The @nixos_org integration tests have always been a fantastic tool - We just made them even faster and much simpler to run! 🚀 By adding a new lightweight container backend to the test driver, you can now run your suites on standard, non-KVM VMs. 👇

Here is what the new container backend brings to your NixOS workflow:

⚡ Blazing Fast Execution: How fast? Booting two machines, letting them ping each other, and tearing them down now takes ~3 seconds!
💸 Run Anywhere (Cheaper!): You no longer need bare-metal KVM-enabled hosts. Your tests can now run seamlessly on cheap, standard VMs.
🎮 GPU Testing Support: Hardware acceleration is now accessible. You can finally test GPU-dependent workloads directly inside your integration tests!

Curious how it works under the hood and how to enable it in your projects? Dive into our latest article and try it out for yourself!

🔗 Read the full breakdown here: https://nixcademy.com/posts/faster-cheaper-nixos-integration-tests-with-containers/

#NixOS #DevOps #Testing #Linux #Nix #InfrastructureAsCode #CI #Containers

England's Soils have (maybe) 60 harvests left in them.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pozDsTv1smw

And yet English people still won't talk about the weather as if it matters.

#england #ecology #harvests #food #famine

Hej! Jag är ny här på Mastodon. Jag har tillsammans med två vänner satt upp en webbsida på svenska inspirerad av bland annat DanmarkSkifter. Målgruppen för sidan är inte du som läser detta nu, utan snarare dina släktingar, kollegor och vänner som ännu inte insett faran i att fortsätta låta Big Tech ha det inflytande som de har idag.

Adressen är https://www.suddigare.com

Jag blir glad om du besöker och kanske också delar sidan vidare. Tack!

#DanmarkSkifter #Sweden #Sverige #bigtech #privacy

New on #blog: "Money isn’t going to solve the #burnout problem"

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The xz-utils backdoor situation brought the problem of FLOSS maintained burnout into the daylight. This in turn lead to numerous discussion on how to solve the problem, and the recurring theme was funding maintenance work.

While I’m definitely not opposed to giving people money for their FLOSS work, if you think that throwing some bucks will actually solve the problem, and especially if you think that you can just throw them once and then forget, I have bad news for you: it won’t. Surely, money is a big part of the problem, but it’s not the only reason people are getting burned out. It’s a systemic problem, and it’s in need of systemic solution, and that’s involves a lot of hard work to undo everything that’s happened in the last, say, 20 years.

But let’s start at the beginning and ask the important question: why do people make free software?
"""

https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/03/07/money-isnt-going-to-solve-the-burnout-problem/

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #AI #NoAI #LLM #NoLLM #Gentoo

❓Have you noticed that digital products and services are getting worse? So have we!

➡️We have published a report about enshittification, on how and why digital products and services keep getting worse - and how we can turn the trend (hint: open tech, enforcement, public policy++)

Obviously @pluralistic is a big inspiration and help in this work.

More than 80 groups in Europe and the US has joined in a call to action.

More here: https://www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree

Enjoy this short film!