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This is my sixth attempt at using Mastodon, and I think it will be my last. I’ve had this account for one month and one day, and I’ve decided to delete it: not because of anything specific to Mastodon, but because I’ve concluded that I’m fundamentally incompatible with social media as a category. Let me start with what actually worked. The Mastodon community is genuinely…
A while ago I realized I was after something important to my soul. I had internal conflicts because even though I was kind of living according to my values in terms of being thoughtful about the software I use, I don’t want to use products of evil corporations such as Microslop – that goes against the things I want to nurture in myself, thus in others, and consequently in this…
This is Part 2 of my Linux Odyssey series. Part 1 covers my path from Ubuntu through Arch Linux and why I decided to try NixOS in the first place. If you haven’t read it, start there. The Breaking Point About a week after I published my first post, I had a crisis of confidence. I had been using NixOS for roughly four weeks at that point, and I was deep in it: learning about flakes,…
The following statement was originally written by Anna Liberty . It deeply resonates with who I am and who I want to be. I’m grateful I can use it to express my values. I do not use LLMs or other “Generative AI” for prose or code, nor do I accept it from others as open source contributions. I do not discuss my prose or code with LLMs. I do not consult LLMs for projects,…
Last updated: 21 July 2026 A personal account of distro-hopping, window managers, and eventually finding NixOS. Part 1: How It All Started I started using Linux about four years ago. My very first distribution was Fedora, followed by Ubuntu, which I used for about a month before switching back. The main reason I left Ubuntu was its interface; I simply didn’t like it. But beneath that was a…
Privacy My Telegram aversion started because of privacy concerns triggered by rumors and verified facts – like data being shared with governments while Telegram pretends to be the most secure and private messenger that will under no circumstances share anything with anyone. A messenger that claims to champion human rights and free speech, while simultaneously blocking opposition channels to…
Who I Am I’m Dimitri Nesterenko, a computer science student originally from Ukraine, now living in Rennes, France. I see my craft as a form of creative problem-solving, something I want to master – building meaningful solutions that help others. I don’t believe in limiting myself to a single label. Software engineering is a passion and a craft I’m constantly learning, but…
Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke The Molecule of More by Daniel Z. Lieberman & Michael E. Long The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga Goodbye, Things by Fumio Sasaki
A running list of the hardware and software I use day to day. Inspired by uses.tech . My dotfiles , NixOS and nvim config . Hardware Laptop : Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (7th Gen) Phone : Google Pixel 8 running GrapheneOS Software OS : NixOS (Switched from Arch btw) WM : Hyprland (Wayland) Term : foot Term multiplexer : tmux Shell : zsh Editor : Neovim Colors : Kanagawa Dragon Launcher : rofi…
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