toastal

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by toastal 13d ago
Not to be confused with ATS 3 Xanadu < https://github.com/githwxi/ATS-Xanadu/ >
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by toastal 29d ago
Downstream often still relies on fetching & doesn’t care about any of the clerical stuff. Folks should consider self-hosting that clerical stuff anyhow given the independence you get & given MS GitHub’s uptime over the last several
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by toastal 1mo ago
Don’t let yourself get so locked in ideally, but still keeping the code online is still quite valuable to a lot of folks.
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by toastal 1mo ago
The PSA is that you should always have a mirror—even if just a bare repo folks can pull from during downtime. …& this is ignoring all the moral reason for avoiding US-based, publicly-traded, proprietary software for host largely free
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by toastal 1mo ago
The manpage for `nix build` & `nix shell` goes to `nix-build` & `nix-shell` the stable, non-experimental command which do not need a file as an arg since they are more developer-friendly. The `nix-command` experimental stuff is docu
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by toastal 1mo ago
> tightly-coupled, non-modular, non-scalable pattern, experimental This is a massive part of the problem to be advocating for & adopting flakes. My config is much simpler: nixos-rebuild switch --file host/$HOSTNAME. This doesn’t
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by toastal 1mo ago
While rollback takes away some fears, “fearless” is a stretch. LLMs are relatively quite bad at Nix choosing tightly-coupled, non-modular, non-scalable patterns with unnecessary dependencies/experimental features, while also choosing t
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by toastal 1mo ago
Sailfish has some proprietary stuff to deal with the Android & Sony as well as Qt being Qt. Much of their software is open source—& collaborative with translations & forums for feedback. Out of the box, you on Sailfish you get r
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by toastal 1mo ago
I‘m lucky that my part of the world doesn’t yet require apps for taxis & they accept cash. App users often end up paying more if they don’t know even basic negotiations.
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by toastal 1mo ago
I switched to Sailfish OS. A lot of rough edges, but it can can be workable—tho largely due to Sailfish having an Android layer to run those apps. It’s getting better OS-wise, but the Sony devices that you can get access to internationally
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by toastal 3mo ago
The page doesn’t load anything for me… I block JS by default, & something that should be informational is hiding it’s content behind scripts for some reason.
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by toastal 3mo ago
Location: Eastern Thailand Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Nix, OCaml, anything functional (learning concatenative) Résumé/CV: https://toast.al/skills/ (I don’t want to give
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by toastal 4mo ago
It also requires JavaScript. I like to have JS off by default since running code on my machine is a privilege—one that I opt into, not the the site owner’s choice. This is frustrating since these blockers don’t let me know if the site i
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by toastal 4mo ago
So wild thinking folks would actually believe a massive, US-based, publicly-traded company when they say something is “privacy-respecting”.
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by toastal 4mo ago
ຂອບໃຈເດີ້
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by toastal 4mo ago
Flake parts modules means that it’s an abstraction on top of an abstraction, flakes, on top of Nix. Then to need to throw unflake or trix at the problem is more layers & woven dependencies—same for ‘Dendridic’ patterns. If you invert th
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by toastal 4mo ago
Yikes. That Nix code is a mess without meaningful organization & only usable via experimental flakes.
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by toastal 4mo ago
Join the club! I did as soon as the Microsoft acquisition realizing this would be only a matter of time… with more projects (finally) leaving that ecosystem, I might finally be able to delete my last account with Microsoft.
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by toastal 5mo ago
Location: Eastern Thailand Remote: Yes, can travel every so often Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Nix, NixOS, OCaml, PureScript, Elm, JavaScript, CSS Résumé/CV: https://toast.al/skills/
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by toastal 5mo ago
The snapshot-based system requires that the patch order matters which Darcs/Pijul don’t require so long as the patches apply since they commute. This means you can pull in patches from other users at an time in any order & still g
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by toastal 5mo ago
If it got proper tooling this would be true—but the community will need to build it. Darcs has more out of the box & more existing ecosystems to work with. Pijul is barebones by design, ready to be scripted, there’s just not much out th
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by toastal 5mo ago
Why do we need to stick to Git? We need better tooling around the Patch Theory-based VCS which are better for decentralized working to begin with.
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by toastal 5mo ago
Xit has a better “take” on Git. Pijul & Darcs still have better fundamentals.
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by toastal 5mo ago
We are finally getting closer to me getting to delete my last account with Microsoft. Nixpkgs: please follow suit.
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by toastal 5mo ago
reStructuredText & AsciiDoc are so, so much better than Markdown since they have rich feature sets to actually build documentation, blogging, & so on. It’s a massive shame everyone would prefer _yet another Markdown fork_ like the
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by toastal 5mo ago
There is no <noscript> so I can even look at what this is.
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by toastal 5mo ago
Haskell/Miranda use `::` instead of `:` for type signatures unlike Elm & basically the rest of the family which prioritize types being less keypresses than list cons.
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by toastal 6mo ago
> Features It’s blank. Lots of blank gray rectangles too. Site is broken?
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by toastal 6mo ago
Yet folks are refusing to migrate off their products/services—as if it hasn’t been like this for 3 decades already.
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by toastal 6mo ago
Please do. Poison the training.

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