the #NixOS worthless error experience is like

*beatboxing* in left branch, in right branch, in left branch, in right branch, in left branch, in right branch, in left branch, in right branch, <unreal tournament announcer voice> `A N O N Y M O U S L A M B D A`

What I want is #NixOS but run by people who actually care about other people, and not just about computers

Once you get your #emacs config working....YOU BACK THAT SUM-BITCH UP!!! Almost got mine exactly how I like, and safely on #github with my #nixos config

Going to monitor a handful of sites with the goal to expand to 350 sites with #zabbix 7 LTS and I am going to use #NixOS as base OS

1 Postgres server
1 Zabbix server
1 Zabbix proxy

What speaks against it and why? And what are some best practices you would like to share

Here is a post I was gonna make to the #NixOS discourse, but I realize that I don’t actually care about speaking to people on that platform anymore.

I mainly just wanna outline why I think nothing has changed, and what is preventing it from changing.

Anyone in Nix governance please DNI

As seen here, it is quite clear that many agree that we should urgently ban and denounce Determinate Systems, and most of the private messages I’ve receiving also indicate that basically everyone wants this, even if they’re scared to say so out loud.

So why isn’t this happening? What’s the point of having people in charge of governance that are scared to actually take the actions that both they and the community want?

And what’s the actual point of having a moderation team that seems solely focused on minimizing criticisms of things that actually matter, while doing a type of moderation that seems to mostly stoke the flames of pointless debates? Isn’t the point of moderation to be able to have topical discussions like the one I linked? If their solution is to just shut it down, that’s like a doctor killing their patient to cure them of an ailment…

I think it’s quite clear that to many people in power in this project, they prefer the status quo, why else would they keep it running the same way as always? I guess if we started holding some people accountable, we’d have to hold many others accountable as well. And so it’s simply not in their interests.

Complaining here won’t amount to much — the inevitable fork may, if not full of the same cultural problems. It’s to me just a final proof that the steering committee fails to represent me and other people in the project, the moderators fail to create space for actually productive conversations, but rather destroys it at every turn, and that the project in general isn’t one of merit or transparency, but one of critical information being kept to DMs, full of long drawn out conspiracies and plans that never amount to anything, and even if they did… if the people that take over the project are conspirators, what’s the point? It’s gonna be the same problems with a new face. That’s what the Steering Committee currently is.

I expected more of you all.

#TIL #systemd can somehow restart itself in a running system and #NixOS does it automatically whenever necessary.

This must have happened dozens of times already and I never noticed because it's entirely seamless.

I only found out because I was curious what exactly the #NixOS activation script means when it says "restarting systemd" as that struck me as near impossible.

I confirmed that /proc/1/exe points at the same store path that my new version of systemctl comes from; how cool is that?