Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

@thelinuxEXP for NixOS the answer to the immutable question is "kind of", since most of the system that is configured declaratively is linked from the immutable store, but it's not completely read-only by default.
Also there are non-niche manufacturers that provide laptops and/or PCs without OSes, such as MSI.

@Hyolobrika @waifu that's the funniest part, it's unpronounceable in Spanish.

@Newk @r000t@fosstodon.org solving one problem is better than solving zero problems and at this point most of us are dead tired of being forced to use languages outdated design-wise by 40-50 years by now.

Also with Rust being more readable, structured and overall civilised it's easier to spot suspicious shit happening. It doesn't solve all problems but it's a step in the right direction.

Caution is always advised when adopting new products, especially from previously unknown parties, but if anything Rust makes it easier.

@Hyolobrika chemistry is pretty universal and limits things by a whole lot. Extraterrestrial life might be very different, but it should use a similar system of organic chains of carbon or maaaaybe silicon, and chemistry dealing with them has some common or even unavoidable (side)products.

And then there's things like the ozone mentioned in the video, it's too reactive to naturally stay in the atmosphere for hundreds of millions of years without reacting with everything else or decomposing, so if we find it, something must be producing it, and there's not a lot of possibilities.

Similar thing with energy sources. No matter what kind of life exists, it needs usable energy and we can see signs of unusual absorption of light, heat, reactive compounds etc, like the mentioned foliage absorbing certain wavelengths.

@nblr @ErikUden and they're an awkward solution to the problem, a symlink breaks when the original file is moved and you have to keep track of which is the original file, while hardlinks are evil semi-opaque filesystem magic and require extra PITA when dealing with things like rsync.

@icedquinn I'm sure there's a metal genre that would perfectly fit as an extended punchline to this joke.

@freemo I was actually thinking more about my surroundings and the people I got to know or heard about. It may vary between countries a lot. But tbh, if a crushing majority is "not normal" in a certain way, then whatever they are becomes "normal".

@freemo I'm not so sure about "overwhelming majority", these seem to be not that uncommon once you learn to recognise the symptoms. There is a problem with people assuming them, self-diagnosing and overall subconsciously Munchausening themselves for attention, yeah, but there's also a large pool of fairly high functioning adults who never got diagnosed when it was taboo and now are discovering it in a big wave as awareness spreads.

@foone absolutely. Also leads to magi-mechs and orbital magical bombardment cannons.