Mastodawn

As I ponder the benefits of a system built using nix-hell instead of bashisms, I’m optimistic I might have a reliable way to encapsulate secrets in my Nix CI without them leaking due to potential bashisms.

I’m fooling myself, because in the end, Nix-Hell does allow me to call executables; keep thinking about that recent hack involving workflow CI.

Dev used a completion plugin and that completion plugin had a malware that was able to obtain secrets and send them off. ::shudders::

harryprayiv 16h ago

I adore #Haskell and #Purescript and I’m very tired of using the brilliant but utterly BRITTLE #bash in the context of #Nix and #nixos infrastructure. Bash isn’t lazy, it’s not purely functional, and it commits the sin of “everything is a string”!

So, I forked a REALLY cool scripting language called #HellLanguage and added Nix-specific functionality to fully replace bash. #nixhell

I’ve already gotten quite far to the point that it is usable.

Current progress here:
https://github.com/harryprayiv/nix-hell/tree/phase2

GitHub - harryprayiv/nix-hell at phase2

Haskell-based shell scripting language (extended to work as an alternative nix scripting language) - harryprayiv/nix-hell

GitHub

harryprayiv 5d ago

GodlessCommie 5d ago

We are not the same

https://lemmy.world/post/44727110

We are not the same - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

harryprayiv 6d ago

Faraiwe Mar 23

#AgeVerification #Oppression #Surveillance #Privacy #DigitalRights #EU

harryprayiv 6d ago

Black Wolf

6d ago

RE: https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/116284627411903130

Thats how it's done!
Age verification doesn't "solve" the problem of pedophelia it doesnt "protect the children" much at all.
It is the wrong approach for such an issue.
The way of how any operating system shall now implement age checks makes no sense, as anyone can simply lie about their age and then be treated as an adult. Like what does this mandatory age verification do in an operating system? It makes no sense.
#ageverification #grafeneos

harryprayiv 6d ago

Hacker News 6d ago

The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification into Linux

https://www.sambent.com/the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-age-verification-into-linux-5/

#HackerNews #Engineer #AgeVerification #Linux #OpenSource #Technology

The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux

Dylan, useful idiot with commit access, pushed age verification PRs to systemd, Ubuntu & Arch, got 2 Microslop employees to merge it, called it 'hilariously pointless' in the PR itself, then watched Lennart personally block the revert. Unpaid compliance simp.

Sam Bent

harryprayiv 6d ago

I found the absolute worst, most morally bankrupt person in open source.

This “person” #dylantaylor is being paid to compromise open source projects by adding age verification functionality in many projects spanning the whole ecosystem. If we don’t name and shame this person right now, things are going to get a whole lot worse. We see you, Meta, funding attempts to undermine free and open source projects.

#meta #ageverification #ChatControl

harryprayiv Mar 21

Sarah Jamie Lewis Mar 21

The extent to which core linux projects are laying the groundwork for age verification is very concerning.

I understand why some believe they are compelled to do so, and why others feel that it may be better to implement the most minimal conforming implementation in the hopes of fending off something worse.

But the line must be drawn such that no threat can obligate an OS to collect/store personal information - without that freedom, we face an uphill fight to protect general purpose computing.

harryprayiv Mar 21

RE: https://mastodon.social/@HakeemG/116267827665445623

Clintonites on the fediverse, trying to gaslight us all into getting in line for Pelosi’s nephew Gavin Newsom! 🤣

This person actually wants us to believe that CLINTON (the SoS that was more bloodthirsty than just about anyone) would have done any different! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Does this person remember the “we came, we saw, he died” quote? Do they think we’re too young to remember it?

Don’t ever listen to these people. The long history of propaganda, gaslighting, and corruption is CRYSTAL clear.

harryprayiv Mar 20

Mastodon Migration Mar 19

Bluesky Reveals Massive Hidden Investment

Today #Bluesky revealed that in April 2025 they received a whopping $100M venture capital investment lead by Bain Capital Crypto and that they KEPT IT A SECRET.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-19-2026-series-b

So the answer to the big mystery Who Owns Bluesky? (https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116025246450023071) is finally out. Crypto VCs.

Now, we should be asking why did this company that prides itself on transparency and "decentralization" decide they needed to hide who owned the company?