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Thanks for this, awesome to finally be able to guix shell in an Emacs session!

https://xkcd.com/1112

> You could say that ipv5 is kinda like if you made v4-mapped-v6 the only way to use ipv6, didn't do NAT64, and then expanded those to >4 bytes at a later time. I guess I don't und…

What do you mean when you say IPv5 works "instantly" with v4 routing tables, DHCP, DNS, and NAT? I think you're misunderstanding that any way you slice it, there will be a protocol…

My consumer router uses iptables under the hood, so it accepts a mask in the firewall rule (so e.g. I can do ::0123:4567:89ab:cdef/::ff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff as a target, and when my…

In a world where everyone by default had unlimited rights to use, modify, and redistribute software, sure, copyleft would be unnecessary. But we don't live in such a world. You bel…

It is explicitly _not_ controlling what _users_ do. It is a restriction on _distributors_ of software. As a user of the software, you may use it for any purpose, modify it to your …

You seem to misunderstand the GPL. > if people make modifications to the software and keep that private later on, let them. This is perfectly legal under the GPL. What's not legal …

Great to see Guix finally cut a new release! Lots of changes since the last release and while Guix users get to see these immediately with `guix pull`, this should get some more vi…

Honestly surprised the article didn't mention Nix or Guix. Seems like functional package management solves the exact problems the author is worried about.