 Virtual build machines to the rescue of software archaeologists: Not just archaeologists actually: it’s something you need to rebuild packages that include “time traps” (fail to build after some time). It’s relatively rare, but when you need them, you’d rather have a simple way to work around the problem. Nice guide to running podman “rootless” on #Guix System: While going through my email backlog, I stumbled upon this cute #Guix visit card by @luis_felipe. Fancy!  @civodul I saw that on one of the mailing lists recently, really excellent design. The Guix community is lucky to have @luis_felipe #Guix packagers: you may like these new REPL commands to inspect a package’s configure flags, phases, etc. 👇
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  I made an incredible discovery: xterm, the venerable terminal emulator, can make SVG screen dumps! (And XHTML.) 🤯 (From the menu on control-left-click. How come I never noticed before?) Magit-todos-mode is neat but it can make you feel like you’re facing one more set of Sisyphean tasks—Guix in this case. @civodul I used Guix for 3+ years on a work machine, then left it, and while trying to install it on another one just couldn’t, because of some failures – apparently CI didn’t catch that some packages fail to build, and even the base system absolutely needed the packages (no, Just gave a short introductory talk about Guix for the Software Sustainability SIG of the Netherlands eScience Center, following an introduction to Nix. The audience doesn’t use either tool so far so now I’m curious to know if they’ll want to leave CONDA & co. for Guix or Nix! “Of Nix and Guix, which has the steepest learning curve?”, someone asked. I replied that from the start we tried hard to make Guix approachable, more than the Nix I contributed to back then, also adding facilities like command-line transformation options… but that I’m biased. I wonder what an objective answer would be. Anyone? :-) Stumbled upon Futurile, a neat blog with lots of pleasant, how-to-style #Guix posts: Try #Hurd 👉 https://tryhurd.gexp.no/ The unbelievable Marius Bakke turned #Guix childhurds into cloudhurds. ☁ “A new Quality Assurance tool for #Guix” The amazing @cbaines writes about https://qa.guix.gnu.org and all the things behind it. “Running your website using Guix System” (Karl G. Hallsby) Pretty nice #Guix how-to!  @civodul Pretty cool, but you will have bad surprises if you don’t replace the listen command with: (listen '("443 ssl" "[::]:443 ssl"))  @civodul This exactly what I've been delaying to do for months because I was afraid of myself and now here it comes!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAa now I have to do it! If you’re into #Guix and/or #HPC and/or #packaging, here’s your opportunity to come work in France with fine people: Happy birthday, #Debian! 🎉 This is one of the first distros I used (for about 10 years, including on SPARC and on PowerPC, but also for the Hurd!) and it remains to me an inspiring #FreeSoftware project. #Cloudflare used to welcome us #Tor users (and not just!) with captchas. Now it’s a spinner; it gives hope initially, but it’s deceitful: it just keeps spinning. Among the vast parts of the Web stuck behind Cloudflare is w3.org. Thanks for showing the way!
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 @civodul I've never believed once, that Cloudflare was atleast considerate for Legitimate Tor Network users. Never. Always had issues with website stuck behind it. Progress made by GCC’s static analyzers is fairly impressive: Not enough of a reason to write C of course :-) but good for existing code. The 🐑 #Shepherd 0.10.0 is out! It’s a major overhaul of the internals leading to (I think!) a more pleasant user experience. Is anyone using #TCPMUX? Any server with port 1 open? I wonder why it never caught on. An extra indirection for too little gains?  @civodul Using ports should be simpler, but that RFC made it harder to forward ports to distribute tasks and to deploy port-based firewalls. The ability to enumerate available services via the "HELP" command was not perceived as helpful for security, either. As for anyone still using that RFC, the TCPMUX standard was officially abandoned in RFC 7805. It may take another daring proposal with new ideas to bring about lasting and comprehensive change. |
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Also, running builds in the future can help detect time bombs before they happen so that you can fix it now, before it is a more bothersome problem!
I am interested in using this to introduce problems...
changing the clock, kernel, CPU, hostname and username is really useful for #ReproducibleBuilds troubleshooting, as all of these things have been known to affect build results in the wild.
Looking forward to playing with this, thanks!
@civodul I was gonna ask if this could be achieved with namespace but apparently time is not namespaced. Sigh.