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> Yep, police can simply ask anyone for their passwords and if you don't give it up they can put you in jail. This is precisely the reason why I don't want to visit the US at the m…

The name, the logo, the values and many important strategic decisions seems to have already been decided, before a public channel of communication has been created. Was this create…

As much as I think they overreacted when banning you, it also feels like an overreaction to fork that soon. I hope a compromise will be found, and that you'll be back on NixOS as s…

Yeah, automation in Nixpkgs is crazy and goes far beyond any other distros (that I know of). Why spend manual time when it can be automated?

> Is nixpkgs really a monorepo as usually discussed? It's got packages, os modules, and some supporting scripts. Nix itself lives in a different place, so does the RFC planning, sy…

NixOS uses a monorepo and I think everyone loves it. I love being able to easily grep through all the packages source code, and there's regularly PRs that harmonizes conventions ac…

But you can use `envfs` to "restore" that compatibility ;) Or something heavier like `steam-run`

I allocate all my SSD space to one ZFS pool and then: - I can easily create new subvolumes (filesystems or block devices), for different mount points, containers, other distributio…

I have been using ZFS as root FS since the first release of ZFS on Linux (2013) on all my machines (laptops, NAS, server) and I can't imagine going back.

Why shouldn't it be a valid opinion to not like cryptocurrencies? And to not want to contribute? Why is not ok to prefer money regulated by the rule of law? Moreover, I have no ide…

How is it different from using Clang's CFI (control flow integrity)? I thought this was the same technique used in webassembly. Chromium is using this too i think

To be fair, when sending a Pixel for reparations, Google very clearly and explicitly asks to factory_reset the phone. I personally didn't reset it when I sent my Pixel 3 to fix the…

"Any optimization you could do in Rust is probably easier in C++" I think this feeling comes from the fact that it takes longer to learn the basics of Rust compared to C++. However…

Having read a great deal from him, I just want to confirm everything said about Andrew Gallant, and I absolutely trust him too! This blog post is a great testament to his human ski…

You might be interested in reading this more serious study: https://elifesciences.org/articles/62878 Article summarizing it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/amandasiebert/2021/03/03/l…

I haven't tried it yet, but Ego [1] feels like an imperfect but good enough solution to run your dev environment. [1] https://github.com/intgr/ego

Here's a nice Twitter thread explaining how this works: https://twitter.com/bert_hu_bert/status/1444018619059429377

I'm personally very enthusiastic about the security model of Fuchsia: https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/principles/secure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIT1ISCioDY

I've never received such an email, but I recently moved to many different countries (many months each), how can I check to which country my account is attached to?

Does someone knows why this tweet was previously flagged on HN? see: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1399094306221166592