Boston has revised it’s traffic light standards to prioritize pedestrians instead of only car throughput. I see this as a “cultivation of safety”, though I agree the article could do more to explain it.

You can take this to the extreme too by erasing your root partition each boot: https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings/

Using that method you isolate all important state on the system for backup with zfs send.

Extra impressive considering how many slow zones still exist in the network. https://dashboard.transitmatters.org/slowzones

Awesome! It looks like there’s already a nixos module for lemmy too!

I’m a huge fan of nixos. I have my whole home lab using it now. I learned everything I know from reading other’s configurations. I also use the nix search site for finding configuration options.

Here is my config and others I’ve used as inspiration:

• https://git.sr.ht/~dbuckley/infra-flake
• https://github.com/lovesegfault/nix-config
• https://github.com/fortuneteller2k/nix-config
• https://github.com/danielphan2003/flk
• https://github.com/colemickens/nixcfg
• https://github.com/cole-h/nixos-config
• https://github.com/scotabroad/nix-configuration

I think another reason OpenAI talks about how scary LLMs are is that they fear the open source models surpassing them. I didn’t see it mentioned in the article, but both Google and OpenAI have called for regulation and I think that they only want that because they have no moat.

I just passed 200 recently. I don’t mind a long list because either i have books i really want to read already on hold at a library or I will use a script to randomly pick one.

That was a great video! The read 30 minutes a day goal is what got me back into reading.

I haven’t read any of his work before but I just started Crime and Punishment. I really like it so far.