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 So far a clear win for #Nix over #Guix for me: it's very easy to run build steps from a shell. I don't have to jump through hoops, like adding a deliberate error after a build phase in Scheme and enabling keep-failed and then entering the build environment and copy-pasting commands from the log to re-run them. Found via the #Sourcehut mailing list. While I'll still be sticking to Sourcehut because of its friendliness to low-end machines, I think this is still worth reading.  @csepp i think it's quite misguided. Codeberg is easily visible enough and well used, and particular projects draw their own contributors, as is clear with mastodon.el but also many other similar projects (emacs and otherwise). Codeberg also has good seo or whatever so projects are easy to find from a search. He doens't really seem to have considered it, to my mind. I think the whole emacs and free/diy community should really leave the gh hellscape, otherwise you're just making "free" software for Uncle Sam. @csepp I think I agree on a lot of the author's points, but disagree on some of the conclusions. The big one being that politics are wholly separate from individual action and there's some, what I read as, governmental solution to GitHub. Microsoft maybe, but GitHub was pushing towards a monoculture long before MS bought them. Can't fault the author, though. There's only so much time in the day and you need to pick your battles. > We at #Symbolics were slow to acknowledge this. We believed our own “dogma” even as it became less true. It was embedded in our corporate culture. If you disputed it, your co-workers felt that you “just didn’t get it” and weren’t a member of the clan, so to speak. This stifled objective analysis. (This is a very easy problem to fall into — don’t let it happen to you!) #TIL there is a #LowTech solution for #writing in the dark: the #Nyctograph, invented by #LewisCarrol
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@csepp Awesome. Im disappointed given my interest in the #shavian and #quickscript alphabets that this was never referenced in research. Those writers really pushed the envelope  #Guix is cool, but running it on a 32 bit netbook is utter fucking suffering. It is very obvious that most developers don't test it on slow hardware, nor without a network connection.  @csepp That's why I #WontBuy any #Apple hardware, since their #AntiRepair design is an #EnvoirmentalCrime on it's own. the only winning move is work towards a #repairable alternative:  @csepp maybe better focus on chinese manufacturing crappy android devices which cover 90% of the market and environmental effect. Apple almost manufacturers on demand and hardware life is way longer The #pilot for #Lackadaisy is so fricking good. 🤩 Hack two Seagate drives through the management port, install some custom code, use it to run a post-collapse database, do it on multiple drives, connect them occasionally via SATA, you now have high capacity sneakernet nodes. inspired in part by I'm not even sure if SATA supports this, it probably doesn't, so one of the HDDs would have to act like a motherboard's SATA controller. Trying to figure out the architecture for a somewhat self-hosting OS for the #PocketViewer. Instead of sleeping. Ohmyglowcloud I might land an internship at my uni and work on a symbolic execution engine 🤩
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 @csepp All I can say is CSS avoids cutting off text when unless explicitly told to. In an attitude that an ugly page is better than an illegible page... Apparantly webdevs or their bosses dislike this default!  @csepp idk the reasoning is probably to keep the height consistent (or that you should only add short texts?), it does look a bit more messy with varying height rows. But I do prefer being able to read the whole thing as well, still  |
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Replacing Bash with Guile could be a clear win too, because Bash is an awful language, but Guile's interactive experience is not all that great in my experience, and because of how code staging is done in Guix, you can't just easily run bits of Guile code inside an interactive REPL to build a package.
@csepp guix shell -D <pkg>?