ktemkin

0x47df, 10 days ago to random

a wild car-haver appeared 😍

leftpaddotpy, 16 days ago to random

OH: ```nix
mkBreedable = mkOverride INT_MAX;

astrid, 22 days ago to random

Qyriad, 1 month ago to random

Very glad that we can finally publicly share something we've been working on for a while: https://lix.systems/

It's still a pre-release and we're still setting things up, so this isn't an Official Announcement or anything, but it's public now 🎉

leftpaddotpy, 1 month ago to random

👀 I am working on making inputs.meow.url = "https://some-forgejo/some/repo/archive/main.tar.gz"; Simply Work for forgejo-hosted nix flake inputs, which will probably land in forgejo 8.0.0

for progress, see: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/pulls/3615

ivan, 1 month ago to NixOS

One aspect of #NixOS modules no one ever talks about: if you fetch and import modules written by someone else, you are effectively trusting them with root access to your machine

ripper, 1 month ago to random German

Das Problem an Mails beantworten ist ja, dass da wieder eine Antwort kommt, die dann auch beantwortet werden muss.

mekkaokereke, 1 month ago to random

Most BLM protesters were white people advocating for Black civil rights.♥️ All their lives, they thought that they had the 1st amendment right to protest, because they had seen white supremacists march without being beaten by cops. They didn't realize that the right to free speech depends heavily on what you are speaking about, and who you are speaking for.

Now I'm seeing college professors and students learn the same lesson about what US cops will do to you if you speak up for the wrong thing.

SrEstegosaurio, 1 month ago to random

People who think that any human creation can be apolitical are just ignorant and need some philosophy lessons.

I'm incredibly tired from "can we keep politics outside FOSS?".

major, 1 month ago to random

I totally missed this development, but systemd allows you to set environment variables across the whole system in: ~/.config/environment.d/*.conf

This makes it easy to apply environment variables in wayland/sway.

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/environment.d.html

leftpaddotpy, 1 month ago to NixOS

A lot of the problems in the #Nix/#NixOS community are fundamental, built into its culture, from toxic development culture to the two repeated military-industrial sponsorship situations.

The culture of undermining community authority, of acceptability of conflict of interest, of tolerating abusive behaviour, goes up to the very top of the organization, with Eelco Dolstra.

You can read an extensive summary of the issues and sign an open letter to the Foundation here:

https://save-nix-together.org/

chartier, 1 month ago to random

Some positivity.

alexglow, 1 month ago to Astronomy

9:57pm Pacific: bright white sky-streak like a large meteor or reentry, north of Oakland, east to west, across maybe 3° of sky? Maybe much more. ✨
Any thoughts?
#astronomy #sky #NightSky

brooke, 1 month ago to random

spending a few idle minutes between things devising muxer/demuxer interfaces to wrap around WebCodecs & my wasm codecs

piegames, 1 month ago to NixOS

The Nix project has had quite a bit of bad publicity in the last month for having Anduril sponsor NixCon NA.

I am very happy to see that —after admittedly way too much effort— we now finally have a sponsorship policy to prevent this from happening in the future. A big Thank You to all who contributed and pushed for this!

If you turned your back on Nix due to this, please consider accepting the apology from the Foundation Board.

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-foundation-event-sponsorship-policy/43110

#nix #nixos :boost_ok:

rust, 1 month ago to random

Today, Rust 1.77.2 will be released with a critical security patch to the standard library for those on Windows using the Command API to invoke batch files with untrusted arguments. No other platform or use is affected.

See the announcement for details: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/04/09/cve-2024-24576.html

amberxorluci, 2 months ago to random

It's only proton if it comes from the valve region of Linux, otherwise it's just sparkling wine

hierarchon, 2 months ago to random

"zeitgeist" can be translated as "time ghost". when people talk about putting something aside "for the time being", that's what they mean.

OV, 2 months ago to random

😴 elke reis begint in de NS app 💤

tlapka, 2 months ago to random

new story idea:
a hacker falls in love with the maintainer of the open source software they were meant to add a backdoor to by slowly building up trust and writing useful pull requests

xgranade, 2 months ago to random

I wish the society that I lived in could find it in itself to fund and support anything that isn't extractive.

(This is a toot about xz and OSS in general. This is a toot about weird art. This is a toot about public transit. This is a toot about decentralized social media. This is a toot about local investigative journalism. This is a toot about LLMs slurping up the whole commons.)

arstechnica, 2 months ago to random

Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections

Malicious code planted in xz Utils has been circulating for more than a month.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/backdoor-found-in-widely-used-linux-utility-breaks-encrypted-ssh-connections/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

ktemkin, 2 months ago to random

important life lessons: a multimillion dollar company can, in years, almost approach the output of a ragtag group of lesbians working for two weeks

Qyriad, 3 months ago to random

OH: misskey implements activitypub by hiding in the bushes outside John Mastodon's house and lossily transcribing his work calls

ktemkin, 3 months ago to random

an amusing side effect of learning toki pona: now when I go to speak another non-English language, esp german, I just sit there like “wait there’s just a word for that” and also “wait why do I have to take time to remember all these words”