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what would a derivation for reth look like?

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Just bought my ticket to NixCon in Berlin! Anyone else going?

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I was looking for something to inhibit idle/sleep on wayland, like caffeinated. Turns out, of course, systemd has this natively: systemd-inhibit https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd-inhibit.html

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Lix release: https://lix.systems/blog/2024-08-12-lix-2.91-release/ Exciting to see progress from alt-Nix's

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Remember when the founder of a Linux distro was ousted because of "conflicts with other developers"? Me too, me too. A tale as old as time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_Linux#History

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One of my fav things is reading interesting code, it's always nice to find a Github query that has a lot of interesting ideas and just spending time reading through them. Here's one: https://github.com/search?q=lang%3Anix+polkit.addRule&type=code

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https://x.com/IroncladDev/status/1808531459566641216

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After reading a lot of the Nix fork drama, I've come to the conclusion that these are the real Nix forks: - Matrix - Zulip - Discord - Github RFC discussions - Discourse forum - Reddit There is very little technical forking (and none of it feels adversarial), just a forking of moderation and venue/audience.

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Supabase embraces Nix "Broadly speaking, the cache reduces build times for common operations from roughly 40 minutes to between 1 and 5 minutes!" supabase.com/blog/nix-postgres

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Another fork, this one looks more focused on maintaining nixpkgs compatibility but with more modern tooling and conduct/governance: https://lix.systems/

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Governance discussions moved to Zulip (need to be a repo contributor to get write access): https://nixpkgs.zulipchat.com/

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Official response that has been scheduled for May 1: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-foundation-board-giving-power-to-the-community/44552

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