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Getting started with the Nix ecosystem

What is this article about?

When I first started to learn how to use NixOS, the Nix package manager, and how to work with the Nix language, I was overwhelmed. While it did not take me too long to (sort of) get into it, it was not the most pleasant experience. I would say that there is not really a single source of truth, like Arch Linux users have with the ArchWiki, where you can basically look up everything. Instead, the information is spread across many different sources, which can make it difficult for beginners to find out how to do what they want to do.

The "modern nix CLI", also known as "nix3 cli", is another thing that can cause confusion when you are just starting your nix journey. There are some commands that look almost exactly the same, such as nix shell compared to nix-shell or nix-build compa

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License.

FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094)

This is a living document. Everything in this document is made in good faith of being accurate, but like I just said; we don't yet know everything about what's going on.

Background

On March 29th, 2024, a backdoor was discovered in xz-utils, a suite of software that

`vs` Questions

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/804115 (rebase vs merge).
https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/merging-vs-rebasing (rebase vs merge)
https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/undoing-changes/ (reset vs checkout vs revert)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2221658 (HEAD^ vs HEAD~) (See git rev-parse)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/292357 (pull vs fetch)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39651 (stash vs branch)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8358035 (reset vs checkout vs revert)

So you want to write a sync system for a web app with offline and realtime support? Good luck. You might find the following resources useful.

Overview articles

Database in a browser, a spec (Stepan Parunashvili)

What problem are we trying to solve with a sync system?
The web of tomorrow (Nikita Prokopov)

TL;DR

Guide from https://glitchwitch.io/blog/2018-09/windows-10-on-digitalocean/
Download Windows ISO from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO

Steps

Create a build droplet with 4GB RAM
Install QEMU and run the Windows 10 installation ISO

$ apt-get update && apt-get install qemu -y
$ qemu-img create -f raw windows10.img 16G

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	*
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	*
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