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@Jain @vel

https://www.spiceworks.com/ anscheinend

@nixos_org @nzbr

While we're on the topic: work on minimal-bootstrap in #nixpkgs has actually been picked up again since this thesis was written (October 2025).

Not only that but, as of a few hours ago, the PR implementing the last step of hooking it up to become the actual bootstrap stdenv in Nixpkgs has been merged!

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/479322

#fullsourcebootstrap #reproduciblebuilds #stage0 #minimalbootstrap #bootstrappablebuilds

Does anyone know of a #museum of sorts where you can experience #UNIX machines from the 70s/80s hands-on?

I'd love to one day experience the way our predecessors did everyday tasks such as using a shell on a #teletype or writing a simple C program in #vi / #emacs on a hardware #terminal half a century ago.

Bonus points if it's near #Germany.

:boost_ok:

#TIL #systemd can somehow restart itself in a running system and #NixOS does it automatically whenever necessary.

This must have happened dozens of times already and I never noticed because it's entirely seamless.

I only found out because I was curious what exactly the #NixOS activation script means when it says "restarting systemd" as that struck me as near impossible.

I confirmed that /proc/1/exe points at the same store path that my new version of systemctl comes from; how cool is that?

@hackbyte @kaia

You have just devalued your currency smh

@theuni

It's a small but important distinction:
The requirement is to provide the source code according to the SSPL's terms, not to relicense to SSPL.

It's just like the GPL but attempts to infect surrounding services.

Any argument against the SSPL's infectiousness can be applied just the same for the regular old GPL, just in a different context.

(Well apart from the elephant in the room: Whether the license can actually work the way it's intended to or not.)