Definitely worth a read: Myths about /dev/urandom http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/.
@kas@enotty.dk Read them both and loved them! Though I don’t know why Stephenson added that strange appendix to an otherwise great book.
@kas@enotty.dk Read them both and loved them! Though I don’t know why Stephenson added that strange appendix to an otherwise great book.
My next book will be Darwinia by the same author. Any good tips what to read after that? #books
My next book will be Darwinia by the same author. Any good tips what to read after that? #books
📚 Finished reading Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read by Brooks Landon
📚 Finished reading Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read by Brooks Landon
If connected to a pipe #txtnix tweet will now read tweets from STDIN. Will it now be too easy to spam the #twtxt network? :)
If connected to a pipe #txtnix tweet will now read tweets from STDIN. Will it now be too easy to spam the #twtxt network? :)
Just found time to read through http://dankaminsky.com/2016/02/20/skeleton/. Maybe the best thing i read about CVE-2015-7547 yet. Does anybody has more to read about it?
Just found time to read through http://dankaminsky.com/2016/02/20/skeleton/. Maybe the best thing i read about CVE-2015-7547 yet. Does anybody has more to read about it?
Nix 1.11 released
Nix 1.11
has been released. See the release\
notes for a list of changes and new features. ⌘ Read more
New repository: aquilax/goreadit - Command line speed reading tool
📚 Finished reading Economics by Timothy Taylor
📚 Finished reading Economics by Timothy Taylor
📚 Finished reading Big History: The Big Bang, Life On Earth, And The Rise Of Humanity by David Christian
NixOS 15.09 released
NixOS 15.09 “Dingo” has been released, the fourth stable release
branch. See the release\
notes
for details. You can get NixOS 15.09 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 15.09, check out the manual\
section on\
upgrading. ⌘ Read more
Nix 1.10 released
Nix 1.10
has been released. See the release\
notes for a list of changes and new features. ⌘ Read more
📚 Finished reading Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
📚 Finished reading Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
NixCon 2015
We’re happy to announce that NixCon 2015, the
first Nix Conference, will take place on November
14—15th 2015 in Berlin. For more information, see the
NixCon website. And please
consider [submitting a\
talk](http://con … ⌘ Read more
Anonymous Functions (aka Closures) ⌘ Read more…
Basic Go Routines (like Threading) ⌘ Read more…
📚 Finished reading Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
📚 Finished reading Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
NixOS Foundation
The NixOS Foundation
was started to improve our ability to maintain and extend the infrastructure
used by the Nix related projects. If you would like to support us, please go
here and donate some money! ⌘ Read more
Find the Length of an Array/Slice ⌘ Read more…
Write data to a CSV file ⌘ Read more…
📚 Finished reading The Philosopher’s Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room by Patrick Grim
📚 Finished reading The Philosopher’s Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room by Patrick Grim
Passing Arguments into your Application ⌘ Read more…
Writing to a File ⌘ Read more…
Using Constants ⌘ Read more…
Get the Current Unix Time ⌘ Read more…
Attach a Logger to your Router ⌘ Read more…
JSON Decode into Objects ⌘ Read more…
JSON Encode an Array of Objects ⌘ Read more…
Using HTML Templates from a Folder (Complied) ⌘ Read more…
Hello world! How to Start any Go Application ⌘ Read more…
📚 Finished reading Drugged: The Science and Culture Behind Psychotropic Drugs by Richard J. Miller
Nix 1.9 released
Nix 1.9
has been released. See the release\
notes for a list of changes and new features. ⌘ Read more
📚 Finished reading Crux (Nexus, #2) by Ramez Naam
📚 Finished reading Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts
Well, that was an interesting read: “The full-stack employee” by @chrismessina https://t.co/lFMAIFZBdb
NixOS 14.12 released
NixOS 14.12 “Caterpillar” has been released, the third stable
release branch. It brings Linux 3.14, systemd 217, Glibc 2.20,
KDE 4.14.1, and much more. See the release\
notes
for details. You can get NixOS 14.12 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 14.12, check out the [manual section\
on\
upgrading](/manual/nixos/stable/ind … ⌘ Read more
Nix 1.8 released
Nix 1.8
has been released. See the release\
notes for a list of changes and new features. ⌘ Read more
📚 Finished reading Analysis and Critique: How to Engage and Write about Anything by Dorsey Armstrong
📚 Finished reading Analysis and Critique: How to Engage and Write about Anything by Dorsey Armstrong
📚 Finished reading Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition by Elizabeth Vandiver
📚 Finished reading Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition by Elizabeth Vandiver
📚 Finished reading NOT A BOOK: Understanding Complexity by Scott E. Page
📚 Finished reading NOT A BOOK: Understanding Complexity by Scott E. Page
📚 Finished reading Games People Play: Game Theory in Life, Business, and Beyond by Scott P. Stevens
📚 Finished reading Games People Play: Game Theory in Life, Business, and Beyond by Scott P. Stevens
NixOS sprint in Ljubljana
We’re having a NixOS sprint at the Kiberpipa hackerspace
in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on August
23—27. Joining is free! For more information and to
register, please go to the sprint\
page. ⌘ Read more
📚 Finished reading The Secret Life of Words: English Words and Their Origins by Anne Curzan
📚 Finished reading The Secret Life of Words: English Words and Their Origins by Anne Curzan
📚 Finished reading Einstein’s Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists by Richard Wolfson
📚 Finished reading Einstein’s Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists by Richard Wolfson
📚 Finished reading Money and Banking: What Everyone Should Know by Michael K. Salemi
📚 Finished reading Money and Banking: What Everyone Should Know by Michael K. Salemi
📚 Finished reading How Conversation Works: 6 Lessons for Better Communication by Anne Curzan
📚 Finished reading How Conversation Works: 6 Lessons for Better Communication by Anne Curzan
📚 Finished reading No Excuses: Existentialism And The Meaning Of Life by Robert C. Solomon
📚 Finished reading No Excuses: Existentialism And The Meaning Of Life by Robert C. Solomon
NixOS 14.04 released
NixOS 14.04 “Baboon” has been released, the second stable
release branch. It brings Linux 3.12, systemd 212, GCC 4.8,
Glibc 2.19, KDE 4.12, light-weight NixOS containers, and much
more. See the release\
notes for details. You can get NixOS 14.04 ISOs and
VirtualBox appliances from the download page. For information on
how to upgrade a 13.10 system to 14.04, check out the [manual\
section on upgrading](/manual/nixos/stable/#sec … ⌘ Read more
NixOps 1.2 released
NixOps\
1.2 has been released. This release contains contains many nice new features. See the manual
for details. ⌘ Read more
Nix 1.7 released
Nix 1.7
has been released. See the release\
notes for a list of new features. ⌘ Read more
Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL
A serious security\
vulnerability has been discovered in OpenSSL. All stable
NixOS releases prior to version
13.10.35708.15a465c are vulnerable. (You can
see your current version by running nixos-version.) To
upgrade to the latest NixOS version, run nixos-rebuild
switch –upgrade. You can verify whether you are safe by
running
$ nix-store -qR /run/current-system | grep openssl
If this shows any OpenSSL ve … ⌘ Read more
Great read about Character encoding http://t.co/9vQdl1BkGJ
FOSDEM talks
Domen Kožar gave a\
talk at FOSDEM about NixOS ( video).
Also, Ludovic Courtès gave a talk\
on\
Guix, the Nix- … ⌘ Read more
Stdenv updates branch merged into master
The stdenv-updates branch has\
been merged into the master branch of Nixpkgs. The main
change are that brings is that Nixpkgs/NixOS are now based on
GCC 4.8 and Glibc 2.18, in addition to many smaller updates. ⌘ Read more
NixOS 13.10 released
We have released NixOS 13.10, the first stable branch of NixOS.
Its goal is to provide a safe branch for production environments
that need bug fixes and security updates, but not the
potentially destabilising changes that sometimes occur on the
unstable branch. You can get NixOS 13.10 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
page. See the announcement
for … ⌘ Read more
Nix 1.6.1 released
Nix\
1.6.1 has been released. This is primarily a bug fix
release but has some minor new features. See the release\
notes for details. ⌘ Read more
NixOS sources merged into Nixpkgs
The NixOS Git tree has been merged into the Nixpkgs tree in
order to simplify development. The sources now live in the nixos\
subdirectory of the Nixpkgs repository on GitHub. See the
announcement
for more information. ⌘ Read more
NixOps 1.1.1 released
NixOps\
1.1.1 has been released. This release consists mostly of minor bugfixes. See the manual
for details. ⌘ Read more
Nix 1.6 released
Nix 1.6
has been released. See the release\
notes for details. ⌘ Read more
NixOps 1.1 released
NixOps\
1.1 has been released. This release brings a backend for Hetzner,
a German data center provider, support for EC2 spot instances and some
minor bugfixes. See the manual
for details. ⌘ Read more
📚 Finished reading Thinking In Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math by Daniel Tammet
📚 Finished reading Аз съм легенда by Richard Matheson
NixOS sprint in Slovenia
A sprint focused on NixOS and Kotti will be held 22-26\
July 2013 in Lokve, Slovenia. It is organised by Termitnjak and
sponsored
by LogicBlox. ⌘ Read more
NixOps 1.0.1 released
NixOps\
1.0.1 has been released, a minor bug fix release. See the manual
for details. ⌘ Read more
NixOS presentation at EuroPython
Domen Kožar gave a presentation at EuroPython\
2013: “NixOS\
Operating System: Declarative Configuration Distribution”. ⌘ Read more
NixOps 1.0 released
NixOps\
1.0 has been released, the inaugural release of the NixOS
cloud deployment tool. See the announcement
and the manual
for details. ⌘ Read more
📚 Finished reading Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! by Miran Lipovača
Nix 1.5.3 released
Nix 1.5.3
has been released. This is primarily a bug fix release. See the release\
notes for details. ⌘ Read more
PhD thesis: A Reference Architecture for Distributed Software Deployment
Today Sander van\
der Burg successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled A\
Reference Architecture for Distributed Software\
Deployment! It describes (among other things) [Disnix](https://github.com/s … ⌘ Read more
📚 Finished reading Computer Science Programming Basics in Ruby: Exploring Concepts and Curriculum with Ruby by Ophir Frieder
📚 Finished reading Computer Science Programming Basics in Ruby: Exploring Concepts and Curriculum with Ruby by Ophir Frieder
📚 Finished reading Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time! by Conrad Barski
Nix 1.5.1 released
Nix 1.5.1
has been released. It fixes a regression introduced in Nix 1.4. See the release\
notes for details. ⌘ Read more
Nix 1.4 released
Nix 1.4
has been released. This is primarily a bug fix release that
addresses a security problem in multi-user mode. See the release\
notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more
NixOS switched to systemd
NixOS has switched from Upstart to systemd!
Systemd brings many advantages such as better dependency
management, socket-based activation of services, per-service
logging, cgroup-based process management, and much more. (Read
the announcement.) ⌘ Read more
Nix 1.3 released
Nix 1.3
has been released. This is primarily a bug fix release. See
the release\
notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more
Nix 1.2 released
Nix 1.2
has been released. See the release\
notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more
Nix 1.1 released
Nix 1.1
has been released. See the release\
notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more
Binary Nix tarballs available
Our continuous build system, Hydra, now produces binary\
tarball distributions of Nix for Mac OS X (Darwin), FreeBSD
and Linux. The tarballs contain all dependencies of Nix, making
it a lot easier to install Nix on those platforms. To install,
download a binary tarball, unpack it in the root directory, then
run nix-finish-install. See the [manual](https://hydra.nixos.org/view/nix/trunk/latest/tarball/download-by-t … ⌘ Read more
Nix 1.0 released
After almost two years of development, Nix 1.0
has been released. See the release\
notes for an overview of the most important improvements.
For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more
rtdb.py: Extension for dtuple.py
This is specific to sqlite but could easily be adopted to work with other databases. # # rtdb.py: Extension for dtuple.py # # Written by Dennis T Kaplan . Public Domain. # No Copyright, no Rights Reserved, and no Warranties. class rtdb: def __init__(self, dbname, sql, one = True): self.one = one connection = sqlite3.connect(dbname) […] ⌘ Read more