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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • It looks like an opinionated personal Nix flake. Nothing wrong with that, although the vibecoding would make me hesitant to boot this flake on bare metal. Maybe it will be useful reading for some folks. Some specific critiques:

    • browser: Brave by default? No thanks.
    • python: Not using a nice Nix-built Python with reproducible environments? So why advertise reproducibility?
    • updates: Not using the NixOS autoupdate framework? So why advertise the ability to run off SSH and a git repo?
    • Many system scripts are written in Python or Bash. Python is not the worst choice (I still appreciate Gentoo!) but it can have a slow startup time that is not great for lightweight batch scripts. Bash is a middle-of-the-road choice, but it’s not especially fast or secure or easy-to-read; there are better choices in each of those directions, like Debian’s dash, execline, or Oils.
    • Spend weirdness points in weirder ways. Replace systemd. Replace the shell. Configure some exotic networking protocol. There are interesting possible things that a new distro can do.

  • Given that you’ve been spouting bigoted and cryptofascist viewpoints ever since you joined this server, I’m not surprised that you’re defending DHH and trying to apologize for him by attacking anybody who points out DHH’s actual views. Additionally, as far as I can tell, you’re not actually part of the Free Software community; why should we care about your milquetoast half-assed apology when you’re not actually one of the people doing the daily work to maintain our space and community?