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NixOS supports headless LUKS, which was an improvement for me in my last distro-hop. The NixOS wiki even has an example of running a TOR Onion service from initrd to accept a LUKS unlock credential.
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3·1 year agoNice.
Here’s another worked example of a less adventurous pi pico (W) project I did recently. It’s C, built with Nix, and doesn’t require setting up all the hardware-debugger stuff (it uses the much simpler hold-bootsel-while-plugging-in and copy-the-.uf2-file mechanism to load code). The 5th commit is the simple blink example from the SDK with all the build mechanisms figured out.
Bumping package versions usually isn’t hard. Here, I’ll do this one out loud here, & maybe you can do it next time you need to:
- Search https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pulls to see if someone else already has a PR open for a version bump for this package.
- Clone the nixpkgs repo if you haven’t already:
git clone https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git ~/devel/nixpkgs(orgit pullif you have). - Create a branch for this bump:
git checkout -b stremio - Find stremio:
find pkgs -name stremio - Edit it:
$EDITOR pkgs/applications/video/stremio/default.nixLooks like nixpkgs has version 4.4.142. If I go to https://www.stremio.com/ (link inmeta.homepagein this file) and click ‘Download’, it all says 4.4, which is not helpful. The ‘source code’ link goes to github, and the ‘tags’ link there lists versionv4.4.164, which is what we’re looking for. - In my editor, I change the version:
4.4.142→4.4.164. - In my editor, I mess up both the hashes: I just add a block of zeros somewhere in the middle:
sha256-OyuTFmEIC8PH4PDzTMn8ibLUAzJoPA/fTILee0xpgQI=→sha256-OyuTFmEIC80000000000000000000A/fTILee0xpgQI=. - Leaving my editor, I build the updated package:
nix-build . -A stremio - It fails, because the hashes are wrong, obviously. But it tells me what hash it got, which I copy/paste back in, in the spirit of collective TOFU. I do this twice, once for each hash.
- It builds successfully. I test the result:
./result/bin/stremio. Looks like it works enough to prompt me to log in, at least. I don’t know what stremio is or have an account, but it’s probably fine. - I commit my change:
git commit -a -m 'stremio: 4.4.142 -> 4.4.164' - I push my commit:
git push github(If this is your first time, create a fork of nixpkgs in the github web UI &git remote adda remote for it first) - I create PR in the github web UI: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/263387
I use Nix (not yet NixOS) on a Librem 5. Debian stable is so old, so it’s nice to have Nix as an alternative.
Thanks for the lead!
It looks like the Buddy Read feature does in fact start with a specific book and organize a group around it, but it invites me to specify all the people that will ever be in the group right away, at group creation time. I get three ways to invite people:
- “Machine-learning powered reading buddy recommendations” - Unspecified voodoo. Three users are shown.
- “Community members who have this book on their radar” - Probably folks that have this on their public ‘to read’ list. Three users are shown.
- Specifying users directly by username
This doesn’t quite fit the “I’m up for this, let me know when it starts” mechanic.
I could create a new group & invite all three of the users with this book in their public ‘to read’ list, but I think folks treat the the ‘to read’ list very, very casually – not at the “I’m ready to commit to a reading group” level. These three users have 723, 2749, and 3771 books on their ‘to read’ lists respectively. I see that I somehow have have 46 books on mine, & haven’t been thinking of it as a ‘ready to commit to reading group’ list.
2·1 year agoRegulation is slow, full of drama, scales poorly, & can result in a legal thicket that teams of lawyers can navigate better than the individuals it’s intended to advocate for. Decriminalizing interoperability is faster & can handle most of the small/simple cases, freeing up our community/legislative resources to focus on the most important regulatory needs.
X11 for xdotool. ydotool doesn’t support (& can’t really support with it’s current architecture) retrieving information like the current mouse location, current window, window dimensions & titles. Also, normal (unprivileged) user ydotool use requires udev rules or session scripts and/or running a ydotool daemon & many distros don’t yet ship with this Just Working.
X11 for Alt-F2
rto restart Gnome Shell without ending the whole session. This is a useful workaround for a variety of Gnome bugs.
I ran Gentoo for ~15 years and then switched to NixOS ~3 years ago. The last straw was Gentoo bug 676264, where I submitted version bump & build fix patches to fix security issues and was ignored for three months.
In Gentoo,
glsa-checkonly tells you about security vulnerabilities after there’s a portage update that would resolve it. I.e., for those three months, all Gentoo users had a ghostscript with widely-known vulnerabilities and glsa-check was silent about it. I’m not cherry-picking this example—this was one of my first attempts to help be proactive about security updates & found that the process is not fit for purpose. And most fixed vulnerabilities don’t even get GLSA advisories—the advisories have to be created manually. Awhile back, I had made a ‘gentle update’ script that just updated packages glsa-check complained about. It turns out that’s not very useful.Contrast this with vulnix, a tool in Nix/NixOS which directly fetches the vulnerability database from nvd.nist.gov (with appropriate polite local caching) and directly checks locally installed software against it. You don’t need the Nix project to do anything for this to Just Work; it’s always comprehensive. I made a NixOS upgrade script that uses vulnix to show me a diff of security issues as it does a channel update. Example output:
commit ... Author: <me> Date: Sat Jun 17 2023 New pins for security fixes -9.8 CVE-2023-34152 imagemagick -7.8 CVE-2023-34153 imagemagick -7.5 CVE-2023-32067 c-ares -7.5 CVE-2023-28319 curl -7.5 CVE-2023-2650 openssl -7.5 CVE-2023-2617 opencv -7.5 CVE-2023-0464 openssl -6.5 CVE-2023-31147 c-ares -6.5 CVE-2023-31124 c-ares -6.5 CVE-2023-1972 binutils -6.4 CVE-2023-31130 c-ares -5.9 CVE-2023-32570 dav1d -5.9 CVE-2023-28321 curl -5.9 CVE-2023-28320 curl -5.9 CVE-2023-1255 openssl -5.5 CVE-2023-34151 imagemagick -5.5 CVE-2023-32324 cups -5.3 CVE-2023-0466 openssl -5.3 CVE-2023-0465 openssl -3.7 CVE-2023-28322 curl diff --git a/channels b/channels --- a/channels +++ b/channels @@ -8,23 +8,23 @@ [nixos] git_repo = https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git git_ref = release-23.05 -git_revision = 3a70dd92993182f8e514700ccf5b1ae9fc8a3b8d -release_name = nixos-23.05.419.3a70dd92993 -tarball_url = https://releases.nixos.org/nixos/23.05/nixos-23.05.419.3a70dd92993/nixexprs.tar.xz -tarball_sha256 = 1e3a214cb6b0a221b3fc0f0315bc5fcc981e69fec9cd5d8a9db847c2fae27907 +git_revision = c7ff1b9b95620ce8728c0d7bd501c458e6da9e04 +release_name = nixos-23.05.1092.c7ff1b9b956 +tarball_url = https://releases.nixos.org/nixos/23.05/nixos-23.05.1092.c7ff1b9b956/nixexprs.tar.xz +tarball_sha256 = 8b32a316eb08c567aa93b6b0e1622b1cc29504bc068e5b1c3af8a9b81dafcd12
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Paper tokens: Produce 100 billion authentication tokens (could be passwords, could be private keys of signed certificates), print them on thick paper, fold them up, publicly stir them in giant vats at their central manufacturing location before distributing them to show that no record is being kept of where each token is being geographically routed to, and then have them freely available in giant buckets at any establishment that already does age-checks for any other reason (bars, grocery stores that sell alcohol or tobacco, etc.). The customer does the usual age-verification ritual, then reaches into the bucket and themselves randomly selects any reasonable number of paper tokens to take with them. It should be obvious to all parties that no record is being kept of which human took which token.
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Require these tokens to be used for something besides mature-content access. Maybe for filing your taxes, opening bank accounts, voting, or online alcohol / tobacco purchases. This way, people requesting these tokens do not divulge that they are mature-content consumers.
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It’s worth watching.