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nlovsund

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Player of games. Reader of books. Space enthusiast. Web lurker. Writes blog posts once in a blue moon. Luddite.

Develops software for a living.

He/Him.

Header: The Pillars of Creation (Webb MIRI Image) CC BY 2.0
Profile: Me - Brown man with short cropped, dark hair and a black shirt.

#Nobot

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aral, to random
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The nerve of some people.

smh

nlovsund,
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@aral FWIW, you had a point.

schratze, to random
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Debian stable
Debian archery range
Debian barracks

nlovsund,
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@schratze
Debian garrison
Debian outpost
Debian fortress

nlovsund, to random
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Aaaahh ffs https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

Check your systems sysdamins.

ashwinvis, to random
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Holy crap! They made ordering so complicated now. The usual stuff like going via net banking -> multiple authentication (QR code, SMS) -> sign agreement -> and.... a real ID card check.

But hey, Skatteverket's ID card and Driving Licence doesn't count, even though they are national ID cards. WTF?! :ablobcatbongoangry:

nlovsund,
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@ashwinvis What are they asking for now?

nlovsund,
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@ashwinvis I would say contrary to EU law even, but I guess this is mostly making non EU citizens life harder 😕

pkw, to emacs
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Anybody use #Emacs with #Python and #LSP ?

#Eglot #pylsp #jedi ?

It is not clear which of these are choices and which are intended to work together.

I'd love some recommendations or pointers to howtos.

nlovsund,
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@pkw I do, although I haven't documented how I set up my configuration or even really understood the inner workings.

Basically using lsp-mode with pylsp server installed on my machine through apt package python3-pylsp.

I use setup.el to make sure lsp is active in python mode:

(setup python-mode
(:hook lsp))

Followed the official documentation: https://github.com/python-lsp/python-lsp-server

I have python3-pylsp-mypy installed as well.

nlovsund,
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@mykhaylo

Here you go: https://codeberg.org/nlovsund/study/src/branch/main/software/emacs/init.el

nlovsund, to random
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@kravietz have you read this? https://cleantechnica.com/2023/11/30/what-drives-this-madness-on-small-modular-nuclear-reactors/

I'd like your opinion on it. I can't help but agree with the author, notably on the fact that nuclear energy production cannot be done without heavy State intervention and planning, and that SMR are not viable commercially.

owlbear, to linux

On Linux, if you're connected to ProtonVPN and your system crashes or gets hard reset, you may find that you can no longer connect to the internet.

This is likely because ProtonVPN's killswitch has got stuck on. To check and disable it: (on Pop!_OS 22.04 in this case, but it'll work on many distros).

ip route show
nmcli device
sudo nmcli connection delete pvpn-killswitch
sudo nmcli connection delete pvpn-ipv6leak-protection

#Linux #VPN #ProtonVPN

nlovsund,
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@owlbear Nasty! Users that are not network oriented would then have a hard time debugging without a working internet connection...

I wonder if this a NetworkManager behaviour issue? Should VPNs be persistent between restarts? (Just thinking aloud) :blobcatthink:

nlovsund, (edited ) to random
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This was a fantastic article and deserves several re-reads!

https://cpu.land/

Loukas, to random
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What a great guy, I hope nothing happens to him in three years and seven days. https://mastodon.social/@onthisday/111005310862991762

nlovsund,
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@Loukas :blobcat_ohnoes:

schratze, to random
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One must imagine every person who has facial hair happy

nlovsund,
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@schratze Camus must have thought the same thing, once in a while.

nlovsund, to random
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Making my way through the new yorker article making the rounds:

"[...] against a backdrop of crumbling infrastructure and declining trust in institutions, Musk has sought out business opportunities in crucial areas where, after decades of privatization, the state has receded. The government is now reliant on him, but struggles to respond to his [...] caprice."

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule

schratze, to random
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Swedish Italians are like: vad fan culo

nlovsund,
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@schratze Finnish Italians are like: Perkele 🤌

lowqualityfacts, to random
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This is why I could never live in Europe.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

nlovsund,
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@lowqualityfacts Napoleon's Grande Armée ate them to extinction during the early 19th century conquests of Europe. :blobcatsuit:

nlovsund, to random French
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@OBrother Mon essai de la recette turque aux aubergines.

C'était bon. Faudra que j'essaie avec du riz.

Plus de détails dans la suite du fil.

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nlovsund, (edited )
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Toasts de pain au levain maison cuit ce weekend. Le mariage des saveurs n'est pas totalement au rendez-vous. Le pain est plutôt tenace, difficile à couper au couteau. À la main, un peu (mais pas trop) casse gueule.

Le piment a du piquant, j'ai bien aimé croqué dedans.

Le plat en lui même est très bon. J'aurai du acheter plus de tomates, j'ai rajouté un peu de tomate en purée du coup. Ici au nord de la Suède les tomates n'ont pas de goût...

2/3

nlovsund, to random
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Aight. This is the initial post on my attempt to report from my analytical reading of Graber & Wengrow's book: The Dawn of Everything - A New History of Humanity.

Note: I'm a long way from done with the book. I will grow this thread as I move along. This could take weeks.

1/n

nlovsund,
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First things first. What is this book about at first sight?

From hearing about the book: some kind of "leftist answer" to other contemporary books on the same subject.

The subject? What does human society look like in its "primitive", "unspoiled" by civilization, form?

2/n

nlovsund,
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From picking up the book and quickly scanning the cover, table of contents and index: this book seems to be an attempt to present the reality of "primitive" human society, minus Western bias. It also seems to focus a lot on non Western indigenous societies. Mostly North American. That could be because that is one of the author's (Graeber) field.

3/n

nlovsund, (edited )
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OK. Let's read the conclusion first.

The authors' goal is to point out how loaded the question of humanity's "original" state is, with a focus on "inequality". It is full of unexamined implications and bias and is often a pretext to justify the current state of human society.

Things that stand out:

  • How much influence Roman law and norms has on Western society.
  • How the Enlightenment was sparked by contact with North American nations.

(cont'd)

4/n

nlovsund,
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  • How much humanity is denied our prehistorical ancestors: they were just as creative, playful, ritualistic and prone to experiment as we are. Potentially more, both by necessity and freed from the "weight" or chains of History.

5/n

nlovsund,
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Now to the first chapter.

Rousseau ("Discourse on the Origin and the Foundation of Inequality Among Mankind") and Hobbes ("Leviathan") seem to be central to, respectively, left and right leaning filtered views of the evolution and trajectory of human societies. The first tell the story of the noble savage corrupted by civilization, while the other defends the necessity of The State as a counter to humanity's violent nature.

6/n

nlovsund,
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First chapter (cont'd)

Both books were essays. Hypothesis lacking any kind of empirical evidence. An exercice in imagination or simplification in an attempt to glean some truth. And yet many, today, forget or minimize the "hypothetical" part of those essays and brandish them as "truth".

Originally, these thought experiments seem to have been brought to Western discourse as a result of contact between Jesuits and various North American nations.

7/n

nlovsund,
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First chapter (cont'd)

Apparently, a dialogue spanning decades took place between North American and Western cultures. This dialogue may have opened the way to the questioning and critic of contemporary European societal norms.

Graeber & Wengrow here give weight to three Freedoms North American humans had that their European counterparts did not:

  1. Freedom to relocate.
  2. Freedom to disobey.
  3. Freedom to create new societal orders.

8/n

nlovsund,
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Found a thread with an interesting discussion on the merits of the book: https://mas.to/@kissane/110793310089457812

It yielded this link that I should read: https://strangematters.coop/dawn-of-everything-graeber-wengrow-review/

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