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Anthropic uses Nix?

05.03.2026 06:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
CISOs when you fail the phishing email test

Please commit seppuku by sunset tomorrow.

CISOs when you fail the phishing email test Please commit seppuku by sunset tomorrow.

03.03.2026 11:48 👍 269 🔁 23 💬 5 📌 2
Prometheus says “hot take” and Greek gods respond “no give that back.”

Prometheus says “hot take” and Greek gods respond “no give that back.”

22.02.2026 07:47 👍 5226 🔁 1823 💬 15 📌 10

sed -i @$NIXPKGS_CHKOUT/pkgs@pkgs@

20.02.2026 19:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So I did a `git -C $NIXPKGS_CHKOUT log --oneline -- $NIXPKGS_CHKOUT/pkgs | grep 'bazel.* -> 5.4.0'` and it gave me commit `c8bc2f2c0d`.

And now I can get it with a simple `nix shell github:nixos/nixpkgs?rev=c8bc2f2c0d#bazel_5`.

That's so fucking cool man

(2/2)

20.02.2026 19:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

When I say I love Nix for reproducibility, I mean real reproducibility, none of that "we ship a tarball of dependencies and run in a cgroup and call it a day" BS.

At work, I needed bazel 5.4.0 and I couldn't find a way to get it on my Fedora 43 work-provided workstation.

(1/2)

20.02.2026 18:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

babel

20.02.2026 18:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Every day I am filled with hate because my heart overflows with my love of the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-h...

19.02.2026 19:14 👍 4003 🔁 1271 💬 36 📌 62

it kills me that people try to pretend that python is even remotely a good software development ecosystem

python is fucking. BULLSHIT

they don't even have a central documentation platform or framework or even useful types. it's just fuckin a few examples and that's all you get. not worth a damn

14.02.2026 02:51 👍 96 🔁 11 💬 13 📌 3

what if I need to turn off the remote itself?

13.02.2026 07:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sponsor | Kernel Recipes Kernel Recipes is single-track: all talks take place in one room. That means:

Since we’re not superstitious, the 13th edition of KR will take place September 21–23, 2026 (black cats strictly forbidden during this edition — even on a leash… 😄). We hope to see loads of you there!

08.02.2026 15:07 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

moshi moshi

04.02.2026 15:41 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Generating code was never the goal. The goal was to solve problems. I tried my best to avoid writing code by leveraging existing solutions or reframing the problem.

Writing code was always a last resort and a liability. If I was going to write code, then I was going to do it right.

04.02.2026 15:04 👍 193 🔁 27 💬 6 📌 6

Hooman likey squigly lines

21.01.2026 03:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

USB SUPERSPEED!!!

19.01.2026 08:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

RAM: you're too touchy

18.01.2026 10:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

damn this bleach anime is something else huh

27.12.2025 11:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Slide showing the $225k grant received by the eBPF Foundation from the Alpha-Omega project and what it will be used for. The slide mentions enabling KASAN, security reviews of the main JIT compilers, checking the verifier-to-JIT integrity, and an assessment of unprivileged surfaces.

Slide showing the $225k grant received by the eBPF Foundation from the Alpha-Omega project and what it will be used for. The slide mentions enabling KASAN, security reviews of the main JIT compilers, checking the verifier-to-JIT integrity, and an assessment of unprivileged surfaces.

At #LinuxPlumbers, @breakawaybilly.bsky.social presented what the eBPF Foundation is doing, where its funds are going, and asked the attendees what should be next.

Recording: www.youtube.com/live/ZLRngpd...
Slides: lpc.events/event/19/con...

15.12.2025 12:01 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Proton Pass' CLI in operation, a terminal window sits on a gradient background.

Proton Pass' CLI in operation, a terminal window sits on a gradient background.

The Proton Pass CLI, which was recently released as a beta, is now officially launched!

Enable faster workflows, reduce context switching, and implement secure automation across local development, servers, and CI/CD environments with this new and secure Command Line Interface.

11.12.2025 17:09 👍 108 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 1

The users are people who couldn't satisfy their OCD with Arch Linux (me). Nix being always reproducible is the big feature for me. Hermatic builds with flakes are another level of upgrade.

12.12.2025 03:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Happy 5th Birthday to Rocky Linux! Celebrate by getting involved. Watch our new video on how to contribute, from chat support to testing to hardware and architecture help. Join the community shaping the next five years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw9-lVtg2N8

#RockyLinux #OpenSource #RESF

09.12.2025 02:46 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

dancing with the devil, are we?

27.11.2025 05:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I use GH actions because well, free, and environment doesn't matter since my code is built with Nix. 🤷🏻‍♂️

23.11.2025 13:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"I'd pin you in my lock file forever" lmao

16.11.2025 12:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes, the only real Go targets are

linux/amd64
linux/arm64
darwin/arm64
windows/amd64

(“Things you should be very concerned about the crypto maintainer saying,” if you deploy to any others 😬)

07.11.2025 23:21 👍 59 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

Wait until you read Nix

30.10.2025 16:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

WHAT'S YOUR LUKS PASSWORD

22.10.2025 15:23 👍 45 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0

Not saying its good, but it is what it is 🤷🏻‍♂️

10.10.2025 11:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That's because attrName can be a string and the interpreter has no way of knowing weather you want to treat the quoted string as a variable name or to evaluate its contents.

10.10.2025 11:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I like it. Having used Nix for some years, I've realised that I use flakes for hermetic benefits. And IMHO, it should be that way. Side rant: you don't need flake-utils or flake-parts.

06.10.2025 02:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0