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• Is multi user nix safe?

  I’m thinking of setting up multi user nix on a compute cluster. The advantage would be to have a shared storage where common packages are reused, this is a great advantage compared to conda where every environment duplicates storage and inodes. However, the packages are installed as root. As such I’m a bit wary of whether a user installing something could have the system run malware as root by installing a package. What are the safeguards in place and how do I know I can trust them?

• Post #4134225

  I guess it can have its uses, but it would definitely not replace a mobile phone for me. It may be good in an office where you get your calls by the computer and indeed for internet connection on a laptop, but it will not replace the ease of going somewhere and calling your friend to say “I’m in the square, I don’t see you let’s meet at this bar”.

• Post #4133681

  These are all things which are quite likely in human written software as well. Indeed, after years of maintenance these things get ironed out, but most projects do often start with some degree of these problems.

• HPC system setup

  Hello, I will soon have to setup a small GPU HPC cluster with few servers. It is not something I have ever done, I did setup servers and manage them but not sometof this scale with several users. I’ve been looking at plausible alternatives and I am looking at openhpc, Ansible and NixOs. Out of the three I feel like NixOs could be a good choice to have the configuration clearly stored somewhere. I won’t be actively maintaining the cluster at all times and find it nice that if someone needs so...

• Post #3945656

  I’m happy there are use cases. Another person told me to look at rpm-ostree and it looks pretty nice. But for what you’re saying I do not understand: how is an immutable server better than a normal one. You can setup auto updates; I do not see how rsync would help with that. I imagine safe backup is nice, but for that you still have to connect keyboard and mouse on an htpc. Possibly not into a managed server, but there you have other layers of resilience anyway. Sure, you likely have to do...

• Post #3934373

  I still miss the advantages for these cases. I can understand the kid example, but I feel that’s easily solved by not giving them root access. A htpc in which you just need to launch media Setup the system and install whatever media software. Update it every once in a while or setup auto updates. I do not see any difference between traditional os and immutable. You’re likely not modifying any system files anyway. A steam Deck like handheld in which you just want your game launcher...

• Post #3846967

  There were times people were saying it was ok to enslave black and gays because they were not human beings. Do you want to steep down to their level?

• Post #3499540

  That is still a long way from an LLM

• Advice for a collaborative text editor

  Hello, I’m looking for a simple collaborative text editor. We do have an office 365 subscription and it works, but the 10 minutes loading time every time you open a document are taking a strain on my mental sanity. We don’t need nothing too fancy, markdown support would be a plus, especially with embedded latex formulas and possibly bibfile references. The things I really need are a simple ways to add comments to text and a changes view to immediately see what a collaborator modified. I’ve...

• Post #3333009

  I’m confused as to the use of double true. I’ve been running a query adding TRUE entries to other TRUE entries, but I just get TRUE as result.

• Post #2955658

  Lots of Nigerian princes transfering diamonds to the US soon

• Post #749995

  Vista is the reason I started using Linux.

• Post #710135

  Didn’t read the article yet. I have a good friend who is homeless and begs for money. He says his life is much better than the life of the richest people of just a few centuries ago.

• Post #488667

  Who the fuck wrote such a terrible article? What is described is not a problem with AI per se, but rather automation and poor security. AI may be part of that automation system, but this is a trend which started with the dot com bubble and not something new. Besides, the models they reference to check plant diseases and so on are most definitely not the LLMs which have now become synonyms of AI. Sure, a cyber attack can lock down your production; but it is mostly not AI who generated this prob...

• Post #472081

  Red Hay has helped a lot the Linux system, I doubt desktop systems would be a good viable idea by now without their contribution. Does your analogy imply that you think Red Hat made systemd to eventually break it and thus make Linux not viable? I doubt they could do that without losing all their customers. I mean, systemd can indeed do a lot of things but it mostly is used for startup and service management. And I prefer systems services to a cronjob.