Notices by Andrew Helwer (ahelwer@fosstodon.org)

My understanding of :guix: and :nixos: are that they explicitly pin the versions of absolutely everything & their transitive dependency graphs, all the way down to the compiler versions used to build a specific software commit. But how do they handle bootstrapping compilers?

#nix #guix

@kirschwipfel Wow this is incredibly cool, I think you just convinced me to become a guix person lol

@kirschwipfel actually I just learned Stallman is still involved in GNU, I thought he got kicked out. So don't think I'll be checking out guix.

Edit: Although @civodul did sign the letter asking Stallman to step down. So idk

@drewdevault a lot of damage is done to human social interaction once people view the work of others as treats placed in front of them for consumption or rejection. the corpo world trains them to act in this way unfortunately.

I'm a strong free thinker who is immune to propagandaaaaaaaa (10,000 books, films, and games about cross-channel warfare later):

In public discourse it's all well and good to push back against narratives that devolve #climatechange responsibility to individual choice, but in your own quiet room you are seriously lying to yourself if you think climate change mitigation will succeed without you personally making large changes to how you live. For example, taking a single cross-country flight emits more carbon than citizens of some countries do in an entire year. Not eating meat saves a multiple of that.