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The politics of language design by Pierre-Étienne Meunier in #LixCon2026 « Fake supply chain security, even worse than no supply chain security at all? » …Yeah: 2. Guix/Nix packages stuff: it means it provides tooling for auditing and verifying if the binary matches the identified source; and for the whole chain of dependencies. But there is no guarantee it’s fully error-free – we’re able to point where the error if any comes from. It’s already a lot! Guix is like the indian Dabbawala service using “barecodes” everywhere. It doesn’t prevent stories as The Lunchbox. 😉 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabbawala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lunchbox 4/6