funny how all comments were censored as "off topic", because some idiots clicked on the "report" button.

github takes such "reports" serious. no surprise, because either github is already subverted by the woke mob, or github is afraid of the woke mob.

the linked thread on discourse.nixos.org was censored by the nixos admins

here are 2 archived versions, but discourse is hard to archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230222112654/https://discourse.nixos.org/t/where-can-i-find-the-context-when-a-user-is-banned/25674

https://web.archive.org/web/20230222181834/https://discourse.nixos.org/t/where-can-i-find-the-context-when-a-user-is-banned/25674

see also:

https://github.com/milahu/hate-maintainers-censored

my censored "hate-maintainers" is hosted on the darknet:

http://it7otdanqu7ktntxzm427cba6i53w6wlanlh23v5i3siqmos47pzhvyd.onion/milahu/hate-maintainers

http://gg6zxtreajiijztyy5g6bt5o6l3qu32nrg7eulyemlhxwwl6enk6ghad.onion/milahu/hate-maintainers

this thread was censored by the nixos admins

here are 2 archived versions, but discourse is hard to archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230222112654/https://discourse.nixos.org/t/where-can-i-find-the-context-when-a-user-is-banned/25674

https://web.archive.org/web/20230222181834/https://discourse.nixos.org/t/where-can-i-find-the-context-when-a-user-is-banned/25674

see also:

https://github.com/milahu/hate-maintainers-censored

my censored "hate-maintainers" is hosted on the darknet:

http://it7otdanqu7ktntxzm427cba6i53w6wlanlh23v5i3siqmos47pzhvyd.onion/milahu/hate-maintainers

http://gg6zxtreajiijztyy5g6bt5o6l3qu32nrg7eulyemlhxwwl6enk6ghad.onion/milahu/hate-maintainers

this thread was censored by the nixos admins

here are 2 archived versions, but discourse is hard to archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230222112654/https://discourse.nixos.org/t/where-can-i-find-the-context-when-a-user-is-banned/25674

https://web.archive.org/web/20230222181834/https://discourse.nixos.org/t/where-can-i-find-the-context-when-a-user-is-banned/25674

see also:

https://github.com/milahu/hate-maintainers-censored

my censored "hate-maintainers" is hosted on the darknet:

http://it7otdanqu7ktntxzm427cba6i53w6wlanlh23v5i3siqmos47pzhvyd.onion/milahu/hate-maintainers

http://gg6zxtreajiijztyy5g6bt5o6l3qu32nrg7eulyemlhxwwl6enk6ghad.onion/milahu/hate-maintainers

Devops With Nix tips & practices.

Tutorial successfully combining NixOS & TerraformDev

It would be helpful to

1. formally describe the formats for NIXPATH, and
2. note the allowed angle bracket syntax accordingly

<path> will work with the prefixless format, but not with the prefixed one, and it may be helpful to spell this out explicitly.

0 [14:16:19] nix repl
Welcome to Nix version 2.3.10. Type :? for help.

nix-repl> :l <nixpkgs/doc>  
Added 40 variables.

nix-repl> :l <doc>
error: file 'doc' was not found in the Nix search path (add it using $NIX_PATH or -I)

I always saw a NIXPATH used with the prefix syntax so far:

$ echo $NIX_PATH
nixpkgs=/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos:nixos-config=/etc/nixos/configuration.nix:/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root

but NIX_PATH documentation shows that the prefixless format is also valid.

$ export NIX_PATH=/home/toraritte:/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos

$ printenv NIX_PATH
/home/toraritte:/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos

$ nix repl
Welcome to Nix version 2.3.10. Type :? for help.

nix-repl> :l <nixpkgs>
Added 12439 variables.

This can be written up in many other forms, plus the possibility of currying deserves to be pointed out:

$ nix repl
nix-repl> (sq: (x: y: sq y + sq x) 2 7) (x: x*x)
53

nix-repl> (sq: (x: y: sq y + sq x)) (x: x*x)     
«lambda @ (string):1:11»

nix-repl> (sq: (x: y: sq y + sq x)) (x: x*x) 2
«lambda @ (string):1:14»

nix-repl> (sq: (x: y: sq y + sq x)) (x: x*x) 2 7
53

nix-repl> (sq: x: y: sq y + sq x) (x: x*x) 2 7   
53

There is hnix that is still actively developed (as of 2020/06/21).

It is kind of an anti-pattern using the angle bracket notation and the linked post also makes a suggestion:

{ pkgs ? import (fetchTarball https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/3590f02e7d5760e52072c1a729ee2250b5560746.tar.gz) {};
}:
# ...

It is kind of an anti-pattern using the angle bracket notation and the linked post also makes a suggestion:

{ pkgs ? import (fetchTarball https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/3590f02e7d5760e52072c1a729ee2250b5560746.tar.gz) {};
}:
# ...

It is kind of an anti-pattern using the angle bracket notation and the linked post also makes a suggestion:

{ pkgs ? import (fetchTarball https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/3590f02e7d5760e52072c1a729ee2250b5560746.tar.gz) {};
}:
# ...

What is the difference between the vim and vim_configurable packages?

I believe the source for the latter is here.

If I understood it correctly, take the hardware-configration.nix from the target machine, and put it into the NixOps config.

Also relevant: Minimal NixOS config for Nixops deployment (discourse)

... or list it in environment.systemPackages in /etc/nixos/configuration.nix, and nixos-rebuild switch.

One way (are there others?) to pin Nixpkgs, and ditch channels.

extraUsers have been renamed to users. See related commits.

Got a warning here but it seems to be safe to ignore.

WARNING: Locking directory /run/cryptsetup is missing!

This didn't work out of the box, therefore worth looking at the Arch linux wpa_supplicant docs.

wpa_cli also wouldn't work, and needed to make sure that I had the right SSID so this link is also helpful to list available wifi networks.

On 20.03 install drops users to a non-privileged terminal so sudo su has to be entered to become root. (Otherwise the first steps in "Networking" will fail immediately.)

Saving this here for posterity: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55191125/cant-seem-to-get-sudo-working-under-nixos

Nix ecosystem introduction ("Talk at my company")

How we use Nix at IOHK?

Last commit that included nightly rust

Generates the configuration.nix on iso build