Notices by Jake Hamilton (jakehamilton@hachyderm.io)

@tchambers every few weeks I consider making a matrix client... Element is just... not what I want.

In a single day, sourced only from fedi, 268 people have committed to migrating to a fork. 184 as users and 84 as contributors maintaining packages. This is a very good starting point for a #NixPkgs fork (which includes #NixOS).

The biggest blocker remaining is #Nix itself. Securing maintainers for Nix (the cpp project) would mean a newly established fork can exist independently. If you would be able to do so, please get in touch.

Question: how does one go back in time and do things differently? Asking for a friend...

@ktemkin I tried joining the Matrix space, but when I do I don't see any rooms available to join 🤔

@thomasfuchs it extends so much farther back too. Brutalizing peaceful protesters and tragic, unnecessary conflict as some of the most American qualities :((

@hachyderm yet another rational, well informed moderation stance. Thank you Hachyderm team for continuing to safeguard this instance while remaining calm and approaching every problem with a level head.

@thomasfuchs I love JavaScript, I write it for a living. But good lord these important systems should be several orders of magnitude simpler. Absolutely no reason for it to be running chromium with a web app...

@thomasfuchs One of my favorite finds was that you could return an empty response with a link header pointing to a CSS file. The browser then pulls those styles and applies them to a skeleton html page. The example case used CSS and lots of pseudo elements to create an interactive galaga game.

@thomasfuchs Exquisite!

@underlap @davidak I moved away from my long-time Arch system to NixOS. Almost immediately I moved every machine I own (and vps I rent) to NixOS.

Imagine Arch with all the latest packages, a rich community, and none of the manual steps involved in setting up the system or installing and configuring services. Your whole system configurations goes in a "configuration.nix" file that lets you build and reproduce your exact system.

The most amazing effect of #NixOS is that I've never felt as in-control of my system as I have on NixOS. I decided what is installed, I decided what services run, I decided when to update, what to update, and even if I only want to update individual programs or services. All while remaining fully reproducible and declarative. Incredible.

There is no other #Linux Distribution or even #OperatingSystem that comes close.