Notices by Ludovic Courtès (civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr)

The 🐑 #Shepherd was at #FOSDEM and now it’s on TV! 📺
https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/news/2025/02/the-shepherd-on-tv/

Check out my talk on the beauty (and dangers!) of #Fibers for concurrent programming and that of Juliana on porting it to #Goblins and starting the plan9ification of #Guix. 🤯

📢 The new Guix-HPC annual report is out!
https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2025/02/guix-hpc-activity-report-2024/

Check out what we’re up to with #Guix in support of #HPC, #ReproducibleResearch, and #OpenScience.

I was reminded of the importance of the “no asshole rule” in free software communities—you know, ensuring that borderline behavior that’s not clearly a CoC violation yet that demonstrates a lack of empathy or downright hostility doesn’t spoil the whole group’s endeavors.

(I think I saw a great talk or blog post about this some time ago, but I can’t remember where that was.)

Official #Guix mirror now available 👇
https://codeberg.org/guix/guix-mirror

(It’s just a mirror, no pull requests or issues at this point.)

Someone had the idea to give my email address to slack.com so I would be “invited” to join.

That company is now periodically sending me email. It’s not an invitation, it’s harassment.

Slack is crap in the same way that X/Twitter and Meta/Facebook/Instagram are crap. Their CEO doesn’t make the headlines yet, hasn’t been seen doing a Nazi salute, but their goal is the same: get people locked in and use their data for profit.

Here’s an invitation for Slack to fuck off and for all of us to choose one of the many messaging systems that do not trample on privacy, our common good.

Would anyone be able to tell how many people have commit rights to Nixpkgs? @picnoir maybe?

Wondering about the contributor-to-committer ratio.

Nice chat at FOSDEM with the fine people at @Codeberg evaluating the risks and opportunities should #Guix decide to move there. Thank you!

The declarative & minimalistic computing #FOSDEM track was amazing 👇
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/declarative/

I saw 80% of the talks and I was fully satisfied by their quality and their ability to provoke thoughts.

Of course I’m particularly beguiled (!) by the Guile/PreScheme/Hoot/Guix/Shepherd/Goblins talks that show what an actual *community* has been building for several years. Thumbs up, comrades. 👍

@boud @debian 👍 Debian!

Next time, we should all think twice before falling for the latest convenient, fancy-looking, billionaire-controlled infrastructure. “Yes but” is no longer an acceptable position; time is up.

The declarative & minimalistic computing track is the one track where ‘org-tree-slide-mode’ is the standard tool for presenters.

Just joined the unique, the unequaled declarative & minimalistic track at #FOSDEM!
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/declarative/

I’ll be talking about the 🐑 #Shepherd around 1pm followed by Juliana Sims on Shepherd + Goblins, but really, there’s a lot of great stuff in this room, you should join!

Petr Knoth (Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University) talks about the reproducibility crisis, the role of software in science, and how source code availability is the very first prerequisite to address the crisis.

#SWH2025 #ReproducibleResearch

Excited to be in that beautiful UNESCO room with many people of diverse backgrounds for the annual symposium of @swheritage!

https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/software-heritage-2025-symposium-and-summit

#SWH2025 #OpenScience

Great talk by @zacchiro about SWHsec: leveraging information available in the SWH archive to find vulnerabilities in forks of software known to have received fixes.

#SWH2025 #infosec

@ryuslash Only 4 people, but 1.5 active on average (I include myself in the list of semi-active people!).

@cwebber

- I dislike that the Home team is next to nonexistent. :-)
- single computer
- ‘home-gpg-agent-service-type’ for SSH + GPG and out-of-band KeepassXC and ~/.authinfo.gpg
- periodic backups via a Shepherd timer
- I also use ‘home-dotfiles-service-type’ for “random config files”.

I wish I had a Git service and other things that would make my config less stateful!

@zimoun The demo you gave today at Café Guix reproducing that 3-year-old Docker image was indeed fairly impressive—well-deserved “wow” effect!

@Guillawme @zimoun @sharlatan @khinsen Oh thanks. So a deployment tool was developed in the context of HGP?

@khinsen @sharlatan @zimoun What’s HGP? :-)