plc

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Hi there.

I'm a software engineer and father of 2 kids.

I enjoy learning new things and have a keen interest in furthering the state of FOSS, either through development work or politics (in as much as there is a difference between the two). We'll have to see if anything ever comes from this.

I hail from Denmark, the Copenhagen area.

I have been working professionally with Haskell, Rust, Python, and C#.

Theoretical Computer Science sleeper agent. (The formal methods revolution is coming - and when it does, I will be ready).

My blog: https://blog.philsas.one/plc/

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Show threadplcMar 15

@samir @DRMacIver

Ooh, that is a very nice and clear exposition. I think time had erased the distinction between sortition and random ballot in my mind.

But how would you use e.g. a random ballot to weed out "parasitic systems people"? Oftentimes those are appointed professionally, and their roles exist because "the system" itself perceives a need for them. (not saying it couldn't be a component, just that it needs more structure)

One thing I think could bring much good with it would be to assign a cost to the complexity of laws (somehow). Laws that are too complex to interpret (both for the populace and administrators) are a curse (EU and DK have their fair share for what I know) - they are at of risk selective enforcement and just maladptive. And probably reducing that could reduce the need for some "systems people" too.

Show threadplcMar 15

@samir I tend to think about this type of problem a lot when I'm idle.

The thing that keeps spinning in my mind is always something-something-sortition. But mostly applied in ways to highten the quality of political process rather than "removing parasitic Systems-people".

plcMar 14
For once I discovered something actually novel and interesting to me: https://youtu.be/M2iX6HQOoLg?is=lUYUkWgPHUFVjxqo
What If Intelligence Didn't Evolve? It "Was There" From the Start! - Blaise Agüera y Arcas

YouTube
plcMar 2
Sarah Jamie LewisMar 2

The California age verification law imposes behaviour of application developers that I consider morally absurd.

As an application developer, I will never request any information from the OS or any other place to gather personal information about a user - especially if the act of that request has legal implications on what I am deemed to "know".

I simply won't.

Any system that enforces such a check, is a system I will not support.

plcFeb 2
Amir KhanFeb 1

If you take just one thing away from #FOSDEM this is it.
👇🏽
“If we lose our democracies, Open Source is irrelevant and goes away”

or putting it another way:

If we don’t apply, enforce, adopt and embrace Open Source in our public and government institutions we risk to lose our democracies.
#OpenSource #SaveDemocracy
Boost if you agree!
👍🏾

plcJan 31

https://auke.mataroa.blog/blog/im-trying-to-reinvent-myself-its-not-going-very-well/

See this is why I have trouble writing blog posts myself.. someone else always manages to say things before I do and better than I could.

I’m trying to reinvent myself. It’s not going very well. — auke

plcJan 31
Micro SF/F by O. WestinJan 24

"The blood was only ever a means to an end," the vampire confessed in the interview.

"To what end?" the reporter asked.

"Blood carries vigor, life force, vital energy. That's what we feed on."

"So how do you get it, if not through blood?"

"These days, we make doom scrolling apps to drain it."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

plcJan 31
Randahl FinkJan 24

I don't know if Americans realize what happened between the US and Denmark.

No matter whom I listen to, the feeling is the same: Our bilateral relationship is dead.

I grew up in a country filled with gratitude towards The US, because of The Normandy Landings. The US was loved.

The feeling now is anger. Our Kingdom has been threatened twice in 100 years: Hitler's occupation and Trump's attempted annexation of Greenland.

It saddens me, but I sense this will not easily be forgotten.

💔

plcJan 31
captain acab Jan 31
French aristocat, circa 1793. #Caturday
Show threadplcJan 31

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Turns out you just have to set systemd.services.writefreely.path = [pkgs.openssl] because the bundled Nixos module neglected to do that, as a lucky PR shows.

nixos/writefreely: add support for email smtp password + minor fixes by jbgi · Pull Request #458481 · NixOS/nixpkgs

To allow sending blog post to email subscribers. Also include fixes from #232416. Things done Built on platform: x86_64-linux aarch64-linux x86_64-darwin aarch64-darwin Tested, as applicab...

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