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VPN by Google One is shutting down for good
  • What's the threat model here? I can think of no DNS shennanigans that would not be detectable through the authentication mechainsms in TLS (chain-of-trust). Not having to trust network infrastructure is exactly what TLS is for.

  • VPN by Google One is shutting down for good
  • What is it that you're doing that is still not using some form of authenticated encryption? Almost everything is https, ssh, almost all mailservers have tls support, irc does have tls support.. What's left that needs to be encrypted by a VPN?

  • Who's setting up swap for me?
  • It's difficult to say without seeing your nixos config. Are you importing any nixos modules? Would you be able to share your configs?

    Also see https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Swap In paricular:

    If you are using GPT partitioning tables, systemd-gpt-auto-generator(8) will still mount your swap partition automatically.

  • The state of NixOS on RISC-V

    github.com NixOS on RISC-V · Issue #101651 · NixOS/nixpkgs

    Issue description Judging from the screenshot in #36187, @shlevy has already been successful in running some form of NixOS on RISC-V. I'd just like to know what the status of this is, as naively tr...

    NixOS on RISC-V · Issue #101651 · NixOS/nixpkgs

    tl;dr image buildable with some patches

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    How to improve NixOS performance on old hardware?
  • I suspect this is a problem with your particular combination of hardware and kernel. I doubt this has something to do with NixOS itself, so I would try to see if there's something to be found in the ArchWiki. The solution might be to pick a different kernel and/or using paricular kernel modules/module options. Good luck

  • What do you do when Nix isn't worth the time?
  • I think would just try to compile it from source. Using a different package manager seems very weird. I suspect getting the source to build on nixOS is more or less equivalent in terms of effort than to create a derivation. I have done so in the past and I ended up pushing them to nixpkgs. If compiling is out of the question, I guess docker but I havn't had to do that, yet.

  • Will we look back at today's "go green" initiatives as stupid and inadequate?
  • Ineffectively complaining about corporations and changing your own life are not the only two options. That is a conveniently simplified view that just serves to make everyone feel better about using paper straws.

    A third option is to try to make effective change. Real change requires significant investment of energy, time and maybe money. Lobbying, campaigning, making noise, seeking and rallying larger groups of people; politics. Make youtube videos, radio shows, interviews - chain yourself to a tree, whatever... Any of those are better than recycling unrecyclable plastic.

    Making meaningful change in a society is hard work. You can't just keep living your life and pat yourself on the back just because you stopped buying that one Néstle product you know about.

  • What should we do about Threads?
  • Many who don't see the danger were not here in the 2000's. There are so many great technical achievements that were killed by microsoft, google or facebook EEE'ing the shit out of it. Remember jabber/xmpp? Yeah, both FB and Google implemented the protocol in their chat apps. Everyone was thrilled; I could use my jabber client to connext to fb and talk to my friends. Then they remembered there's not any money in that and killed the projects.

    Even if it's good for the fediverse now, as soon as they realize they can make more money by not having to sync with other companies and organizations, they'll be out of here, leaving nothing behind like a swarm of locusts. The only defense is defederation.

  • potentially unpopular opinion: I like account karma. I think it's fun and harmless.
  • That's correct. It's also horrible for the comments section because people hate-downvote comments they disagree with, which in turn leads to people avoiding making possibly unpopular comments. It's really hurtful to meaningful discussion.

  • Programming using only flake inputs
  • Assume you have two flakes A and B, and A takes nixpkgs as an input. Thus, A defines something like inputs.nixpkgs.url = nixos-unstable;. Now, assume B depends on A, so B defines inputs.a.url = "where-to-find-A".

    When you evaluate B, then you pull in A's dependencies as it is defined by A. So B now depends on nixos-unstable. However, maybe you don't want to depend on unstable. You could of course just override the input nixpkgs to a paricular version. Or you say "the nixpkgs dependeny of A is the same as the nixpkgs as defined by B". So you say, in B: inputs.a.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";.

    So now, A's nixpks is the same as B's inputs.nixpkgs when you evaluate B and you didn't need to touch A.

  • thatcomputerscientist.com That Computer Scientist - Nix is the New Arch!

    Remember the days when everyone and their pet iguana was raving about Arch Linux? You couldn't escape the ever-so-subtle "I use Arch BTW" remarks in every Linux forum. Well, move over, Arch, because NixOS is here to steal your thunder! Nowadays, it seems that you can't browse YouTube or read a blog ...

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    drakerossman.com Why and How to Add Home Manager to NixOS

    Home Manager is a tool to manage user-specific configuration on nix-enabled systems. By the end of this article you should have the understanding of why you should use it, as well as a system with Home Manager enabled.

    Why and How to Add Home Manager to NixOS
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    Anyone happy with vibration pump?

    About a year ago I bought a quickmill carola https://www.quickmill.it/en/products/lever-group/carola-mod-0960/.

    In general it's not a bad machine; I like the E61 system, I'm happy with the PID and it's compact and looks ok. I absolutely hate the vibration pump, though. It takes 10-15 seconds from activating the pump to get to max pressure which is a significant of my shot time. I havn't found a great way to deal with it and I'm close to get a different machine just because of the pump.

    Does anyone have a vibration pump and is happy with it? Is there some technique you're using with the E61 to get around it maybe?

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    Is the language set correctly?

    Somtimes when I post to other instances I have issues when I don't set the language. I think there is normally a "Undetermined" lanuage on lemmy but this instance doesn't offer it. Could this be the root of some UI issues? Is this set correctly and what does it mean for my profile not to have selected undetermined?

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    List of security github issues for nixpkgs

    github.com Issues · NixOS/nixpkgs

    Nix Packages collection & NixOS. Contribute to NixOS/nixpkgs development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Issues · NixOS/nixpkgs

    Here is a link to the currently open github issues for the nixpkgs repository that are tagged "1.severity: security". Use this to browse around; some of them are simple package version update requests, some are pretty involved changes. If you're bored, why not pick one up? :-).

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    NixOS 23.05 released

    nixos.org Blog → Announcements | Nix & NixOS

    Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative and reliable systems.

    The 23.05 release was made possible due to the efforts of 1867 contributors, who authored 36566 commits since the previous release. Our thanks go the contributors who also take care of the continued stability and security of our stable release.

    NixOS is already known as the most up to date distribution while also being the distribution with the most packages. This release saw 16240 new packages and 13524 updated packages in Nixpkgs. We also removed 13466 packages in an effort to keep the package set maintainable and secure.

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