dunxen

Nix(OS) ❄️ • RISC-V • Rust 🦀 • 🇿🇦 • Barking up trees at @second 🐶

🦋 dunxen.dev/bluesky

South African in Joburg/Pretoria

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2025-12-12 05:36:35 UTC

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Big!
#nevent1q…0km3

2025-12-10 07:14:47 UTC

Got home yesterday from a good but tiring week in 🇲🇺😅 https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/4186f9f1627c79e1a01c4700a85955988885b00f3f69befc9cae432e9ae2ee4e/301c7896cccc2ef657b1b04e2408f71cc3014df2b02efb8650df1a3e34df4bef.webp

2025-12-10 07:14:05 UTC

Got home yesterday from a good but tiring week in 🇲🇺😅 https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/4186f9f1627c79e1a01c4700a85955988885b00f3f69befc9cae432e9ae2ee4e/57983ec19abe5d9fd50f7eb005000e79634a141a71bd83108f55505c770d6c3d.webp

2025-11-24 10:48:06 UTC

yoh, that rain was hectic

2025-11-10 09:51:36 UTC

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gm ☀️🫡

2025-11-10 09:50:40 UTC

last night i took a spider hanging from the ceiling of my apartment down to the jasmine bushes outside. i hope she likes it.

2025-11-10 06:54:32 UTC

https://urlahmed.com/2025/11/05/work-after-work-notes-from-an-unemployed-new-grad-watching-the-job-market-break/

2025-11-07 07:14:14 UTC

happy fountain pen day!

2025-11-05 07:05:01 UTC

we seriously need a proper ostrich emoji. thanks to egyptian hieroglyph support in unicode we have 𓅦, but that’s not enough for an ostrich fan like me

2025-11-04 20:57:38 UTC

Huge deal 🧡
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/30595

2025-11-04 06:46:52 UTC

Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:urfmcbraacw7f6ywqhtjz5ku/post/3m4q6tx7qzn2d https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/4186f9f1627c79e1a01c4700a85955988885b00f3f69befc9cae432e9ae2ee4e/3d7a0ebf5f2e06d5cf3fcca387b7aee601c0450c7047ea07ee421f2ae80af5fe.webp

2025-10-31 11:09:43 UTC

ugh simplex has gone full shitcoin :/
can we just get bitcoinforsignal.org?

2025-10-31 09:40:49 UTC

my favourite cold brew https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/4186f9f1627c79e1a01c4700a85955988885b00f3f69befc9cae432e9ae2ee4e/7c43c7252e4dd6b911fdd5afb0417b39a924b1d0bbcd80734695e36b41760701.webp

2025-10-31 08:08:05 UTC

rate my friday breakfast https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/4186f9f1627c79e1a01c4700a85955988885b00f3f69befc9cae432e9ae2ee4e/47dd36de23a13c33770ce82edfee920d50ad2927c48fa96e8f0c3243c9a1f509.webp

2025-10-30 13:18:43 UTC

ok so don’t order (pricey) second hand books from germany if they don’t do tracked shipping… 😢 https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/4186f9f1627c79e1a01c4700a85955988885b00f3f69befc9cae432e9ae2ee4e/eb7c229088e6469b6c0814855d7ea4cfe08f38e6f8a5cf47507caff1714e76b5.webp

2025-10-30 13:16:28 UTC

i have way too many git worktrees

2025-10-29 20:15:52 UTC

https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/4186f9f1627c79e1a01c4700a85955988885b00f3f69befc9cae432e9ae2ee4e/fc4afd12b305a92adab7f2020ea7a0f813694946c3d8f3748360b7ba2e89ff7f.webp

2025-10-28 21:04:17 UTC

teehee
https://tee.fail/

2025-10-28 10:33:30 UTC

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geyser’s checkout seems broken currently :(

2025-10-28 09:35:30 UTC

my mantra for this week is “read the fucking logs” 😅

2025-10-28 09:09:04 UTC

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gm!

2025-10-28 08:44:39 UTC

Sigh, my VNA book is in limbo. It’s been more than 40 days since ordering it.

2025-10-28 08:40:33 UTC

☕️ https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/4186f9f1627c79e1a01c4700a85955988885b00f3f69befc9cae432e9ae2ee4e/0b0131f3917f5a55e9b717f45c972d2666d701ebd18458a0f0fcdd8a48ab6346.webp

2025-10-25 16:15:51 UTC

Oooo
https://nostarch.com/system-programming-linux
but 💸 💸 💸

2025-10-25 09:18:55 UTC

https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-found-that-cant-pass-through-itself-20251024/

2025-10-13 06:02:33 UTC

good morning fwens 🤗

2025-05-26 17:15:26 UTC

OFF is high signal for the purpose of Bitcoin.

2025-05-20 19:44:16 UTC

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Still some spots left for tomorrow’s BitDevs Joburg!
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2025-03-23 16:11:45 UTC

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the “Bitcoin president” loool
#nevent1q…0pl6

2025-03-23 16:10:36 UTC

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agreed

2025-03-23 16:08:33 UTC

is anything interesting happening here anymore?

2025-03-14 11:38:57 UTC

Oh hi Mark

2025-01-25 07:24:00 UTC

good morning

2025-01-06 06:40:42 UTC

let the week of admin and recalibration begin...

2024-12-09 07:17:56 UTC

https://m.primal.net/MquX.jpg

2024-12-09 06:45:39 UTC

What are y’all not doing at #ABC24? And why weren’t you at the Btrust Developer Day yesterday?

2024-11-23 11:43:34 UTC

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of course. if there’s the same billions of dollars spent on architectural design as with Arm and x86. it really isn’t a limitation of the ISA, but of the micro architecture.

2024-11-23 11:42:28 UTC

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oh yeah I have an iMac marked as vintage when I tried to trade it in, but the screen is pretty good. going to give it to my bf’s mom.

2024-11-22 13:16:16 UTC

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i am of a weird hybrid world where my desktop is linux, my phone is tim apple, and then i have a macbook for travel/on the go too (but long for a RISC-V Framework laptop with more oomph than the Deep Computing mainboard).

2024-11-22 11:12:28 UTC

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pwned by autocorrect

2024-11-22 11:09:03 UTC

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Yeah that would work for me too 😄

2024-11-22 07:04:26 UTC

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Same. I love it 💛
https://m.primal.net/Mdqa.jpg

2024-11-22 06:56:22 UTC

Absolutely love Kagi. They’re killing it with every (frequent) release. Money well spent.
(Also they accept bitcoin via lightning)
#note1376…8qc9

2024-11-22 06:52:08 UTC

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If I recall correctly, they do plan to bring it to other OSs. But it was just easier to start on iOS since it was intended to be WebKit based anyway.
The cool thing about Orion is it supports chrome extensions on iOS. Pretty nifty.

2024-11-22 06:49:39 UTC

the best part of this is everyone can get rid of trashy laser eyes picks finally 🙃

2024-11-22 06:16:15 UTC

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The true multi-device support isn't really there yet...

2024-11-15 18:14:47 UTC

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Miskien kan ek dalk verstaan. Ek sal dit probeer lees.

2024-11-11 12:05:25 UTC

Gorgeous pins and brass keycap by @npub1yp7…zys7 🧡
https://image.nostr.build/5b128d2a5953cb22c428e838f333330ad6c58a9335e68582749d588da7a8f2a0.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/9ce11f3ab6f973f2604c9f87ac459b878a61ce2b0aa6001ca56695b83891eb20.jpg

2024-11-08 06:47:53 UTC

Sigh
https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/sa-closes-lebombo-border-port-of-entry-as-mozambique-violence-escalates-20241107

2024-11-07 06:03:42 UTC

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*58 years ruling party

2024-11-07 06:02:58 UTC

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Yip, Botswana just had their ruling party of 50 years lose drastically in this year's election, but still a peaceful transition of power is taking place. In South Africa, the ruling party since the start of a democratic South Africa, failed to secure a majority and instead formed a government of national unity with opposition. Also entirely peaceful. Japan (effectively) and UK also had their governments flipped.
Lot's going on and not a general shift to left or right, just a shift to "the opposition".

2024-11-06 16:30:23 UTC

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We also accept refugees down in South Africa 🇿🇦 :)
Also I'm pretty sure they just backronymed from DAFT. That couldn't have been a happy coincidence 🤣

2024-11-06 10:18:45 UTC

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And this system is also not perfect. In fact it’s impossible to have a perfect electoral system. But some are inherently more fair and better than others.

2024-11-06 10:17:17 UTC

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It’s a philosophical thing. I don’t think there is a “correct” answer for any one country as the makeup of people differs accordingly. Some are pretty homogenous societies, so direct democracies where each vote is counted equally, with no “first past the post” system, works for them.
I must say that electors in each state should at least somewhat proportionally vote according to the state’s result. All republicans in California could have effectively not voted. Same as democrats in Texas. It’s as if their votes are worthless.
Then you still have “rural” votes worth more than “city” votes, but you don’t have wasted votes.

2024-11-06 08:29:41 UTC

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-06/snow-in-november-in-south-africa-for-the-first-time-in-85-years

2024-11-06 08:24:29 UTC

Today is Rust upskill and tech talk research/prep day! 🦀🇰🇪

2024-11-06 08:19:40 UTC

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And yes, it’s about time the JFK files are released. Anything related to “national security” as an excuse is just plain stupid at this point.

2024-11-06 08:17:54 UTC

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Republicans will have serious work to do if a direct democracy were to be the status quo in America. The electoral college is their saving grace.

2024-11-03 18:38:47 UTC

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https://m.primal.net/Lrdo.jpg
https://m.primal.net/LWia.jpg

2024-11-03 18:37:04 UTC

The beauty of Pretoria in October/November 💜
https://m.primal.net/Lrdm.jpg

2024-11-02 11:20:58 UTC

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bring a towel and a flashlight

2024-11-01 05:01:51 UTC

What’s up with all the Matrix spam? Gosh.

2024-10-29 16:11:23 UTC

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It’s funny because .ai is for Anguilla, another British overseas territory, but at least is way more established than The British Indian Ovean Territory was in terms of an actual population. Most inhabitants from the Chagos Archipelago didn’t live there anymore.

2024-10-29 16:07:42 UTC

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The same warning was given for users of .me and .ai. Territories and countries have full sovereign right to make rules for their ccTLDs. And ICANN removes them when the territory ceases to exist as was the case for Yugoslavia.
At least Serbia is very happy and supports the use of .rs for Rust projects. Their regulator issued a statement about it.

2024-10-29 16:05:39 UTC

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Two letter global generic TLDs are explicitly against the rules of ICANN

2024-10-27 14:39:10 UTC

You don’t have time to finish bad books. You absolute can and should abandon a bad book and log it as such for review 🙂

2024-10-25 07:29:22 UTC

Delete the apps that make you sad.

2024-10-24 09:57:23 UTC

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But it would be great to have the colour coded like they are when tapping on the actual post

2024-10-24 09:55:32 UTC

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Literally what I wanted!

2024-10-21 16:10:37 UTC

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🤘

2024-10-21 14:29:18 UTC

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Thanks for the write-up and great work! 🙏

2024-10-21 14:27:45 UTC

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same story :)

2024-10-21 13:25:24 UTC

A reminder to not buy any .io domains as the ccTLD will sunset in probably the next two years 😊(big L for itch[dot]io) as the UK hands over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, the British Indian Ocean Territory (IO) will cease to exist.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98ynejg4l5o

2024-10-20 15:51:11 UTC

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Nah, but ok

2024-10-20 15:41:31 UTC

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A great torture method is to get someone to finish reading this book. It’s unbearable (and yes, I somehow finished it because I’m a masochist). Just my 2 sats.

2024-10-20 10:14:06 UTC

Does the C∅C∅ Java reference library even exist? It’s supposedly open source. Was it removed from existence?
https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1093.pdf

2024-10-20 08:38:38 UTC

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Which dev docs? I guess you could provide it with links and ask questions, but I tried that with a transcript of a Japanese class I missed and it was very very wrong with the page numbers and asking it about homework (and those parts were in English which it should support). For LN spec stuff I’d think it’s mostly useless because you need the details. Maybe asking where things are and then go refer to the actual spec, but don’t be surprised if it is confidently wrong like ChatGPT etc.

2024-10-19 20:46:59 UTC

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Nah it’s a Google product. I just find the generated deep dives funny.
You can use any sources from the internet including uploaded PDFs. This is just one on the ASRI and development of their sounding rockets and commercial launch vehicle.

2024-10-19 10:25:47 UTC

https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/094d134a-5007-49a6-a505-9177c197fe67/audio

2024-10-16 09:16:01 UTC

An estimated two thirds (although probably more) of humanity have HSV-1 and most don’t even know it as it remains a latent infection in neural ganglia. Good for them. Every time my immune system gets hit from stress or travelling, they wake up and go all lytic infection on me.
Cold sores are so uncomfortable I always end up researching why the hell we don’t have an actual cure for a virus over 100 million years old. It’s that damn pesky latent phase. We have to draw all of them out and kill them all. I don’t think there’s enough L-Lysine to do that…

2024-10-10 14:43:25 UTC

ISP, if let me down one more time this week, I swear...

2024-10-10 13:40:40 UTC

https://www.twobirds.com/en/insights/2024/global/a-different-way-to-defraud-the-lessons-from-the-trial-of-bitcoins-origins
“Some of the evidence was even created by generative AI: traces of ChatGPT’s perky helpfulness shone through in some versions of the evidence, hastily deleted but not wiped thoroughly enough to prevent Madden from recovering them. “Certainly, here’s the code you requested…”.”
This is just so great 😂

2024-10-10 10:10:54 UTC

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Received the haveibeenpwned email since I created an account for IA way back when I never used aliases per service. Password was definite random and unique though and at least IA bcrypted them.
Sad evil people.

2024-10-10 10:05:57 UTC

Doing email async works just fine. Why do companies insist on calling and immediately blocking what I’m doing? Gosh, I’d even prefer a fax (which ends up in my email anyway).

2024-10-10 10:05:09 UTC

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btc++? Sad to be missing it :(

2024-10-08 17:04:29 UTC

https://aeroprecipe.com

2024-10-07 06:34:57 UTC

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Oh no! Just saw now :(

2024-10-07 06:30:48 UTC

Does round-robinning a few pages from 12 different books every couple days count as “reading”? Can I call that a hobby?

2024-10-05 09:37:13 UTC

Causality and simultaneity in relativity is easier to understand than tenses in 〜時.

2024-10-04 14:13:54 UTC

oopsie
https://image.nostr.build/b2ce67faed9e6b6538ba7c92719f27c08c9531d4dbd53ba877bc97a7d474bbe5.jpg

2024-10-04 06:18:12 UTC

https://ground.news/article/uk-hands-sovereignty-of-chagos-islands-to-mauritius-in-a-deal-to-secure-us-base_b2dad2

2024-10-03 06:37:58 UTC

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#nevent1q…6p5h

2024-10-03 06:35:05 UTC

Going through tax and expenses I realise I need to do a subscription audit 😟. So many little things I've just forgotten about add up!
Also, I'd feel better if Wikimedia accepted lightning for donations. Would be great when bolt12 offers get upgraded with pulls too!

2024-09-10 16:02:06 UTC

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2024-09-10 14:36:25 UTC

How does one over 1.86 m even sleep in economy? It’s just eluded me forever.

2024-09-05 06:52:55 UTC

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There's a slim chance I might be in the very south of Germany in October. So close but so far lol

2024-09-05 06:51:07 UTC

does someone know of a notifier for different channels/branches a nixpkgs PR lands in. I found a telegram bot but it is not working and seems unresponsive.
basically let's you subscribe to the status of a PR for a certain channel like here: https://nixpk.gs/pr-tracker.html?pr=338621 and then sends you a notification (maybe a nostr dm) with some service, even ntfy.sh
i'm sure it would be easy to build but i don't have much time for that for the next few weeks so hoping to nerd snipe / find something that already exists lol.

2024-09-03 13:46:49 UTC

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It does lean more minimalist, and I don't think I'm quite there yet either to be fair haha

2024-09-03 09:41:52 UTC

My root drive is full and just causing me so much trouble this morning. So much for nix-collect-garbage to do… Already had optimize automatically enabled, but forgot to automate gc and now paying the price lol

2024-09-03 07:49:45 UTC

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I’ve done the same at some point and it was a pretty restful sleep 😴
I’d be so happy to just do futon and tatami and just roll up the futon in the morning and pack it away all Japanese style. Then I’d have a room with more natural light to work in, but my boyfriend likes a really soft bed and has been complaining about how hard our medium-soft one is 🥲