matthewcroughan

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by matthewcroughan 1y ago
Wondering what the recourse is, as my friend has an expensive paperweight now, and we used it a lot. Ideas welcome.
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by matthewcroughan 2y ago
Actually yes, but they haven't had the money to re-implement it all, such that it works again as it once did.
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Nix.Camp 2024 Is On
3 points by matthewcroughan 2y ago|2 comments
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by matthewcroughan 2y ago
The SCION Book goes over a lot of potential solutions that are possible because of the architecture, but my favorite is hidden paths. https://scion.docs.anapaya.net/en/latest/hidden-paths.html > Hidden path com
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by matthewcroughan 2y ago
For my own setup, I'm looking into Path Aware Networking (PAN) architectures like SCION to avoid exposing paths to my sshd, without having to set up a VPN or port knocking. https://scion-architecture.net
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by matthewcroughan 3y ago
TL;DR is that it uses TCL Expect and Tesseract OCR together to automate the installation of archaic operating systems and boil them down to a single Nix command, or nixosModule.
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by matthewcroughan 3y ago
Reproducibility and build determinism are slightly different. Nix is not really about bit-for-bit reproducibility, that is a side-goal, and one that is being worked towards. It is far more pragmatic than that. If you use `--rebuild` like `n
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by matthewcroughan 3y ago
"Easier to use" comes at a cost. I have to wonder whether there's a lower limit to how "easy" reproducibility can be. It is a matter of physics at some level, and the ease of reproducing software can often depend up
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by matthewcroughan 3y ago
> docker forces all injection points to be super explicit. L O L
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by matthewcroughan 3y ago
What you suggested about the listed steps is a bad suggestion. Docker should crash if you don't use a sha256 in a Dockerfile, or at least make some sort of lock file. But it instead allows you to make mistakes. I recently contributed t
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by matthewcroughan 3y ago
Nix. Nix. Nix. Nix. Nix. Nix. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uixRE8xlbY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Le0IbPRzOE
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by matthewcroughan 3y ago
At 2 hours it's probably a bit too long for some, but I liked taking questions and just going with the flow!
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by matthewcroughan 4y ago
https://floxdev.com/blog/hash-collision
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by matthewcroughan 4y ago
So what about the IPFS CAR format? https://car.ipfs.io/ , it would fulfill a lot of what I expect from NAR too. NAR or CAR, I don't care, I believe the content is what matters, not the container format. If I have a box
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by matthewcroughan 4y ago
This is the only case then?
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by matthewcroughan 4y ago
When you say it is not the right end-to-end solution for all cases, I am wondering what case you have in mind that a NAR Hash would not be suitable for. If you adopt Nix fully, the .narinfo file that cache.nixos.org (a Nix substituted) serv
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by matthewcroughan 4y ago
I've just had a thought. When GitHub do update the hashing for better compression, everyone relying on the tar hash will update their hashes. This is the ultimate opportunity to change the tar contents, effect the supply chain, introdu
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Nix.Camp 2021 to 2022(nix.how)
4 points by matthewcroughan 4y ago|1 comments
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by matthewcroughan 4y ago
Soon(tm)
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by matthewcroughan 4y ago
So the only disadvantage of Nix is the learning curve? I'll take it! I wouldn't call the advantages minimal though, it's quite clearly demonstrated that the implications for supply chain security are massive to say the least.
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by matthewcroughan 4y ago
Because you don't want to learn anything new, you're going to ignore the clear advantages and demonstrable benefits of it then? Fair enough. I'm not going to argue with cognitive dissonance like that.
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Use flake.nix, not Dockerfile (An ad-hoc talk I gave at MCH2022)(youtube.com)
5 points by matthewcroughan 4y ago|1 comments
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by matthewcroughan 4y ago
I attended MCH2022, and thought I'd give a talk at the end before going home.
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by matthewcroughan 4y ago
If you're enthusiastic about Nix, are able to travel to the UK, and want people to hang out with over September that can teach you Nix, this event might be for you. https://nix.camp
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Nix Camp – A Small Hangout/Unconference for Nix, in Wales(nix.camp)
3 points by matthewcroughan 4y ago|1 comments
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Nix Camp – A small Hangout/Unconference for Nix, in Wales(nix.camp)
2 points by matthewcroughan 5y ago|1 comments
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by matthewcroughan 5y ago
If you're enthusiastic about Nix, are able to travel to the UK in short notice (in 2 months) and want people to hang out with over September that can teach you Nix, this event might be for you. https://nix.camp