I hate that I understood the joke immediately…

TBH this finally pushed me over the edge. It was surprisingly easy - just s/firefox/librewolf/ in my browser config file, and then privacy.clearOnShutdown_v2.cookiesAndStorage = false (I don’t want to log in to all my work accounts every time I restart the browser). I didn’t even notice the switch TBH.

We made a (so far internal) tool at work that takes your activity from Github, your calendar, and the issue tracker, feeds that to a local LLM, which spits out a report of what you have been doing for the week. It messes up sometimes, but speeds up the process of writing the report dramatically. This is one of those cases where an LLM actually fits.

They only dedup runtimes, not individual dependencies.

Not sure I follow you entirely, but I think we agree.

No, not quite. Flatpak is containers - it just stuffs every dependency that an application needs in a directory with no way to deduplicate or update independently. Gobo is a bit more nuanced, since dependencies are shared between applications when the versions match.

I think the main premise is that every version of every software has its own installation prefix. This allows you to mix&match different versions, perform atomic upgrades, etc. You can think of it as a proto-Nix. TBH I don’t see much point in it now that Nix(OS) and Guix exist, or, if you don’t like their purity, stal/IX.

The article is very light on details, but the numbers don’t seem to check out at all. Back-of-the napkin math (assuming a square 1km × 1km solar array and total sun luminosity of 3.83e26 W):

1 km ^ 2 * (3.83e26 W) / (4 * π * (1 AU) ^ 2) * 1 year to TWh ≈ 11.94 TW·h

This is a “measly” 12 TWh of TOTAL energy delivered to the array over a year - not accounting for solar panel efficiency losses (20-24%) or the elephant in the room of transmitting this energy back to earth. For context, China alone consumed around 39 PWh (39000 TWh) of energy from fossil fuels just over the course of one year, 2023. The entire world consumed 55 PWh (55000 TWh) of oil energy in 2023 alone. It’s not even comparable to the annual consumption of oil. If we consider the aforementioned factors, assuming 24% solar panel efficiency and an extremely generous 50% power transmission efficiency, we get:

1 km ^ 2 * (3.83e26 W) / (4 * π * (1 AU) ^ 2) * 24% * 50% ≈ 163.43 MW

Which is literally nothing on a national scale - it’s less than a percent of the Three Gorges Dam output.

I think the more realistic argument is that CEOs have an inherent incentive to take big risks. If they get lucky and succeed, they get credited for the win, can put it in their portfolio and then demand better pay or move on to another company which will pay them more. If they fail, they can quietly resign, take the golden parachute and move on to the next company after a year or two as though nothing has happened. A big salary incentivizes them to keep their job, thus disincentivizing them from taking risks.

Why -z? I have no idea.

From man test (note that [ ] is just sugar for test ):

       -n STRING
              the length of STRING is nonzero

       -z STRING
              the length of STRING is zero

So, -z stands for Zero.

Hope this helps you remember it!

To be clear, NVidia supplies Linux drivers, but they are proprietary semi-broken nonsense.

Hm, I have DoH in my Android settings. Isn’t it the case for all modern Android versions?

It’s the fact that Mercurial tags the commit with the name of the branch that it was committed to which makes it much easier to determine whether a commit is included in your current branch or not.

Isn’t this trivial in Git too? git branch --contains COMMIT ?

Glad to hear you got it working!

Yep, NixOS as a base + some Flatpak store for installing apps. In fact, use impermanence to just drop all OS state apart from logs, network settings and flatpaks. That way, “turn it off and then on again” will almost always work to fix the OS.

Seconded, it somehow manages to lag on my overclocked 5950X w/ 64GB of RAM. (this may be related to the Dark Mode extension or some shit, however it’s still absolutely inexcusable)

The issue is that network-online.target does not necessarily mean that you actually have internet access, it usually just means that you have an IP address. I’ve found that it can take a dozen seconds to actually get internet connectivity, depending on your setup. As a hack, you can add while ! ping -c1 ghcr.io; do sleep 1; done or similar to PreStart of your container services.

It’s not too bad tho, we’ve already replaced this with Github actions: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/356023

I don’t think it’s a solution for this, it would just mean maintaining many distro-agnostic repos. Forks and alternatives always thrive in the FOSS world.

Nixpkgs too BTW https://discourse.nixos.org/t/infrastructure-announcement-the-future-of-ofborg-your-help-needed/56025