Notices tagged with nix, page 2

Distributed system daemons with Shepherd and Goblins funded by NLnet

https://spritely.institute/news/spritely-nlnet-grants-december-2023.html

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://spritely.institute/news/spritely-nlnet-grants-december-2023.html

#devops #lisp #nix #programming

@jakehamilton @ktemkin

Btw, probably well-known by those closely involved in Nix et al, there's also #TVIX by The Virus Lounge, a #Rust reimplementation of the #Nix language. And a project that got funding from #NLnet @NGIZero

https://code.tvl.fyi/about/tvix

Update: Eelco went behind the back of the #Nix board that he himself is on to publish that all too dreadful Determinate Systems blog post.

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/small-update-from-the-board/44292

I feel like something is shifting internally, and I'm holding my hopes up to see what comes next week. :blobfoxcofeowo:

#NixOS

Getting really sick of painstakingly migrating to some Cool New Technical Thing With Superpowers and then whoops, It's All Ethics Violations after a while.

First #Kagi - CEO is a white dude who can't read the room when a bunch of users raise serious concerns re: suicide warnings, .ru indexes, Brave collab, etc.

Now #Nix / #NixOS - BDFL is a white dude who can't read the room when a bunch of users raise serious concerns re: toxic members, shitty governance, MIC sponsorship, etc.

The next online #Guix patch review hacking session is on Tuesday.

17:00 UTC; 18:00 London; 19:00 Paris; 13:00 London

We're going to try and do some pair/group huddling using Upterm. All the details are on the Wiki:

https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/PatchReviewSessions2024

Come along if you want to review some patches, or if you want to hack - or if you just want to hangout with some other #guile, #guix, #linux, #lisp and #nix adjacent people!

So, yeah, I read about #Nix, I read the nix pills, I played with #NixOS in a VM... I would try to use it for a bit.

Oh hey, quick idea, let's look at a real-life derivation from a real package in nixpkg...

*Stares in WTF*

@SReyCoyrehourcq @khinsen It's true that the #Python ecosystem moves quickly and one can not rely on an analysis to still work *exactly the same* in a couple of months when executed with the then-latest versions. But that's not just the case for Python! Relying on backwards-compatibility of any software stack is not enough and a very poor choice in the first place. As suggested in the README, using something like :guix: #guix or :nixos: #nix or at least containers is necessary.

Regarding guix: This is is a huge effort, still work in process, anyhow great progress has been achieved in the last months and years. Read more about this at https://guix.gnu.org/de/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-building-from-source-all-the-way-down/

Regarding #nix, I don't know whether they actually try since they even include blobs provided by others (e.g. proprietary software).
@ahelwer

I wrote a follow-up article to my previous one, which is about (what appears to be) #OperatingSystem #bias in #NextGenerationInternet (#NGI) and #NLnet:

https://sleepmap.de/2023/operating-system-bias-in-next-generation-internet-and-nlnet/

#ArchLinux #EuropeanCommission #Linux #Nix #NixOS #NixOSFoundation #funding

@raito @tcltk @clacke @nixos I’ve been planning to try this since forever and I’ve been slowly packaging stuff to that end. #Nix and #Tcl would go so well together!

The #nushell talk at #NixCon reminded me of this again, but my list of ongoing side projects is a little too big at the moment 😅. Still, if anyone is working on it please let me know!

(sorry for the necropost, I just found the thread by browsing tags)

The #nix installer does not work with #selinux enforcing ... :fedora:
And you have to install it by running a script from the internet ... no package

Too little is being done to allow people to actually install #nix safely and easily

Due to current events, i feel the need to inform all the Arch girls to look for their Nix Girls (trust me, they become mutable when cuddled long enough)
#nix #nixos #arch

One field of use for #tcl that I think people might find surprising is that it mixes well with #nix , at least to me.

Tcl in #nixos has few dependencies, so you can use it for miscellaneous scripts without feeling bad about it.

When doing Nix stuff you can easily get into a few layers of quoting, something Tcl's syntax handles better than the shell code people instinctively reach for.

Tcl excels at orchestrating and composing system commands, again a typical Nix concern.

Finally, even though the programming model could be said to be the inverse of functional programming, on a superficial level I think Nix code and Tcl have a shared aesthetic, they just look good together. 😃

@tcltk @tcl @nixos

Is there a way to force #Nix to fetch a specific package definition from the nixpks GitHub? For instance if I just added packages and would like to use them but unstable hasn't updated yet

#nix #nixos (for visiblity, actually on aarch64-darwin)

Ouch, got a big case of reply-guys again, hate that, for fuck's sake, at least look at the god damnded conversation before you write a braindead defense thesis.

This happens every time I mention why I personally don't use #rust and #nix every fucking time, and I'm so tired of it. Don't be a fucking reply-guy, please...

These three lines of #nix are probably my favorite part of my #nixos config

https://github.com/luishfonseca/dotfiles/blob/main/modules/upgrade-diff.nix

Whenever I run `nixos-rebuild switch`, nvd shows me a beautifully formatted list of the version changes in my system packages.

There's a Nix meetup happening tomorow in Dresden, Germany. 🇩🇪 https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-meetup-dresden-germany/24396/25
#nixos #meetup #nix

There's a Nix meetup happening today in Zürich, Switzerland, celebrating Nix's 20th anniversary! 🇨🇭
https://20th.nixos.org/
https://www.meetup.com/nixos-user-group-zurich/
#nix #nixos #anniversary #meetup #Zurïch

@nixCraft Or you can just use #Nix 😁