I suspect the truth is a lot more scary than you might be ready to admit. You’re so close to the answer. It’s staring you right in the face.

The unfortunate truth is: The people (tribe) that you’re (rabidly) in support of are merely using those identity politics dogwhistles so that you’ll continue voraciously gobbling up the increasingly miniscule table scraps from the ruling class while thinking to yourself that you’re the last bastion of resistance against some great encroaching evil.

Please read some Chomsky, my friend.

Wedge issues. Equal rights for everyone regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation and ethnicity are something that we, as a society, actually solved decades ago that aren’t even a question. They were brought back into public discourse by corrupt people that seek to keep us distracted while they rob us all blind. The two party system in the US (and any nation that uses a FPTP voting system that limits us to a MAXIMUM of two viable parties) is a HUGE reason why they still exist.

The reason we still argue endlessly about these solved issues is that the two parties are so similar in their other policies that they have decided to highlight those issues (as if there’s even a debate about them) because the two parties align in lockstep behind the other issues. The super wealthy people at the top don’t want us talking about things that will cause ALL of us to stand up and demand improvements to our material conditions so they have their demagogues loudly trumpet the absolutely miniscule differences between them and the conservative parties to whip their voters into a frenzy in support of voting against their best interest.

Then, I have to fight with unwitting dupes in the comment section that have fallen victim to the marketing gimmick that the black female version of Reagan is “fighting for good” despite her being politically aligned with Reagan on virtually every issue other than identity politics.

I’m calling the DNC technique of wrapping Reaganomics in a friendly identity politics outer shell “woke-washing” because of how similar it is to “green-washing”.

Chomsky proved this conclusively.

It was the CitiAssist.

It had to be a private student loan because my parents made slightly over the max to qualify to public loans even though they refused to pay for school. That left me with loans with insane interest rates. Most of what I had to borrow was to cover $150k to pay rent in the college town I lived in while attending school.

Then, Joe Biden wrote the bankruptcy protection bill, making it impossible for students to disburse their student loans in bankruptcy two years after I graduated. They also refused to allow me to consolidate 8 loans which all had monthly payments that were each intentionally calculated as if it was the only loan I had to pay. Then my loans got bought and moved around and are now owned by Trellis. There’s a lot more to it as well. Housing and healthcare plays a HUGE part.

TLDR; hyper-commodification of basic human needs like education, housing, healthcare, and food coupled with legislation that sentences those that can’t pay their feudal lord up front to a lifetime of serfdom. (Not to mention my union wages barely keeping pace with inflation).

I’d go rob the people that made my entire 20’s and 30’s into indentured student loan servitude for exactly the dollar figure they stole from me plus the insane interest that they tacked onto it because they owned politicians who eliminated all avenues that I could’ve used to get out of that contract.

The figure they stole from me: $197,355.49

Thank you!

How does this differ from graphQL?

NixOS

😉

This might help you get started perhaps:

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/twitter-follower-count-sensor-no-api-integration-required/161858

I know it’s Twitter so it’s not entirely relevant.

And then there’s also this:

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/mastodon-follower-count-and-other-profile-sensors/561095

Apologies if it’s not exactly what you’re looking for but IMO, Home Assistant might be the easiest way to get this kind of API interaction with actual motors and microcontrollers.

nixpkgs has been working on adding it for a month now but it uses “surfer” for compilation. It’ll be interesting to see how they end up building it in the Nix style. Looks like it’ll have to involve pnpm.

spite ventricle

You are pretttttttay, prettttttay, pretttty clever. 😆

Have these people ever tried to code using chatGPT? It’s wrong SO often.

Edit: maybe they know this but they want to drive down the price of developers by pretending they don’t need them anymore. I would not be surprised if this were the case here.

I absolutely adore xmonad. You can do ANYTHING you dream up in it. Additionally, it helped make Haskell less intimidating for me.

I have high hopes for their Wayland port called Waymonad. But it’s a long way off.

Little known fact: xmonad is the only WM that has a formally-verified base.

I run an xmonad community here: https://infosec.pub/c/xmonad

I’m betting that the person that made this has a gigantic, disgusting ratty pube beard and specializes in Typescript and React Native.

To paraphrase: “Just because Kamala Harris is literally a puppet of banksters who want to convert the dollar to a CDBC and prosecute any potential competition (real crypto projects that are actually decentralized), allowing the government to revoke your money any time they want, you should still vote for her because Trump and Kennedy bad.”

If the big banks had their way, any company working on crypto will either dissolve or leave this country for fear of being the next target of the bankster’s attack dog, the SEC.

This article says that you should vote for Kamala Harris because she isn’t the corrupt hucksters Trump or Kennedy. Honestly, I don’t think any of our choices are appealing in the slightest.

People tell me that Trump will bring about fascism. I agree. However, I also posit that what we get under this crop of Democrats is just another flavor of fascism (flagrant corporatism perhaps?) where CDBC’s (the digital dollar) are forced upon us while the SEC attacks truly decentralized projects with integrity, calling them “securities” just because they invade on the territory of their impending (and VERY centralized, fascist) CDBC.

Phil has a knack for making even the driest subject into a life-changing and mind-bending experience. I highly recommend it.

I’d look into building all of that in a flake just so you can encapsulate (and have a central version control of) all of your dependencies in case something does change.

I’m a bit of a Nix dork but I tend to try and declare my entire dev stack in a flake so it can follow me to every machine. It offers some of the “it works on every machine” guarantees that Docker offers while also forcing the compilation of the stack to happen natively (or at least pulls in some content addressed cache that offers security by being the exact hash for the whole dependency graph). I like that

Here’s how I used the Nix way to declare an interactive Python scraper the other day. With this method, I can lock dependencies between machines as a matter of course without having to use Docker:

{
  description = “Weed Scraper”;

  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = “github:NixOS/nixpkgs?ref=nixpkgs-unstable”;
    utils.url = “github:numtide/flake-utils”;
  };

  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, utils }: utils.lib.eachSystem [“x86_64-linux”] (system: let
    pkgs = import nixpkgs { system = system; };
  in rec {
    packages = {
      pythonEnv =
        pkgs.python3.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ webdriver-manager openpyxl pandas requests beautifulsoup4 websocket-client selenium keyboard ]);
    };

    devShell = pkgs.mkShell {
      buildInputs = [
        pkgs.chromium
        pkgs.undetected-chromedriver
        packages.pythonEnv
      ];

      shellHook = ‘’
        export PATH=${pkgs.chromium}/bin:${pkgs.undetected-chromedriver}/bin:$PATH
      ‘’;
    };
  });
} 

Yeah. I think they’ll catch on in much the same way that lock files have become the standard in many languages. IMO, it just makes more sense to declare all dependencies atomically. I also think/hope it will supplant our overreliance on Docker containers to achieve these kinds of guarantees (where it actually makes sense or presents undeniable benefits).

GUIX for one.

GUIX is to NixOS what Gentoo or Manjaro are to Arch.

I’ll probably try it someday when I get bored enough of systemd.

Yes for sure. Actually Nix is pretty long in the tooth and there are better implementations of Eelco’s brilliant idea. It’s just that they have a lot less effort, ubiquity, and hype behind them. GUIX is a good example of that. They literally can build an OS from scratch. I find Nix to be rock solid, so I stick with it. But, it’s an idea (all dependencies being content addressed in an immutable folder structure) to allow complexity that isn’t even achievable on FHS style systems.

For example: THE main feature is that you could have a different version of say Python (for the sake of this example) installed for each dependency in your system and they would just work alongside each other due to their unique, hash based folder locations. Each folder is named based on the sha256 hash of the dependency graph, which has powerful implications. Because of this hash, they’re effectively hermetically sealed from each other and cannot step on each other. This is the very definition of Nix and taken far enough to define a whole OS is SUPER powerful concept.

Shit, I’m rambling. Maybe I’ll pause to let you guide my rant. ;)

Nix actually IS Bash under the hood. It uses Perl and Bash to create an atomic installation. I tend to do a LOT less maintenance than I’d need to do if I rolled everything from scratch in Bash.