Ivan / is on Nostr

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I like writing software, #rust, and #nixos Author/maintainer of #crane

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2024-07-15 05:44:59

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Mozilla understands this well. They’re trying to cling on to survive for as long as they can but I think their fate is pretty much sealed. Yes Firefox is the least worst option for browser choice, but ultimately it is just a life raft for an otherwise sinking ship.
And a life raft is just there to help you survive long enough to transition to something else but not stay on it forever

2024-07-15 05:43:03

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As much as I’d love Firefox to play absolute hardball with any adtech surveillance, Mozilla has been on a downward spiral for years. The moment they become openly hostile to those interests, the industry will take (an even bigger?) nailgun to Firefox’s coffin, whether that’s cutting funding to Mozilla Foundation (eg Google’s bid to be the default search engine) or the continuation of making Firefox look bad/buggy on websites and “works best on Google Chrome” branding which is starting to happen

2024-05-10 23:14:05

Every time I’d reach for `xargs` in a shell pipeline crunching a lot of inputs I’d always worry about there being too many arguments and blowing past the system exec limits, and manually try to limit invocations with a guesstimate of how many max args to use
Except I just learned that `xargs` can not only inspect the system and figure out how many args to use safely, it does it *by default*!
Easily one of my favorite utilities that went up in my list today

2024-04-29 15:12:43

One aspect of #NixOS modules no one ever talks about: if you fetch and import modules written by someone else, you are effectively trusting them with root access to your machine