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by pxc 2y ago
That's ridiculous. I wouldn't consider running this in alpha regardless of what it looks like, so you can get I'll be checking back in when it hits its first stable release to actually give it a try.
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by pxc 2y ago
Rust isn't really new or untested, though. I issue with RIIR isn't Rust so much as the act of rewriting, which carries inherent risks. I think the temptation to rewrite also reflects how messy and unworkable we let codebasee get—
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by pxc 2y ago
I bought a used M1 Max MBP recently, in part because the Asahi features table is starting to look pretty good. But with the remaining outstanding hardware issues and the battery life gap in mind, I will probably get an overall better experi
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by pxc 2y ago
Specialization is wonderful and makes great things possible, but it also tends to inflict a certain kind of brain damage. Specialists! Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em.
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by pxc 2y ago
> If most software engineers want to legitimately call themselves engineers, the field should be formalized as an engineering discipline, including coursework, certification/licensure and, better yet, apprenticeship-like experiences
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by pxc 2y ago
I agree with all of this. :) But if you're looking for a way out from Apple's paternalism without giving up too much practical security, getting your software from free software distributions as much as possible and treating F&#x2
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by pxc 2y ago
The two that I saw this were OrbStack and Podman Desktop, when their signatures were replaced (I think to ensure that their trampoline (launcher shim) apps could have the same signatures as the real apps). Maybe apps that use Apple's v
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by pxc 2y ago
For those curious, loginctl enable-linger <user> will allow you to use systemd user services for users that are not logged in: https://manpages.org/loginctl If you're using systemd as a service manager (wh
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by pxc 2y ago
> Tacitly: most people don’t like launchd, but they don’t interact with it either. Find me a person who writes or debugs launchd plists and you’ll find that: > [...] > 2. they don’t like launchd This is true in my case, although th
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by pxc 2y ago
I've had some apps refuse to run until I acknowledged their signer in the Security & Privacy section of System Preferences even though the quarantine bit was not set, unfortunately.
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by pxc 2y ago
> It’s no different on desktop OSes, but users have been more acclimated to it there since full blown access to everything has been the norm there longer than it hasn’t. This is a problem with proprietary software markets in particular.
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by pxc 2y ago
I'll second this recommendation! Benno Rice is an insightful, energetic, witty, and just plain enjoyable tech speaker. 'What UNIX Cost Us'[1] is another favorite of mine that the audience on this post might enjoy: https:&#x2
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by pxc 2y ago
I'd love to hear technical explanations of the differences in performance for the most popular Linux filesystems (ext4, XFS, BTRFS, ZFS) vs. APFS and ZFS on macOS. But differences are certainly very noticeable between the ext4 Linux VM
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by pxc 2y ago
You can set up SSH to use certs and then add the server cert to your known_hosts file instead of the individual host keys. Then when the host keys rotate, all is well as long as the new host keys are signed by the same cert.
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by pxc 2y ago
A good editor and an LLM could maybe do something sort of useful for helping people customize packages. Used sparingly alongside programmatic generation of Nix code and old-fashioned templating, maybe it could even be reliable enough to be
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by pxc 2y ago
> Moreso when they're great at understanding low-level programming languages and concepts This can likewise happen with high-level programming languages and concepts, too! A childhood friend of mine, now a mathematician, has been a
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by pxc 2y ago
I just tried 1Password and it refused to start not being in `/Applications`. I've seen this happen with one other app (Secretive), although it doesn't quite refuse to run. I can't remember all the details, but I think it
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by pxc 2y ago
I've never used a language server for Nix but I do use the repl. Are any of the language server implementations good these days?
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by pxc 2y ago
As I'm sure you know, 'snowflake' has become a pejorative. But in the end I agree with you: that sarcastic usage is a recent and unimportant fad. Words have multiple connotations and those connotations are often context bound
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by pxc 2y ago
It's not exactly a writeup or review, but Ian Henry's blog series How to Learn Nix captures the surprises, good and bad, that a newbie exploring Nix is likely to encounter. Some of the problems he encounters may be outdated, as
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by pxc 2y ago
Ugh! How annoying. Which apps did you try that with? I just gave it a try with a couple random ones. I tried Marta, CyberDuck, IINA, KeePassXC, and CotEditor and they all worked. (Spotify didn't build because the Brew package doesn&#x2
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by pxc 2y ago
Yeah, I think it is still being worked on. It's only got a handful of contributors.
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by pxc 2y ago
I mostly just use Nix, but I also have pkgsrc, MacPorts, and (kinda) Homebrew installed on my Mac. The only ones with any CLI tools installed, though, are Nix and pkgsrc.
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by pxc 2y ago
Then why did Apple hire the creator of Homebrew to work on the package manager for Swift?
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by pxc 2y ago
Here's my guess. Homebrew had at least these things going for it: - it has always had a strong emphasis on presenting a simple, clean, pleasant, pretty, playful UI and executed that well - when it came out, source-based package m
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by pxc 2y ago
I recently tried out mac-app-util¹, which fixes some of the usual pain with GUI apps. In conjunction with brew-nix², it looks like it might be most of what I'll need to move away from having Nix manage Homebrew for me. I don't use
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by pxc 2y ago
There have been a few attempts at this. I think some of them may even be working.
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by pxc 2y ago
Not speaking for GP or the way they meant to use the language, but a monoculture doesn't have to be a monopoly. It just has to be the only crop you grow on a given field, or in this case, the only EDR tool in use at a given company. Th
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by pxc 2y ago
I see what you're saying but I didn't really read the wolf stuff in terms of alphas and hierarchies so much. It seemed to stress social cohesion much more to me than status/dominance stuff. Like: > We will claim new terri
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by pxc 2y ago
Yep. That's why I (admittedly lazily) asked about MocaccinoOS earlier. This Funtoo business brought the fate of Sabayon to mind for me, because it was an old favorite. Sabayon shipped with all kinds of over-the-top compositor effects b

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