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roberth resigned from the Nix maintainer team, not the Steering Committee. > So while I shouldn’t let myself be bullied away, I am stepping down from the Nix maintainer team. > I a…

This was such a sad period, and I'm still sad at how you were treated. I hope in cooler times that the lifetime ban is lifted.

Nix is flexible enough to bend to your will. Perhaps it is no surprise the earlier adopters were people with rigid views.

A team of two people decided to disband the team, but continue to make contributions.

The moderation team quit because they could no longer act with impunity. This was the elected steering committee doing its job, and a sign of growing health.

I've been a user for many years, and have 100+ PRs, but I'm not really a part of the community, so these posts are the only drama I see. The PRs keep rolling and things keep improv…

I would love GNU Hurd to succeed. That said, if there's a resurgence in microkernel, it will probably come from the Rust community.

How novel is it really? You think what they're doing isn't covered in the intersection of OS books, OS papers, other OSs, osdev, random GitHub projects?

Revealing your identity needs only to be done once, and then you can't undo. It's difficult for us to know what reason they might have for anonymity until we know their identity, a…

Yes, the data source is clearly useful, so not having it is a loss. But an edit is large enough a privilege to require all these checks. Perhaps it's not that OSM that needs a sign…

Oh, not that seriously, but it makes me wonder!

We've all what a terrible job LLMs do in some problems. But they are doing well at burning down Erdos's list of problems. Perhaps mathematicians aren't a good measure of "truly sma…

I'm not a sophisticated LLM user, but nor do I have tricky usecases. Opus 4.5 with a plan mode is enough for me: it asks clarifying questions to map out the design space, it covers…

"Tailscale is a zero trust network!" That's the problem. Tailscale is not zero trust. Tailscale can be used to implement a zero trust architecture, with if deployed with sufficient…

That's fair. In addition, I'd add the great compatibility guarantees, and a community that makes easy-to-learn libraries.

They're suggesting you won't need an IDE and a VM to build a service, for example. You'll just prompt your LLM provider and they'll provision your software. It'll do testing, depen…

I think it was. Go without generics was ok. I say that as a fan of generics in other languages. There is room for languages with simpler feature sets. It takes a strong leader (and…

The README: > Nothing is wrong with udev. In fact udev is great, as should be obvious from its 20+ years of service on nearly every GNU/Linux system out there. The rule format it p…

If you still want ChromeOS, try https://chromeos.google/intl/en_au/products/chromeos-flex/ If you want to boot a Linux distribution, try https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/

+1. Membership is open. The vote was given to members. This is all reasonable. I will have to move my projects off Codeberg, but that's okay. We have incompatible views. No grudges…

This field is fortunate to have passionate people. I'm glad that they have a space that feels comfortable. (I'm on Codeberg, but this will likely force me off it.)

Nobody forces projects to accept changes that add support for various platforms, yet it's common that they do. Nix is one such platform.