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by williamvds 4y ago
This is the kicker when it comes to the advertising industry. Advertisers pride themselves on slurping up all the personal information they can get their hands on, telling their customers it will help make their advertisements more effectiv
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by williamvds 4y ago
I've got a simple use case: reproducibly building a random derivation from someone's Git repo. If they haven't pinned nixpkgs, I have no idea at what point it _was_ building successfully. It's just dumb luck whether my s
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by williamvds 4y ago
You'd think any trust would have been proven misplaced by now[0]. I do hope European countries continue reclaiming their privacy from the USA. Let us just hope it is with truly secure systems rather than their own backdoored ones. [0]
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by williamvds 4y ago
In case you don't realize it, your behavior in this thread is patronizing (telling people how they should behave), degrading (not directly talking to the commenter), and from a clear place of closed-mindedness (writing as if teaching
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by williamvds 4y ago
Another option is to find a Nixpkgs commit which does contain the version of a package that you want. You can pin and import it as a Flake input, and use the old version of the package provided. So in its own way, Nix and Nixpkgs do serve t
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by williamvds 4y ago
The flake starts at this level: https://git.sr.ht/~williamvds/config/tree/master/item/nix Struggle is a good way to put it! I feel I hit one of Nix's pain points here: packaging software whose
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by williamvds 4y ago
I briefly considered it, but there are some big problems: - The new replacement package, syncserver-rs, has already been added to Nixpkgs, along with a NixOS module [0] - Python 2 and the package itself are no longer supported, meaning...
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by williamvds 4y ago
Good point, I'll update the comment to indicate syncserver is now unmaintained. Of course, everything self-hosted is at my own risk etc. And official support is a luxury in this kind of FOSS, I generally don't count on it. But sin
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by williamvds 4y ago
I've self-hosted the original Firefox syncserver[0] for a couple of years now. It's a now unmaintained Python 2 + gunicorn web app. It still uses the Firefox identities service, since I haven't bothered to try setting that on
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by williamvds 4y ago
If I had to guess the parent commenter's rationale, they probably want people to boycott usage of such Electron apps. In the hopes that these companies would stop making them and pushing them onto their users.
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by williamvds 4y ago
Zoom is an Electron app, meaning it effectively bundles Google Chrome, meaning it should work in any modern browser. My commom thought when I have to use such apps is: why can't I just use this in the browser? In some cases it's s
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by williamvds 4y ago
Last time I used Poetry, I got frustrated at how long updating the lock file (i.e. resolving dependencies) took. Adding the debug flag showed it was spending most of its time combing through each version of the setuptools package, oldest to
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by williamvds 4y ago
Perhaps Functional Programming Language
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by williamvds 4y ago
Have you checked out the manual? https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#python Particularly section 17.27.1.2. Developing with Python. Combine that with a generic guide on using Flakes and that should get y
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by williamvds 4y ago
This is a good idea. Most modern languages have their own build tool which handle most of these things, so this requires some separate learning with C++. Some ideas for a curriculum: Context - C++ as a standard, compilers as implementations
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by williamvds 4y ago
My main selling point is no longer feeling like you're fighting your text editor. Once it's muscle memory you focus very little on the act of editing, just on what you're writing. With more advanced stuff like macros and subs
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by williamvds 4y ago
When I bought a throwaway GiffGaff SIM while I was waiting months for BT to set up my broadband, it had content blocking on by default. They wanted me to send a picture of my driver's license to lift the restrictions. I'm not sure
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by williamvds 4y ago
You may be interested in Flakes[0], which locks your nixpkgs (and other "inputs") to a specific known version. Obligatory disclaimer, they're still in beta, but everyone's using them anyway. There's some ongoing wor
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by williamvds 4y ago
Definitely up there for the top Nix benefits - truly atomic OS upgrades. It's a shame this isn't explicitly highlighted on nixos.org, it's only implied in the "Is the previous version better? Roll back anytime."[0]
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by williamvds 4y ago
I get the impression America is uniquely vulnerable among the wealthiest nations. Private healthcare providers, a defanged health regulator, and rampant corporate bribery/advertising. Purdue salespeople lobbied doctors directly to pres
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by williamvds 4y ago
Wholly agree on the immersion: a decent VR game, even if janky, has a great advantage in immersion by actually feeling _present_ in whatever virtual world you're in. Two examples I'd add: VTOL VR, somewhere closer to the Sim genre
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by williamvds 4y ago
I've worn glasses since I was a kid, when you're entitled to a free frame from the cheaper range at Boots (a local retailer) (also, thanks, NHS). I remember struggling to find a design that I liked decent around that price range.
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by williamvds 4y ago
Forgive me if I'm mistaken, I've never used mastodon, but I expect part of the "federated" bit means being able to "follow" users from other Mastodon instances, including EU Voice. So you'd need just one a
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by williamvds 4y ago
It's quite sensible really, why would you leave a method of disseminating official statements vulnerable to the whims of a private American corporation? Discussion still can and will be held on platforms not directly controlled by gove
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by williamvds 4y ago
If by law or employment contract, a company must pay compensation after a dismissal, there is now an incentive for companies to "force out" employees by making them resign by their own hand. It's quite clear this is what happ
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by williamvds 4y ago
I initially tried neomutt before moving to aerc and haven't looked back since. My memory of neomutt is pretty hazy, but I feel aerc has a much simpler setup process (it has built-in SMTP support) and a less steep learning curve. aerc&#
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by williamvds 4y ago
From a C/C++ programmer's POV those may look like GOTO labels, I agree. The proposed syntax is probably a consequence of a modern trend in using := for declaration and assignment. x := 5 Where you can optionally insert th
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by williamvds 4y ago
Short story idea: An elderly person living isolated with their best friend. All amenities are delivered autonomously, so we only see these two the entire time. The friend starts acting strangely over time, as if he's developing the ear
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by williamvds 4y ago
I'd much prefer tech being open to everyone rather than kept to megacorporations that OpenAI deems worthy (and has received funding from). A neural network isn't a lethal weapon, the potential for malicious use is much more limite
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by williamvds 5y ago
Smudge & clean might do the trick, but it could be dirty. The smudge -> clean process might produce additional changes that aren't related to the purpose of your commit. Whitespace in particular could be a problem, especially wh

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