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by phaer 4y ago
Afaik it's not finished yet, but there recently has been quite a lot of activity regarding secureboot for nixos https://github.com/nix-community/lanzaboote/
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by phaer 4y ago
Grepping nixpkgs is what i do as well, but for functions specifically i found https://noogle.dev/ to be useful. Same experience with mkDerivation as well - I personally have lots of hope for https://github.com&#x
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by phaer 4y ago
> On the other hand what’s the use case of a POWER9 desktop system? It's pretty much the only platform which can be run without firmware blobs that's somewhat competitive in terms of performance afaik.
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by phaer 4y ago
Looks useful on big repositories! https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/ would be a great benchmark for a tool like this :) One of the larger repos on github, close to half a million commits by a large set of contribut
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by phaer 4y ago
Whenever a company has got a "Python" tag, there's a "Pyth" tag right before that, I assume that's a typo?
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by phaer 4y ago
What do you mean "have been trying to make zfs happen"? ZFS is used in production in many places.
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by phaer 4y ago
It's of course possible to mitigate, but that's somewhat more involved than "just" sprinkling e2e encryption on top ;)
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by phaer 4y ago
Especially with things like notifications, even e2e encryption can't generally provide complete privacy because metadata is data too ;)
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by phaer 4y ago
All true, but it might be worth mentioning that most of those benefits are still Austrian law, not European law. So while they generally better than the US, other EU states might lack some of those law.
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by phaer 4y ago
> Can you really build a social network on volunteers that invest their own money and time, with little reward? You can at least use it for existing communities and "social networks": family, friends, geographical communities
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by phaer 4y ago
Same in Austria, and I believe, in the whole EU.
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by phaer 4y ago
Thanks, I personally grew accustomed to just writing "ssh $host 'tmux a || tmux'
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by phaer 4y ago
This might not work the same for a fresh port on an alternative system. For example: I have no idea how many open connections reactos could handle on the kernel-side with a standard config.
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by phaer 4y ago
Flake-utils, flake-utils-plus, https://flake.parts/ , https://github.com/divnix/std/ and others :D
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by phaer 4y ago
Yes, my understanding is that the official documentation lags behind community usage, because flakes are still an "experimental" feature as details of the implementation are worked out. For reference documentation, there's &q
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by phaer 4y ago
Great introduction and overview on the theoretic foundations of the nix ecosystem! For people new to it, I am trying to provide a quick glossary of terms here, as I understand them after about 2 years of using nix. * nix: a language to cr
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by phaer 4y ago
That's my understanding as well, so I think you are correct but I am no C wizard myself :)
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by phaer 4y ago
It's including another C file, normally you'd just include a "header file" in C and compile each C file separately.
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by phaer 4y ago
Why would you need a load-balancer if you only have a single machine?
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by phaer 4y ago
I think the problem might be less on the technical and more on the business-side of things. Status pages that raise customers confidence in your service are good from a marketing perspective. Automatically publishing uptime data without hu
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by phaer 4y ago
> I find it even more amazing that there are more people who have a Generalabonnement than a Bahncard 100 (the German equivalent which is a bit cheaper). [1] To contextualize this a bit: Switzerland has about a tenth of the German popula
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by phaer 4y ago
Ah yes good point for the gpg key itself, but I store a few other important secrets there as well ;)
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by phaer 4y ago
I think the official recommendation is to store a second yubikey in a safe location. Personally I just generated my key offline (on a tails livecd) and backed it up to two different LUKS-encrypted USB sticks. One of those is stored at my pl
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by phaer 4y ago
You could get WP "5.9.3" ( https://github.com/stokry/wp-sqlite/blob/main/wp-includes/ve... ) from upstream and diff -ru them, i think? But yes, ongoing maintenance and following upstream mig
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by phaer 4y ago
You can't make them go away, but you can follow upstream for security fixes as close as possible and communicate them as good as possible. Nixpkg does quite a good job in tracking those issues, imho. https://github.com/
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by phaer 5y ago
[Pika Backup]( https://apps.gnome.org/app/org.gnome.World.PikaBackup/ ) is a simple and well-designed GTK frontend for borg IMO
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by phaer 5y ago
Yes, it's an encoded public key, identifying the service. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.onion#Format even "bbcnews" is part of that key, probably brute-forced until that prefix was found.
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by phaer 5y ago
Visidata is such a gem of software! A real good example of what kind of UIs are possible for "power users"
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MirageOS 4.0.0 Beta Release(mirage.io)
24 points by phaer 5y ago|0 comments
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by phaer 5y ago
Please note that this release announcement is from 2017. I'd suggest adding that to the title. There have been several releases since, including the first 4.0.0-beta just yesterday https://mirage.io/blog/announcing

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