moonpiedumplings

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[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

So, I use Arch, but I don't use the AUR at all. Instead, I use nixpkgs to get stuff (admittedly only like 3 packages) not in the Arch repos.

The main reason for this is the quality of AUR packages. Although I don't really fear a malicious package, I do remember hearing about a package that moved a users /bin to /opt during the install phase.

Something like that is literally impossible with Nix, due to the way that applications aren't really installed to the system. But, nixpkgs also requires some level of vetting the package quality, which is also nice.

I also use nix for managing all my development environments. For example, my blog github repo, has a few nix files at it's root, and you should just be able to type nix-shell in folder, and then you will get an identical environment to me.

declarative rollbackable immutability sounds really freakin’ AWESOME

I have BTRFS snapshots set up, and with grub-btrfs, I can even boot from them and revert to an older kernel (my /boot is stored on BTRFS).

However, I have given up on NixOS, for many reasons. The documentation is very poor, and it's more complexity than it's worth, to make my whole OS reproducible, rather than just my development environments. In addition to that, their are also issues with running certain apps that expect to see a normal FIlesystem Hierarchy, which nix does not provide. Although you can work around this with stuff like steam-run or creating a fake FHS using nix, I would rather not play that game.

But, considering I installed some stuff in an Ubuntu 22 distrobox recently, because that was what VScode and Unity official provide repos for, maybe this doesn't really matter. You can probably use distrobox on Nixos, but I've seen issues about GPU acceleration with distrobox (and other non-nix apps) as well.

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

You could consider just using -v, but of the folder one leve above the cloud drive. You shouldn't need most or the other options, or the two commands,

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

OP seems to be trying to install older projects, rather than creating a new project.

Oops... my bad. In my earlier comment I assumed that this would be a Fedora/Ublue based distro, rather than an Arch one. Arch doesn't have RPM ostree either (which makes me dislike it as a choice for an immutable distro).

But, it's highly likely that with the steam deck and other projects, there is already an ecosystem for immutable Arch, and a minimal base system to start is advantageous, as Possibly Linux said.

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes. Firstly, it's about release cycles. Centos Stream is a rolling release distro (although it rolls very, very slowly). But what this means, is that there isn't a true guarantee of application/ABI/API compatibility between current versions of Centos Stream and future versions.

In constrast to this, Centos 8 and previous were complete clones of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which was a stable release distro. During the 10 year lifecycle of each RHEL release, there was a guarantee certain application/ABI/API compatibility not changing, which is what stability in the Linux/software world is defined as.

Centos 8 was a free alternative, for institutions unwilling, or unable to pay for RHEL stable releases. But, with the death of Centos, an alternative was needed. Alma Linux, Rocky Linux, and Scientific Linux (designed for labs and universities), were rebuilds of RHEL. This meant that, they would take RHEL's open source code, and recompile it and distribute it in a way that guaranteed application/ABI/API compatibility with RHEL, for the same lifecycle of a RHEL release.

So Alma Linux and Rocky Linux fill that gap... but recently, RHEL said that they are adjusting policies to make it much harder for people to make rebuilds (likely targeting Oracle Linux, which is a RHEL rebuild), but this change may affect Alma and Rocky as well.

Rocky said they were going to keep bug-for-bug compatibility, like they used to, but Alma says they are going to do something different. Although they still intend to be ABI compatible, Alma has decided to make some changes to the base system, such as reimplimenting and continuing to support things that Red Hat saw unfit to continue existing in RHEL. One example of this is SPICE, which is a graphics protocol used for low latency display of virtual machines. It had many usecases, and I am very excited to see it back in a distro in the Red Hat ecosystem.

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 33 points 9 months ago (2 children)

https://help.kagi.com/orion/faq/faq.html#oss

We're working on it! We've started with some of our components and intend to open more in the future.

The idea that "open-source = trustworthy" only goes so far. For example, the same tech company that offers a popular open-source browser also has the largest ad/tracking network in history, with that browser playing a significant role in it. Another company with a closed-source browser (using WebKit like Orion) is on the forefront of privacy awareness and technologies in its products.

So, does anyone here remember when all chromium browsers had a secret api that sent extra data to google? Brave, Opera, and Edge got hit by this one, but I think Vivaldi dodged it. They all removed this after they found out, but still...

When it comes to things like browsers, due to the sheer complexity and difficulty to truly audit chromium, I don't really consider chromium to be "open source" in the same sense as many other apps. Legally, you can see and edit the code. But in practice, it's impossible to audit all of it, and the development is controlled by a single corporation who puts secrets in it, or removes features that harm their interests (manifest v3). Personally, I consider Minecraft Java to be closer to open source than chromium is.

To say that:

The idea that "open-source = trustworthy" only goes so far

is really just a cop-out and excuse for not being transparent with their code and what they are doing.

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Opensuse doesn't have rpm-ostree. Their immutable offerings are just snapper/btrfs snapshots before changes to the system.

Such a setup is nowhere near as powerful. rpm-ostree can rebase itself based off of a container/oci image. It can layer images on top of eachother. Rather than just tracking when changes happened, it can also track what change happened, in a git style setup.

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Uh...

Enpass is a freemium password manager and

From wikipedia.

So you switched to a proprietary password manager?

Also:

The Enpass app retains no user data on its company servers,[6][7] instead storing and syncing encrypted password vaults on storage controlled by the end user. 

How is this different than keepass/xc, a fully foss solution?

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (9 children)

https://owncast.online

One lgbtq+ streamer I know dual streams to owncast

The directory is a list of live owncast streams.

Also, you should be able to chat on owncast streams with fediverse accounts, but the last time I tried, I wasn't able to log log in with my lemmy account.

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The whole point of it is that in a truly random system all known patterns should eventually emerge somewhere within it.

So pi (probably) has this property. There are some joke compression programs around this (they don't really work because it takes up more space to store where something in pi is, than storing the thing itself). But it is funny, to think that pi could theoretically hold every past, present, and future piece of information within those digits after the decimal.

https://github.com/philipl/pifs

https://ntietz.com/blog/why-we-cant-compress-messages-with-pi/

No need for AI for that, humans can do it better:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=l7ZUZerGwK4

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zn_rx8Zyl54

If you know where to look, someone already did it.

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