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I honestly think the big win coming out of the most recent events is framing https://github.com/nixos/nix as "CppNix". There are lots of good explanations about how each of the pieces relates to one another, but for practical purposes, many of those pieces live in one place, and now we can all call that place CppNix, which sounds...less than ideal! I think it's the thing that will make clear just how dependent the whole enterprise is on that piece, and just how tightly that piece is controlled, even if other people on the CppNix team think that something like a fork is overkill and that things are better, because they can only be so good when CppNix is the default for a bunch of things it shouldn't be. Some of those other team members have been working to make that less true, and I think that's great, but I think a lot of recent documentation improvements have managed to hide the tight coupling, even if it wasn't intentional, and this makes it absolutely clear.

I understand why they chose this, but I think their failure to recognize the UX improvements of flakes limits their scope unnecessarily. I think they can be much more aggressive about how they cause regressions while acknowledging that maybe having a more structured system is good, even if that system is fundamentally broken in all sorts of ways.

“He’d burn a church for her.” He thinks, “I’m Ryan Gosling in Drive. I’m American Psycho. I’m Joker. I’m Taxi Driver.”

I love how clearly this communicates which of these she's seen.

Something that's been interesting to observe through all of this is just how much moderation matters to the quality of discussion in a space, no matter what the space is or who runs it.

There's some bitter irony to the fact that I've been getting nonstop notices about commits to the infamous "lazy trees" branch, the thing that is supposed to make flakes usable with monorepos (but in practice has yet to do so). Watching those notifications the last couple of days has told me all I needed to know.

There's a LWN piece that does a pretty good job with framing the specifics of this letter within some context. It gets some things wrong, such as stating that the arms manufacturer was rejected as a sponsor in both cases, but it has been corrected. The orange site is, of course, negging it with mod tools, showing that they're fine with mods pulling out the C-4 when it's their unelected mod team of choice.

I'm having fun thinking of infinite leather daddies whacking keyboards with dildos now.

If you or your loved ones have been exposed to the knowledge of dust specks, you may be entitled to compensation in a future simulation.

I've been fairly surprised by how poorly they've handled community engagement since they were "founded". If there's one good thing that can come of all this, it will be to make DetSys sufficiently toxic that they lose purchase in the larger enterprise and end up the first ones to blink with a fork. Some have suggested that they've all but done that already, and while there's no conclusive evidence, I'm looking forward to breaking out the popcorn if they end up trying to speedrun Hashicorp.

Big Daddy happily reminds Anduril that this should have no impact on their murder bot deliverables.