Nix really has a kickass way of doing this. Won’t conflict anywhere and always let’s you know what is managed by Nix.

Great username

Ik I’m late to the party, but I think this would be soooo much better than Wikipedia for finding useful information on niche or controversial topics.

Instead of being limited to Wikipedia’s contributors and having to accommodate or guess their biases, and have a terrible, incomplete “controversies” section on every page, you could browse the same page across instances whose biases are much more explicit and see what each group determines is most important about the topic.

Instead of having to find a single mutually agreed upon article where each “faction” has their own set of issues with the content, you can now browse pages that each of those factions feel best represent their POV, and use the sum of them to form an opinion where no information is omitted.

Obviously lots of instances will have complete bullshit, but it’s likely enough that you will find instances that have well-sourced material from a diverse breadth of viewpoints, and can pick an instance that federates to your preferred criteria for quality. Misinfo will exist regardless, and if they get it from a federated wiki, it will probably be at least marginally better quality or better cited than the Facebook or Reddit posts they were getting it from before.

It would be useful for the “what does X group think about Y” aspect alone.

There’s also nothing stopping diverse, consensus-based instances from popping up. Or lots of niche academic instances with greater depth on their areas of expertise.

Would be nice if it would pull short vids from PeerTube or other fedi platforms.

Never really used tiktok, partially because I don’t get addicted to video like I do reading text. Video is too slow for my ADHD brain, and you can’t choose your content beforehand.

But I’d still pick up this platform to help it get traction.

I like this as an idea, but there’d need to be some sort of automatic hooking for me to want to use it. eza/lsd are good enough for ls output for me.

Doing stuff like this is much more cozy in nushell, since piping is a lot less messy

I find myself writing way less stuff like this since making the switch…partially because they output of a lot of builtins is already pretty.

Sounds good in theory.

But I’ve had so many issues with D-Bus fucking shit up on my systems that I’d be very reluctant to hinge my only way of recovering from failures upon something so brittle.

Granted, D-Bus hasn’t given me any trouble since moving to NixOS. The hell of trying to recover my arch systems from a perpetually failing D-Bus would make me very apprehensive to adopt this. I could see myself using run0 by default, but keeping sudo-rs or doas around with a much stricter configuration as a failsafe until the run0 + D-Bus + PolKit is absolutely stable and bulletproof.

I knew it was fake, but I choose to believe it’s real.

No you don’t

January 6th already happened but no consequences did. The US will only deploy violence if the movement is left of whatever their crazy idea of center is.

Capitalism is when markets. I am very smart.

What about this situation where kids don’t have enough knowledge to give informed consent to being spied on and profiled for the rest of their adult lives?

Useless manager detected

I’m guessing it writes user data back to the USB

use flakes