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makebackupstoo··on Winding down my Debian involvement (2019)
A few blog posts on "how to make your own guix!" would be really neat. I'm not as deep as I'd like to be, but roughly it's a simply a matter of outputting a derivation that `nix-daemon/nix-build` can handle, right?
makebackupstoo··on Winding down my Debian involvement (2019)
I have yet to see Michael discuss Nix without spreading inaccurate, flatly wrong information about it (Nix does not have post-install hooks, and `nix-env -i` being slow and unrecommended is a known meme that is addressed in upcoming tooling).

Nix fulfills every single requirement Michael has put forward (except the squash>tar thing, which I still don't understand).

That's all there is to this. I sympathize with Ericson's frustration. It's exhausting watching people re-invent inferior solutions to Nix, instead of just hopping in and fixing or using Nix. Of course, John Ericson is one of the few people motivated, qualified (and maybe has the buy-in) to make changes in Nix. I'm thankful for that on-going work.

makebackupstoo··on GoDaddy employees used in attacks on multiple cryptocurrency services
Yes. GoDaddy is bad. That's why people have been discouraging its use here and shaming people for using it, for a decade? More?

I recently got a notification that someone logged into my GoDaddy account. I angrily log in, knowing that I don't have any resources.

I'm greeted with a login log that shows "Android app" logging in every day for the past year, from multiple different countries. And my account required email confirmation (which must have been being by-passed on the Android app?)

It's bad. Don't use GoDaddy. While you're at it, you should really actually make backups and use a password manager too.