Notices by Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)

@cvwillegen @MostlyHarmless I always considered special menus for children to be an option, as a courtesy to those who haven't acquired a sensible taste yet. Otherwise they can just order from the menu?

We may not be the biggest by numbers yet, but Mastodon (and the fediverse) has proven itself to be an effective and reliable communications platform over the course of the last 8 years, and does not depend on venture capital to survive. The #fediverse is the future.

Wat een leuk rechtsstaat heb je daar. Zou zonde zijn als die stuk gaat.
#TeamRechtsstaat

Heb je eens in de honderd jaar een afspraak op locatie is de carpoolplaats vol (Rosmalen). Ik herinner me dat soort plekken als uitgestorven asfalt vlaktes.

The Paradox of Tolerance

@JessTheUnstill Just #goVegan and you'll only use Happy Cow to look for restaurants. Problem solved.

@civodul yeah, forgot to mention <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/73181>...

@mpjgregoire @bugaevc Thanks!

Well, first the installer support for Hurd needs to be merged (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/73927>), then this needs to be merged and then there's going to be a blog post.

The obvious next step is a 64bit childhurd service and setting up 64bit chidlhurds on the build farm.

Then, I'm hoping for the awesome Hurd hackers to produce a working rumpnet, and get Hurd to boot on something newer than the X60 (<https://todon.nl/@janneke/110451493405777898>).

cc: @fsf @nlnet

Let's get rid of all the binary blobs. In S01E02 of the NGI0 podcast we talk to @janneke, founder of GNU Mes. The project helped to significantly reduce the number & size of binary seeds used in the bootstrap of GNU Guix 1.0.
He talks about working on GNU Mes, its community, NGI0 funding & calls for a 5th freedom: freedom 4. The freedom to build a program from source. "If you can't build a binary from source, how would you exercise freedom 0?"

https://podcast.nlnet.nl/@NGIZero/episodes/janneke-gnu-mes

#FOSS #NGI0 #NGI #podcast

@bugaevc yeah! It took me quite a while to figure out a nice way to use gcc-14 for the Hurd while keeping the default (currently at gcc-11), avoiding a world rebuild (and probably worse, many subsequent package breakages that would need to be addressed).

It also took some time to figure out why my cross-built executables kept segfaulting, in the end just some tags were missing from upstream (and I hadn't carefully looked at which versions #debian was using).

Also, even the 20240825 debian image does not boot with qemu-8.2.2 for me.

Very thankful for all the kind help that I got, again!

https://issues.guix.gnu.org/74290

The 64bit Guix hurd64-qcow2 image boots in QEMU!

#GNU #Guix #Hurd

@civodul What better time indeed!

On second thought, maybe better on a weekend that you didn't build the 64bit Hurd bootstrap-tarballs for the 3rd time and finally managed to build an ext2fs.static that actually produces --help output?
#GNU #Guix #Hurd

@millihertz @lynn also, yay for keyword arguments (define* (procedure ... #:key foo (bar #t) ...)

Anyway, good to see the #bootstrappable community growing with a diversity of options on the table. Let’s talk!

@monnier @janneke @stikonas

@stikonas @civodul @monnier that's amazing!

And I'm sure you won't sacrifice readability, right?

@jarno not an answer but a different perspective...
After switching to GNU #Guix eight years ago, I realized that I no longer have to keep backups. So I stopped. Everything I type is in git (and pushed to a kluit) or in imap. If a machine or disc dies, everything is in git to just resurrect it.

@simendsjo @kolev oh, I didn't even notice that. How weird! At first glance I thought they were nicely mirrored too.

@simendsjo @kolev that looked real great on first glance...but it has a terrible problem: the brackets are not nicely mirrored at all, such as maltron has. Not going to try it after all.