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Atemu

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Interested in Linux, FOSS, data storage systems, unfucking our society and a bit of gaming.

Nixpkgs committer.

github.com/Atemu
reddit.com/u/Atemu12 (Probably won’t be active much anymore.)

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You could take the revision number. nixos-unstable has 567011 commits currently.

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Problem is that the average person cannot discern between an actual expert and a charlatan.

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This is a lot to take in; it’s basically an overview of all the interesting features of Nix. When starting out, you don’t need this kind of in-depth knowledge. I personally gathered most of what was covered here in over 6-12months of using it and I did just fine.

It might still not be for you but don’t take this as the reference point.

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Note that while they’re disingenuously proclaiming themselves to be a “free” tool, the license is actually an unfree proprietary custom license.

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Why is this not being developed inside Mesa? There’s even precedent for it; gallium9.

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Merging this into mesa would only bloat mesa while not really offering support for many applications at all.

But there already is a d3d9 driver inside mesa?

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There is no such thing as “directly” DX. The drivers of the major GPU vendors on Windows must also implement DX ontop of their internal abstractions over the hardware.

While Vulkan will theoretically always have more “overhead” compared to using the hardware directly in the best possible manner, the latter isn’t even close to being done anywhere as it’s not feasible.

Therefore, situations where a driver implemented atop of VK being faster than a “native” driver are absolutely possible, though not yet common. Other real-world scenarios include Mesa’s Zink atop of AMD’s Windows VK driver being much better than AMD’s “native” OpenGL driver, leading to a dev studio of an aircraft sim shipping it in a real game.

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Unless some sandboxing or other explicit security measure is in place, any software you run typically has access to your entire home directory, including .ssh/. If any one of those was compromised somehow, they’ve got access to your SSH keys.

That’s a gigantic attack surface if you ask me.

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Were you using the Google espionage services on GOS? If so, you’d likely gain a little privacy because of µG.

Some devices can lock the bootloader but that’s not a generally supported feature on /e/OS.

Signal leaked random contacts to me! (feddit.de)

When I press on some message to forward it, it shows me Random usernames of contacts I don’t know. And it even shows some Mobile Numbers I don’t know. For example, one number starts with +964 that’s Iraq. I’m from Europe tho. These contacts and numbers are from all over the place....

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Could it be that these are spam numbers that tried to reach you at some point but were blocked before they could?

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Approaching at $9.99/month.

Testing packaging which targets multiple distributions?

I am working on creating deb/rpm packages for an OSS tool I use. So far, I have been manually testing each deb/rpm in a virtualbox live cd version of that OS but it’s tedious to do that for every release. This is a GUI tool, I basically just need to confirm that the apt install goes correctly and the program can actually...

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This kind of integration testing is best left up to the individual distros. Same as the integration (as in: packaging) itself.

Distros don’t want your binary package, they want your source code, build instructions and a build system that won’t make them cry. Some distros even explicitly disallow re-packaging external binary distributions.

As a distro maintainer, I appreciate your wish to do QA on all the distros but that’s just too much work. You focus on making your software better, we focus on making it work with the rest of the software ecosystem.

Providing a package for one or two distros (i.e. your favourite one) is good practice to ensure your software can be reasonably packaged but it’s not the primary way your users should receive your package in the traditional Linux distro model.
Additionally, you might want to package your software for one of the cross-distro package managers such as Flatpak, AppImage, Snap, Nix, Guix, distri or homebrew. This can serve distro maintainers as a point of reference; showing how it is intended to work so they can compare their packaging effort. If there’s some bug present in the distro package but not the cross-distro package, that’s a good sign the issue lies in the distro packaging for example.
Again, don’t put much time in this. Focus on your app.

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Not invented here syndrome.

Proton Mail CEO Calls New Address Verification Feature 'Blockchain in a Very Pure Form' (tech.slashdot.org)

Proton Mail, the leading privacy-focused email service, is making its first foray into blockchain technology with Key Transparency, which will allow users to verify email addresses. From a report: In an interview with Fortune, CEO and founder Andy Yen made clear that although the new feature uses blockchain, the key technology...

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This is false. Protonmail has supported Web Key Discovery for external domains since 2019: proton.me/blog/security-updates-2019

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Voting is another concept that would become unhackable overnight

No. Voting on the blockchain is an even worse idea than money on the blockchain.

In many cases, there are good reasons why these things are done they way they are. I have yet to see a software system that is better at preventing voter fraud than humans looking at your government-issued ID at a poll site and humans overseeing other humans manually counting votes.

A single actor might be able to commit voter fraud in the order of dozes or hundreds of votes perhaps but with a digital voting system based on blockchain, they could do so on the order of thousands or even millions by compromising end-user devices used for voting or buy enough work/stake/whatever to perform a 51% attack.

Same goes for money btw. Our current system is by far not a perfect one but removing the ability for governments to i.e. freeze accounts of bad actors is not a boon.

Understanding init freedom?

I’m planning to move over to Guix over NixOS, as soon as my current situation improves and possibly import a new libre respecting laptop (Star Labs is thankfully available in India). I do have a very old laptop with a Celeron processor and 4GB of RAM with Guix installed already, and what has come to my attention is that it...

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systemd has become like the JavaScript of init systems

Likening systemd to JavaScript is incredibly inappropriate.

systemd now handles DNS, cron, bootloader, and is a suite of tools tightly coupled with the init system)

No. Except for the cron replacement, all of those are stand-alone tools that can be run with systemd, without systemd or replaced with any alternative.

They just happen to be developed under the systemd project umbrella and are obviously tested to work well with another.

This argument is especially weird for systemd-boot; it’s not even a Linux program ffs.

There are some components that are harder to replace with alternatives but mostly because no good alternatives exist. Systemd might be partially to blame here in how easy it is those parts can be ran independently and replaced with equals and you could certainly criticize it for that but you didn’t even mention one of them.

Truth be told, the birth of systemd really heralded in the death of the UNIX philosophy

There is no truth in this sentence.

Doing one thing only, and doing it well, while looking good on paper, and oftentimes is a good general rule of thumb, doesn’t apply to modern application development, for better and worse.

What? Please google “Microservices”.

Your whole wall of text hinges on the assumption that systemd is a simple “init system”; a root process spawning a set of other processes. This is false.

systemd (as in: PID1) does service management, not init. It happens to also fit into the “job description” of init because starting and cleaning up dead services also fall under the responsibility of a service manager but reducing it to just an init system is just plain wrong. All the other things are handled by separate components/processes.

Thus, it still follows the “unix philosophy”. The “one thing” it does simply isn’t what you think it does.

It’s like saying cp doesn’t follow the UNIX philosophy because you could copy files with cat. cat is soo much simpler to understand, why would anyone ever use the bloated cp? Must be the pesky commercial influence of Bell labs!

Truth be told, the birth of cp really heralded in the death of the UNIX philosophy.

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I somehow doubt that’s all you said.

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What you’re doing is perfectly fine.

It is however more of a mitigation for bad distro installers than general good practice. If the distro installers preserved /home, you could keep it all in one partition. Because such “bad” distro installers still exist, it is good practice if you know that you might install such a distro.

If you were installing “manually” and had full control over this, I’d advocate for a single partition because it simplifies storage. Especially with the likes of btrfs you can have multiple storage locations inside one partition with decent separation between them.

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As in, build a NixOS VM that’s otherwise the exact same as your current system but with a different DE enabled. nixos-rebuild build-vm

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TL;DR Amazon is building a Linux distro that starts a chromium to run react native apps. Apparently, you need hundreds of people for that.

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There is none. NTFS is a filesystem you should only use if you need Windows compatibility anyways. Eventhough Linux natively supports it these days, it’s still primarily a windows filesystem.

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Make sure that device doesn’t require proprietary drivers (commonly WiFi or GPU). If the hardware in question needs those and you need the component to work, I wouldn’t take it for free because you’d be stuck with shitty support on an ancient kernel.

Most commonly, thio affects broadcom WiFi and Nvidia GPUs.

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