| 28 Jul 2021 |
 matthewcroughan - nix.zone | I of course want to support it. But social media is one of those things that requires lots of people to mean anything. Unlike most of the things you're doing on your computer, like using free software. | 21:54:39 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | Hmm, I do own nix.how | 21:55:01 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | And nix.zone 🤔 | 21:55:09 |
 nbathum (he or they) | FWIW, I will argue that you should consider joining an existing instance. or possibly being the driver for a legit NixOS community instance. See https://chaos.social/@davidak/106543958518159886 for some reasoning | 21:55:33 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | social.nix.zone or something could be fun, yeah. Do you know if mastodon can do high availability? | 21:55:45 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | Oh sure, if there's an existing instance I'll join that in a heartbeat. | 21:55:59 |
| nbathum (he or they) | In reply to @matthewcroughan:defenestrate.it
social.nix.zone or something could be fun, yeah. Do you know if mastodon can do high availability? I know next to nothing about the architecture or details. I only started using mastodon a week ago | 21:56:28 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | If it's anything like Matrix wherein the homeserver cannot be scaled horizontally, I'd be annoyed 😀 | 21:57:04 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | seems like it is tbh | 21:57:30 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | that's one of the biggest challenges with this, and why it's better if everyone hosts their own | 21:57:52 |
| nbathum (he or they) | You could ask admins of different instances about that? | 21:58:10 |
| nbathum (he or they) | It's a good question | 21:58:37 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/9208 | 21:58:45 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | Maybe not. I saw something unrelated about backups and PSQL, it's all good clusterable tech. | 21:59:06 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | Awesome. | 21:59:08 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | Now there's just the question of responsibility and whether I'm ready for it, and suffice to say I'm probably not the best fit for that yet. Maybe when I have a job again, since I'm currently unemployed. | 22:00:17 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | Even if I do know ZFS and how to scale these things, I can't really imagine it looking good for me if I screw up with more than a hundred people's data because I can't put good money into it. | 22:00:54 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | And there we come back to the reality of money and how it's better if everyone runs their own instance ;D | 22:02:21 |
| nbathum (he or they) | Has anyone made a nix riff on Greenspun's tenth rule yet?
Any sufficiently complicated build system contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of nix
| 22:03:04 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | That's so brilliant... | 22:03:26 |
| nbathum (he or they) | In reply to @matthewcroughan:defenestrate.it
And there we come back to the reality of money and how it's better if everyone runs their own instance ;D https://hub.fosstodon.org/about/#current-funding | 22:05:18 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | That is indeed pretty cool. | 22:09:21 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | The switch to Matrix has livened it up for me! | 22:09:53 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | Matrix wouldn't be nearly as exciting if it weren't for the NixOS community that is on it. | 22:10:05 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.zone | Maybe the same effect can be had on Mastodon. | 22:10:17 |
 tomberek | In reply to @nbathum:matrix.org
Has anyone made a nix riff on Greenspun's tenth rule yet?
Any sufficiently complicated build system contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of nix
https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2021/04/07/modern-ci-is-too-complex-and-misdirected/ | 22:49:55 |
| 29 Jul 2021 |
|  stick changed their display name from stick to stick2. | 16:25:14 |
| stick changed their display name from stick2 to stick. | 16:25:54 |
 davidak |
what's the best linux distro?
the answer is: nixos
https://youtu.be/UPy1JvCzdyI?t=382
we are getting popular enough to get mentioned \o/
| 23:29:10 |
| 30 Jul 2021 |
| stick changed their display name from stick to stick3. | 10:32:55 |
