Maikel 🇪🇺 🇪🇸

A 92 kilograms bundle of joy powered by lisdexamphetamine, cis gay mixed race male (he/they), Spain/UK based, adopted Brit, passionate against Brexit.

Into: minimalism, decretionism, mutualism, left-wing politics, decent public services, Elixir, Kotlin, Nixos, German language, FOSS, EU products, dark sense of humour, fitness, healthcare and impailed-billionaire cooking recipes.

Diagnosed: ☢️, ADHD-I, Hidradenitis Stage 2 and counting.

#nobots

#ADHD #Elixir #Spain #Minimalism

Blog: https://blog.maikel.dev
Manual of Me: https://www.manualof.me/s/maikelthedev
Donate: https://ko-fi.com/maikelthedev
Pronouns: He/Them

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NIP-05 Address

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Profile Code

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2026-06-10 14:42:33 UTC

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indeed, it doesn't take me days but it takes me always a couple of hours, SO MANY STUPID THINGS break every single time.
like, right now I'm justr trying to get to my launcher and fighting a maintainer over the lack of clarity of his docs, this is stupid, I didn't need to install "elephant" before for walker to run now I do, why?
If something is enabled with services.something.enable = true, it should be installed, up and running, if it needs an extra step it should be said so in the docs instead of wasting everyone's time.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/530379

2026-06-10 13:27:42 UTC

upgrading nixos from 25.11 to 26.05 chapter 1.
- Fish shell broken
- Hyprland broken
- Home Manager, broken.
- Walker launcher, broken.
- ...and those are just the ones I've found on first restart.
Dear God, Mary, Jesus, Shakira and Buda.
#Nixos
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/116/726/041/384/710/798/original/76ab86ac795943b6.mp4

2026-05-02 12:32:31 UTC

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Prora ?

2026-04-21 08:37:00 UTC

OpenAI is incredibly efficient at increasing the rate of Theranos-like experiences at scale.
The real question is what makes Sam Altman immune to prison, unlike her 👇
Is it the penis ?
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/116/439/955/014/837/956/original/10fa25ab944962f1.png

2026-04-18 12:32:53 UTC

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expand both screenshots . Left is nightly. Right is Mastodon vanilla.
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/116/425/723/371/532/577/original/f21fed7dcf167665.png
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/116/425/723/441/407/064/original/497a5f926a877925.png

2026-04-18 12:31:31 UTC

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new version of vanilla has quote tooting built-in, just keep your finger on it and it gives you the option. Could you get the upstream version, add the branding on top and start from there?
@npub1rx6…pdar

2026-04-18 10:46:03 UTC

THIS is the reason I use @npub1rx6…pdar I can look at what's public on other instances.
I might take a look at the code of the nightly and see if bringing the bookmarking button and other stuff is that hard to do it myself then push a PR.
What's more urgent project wise [@lucas_the_dev](https://vmst.io/@lucas_the_dev ) ? Feel free to ask.
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/116/425/298/031/865/095/original/96ce6696f10f8032.png

2026-03-10 14:38:56 UTC

@npub1kwa…e0nj does your OS implement any type of telemetry and/or LLM crap ?
(Asking this from a Nothing Phone 3a Pro with the essential button CRAP in it, which I've disabled via ADB but shouldn't need to)

2026-01-28 02:29:03 UTC

@npub1rx6…pdar how's the reimplementation going is it safe to update from this ?
Do we have all the features back or should I continue using the last version with all of them in?
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/115/970/364/213/027/357/original/8b1bbdf860b30f51.png

2026-01-20 17:39:38 UTC

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is this the lady from the square hole?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUbIkNUFs-4

2026-01-12 07:14:32 UTC

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this is the second time you respond to me about a post with activity pub in it as if I were talking about you and take it personal when I haven't even got a clue what do you do.
Stop being a reply guy. Blocked.

2026-01-11 21:14:36 UTC

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so far no success to be honest. I'm starting to wonder if it's just a bunch of smoke and mirrors.
In this time an age websites overpromising and under delivering are the norm, not the exception

2026-01-10 21:50:43 UTC

Does anyone here know of a running Bonfire instance that has federation actually activated?
I want to try different platforms see if any other Activity Pub implementation makes better use of the actual protocol.
Already tried Sharkey, Pixelfed, Hubzilla, Friendica, GoToSocial and Akkoma.
#askfedi #activitypub

2026-01-09 05:57:59 UTC

I'll never get tired of this GIF because how authentically it portrays how we hug. Every other TV series showed it wrong.
EDIT: it's usually said (not sure to what extent truth since I've never switched to being hetero) that straight men look for a women like their mother, while straight women look for men like their father. For us the gay males IMHO it seems like we need both in one person. Here Ilya is manly hugging Shane but also Lily is is rocking back and forth Jane like a mother does. Every man is a baby.
#heatedRivalry
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/115/863/593/533/414/031/original/059cf69f67dc0300.mp4

2025-12-24 17:08:07 UTC

Wow, you're being spammed so hard, I just looked for your handle and wow, are you ok?
@npub1rx6…pdar

2025-12-20 11:40:16 UTC

RE: https://gultsch.social/@daniel/115751087451745641
1. Rivaling clients to Whatsapp.
2. Incredible simplification, people don't want, cannot afford to learn what OMEMO is, "this message has been encoded for another device" is a humongous UX failure.
3. Consistency among clients.
4. Consistent "send voice message" button, consisten "send short video" button, consistent "send live location" button. Go to reason 1.
5. Less FOSS now, paid later projects. Why are most free on F-droid and paid-for in Google Playstore?
6. An iOS client that doesn't look as ugly as Shrek doing yoga.
7. Clip button should only be for attachments, not for everything (Conversations)
#XMPP #WhatNeedsDone
#note182z…mqhg

2025-12-05 21:40:18 UTC

@npub12r3…zz58 guys you know your searches by issues are not case agnostic?
Issue: search webxdc
https://codeberg.org/monocles/monocles_chat/issues?state=open&type=all&labels=&milestone=0&project=0&assignee=0&poster=0&sort=&q=webxdc
no results
Now: search WebXDC
https://codeberg.org/monocles/monocles_chat/issues?state=open&type=all&labels=&milestone=0&project=0&assignee=0&poster=0&sort=&q=WebXDC
Yes results.
Seems like a bug. For human-written issue titles, casing shouldn't matter.
Who should I open this bug with? Forgejo or Codeberg?
@npub1fh7…ee83

2025-12-05 15:52:12 UTC

WOW, just wow
You sure all of you gays need to watch Heated Rivalry, it keeps getting better and better and HOTTER.
There's no queerbaiting here, just pure QUEER sexyness going on and on and on.
#WhatToWatch #gay

2025-11-22 12:59:18 UTC

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I think the killer features are simple:
1. Actually decentralised. Not tomorrow, not theorical, not a work-in-progress. Decentralised: NOW.
2. WebXDC apps taking advantage of that decentralisation are going to be one of its biggest pulls. PixelSocial can entirely overtake local neighbourhood/family FB groups for example once is a bit more feature-complete.
3. Everything's encrypted without annoying you like Matrix
4. UI feels famiiliar like old pre-FB-purchase Whatsapp. Smaller learning curves or no curves at alll, are awesome.
#Deltachat

2025-11-19 13:47:34 UTC

Every Nov-December needed reminder:
Whatever you buy these two months with a discount: you're mostly funding inequality. Just don't buy anything. All discounts and sales are lies.
Save your locally-produced neighbour grocery store and buy there instead.
#AllSalesAreLies #BlackFridayEqualsYourAccountInRed
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/115/576/657/690/529/285/original/816468a060940ec1.png

2025-11-14 08:53:11 UTC

To be INCREDIBLY FAIR
Deltachat has improved so much in so little time I'm astonished at how easy to use it has become now.
You do not need to think of servers, you automatically get an account when you install it and log in.
You do not need to complicate to be found, you just share a link, as it should have been from the beginning, not just a QR anymore.
I'm very pleasantly surprised.
Now they need to simplify running your own chatmail relay because I want to use my own domain name for multiple purpose-ready accounts.
There's definitely no reason to use Matrix or XMTP anymore.
@npub17gp…nrxn
#Deltachat

2025-10-10 07:50:27 UTC

It's literally just
quickget macos sonoma
then
quickemu -vm macos-sonoma.conf
That's it, that's all it takes from Nixos to run MacOS. Then just follow the instructions
https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/03-Create-macOS-virtual-machines
Someone must have spent a HUGE amount of time making it this simple, I've tried before and never worked.
Look at my puny Thinkpad T495S running it inside Hyprland below. I can't wait to have my big PC back and try it there.
#Nixos #MacOS
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/115/348/796/456/464/878/original/9eeff7a21a5ee775.jpg
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/115/348/796/522/900/449/original/da96268bd26703f7.jpg
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/115/348/796/596/561/006/original/522cd7ab72732f96.jpg
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/115/348/796/661/608/062/original/35cdff74420c552b.jpg

2025-10-09 21:43:47 UTC

what the fuckk
I'm running macOS inside nixos and it took me just a couple of commands.
🤔
https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/QEMU
#Nixos
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/115/346/385/963/721/430/original/b5a955f32b4febe4.png

2025-10-08 08:24:01 UTC

Back to work today, got a 20 threads, 10 cores intel i9 gorgeous machine with 64GB of RAM courtesy of @npub1vxs…e5wu running nixos and I'm learning EVERYTHING I can on running remote builds to use my BigPC config on this more powerful tiny PC because I can see this happening often (me moving and needing power but not necessarily needing it locally).
Part of my HUNGER for freedom will eventually involve setting up powerful yet low-consumption machines in trusted friend places. e.g of places where people would be fine with this: Adrian, Remi, Sergio, my sister, my aunt, David (ex), even Carlos.
1/🧵
#Nixos #Deployment
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/115/337/569/323/332/597/original/ebe14246acabd614.png

2025-09-27 14:13:44 UTC

Make it all public fish functions included.
https://github.com/maikelthedev/libvirtd_automation
#Libvirtd #Fish #FreeBSD #Nixos

2025-09-26 12:56:08 UTC

UPDATED version with lots of extras, including KDE and Zerotier with self-auth. I've been busy the last 24 hours.
Feel free to boost
https://blog.maikel.dev/running-freebsd-from-nixos-using-libvirtd-from-scratch-v2-0/
#freebsd #nixos #libvirtd #FishShell

2025-09-23 18:15:50 UTC

When you try @npub1rx6…pdar do you do it on release masto or on dev masto [@lucas_the_dev](https://vmst.io/@lucas_the_dev )?
I'm just wondering about the quote toots. We have them in vmst.io as you might be aware if you use the desktop version on your PC.

2025-08-13 10:04:38 UTC

This is why commercial social media should be dismantled. It is literally harming everybody. Not figuratively, literally.
Whole article in the toot by @npub1jnv…zpfx here 👇 https://mastodon.social/@ErikJonker/115020630329159931
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/115/020/885/164/061/307/original/a69269291e5a22af.jpg
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/115/020/885/227/259/123/original/3711ac0c96dbaedf.jpg
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/115/020/885/301/890/616/original/f700c6441afb46e9.jpg

2025-08-05 10:52:11 UTC

Opened sometihng on youtube, it goes incredibly slow on firefox.
Decided to try in Chrome. IMMEDIATLEY had ads.
Fuck Chrome. I rather do slow. But yeah, it's definitely happening. Google is limiting the bandwidth for users of Firefox in Youtube.

2025-06-04 07:10:26 UTC

Now that I'm back using my android phone more I'm so happy being able to toot from @npub1rx6…pdar again. Everything works as none of the (even paid) Mastodon clients for iOS can achieve. On my iPhone I have to use icecubes to post but feditext to post images. Feditext loses drafts continuously, and icecubes cannot post images tagged as sensitive.
Wherever you go in iOS every app is in some way broken.
Thank you [@lucas_the_dev](https://vmst.io/@lucas_the_dev )

2025-05-29 07:08:44 UTC

So thanks to this link given to me by @npub170l…kjkq I understand now Git a lot better, specially towards the end of the explainer.
But now I have a thousand questions about patches and stashes. I just can't understand why stashes cannot be saved remotely.
The use case is clear: you are changing your work setup from a PC to another because you're not in your big PC at home, but out and about on your laptop, you DO NOT want to commit anything to any branch, you just want your current stash from PC_A to PC_B over the net.
https://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.html
#Git

2025-04-23 20:13:44 UTC

Can you conciously make your eardrumbs vibrate and produce an earthquake-like sound that only you can hear? 🤔
EDIT: If "yes" could you elaborate how it works for you?
#askfedi

2025-04-14 18:46:30 UTC

I'm not buying Sony ever again.
#BoycottSonyEurope
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/114/337/798/836/752/508/original/8b6cc03ebb0c2ab2.png

2025-03-25 01:12:04 UTC

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so a room?🤔

2025-03-12 22:26:11 UTC

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I can record a video and show you exactly what i mean. You'll see keyboard working fine elsewhere while a lag between typing and showing what I typed on Deltachat.
I'll see what I can do log wise once I'm back on it (now on the bed watching Borgen on the laptop) tomorrow.
@npub1swc…y2dn

2025-03-12 22:17:30 UTC

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I did. The played with
@npub1swc…y2dn using both the electron version and the iOS version.
iOS version is quite decent, desktop electron version needs to be polished. It's so slow my typing is not shown on the screen as I type.
But I can see a lot of promise on it. It can definitely do what Matrix can't by not creating a new standard for what's already there. I think the ingenuity behind it is its strength => email as the most authentic form of federation.
I like it
Needs fix: finding contacts, sharing contacts, it cannot be based just on QR sharing.

2025-03-12 15:56:33 UTC

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hmmm
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/114/150/276/422/296/426/original/3e1156647fd3c21c.png

2025-03-12 15:38:41 UTC

@npub1swc…y2dn what's this Deltachat thingy?
I'm getting that it uses email underneath it all. But is it any better in UI/UX than, let's say: Element (Matrix) ?
#deltachat #matrix

2025-03-05 00:03:59 UTC

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I read this quickly as Lesbian Dating instead of Debian Testing.

2025-02-22 21:22:26 UTC

EDIT: Solved, see below replies.
Why is NixOS in Github and not in Codeberg?
🤔
#nixos

2025-02-18 18:20:58 UTC

Every time I run a nixos-rebuild switch I want to cry. If waiting for Windows Updates was painful imagine waiting for stuff to recompile
EVERY
TIME
Why on Earth Zerotier needs recompilation, why on Earth Telegram is recompiling
why on Earth i can't enable Virtualbox because it also slows down this.
I mean...this is PAIN and appaling UX
#nixos

2025-02-12 11:43:51 UTC

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why am I getting a 500 error when trying to delete my account?
No matter how many times I try, error 500. Have you heard of the right to be forgotten?
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/113/990/734/212/831/545/original/479188f15d9d0b21.png

2025-02-12 11:41:23 UTC

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no, I have not.
This should be a short email.
People WORK.
@npub1fh7…ee83

2025-02-12 11:09:36 UTC

What the fuck @npub1fh7…ee83
?
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/113/990/603/141/125/669/original/c11b1ee7502e0d4b.png

2025-02-05 22:21:39 UTC

Oh, I'm so sad, I'm gonna cry
/s
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/02/tesla-sales-plummet-in-the-uk-france-and-germany/

2025-01-30 16:45:29 UTC

Can anyone here on the fedi and into LLM and with a 64GB Apple Silicon Mac confirm PLEASE if they can run deepseek R1 70B (and specifically the 70b version) at decent speed (assuming decent speed = the same as when you query chatgpt online)?
#askfedi #apple #llm

2025-01-30 12:40:59 UTC

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well, I would have definitely appreciated a CW.
@npub1npk…lpme

2025-01-28 09:45:10 UTC

Do you think the impending climate disaster is already radicalising you?
Boost if you care.

2025-01-26 21:36:56 UTC

Dear #Nixos people what are the correct channels to stay up to date with whatever goes on with Nix and Nixos ?
(is there a decent libera.chat channel, or a disturbed or is it discord...can't remember...)
#nixos #nix

2025-01-22 11:34:51 UTC

What's the best laxative on earth?
#askfedi

2025-01-14 08:25:26 UTC

I think the key feature of the fediverse is the fact every single thing runs on zero algorithms and 100% in humans willpower.
Moderation : done by people.
Servers: paid by people.
Who you follow: found by you.
Who others suggest to you: boosted by also, people.

2025-01-12 06:25:05 UTC

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I need the details 🍿

2025-01-11 23:50:11 UTC

Why tmux over GNU screen?
#askfedi #linux

2024-12-17 04:46:50 UTC

I've been trying to create an #ElixirLang starter pack and I certaintly can't.
Mastodon-only people is a strong limitation, for Elixir devs for example, most of them are in an Akkoma instance genserver.social even Linus Torvalds uses Akkoma
@npub15wd…rte4
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/113/666/343/379/085/814/original/1ab9fa4569c636a8.png

2024-12-15 18:25:44 UTC

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by who.
That's not coming from @npub1vl7…f6g0 and having to allow access to something I have never heard off that easily is a no.
And you can't even search by any terms there.
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/113/658/247/528/998/335/original/2160602467e9d6d0.png

2024-12-15 10:39:26 UTC

Oh wait so BlueSky has just discovered that stackable moderation doesn't work either because when you bring and accept a TERF, you bring all of his followers too, so no matter tagging them as "intolerant" the network still fills up of an army of TERFs. What a suprise!!!
...not.
Oh well.
Anyway.
If only Mastodon could copy the good parts of it like starter lists or shortened clearer user handles with domain aliases. IF ONLY 🤔
#bluesky #mastodon