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

@Suiseiseki Two things:

1. The article is visible without JS.
2. Your post illustrates the “argumentative style” and abuse of the “rhetoric of freedom”.

🐑 👉 https://codeberg.org/shepherd

#Shepherd #Guix

“‘Free as in sexist?’: Free culture and the gender gap” (Reagle, 2013)
https://reagle.org/joseph/2012/fas/free-as-in-sexist.html

I don’t know how I missed this article until now, but I recommend it to anyone in #FreeSoftware. It resonates with things I’ve seen or experienced over the years and has tons of insightful references.

@LoboTom C’qu’est fou c’est qu’les gens « de gauche » ne percutent pas, ni sur l’IA, ni sur les médias sociaux aux mains d’oligarques fachos.

Comment on explique ça ?

I won’t draw any conclusions but Emacs-Guix has seen a spike of activity since it migrated two days ago. :-)
https://codeberg.org/guix/emacs-guix/pulls/1

#Guix migrating to Codeberg 👇
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/migrating-to-codeberg/

Meanwhile in France, fascists demonstrate in the streets of Paris—an event authorized by the very same authorities that regularly forbid “pro-Palestinian” (anti-genocide) protests, under the protection of the very same cops that persecute ecological activists.
https://piaille.fr/@le_pere_peinard/114484529213898679

The great #Guix migration has started.
https://codeberg.org/guix

La Révolution a apporté le mètre en remplacement des pieds et autres unités foireuses.

L’ordiphone, dans un élan réactionnaire, l’a remplacé par le pas (comme dans « j’ai fait 17 000 pas aujourd’hui »).

📢 #Guix GCD 002, “Migrating repositories, issues, and patches to Codeberg”, has been accepted following a two-month discussion that led to many improvements 👇
https://codeberg.org/futurile/guix-org/src/branch/master/gcd-voting-summary/gcd002-voting-summary.md

Many thanks to @futurile for collecting the deliberation statements!

You can read the document here:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/guix-consensus-documents.git/tree/002-codeberg.md

(Try again later if it’s 502. :-))

Key points:

① By June 7th, repositories will have migrated to Codeberg.
② Savannah will become a mirror of the Guix repository for at least 1 year.
③ Until Dec. 31st, bug reports and patches will be accepted both using the current email method and on Codeberg.

Real work begins now, and volunteers are welcome!

The process has been insightful and positive overall in my view.

Not everyone is enthusiastic about the change, but I think we all managed to focus on (1) whether it would be good for the project as a whole, and (2) on what it would take to amend the initial proposal to address outstanding concerns.

Kudos to everyone who participated. 👍

Meanwhile, Gilmore makes an analogy between “reproducible builds” and “pure functions”:
https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2025-April/003736.html

It sure feels like a déjà vu to the Nix and Guix folks but it’s good to see it brought up from a different perspective.

#ReproducibleBuilds

LLMs brought us the beautiful term and concept of “slopsquatting”.
https://socket.dev/blog/slopsquatting-how-ai-hallucinations-are-fueling-a-new-class-of-supply-chain-attacks

Hot take: any programmer decadent enough to be a victim of slopsquatting deserves it.

As of 2019, less than 25% of the papers in ecology & evolution came with their data; less than 20% came with their code. Ouch.

#ReproducibleResearch

Your 🐑 #Shepherd timers wrecked havoc over DST change this week-end?

We have good news: you’re not alone!

https://issues.guix.gnu.org/77401

“Build daemon drops its privileges” 👇
https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2025/03/build-daemon-drops-its-privileges/

#Guix #HPC

Cuirass can build pull requests for Forgejo and GitLab through webhooks, and now it can show them more nicely 👇
https://guix.bordeaux.inria.fr/pull-requests

#Guix

“Towards a modern Lisp machine”
https://lwn.net/Articles/1014002/

“If all goes according to plan, the Guix project will soon be replacing many of the traditional GNU utilities with implementations written in Guile, such as those created by the Gash project.”