They’re making a new browser engine from scratch in an open way, absolutely amazing!

I do have several questions:

Why would they use BSD instead of GPL? If you care about open-source so much, why would you make it possible for a company to run away with your fancy new engine?

Why are they creating a new browser, when even firefox has to struggle to keep some semblance of market share? I get that not every project needs to aim to be “the biggest”, and that even a smaller project (in terms of users), can be fun. It’s just that writing a browser engine that can handle the modern web seems like an almost Sisyphean task; which makes me wonder what their motivation(?) is.

Why the FLOSS are they using closed-source proprietary discord as their main communication channel?

That citrussy had Cloud acting most unwise.

It goes like this:

What?

😳

Exactly

To quote the post more specifically:

Even as our species destroys its only home, we assume that the solutions to climate change must lie in technology, without stopping to examine the role that this very attitude has played in the crisis.

This is so deeply ingrained in our social consciousness that, when there is a new impressive technology, we assume that it must be here to solve one of our big problems. As the AI hype quickens the pace of our ecological devastation, we’re so dazzled by the technology that there is actual debate in supposedly serious publications as to whether AI is going to save us from climate change, despite all evidence pointing to the contrary.

normal: command not found

nice make -j $(nproc)

I haven’t run into any of those, so I have no idea what that’s about, but I will! hahaha

I just started playing it and it’s pretty fun so far.

I made a low INT character, because playing low INT on Outer Worlds was pretty fun

Exactly, ansible is basically imperative, where write the steps declaratively.

Whereas nixos is more like a compiler that compiles to a working linux install.

If I added the software myprogram and a config file at /etc/myprogram.conf, that’s pretty easy in both. But if I needed to to then remove those it gets different .

With nixos it’s at easy as removing the two lines that add the program and the config file; after the next “compile”, the file is gone and myprogram is no longer available in the PATH.

With ansible you need to change the relevant step to use apt remove instead of apt install and to change the config file step in a step that removes the file.

Don’t get me wrong, ansible is still better than writing a lot of bash scripts, especially if you don’t have people with a lot of shell experience.

But tools like nixos and guix are on a whole other level.

And those 8 really rich guys definitely work less than 5 days a week already

I definitely understand; but it’s good that you are angry, because that means you are human.

Maybe your drive(s) fail and you want to reinstall. Then you already have a setup with all your software and config files installed. Just reinstall NixOS and re-apply your configuration (or build your own Install ISO ).
And if you ever get a new laptop/desktop/VM/VPS you can do the same.

Don’t forget to take backups, regardless of your setup tho.

The reproducibility also leads to some surprise features, like being able to wipe your entire system on every boot. Since NixOS always puts the necessary files in the correct place, this is perfectly fine. If you then add some mechanism to persist specific data across reboots (a separate partition, or the Impermanence module), you will remove all kinda of randomly accumulated files on every boot.

This means I have very small backups, because I have three kinds of data: stuff that is wiped on every boot, stuff that is persisted but not backed up (/nix/store, all kinds of caches) and stuff that is persisted and backed up (documents, repositories, media).

None of my OS’s files are in the backups, which makes of them a lot smaller than my previous arch install.

The picture is LotR, yes. But the text underneath refers to WarGames.

That movie is WarGames (1983)

There’s several pages on the arch wiki that should help:

Security - Screen lockers

Session Lock, specifically the xorg/wayland triggers and units sections

This sounds like a very specific question, what problem are you really trying to solve?

Logout before suspend/hibernate, or something else?

To expand a little on @Laser ‘s point 2:

In bash (and other programming languages) # is used at the start of the line to notate comments.

When writing percentages, you write the symbol after the number, e.g. 50%

That’s how I keep them apart, lol

Theres a section in the bash manual with these and a whole bunch of more expansion tricks.

One I find useful is

echo "${myvar@A}"

If you want to hear someone talk about penetration testing (heh) these things:

DEF CON 27: Adventures in smart buttplug penetration testing (semi-NSFW obviously)