Mastodawn

Of course you can also install the Nix package manager outside of #NixOS, for example on Debian or Arch, and that’s a great way to start.

At some point, the software you’ll want to run needs enough system integration that running NixOS (not just the package manager) becomes a good idea.

See also all my posts in https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/tags/nix/ for how I would recommend you get started / what I think you should know :)

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Michael Stapelberg’s private website, containing articles about computers and programming, mostly focused on Linux.

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h0b0 Mar 13

tante Mar 12

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116217477822586442

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.

It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

h0b0 Mar 8

jcoglan Jun 1, 2025

LLMs turn your job into mostly code review, a task everyone famously loves to do and is good at

h0b0 Mar 8

#HL-live in a nutshell

h0b0 Feb 25

Dave Feb 25

Please mind the small train inside the little train

h0b0 Feb 24

Rebane Feb 24

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)

you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS

https://lyra.horse/x86css/

h0b0 Jan 6

Alexander Hansen Færøy Jan 6

#Hamburg city in #Germany. Shot from our hotel room on 22nd floor of the Radisson Blu Dammtor during #39c3.

h0b0 Dec 27

Und sollte jemand schweren Herzens realisieren, dass das nichts wird, wenigstens noch die letzten zwei, drei Tage zum #39c3 zu fahren: Ich habe es nicht weit und würde mich weiter gewaltig über ein #ticket freuen.

h0b0 Dec 24

Lilith Wittmann Dec 24

Wir sind jetzt in einer Zeit, in der falsches Redacten von Dokumenten nicht mehr etwas ist, für das man die Verwaltung auslachen sollte.

Wir sind jetzt in der Zeit, in der Leute, die in der Verwaltung nach dem CIA Simple Sabotage Field Manual arbeiten und sich dabei aktiv zu blöd anstellen, wichtige Informationen zu schwärzen, Helden sind.

I once read a story about the people writing the software for the NASA Apollo missions. There was a functionary in charge of weight accounting, who came to them and asked how much the software would weigh.

They told him it weighted nothing, but the functionary had heard *that* one before and insisted—everything had to be accounted down to the last ounce. He demanded to see it.

They showed him a stack of punched cards, and he was triumphant. “You see,” he said smugly, “it doesn't weigh only ‘nothing’!”

“No, you misunderstand,” they replied. “The cards aren't going on the spacecraft. Only the holes.”