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Wondering what the recourse is, as my friend has an expensive paperweight now, and we used it a lot. Ideas welcome.

Actually yes, but they haven't had the money to re-implement it all, such that it works again as it once did.

https://nix.camp/ Bring your friends :)

The SCION Book goes over a lot of potential solutions that are possible because of the architecture, but my favorite is hidden paths. https://scion.docs.anapaya.net/en/latest/hidde…

For my own setup, I'm looking into Path Aware Networking (PAN) architectures like SCION to avoid exposing paths to my sshd, without having to set up a VPN or port knocking. https:/…

TL;DR is that it uses TCL Expect and Tesseract OCR together to automate the installation of archaic operating systems and boil them down to a single Nix command, or nixosModule.

Reproducibility and build determinism are slightly different. Nix is not really about bit-for-bit reproducibility, that is a side-goal, and one that is being worked towards. It is …

"Easier to use" comes at a cost. I have to wonder whether there's a lower limit to how "easy" reproducibility can be. It is a matter of physics at some level, and the ease of repro…

> docker forces all injection points to be super explicit. L O L

What you suggested about the listed steps is a bad suggestion. Docker should crash if you don't use a sha256 in a Dockerfile, or at least make some sort of lock file. But it instea…

Nix. Nix. Nix. Nix. Nix. Nix. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uixRE8xlbY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Le0IbPRzOE

At 2 hours it's probably a bit too long for some, but I liked taking questions and just going with the flow!

https://floxdev.com/blog/hash-collision

So what about the IPFS CAR format? https://car.ipfs.io/ , it would fulfill a lot of what I expect from NAR too. NAR or CAR, I don't care, I believe the content is what matters, not…

This is the only case then?