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  • Techrights — Gulf Nations Leave Microsoft Behind

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  • It might be best to ask on Mastodon or something to hear from people living in Qatar and other Gulf states. I don't speak Arabic nor do I know any Arabs from the Gulf. That area has always been opaque to me.

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    Study: AI wiping out entry-level jobs for young workers

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  • The genius. Where are you going to get your senior engineers from in 5 years if you don't have juniors to begin with?

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  • Fediverse Report – #131

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  • Crowdbucks sounds interesting, but is extremely light on details. How does it work? Are all payments going to go through Stripe? Is it going to support GnuTaler? Crypto maybe? Is it to be integrated into things like Mastodon, Peertube, and other fediverse services?

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  • Techrights — Gulf Nations Leave Microsoft Behind

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  • I thought this was going to be a somewhat detailed post with some news from an official source, but it's just StatsCounter pages showing increased Linux use. It's great to know that Qatar is using Linux more, more power to them, however I really was hoping it was due to an official change in course of the governments in the Gulf states... Maybe it's driven by Israel committing genocide on fellow Arabs and Microsoft providing the technical assistance to do so?

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  • Announcing Nix-manipulator (Nima): structured edits for Nix that keep formatting - NixOS Discourse

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  • Wow, that's awesome. Hopefully that can breathe some new life into SnowflakeOS! My attempts at manipulating nix code went through a nix parser that I can't remember the name of. That's when I found (or came up with? dunno) the importJson function. But this could be cleaner and more reviewable + definitely allows for things like function calls to take advantage of the "JSON on steroids" aspect the author mentioned.

    Thanks for sharing 🙏

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  • Coming back full circle after 30 years.

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  • The plan for Linux after Linus? A work in progress

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  • Closing the Nix Gap: From Environments to Packaged Applications for Rust - devenv

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  • OMFG. OK, Devenv is so fucking out. I'm never recommending that shit again. It cannot be trusted.

    Thank you for providing a source. I'm disgusted by this.

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  • This Isn't The Desktop Linux Victory: We Wanted

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  • On odysee if you don't want to use YouTube.

  • Closing the Nix Gap: From Environments to Packaged Applications for Rust - devenv

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  • Waypipe in Action: Wayland Remote GUI Over SSH

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  • That was actually very useful. Thank you! X11 needed the DISPLAY variable and other stuff like xephyr while all this needs is waypipe. Awesome!

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  • Why NixOS is the Future - YouTube

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  • There's a large spectrum between marketing expert and RTFM. Unfortunately, most nerds fall closer to the RTFM end than marketing expert or even normally functioning human. It isn't much of a surprise, but it is a problem for sure.

    And of course there are hordes of lusers out there, but devs don't even treat each other well. Join a programming forum for any language and ask questions about things you don't comprehend. The amount of responses that are the equivalent of "just do this", "that's easy, just do", or non-descript links to code or documentation is quite large.

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  • Why NixOS is the Future - YouTube

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  • my autistic ass hyperfixated on it to the point of tinkering with it every afternoon for months

    Relatable 💯 I had a basic functional system after the third time trying NixOS. But then I started trying to get my old workflow and programs back and anything missing from nixpkgs was such a pain.

    But I persevered and now keep trying to get others interested to share the pain, but they (rightfully) aren't very excited about the prospects. These are people working in tech and who have written code for at least 5 years BTW.

    Unfortunately my efforts of communicating problems and solutions to the NixOS community mostly fall upon deaf ears or resistance. Maybe it's the way I communicate it. Dunno.

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  • Why NixOS is the Future - YouTube

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  • I agree with the points you are making. As for loss of interest for making things graphical, in my case it's just a lack of time. If I had time, SnowflakeOS would have my contributions.

    Is there a good way of mixing and mashing JSON attribute sets with conventional nix config files? Perhaps relegating some config to machine-generated JSON, and some hand crafted configs?

    For sure. I'm on mobile right now but something like

     nix
        
{...}:
builtins.fromJson( 
  builtins.readFile ./path/to/configuration.json
)

    and importing that in your configuration.nix should do the trick. You have handcrafted stuff in another nix file, but it will be your responsibility to make it work with the imported/managed JSON. Maybe SnowflakeOS even does that. I'm not sure.

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    U.S. AI boom is completely upending the electricity market — small businesses and households could foot the bill as industry watchers warn of sharp price increases

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  • Oh look, if this isn't the consequences of my actions (voting time and time again for idiots or not voting at all because "it doesn't matter anyway").

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  • Why NixOS is the Future - YouTube

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  • I think Snowflake OS is dead. The NixOS community didn't really get behind it for whatever reason. My guess is that many people don't understand enough about NixOS to contribute, but those that do are too proud of their ability to understand it that making it easier for others would seemingly devalue it. I have noticed that many nerds attach a sense of self-worth to understanding difficult things and will fight tooth and nail when those things are made more simple as it will diminish their self-worth.

    Given all options and packages in nixpkgs are already machine readable and indexed, supplying a GUI based tool to procedurally generate nix codes

    Nix can create attribute sets from JSON, so there isn't a need to generate nix code. Projects like npins do this albeit for another purpose (locking dependencies without flakes).

    Anyway, NixOS is lightyears away from a noon friendly OS because it's also terribly far away from a dev friendly OS.

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  • Do not Interrupt Developers, Study Says

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  • Doesn't matter how many times you say this to managers who aren't technical or haven't worked as a code grunt, they won't understand. Most of them are devoid of empathy and understanding, and cannot conceptualize a position other than their own, which also makes them bad managers.

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  • Do not Interrupt Developers, Study Says

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  • Doesnt matter how many times you say this to managers who aren't technical or haven't worked as a code grunt, they won't understand. Most of them are devoid of empathy and understanding, and cannot conceptualize a position other than their own, which also makes them bad managers.

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  • Why NixOS is the Future - YouTube

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  • NixOS could be the future if it had a better community, documentation, and a user interface to manage the system. Right now, it's still completely unusable for even tech literate folk. In fact it's unusable for people without time.

    If NixOS is to become the future, it has to become more user friendly. Not only as a system but as a community. A community that ridicules people asking questions or responds with "just read the source code" might as well just continue believing in "self-documenting" code.

    And let's not even dive into the close-source source forge dependency they have.

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