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ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org
me: bi gen x computer toucher and healthcare worker.
posts/boosts: memes, computer stuff, pol memes with cw, gender equality, climate change, socialism, people's art.
if i block you, its probably because: bigoted; uspol-boosting-without-cw; vibe coder; or darwin award contender.
assassination coordinates: -33.93148, 150.92321
follow requests on to screen out bots, uspol and to vibe check. if ur posts are all private there may not be enough to vibe.
server: openbsd
tablet: postmarketos
phone: android 😞
mediacenter: arch btw
laptop: openbsd
interests:
β memes β tai chi β tcm/acupuncture β shiatsu β music β foss β scifi β recreational programming β geopolitics β history β weather/climate change β hugs/headpats
header based on image:
https://au.pinterest.com/pin/fischl-bisexual-icon--142918988168575327/
then cropped and processed with graphicsmagick.
posts self-destruct after one week. snac too slow to chug through more.
#noai #noindex #nobot #nobridge
Joined: 2026-07-18 18:34:36
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ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 21:05:13)
"China will allocate 22 billion yuan ($3.1 billion) in ultra-long special treasury bonds this year to replace aging commercial trucks, with the program aimed at accelerating the adoption of new energy heavy-duty vehicles, an official said Tuesday.
The policy is part of the country's broader efforts to boost green transformation in the transport sector and stimulate consumption in the new energy truck market"
http://www.ecns.cn/cns-wire/2026-07-21/detail-ihfhqwkz8162509.shtml
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ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 20:58:52)
nice collar btw
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ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 20:57:59)
(ps im just kidding about all this german stuff)
ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 20:57:26)
german on your timeline? more likely than you think!
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ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 20:55:25)
I would hear 'pepsi dick'
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ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 20:50:43)
Blog post by https://chaos.social/@filmroellchen "Debianβs ifupdown is a Dumpster Fire"
https://filmroellchen.eu/blog/debian-ifupdown/
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ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 19:49:34)
@phseiff@toot.phseiff.com potat holds lots of water
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ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 19:37:00)
@gettie@fedi.catto.garden mrrp prrr
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ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 19:34:09)
@tavi@freeradical.zone toothbrushii
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ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 19:23:10)
@felipe@treehouse.systems the 'constraints' section in your ntpd.conf should do this when you boot up
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ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 19:16:49)
@kemona_halftau@sharkey.skydevs.me does it tho
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ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 19:14:30)
infidel!
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ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 18:44:15)
this cat thirsty
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ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 18:42:59)
mailing lists still the best way for users to ask questions about tech projects imo. its a shame people think email is too old fashioned so lets use something even older like irc and something worse like forums.
CC: @luna@lunar.place
ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 18:40:12)
Brian Anderson (founding member of Rust at Mozilla): web searches "what is the current best practice for statically asserting the size of a rust struct?"
[looks at search results] "ugh its so gross ... this is so unreadable. i would not want to write that in code that other people have to maintain"
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ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 18:01:20)
the ukraine central bank guy said (i paraphrase) "we must make the notes perfection which means no russian-associated font" but maybe that's just to cover up "omg look how ugly that font is" or something i guess
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ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 17:27:54)
no offence to you germans but sometimes there's a bit too much german:english ratio on my timeline idk what happens to cause the sudden avelanche is that the day someone puts the amphetamines in the water supply
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ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 16:57:09)
this arcane knowledge might come in handy if i ever decide to hack a large financial instition!
CC: @badtuple@mastodon.social
ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 16:56:02)
remembering the covid lockdowns. i moved apartments at this time and therefore discovered that package delivery companies were so busy they had rented out every single moving van in the entire city of melbourne, i did not have that much stuff but had to rent the only available vehicle, a large truck with a 5 or 6 meter long box trailer section lol.
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ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 16:49:16)
money talks and pfizer has a lot of it
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ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 16:48:33)
The strggle continues to read "When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler"
First I order this during Covid lockdowns. It never arrvied. At that time parcel services were so overwhelmed containers of orders were sent back to their home country with no attempt to unpack the goods within lol.
Ordered again recently, taking a lot of time to make sure I ordered the 2015 "revised and expanded" version.
Yay it arrived this time 🙂
[looks inside] Its the 1995 version 😞
Have contacted Biblio so hopefully they will sort it out.
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ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 16:31:09)
i guess that is a perfect example of why greens had to push it so much when they had the chance!
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ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 16:16:12)
yeah fair enough.
but the killer argument imo is its way more expensive than literally any other kind of energy, way more even than gas or coal.
so even if its was totally safe which it isn't, or even if not connected to military-industrial complex and depleted uranium, or even if we wouldn't need to invade north korea to steal all their plutonium and mali to steal all their uranium, it would still be something we should never advocate for.
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ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 16:10:51)
for sure! the report from lazard investment bank i mentioned is at https://www.lazard.com/research-insights/levelized-cost-of-energyplus-lcoeplus/
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ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 16:09:30)
i was under the impression it was a deal the greens did with one of the big parties "get rid of nuclear mofos or we will not support you in bundestag"
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ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 16:08:13)
yes that's part of what i'm saying. to have been fully rational the Green Party would have said "ok lets run 'em a few more years" but probably they thought if we give an inch they'll take a mile and 50 years from now there will still be nuclear
CC: @lynn@smol.ch
ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 16:06:25)
watching this streamer git rebasing and git squashing and --editing i am so glad to pretty much only ever use git pull
ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 15:53:36)
Brett: cuts loaf of bread
Ten million seeds: jump in every direction
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ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 15:52:22)
Germany had a strong green/peace activist political side a long time before many other western countries. So their policies developed at the height of the cold war when nuclear power was very tied to nuclear weapons, so German Green Party always campaigned on getting rid of them. By the time Greens got enough power to force the closing of the nuclear power stations, the world had somewhat moved on and the newer plants were less dangerious than in the past. Though important to note every single generation of nuclear
power plant was "totally safe, not like the older generations" including Fukishima lol. Germany could easily transition to 100% clean power without nuclear (the rest of the Green Party plan), but other factors got in the way, eg not wanting to import solar-generated energy from Spain or Moroco, big energy companies wanting to keep their fat bonuses and dividends etc. Nuclear is the most expensive form of energy btw, don't listen to me and especially don't listen to anyone pro-nuclear, listen to the French nuclear power commision, the Australian energy market operator, and (especially) to Lazard Bank in NYC who do the most detailed report on the cost of various types of electricty generation.
CC: @lynn@smol.ch
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ππ©·π Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-21 14:05:08)
@tavi@freeradical.zone gnumeric worked well but last time i used it was many years ago. libreoffice calc messes up cell referenced by formulas when a block of cells is cut and paste, or when u accidently drag a bunch of cells with the stupid drag and drop then press undo, the cell references don't get undone. i would def not use calc again.
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