I'm registered on a mastodon instance and I find it quite nice and not at all a dumpster fire.
If you're a conservative or so you will probably have a hard time finding an instace you feel at home at, but the defederation of mastodon instances from instances that allow hate speech, racism, homophobia, etc. are precisely what prevents it from being a dumpster fire.
The Fediverse is not without issues but I think it is an example of fuctioning decentralized social media.
> it's a federal republic rather than a democracy...
Germany is both a federal republic and a democracy and I would argue the the USA are too. Both countries ultimatively derive their legislation from the general populace and are representative democracies.
I've seen the claim you made several times, but every time I try to look it up I fail to understand it.
What is your reason to think a federal republic would exclude democracy?
Yes this seems to be a common distinction made in the US, which I also don't understand.
What I learned in politics at school (and studying it for a short time) was that republic and democracy are orthogonal concepts (leds leave out the federal which seems to be even another dimension).
A republic essentially means, the state doesn't have a king (head of state by inheritancel, but some sort of president which gets elected in some way (not necessary by the population). A democracy is a category of how decisions get made, i.e. by some vote of the people (demos).
Is there some subtlety I'm missing or is this thing about "federal Republic not democracy" something just always repeated, without properly understanding it.
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> Tested by Experts is obviously clickbait; nobody's going to say [Tested by novices].
Nobody would write [Tested by novices] into their headline, but leaving out the part in the brackets would leave it open if it was tested by experts or novices. So in this case the removed bit does provide some information.
I thought I wanted dictionaries with dot notation for a while. After some time I realized I didn't care about dictionary features like iterating over keys at all, I just needed a namespace.
`from types import SimpleNamespace` works for me.
Of course I don't want to say that there's no need for box, just that it's good to consider if you're actually looking for a dictionary.
In a lot of places in Germany public transport was only restricted to using N95 masks. This summer in Berlin all the stores required N95 masks, as did universities. They have relaxed the rules since then and you can see in the recent infection statistics how that worked out for them.
I've tried to learn nix and tried to read various documentation. The problem was that there was always a piece of information missing. That was until I've found the nix pills which are a pretty good and structured introduction on people interested in building packages with nix.
I'm still in the learning process, but one thing I've had a hard time is finding out what functions are available. e.g. there's stdenv.mkDerivation for a generic target, and as your docs mention pythonXY.withPackages for a python virtualenv [1]. But what if I wanted, e.g. Ruby? How do I find out what's available? What options they take?
This is less packaging related (more nix lang related) but here is my go to resource for functions: https://teu5us.github.io/nix-lib.html. teu5us extracted the builtin/lib function docs and put them on one place saving you from having it split up into multiple manuals.
One issue with nix is the content has been written down it’s very inaccessible. It is split up between blog posts, discourse, nixpkgs code comments, the wiki, Reddit, etc. When working on something in nix I’ll frequently have 10+ sources of information. The google-fu needed is strong.
My biggest recommendation is to dive into the nixpkgs repo and other public dotfiles as most likely what you are doing has been done.
Would love to see some documentation on dealing with SSL decryption for those who are in MITM corporate environments.
I've struggled with this as I recently got a new Mac for work and I tried to set it up from scratch with Nix but I couldn't even get it to connect to the nixpkgs channel. I tried every solution I could find online for pulling the CAs and specifying the NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE, but it borked even after I left the office and connected through another network (and wiping and reinstalling Nix didn't seem to fix it, but I probably didn't do that correctly either...).
Eventually I gave up and went back to homebrew and setup scripts.
You need to make sure the `https_proxy` environment variable is set correctly as well. There used to be some coverage of this in the manual, but it looks like maybe it's gone now.
Nice guide! One thing I noticed missing is how to use nix flakes (e.g. in place of niv). That is my next thing to understand, and I want to convert my NixOS / shell.nix files to use them.
The website respects DNT and informs the user with a small popup that disappears automatically. What a joy! The web could be such a nice place if it was like this everywhere.
If you're a conservative or so you will probably have a hard time finding an instace you feel at home at, but the defederation of mastodon instances from instances that allow hate speech, racism, homophobia, etc. are precisely what prevents it from being a dumpster fire.
The Fediverse is not without issues but I think it is an example of fuctioning decentralized social media.