Nobody represents us, so we should represent ourselves: https://runforsomething.net/

Twitter is for narcissists, and when they say Mastodon is not as good as twitter they really mean that there’s not as many people watching them as on Twitter. So Bluesky gaining 500,000 new accounts could help in making it “better”.

Couldn’t that power be used to take control over Bitcoin chain?

Imagine what they could do if his coke-and-ketamine fueled dipshitery decided to take up a different hobby.

Didn’t he just do that with Xitter?

Seems like he is quite isolated in SpaceX and COO is running everything.

I disabled updates (though it looks like some Google apps update anyway) and majority continues to work. Few apps occasionally start a protest and tell me that I need to update before they resume their work.

It doesn’t answer your question, but indeed points that mostly there is nothing important.

That depends. Did he stop kissing his ring?

Frankly, if there was a transsexual M13 member that illegally crossed the border, murdering several border guards and in her way ate a cat, as long as she would express support of trump she wouldn’t have anything to worry about.

Amazing. As if these communities are made with thousands of people having different opinions.

And here’s mine: since Google used their position to essentially destroy any competition in this area, why should be my duty to protect their revenue? Even if I can afford to pay their services, I won’t and will actively discourage anyone else from doing so, by installing uBlock, ReVanced, NewPipe, SmartTube, GrayJay etc.

Actually you used it correctly. The slowdown to 8086 speeds was applied when the button was unpressed.

When the button was pressed the CPU operated at its normal speed.

On some computers it was possible to wire the button to act in reverse (many people did not like having the button be “on” all the time, as they did not use any 8086 apps), but that was unusual. I believe that’s was the case with OPs computer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button

You guys are missing a fundamental point. The copyright was created to protect an author for specific amount of time so somebody else doesn’t profit from their work essentially stealing their deserved revenue.

LLM AI was created to do exactly that.

It does. it does to this. That’s the docker image not the docker file. You are confusing the spec with the artifact. If you want reproducible dev envs you use a system like compose or any rad of other tools to launch images from your artifact store.

You use them, make sure they are always pristine and cleaned after use, don’t have network connectivity and other things that could affect the build.

Or you could use Nix which builds everything this way.

Notice that you mentioned additional systems to achieve that, you wouldn’t need them if docker was truly providing it.

LOL. We always have this problem if you have people only using spec files and not the artifacts. You are comparing apples to oranges by comparing the dockerfile to a build rpm package. Let me help you:

An rpm package == docker image
An rpm .spec file == dockerfile

You if you only give people spec files and have them rebuild the package you will get different hashes of the rpm file. Similarly you would likely not change your spec file between releases and know your rpm file is going to be different.

But that’s the whole point. A developer wants spec file to ALWAYS generate the same artifact. And most devs even believe that and get frustrated when it doesn’t (like in your example).

Nix basically solves that. It even removes the need for tools like artifactory, because there’s no longer need for it. The code fully defines the final binary. Of course you don’t want to rebuild everything every time, so a cache is introduced.

Before you say that it is just renaming artifactory. It really isn’t. It actually works like a cache. I can remove any piece of it, and the missing pieces will be rebuild if they are needed. It is also used by the builder, so it doesn’t repeat itself. I especially like it when working on feature branch and it completes the code. I eventually merge it, and if my merge did not modify code it won’t waste time rebuilding the same thing.

I see that too. Despite what most people say they aren’t truly interested in learning new things (at least things that would force them out of their comfort zones).

I mean if team tries to move out then there’s not much one can do.

Maybe they can look into using some tooling that whole isn’t nix, it uses nix under the hood and still prices some benefits.

I heard about DevBox and Flox. Those at least try to provide a reproducible dev environment (note, I haven’t used them myself as I feel that the abstraction they do places limits on nix functionality, but then others might see it as a benefit)

I also am getting impression that as time progresses things are getting smoother over time. With poetry2nix for example the big problem are packages that depend on C libraries, as those are not specified as python dependencies, so poetry2nix has a override file which adds them.

Previously I very frequently had to update and contribute new packages there. I was a bit away from python as was assigned to work on a Go project for half a year and now starting to work on another python project and when tried to use it and things just worked. All I had to do was to use latest poetry2nix and my project then compiled to a working container.

The dockerfile does not guarantee this, but the docker image or any OCI image does.

That’s true, but also misleading.

OCI image is like having an jpeg image. While Dockerfile is like the text prompt you write to ChatGPT to generate the image.

Yes every time you look at the jpeg, it is the same exact image, but that’s kind of obvious, the real problem is if you try the text query to ChatGPT you will get something slightly different every time.

Nix brings a true reproducibility. So in this analogy the same prompt brings the exact same image. This allows you to check on that prompt in your source control and if you mess up something there’s always a way back.

This is something docker promised, but never delivered.

Dockerfile should not be confused with the artifact.

It should not, but artifacts never had problem with mutating before we had docker. If you generate an rpm package and store it in an artifactory it always was the same exact package (unless someone overwrote it, lol)

Operationally we usually expect a dockerfile to be identical across many builds of different releases and know the artifact produced will have different code

But that’s basically the problem docker claimed to fix. This is also the problem that you frequently encounter with a pipeline that worked fine one day suddenly stopped working next day, because something that your Dockerfile referenced changed (maybe a new image was updated that broke something, you can lock things to specific hashes, but you need to be very conscious about that and in the wild I never seen anyone really doing it).

Anything you are doing with nix to make the lock files perfect is the same amount of work you’d be doing to any method of producing an OCI artifact.

It is not. Hashes are and lock files are built-in and Nix uses them by default.

If for example I use a flake, the flake.lock will hold the exact version of nixpkgs (package repo) in time. That happens without any additional effort. The poetry2nix converts poetry.lock file to nix packages that are once again locked in time, and that also happens behind the scenes.

The result is that all dependencies (python dependencies - from poetry.lock as well as the rest of the system (python, c libraries etc) - from flake.lock are all locked and in my repo. So everything is repeatable without effort on my side.

To repeat that with Dockerfile is much more challenging.

I do think your approach is interesting though. Certainly less effort than manually packing an OCI with something like buildpaks or trying to run through bazel to get your way through a distroless build (two other methods that don’t make massive images with a Debian base). And obviously ‘From:scratch’ in docker build land is a nightmare.

If you get your app build with Nix. The whole thing, including all of app’s dependencies are explicitly referenced so you can wrap it into a docker, an rpm file, OS image etc.

It’s controversial, but IMO nix is actually easier than what we are doing now. I think the problem is that it is a massive paradigm shift and what most people know what to do with existing technologies will generally be not useful, so you have to relearn everything.

But IMO it pays off. For example when starting a new project I can package the whole thing in 5 minutes. poetry2nix translates the project and it’s dependencies into nix packages and then since nix understands dependencies for my project it can package it automatically.

I started to use Nix to build containers that contain just my app and nothing else. The benefit of it is that it makes containers smaller, removes unused components (less potential attack vectors) and a container from a specific checked out version will always be identical (Dockerfile on its own (without extra work) doesn’t provide such guarantee). I also have the ability to customize python and dependencies to remove additional pieces that I don’t need (this unfortunately requires some experience with Nix, to know how to do it)

I wrote my own abstraction on top of poetry2nix and nix2container to remove need for boilerplate: https://github.com/takeda/nix-cde

The example shows how a hello world application can be packed and then how I can reduce its size further from 178MB to 68.9MB. This doesn’t include using musl to get the size even lower than that.

Though I totally agree with author about venv and that’s what I did before and still do in situations where I can’t use Nix. Venv is standardized and is much more predictable and prevents surprises.

There are some red flags for me:

• first I doubt anyone compiled the code themselves and use what’s in the app store
• the insistence to be tied to the phone number
• refusing to work if you don’t update (in the app store)

With ICAAN introduction of new gTLDs now they can drop .NET and pick up .ONLINE

Did you compile and use that on your phone or are you using the app in the app store?

Do we know how it does that. Signal is praised for security, but a lot of things it does feel iffy and don’t make me trust it.

To add to that. Russian government was demanding to be able to access messages or will ban Telegram in the country.

Did not hear anything beyond that, but Telegram continues to operate there.

It’s a Reuters article.

That’s not being centrist in today’s political landscape. This is basically where Democrats currently are.

Remember the border bill was shut down by Republicans.