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What's the dumbest reason you've learned a programming language?
  • Didn't get a single reqeust, so this had less impact than expected. Thought there was more old rusty companies looking for a non-retired engineer.

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    What's the dumbest reason you've learned a programming language?
  • I wanted to see what the COBOL job market looked like. So I learned the superficial basics of COBOL in a day or two, just so I wouldn't be a complete fraud when I put it into my linkedin profile as a skill to see what happens.

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    VPN by Google One is shutting down for good
  • What's the threat model here? I can think of no DNS shennanigans that would not be detectable through the authentication mechainsms in TLS (chain-of-trust). Not having to trust network infrastructure is exactly what TLS is for.

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    VPN by Google One is shutting down for good
  • What is it that you're doing that is still not using some form of authenticated encryption? Almost everything is https, ssh, almost all mailservers have tls support, irc does have tls support.. What's left that needs to be encrypted by a VPN?

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    Who's setting up swap for me?
  • It's difficult to say without seeing your nixos config. Are you importing any nixos modules? Would you be able to share your configs?

    Also see https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Swap In paricular:

    If you are using GPT partitioning tables, systemd-gpt-auto-generator(8) will still mount your swap partition automatically.

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    Java 21 makes me actually like Java again
  • I'm not sure I agree that Void is a bottom type. If so, void-functions would never be able to return/terminate. Java's void is probably more of a unit type.

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  • github.com NixOS on RISC-V · Issue #101651 · NixOS/nixpkgs

    Issue description Judging from the screenshot in #36187, @shlevy has already been successful in running some form of NixOS on RISC-V. I'd just like to know what the status of this is, as naively tr...

    tl;dr image buildable with some patches

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    How to improve NixOS performance on old hardware?
  • I suspect this is a problem with your particular combination of hardware and kernel. I doubt this has something to do with NixOS itself, so I would try to see if there's something to be found in the ArchWiki. The solution might be to pick a different kernel and/or using paricular kernel modules/module options. Good luck

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    What do you do when Nix isn't worth the time?
  • I think would just try to compile it from source. Using a different package manager seems very weird. I suspect getting the source to build on nixOS is more or less equivalent in terms of effort than to create a derivation. I have done so in the past and I ended up pushing them to nixpkgs. If compiling is out of the question, I guess docker but I havn't had to do that, yet.

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  • github.com GitHub - figsoda/ekalf: The correct way to use Nix flakes

    The correct way to use Nix flakes. Contribute to figsoda/ekalf development by creating an account on GitHub.

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    thatcomputerscientist.com Shifoo - Nix is the New Arch!

    Remember the days when everyone and their pet iguana was raving about Arch Linux? You couldn't escape the ever-so-subtle "I use Arch BTW" remarks in every Linux forum. Well, move over, Arch, because NixOS is here to steal your thunder! Nowadays, it seems that you can't browse YouTube or read...

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    drakerossman.com Why and How to Add Home Manager to NixOS

    Home Manager is a tool to manage user-specific configuration on nix-enabled systems. By the end of this article you should have the understanding of why you should use it, as well as a system with Home Manager enabled.

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    About a year ago I bought a quickmill carola https://www.quickmill.it/en/products/lever-group/carola-mod-0960/.

    In general it's not a bad machine; I like the E61 system, I'm happy with the PID and it's compact and looks ok. I absolutely hate the vibration pump, though. It takes 10-15 seconds from activating the pump to get to max pressure which is a significant of my shot time. I havn't found a great way to deal with it and I'm close to get a different machine just because of the pump.

    Does anyone have a vibration pump and is happy with it? Is there some technique you're using with the E61 to get around it maybe?

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    Is the language set correctly?

    Somtimes when I post to other instances I have issues when I don't set the language. I think there is normally a "Undetermined" lanuage on lemmy but this instance doesn't offer it. Could this be the root of some UI issues? Is this set correctly and what does it mean for my profile not to have selected undetermined?

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    github.com Issues · NixOS/nixpkgs

    Nix Packages collection & NixOS. Contribute to NixOS/nixpkgs development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Here is a link to the currently open github issues for the nixpkgs repository that are tagged "1.severity: security". Use this to browse around; some of them are simple package version update requests, some are pretty involved changes. If you're bored, why not pick one up? :-).

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    nixos.org Blog → Announcements | Nix & NixOS

    Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative and reliable systems.

    The 23.05 release was made possible due to the efforts of 1867 contributors, who authored 36566 commits since the previous release. Our thanks go the contributors who also take care of the continued stability and security of our stable release.

    NixOS is already known as the most up to date distribution while also being the distribution with the most packages. This release saw 16240 new packages and 13524 updated packages in Nixpkgs. We also removed 13466 packages in an effort to keep the package set maintainable and secure.

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