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Helix is really rad

Don’t take it too seriously mate.

In her earlier performance, Rhythm 0, Abramović surrendered complete control to her audience as she stood impassively, next to a table with objects that they could use on her as they desired.

It got creepy.

Both this and the other performance make me unpleasantly uncomfortable.

Yeah so “cleaned up” wasn’t completely true.

Nix basically works by installing packages in a store or cache, and then soft linking to the binaries in the cache.

When you exit the temporary shell, the link will no longer exist but the cached package and its dependencies are still there.

You can easily clear that cache but it’s not gone instantly when you exit the shell.

I’ve been a Debian guy for many years and it’s unlikely I’ll move away in the foreseeable future.

Nix is a package manager and nix-os is an OS built around that package management system.

You can install nix the package manager in debian. I don’t use it for installing desktop apps like a browser or office suite, I prefer AppImages for those. However, it’s absolutely fantastic for CLI stuff, especially the things you might want as a once off. You can just nix-shell -p <obscure cli tool> and it’s just magically there in a new temporary shell, and then cleaned up once you quit that shell. No more adding weird repos to apt, or downloading from github and building, or piping scripts to bash.

There’s also home-manager which allows you to define packages and their configurations, and just roll out that state on any machine.

These fancy package management tools (flatpak, AppImage, and nix) have dramatically changed the Debian experience. I used to be forever struggling with the trade off between stability and old versions of things. That’s really not the case any more because you don’t have to interfere with Debian’s conservative methodical ideology around stability in order to install and use all the shiny new things.

Kagi.

Searxng too much effort.

I remember when starlink first became available here and had better speed than you could get with terrestrial services. 5 minutes research showed network bandwidth would be a problem once they had significant adoption. Lo and behold…

I don’t think the job cuts and re-allocations are managers deciding that teams can be replaced by AI. It’s the company re-allocating resources to try to develop AI, because acquiring VC and the staff for that is challenging so they redirect it from other parts of their business.

I think that, to the surprise of no one who actually works for a living, they have encountered the ceiling of generative AI abilities (although it’s not implemented in a public facing app yet), and they know it’s never going to be more than an incremental boost to productivity.

obtained as part of a settlement

This makes it worse IMO. What a fucking loser poser. So desperate for acknowledgement that he needs to steal it through litigation.

Imagine if someone said “I don’t have any knowledge or expertise in this area but I really believed in what these guys were doing and I could see their capacity for greatness so I chose to support their endeavors”. There’s certainly no shame in that.