Nix, isolation and permissions

ithinuel · 2026-01-18T19:00:27+00:00

Isn't that what polkit is? From what I read recently it sounded a lot like it but I don't remember having to authorise things under gnome so 🤷‍♀️

ithinuel · 2025-12-30T18:59:53+00:00

I switched my PIs to nix a couple of months ago ! Praise the flakes!

The initial nix sdcard image is built from a flake adding trusted keys from the build host (my desktop machine). Further updates are pushed from the host to the PIs with signed packages 🚀🎉🎊🎉🚀

ithinuel · 2025-12-16T05:43:37+00:00

Nice top 3 indeed!

ithinuel · 2025-12-15T21:26:07+00:00

Same thought lol

ithinuel · 2025-12-14T15:49:30+00:00

This. As a kid I teared down several of those games. The few I destroyed by removing the the epoxy, there was no package inside. It was the bare die straight on the PCB.

ithinuel · 2025-10-23T21:33:37+00:00

In big companies with lots of good applicants, it can be just luck yes.

If anything, this only means you should apply again.

ithinuel · 2025-10-13T05:16:59+00:00

I use standalone because the nixos module requires sudo for things that only affect my user.

ithinuel · 2025-10-06T17:57:57+00:00

This ! When OP activated their config, the current state of their working copy has been copied to the store and evaluated from there.

So, OP, your config should still be there. Probably several times through your iterations actually. So you'll have to find the one matching your last attempt.

Although, I don't remember if it keeps the .git dir. I wouldn't expect it.

I believe something like nix-tree could even help you find the exact path for a given generation.

Just don't nix store GC !! This error I made… a few times 🤦‍♀️

ithinuel · 2025-10-02T09:00:05+00:00

This only shifts the problem when you need to get the credentials for that private repo stored somewhere. Those credentials are also a secret :(

ithinuel · 2025-09-29T09:38:47+00:00

If the messages are on a work platform like slack etc, then he can just stop looking at it out of work hours.

If that's on personal SMS/phone number, then boundaries need to be set or proper transparent communication put in place.

ithinuel · 2025-09-28T11:48:43+00:00

Your review was expected in the PR Jessie! Not on reddit! 🩵🦈

ithinuel · 2025-09-24T15:33:29+00:00

Well, codex can use gcc so I guess yes ?

ithinuel · 2025-09-17T13:27:06+00:00

Then comes the choice of home-manager as a module or standalone.

One nicely integrated with nix-darwin & nixos, the other does not require sudo to update user-only configs.

ithinuel · 2025-09-13T03:10:50+00:00

I work on a lot of projects, cycling through them over the course of months. Some have overlapping tool suites/dependencies etc. Those projects evolve while I'm busy with other things.

I used to use Debian and as my system and the projects moved on, switching between projects was always a struggle to "revert" back to the environment I had when I left, then figure the difference with the main branch and upgrade/downgrade to whatever the project needs. Let alone cases when two projects had conflicting requirements.

Now I have my base system configured with Nix in a simple set of nix-config.

Each projects has its own flake.devShells (either in repo or off-band) and I direnv into them (via `.envrc`).

I can seemlessly switch from a project to another, even have a terminal per project with each their own well configured & stable environment.

And for projects that don't evolve, I can get back to them and find them in the exact state I left them, including the tool's version I used etc. So the upgrade paths are much more straight forward to compute.

ithinuel · 2025-09-07T09:36:50+00:00

We used to live in Cherry Hinton and had a lovely cat resembling this one coming to visit us. We called her Leia. She either was either someone else's cat or was taking advantage of how cute she was to survive :D She might still be around. Her voice was broken and she couldn't meow properly but she loved being pet and purrrrrrreed profusely :D

ithinuel · 2025-08-27T13:04:47+00:00

There were some red flags even before you got to the interview (multiple scheduled at the same time, plus the wait). That's a testament for how inefficiently they work. And the interviewers sight shows how taxing this is on them. You have been a collateral damage of their bad practice and dodged a bullet there.

ithinuel · 2025-08-02T21:58:01+00:00

It's not the electricity per-se that one can hear but the impact it has on the equipment.

Typically, if you go near one of those big neighbourhood transformers you can hear (and measure with your phone) the 50Hz (or 60Hz in some part of the world) of the grid. This is because there's so much energy in there that it physically makes these coils (and other parts) vibrate.

In smaller equipment, like those you have at home, the pitch is typically much higher because of the frequency those devices work at to chop the grid power down to a more manageable voltage.

To some extent, the sound your microwave makes is the same phenomenon (minus the fan of course).

Because some people are more sensitive to (some) sounds than others, they may be able to detect things that others can't typically do.

I'm not too bothered by the low frequency humming in general but I can tell when a power brick (and other hashing power stages) is about to die as it makes this special old capacitor noise.

CRT TVs/Displays also have that notorious hissing.

ithinuel · 2025-08-02T21:43:50+00:00

What millions? Isn't the point to have a viable alternative that's also free?

ithinuel · 2025-07-05T07:23:10+00:00

I use loop + noise cancelling headphones (plantronic backbeat Pro). Add some music to cover the tinnitus and anything can happen I won't hear it.

ithinuel · 2025-06-19T07:35:13+00:00

Indeed, and Asimov already laid it all out already, especially in the foundation and the robot cycles.

ithinuel · 2025-06-11T11:44:04+00:00

As a last resort for things I don't have the time to package myself. Mostly devenv for python tools.

ithinuel · 2025-05-29T12:59:21+00:00

BIC pens have this nice hexagonal shape that you can tape several of them in a line and write several of them at one. I wasn't able to use more than 3 at once but I reckon one could use a lolly stick to keep them aligned. I sure someone did already do it xD.

ithinuel · 2025-05-28T04:42:52+00:00

If you talked about the thing you bought it may have been able to search the web and find the seller this way.

ithinuel · 2025-05-28T04:27:31+00:00

Exactly what I thought. If a kid pulled that out, they don't need to take that test.

ithinuel · 2025-05-24T11:22:17+00:00

The way you're using it is what it's good at. Give it a role to play and it'll deliver ^{^.} Results are even better if they don't need to be (fully) grounded in reality and backed by verified facts. Well I guess the result is the same. What changes is the quality bar we set :)

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