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tdro

Another wandering soul screaming into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by @cdd20.

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Offline friends, do you think that the Linux ecosystem is increasingly copying the bad parts of software distribution from Windows and macOS?

Surely typing/saying the below Alpine command to install Firefox is way easier than who knows what multi–stage process other operating systems require.

shell
apk add firefox

Google’s search box (rather tongue in cheek) is the most popular command line interface in use today. With , installing and running firefox would just be a phrase equivalent that compiles to:

shell
firefox

On NixOS, we can already do stuff like that. Of course, NixOS lacks a translation/encapsulation layer for imperative to declarative specification — so user friendliness suffers dramatically.

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tdro

Another wandering soul screaming into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by @cdd20.

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I’ve got so many feeds in my feed reader that selectively filtering terms is a necessity — it gets real meta huh? I know all I need to know about Next.js at this point, no more :-)

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tdro

Another wandering soul screaming into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by @cdd20.

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Follow a sufficiently diverse set of feeds and you’ll eventually see filter bubbles in “real time”. Across countries, technology, corporate blogs, politics, news, food, entertainment, you name it — there’s selective information filtering. All of us are in our own distorted perception of reality.

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tdro

Another wandering soul screaming into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by @cdd20.

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I now think (lost a bet) that there’s a pathology that drives genres (tags) in content propagation. If you observe people “consuming” content then you’ll inevitably realize that there’s an overwhelming consensus for just more of the same, but not forever.

Diversity and homogeneity

Organizing content “strictly” into genres is a compromise. Auto–generating tags looks like a trap though. Is this even a muse?

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