vertical thumb trackballs like the ones from Logitech and Kingston?
(DIR) Post #AVDomdmcM1dUu7d4ue by ahelwer@fosstodon.org
2023-05-01T20:16:28Z
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@dcc well yeah but is there a reason to prefer that over thumb trackball or what?
(DIR) Post #AWcQNRcz8mHMUEtR4q by ahelwer@fosstodon.org
2023-06-12T14:23:07Z
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@urusan oof wonder how that got in the lexicon
(DIR) Post #AXs4z1JPHOoxeQIpYe by ahelwer@fosstodon.org
2023-07-19T21:47:58Z
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pine64 electric car where turning left requires flashing it with a fork of debian downloaded from a gitlab repo that hasn't been updated in over a year
(DIR) Post #AYEJzaURnyNVxqBmIS by ahelwer@fosstodon.org
2023-07-30T17:46:20Z
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Read a depressing observation about the practice of associating gay liberation with NATO/western imperialism generally: it lets non-Western right-wing governments sell repression of gay rights domestically as anti-imperialism, while in the west that same repression is sold to liberals as evidence those countries deserve what happens to them, neutralizing opposition. Meanwhile gay people in non-western countries get the twin joys of state repression and NATO bombs.
(DIR) Post #AYGjUxrlpTJOby4neC by ahelwer@fosstodon.org
2023-07-31T22:41:02Z
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In public discourse it's all well and good to push back against narratives that devolve #climatechange responsibility to individual choice, but in your own quiet room you are seriously lying to yourself if you think climate change mitigation will succeed without you personally making large changes to how you live. For example, taking a single cross-country flight emits more carbon than citizens of some countries do in an entire year. Not eating meat saves a multiple of that.
(DIR) Post #AYGjV17piCwWiecAbI by ahelwer@fosstodon.org
2023-07-31T23:05:47Z
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mitigating factors here include the fact that north american non-air non-car long-distance travel infrastructure is close to nonexistent. these changes are made much easier given appropriate infrastructure investment and it's worth fighting for that.
(DIR) Post #AYQxxyDDjrqfo3ngRc by ahelwer@fosstodon.org
2023-08-05T19:19:52Z
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I'm a strong free thinker who is immune to propagandaaaaaaaa (10,000 books, films, and games about cross-channel warfare later):
(DIR) Post #AYZQr47po6w23P1K8O by ahelwer@fosstodon.org
2023-08-10T00:08:36Z
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Being born in the 90s and growing up in the alleged end of history, the messaging always being this was a period of peace and prosperity without end; contrasted with the hardening realization that a world taking climate change seriously can only be reached by living through periods of immense strife and uncertainty rivaling some of the worst parts of the 20th century. It's just the hand our generation has been dealt. It is what it is. We need to do this. #climatechange
(DIR) Post #AYZQuPUgodDFCEIzzs by ahelwer@fosstodon.org
2023-08-10T00:10:37Z
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@SirCandinavian shut up, idiot.
(DIR) Post #AYZZA5lwhurUIUMjI0 by ahelwer@fosstodon.org
2023-08-10T01:43:05Z
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@SirCandinavian more respect than you are due
(DIR) Post #AZAdwzNRZC14ST6sAS by ahelwer@fosstodon.org
2023-08-27T20:20:18Z
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Trying to figure out whether I'm an anomaly here. For those of you in your mid 30s or younger, how many people do you know your age or younger who have died? Friends, acquaintances, siblings, cousins, etc.
(DIR) Post #AZC8B6ZApFlIamCg52 by ahelwer@fosstodon.org
2023-08-27T22:02:02Z
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Here in the US it's a common belief that technology will save us from #climatechange. What's usually meant by this is a deus ex machina in the form of bazinga-brained tech like fusion/vat-grown meat/direct-air carbon capture. I contend technology has *already* saved us from climate change. We have all the technology we could ever need to solve this crisis. Ship, rail, solar, wind, biofuels, etc. We just aren't building it. It isn't a technological problem.
(DIR) Post #AcCkLe7M1pzJaZ0V6W by ahelwer@fosstodon.org
2023-11-25T03:48:18Z
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My understanding of :guix: and :nixos: are that they explicitly pin the versions of absolutely everything & their transitive dependency graphs, all the way down to the compiler versions used to build a specific software commit. But how do they handle bootstrapping compilers?#nix #guix
(DIR) Post #AcCkLg5IiRX9gm3tBI by ahelwer@fosstodon.org
2023-11-25T13:59:35Z
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@kirschwipfel Wow this is incredibly cool, I think you just convinced me to become a guix person lol
(DIR) Post #AcCkLgqnrpX046HpDs by ahelwer@fosstodon.org
2023-11-26T13:45:25Z
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@kirschwipfel actually I just learned Stallman is still involved in GNU, I thought he got kicked out. So don't think I'll be checking out guix.Edit: Although @civodul did sign the letter asking Stallman to step down. So idk