Domen Kožar

X and GitHub should let my agent talk to your agent. Today, I discussed the IPC work in the upcoming SecretSpec 0.20 on X. Marc-André Moreau replied with feedback from ChatGPT: Just some quick ChatGPT feedback, comparing the SecretSpec IPC protocol with t

Your next group birthday gifts should be home batteries. Most birthday gifts are forgotten within a year. Batteries save your friends money every day and keep essential devices running when the power goes out. A 5 kWh battery costs about €1,600. That is e

Pessimism has a strange advantage over optimism: it can be wrong and still look intelligent. If I predict disaster and it happens, I was right. If it does not, I can say that vigilance prevented it. The optimist has no such protection. To be optimistic is

Rust's C FFI gives us access to decades of useful software, but the bargain is backwards. We use Rust to prove memory safety at compile time. Then we cross an unsafe boundary and trust the C library to respect a contract that neither language can enforce.

Consent without choice When a website asks me to accept cookies, I usually click the button before I have finished reading it. I suspect most people do. When researchers asked participants to join a fictitious social network, most never opened the terms o

Nixpkgs has a due-process problem. A project has a due-process problem when people have real power but the rules around it are vague. Nixpkgs committers can merge and close pull requests. Reviewers can block them. Teams can remove commit access and decide

4.5 years ago I bought Dell XPS 15. It was a powerhorse without a match for that size/price. I must admit that I wasn't happy about it: Webcam is positioned below the screen, recording my typing fingers instead of my face. Battery getting swollen (and bei

Domen Kožar's thoughts

In the last 6 years working with Nix and mostly in last two years full-time , I've noticed a few patterns. These are mostly direct or indirect result of not having a "good enough" infrastructure to support how much Nix has grown (1600+ contributors, 1500

Every now and then (actually quite often), people complain on twitter they're afraid of our simple bash installer for Nix package manager : $ bash (curl https://nixos.org/nix/install) Example (from today): There are popular blog posts discouraging use of