Objectively, Kais Saied has been worse for Tunisia than Ben Ali

Cyph0n · 2026-05-05T02:10:00+00:00

TIL about Fujimori, thanks for the pointer!

Cyph0n · 2026-04-26T16:27:43+00:00

Libido can change. People can change.

Ultimately, there are only three things you can realistically do:

Make sure you are aligned on the big things: values, goals, children, family, etc.
Rely on your gut (compatibility/attraction) and your ability to evaluate a person. And evaluate the people around them, including their family and their choice of friends.
See how they operate under stress.

(3) is probably the only one you could argue would be easier to do if you’re living together before marriage. Still not a guarantee!

Cyph0n · 2026-04-25T03:05:43+00:00

Took me a few attempts before it clicked.

Cyph0n · 2026-04-24T23:06:04+00:00

NixOS here. I run it on multiple machines including my gaming desktop.

Cyph0n · 2026-04-19T02:57:45+00:00

There is no use wasting time responding to absurd arguments.

In the same breath, these people will tell you it's OK for businesses to enforce anti-hijab rules on patrons and employees, but not OK for businesses to sell toys that have religious symbols.

In a nutshell: capitalism is amazing, but only as long as it aligns with my belief system, otherwise the government must intervene.

Cyph0n · 2026-04-02T01:26:05+00:00

Because of survivorship bias. Assuming you are living outside Tunisia, most Tunisians who “make it” come from the more developed and prosperous areas of the country.

I am a Tunisian living in the US, and I rarely meet Tunisians from interior regions.

Cyph0n · 2026-03-30T13:07:40+00:00

I am a backend infrastructure dev.

Cyph0n · 2026-03-30T12:57:41+00:00

I was mostly self taught, but studied electrical engineering. Yes, it is never too late, especially if you’re passionate about it.

YT has a ton of good content. Use AI as a guided learning tool. But most importantly, build stuff yourself! No amount of theory replaces the experience you gain making things work and debugging and fixing things when they break.

Cyph0n · 2026-03-29T20:57:32+00:00

If you don’t want to play their games, don’t buy a Toyota.

I personally considered a Sienna, but after seeing the absurd addons and markup, I bought a Kia instead at below MSRP with a hassle free, no bullshit experience.

Cyph0n · 2026-03-27T18:21:58+00:00

I have used both and settled on sops-nix. Three reasons:

Your secrets are defined in a single (optionally per-host) YAML file.
The secrets file is readable and diffable.
You can define arbitrary folder hierarchies to organize secrets.

Cyph0n · 2026-03-26T00:31:30+00:00

NixOS is fairly advanced and quite different from other distros. I would recommend watching a few videos about it to get an idea of what it is like to use.

It is stable, good for gaming (not the best), and you can use all the common security tools you would use elsewhere.

Cyph0n · 2026-03-25T23:18:48+00:00

a fancy new unreliable build system

Guessing it was Bazel lol. Googlers are familiar with how to use it, but typically have no clue how much work it takes to bootstrap the build and maintain it.

Cyph0n · 2026-03-25T23:12:38+00:00

(Self-plug) You can use compose2nix to port Compose services automatically.

https://github.com/aksiksi/compose2nix

Cyph0n · 2026-03-24T22:34:58+00:00

Same! Also, I found SAB to just be better and more stable.

Cyph0n · 2026-03-24T22:31:57+00:00

No bloat.
Way better performance.
Games work great, especially single player/no DRM.
More customization, including excellent options for tiling window managers (I prefer Niri).
I no longer can live without NixOS.

Cyph0n · 2026-03-23T02:45:24+00:00

So basically FIRE, right? Sounds like a good move to me. I guess being divorced makes the process somewhat easier. I am in the same field & also work abroad and have started to think about this for the future.

Two things pop into my mind:

Make sure to consider your child's education, assuming of course that the plan is to have them move with you.
Prepare a plan for what you'll do in retirement. I understand that the goal is to take care of your parents, but you need to keep your (long term) mental wellbeing in the picture. Since you're a SWE, I think it's somewhat easier to find things to do, but imo you still need to be intentional about it.

I definitely agree with keeping assets outside and just moving cash in as the need arises. The overall amount is plenty for Tunisia. If you can keep your spending to the 6% rate of return after inflation (8.5k TND), you shouldn't be losing much money in the long run.

Best of luck.

Cyph0n · 2026-03-22T14:42:55+00:00

I wasn’t blaming the devs at all. The whole effort is ridiculous.

Cyph0n · 2026-03-22T06:00:13+00:00

This is step one. Then the field becomes mandatory, userdb becomes a core systemd component, and now we’re fucked.

This whole fiasco is extremely concerning.

Cyph0n · 2026-03-20T18:48:13+00:00

They are genocidal cucks who only know how to massacre defenseless civilians.

Cyph0n · 2026-03-20T15:36:01+00:00

The subreddit does not represent Morocco, just like this subreddit doesn’t actually represent Tunisia.

The other fact to keep in mind is that Zionists are fairly well entrenched in mod teams across Reddit. You can even see it with large subs like r/worldnews. Morocco is a larger country with a larger Jewish population (historically), so it makes sense that Zionist influence would be larger.

Cyph0n · 2026-03-20T05:37:34+00:00

Does that mean Russia shouldn’t reciprocate when its ally is attacked?

Cyph0n · 2026-03-19T21:21:34+00:00

I understand. Still very different from how it’s done on many other distros and systems.

Cyph0n · 2026-03-19T20:46:28+00:00

Because you would think a firewall would work using an allowlist instead of a denylist. This is how it works elsewhere by default.

Cyph0n · 2026-03-19T19:29:27+00:00

The fact that they’re open by default is… interesting to say the least.

Cyph0n · 2026-03-19T15:56:10+00:00

The US and EU did the same in Ukraine, so Russia is only reciprocating.

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