You have one language for scripting/shoehorning the OS and configuration. That's why I think it could be quite elegant. Configuration language would be "functional DSL" on top of nu.
Dear @EUCommission, I am not sure that today, with wildfires everywhere and nuclear reactors having to reduce power generation due to heatwaves, is the right time to announce you will "unlock" €30B of which €10B will be taxpayers money to build „AI“ factories that will steal electricity and water in significant amounts, water and electricity that we, your constituents, should get priority access to.
This might get me in trouble but I’ve often thought that NixOS could be reimagined with nu :-) For my taste it would be also more elegant approach.
Conceptual configuration.nux:
export def main [] {
{
hostname: "evil"
users: [
{ name: "jarkko" groups: [wheel network] shell: bash }
]
packages: [bash git vim]
services: {
sshd: { enable: true port: 22 }
nginx: {
enable: true
sites: [
{ server_name: "example.com" root: "/var/www" }
]
}
}
networking: {
firewall: { allow: [22 80 443] }
}
}
}
I’ve used NixOS at work because I had to at one point. That’s where I know it from. I don’t have much personal interest on pursuing this further but now the world has at least the idea of “NuxOS” ;-)
Been using this three-way combo a lot lately. Great way to control a whole fleet of machines too. Every server is a tab, very easy to hop between them. Really well done.
https://bird.makeup/users/termiushq/statuses/2082616764605874207
I didn't cover it in the blog but it does an amusing thing where aside from hijacking the clipboard, it also rewrites browser forms already filled in to change wallet addreses, lol. So if you browse an autofill form it replaces that too.
One of the big crypto firm execs sits on Adform's executive, I think they may have been hit in the incident by this.
@madduci it doesn't matter what they run on, because energy is a fungible resource. As in, energy used by the datacenters will not be used by other users. Even if the datacenters run 100% on solar and wind, that's green energy that somebody else will not have access to and so will have to use coal.
"AI" is keeping coal plants alive:
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/ai-coal-nuclear
RSS reader Current has been updated with Feedly support. Nice blog post about how this came about. It’s always interesting to hear the behind-the-scenes stories like this.
Adform, a web advertising firm, have been hacked and have been serving a supply chain attack to steal crypto https://doublepulsar.com/adform-compromised-to-serve-crypto-stealer-via-supply-chain-attack-2f1ec024f33e
