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ruffsl

@ ruffsl @programming.dev

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I'm a robotics researcher. My interests include cybersecurity, repeatable & reproducible research, as well as open source robotics and rust programing.

  • Why I'm Leaving NixOS After a Year? (Uğur Erdem Seyfi)

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  • Thank you for your work!I would not have liked encountering this bug in the wild.

  • Corsair HX1200i 2025 Power Supply Monitoring Now Works Under Linux

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  • What user software are folks using to monitor and log PSU sensor data?

    Would be nice to correlate power usage and efficiency with system load percentage over time and type (CPU vs GPU).

  • Introducing UniFi OS Server for MSPs

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  • I think it stands for Managed Service Providers.

  • NixOS 61: Using non-Nix Python Packages with Binaries on NixOS - YouTube

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  • Nix-ld is only used by unpatched executables that use the link loader at /lib or /lib64. If you use for example python from nixpkgs than it will not pick up NIX_LD_LIBRARY_PATH and NIX_LD since these types of binaries are configured to use a glibc from the nix store.

    Ah, I guess that's why I've seen folks recommend just having uv install the python interpreter as well, so everything python uses the same link loder from nix-ld.

  • Introducing UniFi OS Server for MSPs

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  • I'm still using an old UC Gateway, doubt my homelab will outgrow it.

  • Farewell Benchmarks Of Intel's Clear Linux On AMD EPYC Shows More Performance Left To Tap

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  • Jean-Baptiste Kempf - Kyber: a new approach for real-time video and controls streaming based on Quic - YouTube

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  • I hope this rust library can make its way back into Moonlight and Sunshine projects.

  • Raspberry Pi alternative? 8-Core, 8GB RAM, OLED, Battery – Runs NixOS Under $100! - YouTube

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  • Perhaps one could use something like this using Android's Virtualization Framework in the meantime:

  • 🔒 Setting Up Headscale & Tailscale on NixOS: A Zero-Trust Networking Guide for ❄️ NixOS - YouTube

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  • NixOS Web Services with Cloudflared: A Complete Guide - YouTube

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  • Yeah, the centralization of public Internet infrastructure around Cloud flare has been concerning, not only as a single point of failure but also in terms of consolidation of trust.

    As a prior student workout a public IP deep behind several NATs, with little funds for self hosting hobbies, these kinds of tunnel services were a handy gateway in getting started.

    Although, I hope ISP adoption of IPv6 or cheaper bandwidth quotas for VPS providers help compete on this front for self hosting networking.

  • NixOS Web Services with Cloudflared: A Complete Guide - YouTube

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  • Too bad you have to rely on cloudflare to then manage your domain to utilize this feature, like if it's just a demo for a one off project.

  • I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst

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  • Nix Doesn't Have To Be Hard

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  • From NixOS to Ubuntu (Jon Seager Ubuntu VP Engineering)

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  • I've been straddling between NixOS and a Debian derivative for a while recently. Using nix, I really enjoy managing my system using declarative code, like I would for any other software infrastructure.

    Although, for work, I still resort back to Debian or Ubuntu when it comes to collaborating with existing FOSS communities around robotic software or medical imaging, as those respective domains are heavily ingrained/invested into the Debian release and package distribution.

    So it's been a challenge to migrate anything other than my personal computing to NixOS. However I do appreciate the easy access to latest version releases of packages, kernels, and drivers. Being able to patch and document the idiosyncrasies of my hardware using declarative configs and revision control has been so helpful and solving a bug once and never forgetting how to reproduce the fix later on.

    Another benefit is being able to explore public repositories for examples of how other users may be installing the same types of modules or software features I'm looking to setup, or solve a similar issue. It's one thing to read the stack overflow answer about how to edit an arcane etc config for an anonymous package version, but it's another to be able to read the commit history of hundreds of other nix users and PRs from nixpkgs maintainers.

    My flake config is still rather simplistic, and synchronizing two hosts between two branches. I did appreciate the reference repo linked by the author as an example for modular host and user config.

    https://github.com/jnsgruk/nixos-config

    Any suggested resources or templates on that front? I.e. structuring and modularizing NicOS flake configs for multiple hosts for overlapping and non overlapping use cases? For example, I've just gotten into how to overlay nixpkgs PRs and explore dev shells.

  • What It Took To Build A 64-Bit Linux Distribution From Scratch From Windows XP (FULL MOVIE) - YouTube

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  • For the faint of heart, such vicarious pain may require theatrical intermission(s).

  • Qt Group unveils expansion plans for technology-agnostic Qt ecosystem

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  • Yeah, any details published so far have been rather vague. I like the prospect of writing my backend UI logic in a memory safe language, but that falls short of benefiting from doing so end to end.

    Supposedly Qt would be in a decent position to use their own static analysis and testing frameworks for hardening such bridge interfaces, but using a memory safe system programming language for everything would be ideal. Are there any Rust based UI projects that are looking at ISO certification to ease integration as a Software of Unknown Pedigree?

  • What's on my Home Server 2025 – NixOS Edition - YouTube

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  • I'm not the original author, even with the YouTube title being as is, but what do you mean? Perhaps relying that the desired services exist as nix packages, or that nix packages have desired defaults or exposes desired config parameters?

    There are two other nix media server config projects I can think of, but I think this approach mostly facilitates the install, but not the entire initial config setup, given that a lot of the stack's internal state is captured in databases rather than text config files. So simplifying the backup and restoration of such databases seems the next best thing to persist your stack configs with nix.

  • World's 1st Coding Monitor - YouTube

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  • Have you had any luck with projectors for coding? I've only ever used them for large mob-programming sessions, like during hackathons. I feel like the low/narrow contrast of projectors makes it hard to use for dark mode, not to mention the space real estate requirements. :P

  • You know who you are

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