| 8 Sep 2025 |
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Jonas Chevalier | Did you reach out to them? Not much we can do. | 06:13:01 |
Yorusaka Miyabi | Yes, the latest response from Garnix side is this: https://matrix.to/#/!hQKBiJjjGQdiJBvMgK:matrix.org/$sVg4l7GJOvJCOVwUIBjaOr0RxLT-AU3iUjx-Ml93W54?via=matrix.org&via=t2bot.io&via=c-base.org
How do you mean? It’s just more people and systems that might be compromised and need to be trusted
| 07:20:02 |
Yorusaka Miyabi | Earlier before whey they were asked to add Nix Community Cachix, they responded with: “it's a security issue, since then anyone with push access to that cache can push malicious artifacts for any store path” | 07:21:18 |
Yorusaka Miyabi | Maybe you can talk about how Nix Community Cachix can be trusted for Garnix | 14:53:07 |
Yorusaka Miyabi | Garnix room can be found at #garnix-main:matrix.org | 14:53:23 |
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| 9 Sep 2025 |
Yorusaka Miyabi | * | 08:25:27 |
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| 10 Sep 2025 |
| SomeoneSerge (back on matrix) changed their display name from SomeoneSerge (@nixcon & back on matrix) to SomeoneSerge (back on matrix). | 00:37:53 |
matthewcroughan | Is there a community x86 builder with lots of cores? | 14:32:52 |
Ihar Hrachyshka | $ ssh remote-linux-x86-builder 'cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep vendor_id | wc -l'
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emily | please do not use all the cores | 15:11:39 |
emily | at least without regularly monitoring to see if anyone else is | 15:11:49 |
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| 11 Sep 2025 |
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@x12:matrix.org | Hi,
I’ve created a small application using AI that can help new NixOS users generate configuration files.
Let me know if you think this could be a useful tool, or if it’s more form than substance:
https://github.com/teo693/nixos_config_gen | 10:31:01 |
Winter | i do not trust any LLM to do an effective job with anything Nix related, unfortunately(?) any examples i've seen just show that they have no idea in the world about what they're doing, and just make things worsed | 13:27:49 |
Winter | * i do not trust any LLM to do an effective job with anything Nix related, unfortunately(?) any examples i've seen just show that they have no idea in the world about what they're doing, and just make things worse | 13:27:52 |
Preston | I agree. Nix tends to change option names a lot over time and the most reliable source tends to be the actual source of nixpkgs. The other part of nixos in my opinion is figuring out the syntax and the architecture of nixos itself. I find that people don’t tend to not learn when GenAI does everything for them. I’m aware GenAI is a very large and contentious topic right now, but I personally believe it shifts the job of writing and architecting code into code review (great when it works, disastrous when it doesn’t). MIT also did a study finding similar effects on learning and retaining information https://www.media.mit.edu/articles/a-i-s-effects-on-the-brain/.
Overall, very cool, and I think there’s potential, but I also think that the tool may need to help step people through what it’s doing so it can be a tool for learning not just click a button, pay 100$, and you have a “working” app or OS for about 3 weeks. | 13:39:06 |
K900 | I looked a bit, and sorry, but it's terrible | 13:42:00 |
K900 | Lots of outdated data | 13:42:04 |
K900 | Lots of weird copy/pasted nonsense | 13:42:26 |
K900 | In a lot of places it's just objectively wrong not even on Nix things | 13:44:34 |
K900 | But general Python/Linux understanding | 13:44:48 |
Preston | As a suggestion, I would probably integrate some form of the NixOS wiki or some other tutorial or learning tool in your generator. Most people in this room and the NixOS community in general are probably going to have similar opinions on GenAI with regards to nix; and most people are not trying to discourage you either, we just haven’t seen good nix code come from GenAI due to the scope of NixOS catering to a wide population of users | 13:46:27 |
K900 | I have never seen good code come from GenAI full stop | 13:46:51 |
Preston | I seen a good Hello World lol | 13:47:18 |