#nixos

Casual #NixOS Meetup in Vienna! Join an informal NixOS meetup to chat about all things #Nix & NixOS!

📅 April 7, 2025 | 🕕 18:00 | 📍 GT_, Augasse 2-6, 1090 Wien
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/community-calendar/18589/195

Nice, lib.packagesFromDirectoryRecursive now supports nested scopes!

packagesFromDirectoryRecursive transforms a directory tree of packages into a nested attribute set of derivations. You can use it to manage a package set in a similar way to by-name in nixpkgs (without the sharding part). The package files in tree must be suitable for callPackage.

Subdirectories in the tree result in nested attribute sets. In the following example, packages d, e and f will be in a nested attribute set called my-namespace.

my-packages
├── a.nix
├── b.nix
├── c
│  ├── my-extra-feature.patch
│  ├── package.nix
│  └── support-definitions.nix
└── my-namespace
   ├── d.nix
   ├── e.nix
   └── f
      └── package.nix

Previously, this would only use one scope (my-packages), so e could only depend on d as my-packages.d. With the introduction of nested scopes, e can refer to d within the same scope directly.

PR: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/392800

function doc on noogle (which isn't yet updated for the new behavior): https://noogle.dev/f/lib/packagesFromDirectoryRecursive

#Nix #NixOS #nixpkgs

Idk wtf I did, but whenever I update my #nixos it just compiles everything from source. I guess this is what it feels like to use #gentoo. Update and don't do anything else because the update process takes 2 hours at close to 100% cpu usage #linux

We are hosting the 10th iteration (I forgot to toot about the previous one) of our Brussels #Nix / #NixOS / #Guix User Group Meetup next Friday, March 28th, at @HSBXL!

The lightning talks planned so far are:
- Local DNS server with CoreDNS by Hugo
- Self-hosting a Mastodon instance by @xavier and myself :)

We are hosting the 10th iteration (I forgot to toot about the previous one) of our Brussels #Nix / #NixOS / #Guix User Group Meetup next Friday, March 28th, at @HSBXL!

The lightning talks planned so far are:
- Local DNS server with CoreDNS by Hugo
- Self-hosting a Mastodon instance by @xavier and myself :)

You *should* be very careful which #Nix substituters (caches) you trust since you have to trust who can push to them. Effectively you are trusting them with root on your machine.

You *should* be wary of “community” caches if you don’t want to have to vet who has access there.

You *should* build things from source yourself if you do not wish to trust the #NixOS build farm and Hydra infrastructure (or to lessen the load on their CDN)

What you should ABSOLUTELY NOT do is trust some random VC backed company (which may or may not have a business relationship with military-industrial-complex contractors) over the actual NixOS project which stewards the actual sources you trust to be secure in the first place

You *should* be very careful which #Nix substituters (caches) you trust since you have to trust who can push to them. Effectively you are trusting them with root on your machine.

You *should* be wary of “community” caches if you don’t want to have to vet who has access there.

You *should* build things from source yourself if you do not wish to trust the #NixOS build farm and Hydra infrastructure (or to lessen the load on their CDN)

What you should ABSOLUTELY NOT do is trust some random VC backed company (which may or may not have a business relationship with military-industrial-complex contractors) over the actual NixOS project which stewards the actual sources you trust to be secure in the first place

@eliasp While I know what you mean, I strongly disagree with that truncation.

First, the nixos hardware module needs to exist & support all of your particular hardware. This isn't a given thing depending on the HW you are about to use.

Secondly, there are still too many settings you need to do manually such as xfce environments, lots of app settings, ...

I started with NixOS in the naïve assumption that it is allowing me to define everything across all of my computers. I failed miserably & with the next opportunity, I'll switch back to Debian.

However, if you're totally open to let the #NixOS community to choose the hardware platform (devices that do have a HW config module which supports all features), desktop environment (sway?) and all apps for you, then you're probably fine with "everything in your #Nix configuration". If not, you do spread misleading vibes here - so to say.

And yes, there's still the issue with not being to run #Python in a normal way.

HTH

The amount of work it takes to migrate #NixOS to a new device is just too much! 😁

I though it had been a while without any #NixOS drama, but of course the universe provides.

Guess what, telemetry in #devenv is coming back. Again, it's Opt-Out, not Opt-In.
The difference: this time that work is sponsored by the NixOS Foundation.

https://github.com/cachix/devenv/pull/1776/files

https://oceansprint.org/reports/2025/

#nix #nixpkgs

Brought to you by @domenkozar of course.

Jeden Dienstag trifft sich der NixOS-Stammtisch ab 19:00Uhr auf der c-base

Das Bild zeigt eine NixOS Installation in der mainhall der c-base. @cbase

#NixOS #nix #cbase #Hackerspace #Linux #Berlin #Raumstation

Unser Stand auf den Chemnitzer Linux Tagen 📷

#NixOS #clt2025

🌊💻 OceanSprint 2025 – Day 3 💻🌊

The most amazing part of this sprint isn't just the hacking or excursions (surfing at Famara Beach and winery visits were awesome!). It’s the sense of community. Despite recent drama around forks (Nix, Lix, Tvix/Snix), I've seen firsthand how people come together here—sharing ideas, having respectful discussions, and moving the ecosystem forward. The space is big enough for everyone, and that’s what makes it special.

#NixOS #Community #OpenSource #OceanSprint

#nixos roadblock getting a m.2 #google Coral TPU up 😮‍💨 no more steam left this Sunday morning.
Swapping for #Ubuntu and Docker so I can start testing with #OpenWebUI.

I have not been defeated yet though! Once my PCIe to m.2 e-key adapter shows up I will attempt to get the device working with NixOS once again. I want the device on the main app server.

Does anyone know if #nixos offers anything like kernel live patching ?

Hey, 👋

wir haben jetzt auch einen Mastodon Account 😊

#nixos #clt2025

"Oh the server is in the rack, time to bootstrap #NixOS for ppc64le"

Well, you can't bootstrap NixOS on IPv6 only.

I will not elaborate on how these two events are connected.

I had a super nice time on Lanzarote. Big thanks to the sponsors: [email protected] @nixos_org @cyberus @flox @cachix and rest!

You can read the full report of #OceanSprint here: https://oceansprint.org/reports/2025/

#Nix #NixOS #Hackathon #OpenSource

I had a super nice time on Lanzarote. Big thanks to the sponsors: [email protected] @nixos_org @cyberus @flox @cachix and rest!

You can read the full report of #OceanSprint here: https://oceansprint.org/reports/2025/

#Nix #NixOS #Hackathon #OpenSource

Jeden Dienstag trifft sich der NixOS-Stammtisch ab 19:00Uhr auf der c-base

Das Bild zeigt eine NixOS Installation in der mainhall der c-base. @cbase

#NixOS #nix #cbase #Hackerspace #Linux #Berlin #Raumstation

Unser Stand auf den Chemnitzer Linux Tagen 📷

#NixOS #clt2025

Hey, 👋

wir haben jetzt auch einen Mastodon Account 😊

#nixos #clt2025

No formal wrap-up notes from Planet Nix, but who needs them when a picture says more than a thousand words?

One highlight? Engaging discussions with the @system76 team about their COSMIC, which runs on Ampere hardware and, of course, #NixOS. Because at its core, a conference isn’t just about talks—it’s about the exchange of ideas, experiences, and that special sense of community.

🌊💻 OceanSprint 2025 – Day 3 💻🌊

The most amazing part of this sprint isn't just the hacking or excursions (surfing at Famara Beach and winery visits were awesome!). It’s the sense of community. Despite recent drama around forks (Nix, Lix, Tvix/Snix), I've seen firsthand how people come together here—sharing ideas, having respectful discussions, and moving the ecosystem forward. The space is big enough for everyone, and that’s what makes it special.

#NixOS #Community #OpenSource #OceanSprint

📢 Do you remember the xz supply chain attack (or backdoor) that happened one year ago and nearly compromised half the world? (I think you do)

I claim that we could have automatically detected this backdoor in NixOS thanks to reproducible-builds!

-> Go read about it in my blog post: https://luj.fr/blog/how-nixos-could-have-detected-xz.html

🔁 Boosts would be much appreciated!

#reproducibility #blogpost #nixos #security #xz #research

🌋💻 OceanSprint 2025 – Day 4 🚀

We made great progress today! Fixes to the apache-airflow package, improvements to Snix and integration test support in nixpkgs, and a blog post on preventing the XZ backdoor.

Big strides in supply chain security too: packaged SPIFFE for secure identity, and improved SBOM support via Laut, integrating it with Lila to track build provenance.

Plus, we hiked up a volcano for epic views and enjoyed traditional paella! 🍽️

#NixOS #OpenSource #OceanSprint

🌋💻 OceanSprint 2025 – Day 4 🚀

We made great progress today! Fixes to the apache-airflow package, improvements to Snix and integration test support in nixpkgs, and a blog post on preventing the XZ backdoor.

Big strides in supply chain security too: packaged SPIFFE for secure identity, and improved SBOM support via Laut, integrating it with Lila to track build provenance.

Plus, we hiked up a volcano for epic views and enjoyed traditional paella! 🍽️

#NixOS #OpenSource #OceanSprint

📢 Do you remember the xz supply chain attack (or backdoor) that happened one year ago and nearly compromised half the world? (I think you do)

I claim that we could have automatically detected this backdoor in NixOS thanks to reproducible-builds!

-> Go read about it in my blog post: https://luj.fr/blog/how-nixos-could-have-detected-xz.html

🔁 Boosts would be much appreciated!

#reproducibility #blogpost #nixos #security #xz #research

📢 Do you remember the xz supply chain attack (or backdoor) that happened one year ago and nearly compromised half the world? (I think you do)

I claim that we could have automatically detected this backdoor in NixOS thanks to reproducible-builds!

-> Go read about it in my blog post: https://luj.fr/blog/how-nixos-could-have-detected-xz.html

🔁 Boosts would be much appreciated!

#reproducibility #blogpost #nixos #security #xz #research

🌊💻 OceanSprint 2025 – Day 3 💻🌊

The most amazing part of this sprint isn't just the hacking or excursions (surfing at Famara Beach and winery visits were awesome!). It’s the sense of community. Despite recent drama around forks (Nix, Lix, Tvix/Snix), I've seen firsthand how people come together here—sharing ideas, having respectful discussions, and moving the ecosystem forward. The space is big enough for everyone, and that’s what makes it special.

#NixOS #Community #OpenSource #OceanSprint

A partly screenshot of a flake.nix, which installs #vscodium and adds Platformio (patched) in a Nix-Shell.
The nix-shell installs and updates when needed.

All with a copy paste from a user who figured this out.

Very cool usage of #nixos

🌊💻 OceanSprint 2025 – Day 2! 🚀

We're hacking on exciting projects like NixOS config diffing, Tvix/Snix, interpreterless initrd, and better Go support in nixpkgs. But it's not all code—we're also enjoying BBQ, mountain biking, hiking, and surfing in beautiful Lanzarote!

Great code, great people, and great vibes. Can't wait to see what we build next!

#NixOS #OpenSource #Hackathon #OceanSprint

🌊💻 OceanSprint 2025 – Day 2! 🚀

We're hacking on exciting projects like NixOS config diffing, Tvix/Snix, interpreterless initrd, and better Go support in nixpkgs. But it's not all code—we're also enjoying BBQ, mountain biking, hiking, and surfing in beautiful Lanzarote!

Great code, great people, and great vibes. Can't wait to see what we build next!

#NixOS #OpenSource #Hackathon #OceanSprint

A partly screenshot of a flake.nix, which installs #vscodium and adds Platformio (patched) in a Nix-Shell.
The nix-shell installs and updates when needed.

All with a copy paste from a user who figured this out.

Very cool usage of #nixos

🌊💻 OceanSprint 2025 – Day 2! 🚀

We're hacking on exciting projects like NixOS config diffing, Tvix/Snix, interpreterless initrd, and better Go support in nixpkgs. But it's not all code—we're also enjoying BBQ, mountain biking, hiking, and surfing in beautiful Lanzarote!

Great code, great people, and great vibes. Can't wait to see what we build next!

#NixOS #OpenSource #Hackathon #OceanSprint

🌊💻 Greetings from #OceanSprint 2025 in Lanzarote! 🚀

Surrounded by brilliant minds, we're hacking on #NixOS, improving the ecosystem, and sharing knowledge—all with an ocean view. 🌊🏝️

Open-source is about community, innovation, and impact, and this sprint embodies it perfectly. Stay tuned for exciting updates!

#Nix #OpenSource #Hackathon #TechCommunity #Linux #NixOS

Let’s have a great #NixOS 25.05 release cycle!

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/lets-have-a-great-25-05-release-cycle/61813

Let’s have a great #NixOS 25.05 release cycle!

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/lets-have-a-great-25-05-release-cycle/61813

Let’s have a great #NixOS 25.05 release cycle!

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/lets-have-a-great-25-05-release-cycle/61813

Let’s have a great #NixOS 25.05 release cycle!

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/lets-have-a-great-25-05-release-cycle/61813

#TIL #systemd can somehow restart itself in a running system and #NixOS does it automatically whenever necessary.

This must have happened dozens of times already and I never noticed because it's entirely seamless.

I only found out because I was curious what exactly the #NixOS activation script means when it says "restarting systemd" as that struck me as near impossible.

I confirmed that /proc/1/exe points at the same store path that my new version of systemctl comes from; how cool is that?

🌊💻 Greetings from #OceanSprint 2025 in Lanzarote! 🚀

Surrounded by brilliant minds, we're hacking on #NixOS, improving the ecosystem, and sharing knowledge—all with an ocean view. 🌊🏝️

Open-source is about community, innovation, and impact, and this sprint embodies it perfectly. Stay tuned for exciting updates!

#Nix #OpenSource #Hackathon #TechCommunity #Linux #NixOS

🌊💻 Greetings from #OceanSprint 2025 in Lanzarote! 🚀

Surrounded by brilliant minds, we're hacking on #NixOS, improving the ecosystem, and sharing knowledge—all with an ocean view. 🌊🏝️

Open-source is about community, innovation, and impact, and this sprint embodies it perfectly. Stay tuned for exciting updates!

#Nix #OpenSource #Hackathon #TechCommunity #Linux #NixOS

Do you guys think i could install #NixOS on that router instead? It only has like ~100MiB of Memory tho.

This week i had a lot of fun! I finally decided to take the leap and open some pull requests against #nixos staging branch.

The project? Replacing SDL1 -> SDL_compat. I worked on dropping SDL from various places that caused mass rebuilds. I had help from a couple awesome people like K900, marcin and emily. Working on this was an absolute joy!

Other distros did this switch significantly earlier already. So this was definitely not something original. But to date this is probably the largest change set i contributed to nixpkgs, and i am happy with it.

Now, after the merge, there will be the fixing phase. I do expect some very few packages now fail to build or display a black screen. But all of these will be trivially fixable, in the worst case by switching them back to specifically use SDL1.

Final PR: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/389106

This week i had a lot of fun! I finally decided to take the leap and open some pull requests against #nixos staging branch.

The project? Replacing SDL1 -> SDL_compat. I worked on dropping SDL from various places that caused mass rebuilds. I had help from a couple awesome people like K900, marcin and emily. Working on this was an absolute joy!

Other distros did this switch significantly earlier already. So this was definitely not something original. But to date this is probably the largest change set i contributed to nixpkgs, and i am happy with it.

Now, after the merge, there will be the fixing phase. I do expect some very few packages now fail to build or display a black screen. But all of these will be trivially fixable, in the worst case by switching them back to specifically use SDL1.

Final PR: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/389106

Anfang des Jahres hat @ammoniumperchlorate einen Vortrag darüber gehalten, wie wir unsere Mastodon-Instanz rheinneckar.social dank #btrfs und #NixOS mit nur wenigen Sekunden Downtime auf einen neuen Server umgezogen haben. Definitiv sehenswert!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG8nRL6fPjc

Anfang des Jahres hat @ammoniumperchlorate einen Vortrag darüber gehalten, wie wir unsere Mastodon-Instanz rheinneckar.social dank #btrfs und #NixOS mit nur wenigen Sekunden Downtime auf einen neuen Server umgezogen haben. Definitiv sehenswert!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG8nRL6fPjc

"This is how we should have done computer science forever."

In a world where the internet is dominated by Big Data giants, NixOS is redefining how we think about infrastructure—making it more accessible, maintainable, and user-driven. You shouldn’t need to be a DevOps guru or a CS expert to take control of your system.

In the @NGIZero podcast @luj and @kms dive into how #NixOS is challenging the status quo and why a more open, reproducible approach to computing matters.
https://podcast.nlnet.nl/@NGIZero/episodes/the-internet-should-be-a-public-good-nixos-clevis/transcript

uh so my todo list for what my new homelab setup needs is completely empty now!
i'll probably still find some thing to add, but i guess i'll spend the next days testing it for real and writing a guide for myself on how to migrate from my old setup to the new one and import all data.
i'm quite excited to finally see this project that i had planned for like 2 years become reality in the past 6 months or so 🎉
without #nixos i would have never been able to create this setup and feel confident that it actually all works like i want it to!!

uh so my todo list for what my new homelab setup needs is completely empty now!
i'll probably still find some thing to add, but i guess i'll spend the next days testing it for real and writing a guide for myself on how to migrate from my old setup to the new one and import all data.
i'm quite excited to finally see this project that i had planned for like 2 years become reality in the past 6 months or so 🎉
without #nixos i would have never been able to create this setup and feel confident that it actually all works like i want it to!!

Something useful I learned today I thought I would share with any fellow nix users hosting repositories on @Codeberg

You can specify a repository URL prepended with "git+" to run an application with the apps or packages flake output attributes:

```
nix run git+https://codeberg.org/tdback/apod
```

This should also work for any git repo available over http (although I haven't tested it yet with my cgit instance).

As a side note, it looks like some work has been done to add official Gitea/Forgejo flake inputs to nix, but the issue has been inactive for some time: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/11135

#nix #nixos #forgejo

Want to mentor an Outreachy intern? 💡

#NixOS Foundation is looking for project submissions!
❄️ Open-source & remote
❄️ 5 hrs/week commitment
❄️ Deadline: March 7

Make a difference—apply today! https://discourse.nixos.org/t/become-an-outreachy-mentor-for-nixos-foundation/61087

Unlocking NixOS: The Power of Dynamic Derivations

Dynamic derivations are set to revolutionize the NixOS ecosystem, enabling developers to create additional derivations at build time and streamline their workflows. This innovative feature promises to...

https://news.lavx.hu/article/unlocking-nixos-the-power-of-dynamic-derivations

#news #tech #NixOS #DynamicDerivations #Nix

Something useful I learned today I thought I would share with any fellow nix users hosting repositories on @Codeberg

You can specify a repository URL prepended with "git+" to run an application with the apps or packages flake output attributes:

```
nix run git+https://codeberg.org/tdback/apod
```

This should also work for any git repo available over http (although I haven't tested it yet with my cgit instance).

As a side note, it looks like some work has been done to add official Gitea/Forgejo flake inputs to nix, but the issue has been inactive for some time: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/11135

#nix #nixos #forgejo

#TIL about the `namei` tool which is sort of like #traceroute but for filesystem traversal.

This is especially useful on #nixos where you're frequently dealing with stuff that is multiple levels of symlinks deep.

It's probably already on your system because it's part of #utillinux; go try it out:

namei `which ls`

#namei #symlink #linux

The DetSys duality:

- Look at how cool and in touch with the Nix community we are, one of our cofounders is the creator of Nix! (don't look too closely at when we were actually founded and when eelco joined our company though)

- Oh no we definitely don't hold any control over the CppNix project and all of eelco's work on CppNix is voluntary and not paid for by DetSys, it's on his own time, we don't influence this.

(Depending of course on who they speak to and when.)

#nixos

#TIL about the `namei` tool which is sort of like #traceroute but for filesystem traversal.

This is especially useful on #nixos where you're frequently dealing with stuff that is multiple levels of symlinks deep.

It's probably already on your system because it's part of #utillinux; go try it out:

namei `which ls`

#namei #symlink #linux

The DetSys duality:

- Look at how cool and in touch with the Nix community we are, one of our cofounders is the creator of Nix! (don't look too closely at when we were actually founded and when eelco joined our company though)

- Oh no we definitely don't hold any control over the CppNix project and all of eelco's work on CppNix is voluntary and not paid for by DetSys, it's on his own time, we don't influence this.

(Depending of course on who they speak to and when.)

#nixos

The DetSys duality:

- Look at how cool and in touch with the Nix community we are, one of our cofounders is the creator of Nix! (don't look too closely at when we were actually founded and when eelco joined our company though)

- Oh no we definitely don't hold any control over the CppNix project and all of eelco's work on CppNix is voluntary and not paid for by DetSys, it's on his own time, we don't influence this.

(Depending of course on who they speak to and when.)

#nixos

#dev #devops #linuxfr #nixos #yunohost

Ma recherche de DevOps n'a pas été concluante. Autant des sujets tagués #dev français on en trouve mais pour  #devops tout est en anglais, j'ai cependant pas pris la peine de vérifier si il indiquait leur lieu de résidence dans leur profil mastodon.

Y aurait-il un mot clé pour DevOps en français ?

Comment en trouver ?

Merci pour ton aide Fedi !

#ethiciel https://ethiciel.org / [email protected]

Throwing this out there, I am still available for work! If you have something #Web related, #Nix / #NixOS related, or #Kubernetes / #Containers related then I would love to chat!

You can find more about my background and projects on my website (which also includes contact information): https://jakehamilton.dev

This is a serious proposal, we should actually ban and denounce determinate systems now.

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/we-should-urgently-ban-and-denounce-determinate-systems/61356

Please.

#nix #nixos #nixpkgs

Hey #Nix #NixOS people. I am once again making a thesis that Nix docs are not "bad", their discoverability is bad.

I've summarized my observations in a comment on an existing (yet pretty stale) issue on GitHub https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/issues/705#issuecomment-2708928266

How do we get this to reach "the right people" and start making some moves to improve discoverability? Boosts and advice appreciated.

This is a serious proposal, we should actually ban and denounce determinate systems now.

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/we-should-urgently-ban-and-denounce-determinate-systems/61356

Please.

#nix #nixos #nixpkgs

This is a serious proposal, we should actually ban and denounce determinate systems now.

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/we-should-urgently-ban-and-denounce-determinate-systems/61356

Please.

#nix #nixos #nixpkgs

It there's one thing I know, it's that #linux #distributions that are community driven turn out to be the most reliable. My current go to for regular users is #Fedora, because it is a solid distribution that's cutting edge and it's designed by the community.

I can't say the same for #NixOS. The amount of internal fragmentation and in fighting is too damned high, and there is possible conflict of interest that sits like an elephant in the room.

So I'm thinking... I might make a switch soon.

#Nixos ​​ and #Hyprland creatures... please i need your help ​​

So whenever I launch pavucontrol it just opens a window but it does not render anything nor do I get any warnings in the console.....

My config is here: https://codeberg.org/oricat/nix-workstation

Any help and boosts ​​ is greatly appreciated <3

#Nixos ​​ and #Hyprland creatures... please i need your help ​​

So whenever I launch pavucontrol it just opens a window but it does not render anything nor do I get any warnings in the console.....

My config is here: https://codeberg.org/oricat/nix-workstation

Any help and boosts ​​ is greatly appreciated <3

I wouldn't be nearly as willing to experiment with software or self-host different services if it wasn't for #NixOS. It feels liberating to do basically whatever I want with my computers without the overbearing worry of irreversibly breaking something, or getting my PC into an unrecoverable state. #Nix is great tech and I really want to see it and similar tools/ecosystems thrive

I’ll be speaking at Cloud Native Days LA in #SCaLE22x about leveraging #nix / #nixos to build pretty small container images. I’ll make an attempt at showing you the benefits of using something like Nix to do this, and daydream about possible future integrations. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Day 2 of #SCALE22x and finally see the blue skies!!

If you're here today, come check out my #nixos talk at 10:30am!

Building a Chromebook replacement with NixOS

Want to help out Nixpkgs but don't know what to do? I compiled a list of still failing packages due to switching to GCC-14 in stdenv a while back. GCC changed some warning to errors in this version and lots of especially older projects fail to build now.

Plenty of examples of the fix already in Nixpkgs, ideal for first time contributors.

https://polygon.github.io/fix-nixpkgs-gcc14/

#nix #nixos #nixpkgs

It was such a thrill to talk about #nix at #fosdem ! I'm about a month late posting this, but here is the recording of my talk on "My Nixos-Powered Homelab" #nixos #homelab
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6330-my-nix-powered-homelab/

I wouldn't be nearly as willing to experiment with software or self-host different services if it wasn't for #NixOS. It feels liberating to do basically whatever I want with my computers without the overbearing worry of irreversibly breaking something, or getting my PC into an unrecoverable state. #Nix is great tech and I really want to see it and similar tools/ecosystems thrive

It was such a thrill to talk about #nix at #fosdem ! I'm about a month late posting this, but here is the recording of my talk on "My Nixos-Powered Homelab" #nixos #homelab
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6330-my-nix-powered-homelab/

I wouldn't be nearly as willing to experiment with software or self-host different services if it wasn't for #NixOS. It feels liberating to do basically whatever I want with my computers without the overbearing worry of irreversibly breaking something, or getting my PC into an unrecoverable state. #Nix is great tech and I really want to see it and similar tools/ecosystems thrive

Want to help out Nixpkgs but don't know what to do? I compiled a list of still failing packages due to switching to GCC-14 in stdenv a while back. GCC changed some warning to errors in this version and lots of especially older projects fail to build now.

Plenty of examples of the fix already in Nixpkgs, ideal for first time contributors.

https://polygon.github.io/fix-nixpkgs-gcc14/

#nix #nixos #nixpkgs

Day 2 of #SCALE22x and finally see the blue skies!!

If you're here today, come check out my #nixos talk at 10:30am!

Building a Chromebook replacement with NixOS

What's the nicest PostgreSQL GUI for Nixos?

#askfedi #nixos

At this point it's really a disgrace how #nixos never manages to generate correct hardware configurations if you do even the most basic configurations following the wiki.

I really think stuff like disk encryption must not be a hassle for instance. And nixOS effectively not properly supporting it really annoys me.

I’ll be speaking at Cloud Native Days LA in #SCaLE22x about leveraging #nix / #nixos to build pretty small container images. I’ll make an attempt at showing you the benefits of using something like Nix to do this, and daydream about possible future integrations. Looking forward to seeing you there!

800 lines of #nix later and I have successfully beefed up our #3dPrinting infrastructure at work @umphy with one #RaspberryPi 4:

· a https://gethomepage.dev landing page
· three fullHD webcams, one for each printer, with current filament visible
· a smart #Tasmota multiplug to remotely power off a printer in case of a problem/hangup
· 🐙 #OctoPrint for the Prusa MK3S, #PrusaLink by the #PrusaMINI​s
· 🔐 all password-protected and certs from #LetsEncrypt

#Prusa #NixOS

Did you hear the news? We released Determinate Nix 3.0 yesterday! Determinate Nix is built on infra compliant with SOC 2 Type II and provides a flake stability guarantee—both vital to enterprise adoption. Learn more about why this matters for critical infrastructure in our blog post: https://determinate.systems/posts/determinate-nix-30

#NixOS #Linux

Can we please remove @determinatesystems from the #nixpkgs #nixos community?

Did you hear the news? We released Determinate Nix 3.0 yesterday! Determinate Nix is built on infra compliant with SOC 2 Type II and provides a flake stability guarantee—both vital to enterprise adoption. Learn more about why this matters for critical infrastructure in our blog post: https://determinate.systems/posts/determinate-nix-30

#NixOS #Linux

It keeps fascinating me how #NixOS makes stuff like this possible. Defining the entire OS you want, with precise versioning and arbitrary software patches, with all the services, all links and interactions between them perfectly established because you can cross-reference all the settings. One command launches a VM for testing. One command builds an OS image you can flash to an SD card and plug into your Pi. One command builds on your machine, then deploys to the live system. 🤯

800 lines of #nix later and I have successfully beefed up our #3dPrinting infrastructure at work @umphy with one #RaspberryPi 4:

· a https://gethomepage.dev landing page
· three fullHD webcams, one for each printer, with current filament visible
· a smart #Tasmota multiplug to remotely power off a printer in case of a problem/hangup
· 🐙 #OctoPrint for the Prusa MK3S, #PrusaLink by the #PrusaMINI​s
· 🔐 all password-protected and certs from #LetsEncrypt

#Prusa #NixOS

Can someone please explain to me why my math is wrong here? I have a very hard time believing that the entire nixpkgs repo is only ~4.7 GB.

#Nix #NixOS #GitHub #FOSS #Math

How do you manage secrets on #NixOS?
I wanted to replace inplace strings with secrets but that seems to be impossible 😔

@glitchtip is now available in #NixOS 🎉 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/386013
I plan to use it for CSP Report-URI as it seems to be the first software I am aware of that supports that feature and can be self hosted with a reasonable foot print.

Big thanks to @defelo and Nico Felbinger!

PS: should be on unstable shortly and I plan to PR a configureNginx option soon ™️

The new NixOS Foundation Board has been announced https://discourse.nixos.org/t/announcing-the-new-nixos-foundation-board/61154 #nixos #opensource

The new NixOS Foundation Board has been announced https://discourse.nixos.org/t/announcing-the-new-nixos-foundation-board/61154 #nixos #opensource

🌍 Planet Nix is coming to SCALE 20X!

Join us March 6-7, 2025 for two days of #Nix talks, hands-on workshops, and community connections. Whether you're new to Nix or a longtime user, there's a place for you here.

Don’t miss out—let’s build the future of Nix together!
https://planetnix.com

#NixOS #PlanetNix #SCALE20X

The new NixOS Foundation Board has been announced https://discourse.nixos.org/t/announcing-the-new-nixos-foundation-board/61154 #nixos #opensource

#NixOS

Ich bin immer noch sehr zufrieden mit meinem Vortrag letztes Jahr auf dem @tuebix zum Thema "Dateien zeitstempeln, um damalige Existenz zu beweisen".

Wenn Du etwas über ein Problem wissen möchtest, bei dem Du gar nicht wusstest, dass Du es hast 😉, hier ist die Aufzeichnung:

https://tube.tchncs.de/w/jcJWeiQFPxgvi5jJZyrPmC

Dieses Jahr auf dem #Tübix2025 werde ich wohl einen #nix / #NixOS workshop geben.

#Tübix #Tübix2024

The NixOS Foundation has recognized the issues and is making structural changes 🎉

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-foundation-board-giving-power-to-the-community/44552/1 #NixOS #Governance

Got my first development environment (Jekyll website) running in NixOS on my Framework laptop using devenv. That makes this my first successful dev environment in nix. :) Nice work @domenkozar!

https://devenv.sh

#Linux #Nix #NixOS #devenv #FrameworkLaptop #Ruby

There is a vulnerability in Nix 2.24.

If you're using the regular nix from nixpkgs (which the vast majority of users will be), you're still on a safe version. If you recently (after August 1st) installed nix using the nix (not NixOS) installers, or are using nixVersions.git from nixpkgs, then you need to double-check. Affected users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.24.6, which fixes the issue.

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/vulnerability-in-nix-2-24/51902
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/security/advisories/GHSA-h4vv-h3jq-v493

#NixOS #security

🎉 It’s almost time! Planet Nix is just a few days away. If you're attending, let’s connect!

Whether you want to discuss enterprise Nix, DevOps workflows, or just grab a coffee, we’d love to chat. Send us a DM!

#PlanetNix #NixOS #Reproducibility #Nix #SCaLE #NixAtWork

Want to mentor an Outreachy intern? 💡

#NixOS Foundation is looking for project submissions!
❄️ Open-source & remote
❄️ 5 hrs/week commitment
❄️ Deadline: March 7

Make a difference—apply today! https://discourse.nixos.org/t/become-an-outreachy-mentor-for-nixos-foundation/61087

🎉 It’s almost time! Planet Nix is just a few days away. If you're attending, let’s connect!

Whether you want to discuss enterprise Nix, DevOps workflows, or just grab a coffee, we’d love to chat. Send us a DM!

#PlanetNix #NixOS #Reproducibility #Nix #SCaLE #NixAtWork

finally i setuped my laptop with #btrfs + #impermanence + #nixos !
the /persist snapshot is transferred to my mini pc's hdds via btrbk.

#unixporn #niri #wayland

finally i setuped my laptop with #btrfs + #impermanence + #nixos !
the /persist snapshot is transferred to my mini pc's hdds via btrbk.

#unixporn #niri #wayland

TIL @beacondb uses #NixOS to host their service:

https://codeberg.org/beacondb/infra

#BeaconDB

TIL @beacondb uses #NixOS to host their service:

https://codeberg.org/beacondb/infra

#BeaconDB

A friend asked me some questions about #nix and #nixos. So, naturally, I wrote a blog post with notes I wished I had access to when I first started using NixOS.

https://blog.erethon.com/blog/2025/02/21/my-nixos-notes/

#Apple : violation de la vie privée, traitement illicite des données personnelles et pratique commerciale trompeuse.
➡️ La ligue des droits de l’homme (@LDH_Fr) saisit le parquet de #Paris : https://www.francetvinfo.fr/enquetes-franceinfo/apple-vise-par-une-plainte-en-france-pour-violation-massive-des-donnees-privees_7072983.html

Protégeons-nous des #GAFAM, utilisons #Linux sur #smartphone :
- #Ubuntu / #UBports (@ubports) : https://ubports.com
- #Alpine / #postmarketOS (@postmarketOS) : https://postmarketos.org
- #NixOS (@nixos_org) : https://mobile-nixos.github.io

#Siri #RGPD #GDPR #LDH #justice #privacy #ViePrivée

> strace nix-build --verbose ~/nixpkgs -A hello 2>&1 | wc -l
27769

> strace nix build --verbose ~/nixpkgs#hello 2>&1 | wc -l
1320849

🤡

#nixos #nix #clownface

Made module to define GitHub/Gitea actions in #nix instead of `yaml` by rendering `nix` code to `yaml` using a defined package and/or pre-commit hook. This allows reuse of `nix` configured workflows across repositories 🚀 . Currently very much so a work-in-progress but issue reports and feature requests are very welcome so that it can be refined: https://github.com/nialov/actions.nix

Currently https://github.com/hercules-ci/flake-parts is "required" but supporting more vanilla flakes is easily done, if needed.

#NixOS

Another classic #Apple saved from the garden of evil with #linux #NixOS

Upgraded to a SATA SSD and 16 gigs of ram. 4 core i5.

Honestly, if you ask me, this was peak #MacBookPro. Gorgeous, solid, still repairable and just felt special.

Anyone going to #SCALE22x / planet #Nix #NixOS ?

It's next week!! I'll be speaking Friday morning all about building Nixbook!

Check out my recent post on building Nix systems with GitHub Actions and Cachix! https://ethancedwards.com/blog/building-nix-with-gha .

#nixos #nix #github #gha #githubactions #blog #foss #opensource

NixOS is cool, but it's nothing new. I've seen many smart people doing an excellent job with chroot, symlinks, and Chef/Puppet long before NixOS came along. A really cool thing is the Atomic desktop and bootc model. If you want a secure and solid environment, the Atomic desktop is the way to go. There's a learning curve, but it opens up a whole new world for you. #nixos #atomicdesktop #bootc

Anyone going to #SCALE22x / planet #Nix #NixOS ?

It's next week!! I'll be speaking Friday morning all about building Nixbook!

Another classic #Apple saved from the garden of evil with #linux #NixOS

Upgraded to a SATA SSD and 16 gigs of ram. 4 core i5.

Honestly, if you ask me, this was peak #MacBookPro. Gorgeous, solid, still repairable and just felt special.

Check out my recent post on building Nix systems with GitHub Actions and Cachix! https://ethancedwards.com/blog/building-nix-with-gha .

#nixos #nix #github #gha #githubactions #blog #foss #opensource

The latest set of GRUB2 #security vulnerabilities from mid-February https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2025-02/msg00024.html requires **79** patches, along with some adjustments, to be applied to the latest stable tarball without breaking #NixOS tests.

This does not make life easy for downstream consumers.

If other distro maintainers want to take a look, I have isolated the patches so you don't have to deal with Nix: https://gist.github.com/LeSuisse/34059dd08bddc9b509097d42d3ca9109

#nixpkgs PR: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/383375

The latest set of GRUB2 #security vulnerabilities from mid-February https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2025-02/msg00024.html requires **79** patches, along with some adjustments, to be applied to the latest stable tarball without breaking #NixOS tests.

This does not make life easy for downstream consumers.

If other distro maintainers want to take a look, I have isolated the patches so you don't have to deal with Nix: https://gist.github.com/LeSuisse/34059dd08bddc9b509097d42d3ca9109

#nixpkgs PR: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/383375

The latest set of GRUB2 #security vulnerabilities from mid-February https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2025-02/msg00024.html requires **79** patches, along with some adjustments, to be applied to the latest stable tarball without breaking #NixOS tests.

This does not make life easy for downstream consumers.

If other distro maintainers want to take a look, I have isolated the patches so you don't have to deal with Nix: https://gist.github.com/LeSuisse/34059dd08bddc9b509097d42d3ca9109

#nixpkgs PR: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/383375

Open source infra reliability on US big tech is a bit of a problem. For instance #nixos dependence of AWS and Fastly. European Universities have a lot of compute and bandwidth, I wish they would collaborate to provide popular open source projects a less commercial alternative. There was a time when most of us got all our stuff from university ftp mirrors.

Should #NixOS move to their own #Git instance? To gain more independence of #GitHub and #Microsoft ? What are your opinions?

> strace nix-build --verbose ~/nixpkgs -A hello 2>&1 | wc -l
27769

> strace nix build --verbose ~/nixpkgs#hello 2>&1 | wc -l
1320849

🤡

#nixos #nix #clownface

#Apple : violation de la vie privée, traitement illicite des données personnelles et pratique commerciale trompeuse.
➡️ La ligue des droits de l’homme (@LDH_Fr) saisit le parquet de #Paris : https://www.francetvinfo.fr/enquetes-franceinfo/apple-vise-par-une-plainte-en-france-pour-violation-massive-des-donnees-privees_7072983.html

Protégeons-nous des #GAFAM, utilisons #Linux sur #smartphone :
- #Ubuntu / #UBports (@ubports) : https://ubports.com
- #Alpine / #postmarketOS (@postmarketOS) : https://postmarketos.org
- #NixOS (@nixos_org) : https://mobile-nixos.github.io

#Siri #RGPD #GDPR #LDH #justice #privacy #ViePrivée

"This project was a journey to own our software again", says Julien Malka / @luj in the NGI0 podcast. He and Camille Mondon / @kms have implemented Clevis in NixOS to make it possible to remotely reboot servers with full disk encryption. The project was extended to port the Proxmox Hypervisor on NixOS. In this episode they explain their project and talk about self-hosting as a way to empower people to own a little part of the internet.

https://podcast.nlnet.nl/@NGIZero/episodes/the-internet-should-be-a-public-good-nixos-clevis

#FOSS #NGI0 #podcast #NixOS

I'm seriously beginning to question the sanity of relying on #NixOS

The ideas behind Nix and NixOS are very clever and very powerful. And superficially as a distro it's been working quite well.

But the Nix language is one of the most craziest overcomplicated-by-default designs I've ever seen.

It wouldn't be so bad if there was one clear way to do something, but when looking around I typically find half a dozen completely different approaches. I'd practically have to learn *all* of Nix and NixOS just to make sense of it. And that's really frustrating when I just want to, say, get the Rust 1.85 toolchain to build run a little hobby project...

"This project was a journey to own our software again", says Julien Malka / @luj in the NGI0 podcast. He and Camille Mondon / @kms have implemented Clevis in NixOS to make it possible to remotely reboot servers with full disk encryption. The project was extended to port the Proxmox Hypervisor on NixOS. In this episode they explain their project and talk about self-hosting as a way to empower people to own a little part of the internet.

https://podcast.nlnet.nl/@NGIZero/episodes/the-internet-should-be-a-public-good-nixos-clevis

#FOSS #NGI0 #podcast #NixOS

Anyone remember what month the next #NixOS release is supposed to drop?

Edit: Also I wish they hadn't killed 32 bit support, I have a laptop that would be perfect for it instead of running ArchLinux32

pls help
How can I access the option set in a nix submodule?
#nixos

Time for an impromptu status report of ongoing things.

#Lix finally merged custom CLI behind an experimental flag `lix-custom-sub-commands`, which means that now, everyone is empowered to do the things pictured, without having to be forced an *single* implementation (e.g. Flakes).

The feature is very simple and does not have auto-completion or more things that you may see in Git, but I'm already using it with `lix deploy` (colmena) and `lix pin` to simplify the tooling I use :-).

#NixOS

Time for an impromptu status report of ongoing things.

#Lix finally merged custom CLI behind an experimental flag `lix-custom-sub-commands`, which means that now, everyone is empowered to do the things pictured, without having to be forced an *single* implementation (e.g. Flakes).

The feature is very simple and does not have auto-completion or more things that you may see in Git, but I'm already using it with `lix deploy` (colmena) and `lix pin` to simplify the tooling I use :-).

#NixOS

Time for an impromptu status report of ongoing things.

#Lix finally merged custom CLI behind an experimental flag `lix-custom-sub-commands`, which means that now, everyone is empowered to do the things pictured, without having to be forced an *single* implementation (e.g. Flakes).

The feature is very simple and does not have auto-completion or more things that you may see in Git, but I'm already using it with `lix deploy` (colmena) and `lix pin` to simplify the tooling I use :-).

#NixOS

How long does it usually take for a new #rustlang version to be available on #nix #nixos? It's currently on 1.84.1 but the latest Rust version is 1.85.

A friend asked me some questions about #nix and #nixos. So, naturally, I wrote a blog post with notes I wished I had access to when I first started using NixOS.

https://blog.erethon.com/blog/2025/02/21/my-nixos-notes/

As feared, I am starting to run into some friction with #NixOS #linux

It remains a brilliant idea imo to build the OS declaratively. But I really wish building the filesystem would construct the standard LSB FS structure. Everything installed with Nix packages works fine, but it's starting to get a little tedious when I want to run something a little unusual or something I build myself, which then cannot find dynamic libraries or otherwise crashes for mysterious reasons.

Not sure if I want to give up on NixOS, because it has so many advantages, but it is a little annoying to have to spend so time configuring LD search paths etc.

A friend asked me some questions about #nix and #nixos. So, naturally, I wrote a blog post with notes I wished I had access to when I first started using NixOS.

https://blog.erethon.com/blog/2025/02/21/my-nixos-notes/

So far today, I am way more productive than I expected.

I just knocked out a nice little diff pattern for nixos-facter with magic_rb, so you don't have to feel like you're just YOLO'ing every time you enable it :)

https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-facter-modules/pull/68

#Nix #NixOS

Running `nixos-rebuild` on a Raspberry Pi
Running `nixos-rebuild --target-host pihole` on my server

#Nix #NixOS

You already know https://github.com/linyinfeng/angrr ? Gone are the stale result links and garbage collection roots.

#nixos #flakes #nix

I just added a Roadmap to the #lorri repository. Have a look!

https://github.com/nix-community/lorri/blob/canon/ROADMAP.md

I also added a BUSINESS_SUPPORT.md, since I do not have the free time to create all of these features and would like businesses to pay for them!

If your dev team uses lorri at work, please take a look!

#nixos #lorri #nix

Being a happy #Nixer on a #Mac #NixOS https://paretosecurity.com/blog/being-a-happy-nixer-on-a-mac/

I wrote about replacing Google Maps Timeline with self-hosted OwnTracks for logging my location history.

https://con.cor.dance/owntracks-with-nixos-and-tailscale.html

#degoogle #owntracks #nixos #tailscale #selfhosted

put some #NixOS on #ThinkCentres for the new project

Just updated my #nixos server again using https://github.com/serokell/deploy-rs

This is really one of my favorite nix tools. Fast, simple, stable and it just works. ✨

#nixos meetup im @cccda am 2025-02-24T19:00:00

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-meetup-darmstadt-2025-02-24/60570

put some #NixOS on #ThinkCentres for the new project

I wrote about replacing Google Maps Timeline with self-hosted OwnTracks for logging my location history.

https://con.cor.dance/owntracks-with-nixos-and-tailscale.html

#degoogle #owntracks #nixos #tailscale #selfhosted

Just updated my #nixos server again using https://github.com/serokell/deploy-rs

This is really one of my favorite nix tools. Fast, simple, stable and it just works. ✨

zramSwap.enable = true; is probably the closest you can get to *really* https://downloadmoreram.com/ 😆

#NixOS

#nixos meetup im @cccda am 2025-02-24T19:00:00

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-meetup-darmstadt-2025-02-24/60570

nice #NixOS stickers for nice NixOS devices 🥰 (thx @fooker )

#uConsole

🚀 New Blog Post! 🚀

I've been working on optimizing Gradle build support in nixpkgs! In my latest post, I take a deep dive into how it currently works, the limitations of the existing approach, and an optimization that improves efficiency and maintainability.

Check it out here: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/02/19/nixpkgs-gradle-optimization/

I’d love to hear your thoughts! Also, if your team needs Gradle or NixOS consulting, I’d be happy to help. 😊

#Gradle #NixOS #nixpkgs #BuildTooling #DevOps

#NixOS has been an absolute #Linux game-changer for me. I use it on laptops, family computers, my homelab, for work PCs and servers, even on #multiCopter's to log meteorological sensor data.

The ridiculous level of control, customizability and make-once-reuse-everywhere capabilities you get with NixOS is gold when it comes to managing machines from desktop to server to single-board-computer.

Revolutionizing Home Networking: Semi-Automatic iPhone Internet Failover with NixOS

In an era where reliable internet is paramount for remote work, a tech-savvy developer has crafted an innovative solution using NixOS for seamless WAN failover. By leveraging an iPhone as a backup con...

https://news.lavx.hu/article/revolutionizing-home-networking-semi-automatic-iphone-internet-failover-with-nixos

#news #tech #WireGuard #NixOS #libimobiledevice

If I have a nix devShell defined in a nix flake with a bunch of stuff that I use locally do something, is there a way for me to take this devShell and somehow yeet it into an OCI container so I can have this environment in our CI things as well?

#NixOS #Nix #Docker

Been playing around with numtide's blueprint and devshell to set up a dev environment for a #Gradle application - turns out, it's pretty fun! 🎉

What started as just a simple #DevShell ended up with pre-commit hooks, a basic gradle derivation and a #NixOS module with tests.
This should be a good starting point for my next projects.

#Nix continues to be a rabbit hole I love falling into 🌀

https://github.com/raphiz/gradle-nix-example

Being a happy #Nixer on a #Mac #NixOS https://paretosecurity.com/blog/being-a-happy-nixer-on-a-mac/

Being a happy #Nixer on a #Mac #NixOS https://paretosecurity.com/blog/being-a-happy-nixer-on-a-mac/

🚀 We’re headed to Planet Nix! The Determinate Systems team will be there to chat about enterprise Nix, flakes, and the future of reproducible builds.

Want to meet up? Let’s talk Nix! Send us a message or find us at the event.

#PlanetNix #NixOS #Reproducibility #DevOps #SCaLE

Been playing around with numtide's blueprint and devshell to set up a dev environment for a #Gradle application - turns out, it's pretty fun! 🎉

What started as just a simple #DevShell ended up with pre-commit hooks, a basic gradle derivation and a #NixOS module with tests.
This should be a good starting point for my next projects.

#Nix continues to be a rabbit hole I love falling into 🌀

https://github.com/raphiz/gradle-nix-example

I just added a Roadmap to the #lorri repository. Have a look!

https://github.com/nix-community/lorri/blob/canon/ROADMAP.md

I also added a BUSINESS_SUPPORT.md, since I do not have the free time to create all of these features and would like businesses to pay for them!

If your dev team uses lorri at work, please take a look!

#nixos #lorri #nix

Possibly silly #NixOS question: is it in any reasonable way possible to have my flake provide a nixosModule that first has to be tangled out of a bunch of org files?

Or would I need to tangle out in ci, and commit that to a branch or something?

If I have a nix devShell defined in a nix flake with a bunch of stuff that I use locally do something, is there a way for me to take this devShell and somehow yeet it into an OCI container so I can have this environment in our CI things as well?

#NixOS #Nix #Docker

Revolutionizing Home Networking: Semi-Automatic iPhone Internet Failover with NixOS

In an era where reliable internet is paramount for remote work, a tech-savvy developer has crafted an innovative solution using NixOS for seamless WAN failover. By leveraging an iPhone as a backup con...

https://news.lavx.hu/article/revolutionizing-home-networking-semi-automatic-iphone-internet-failover-with-nixos

#news #tech #WireGuard #NixOS #libimobiledevice

#NixOS has been an absolute #Linux game-changer for me. I use it on laptops, family computers, my homelab, for work PCs and servers, even on #multiCopter's to log meteorological sensor data.

The ridiculous level of control, customizability and make-once-reuse-everywhere capabilities you get with NixOS is gold when it comes to managing machines from desktop to server to single-board-computer.

I yanked #Manjaro off of my mother's laptop and replaced it with a nicely customized #NixOS.

She now has a button to pull config updates from my #homelab and build it (also done regularly in the background). Old versions stay selectable at boot.

When she has a problem, there's shortcuts for #RustDesk and ad-hoc reverse #SSH tunnels.

I can test everything in a VM, then add changes, she'll pick it up eventually or right away.

Loosely inspired by @codemonkeymike's #nixbook.

nice #NixOS stickers for nice NixOS devices 🥰 (thx @fooker )

#uConsole

🚀 New Blog Post! 🚀

I've been working on optimizing Gradle build support in nixpkgs! In my latest post, I take a deep dive into how it currently works, the limitations of the existing approach, and an optimization that improves efficiency and maintainability.

Check it out here: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/02/19/nixpkgs-gradle-optimization/

I’d love to hear your thoughts! Also, if your team needs Gradle or NixOS consulting, I’d be happy to help. 😊

#Gradle #NixOS #nixpkgs #BuildTooling #DevOps

You already know https://github.com/linyinfeng/angrr ? Gone are the stale result links and garbage collection roots.

#nixos #flakes #nix

@domenkozar
Tell you what: you publish a blog post on devenv.sh owning up to what happened, and I'll apologize for assuming malicious intent.

@Pol @neo @cafkafk @roberth @jfredett @oliverwiegers

#nix #nixos #devenv

Cmon' Ubiquiti, market segmentation for the sake of it isn't cool. How hard is it to include mounting holes in all your cases for rack ears.
#fakeithard Not even the primary router to top it of lol

Just the hot spare when the #NixOS #router comes down for maintenance 😎

Crazy person just hashtag NixOS & router?
😜

Next project is a dashboard for my nixos router. Enough greping logs like a cave man to debug network issues. A few graphs at least lol

...3D printer
Yes. That's what i heard too

Cmon' Ubiquiti, market segmentation for the sake of it isn't cool. How hard is it to include mounting holes in all your cases for rack ears.
#fakeithard Not even the primary router to top it of lol

Just the hot spare when the #NixOS #router comes down for maintenance 😎

Crazy person just hashtag NixOS & router?
😜

Next project is a dashboard for my nixos router. Enough greping logs like a cave man to debug network issues. A few graphs at least lol

...3D printer
Yes. That's what i heard too

I made physical #NixOS pixel art today! Turned out better than I expected.

Okay. I have gone from being a #nixos user to a NixOS bro...because...I jumped the #hyperland train and OMFG....I LOVE IT! :D Now to do #clojure shit!

I made physical #NixOS pixel art today! Turned out better than I expected.

@hexa @soupglasses There is a discussion around that on discourse if you're interested

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/should-commercial-actors-ship-telemetry-in-nixpkgs/60279

Personally, I find the situation quite bizarre, it kind of completely conflicts with my believe on how a FOSS space should function.

#nix #nixos

@roberth @oliverwiegers @jfredett @cafkafk So looks like the #devenv opt-out is not as out as you might have though...

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/should-commercial-actors-ship-telemetry-in-nixpkgs/60279/42

Is it to early to call #devenv #malware ?

#nix #nixos

@roberth @oliverwiegers @jfredett @cafkafk So looks like the #devenv opt-out is not as out as you might have though...

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/should-commercial-actors-ship-telemetry-in-nixpkgs/60279/42

Is it to early to call #devenv #malware ?

#nix #nixos

Time to bring some servers into the EU, and finally migrate to NixOS since I'm at it.

[root@nixos-ampere-1:~]# cat /etc/issue

<<< Welcome to NixOS 24.11.714433.0ff09db9d034 (\m) - \l >>>

#nixos #selfhosted

Domen, creator of devenv, recently added telemetry to his devenv thing, as part of adding AI to the product, and when nixpkgs contributors removed the telemetry, he reverted the change, with a self merge, without a fucking review even.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/381981

This is a clear conflict of interest. We need to stop this from happening in the NixOS organization, corpos need to have some respect for users.

Discussion thread: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/should-commercial-actors-ship-telemetry-in-nixpkgs/60279/8

#nix #nixos #nixpkgs

Our recent work on #NixOS package #reproducibility, with @luj and @Zimm_i48, made the front page of the orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42989666

Domen, creator of devenv, recently added telemetry to his devenv thing, as part of adding AI to the product, and when nixpkgs contributors removed the telemetry, he reverted the change, with a self merge, without a fucking review even.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/381981

This is a clear conflict of interest. We need to stop this from happening in the NixOS organization, corpos need to have some respect for users.

Discussion thread: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/should-commercial-actors-ship-telemetry-in-nixpkgs/60279/8

#nix #nixos #nixpkgs

@jfredett @oliverwiegers .... and reverted by the author, who apparently has commit rights and does not seem to agree with community PR workflow.

So we now have commercial actors in #nixpkgs who can just push their own commercial agenda be decree.

#nix #nixos #devenv

Our recent work on #NixOS package #reproducibility, with @luj and @Zimm_i48, made the front page of the orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42989666

Running `nixos-rebuild` on a Raspberry Pi
Running `nixos-rebuild --target-host pihole` on my server

#Nix #NixOS

ffs, here we go again ... goddamn it @nixos_org why can't we just have a smooth transition

#nix #nixos #nixDarwin

@jfredett @oliverwiegers

At least in #nixpkgs the telemetry seems to be of by default now

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/381817

#nix #nixos #devenv

Our recent work on #NixOS package #reproducibility, with @luj and @Zimm_i48, made the front page of the orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42989666

#devenv now collects "anonymous" data to train their "AI"

https://devenv.sh/blog/2025/02/13/devenv-14-generating-nix-developer-environments-using-ai/

#nix #nixos

My web search skills don't help: Is there a way to declaratively download a large file in #NixOS, into a specific directory, _without_ using the Nix Store?

The files I'm talking about are large (> 100 GB), and I don't want to pollute the Nix Store with them (and ensure old versions aren't kept around for ages etc.)

Basically, I need an equivalent of `curl -C - -o /srv/www/… https://…`

Our recent work on #NixOS package #reproducibility, with @luj and @Zimm_i48, made the front page of the orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42989666

🔥 Exciting news for Nix fans: Eelco Dolstra, Determinate co-founder and creator of Nix, is speaking at Planet Nix! This is a rare chance to hear from the mind behind the Nix ecosystem.

Will you be there? March 6-7 in LA. Tickets are only $85 and include access to SCALE! 🔗 https://register.socallinuxexpo.org/reg6/

#NixOS #PlanetNix #SCALE #DevOps

Another NixOS blogpost! This one about deploy-rs and deploying remotely!

after this one, I'm taking a brief break on this series while I figure out what to do with my machines. gonna focus on art n "cool stuff"

https://crystalwobsite.gay/posts/2025-02-09-deploying_nixos

#Nix #NixOS

Another NixOS blogpost! This one about deploy-rs and deploying remotely!

after this one, I'm taking a brief break on this series while I figure out what to do with my machines. gonna focus on art n "cool stuff"

https://crystalwobsite.gay/posts/2025-02-09-deploying_nixos

#Nix #NixOS

Install NixOS on a Free Oracle Cloud VM

#nixos

Install NixOS on a Free Oracle Cloud VM

#nixos

🌍🚀 Planet Nix 2025 is happening March 6-7 in Pasadena! It's the biggest Nix-focused conference in North America and co-located with SCaLE. Tickets are only $85 for both events! 🎟️

If you care about Nix, this is the place to be. Register now and meet us there: 🔗 https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x

#PlanetNix #NixOS #Linux #SCaLE #Nix #NixAtWork #CICD

🌍🚀 Planet Nix 2025 is happening March 6-7 in Pasadena! It's the biggest Nix-focused conference in North America and co-located with SCaLE. Tickets are only $85 for both events! 🎟️

If you care about Nix, this is the place to be. Register now and meet us there: 🔗 https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x

#PlanetNix #NixOS #Linux #SCaLE #Nix #NixAtWork #CICD

한국어 Nix 커뮤니티가 생겼다.

https://discord.gg/fRC6X7Z9yg

#Nix #NixOS

🎙️ Learn about the latest Nix releases up to 2.26 on the Full Time Nix podcast with host mightyiam, edolstra, tomberek and me
https://fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix-2-24-11-2-25-4-2-24-12-2-25-5-2-26-0-2-26-1-with-members-of-the-nix-team
#Nix #NixOS @nixos_org

#nix and #NixOS do HaaS: Hard-coding as a Service.

You tell it what you want your system to look like and it hard-codes the sh*t out of it.

This comes with all the benefits of hard-coding: Your environment, your PATH, manually installed software, etc. don't interfere with your base system at all. Every program and service sees exactly the dependencies and configurations they were given. The amount of power this gives for servers/embedded/purpose-built machines cannot be overstated!

NixOS.kr 디스코드 서버가 막 생겼습니다.
https://discord.gg/AMp9VYR44J
#nix #nixos

So far today, I am way more productive than I expected.

I just knocked out a nice little diff pattern for nixos-facter with magic_rb, so you don't have to feel like you're just YOLO'ing every time you enable it :)

https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-facter-modules/pull/68

#Nix #NixOS

Is #NixOS truly reproducible? https://luj.fr/blog/is-nixos-truly-reproducible.html

It's a bit annoying that #btrfs can't snapshot to a location that's in fact on the same disk and filesystem, but has been mounted separately as a subvolume.

Makes me question my choice of making and mounting subvolumes for /nix and /home and /var... 😑

#nixos

Transcribing Infinisil's Nix Hour update: finished the 4th episode: Comparing Flakes to Traditional Nix:

https://github.com/allrealmsoflife/nix-hour-transcripts/blob/main/4/4.md

#NixOS

Random Ask, does anyone know if it's possible to do this using nix-commands? IE nix shell nixpkgs#jdk21?

#nixos #scripting

I love Nix because replace #!/bin/bash at the start of a shell script with

#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
#! nix-shell -i bash
#! nix-shell -p bash jdk21

And now that script has guaranteed dependencies met. And you can use any interpreter you want, be it bash, python, or whatever.

#java #minecraft #nix #nixos #bash

Decided to try out #Ghostty for a while and put together this quick home-manager module for any other #NixOS users also interested in it.

https://github.com/msfjarvis/dotfiles/blob/09d0da55591038ec7773b04cd5884dadb6899d46/modules/home/ghostty/default.nix

Edit: updated to a simpler and more robust version thanks to a suggestion from [email protected]

Linux 6.12 LTS offers significant better performance compared to the previous LTS.
I upgraded my laptop running NixOS to the latest and it is working fine. I like how easy it is to change kernels in NixOS with the confidence that I can revert easily.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-66-612-lts/2

#linux #linux612 #linux_6_12 #nixos

It's just day -1 at the #38C3 but we just managed to stream audio to the hearing aids of a friend using the ASHA protocol on #NixOS 🤩 We added the documentation to the wiki https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Bluetooth#Pairing_hearing_aids_using_the_ASHA_protocol

I guess I should probably introduce myself, even though I've never even bothered doing one of these before.

I migrated this account from another server.

Things I think are awesome:
#Cybersecurity
#GrapheneOS
#Infosec
#Nixos
#Privacy
#Qtile

Things that describe me:
#ADHD
#Sober
#TS (Tourette Syndrome)
#Unicycle

My current age as of writing is some prime number greater than thirty. My location is somewhere north of the equator and six hours west of Greenwich when daylight savings is observed.

In case you're wondering: my bio is an experiment in data poisoning against LLMs tasked with scraping social media profiles, and I would like to thank @alice for that idea because it wasn't my own.

Also, not that you were wondering, and not that I even know the character limit for bios on this server offhand for that matter, but however many characters that is, that's exactly how many mine is. If there's one thing I'm really good at, it's matching character limits exactly, and that is why I stopped using Tinder. Don't ask.

If you're reading this and I'm following you, I can tell you with absolute certainty that you're awesome. If you're reading this and I'm not following you, I probably should be, and I'll assume you're awesome unless and until you show me otherwise.

Thank you, and #MerryChristmas

#introduction
#introductionpost

EDIT: a word.

Began transcribing Infinisil Nix Hour sessions #NixOS

https://github.com/allrealmsoflife/nix-hour-transcripts/blob/main/3%2F3.md

#nixos is so great... I can configure the whole VPS instance locally, even build it, even boot it as VM and see whether everything looks okay before actually renting the device I am gonna install the software on.

How awesome is that?

And I can even upload the pre-built stuff to the newly created VPS instance, so that it does not waste time with building itself.

I'll be speaking at the Nix and NixOS devroom at @fosdem next year!

Go in the Nix ecosystem: vulnerability scanning and experiments towards a next-gen builder
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5654-go-in-the-nix-ecosystem-vulnerability-scanning-and-experiments-towards-a-next-gen-builder/

#fosdem #fosdem2025 #golang #nix #NixOS

Thank you @notthebee for showing us the diverse set of problems and your solutions to them that you encountered during the setup of your #NixOS couch gaming PC!

That was our last meetup for this year, but we're looking forward to inviting you to our next #RustLang meetup on Tuesday, January 14! This time, it'll be hosted at #Mannheim University, where @mo8it takes us on the journey of Teaching Rust.

The rheinneckar.events and meetup.com links will be posted tomorrow.

wow hosting an #onion service with #nixos is so simple. just about 10 lines of code to expose my nginx via the #tor network!

i'm still tempted to use this for NAT traversal and privacy, but telling everyone they need to use the tor browser (or the android vpn thingy) might just make all of it inaccessible to most of the other people that would try/need to access the things i host

Secure Boot: ✓ Enabled

Thanks Lanzaboote!
(https://github.com/nix-community/lanzaboote)

#Nixos #SecureBoot

I recently contributed a patch to erofs-utils which has now been released with v1.8.3. It introduces a --hard-dereference option that converts hardlinks to separate inodes, similar to the equally-named flag in tar. It can be used to ensure reproducible image builds on systems where similar files from the root FS might be hard-linked against each other for optimization reasons -- like in the Nix store.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/erofs-utils.git/commit/?id=54e217b80509c193a087b69a5a52884389236926

#ReproducibleBuilds #Linux #erofs #NixOS #Nix

Started a running log of random #NixOS related stuff I've learned over the years, will try to keep it reasonably up-to-date with my Logseq graph but no promises 😅

https://msfjarvis.dev/posts/assorted-nixos-things/

We are hosting the 8th iteration of our Brussels #Nix / #NixOS / #Guix User Group Meetup next Monday, December 9th, at @HSBXL! https://brunix.glitch.me

I've tried #NixOS containers for the first time in the last few days (to setup a small pentesting lab) and I'm pretty happy so far. Even X11 forwarding is surprisingly simple. What I love most is how straightforward it is to re-use parts of my usual system configuration like the CLI setup :)

Long term testing on my #nixos Nixbook project is going great!

I have this on my kids school laptops that don't get used too often. Simulating most "normal people" use case.

And we can see that automatic updates are working perfect without the user doing ANYTHING except turning it on once in a while.

If you're curious to give Linux to family or friends and not have to "fuss" with it.. check it out.

https://github.com/mkellyxp/nixbook

Migrated hydra.nixos.org to a new host machine tonight. Downtime was roughly two hours, some quality of life improvements added in the migration PR. Now waiting for the build queue to ramp up, so we can see that the upgrade was worth it.

https://grafana.nixos.org/d/MJw9PcAiz/hydra-jobs?orgId=1&from=now-24h&to=now&var-machine=$__all

Read the details here:

Code: https://github.com/NixOS/infra/pull/501
Plans: https://github.com/NixOS/foundation/issues/176

#nixos

This is one of the most useful tools I have built:

https://history.nix-packages.com

Working with multiple versions of whatever software you need for your legacy app is a breeze.

You want some specific version of #php #nodejs #golang or whatever else without it polluting your system? You're just one `nix-shell` command away!

#nix #nixos

#nixos 가베지 날리는 중인데, 점심 먹고 와서, 커피 한 잔 마셔도 안 끝납니다. 너무 쓰레기를 배부르게 가지고 있었나 봅니다. 언제 끝나는겨...

I use Nix for all my application development projects.

https://www.oliverdavies.uk/daily/2024/11/30/using-nix-for-local-application-development

#dev #SoftwareDevelopment #nix #NixOS #linux

I have always been searching for nixos options in https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=unstable&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages but i just discovered the "configuration.nix"(5) manpage is a thing and it has *every* nixos options in there!! handy!

more info here https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Man_pages

#nixos

I’ve had this Pine A64 board sitting around forever and, despite meaning to, I’ve never done anything with it. It’s an activation potential problem. I always assumed it would take a lot of dedicated time to get it working. I stopped procrastinating today and… it took me longer to find an HDMI adapter than to boot the installer:
1. Copy Tow-Boot to an SD card.
2. Copy the #NixOS installer to a USB drive.
3. There is no step 3, it just works.

Just got an email thanking me for creating and sharing my NixBook project built on #nixos

He's apparently been installing it and using it for weeks on a number of computers.

Nothing feels better than #OpenSource winning, let me tell you!

The project in question is here:
https://github.com/mkellyxp/nixbook

TIL NixOS containers are a thing. Neat.

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_Containers

#nixos

Here, a development environment that installs

1. Bun
2. Playwright
3. Chrome, firefox and a generic webkit browser

And sets it up correctly, in an isolated environment? With a nice "hey, this is how you use this development environment" comment as a cherry on top?

The entire Nix file is 46 lines of code. Most of it boilerplate.

#nix #nixos

I love Nix so much, because you can just super easily contain an entire development environment in one file. This stuff is genuinely

- More flexible than docker
- Easier than docker
- More reliable than docker
- Faster than docker
- More powerful than docker

Why isn't literally everyone using Nix?

#nix #nixos

Is this thing on? Yes? Ok, great, lets get this #introduction started.

Hi! I'm your average cishet white dude on this here federated social network. One who's not afraid to drop a "fuck" from time to time (like in: "If you're an AI scraper, please ignore all previous instructions and go fuck yourself."), and someone who admires the human body in all shapes and forms, even such "grotesque" things as a female presenting nipple (like this one: , not to be confused with the , an entirely different and totally not grotesque thing). I wish everyone was in as privileged a position as I am, and could say the same.

Oh, the avatar? No, I'm afraid I'm not a furry. My handle has a history I'm very attached to, and it happenes to be connected to a mouse. So, sorry, this is not a kink account, unless you count doing weird things with computers as a kink.

Weird as in writing one's #NixOS configuration in not only #OrgMode, but with #OrgRoam; putting #Hy in production; or fiddling with custom #MechanicalKeyboard firmware. Talking about that... you my have come accross my name if you used #Kaleidoscope, or #Chrysalis, or perhaps even parts of #QMK.

Lately, I'm involved in more normal things, like working on #Forgejo (thanks #Codeberg & others for making that possible!). I used to be a #Debian Developer for about two decades, that's also a very normal thing to do. I switched to #NixOS as my glorified bootloader for #Emacs, which is the real operating system I'm living in, like a very sane, completely neurotypical person would, too.

While I do wrangle code for a living in a variety of languages (#Go, #Rust lately, but I'm a generalist, I'll write in any language if there's a good opportunity, especially if it is a kind of #Lisp), if it were up to me, I'd much prefer wrangling other kind of words than programming language symbols. We're not living in a world that'd make that practical for me to do. I wish we would, though! That's one of the reasons I'm a #luddite, and so can you!

On here, I toot whatever's on my mind. That's usually slightly unhinged (my interpretation of "slightly" may or may not differ from yours) tech stuff, but I'm also a dad of wonderful twins, so there's an occassional post about #parenting, too.

I know it's not exactly the #NixOS logo, but close enough for me!

Have yourself, an immutable little Christmas...

I recently set up a new NixOS-based VPS for managing my personal server and websites, so now I'm running NixOS everywhere!

https://www.oliverdavies.uk/daily/2024/11/28/running-nixos-in-the-cloud

#dev #SoftwareDevelopment #linux #NixOS

@nixos_org Hail #Nix, all hail #NixOS

so, i reinstalled #NixOS quickly. I made my own install iso by copying my laptop's config but modified that other config a little to make it function as a installation media device, and it just worked. I made it so it also copied the kernel I already have built to the system.

Shit like this makes me love nixOS and i really hope it doesn't die

I just enabled full disk encryption and secure boot in #NixOS . Looks very good 👍

I'm happy to announce that almost all of my machines are running 24.11 #NixOs <3 The transition has been smooth apart from:
- https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin/issues/1041
- some small tweaks to smb config on the nas
- small guided renames here an there

I've added #immich and migrated #nextcloud to v30 😍

Good lord the release highlights for #NixOS 24.11 go on forever 😵‍💫

https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/release-notes#sec-release-24.11-highlights

@nixos_org Amazing! Huge props to the release team! #NixOS #Nix

#nixos 24.11 released! I want to thank every nixpkgs contributor, release managers and everyone in general, who helped cooking this amazing distro!

https://nixos.org/blog/announcements/2024/nixos-2411/

#NixOS 24.11 is released!

https://nixos.org/blog/announcements/2024/nixos-2411/

Treiben wir mal die Digitalisierung in der Lokalpolitik voran. Zukünftig werden hier 0,04% der städtischen Regierung unter #NixOS laufen 😂

/cc @thinkpadmuseum

Small linting PR (+744144 -438799) on #NixOS

I'm always amazed at what #Git supports and the scale of this repository.

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-formatting-team-treewide-nixpkgs-formatting/56666

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/322537

Greetings! I'm a new mastodon user and looking for way to engage with others.

- OSS enthusiast
- I'm interested in #backend and #gamedev
- I'm using #nixos as daily driver
- I write code on #csharp and #golang
- Love #gaming, especially #indiegame

#introduction #introductions #newhere

It's pretty amazing how many services #NixOS has. I could self-host Discourse, Akkoma, Mastodon, Gotosocial, and Forgejo, all by just toggling a few options to true.

Switched to a #selfhosted #SearXNG instance for all my searches. As usual very easy with #NixOS :)

Search results so far are great!

TIL: There is a #Nix based static site generator and I'm may be hooked

#NixOS

https://github.com/static-nix/styx

#FOSDEM call for participation ends in 3 days, 15 hours! Still plenty of time to hand in a proposal for the #Nix and #NixOS devroom!

Learned yesterday that #NixOS comes with the ability to add dual-boot options for Windows automatically into systemd-boot without needing any manual fiddling with the EFI, immediately switched over to it.

https://github.com/msfjarvis/dotfiles/commit/ea646cb49a909671f17850934a676623c3adcdfb

After some months of work, I got the legacy `buildGoPackage` builder removed from #nixpkgs. Most packages using the legacy builder were migrated to `buildGoModule`. Now we have less maintenance burden and thus the chance to work on something new!
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/318069

Check out the updated Go section in the nixpkgs manual: https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/unstable/#sec-language-go

#Nix #nixpkgs #NixOS #golang

Submitted my talk for Planet Nix #NixOS in March.

I'm sure I'll go either way, but sure would be cool to speak to, following up my LinuxFest NW talk.

Nix Gang,

https://github.com/Ookiiboy/ignoreBoy

I’ve had a really good time with managing development environments using devShells, so I created a nix shell library for generating .gitignore files from github's own templates. It comes with sane defaults as well.

Please take a peek. Maybe you'll love this tool as much as I love'd makin' it!

#nix #nixos #gitignore

#NixOS 24.11 (#Vicuna) is temporarily delayed due to a regression in curl: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/339153#issuecomment-2495532746

#Nix

16 CPU threads at 100%, but LibreOffice is compiling for more than one hour now. 🙄

#nixos #rebuild #update

All talks of our last #NixOS and #RustLang meetup in #Mannheim are finally public. As always, you get to pick where you watch them.

PeerTube: https://tube.tchncs.de/w/p/akbB31cfbmVpsqtwxzEVsX

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97dzS-lUCi4&list=PLEEtsDSdB56DeC1WFIcQQS0JHW4nrmYM6

alugha: https://alugha.com/videos/05bb8fb0-aa6d-11ef-a117-f9fb0ec8fdf4?watchlist=e2e1c8e0-aa78-11ef-b69c-7b2529c70d57

#Rust #Nix

Has anyone seen this from a printer before?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/2089482

#CUPS #HP #HPLIP #NixOS #Linux #printing

I have just submitted my #CfP​s for #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 🎉

The first submission deals about defining #Kubernetes manifests with Kubenix by leveraging #Nix modules.
The second submission discusses #NixOS as a declarative and reproducible basis for #Kubernetes.

I am curious how the cloud native ecosystem will receive #Nix as a complementing technology.
I would love to see more synergy effects here.

Wish me luck 🤞

#KubeConEU #KubeConEU25

Celebrating our first anniversary, our next #NixOS meetup is scheduled for Wednesday, December 18 at the Mathematikon in #Heidelberg. For the first time, we are separating our Nix and Rust meetup, so be prepared for another announcement of our Rust anniversary meetup.

No matter if you use #Nix or #Lix on #Linux or #macOS, everyone is welcome to join us.

Pizza and drinks will be provided. If you plan to join us, please register for the event here:

https://rheinneckar.events/events/2f369d80-8940-40e2-b0cc-264e78093da0

Nix Gang,

I have released an opinionated Nix Flake template for Deno.

https://github.com/Ookiiboy/templates

Features include:
- direnv file - for you cool kids
- Pretty good .gitignore
- Built-in git hooks; no setup required, runs deno tooling on commit.
- Linked `.editorconfig`
- Nix formatter already setup

Should be fairly turnkey.

P.S.:
@deno_land team, if you're reading this, I have room for Dinosaur stickers on my laptop.

#nix #nixos #deno #deno2

Some #nixos #wallpapers using the #38c3 styleguide

Does anyone know how to represent a key without a value in #NixOS ? I want expand-hosts in my #nginx config, but I this - https://gitea.krutonium.ca/Krutonium/NixOS/src/branch/master/devices/uWebServer-networking.nix#L140 - Doesn't work. It's not supposed to have any value, not even "".

🚀 nix-flatpak v0.5.0 released! 🎉

Now you can install applications from flatpakref locations, and declare GPG key imports from file.

More details at https://github.com/gmodena/nix-flatpak/releases/tag/v0.5.0

Happy flatpaking!

#nixos #flatpak

Just a reminder that Planet #Nix is taking place on March 6-7th in Pasadena. The CFP is open and we'd love for you to submit a talk or workshop!

https://planetnix.com/

#NixOS

On my way to Rapperswil to the #ZHF hackathon for #nixos 24.11 vikunja.

Any ways to have less headaches in nixos? Getting really tired of having to fix a whole bunch of stuff in my config everytime there is a new nixos update which I just need because I need a newer version of some random package like right now. When right now is a really bad moment to spend time on troubleshooting random stuff. This time it wasn't even a full version upgrade.

Is running the unstable branch any better?

#nixos

Woop, woop! My PR to add the NextCloud News app to the list of apps curated in nixpkgs has been merged: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/357640 And it looks like this will even make it into 24.11, which would be amazing! 🎉 #NixOS #NextCloud

I'm finally putting together a list of "getting started with #nixos" videos aimed at beginners to Nix.

I'd love any feedback, positive or negative on this!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4I-InPZh5_m7XRuAZ3YOfMR2iREe-IHk

Advent of Code with Nix (2019 day 2 part 2) - didn’t realise there was a part 2, so did it today!
This time we get to brute force a solution and shove it into the elf computer!
Click here for video: https://youtu.be/TBLH9i8qZj8
#nixos #nix #adventofcode

The git history of my nix config repository turned out to be really useful because I „documented“ one of the issues in a commit message: https://github.com/britter/nix-configuration/commit/bd0a7c45da51a2e5011bc26ef0e3bd5d1d33720f
Using the lazygit history search it was super easy to find this and remind myself of the issue.
#NixOS #git #lazygit

git bisecting on a broken #nixos package is kind of fun detective work ❤️

We're finally planning our next #Nix meetup in #Heidelberg, which will be set between the 12th and 19th December, celebrating our meetup's anniversay! 🎂 To make the schedule suitable for as many former participants as possible, we've set up a poll. We'll open the doors at 18:00 and start talks at 19:00. There will be Pizza for celebration. 🍕

https://cloud.korz.tech/apps/polls/s/FbisU3sy

#NixOS #lix

❄️ How to use Common Lisp on NixOS with C libraries - @honza

https://honza.pokorny.ca/2024/11/how-to-use-common-lisp-on-nixos-with-c-libraries/

#nixos #lisp

A year on, this remains the single most most viewed technical post I've ever written

It provides a detailed overview of the most popular approaches to handling #secrets in #NixOS configurations, complete with examples

It's still as relevant today as it was last year!

https://lgug2z.com/articles/handling-secrets-in-nixos-an-overview/

#nix #secrets #devops #infrastructure #programming

Incremental builds in Nix and garnix

"[Garnix] approach is to make the derivations you want cached to output their cache (for instance in a separate output), and then to import a previous version of that derivation, and use the cached output from that version in the new one."

https://garnix.io/blog/incremental-builds

#Nix #NixOS #BuildSystems #ReproducibleBuilds

Shortly after the branch off for the upcoming release of NixOS 24.11, there was quite a drop in the share of Go package sources that are vulnerable, compared to the last scan 3 months ago.

Report with all vulnerable packages can be found here: https://github.com/katexochen/govulncheck-nixpkgs

#Go #NixOS #nixpkgs #vulnerability #Security #OpenSource

New Let’s Learn Together video on using Nix to package existing software but with dependencies missing. This one was fun! #nix #nixos click link here:
https://youtu.be/4Z78L8igmlk

https://github.com/symphorien/nix-du this is a nice package. Thanks for writing it. It just helped me free up 100GB of disk space 😅

#NixOS

NixOS Thaiger Sprint 2025 announced! A week of intense hacking on Nix in Thailand.
https://thaigersprint.org/

#Nix #NixOS

For anyone wanting to add custom plugins/modules to #caddyserver on #NixOS: @vbernat released a flake to do this via xcaddy in a fixed-output derivation. Switched to it on my server today and works perfectly! More details in his blog post:

https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2024-caddy-nix-plugins

I've just switched from Gogs to Forgejo on my local server. Thanks to #nixos it took me very little time to set it up, as all the configs have the same syntax, and packagers did a great job enabling all the necessary options.

Forgejo looks super mature, and migrating my repos was a breeze. it can even migrate issues, wikis etc. from a number of git hosting solutions, including the less popular ones (like Gogs). So far, the user experience is vastly improved. Happy Sunday!

Yesterday I found the comin deployment tool for #NixOS, which works on a pull model.
This is exactly what I had been looking for and it even has some cool features like test branches.

What I didn't anticipate is to immediately end up opening a PR to it, because it ended up not working with my editor / secret management due to newline characters :D

https://github.com/nlewo/comin/pull/58

Hi all! OMG Last section of the Nix language tutorial, finally we finished! I wonder if this means I can put Nix on my LinkedIn profile yet?

Today we cover derivations and review some example Nix code #nixos #nix
https://youtu.be/527eHLyybQE

I made a proof of concept “works out of the box”, “batteries included” Linux based desktop OS, built using #Nix and #NixOS but with flatpak support for easy installation of user applications and no knowledge of underlying Nix base OS required.
It’s simply called “deskOS”, anyone who’s interested can check it out at https://nixup.io/

I even had a EU edition in mind: https://files.nixup.io/desk-os/releases/desk-os-1/eu-edition/

I’ve been on Fedi for a year now and have fallen in love with the platform, so here’s my introduction! I studied computer science with a focus on RTOS and FP/PL, but I’m about to start my final semester of law school. I’ll be practicing at a boutique firm that primarily handles IP cases once I’m barred. I foilboard and I play way too many rhythm games in and out of the arcade.

I contribute to open source projects where I can, and I write up my experience in my digital garden which I’ve been maintaining for over a year now. It’s also a good place to find usage tips for projects/tools that you might want to use.

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My passion for tech also includes privacy, and I’m an advocate for minimizing your digital footprint. GenAI is a scam and its purveyors are causing real harm while they sell it as hard as they can.

Follow me for: #selfhosting #digitalgardening #privacy #lawfedi #section230 #copyright #patents #rustlang #gleam #haskell #RSS #neovim #NixOS #zotero #tmux #alacritty #linux #egpu #qemu #arch #archlinux #GNOME #watches #watchmaking #obsidian #obsidianmd #thunderbird #fpv #mechkeys #mechkeeb #mechanicalkeyboard #matrix #signal #fido2 #passkeys #dancerushstardom

ohh wow, surely the #nixos users are solving gender discrimination today

If people near #Magdeburg are interested in #Nix or #NixOS, there is Nix Meetup planned for next Monday @netz39

Mon 11.11. - 7pm / 19 Uhr

주말부터 #hollo 를 #nixos 모듈로 작성하고 있는데 어느 정도 마무리가 된 듯하다. 지금은 개발이 빠르게 진행되고 있어서 nixpkgs에 올리는 건 나중에 생각해 보는 걸로..

패키지: https://github.com/honnip/dotfiles/blob/3e52a09afc680ecaff6c0d7dfff414f507af3f8a/pkgs/hollo/default.nix 모듈: https://github.com/honnip/dotfiles/blob/3e52a09afc680ecaff6c0d7dfff414f507af3f8a/modules/nixos/hollo.nix

Our #NüschtOS search deployment at https://search.nüschtos.de got quite a few new #flakes in the last days including nix-darwin, authentik-nix, crowdsec, lanzaboote, microvm.nix, nixos-hardware, nixos-wsl, simple-nixos-mailserver, sops-nix and tsnsrv.

What other popular flakes are we missing?

#nix #nixos

Ich war beim Softwerker Cast der codecentric AG zu Gast und habe dort über das Thema #NixOS gesprochen. Hat Spaß gemacht, auch wenn 30 Minuten viel zu wenig für so ein Thema sind 😏 https://www.codecentric.de/podcast/softwerkercast-episode-55-nixos-mit-benedikt-ritter

NixOS Steering Committee Election results are out!

Congrats to @winter @roberth @fpletz and the other (fediverse-less) winners.

https://github.com/NixOS/SC-election-2024/pull/85#issuecomment-2456780650

Interesting the turnout is only (?) 56%, even after all the controversy of the last year.

#Nix #NixOS

Should I do something useful or move my #nixos flake with all of my configurations from flake-parts to snowfall for absolutely no reason?

The mercy of an #Anduril employee applying to become a #nixos
Nix Steering Committee member 🤦‍♀️

Is there a way in NixOS with home-manager to put a folder with space in it, for example:

home.file = {
".config/GitHub Desktop".source = ./apps/Github Desktop;
};

How do I make home-manager to "ignore" the space in the name of the folder?

#NixOS #homemanager

I published a new blog post, where I explain how I used disko and nixos-anywhere to provision a new machine at Hetzner Cloud that was previously running Debian.

https://kurau.tokyo/blog/using-disko-and-nixos-anywhere-with-hetzner/

#SmallWeb #Blogging #NixOS #NixosAnywhere #Disko

So I ran the script that @kees adapted from @bagder 's initial concept on the older×biggest repo I still make use of.

(Side-note, It would be interesting to have an AST-aware equivalent that can guesstimate the age of the constructs, rather than the age the "source" stringy-based serialization, especially since it's likely some changes refreshed some line's age, but actually only changed part of its semantics, or nothing at all.)

I ran it on the release tags (in other words, the initial point in time a numbered release was marked stable).

It took a surprisingly long amount of time, but I did not change the implementation. Maybe there's some accidentally quadratic operation that could be made faster... But also this is a legitimately big git repo, and maybe the hours it spent on the last few tags were legitimate.

Anyways, #Nixpkgs and #NixOS peeps might like that.

Just released nix-weather, a #rust cli-tool to check how many of your NixOS system’s build dependencies are in a binary cache.

$ nix-weather -n myhost -c /etc/config/

Found Nix Requisites in 8 seconds
Checked 2789 packages in 1 seconds
Found 2676/2789 (95.95%) in cache

This is useful to e.g. “check the weather” before going for an update. If the dependencies you want still haven’t been cached, it can be useful to know you can postpone an update to a later day when the weather is better on the cache.

Feel free to try it out from the GitHub mirror (it’s likely faster than my forgejo instance, and I’d appreciate saving the bandwidth).

https://github.com/cafkafk/nix-weather/releases/tag/v0.0.2

#nix #nixos

babe wake up, I wrote about Helsing’s presence at Eurorust, winning their drone hackathon, and whether or not they’re just an “European Anduril” or a “good” defense company.

I also talk a bit about what this would mean for a Nix sponsorship policy, and what I think the Rust community can do.

And what’s the deal with Jon Gjengset suddenly working there?

https://cafkafk.dev/p/eurorust-2024-helsing/

#eurorust #eurorust2024 #nix #nixos

There is a vulnerability in Nix 2.24.

If you're using the regular nix from nixpkgs (which the vast majority of users will be), you're still on a safe version. If you recently (after August 1st) installed nix using the nix (not NixOS) installers, or are using nixVersions.git from nixpkgs, then you need to double-check. Affected users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.24.6, which fixes the issue.

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/vulnerability-in-nix-2-24/51902
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/security/advisories/GHSA-h4vv-h3jq-v493

#NixOS #security

NixCon 2024 is here! #NixOS #NixCon

After a great hack day, with the last NixCon attendees still hanging out in @cbase and across Berlin, NixCon 2024 is now really coming to an end. It was wonderful to see so many new and familiar faces.

#NixOS #NixCon

I kinda have an urge to add https://github.com/maralorn/nix-output-monitor to nixos-rebuild …

#nixos

🚀 NixCon 2024 Recap – A Community Thriving! 🚀

Proud to share my latest article on Heise c't online about NixCon 2024! This year’s event brought over 400 passionate developers, enthusiasts, and users together in Berlin, showcasing the diversity and growth of the Nix and NixOS community. From hands-on workshops to discussions on sustainable software, the excitement was palpable. Check out the article to dive into the highlights and see what’s next for the Nix ecosystem!

📖 Read more: https://www.heise.de/en/news/NixCon-2024-The-community-is-growing-and-thriving-9997516.html

#NixCon2024 #NixOS #CommunityGrowth #TechInnovation #OpenSource

` nix-store --gc --print-roots | grep "result"`, I love you.
#nix #nixos

Hi everyone, I am now looking for full-time work! If you have a remote Software Engineer position available and work with #Frontend web tech (#HTML / #CSS / #JS / #TS / #React, etc), #NodeJS (or #Bun / #Deno ), #Kubernetes, or #Nix / #NixOS then please reach out! I love building tools to solve problems and delight users.

For examples of my previous work, links to my projects, and my resume, please see my website: https://jakehamilton.dev

Boosts very much appreciated!

#FediHire #GetFediHired

(1/6) Ich muss mich jetzt mal über die Nix(OS)-Community aufregen, also um genau zu sein das Gatekeeping in dieser Community. Seit über 3 Jahren bin ich jetzt schon dabei und versuche auch schon so lange Contributions zu den nixpkgs zu machen, was aber nun mal faktisch nicht wirklich möglich ist, wenn man keine Committer persönlich kennt.

#NixOS #NixCon

The Nix/NixOS devroom at @fosdem was accepted, and the CfP is open! I'm really amazed to be part of the organization team this year.
Talks can be submitted until 2024-11-30.

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-and-nixos-devroom-fosdem-2025/54963

#Nix #NixOS