I know of matrix, what are some other alternatives?

Also a protocol that got falsely maligned during the crypto days was secure scuttlebutt, and people should be talking about it more.

These only work with ARM cpus I think

iOS has had this same system for forever and nobody’s ever (seriously) claimed you could sideload on there.

I’m a big fan of them new fangled gravastars too.

rats, rats, we are the rats

That’s good and also somewhat disappointing as they were the first to release the weights and mechanism to run them as open weights.

A lot of fully open source (and “ethically trained”, depending on your opinion of that entire idea) models still use major portions of the code they open sourced.

A lot of relatively “good” LLM models run on top of Llama.cpp

For the people who are dunking on this by saying that historically things have been fucked up:

I think the point of the tweet is that systemic development doesn’t stop at capitalism.

I’m pretty sure lots of educated people during the feudal era were saying that it was the best system available and at least they were dying less often than the Romans.

This is kind of misleading, China and Japan are kind of competing to see who can launch the new generation of 600km/hr maglev trains. Both have test tracks, both have clocked at 600km/hr, both have the actual lines under construction (Shanghai to Beijing, Tokyo to Nagoya).

Neither will likely run at 600km/hr, that’s mostly just dick waving.

Construction in Japan has slowed to a crawl and probably won’t be done until 2027 at least, and the Chinese CRRC is supposed to start this year but I don’t think they have any official service start dates.

I thought Trump and the project 2025 gang’s entire goal was the devaluation of the dollar.

I’m no expert, but usually when missiles “go ballistic” their engines turn off and they have limited maneuvering capability at the end of their flight.

This one looks like it had engines on all the way to the target, which is a fairly newer class of design.

I have also been done in many times by git-filter-repo. My condolences to the chef.

A real shitpost

I agree to some degree but the gnu project doesn’t have a great track record for performative hosting (savannah is very prone to going down for long periods of time.)

I don’t begrudge better hosting infrastructure from a different non-profit.

As a guix user and package maintainer I’m ecstatic.

I’m so proud of the community for rallying around the needs and pain points of everyone and making this decision. This reduces so many pain points for a guix user and will hopefully smooth out the package maintenance process a great deal. Email is simple but trying to do code change communication over it can be very complex and time-laborous.

If you’re curious about functional packaging systems grab guix on your distro and give it a try!

Special shout out to anyone burnt out on Nix lang. Come feel the warm embrace of Scheme’s parentheses. :)

On that front: to developers-

Please make sure you include bash completions for your tools

pre installing flatpaks

Did the room just get a bit colder or is it just me

guix and/or nix

Both are functional package managers and manage dependency trees better than flatpak IMO (also the package description languages mean you can manipulate the package definitions at install time much easier)

If you can’t find a package in guix/nix then it behooves you to use flatpak

Some additional nice things about guix:

Everything is guile. The system definition, the service definitions for shepherd, everything.

Shepherd is hands down the best init program I’ve ever used. It’s just incredibly simplistic but because it just runs the guile definition you give it, you can do some incredibly complex things that systemd etc. can do as well.

The OS documentation is built into the distro, with “info guix” you get reams of configuration information for the distro without ever needing to look it up online.

About a year and a half.

To be honest it’s not “easy” to use. The guiding principle behind mainline packages is that everything has to be built from source, so most somewhat unpopular things are missing from the mainline channels.

To use it like any other distro you’re going to need to learn how to write packages fairly quickly. Luckily the main draw of guix is the entire OS being based on guile so once you get a little under your belt you can just read the specs from other channels to see how a package is written.

Took me maybe a week to start writing guix packages.

There’s also The toybox

Guix because I love the idea behind Nix but Nixlang is the most painful language I’ve ever had to type out.