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Performance art piece written live by a collective of hardware hackers & low-level engineers. We make tools to help you do cool things, hack HW, and make educational materials. 🏳️‍🌈⚢.

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apparently there are rumors of lix being “lesbian nix”* and I can only say that were this the case, I would expect the project to be entirely coated in queer iconography down to a bright pink color scheme

checkmate, atheists

ktemkin,
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(it doesn’t actually stand for this; but it was suggested as a joke prior to me making the website and I am entirely too committed to the bit)

ktemkin, to random
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Thanks so much to everyone who hung in this week as we’ve all worked to fix the state of the Nix community. It’s been a ride; but I think things are going to get better.

Here’s the last major piece of the puzzle — the product of several months of work from an absolutely incredible team. It’s not ready for a full announcement, but we’ve opened our beta so people who are fleeing the core Nix community have a place to go.

https://lix.systems

ktemkin,
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This isn’t just a fork of Nix—this is the work of a team of 10+ people near-constantly since early February. (Technically, us too — but our task is really just enabling others.)

Some serious work has gone into ensuring it improves on upstream without having the regressions that have plagued them last three major versions!

And, since this will matter to some — it’s not a project of the NixOS foundation, but an independent organization that takes its responsibility to its community seriously.

ktemkin,
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@gamer Feel free — though beyond installation, Lix should be 100% compatible with any existing resources. ^^

ktemkin, to random
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OH: “the purpose of a system is who it does”

ktemkin, to random
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hey, universe: would you be cool with not throwing open-source-community issues, project release management, client work, and all our usual CEO responsibilities all at us at once?

something more important has come up (that is, being gay)

ktemkin, to random
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couple of notes:

  1. the NixOS foundation’s new governance discussions are happening, and many can join in: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/zulip-for-governance-discussions/44684

  2. the last bit of the improvements we mentioned in (1) should be and arriving (and announced) very, very soon

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(1) https://chaos.social/@ktemkin/112362084387764306

ktemkin, to random
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someone> hey kate, is this your main dev machine? it has 256GiB of ram!

me, trying to keep up with discord, signal, mattermost, matrix, another matrix client, slack, zulip, and google chat channels> what? this is the one I do office stuff on

ktemkin, to random
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today's code crime: a little hack that makes it so you don't have to quote "flake#ref"s when using xonsh and nix:

https://gist.github.com/ktemkin/9d35bcab82122385b5455f9d2138cdd0

ktemkin, to random
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some good news: solutions to the nix stuff are coming; so if you’re thinking of mass evacuating the ecosystem please hold off a little to see what’s coming this week

ktemkin,
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in the interim, please note that a lot of the problems that have been happening are due to a small group of people who’ve done wrong via the nixOS foundation, the nix language project, and a few community comms platforms

there are an abundance of wonderful folks working on nixpkgs and nixos; and their incredible work is to be celebrated rather than being thrown out because a project they consume turned out toxic

ktemkin,
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@baloo sorry it’s taking so long; this has been a long battle for a small group of people who’ve stepped up to address the bad; and pacing has been really important to make sure solutions are for the long term

ktemkin,
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@baloo (I’m not really important on this particular team — there are a bunch of talented folks working really hard on things; I’ve just been trying to take load off them when I can.)

ktemkin,
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@jason (to be clear I’m not affiliated with the foundation in any way, shape or form)

but yeah, I don’t expect this to fix the trauma that was already happening before this, or the damage from eelco’s awful response; but I do think the source of the bad can be removed and then the good parts reforged into something else; or something else can be built

ktemkin,
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(that all said if you’re burnt out by this or this has become something where remaining will hurt you, please ignore this and take care of yourselves instead)

ktemkin, to random
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increasingly sus what this was referring to 🤔

https://chaos.social/@ktemkin/112106215735136112

ktemkin, to random
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amazing seeing people personally write out things for days on end, and then seeing their detractors look at the length and go “stop having chatgpt write for you”

ktemkin,
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you know LLMs are fully saturated into silicon valley when the same folks can say that AI is going to change everything in one sentence

and then in the next, claim that any position they don’t like is the work of an AI

ktemkin, to random
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just signed: https://save-nix-together.org/

if you're one of the people who have recently told us you'd felt ostracized by the Nix community, it may be of interest

ktemkin, to random
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okay: time to do my social good for this century

proceeds to prepare her various queue of derivations for nixpkgs submission

ktemkin,
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(nix may have its problems — especially with leadership and community; but presumably hoarding these packages like a wayward dragon isn’t the answer)

ktemkin, to random
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diogenes, having had opencv identify four stop signs: behold! google’s man!

ktemkin, to random
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I don't know who "kenneth temkin" is but he typo'd his e-mail as ktemkin@<common provider> at one point and now every once in a while I just get a reciept showing me his various charitable donations to animal shelters

it's like a tiny window into a single positive aspect of someone else's life

ktemkin,
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do I know anything about this dude? not in the slightest, beyond that apparently he cares about animals

ktemkin, to random
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important life lessons: a multimillion dollar company can, in years, almost approach the output of a ragtag group of lesbians working for two weeks

ktemkin,
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(okay to be fair it actually took about two months to do what… checks notes a $4M VC funded startup hasn’t been able to do in several years; and we also had a politically savvy frenchman)

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