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SuperSandro2000

hahaha, good one
Re:Nova Launcher Added Facebook and Google Ads Tracking on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @05:15AM (#46690188)
It used to be good :(
Re:Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @06:26AM (#46120158)
Codeberg just doesn't offer a viable CI ...
Re:Migrating Dillo from GitHub on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @06:12AM (#46120065)
No one should write C software in 2025...
Re:Migrating Dillo from GitHub on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @06:11AM (#46120061)
How to contribute? Just not at all?
When do we find the first Critical CVE in it?
Re:Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again on Monday November 03, 2025 @09:27AM (#45799309)
NIXOS! NIXOS!! NIXOS!!!
Re:Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino on Thursday October 09, 2025 @09:52AM (#45527717)
sigh...
If only someone would have warned us
Re:SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3 on Monday September 29, 2025 @05:46AM (#45411881)
It is basically dead
Re:Claude Code is all you need on Monday August 11, 2025 @04:58PM (#44869388)
Fuck claude! They DDoS'ed my infra until I completely banned them!
Re:Tell HN: 1.1.1.1 Appears to Be Down on Monday July 14, 2025 @06:37PM (#44566110)
Re:Tell HN: 1.1.1.1 Appears to Be Down on Monday July 14, 2025 @06:30PM (#44566049)
near total global outage according to https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/117762218/
Re:US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @08:13AM (#44509064)
3rd world country customer protection laws...
Re:Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries on Thursday April 10, 2025 @05:14AM (#43642165)
the chaos goes on
Re:Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia on Monday April 07, 2025 @05:03AM (#43609344)
Yeah, more MacOS utilities that accept slightly different arguments.
Re:I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad on Thursday April 03, 2025 @09:02AM (#43568996)
How?

The package manager needs more RAM than the average other package manager because it is doing a lot more behind the back.

Re:Val Kilmer has passed away on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @05:24AM (#43554964)
Stupid paywall...
Re:Self-Hosting like it's 2025 on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @08:54AM (#43546227)
some notes: - uptime kuma scales very bad, even with just 20 entries - Docker/Kubernetes is a trap, use something more suitable for a home lab like NixOS
The greet of the music labels. They would likely not have made a penny of this because you can't even buy this stuff anymore!
Re:Trump's 'Crypto Reserve' Is Such Brazen Corruption on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @07:38AM (#43265751)
Who tells you that no one is ever going to change the code and just print more? It is just trust that this is not going to happen.
Re:The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, passed away on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @07:30AM (#43265677)
5 points on that some scammer is going to buy the domains and doing shady things with it.
Doing great work at dismantling the US and making it a 3rd world country.
Re:Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @11:52AM (#42713436)
*it won't be in the future because it is no longer the grabbag for everything.

Also linking things to /usr/bin is done by the fhs which uses bubblewrap, not steam-run.

Re:Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @11:51AM (#42713419)
Be the change you want to see and help documenting the missing parts.

Also that is the old wiki but the same stays in the new one.

Re:Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @11:49AM (#42713384)
Everyone has some opinion. There are the people that say that flakes do to much and others are saying they do to little. No matter in which direction you go, someone is always unhappy.

Eval caching depends on pure eval and pure eval was previously not possible because channels are by design the most impure and cursed thing and are just a bandaid that lasted way to long.

The scaling with big repos gets worse as some use flakes instead of their normal build system which is not the intended use case. You still do development like normal with the normal build system.

Flakes are still unstable because everyone wants something different and there are still breaking changes planned which then everyone would wine about and maintaining backwards compatibility is a pain if you still change fundamental things.

Re:Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @11:45AM (#42713326)
Modern modules often have a settings option which directly links to the upstream documentation and you basically write the options from upstream into the settings option.

I look all the time in all kind of sources and skip all the tedious and annoying installation steps and just look at the described configs.

Re:Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @09:28AM (#42711124)
If you are using more than 2 channels than flakes are the natural progression.
Re:Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @09:27AM (#42711113)
When installing Nextcloud I basically have the following 4 options: - Do everything by hand and read through the docs on every update. Does not sound like fun. - Use someones Ansible playbook and hope that they update it on time. meh, also customizing it is not a walk in the park and requires some effort on my side. - Use the upstream Docker container which has the same customization problem as Ansible - Use the NixOS module. Updates are fast. Configuration changes are being handled by NixOS and I can easily inject a nginx location block in my declarative config. I also can easily describe extra bits like pre-compressed assets which then are served by nginx in my normal workflow without having to think about them at all on updates.

overlays and the module system are THE killer features. Almost no one else has something comparable to offer and if those powerful features are well understood, they can save you soo much hassle.

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