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by rekado 3y ago
I self host prosody (an XMPP server) with a TURN server in my living room. With Guix System this is largely declarative, aside from the DNS records and initial user account registration (which I do on the command line). We're using it
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by rekado 3y ago
Tangentially related: here's a free software recreation of Prince of Persia: http://oitofelix.github.io/mininim/ (Unfortunately, the assets are not under a free license.)
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by rekado 3y ago
Yes, this is what I meant. There is no single photon (or any other single object) moving across the surface of the moon. No individual thing is moving faster than the speed of light in this scenario.
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by rekado 3y ago
Think of a sunset just before the sun appears to fall below the horizon as the length of the shadows approaches infinity. Not only shadows can move faster than light. Any projection can. Take a laser pointer and aim for the moon, then fli
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by rekado 3y ago
What does this mean? Downvoting this submission? Why?
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by rekado 3y ago
> Guix started as a fork of Nix This is not actually correct. Guix only ever used a copy of the nix-daemon, because there's no point in reinventing the derivation format or the low-level implementation of functional package managem
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by rekado 3y ago
Here is a free software animator: https://www.synfig.org/ Development is kinda slow, but this also means that it still works just as well as when I made a little short movie 15 years ago.
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by rekado 3y ago
In the book "The Charisma Machine" they say that the name is a "cheekily intentional reference to something children love but adults are not so sure about". I think it's a good name.
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by rekado 3y ago
My kid loves the maze activity. It actually is a lot of fun to her. While I will concede that many Sugar activities lean towards the ugly side (usually when images are involved), fun things don't need to be drenched in gaudy colors t
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by rekado 3y ago
> the activities are not as fun with the exception of Scratch (but that's external). Sugar has the TurtleArt activity, which is very much like Scratch but with the LOGO turtle: https://help.sugarlabs.org/en/turt
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by rekado 3y ago
You can install the Sugar desktop on Guix System, too. I have a little netbook with Guix System + Sugar that my kid uses.
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by rekado 3y ago
This is very nice. I'm using [Sidebery]( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/ ) for vertical sidebar tabs. How does fireside differ?
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by rekado 3y ago
That's my blog post! Yes, the GHC story is also terrible (and just a tad worse than the rust story). The GHC problem is worse largely because the origins of GHC are murky. While it's still possible to get copies of the early G
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by rekado 3y ago
The Rust bootstrapping story is ugly. https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2018/bootstrapping-rust/
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by rekado 3y ago
The Summer of Code project was unsuccessful for personal reasons. The project was also never even close to high priority, because the daemon just isn't all that interesting beyond performing its one job of implementing the functional
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by rekado 3y ago
I'm used to being called "insufferable" for working on free software. Still a bit harsh judgment of people who at the end of the day still produce software that you are free to use for any purpose or ignore, no? > So it&#
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by rekado 3y ago
That's an unfortunate take. "Unclean" is your choice of words, not ours. There is no hostility to people who use proprietary software, nor is any kind of judgement of other people's computing purposes and habits warran
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by rekado 3y ago
One thing that hasn't changed, though, is that compatibility with the Hurd is still a major goal. Sadly (but understandably) development pushes forward for Shepherd on Linux and then we aim to make it work on the Hurd, instead of lett
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by rekado 3y ago
If you mean the Microsoft project called "GUIX": sure, it's rather restricted. Guix, however, goes out of its way to support extensions at different levels of its architecture. Not only can you extend it with channels, local
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by rekado 3y ago
No. While the core repository (we call that a "channel") only includes free software, there are no restrictions whatsoever on what you can or cannot install with Guix. Guix makes it trivial to add third-party channels (such as no
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by rekado 3y ago
Guix includes a copy of the nix-daemon. It's a relatively small C++ program that manages the store. We reuse it because there was no point in writing a replacement for something as low-level as the daemon. Guix compiles its package
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by rekado 3y ago
I'd like to point out that Guix is closer to ~52,000 packages than the ~29,000, as we maintain a bunch of things in separate channels that nixpkgs includes in its monorepo (e.g. the 20+k CRAN packages). See https://hpc.guix
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by rekado 3y ago
The FSF is not involved in the project. The FSF had no say in what service manager we use. A common misconception is that we somehow don't like systemd. It just so happens that having a thing that's written in Guile (like the re
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by rekado 3y ago
Yes, see `guix pack` with its various backends.
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by rekado 3y ago
> Is it like GNU Herd to Linux? (Surely not since it’s Linux ;)) You actually can use the Hurd as a kernel with Guix System. Or run a Hurd VM on your Linux-based Guix System with the childhurd.
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Guix-HPC Activity Report, 2023(hpc.guix.info)
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by rekado 3y ago
You can also install HIP/ROCm via Guix: https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2024/01/hip-and-rocm-come-to-guix... > AMD has just contributed 100+ Guix packages adding several versions of the whole HIP and ROCm
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by rekado 3y ago
With reproducible builds you get to challenge the binaries provided by your distribution. See < https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Invoking-guix... > for an example.
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by rekado 3y ago
You can also search system services / facilities: guix system search ...
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by rekado 3y ago
Software is political. It mediates countless human activities and thus establishes the routes on which we can feasibly act when computers are involved. Writing Free Software (i.e. freedom-respecting software) is a political act, and if it

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