Steamroller Willie (Cotton 🍬)Mar 25

I do love when I fall into rabbit holes, kind of, but today's excursion got unhealthy. As in I barely did any of the things I was supposed to do, or meant to do.

FWIW, I got a fully reproducible (as in byte-reproducible) #NixOS #QubesOS 4.3 template working. Well, working is a bit of an overstatement but I got as far as this.

Most of the work was done by evq here https://github.com/evq/qubes-nixos-template I just banged my head against the wall until my ancient memories of Qubes OS internals bubbled up, and got interested in how reproducible ext4 images could work. Anyway. I'll assemble an in-depth PR some other time (tomorrow is travel day), but I've wanted this since 2022.

There, that's one type of neurospicy that I am 🤦

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For the #NixOS #QubesOS and #reproduciblebuilds nerds out there, I finally found some time to clean this up enough for post my fully-reproducible NixOS template for QubesOS PR: https://github.com/evq/qubes-nixos-template/pull/7

This feels so niche it kind of hurts my soul. FWIW I'll do a lightning talk on the value of build reproducibility on Thursday, so maybe I can get a few more people to care.

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