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#nixos

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Ask yourself:

"Am I, by using or promoting this tool, indirectly supporting and legitimizing people or ideologies I find harmful?"

Every contribution is a vote for the kind of community you want to support.

When toxic leadership or communities become a haven for people with abhorrent views, it:

- Drives away good, diverse contributors.
- Gives bad actors platform, influence, and legitimacy.

Dear #foss , #OpenSource , and #linux folks...

Can we please STOP trying to self implode the few good things we have in this world?

The world is currently on fire, the US is devolving into Facism, big tech is getting even more powerful... FOSS is about the last good thing in this world.

And yet, we're attacking #nixos and #framework because we disagree with people they're 2-3 degrees associated with.

I'm not saying we can't move things in a good direction.. but self imploding helps nobody

In the complete absence of moderation, the steering committee persists in taking illegitimate actions, including deliberately delisting links from a major conference, DevOpsDays London 2025
. This conference covers a topic that, clearly, they are uncomfortable with: inclusivity in software.

It's deeply ironic that they claim to advocate for neutrality, yet actively censor posts that don't align with the singular narrative they're trying to push in their forum.

People who develop tools in the #Nix and #NixOS ecosystem and hate Anduril:

Are you willing to adopt a license for your tools which would prevent the Andurils of the world from using them?

Yes, this means a license not approved by OSI or FSF

I'm shocked by the amount of trickery that takes to run a VSCode tunnel in NIxos as a service.

After a lot of fiddling, it is pretty much THIS on home-manager, it won't work in any format or any way in configuration.nix.

And just like that VScode is running on the 64GB RAM + 20 threads 10cores i9 CPU remote running nixos.

The easiest way to configure it is with VSCode tunnels

Yet somehow in Nixos they only run as foreground thing, never as "code tunnel service install"

#nix noob got blocked 😭 I try to write a flake.nix to build a rust project and a docker image to go with it. I first tried to build just the crate with the binary but it's part of a workspace and the building failed because of the dependencies. I moves the flake file at the root of the workspace and I get this, not sure if related. I've tried the 1. fix, didn't fixed anything. I have no idea how to do 2. or 3.
halp 😥

I've been using #NixOS as my Desktop OS for almost a year and it's so stable and boring I flipped to the unstable channel. Still stable. I guess I'll just use my computer like a regular person instead of monkeying with it... #linux

Back to work today, got a 20 threads, 10 cores intel i9 gorgeous machine with 64GB of RAM courtesy of @stephen running nixos and I'm learning EVERYTHING I can on running remote builds to use my BigPC config on this more powerful tiny PC because I can see this happening often (me moving and needing power but not necessarily needing it locally).

Part of my HUNGER for freedom will eventually involve setting up powerful yet low-consumption machines in trusted friend places. e.g of places where people would be fine with this: Adrian, Remi, Sergio, my sister, my aunt, David (ex), even Carlos.

1/🧵

This is a very early proof-of-concept and I'm still evaluating if I have the time to work on such a project. Even though I see the dire need to improve Nix error messages. It's written in rust and uses the miette crate for error handling. I'm currently trying out nom for parsing nix errors.

Still what do you think? What would you change?

And does anyone know if there a complete and official list of all Nix error online, with explanations?