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Clever. I like it. I've given up trying to understand where my btrfs disk usage is, and I think this will help.

What does "valid comparison" mean? If the intent is to help potential readers to estimate the difficulty of the book, then that's useful.

I prefer to use Debian packages because it conforms to conventions that make managing systems easier: predictable naming, integration with service management, logging, docs, manage…

The author isn't saying that isn't important. The author is just tackling one aspect of censorship resistance.

What is your usecase for network transparency? Remote desktop? Is that not supported in a Wayland world?

Yes, a classic Linux distro feels like a REPL or writing in assembly/m4. NixOS turns a machine into a compiled program.

My comment was meant to demonstrate the effectiveness of the NixOS model. Debian relies on the blood, sweat and tears of maintainers, with weak steps towards automation: ( https://…

See also that there are comparatively few maintainers, despite having a large amount of up to date packages. This is the result of treating a distro as a software problem, versus t…

I've been using NixOS on all my devices for 2 years now, and it's great to have easy reproducible systems. NixOS design gives it a robustness that is missing from taking a mutable …

+1. I figured it was anti-abuse.

I meant modal as in "if you hold down backspace, the item's text will be removed, but the item heading will remain", i.e. the headers are read-only while editing an item. evil-org-…

Yeah, I think it could do with a modal interface: normal mode would perform tree-like operations and allow entering text. Insert mode would treat the entire file as plain text. ...…

I don't trust myself to remember to commit changes, so rely on regular btrfs-based snapshots via http://snapper.io/ .

I think the landing page would be more effective/descriptive if it emphasised it's role as a TODO/extensible structured document. I use it as a personal planner for career and life…

OP's solution sound good enough for their needs. Solutions can always be improved, but it's not always worth doing that.

I do a similar thing so I don't have to store sensitive data on a VPS. The sensitive data is used to compute non-sensitive results that I'm happy to go via a VPS.

After disliking it for 6-7 years, because it doesn't offer the amount of abstraction that others languages offer (Scala, Haskell, Java), Go has grown on me. I got too caught up in …

Does this reflect the global nature of tackling climate change? Tackling climate change requires structural changes, not heroics.

> It's simple enough. > (Oh and ...) +1 to just dumping it all in ~/.bashrc

gitlab.com is down, but are public/private instances are not. Separate failure domains is an advantage of self-hosted. Github is great, but when it's down, it impacts developers in…

It does not. It mentions "One might posit that people with lower cognitive ability have higher risk of catching the virus. We consider such a relationship plausible; however, it wo…

NZ's tax policies favour the rich too. https://twitter.com/hynesalan/status/1317837979520552961

I think the point is that there are unofficial routes: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/29/new-zealand-ga...

Not sure if you're rich, as Gabe is. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/29/new-zealand-ga...