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Huh. Not only is that pretty neat from a nerdy "they did what?" perspective, having a fully reproducible OS setup is definitely very useful in many contexts. No surprise that the first blog post of that series references the classic Thompson Reflections on Trusting Trust paper about his cc backdoor

I had to check, and it looks like at least as far as plastic goes, in Finland it's sent to two domestic recycling plants, and everything they don't have the capacity to handle is shipped to Sweden's Site Zero in Motala (dunno where they go from there.)

But yeah, something like using shredded plastic for road surfacing definitely isn't what I'd call a sensible way to recycle the material. It's just adding an extra step before getting to "microplastic endocrine disruptors EVERYWHERE"

We can still get lucky and only get 1346 London

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There's a good chance that the next influenza pandemic will be kicked off in the US. Get ready for the American Flu!

the recycling system is broken and often just a complete lie in many places in the world.

In many places in the world, or mainly the US? I keep seeing this claim repeated but usually any proof is just about the US

As someone with an autoimmune disorder, I'm honestly not all that sold on whether that's a good tradeoff.

Yay, you're not acutely dying of cancer, but now your body is attacking your internal organs and depending on how shitty your luck is, you can eg. look forward to liver and/or kidney transplants (possibly more than once, too)

I keep saying this but it feels like the Dems are a Russia-style controlled opposition party.

Doesn't mean 100% of them are garbage, but the leadership sure does seem like it hates the idea of successful opposition

There's plenty of studies showing that conservatism, sadism, and psychopathy correlate.

Right, yeah, so there's occasionally a bit more jumping through hoops, but the end result is a much more manageable system where eg. updating thing X won't clobber the fuck out of dependencies that thing Y needed, and in general you get a more "containerised" setup with a declarative way to set it up?

What's the upside of Guix vs Nix (except eg. the syntax that @tetris11@lemmy.ml mentioned)?

A transmasc friend of mine has speculated that this whole transmasc erasure thing is just a continuation of good 'ol misogyny

Making friends, you say?

Maybe it's neuropathy? Maybe it's Maybelline?

Fabergé egg

What's this from?!

Fun English facts: "apron" used to be "napron", but "a napron" was eventually incorrectly split into "an apron". Same with "adder" which used to be "naddre", and "umpire" which was "noumpere"

She does have a bit of the 'ol Hapsburg Jaw going on

Bruton's engineering oddities are terrific. It's just so nice to see someone building "utterly bonkers but wonderfully cool" things just 'cause

That does sound like a reasonable ask.

What are the upsides of Guix – in your view, anyhow – that make people be OK with downsides like this? I mean, this does seem like a fairly major downside, so there's go to be fairly major upsides too, or at least I'd assume so

It’s a weird hill to die on

But at least they're dead

And at least there's now one(ish) standard instead of N+1

As someone who doesn't use Guix, reading this made me wonder why a "consumer" (ie. not someone running eg. corporate infrastructure or whatever) would want to use it, if something as seemingly trivial as this requires that much work.

What I mean is that I'm obviously just missing something, since there's got to be upsides to the system that make cases like this worth it.

Anybody feel like educating a dunce?