Simon Tournier
zimoun@social.sciences.re
<p>Reproducible Research and Guix</p><p>« Le vrai pessimiste sait qu'il est déjà trop tard pour l'être. »</p>
Posts
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Post #1669976
🤔 is AI the acronym of “A Ism”? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-ism
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Post #1669975
Reading post: « Git mirror and #Nix flakes – a practical approach to supply chain security » 🤔 I’m not convinced that mirroring is “the Right Thing” here; it sounds to me as some “worse and holed is maybe better”. Instead of mirrors for tackling the upstream troubles, it seems more elegant to have an archive that collects all the public code and then fallback to it when needed. Guess what? #Guix does that using #SoftwareHeritage! https://www.softwareheritage.org/2025/05/21/software-heritage-...
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Post #1422139
« The politics of language design » by Pierre-Étienne Meunier 🤔 and again 🤔 Although, I’m not sure to follow the “stir up a hornet&#39;s nest”, the talk raises some core questions about governance or the social impact of technical choices. Damned, I’m sad that although living in Paris my schedule hasn’t let me the opportunity for attending to #LixCon2026 in Paris. Next time, maybe… 1/6
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Post #1422138
RE: https://mamot.fr/@arretsurimages/116425006361757971 On (ré)écoutera la très bonne émission Concordance des temps de France Culture sur le sujet du maccarthysme pour avoir les idées claires sur les parallèles et différences dans cette commission d&#39;enquête de l&#39;Assemblée Nationale. Émission de 2024. Héui, l&#39;histoire ne se répète pas, elle bégaie. https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/concordance-des-temps/le-maccarthysme-fracture-americaine-9302914 PS:...
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Post #1422137
Dimanche, je fais un petit point actu sur ce que j’ai raté cette semaine : je vois cette “affaire Grasset“. Hébé… Que de place dans l’espace médiatique ! 🤔 Et pourquoi d’ailleurs ? 1/3
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Post #1386724
📣 #Guix presentation at at #FLiSol 2026 🤩 You are in Brazil? you want to know more about Guix? Checkout the details with MiniDebConf in Campinas. FLiSol: Festival Latino-americano de Instalación de Software Libre https://flisol.info/FLISOL2026 https://campinas.mini.debconf.org/ https://campinas.mini.debconf.org/talks/17-uma-introducao-a-gnu-guix/
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Post #945534
« il suffirait de mettre en place une taxation sur les ultra-riches, type taxe Zucman, avec un taux de 0.2%, vous avez 4 milliard et vous avez de quoi financer l’audiovisuel public » – Matthieu Pigasse https://youtu.be/KGkGs4JwV60?t=8475
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Post #804687
« Don’t trust, verify » by #curl author – must-read! « Software and digital security should rely on verification, rather than trust. I want to strongly encourage more users and consumers of software to verify curl. And ideally require that you could do at least this level of verification of other software components in your dependency chains. » 🤔 It reminds me « Identifying software » #Guix blog post. 🤩 Check them out! https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2024/identifying-software/ https://daniel.ha...
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Post #636260
📣 Hey #Guix, #GCD 007: Teams, Special Teams and Memberships Authored by @gnu_slash_gabber Please comment this Guix Consensus Document by reviewing on Codeberg https://codeberg.org/guix/guix-consensus-documents/pulls/11 The Discussion period started on Sat, 28 Feb 2026. The Discussion period ends, at best, on: Monday, 30 March 2026* Do not wait the last minute for commenting! Please remember: 1. Be clear and explicit about what you are suggesting 2. Remain focused: do not change t...
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Post #600849
« #SoftwareHeritage expands mirror network to Spain » These distributed nodes are designed to ensure data redundancy and load distribution, protecting the archive’s accessibility against technical, commercial, or geopolitical disruptions. https://www.softwareheritage.org/2026/02/05/software-heritage-mirror-network-spain/ #SWH #OpenSource #ReproducibleResearch
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Post #445372
Read on #Guix science channel about #Bazel: « The offending upstream commit is here: github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow@e85860e838 There is no way to build Tensorflow without a bundled Python toolchain. The only way I see is to trick it into &quot;downloading&quot; our provided Python toolchain from a file:// URL. I find this battle against upstream&#39;s approach towards reproducibility exhausting. » 🤔 Could you stop to say: “yeah Guix is great but I don’t use because it doesn’t p...