Posts by cbaines@octodon.social
(DIR) Post #9wyvBuF4KMe09jCL5c by cbaines@octodon.social
2020-07-11T14:41:44Z
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@Ninjatrappeur that's one factor, I just wanted some real hardware to use though. Sometimes builds fail because of issues with the emulation, so its nice to be able to rule that out by trying on actual hardware.
(DIR) Post #9znSVZ9tOZc40PWl2u by cbaines@octodon.social
2020-10-03T21:09:58Z
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@sss There's a tutorial for #guix here https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/html_node/Packaging-Tutorial.html
(DIR) Post #A1Al8ZPl7DSckEEbc8 by cbaines@octodon.social
2020-11-13T23:45:37Z
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@barrucadu looking good :D Is the RAM as bright in reality as it appears in the picture?I like RGB strips and fans, but I've never been tempted by RGB RAM.
(DIR) Post #A1wDUIEEaSOgCr0eCe by cbaines@octodon.social
2020-12-03T21:24:55Z
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Back when I was using #Debian and first found out about #Guix , I didn't think it was possible or useful to have a package manager without a dependency resolver. I'd literally spent time working on dependency resolver stuff in APT: https://www.cbaines.net/projects/gsoc/2011/I'm glad I was wrong though, I think Guix is so much better for not having a dependency resolver run when you try to install packages.I'm reminded about this by the troubles I see people still trying to use pip for #Python , just use Guix!
(DIR) Post #A2b4CyB8wzFTlFybAG by cbaines@octodon.social
2020-12-26T15:03:35Z
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@davidak this is comparing against distributions though, it's easy to package lots of things if you aren't rigorous at building everything from source.
(DIR) Post #A2b5Ke1xqOm5XmuGci by cbaines@octodon.social
2020-12-26T15:29:06Z
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@davidak I don't know anything about AUR, but its my impression that sometimes nixpkgs derivations aren't particularly rigorous...One example that comes to mind is Grafana. I'd really like to package it, but its pretty complicated given all the JavaScript+CSS stuff as well as the Go code.I new it was packaged for Nixpkgs, but I realise that its just copying many non-source things from the tarball build by the upstream project!https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/servers/monitoring/grafana/default.nix
(DIR) Post #A3IlNGo63nNhdfLq3k by cbaines@octodon.social
2021-01-16T15:48:52Z
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@orionwl in the Gnome Tweak Tool, you can select to have static workspaces, which sounds like what you might want.
(DIR) Post #A3rKrzPTAVIEwiUzvk by cbaines@octodon.social
2021-02-01T23:34:31Z
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@barrucadu that's pretty neat!I've been wondering about trying to monitor temperature in different rooms, but I haven't found any devices that look like good options for doing that yet...
(DIR) Post #A3wohbxroYVBLVtk5w by cbaines@octodon.social
2021-01-31T12:19:51Z
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@ademalsasa the Linux Foundation is a trade association supporting its member companies.There are better places to donate to.
(DIR) Post #A3wohdnezTWf2R8cSm by cbaines@octodon.social
2021-01-31T12:26:12Z
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@ademalsasa its a little old, but have a read of https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/39546.html
(DIR) Post #A4Zl1FXwSs40wcj64u by cbaines@octodon.social
2021-02-13T22:31:41Z
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Whoo, it's pretty rough around the edges, but this is probably the first #Guix Build Coordinator agent build on the GNU Hurd!
(DIR) Post #A5kMQ9Jfkgm5lZJk5Q by cbaines@octodon.social
2021-03-30T19:10:30Z
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#Guix Build Coordinator progress, I made some database schema changes, and the size of the guix.cbaines.net database dropped from ~43GB to ~11.5GB!When I started writing it, I used natural keys, UUID's for the builds, and /gnu/store/... names to identify derivations. This was fine at small scale, but with lots of builds and derivations, it made for a much bigger database, and slower queries.
(DIR) Post #A68aDpsQcqSisrplsu by cbaines@octodon.social
2021-04-11T11:17:04Z
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I never thought a saw would be important when plugging in this connector, but it now fits, so I'm pretty happy!
(DIR) Post #A7YGwnvSo4OfNpDRcu by cbaines@octodon.social
2021-05-23T18:25:59Z
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I thought I was having a good day with computers, but after upgrading a #Guix system, I now can't login through the GDM, and hours of debugging has left me none the wiser.Something is broken, and it seems there's very little to help work out what.Reinstalling the OS shouldn't be necessary to fix this kind of issue, but that's what I might have to do...
(DIR) Post #A7YGwogbym6vk3H67E by cbaines@octodon.social
2021-05-23T18:38:42Z
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@jeko I did consider trying a previous system generation, but I wanted to upgrade.Even if a previous generation works, I'm not sure how that would help at this point.
(DIR) Post #AV4FEtXO1oAL6L2Tuy by cbaines@octodon.social
2023-04-26T21:40:11Z
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So, Mastodon is DDoS'ing https://data.guix.gnu.org/ which I try and keep running.The NGinx access log is full of lines like:```162.19.31.85 - - [26/Apr/2023:23:13:24 +0200] "GET /repository/1/branch/master/latest-processed-revision/package-reproducibility HTTP/1.1" 499 0 "-" "http.rb/5.1.1 (Mastodon/4.1.2; +https://canada.masto.host/) Bot"```Given it's a DDoS though, having NGinx look at the request rate by IP and returning 499's probably isn't very effective.
(DIR) Post #AVNo9CbfPCN2u8Ii5g by cbaines@octodon.social
2023-05-06T15:57:02Z
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Post core-updates #Guile in #Guix now returns memory to the system 🎉This is great for the various services that I've written that have large spikes in memory usage 😅
(DIR) Post #AVmNMl8F8dGXp8BOu8 by cbaines@octodon.social
2023-05-18T11:51:42Z
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#Guix substitute availability post `core-updates`, mesa upgrade and `rust-team` merge is getting there, now 50%+ for `armhf-linux` and `i686-linux`, 80%+ for `aarch64-linux` and `powerpc64le-linux` and 95%+ for `x86_64-linux`.https://qa.guix.gnu.org/branch/master
(DIR) Post #AWFYws8MZu2GrKjq88 by cbaines@octodon.social
2023-06-01T14:11:20Z
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Seize the Means of Computation: A Big Tech Disassembly Manual with Cory Doctorow.https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-kirstein-lecture-2023-featuring-cory-doctorow-registration-539205788027
(DIR) Post #AWPNxzLm4rcTcAwMoy by cbaines@octodon.social
2023-06-06T07:55:25Z
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#guix substitute availability is looking pretty green 🟢 this morning!https://qa.guix.gnu.org/branch/master