I perform @nixos_org witchcraft at @mercury

Joined January 2010
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Yes and we have the news instead of commercials during the half time break. It's glorious. The American mind can not comprehend this.
I just learnt Germans can watch World Cup on laptop for free?
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Yes and we have the news instead of commercials during the half time break. It's glorious
I just learnt Germans can watch World Cup on laptop for free?
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Idea: given open source maintainers of software that your startup uses stock options in your company
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I love USA the people. Every time I visit I get met with enormous Hospitality and cultural diversity. Once you remove the filter of holiwood and terrible TV news anchors the people even are politically very reasonable I despise USA the media circus It's a very weird duality.
πŸš¨πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ The funniest, sweetest World Cup subplot: Europeans discovering that the real America isn't the skyline, it's the gas station, the diner, and the stranger who insists on driving you to the game. The country always looked better in person than on a screen. Writer: Daniel x.com/realmikolson/status/20…
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They took away Fabian but they can't take away Jamal. Iykyk
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4. Tell ASML to stop selling to the US
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In the end, I'm the problem and Nix is the solution
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This runs NixOS apparently
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Hooked up opencode to my Airbnb host
My private equity landlord introduced an AI assistant so I texted it a bunch of complex requests to burn tokens. A few hours later a concerned sounding human called to see if I'm ok
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28 euros for @YouTube Premium??????? Ive been a happy payer for almost a decade but this is the final straw. Bye Bye. I'm going back to @ublockorigin and @firefox
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🚨 Introducing kiac(Kubernetes in apple containers) I just moved to apple containers for my kubernetes clusters. With apple containers 1.0, each container boots as its own lightweight VM. So I built kiac on top of it, why not? - every node = a real VM with its own kernel - kubectl top works out of the box - type: LoadBalancer gets a real EXTERNAL-IP - PVCs just bind - no Docker, no Lima, no QEMU Command: brew install saiyam1814/tap/kiac Do try, give a star and show some love by sharing :) issues/contributions are welcome.
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Without the guardrails it literally just nukes your debian install and infects it with NixOS without consent. It would rather die than not use NixOS
Claude Fable just recommended uninstalling Arch and installing NixOS, so I did.
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I just got into YC S26 as a 40yo solo founder. Did YC W20 with Upflow, was CTO/CPO for 6 years. Company is doing millions in ARR and still growing. But I’m a maker at heart, so I left to go 0-1 again. Last year I built an MCP gateway with a friend. MCP servers are notoriously insecure, so I wrote a CLI to run them inside VMs. There was pull on the gateway, but I wasn’t passionate about the problem. I loved the CLI though, so I pivoted, and started selling it to friends. They loved it too. It grew and became machine0. It’s dead simple: `machine0 new devbox` creates a powerful, persistent VM (dedicated RAM/CPU/GPU, static IPs, HTTPS, 99.99% uptime...) running NixOS or Ubuntu, pre-loaded with modern tools/agents. Snapshot, suspend, or destroy in one command. Billed by the minute. Customers are running OpenClaw/Hermes, coding agents in `--yolo` mode, compiling massive Rust codebases, and hosting real apps. Surprisingly, the buyers are humans, but the users are almost exclusively agents. If you want a safe place to run agents, give them serious compute, or have been meaning to try NixOS: check it out at machine0.io DM me & I’ll personally onboard you and help you get the most out of the product!
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> WWDC2026 > *Look inside* > WWDC2024
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MacOS 27 Brings AppAttest to MacOS Which means we finally have a way to do hardware backed attestation on MacOS outside of MDM context. Neat.
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Replying to @KirkDerpca
Oh boy. they dropped an 0day in this too.
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I'm going to @ILA_Berlin on Friday. Who else?
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Here's what triggered to write the Trimodal nature of software engineering compensation: At a time when the median salary for senior devs in the Netherlands was ~€65K, I made €240-280K per year, about 5x that amount. Most people did not know this tier existed back then:
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Replying to @nixos_org
@nixos_org community bat signal πŸ¦‡ ❄️ @AWSOpen has sponsored the Nix S3 Cache for 3 years, and we’re working on what comes next. DM/comment if your company runs Nix/NixOS on AWS, or if Nix is used inside Amazon/AWS. Every example helps show the real Nix footprint. ❀️
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Niet om het een of het ander. Maar Nederland heeft de mooiste treinen van heel Europa. πŸ‡³πŸ‡±πŸ‡³πŸ‡±πŸ‡³πŸ‡±πŸ‡³πŸ‡±
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