Nix-dev mailing list moved
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Hated by the Right. Mocked by the Left. Who Wants to Be ‘Liberal’ Anymore? - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/magazine/hated-by-the-right-mocked-by-the-left-who-wants-to-be-liberal-anymore.html

HEXEN 2.0 http://www.suzannetreister.net/HEXEN2/TAROT_COL/HEXEN_2_TAROT.html

Binary file (standard input) matches http://www.suzannetreister.net/HEXEN2/HEXEN_2.html

How Mitch McConnell wins. https://slate.com/business/2017/06/how-mitch-mcconnell-wins.html

Quantifying the influence of 4chan‘s alt-right trolls on normies’ discourse / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2017/06/23/weird-raids.html

Epidemical graphs from exposure details ⌘ http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/epigraph-sh.html

Culture - “Discovery Engine” Review http://tra38.github.io/blog/the-discovery-engine.html

NixCon 2017
We’re happy to announce that NixCon 2017, the
second Nix Conference, will take place October 28–31 2017 in Munich
For more information, see the
NixCon 2017 website.
And please consider
submitting a talk! ⌘ Read more

More science fiction can help us create a better tomorrow. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/06/more_science_fiction_can_help_us_create_a_better_tomorrow.html

Assembled Poems http://www.cmyr.net/work/assembled-poems.html

Masterprints: synthetic fingerprints that unlock up to 65% of phones (in theory) / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2017/04/14/something-you-have-2.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/opinion/sunday/stop-pretending-youre-not-rich.html?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/opinion/sunday/stop-pretending-youre-not-rich.html?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email

Saait: a boring HTML page generator: https://www.codemadness.org/saait.html

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2016/01/14/meet-the-man-classifying-every-genre-of-music-on-spotify-all-1387-of-them.html?curator=MusicREDEF https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2016/01/14/meet-the-man-classifying-every-genre-of-music-on-spotify-all-1387-of-them.html?curator=MusicREDEF

Work in progress: Portraits of Imaginary people http://mtyka.github.io/machine/learning/2017/06/06/highres-gan-faces.html

You and Your Research http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

The World of Tomorrow - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/05/the-world-of-tomorrow.html

Errata Security: How The Intercept Outed Reality Winner http://blog.erratasec.com/2017/06/how-intercept-outed-reality-winner.html?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign&utm_term=%2ASituation%20Report#.WTalP0opChA

THINK TANK; The Penis as Text for Serious Thinkers: Be Careful What You Wish For - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/22/books/think-tank-the-penis-as-text-for-serious-thinkers-be-careful-what-you-wish-for.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/magazine/the-mystery-of-the-wasting-house-cats.html?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/magazine/the-mystery-of-the-wasting-house-cats.html?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email

Stagit: a static git page generator: https://www.codemadness.org/stagit.html

@trqx@0x1A4.1337.cx write a fun numpop clone https://tx.god.jp/code/cnumpop/files.html. I got 590 points with the seed 1493407649, can anyone beat that? :)

#txtnish supports exporting your timeline to html with –theme html since last night. See https://domgoergen.com/twtxt/timeline.html for an example.

HOW TO STUDY ⌘ http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/howtostudy.html

A linguist on Arrival’s alien language ⌘ http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/11/22/a_linguist_on_arrival_s_alien_language.html

NixOS 17.03 released
NixOS 17.03 “Gorilla” has been released, the seventh stable release
branch. See the release\
 notes
for details. You can get NixOS 17.03 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 17.03, check out the manual\
 section on\
 upgrading. ⌘ Read more

@kas@enotty.dk If i’m reading http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.5 correctly, the character ‘:’ is explicitly allowed

@quite@lublin.se There is even a section rfc7234 about heuristic expiration times: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7234#section-4.2

@tx@0x1A4.1337.cx Is you page publicly accessable? Maybe i should add exporting to html to #txtnish, seems like a thing many users wan to to?

@dave@davebucklin.com Nice! http://davebucklin.com/play/2017/03/05/setting-up-twtxt.html

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2017/03/github-tos-change.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/business/andy-weirs-best-seller-the-martian-gets-a-classroom-friendly-makeover.html

The silence of the hacks
There is a reason why I subscribed to the digital edition of The New York Times. Its journalists are superb; it is a paper I trust, and have found to be veridical after cross referencing the news they post with other major, equally trusted, news sources.

From yesterday’s edition (some emphasis mine):

The story so far: A foreign dictator _in … ⌘ Read more

Rant of the Day: https://scsh.net/docu/html/man.html

Learn to read and type Chinese ⌘ Read more…

Unpresidential
Not presidential at all.

“President-elect Donald J. Trump’s aides often cite his appearances at professional wrestling matches as an inspiration for his outsize political speaking style, and his buoyantly belligerent news conference in New York on Wednesday proved he has no plans to betray his brawler’s roots in the service of seeming more presidential.”

— New York Times ⌘ Read more

NixOS 16.09 released
NixOS 16.09 “Flounder” has been released, the sixth stable release
branch. See the release\
 notes
for details. You can get NixOS 16.09 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 16.09, check out the manual\
 section on\
 upgrading. ⌘ Read more

NEW: Cutting edge theory from the forefront of memetics! A manual and a magifesto! I give you - ｍｅｍｅ　ｍａｇｉｃ： http://www.synkretie.net/writings/meme%20magic.html

okay okay time for another world building entry:↵http://www.synkretie.net/writings/world%20building%20-%20cannibala.html↵(you get three ways of human inheritance! exciting!)

Sounds like it’s time for another entry of World Building!↵http://www.synkretie.net/writings/world%20building%20-%20abyss.html↵Previous installment: http://www.synkretie.net/writings/world%20building%20-%20flat%20earth.html

NixOps 1.4 released
NixOps\
 1.4 has been released. This release contains contains many
nice new features. See the manual
for details. ⌘ Read more

#txtnix now accepts user templates. There’s an example on github for html output wich can be used by calling txtnix timline –template html

@kas@enotty.dk Nope, creepy here too. Dont know what asmr is? http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2013/02/asmr_videos_autonomous_sensory_meridian_response_and_whispering_videos_on.html

If somebody is still afraid of using autotools … https://autotools.io/whosafraid.html

NixOS 16.03 released
NixOS 16.03 “Emu” has been released, the fifth stable release
branch. See the release\
 notes
for details. You can get NixOS 16.03 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 16.03, check out the manual\
 section on\
 upgrading. ⌘ Read more

Recipe for tonight: http://sidinthekitchen.blogspot.de/2014/04/smoky-incan-stew-quinoa-black-bean.html

Anybody has http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7033 running for twtxt? And what to use for rel? https://twtxt.org/twtfile?

Stop caring about how -e works: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2016/02/29/msg009700.html

Nix 1.11 released
Nix 1.11
has been released. See the release\
 notes for a list of changes and new features. ⌘ Read more