> #NixOS or #GUIX

Two years user of NixOS here, moved after using Arch for about 3 years. Overall I'm really happy with it.

I also evaluated Guix when migrating from Arch. My raw and honest opinion about it is that it's just an attempt at open source fragmentation with zero innovation(I'm not impressed by Scheme or Lisps) that uses GNU marketing/branding/philosophy to gain adoption. I decided not to waste any time with it.

> My raw and honest opinion about [Guix/GuixSD] is that it's just an attempt at open source fragmentation with zero innovation(I'm not impressed by Scheme or Lisps) that uses GNU marketing/branding/philosophy to gain adoption.

This is an extremely uncharitable take on Guix. I hope it doesn't take root in the Nix community, not least of all because it overlooks areas where Nix could stand to learn from Guix.

Guix is ahead of Nix with: • grafts • its excellent subcommand interface • documentation • explicit organization/structure for contributors • the bootstrap story • trusting/signing channels

and it also has some interesting differences in choice of abstractions at various levels, like its service system vs. NixOS' modules.

Guix's existence doesn't harm Nix users or developers in any way, and there's no need for this kind of hostility or dismissiveness. As a Nix user, I hope Guix flourishes.

Home Manager always seems like a unnecessary layer though. Why is it needed if you already control everything with NixOS?

It's for the user packages. This way you can keep the system profile lean for fast updates of the kernel and such, and then update firefox and other things separately. With Guix they have had manifests for a while, which are integrated into Guix proper and are like the package half of Home Manager (not the config stuff). I only keep a handful of things installed as system packages, and then I have probably 100 or more things in my manifest.scm file. As my user I apply this manifest and it will install or remove things as needed. No root privileges needed.

> This way you can keep the system profile lean for fast updates of the kernel and such, and then update firefox and other things separately

That makes a lot of sense. Right now a nixos-rebuild is really slow for me as I have a big configuration.nix file. I guess Home Manager could help in this case, will dig into it.

My primary use-case for Home Manager is dotfiles management. This way I can keep them consistent across all machines and development containers (managed with NixOS declarative containers, so Home Manager configuration is applied on container startup).

With Home Manager, you can share configuration between NixOS, non NixOS Linux distros, and macOS.

Note that the "official" PostgreSQL docker image is maintained by Docker Inc - not by PostgreSQL contributors/members.

Also, you can send the logs to a centralized server with systemd-journal-remote[1].

[1]: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-cent...

There's a site called theync.com(I suggest not going there), which was always more gruesome than LiveLeak.

I never understood how they operate. Always thought search engines should ban the site or something.

clicked a few light links (no gore, no blood) and the more shocking part was the comments... they can't be real people, it has got to be a bot and/or honeypot of some kind.

They are real commenters but they’re in a game to say the most provocative stuff they can in a pseudonymous forum.

Note that this means 77 requests per second, which is not impressive at all.

200000000/(30x24x60x60) ~= 77.16

That goes against Occam's Razor. Whistleblower of a powerful bank mafia goes missing, simplest explanation: killed.

  That goes against Occam's Razor.

I wish I knew if that were true. Our world is complex and it's unclear how to calculate the odds of someone in his position killing himself, accidentally falling off a cliff, or being murdered.

Maybe someone assassinated him, maybe he had a heart attack. There are plenty of plausible scenarios.

His car was found abandoned with the engine running. He was murdered.

Most exciting explanation that confirms your biases isn’t necessarily the most likely explanation.

Exciting? If anything this is depressing. How people throw around the word "conspiracy" in an attempt to sound smart and disregard(or even dissuade to consider) the most plausible explanation.

Bias? Whistleblower of a mafia goes missing and your first thought is that he commited suicide? Please, you lack intellectual honesty.

Works for me as well.

How much money does MS have? Can they just buy any innovation they want?

$14bn on hand per their last earnings report, but any deal like this would be paid for using a mix of MSFT stock plus cash. And yes, at the scale of company we're talking with Microsoft, they can afford any innovation stage company they want.

> Spam boxes are no longer very useful. Censorship is in full swing. If I were to mention the last name of the founder of Windows, this email would immediately go into the spam box of places like gmail.

Is that true? Can anyone confirm?