now do Nix! now do Nix!

give NixOS a go if you’re cool with configuration files

it has a GUI installer and can install gnome or whatever if you’re not comfortable with ssh only

jesus that’s a good laptop you could put bazzite on that

…and nix config and podman in the lxc for me

if you don’t know how to make good code you can’t expect AI to do it either

if you can code well then AI can be a great help

Q. You say this is “just attestation, not verification” but we know that infrastructure always gets repurposed later. This is where the legit fear lies. Today it’s birthDate. Tomorrow could it be location, identity, or verification tokens? I understand that you are providing a workaround but where should we draw the line between compliance and resistance?

A. Funny you mention that, location is already a field in userdb. Like birthDate, this field is also trivially nullable, stored locally, and can be set to anything. As long as we are talking about a user self-attesting a date - especially with the ability to enter any value we want - we aren’t in the realm of identity tracking. I draw the line at when a third party internet-connected service is doing validation of ID. Let’s be honest though, I strongly believe such a thing isn’t possible on a FOSS operating system environment unless they could control what was bootable on the device at a firmware level, enforce signatures to ensure that you couldn’t boot something unrestricted, remove the ability to be root, and block LD_PRELOAD so signals couldn’t be faked. There’s probably more ways to circumvent that. What I’m trying to say is real ID verification on Linux would be awfully hard to implement, and I guarantee you, nobody would put up with it. They’d fork to a version that doesn’t have it immediately as a protest. Right now, we’re considering implementing something akin to the date pickers that were ubiquitous when signing up for internet services in the early 2000s where it’s just an honor system. Things like actual ID checks and/or facial scanning + age estimation would be just too incompatible with Linux where we have the freedom to change whatever we want to.

the intellectually diverse lemmings represented in this post and many others cannot understand this

won’t stop them expressing their feelings tho, bless their hearts

don’t tell me you were predicting systemd would destroy linux and you oppose rust being in the kernel got any other takes for us genius?

the lemmy doomers must scratch their suicidal itch

i still have a server running ubuntu

i run snaps on it ewwwww!

it has never fucked me over

good old reddit, must have been a real wrench for you

wait a second what are you doing reading reddit in the first place?

traitor! impure!

i dont believe a single person in this post

why

why

Rust is the future. Notice how the C design committees are scrambling to replicate what rust does while C continues to lay eggs everywhere it goes

no one can save us from humans incapable of admitting institutional mistakes

this sounds like a good setup

i do everything from home using vlan/proxmox/nixos/podman

yours sounds better i reckon

yes quite - self hosting is tricky and dangerous

i think there is space for a distro or box you can plug into your router that makes it safe and easy

maybe that’s what unraid and trunas are getting towards?

i was just thinking the same

synapse is good enough though

yeah me too it’s mostly very chill

high level code generating tools have come and mostly gone

we will see if this one is good if it works and we can maintain the code it makes

simple