Every nation in the world should fund open source technologies with a large chunk of their tax revenue. The fact that this isn’t even close to happening almost everywhere says all we need to know about world governments and their corporatist nature.

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You conveniently dodged my question, then asked me stupid questions, thinking I’d have to agree with cherry-picked offenses by China. I am not a fan of China. I just think they are justified in defending themselves. Furthermore, I think it’s hilarious that the the US decided to offshore our high tech goods to have them manufactured there as if we weren’t ASKING to be hacked. The only solution going forward is CLEARLY domestic RISC-V manufacturing and not allowing our enemies to manufacture our critical technologies.

Do I support China’s:

• domestic surveillance: of course not
• transnational repression: of course not
• supression (sp!) of free speech and freedom of the press: of course not
• bullying of its neighbours: of course not
• aggression against Taiwan: of course not

Do I support China engaging in pre-emptive cyber warfare against aggressors: absolutely

Do I support the US engaging in pre-emptive cyber warfare against aggressors: absolutely

Do I support Israel engaging in pre-emptive cyber warfare against aggressors: absolutely

Do I support war crimes being committed by ANY of these countries: NO

Embedding Trojans in your enemy’s infrastructure and leaving them to be switched on in times of war is ABSOLUTELY defense. You may not like it. But that’s called cyber warfare.

Quick question: Do you fundamentally disagree with what China is accused of but fully support Israel and the US’s extrajudicial backdoors, Trojan horses, domestic spying, pager bomb assasinations, AI targeted air strikes, and other clandestine war crimes just because they are perpetrated by “the good guys”?

This story deserves a “no doy!”

All major world powers are bolstering their cybersecurity. If they weren’t, they wouldn’t survive in such an opportunistic world.

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Get this fucking Google ad out of here.

This is really cool.

It reminds me of the Edinburgh Decentralisation Index: an academically rigorous decentralization index that the university of Glasgow school of informatics devised to quanitfy the decentralization of cryptocurrencies:

The Edinburgh Decentralisation Index (EDI) studies blockchain decentralisation from first principles, archives relevant datasets, develops metrics, and offers a dashboard to track decentralisation trends over time and across systems.

https://informatics.ed.ac.uk/blockchain/edi

You should give it a serious look. IMO, it would offer some insight into academically peer-reviewed ways of quantifying this kind of thing.

You sound insecure. I wasn’t trying to bring you down. Be confident. Own your opinions.

Have a nice day.

Do you get though that I said “in my humble opinion” and posted a smile? Do you get, though, that other people may like Metallica and have different songs they like and would have the urge to reply to your comment as if it were the Metallica thread? Do you get that, though? Do you?

Yup. Very few bad songs too. They’re consistently great. Zionsville is my current high water mark for them. Just gorgeous. I never saw the appeal of the pedal steel guitar until that song.

Don’t be. I’m just sharing an alternate opinion.

Orion and To Live Is To Die are better, IMHO. :)

Glass Beams

Khruangbin

To start, I’d download nixpkgs. That would cover pretty much anything I could want.

Do people in China pay rent? I heard that rent is based on income so if you lose your job, you pay no rent.

I’m genuinely curious about exactly how communist China is and what differences there are between US and Chinese society. Seems like a hybrid of capitalist and communist.

I think you need a lesson on recognizing cynical sarcasm.

No hard feelings! :)

Yes. But it was pretty tough to use gvolpe’s config as he had all kinds of git-crypt stuff I needed to unravel. but I eventually got there and now I have a fleet of machines with configs based off of it with all kinds of idiosyncrasies depending on the machine. It’s quite elegant once you tame it to your will. I had a super smart German bud of mine almost give up but I kept helping him until it worked.

Haskell has a pretty tough dev experience if you don’t get Nix involved, IMO. I got involved in all of this because of Cardano, so I was instantly a flakes, Haskell, and NixOS advocate right away. It has the capability to tame incredibly complex stacks. If you revisit Haskell, do yourself a favor and do it from within a custom IOG Nix Devshell. Life is SO much more locked in there. Ps. Ghcup simply doesn’t work in NixOS because it flies counter to the NixOS way, though I’m pretty sure you could get it to work using fhs derivations or whatever. There’s a lot to relearn in the world of NixOS but, IMO, I’m just learning the RIGHT way and trying to drag the Docker fanboys along for the ride with me. :)

Fair enough. Fangs retracted. 🙏

Because, as you alluded to, it simply cannot break.

It is formally verified. In fact, it’s the only window manager (tiling or otherwise) that can claim that. Formally verified means there are virtually no flaws in the code and it will continue humming along as long as you present it with a valid config.

If my config compiles, it will work in XMonad. Only NixOS and GUIX offer the same compilation-tied-to-validity of a config…and I like that a LOT. I actually started learning Haskell by building out my own config (which was forked from this absolutely incredible master class in NixOS configs by gvolpe). I even built a DSL in Haskell in two hours that flawlessly controls my smart appliances with hot keys I programmed.

Also, I have it wired into my NixOS config so it is plug & play for me. I could switch to Hyprland in a heartbeat but honestly…I dislike it. Config files should be in a format that DOESN’T suck ass, IMO.

Perhaps if they’d switch to using Haskell for config files, I might consider it but those GPU intensive animations aren’t worth it also. Work continues to replace XMonad with a worthy Haskell successor and I’m honestly in no rush to switch until it’s done.

tldr: In a phrase: Xmonad just works.

Ps. When I compare the Xmonad part of my config with the Polybar part of my config, the difference is stark. In XMonad, I feel free to sculpt the experience in any way I want. In Polybar, those FUGLY .ino files are a curse upon mankind that needs to be eradicated by elegant software like XMonad. (though XMobar didn’t impress me, weirdly enough)