Notices by Alex L 🕊 🇵🇸 (alxlg@mastodon.social)

@daviwil

Do you know if it is possible and convenient to use guix home to manage home config of non-guix systems?

@mozilla

How did the experiment go?

@GrapheneOS

Okay, this is not new though. The news is that the owner of a messaging platform has been arrested because he didn't give to the authorities the informations about users they asked (legitimately or not).

I'd expect a comment on that, not a criticism of the implementation of said messaging platform.

@GrapheneOS

Also, since you are clearly using "homegrown" as a derogatory term here, it would be fair to mention the reasons given by Telegram for this choice, even if you don't agree with them, to let people have their own opinion, since it's about politics and not a technical matter.

@wrw @ryanc @mttaggart @TindrasGrove

I don't know other platforms but on Linux I have no issue if the application uses Secret Service API or KDE Kwallet or GNOME Keyring.

This plus encrypting the disk and you are fine until there is a security flaw in the software involved.

You can clone your disk and an attacker could too, but you can unlock it, the attacker not.

@dalias @aks @thomholwerda

Distros are a good idea but platforms are too, they are everywhere and we need an app platform for Linux, a distro can't package all the software out there and you would need a sanbox for proprietary apps anyway

@zimoun @adamhsparks

In my opinion, #Guix is an overkill for anything except computer science research. I think an approach that has better chances to succeed is reusing the OCI ecosystem and in particular using #ComposeFS for a per-file deduplication, that is important for large datasets. The missing piece for me it's a package manager for knowledge i.e. that links papers, datasets, source code for both calculations and documents (LaTeX, #Typst etc) in a graph of dependencies, citations etc.

@civodul @adamhsparks @zimoun

> To explore the behavior of the code, we need more. Guix eases exploration with “package transformation options”, which let users deploy variants of the software environment, for example by applying a patch somewhere in the software stack or swapping one dependency for another. A “frozen” application bundle such as a Docker image does not provide this lever.

Why? And what do you mean by "opaque" container image?

@clacke

Yes

@clacke

It's a bug in Discover in displaying "x -> y,", they fixed it multiple times but apparently there are still cases where it happens. You can just ignore that label.

@tyil @julian

What's the problem with GitLab now? It's even used by Freedesktop, KDE and GNOME...

@tyil @julian

Proprietary system with an open core? GitLab CE is the "open core" for you? It's basically the same as EE and yes the CE is free as in freedom, otherwise communities like KDE wouldn't use it, they have a very strict policy. And when KDE considered to migrate to GitLab, they asked GitLab devs for features they need to be available in CE and they agreed. This spirit of cooperation is gold.

@chrismessina @Sarahp @pfefferle.wordpress.com @pfefferle

To be clear, because people seem to think it's new: that plugin has been available for many years; literally one of the first ActivityPub implementations.