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by jkarni 4y ago
The main difference is that you don't have to host anything. For most people, setting up servers (likely for multiple architectures) is time consuming, expensive, and wasteful (since your server is sitting idle while you/your team
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by jkarni 4y ago
There's not really space for lock-in with garnix - you really only need a flake.nix file, nothing garnix specific (or more precisely: at most a very simple 5 line YAML file). The idea is that "normal nix" is enough.
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by jkarni 4y ago
We exclusively use Hetzner (Finland and Germany) for the servers, and they use hydropower and wind (see https://www.hetzner.com/unternehmen/umweltschutz/ ). I've been wanting to write a blog post about what th
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by jkarni 4y ago
Thoughts yes, concrete timelines no. But you can follow the issue [0] to get notifications once it happens. [0] https://github.com/garnix-io/issues/issues/21
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by jkarni 4y ago
I hadn't heard of Garth Nix! It was in fact from the German. I like the suggestion that the CI should feel like "nothing at all" (rather than the painful slow trial-and-error process of setting up most CIs, which makes you ve
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by jkarni 4y ago
It isn't open-source yet (and might never be). But it also might , as I said in a sibling comment, I've been thinking about a license that would require only running it (and derived software) on green energy; that way, if compet
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by jkarni 4y ago
Glad you're liking it! I've been working on simplified hosting for nixosConfigurations; likely I'll launch paid plans along with that, since otherwise costs will be too high for me to shoulder, and anyhow free hosting leads t
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Show HN: Garnix, fast and easy CI for Nix
120 points by jkarni 4y ago|63 comments
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by jkarni 4y ago
In the US, money from gas taxes is used to fund non-road-infrastructure, but conversely money from other taxes is also used on road infrastructure. It seems like on the whole gas taxes and toll do not cover roads (see eg [1]). [1] https:&#
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by jkarni 4y ago
I'm currently reading this in the Bern train station, since my train to Basel was cancelled altogether. (Though yes, there's another one soon.)
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by jkarni 4y ago
I don't fully understand it yet, but I think it resumes twice, adds the results, and divides by two. the `| flip ()` is pattern matching on that effect term, I believe. So essentially: when you see `flip ()` inside anything in the argu
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by jkarni 4y ago
Thiel is one of the big donors to HRF, the foundation Kasparov and another co-signatory, Gladstein, work for.
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by jkarni 4y ago
I played a lot of chess as a kid. The story of Kasparov beating the pawn-of-the-regime Karpov was quite thrilling then. Strange twist that he became a pawn of ultra-capitalism - Peter Thiel, cryptocurrencies, NFTs [0], all under the guise o
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Nix flakes, and how to convert to them(garnix.io)
5 points by jkarni 4y ago|0 comments
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by jkarni 5y ago
I've used direnv for a few years now. Especially combined with nix, it's magical how seamlessly you can navigate between very different environments!
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Ukraine calls for volunteers to disrupt Russian websites(nytimes.com)
4 points by jkarni 5y ago|0 comments
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by jkarni 5y ago
I've seen this claim snowball over time as blockchain people desperately try to ad hominemate him. I do think he did once (quite a few years ago) consult for a blockchain company. That's about the only factual basis I've disc
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by jkarni 5y ago
> The road from there to something noteworthy is still long, but I don't think it's inconceivable. That already happens. People who know what they are doing (i.e. professionals) already buy scripts and book rights and make movi
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by jkarni 6y ago
A browser extension for creating unions/campaigns, that can collectively decide whether to e.g. boycott a website. If they so decide, all members of that union will, when visiting the page during the time-period of the boycott, see a m
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by jkarni 6y ago
I've thought a lot about digital unionization [0] in the past year or two, primarily because I think it's an important approach to a number of problems we are witnessing. The thoughts below led some friends and I to start building
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by jkarni 6y ago
And here is a "Piano Phase" written in C with no libraries that fits in an (old-style, 140 character) tweet: main(){int l=999,i,j;int v[]={133,119,89,80,75,119,113,80,89,119,75,80};for(;;){putchar(250*(j++%v[i%12]&&(j+i)%v
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Radicle Architecture(radicle.xyz)
71 points by jkarni 8y ago|18 comments
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by jkarni 8y ago
We're definitely still in alpha - during the time we've been on HN, for example, we've discovered that the large amount of traffic projects were getting meant our timeouts were too short. Had we exclusively been using our own
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by jkarni 8y ago
Radicle is a full-fledge (fledling of a) programming language, so you can really do as you wish with access control. Here's the module for authorization [0], and in this module [1] you can see an example of it being used. [0] https:&#
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by jkarni 8y ago
It does support it. In fact, it's much finer grained than Github. It's relatively easy to change things so e.g. patches to a certain file can only be submitted by people in a certain group, while other files anyone can change.
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by jkarni 8y ago
> There is no notion of access restriction for now at least as this is something missing from ipfs itself, check out radicle’s faq. This isn't quite true. We already have an authentication and authorization mechanism on top of ipfs.
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by jkarni 8y ago
We store their public key on the machine. They can add (or remove) admins. Every input is signed, and (when relevant) the author is checked for authorization.
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by jkarni 8y ago
There already is access control. Only admins can accept patches, for instance (though a bug we've just made a fix for [0] meant if someone else tried doing it the entire patch system for that project would break). Programmatic cont
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by jkarni 8y ago
As u/sneak pointed out, you can also completely remove things from the logs. It goes outside the semantics of the Radicle language itself, so it's not exactly first-class, but is possible.
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by jkarni 8y ago
While it's true there's currently no easy way to do that, we've made the machines (the name we use for each instance of an issue, project or patch utility instance) upgradable by the maintainer [0], and each submission is a

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