ALYSSA ALYSSA ANTIFASCISTA @qyliss@mastodon.social

Hello! People sometimes ask me what they can do to help Spectrum, or otherwise support my free software work.

Well, one thing you can do is give me money! I have accounts on Liberapay (https://liberapay.com/qyliss/) and GitHub Sponsors (https://github.com/sponsors/alyssais/). Until Oct 2020, GitHub will match donations through them, so please use that if you can.

Income from free software is how I pay my bills, and small donations help give me stability and security while I work towards big goals.

Thank you. <3

Saluton! Homoj foje demandas min kiel ili povas helpi Spectrum, aŭ alie subteni mian laboron pri liberaj programoj.

Unu maniero estas aldoni min mono! Mi havas Liberapay (https://liberapay.com/qyliss/) kaj GitHub Sponsors (https://github.com/sponsors/alyssais) kontajn. Ĝis Okt 2020 GH duobiligos donacojn tra ili, do bonvulu uzi tiun se vi povas.

Enspezo de liberaj programoj estas kiel mi pagas miajn kalkulojn, kaj malgrandaj donacoj helpas aldoni min stabileco kaj sekureco laborante al grandaj celoj.

Dankon. <3

Next time most #NixOS installations are updated (if using unstable — will also be in 22.05 when released), they will see a 500MB+ reduction in system closure size!

This comes from compressing the firmware files, which I implemented here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/172820

"ladies and gentlemen the dutch crew just took command of this train" makes it sound like it was a lot more violent than they probably intended it to

San Marino was robbed :( #eurovision

This post doesn't seem to be getting shared nearly as much as the #nvidia announcement, which is a shame because it explains all the big picture stuff everybody is wondering about.

https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2022/05/11/why-is-the-open-source-driver-release-from-nvidia-so-important-for-linux/

think i want a mullet

I read some comments on Lennart's article and I was surprised to see people who say they usually like his work disappointed he'd be pushing for image-based OSes.

One comment explicitly associated images with Docker, and I suspect that's how other people think about them too.

But it's entirely possible to do image-based distributions well (i.e., not like Docker). BSDs have been image-based forever, and it's something users commonly say they really love about them.

This visibility into customisations, and the maintainability boost it brings, is a big part of the appeal of NixOS — it's what made using Linux tolerable for me.

BSD gets this mostly right too — you can just diff against the base system image. But I don't think there's a good solution there for e.g. config file changes for software from ports.

Immutable /usr seems like a way to finally get this on "mainstream" Linux. And because there is no base system, it works for packages.