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Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:

Now that I have migrated some of my hosts to #NixOS, I do have a bad feeling because of #Microsoft and most probably GitHub being hacked.

As mentioned on karl-voit.at/2023/09/12/nix/ the deep #GitHub dependency turns out to be a real downer for this OS.

#security #integrity

29 Sep 2023 at 14:36 | Open on graz.social
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David Clubb 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

@publicvoit I hear so many positive things about this on various podcasts (you probably know the ones), but I once tried it and couldn't even get to a useable desktop environment. That was a while back but I will stick with other OSs for now; and maybe if I go immutable I will try #Fedora first

29 Sep 2023 at 14:41 | Reply | Open on toot.wales
Alexander Sosedkin
@publicvoit

> For example, when GitHub would be out of business or the service is down for some other reason, NixOS would probably be dead. Its main repositories are on GitHub and there is no obvious fall-back concept to other repositories hosted on different services.

This is just plain false. Flakes and channels can point anywhere; the only thing that'd need special care to move is the registry repo that points to all the other repos.
@publicvoit

> For example, when GitHub would be out of business or the service is down for some other reason, NixOS would probably be dead. Its main repositories are on GitHub and there is no obvious fall-back concept to other repositories hosted on different services.
29 Sep 2023 at 14:46 | Reply | Open on social.unboiled.info
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