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called their press contact, got a person-specific email so they can forward it to the relevant party internally

submission deadline is in 4 days though so will have to see if it's even approved in time

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@oscarmlage @solene @joepie91 as for non-nixos systems, you can install the Nix package manager and do some stuff through that, but no system management / modules. When you have some experience with NixOS people tend to quickly go to "everything I manage has to be NixOS" tho, so :P

@oscarmlage @solene @joepie91 cloning/deploying are part of (your own) package definitions so yes, stuff like running an action on multiple hosts is a task for a (NixOS-specific) deployment tool, like Morph or NixOps.

Another distinction between ansible/nixos is ansible is only (sort of) deterministic when you fully wipe and roll out your playbook *every time*, otherwise old cruft will always accumulate. With NixOS that's not a concern at all, what's in your config is what's on the system.

kiwifarms 

@dumpsterqueer why does the kiwifarms blocklist scraper not work on gts smh???

re: shitpost, not strongly coherent, sleep 

@therealkuu interrupt-based

fedi block: racism, transphobia, freeze peach 

ak.kyaruc.moe is a single-user instance whose admin is a fascist (has an ableist slur in their bio, posts and shares racist and transphobic memes, hates the idea of defederation and shares posts from other freeze peach instances). they also have an account on starnix.networks

#FediBlock

gun meme 

@notfunnyelle@mstdn.social *loading a pistol and getting back* brain's haunted

Let's do a Q&A thread! Ask me anything conceptual about Nix, NixOS, or related tools, and I'll answer honestly and to the best of my ability (including if the answer is that it's not a suitable tool yet!) :boost_requested:

Please don't ask specific "how do I fix ____" questions, though - those require too much energy and back-and-forth for me to answer right now, and are probably best asked in the support room on Matrix instead.

Anything about the concept, the governance, whether certain problems are already solved, etc. is fine though! Particularly the kind of questions that are difficult to find a coherent answer to by yourself.

My perspective is that of someone who has been using NixOS for a long time, and is somewhat adjacent to governance, but who holds no formal position in any of it. I'm enthusiastic about where NixOS can go, but also critical of where it is today.

(And if your question is about what utility function to use, it's probably in this chart that I made: nix-cheatsheet.pixie.homes/)

Substack feels like medium.com in 2013. I wonder if it will end up the same in a few years.

If you want to blog: use a static site generator. Don't tie your publishing to a domain you don't own.

@silvermoon82@tech.lgbt Honestly this is probably one of the most offensive things about the contemporary education system, too: instilling the belief that the important thing is memorization, rather than research skills and information processing.

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when will my invoice return from the war (get paid)

re: genuine question re: nil, lazy joke 

@Vierkantor MMORPG

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