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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • I moved to NixOS this year and it really felt like something new. You need to learn a little functional language for configuration (nix) and can manage your whole computer on a descriptive and reproducible way.

    There is also an awesome side effect : packages (and OS configurations) are built the same way as you build your configuration. For me, it meant that it was the first time it was obvious how my distribution works and how I could contribute. It took me about one hour to submit my first ever PR to update a package : https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/290710

    Also note that you can experience nix (the package manager) on any distro, if you want a safe try you could for example have fun with home-manager to handle your dotfiles.



  • Yeah I think the “you” in “help you navigate […]” is the key but it is way too broad. I had a quick look to the privacy notice and it seems quite reasonable. For each feature they either :

    • process data locally (eg. for translations)
    • anonymise it before sending it to partners (eg. affiliated searches 💩)
    • store a minimal amount of information (eg. for FF account)

    There is a paragraph about partners being legally binded to comply to their privacy policy, I guess this is about cloud providers? 🤷

    So I hope they’ll take the time to clarify that…








  • Python is used in so many different contexts it’s extremely hard to create “one tutorial to rule them all”.

    On that subject but also kinda out of topic, does anyone have good resources for learning Python?

    My gf is very into excel macros and could benefit from Python as a data analysis tool, but as all resources online are paylocked it’s hard to get an idea of their quality. She’s also the learn-by-examples kind.