Re: [minor patch] Amend CoC

2022-02-21 Thread Tissevert
Hi, Can't help but chiming in because this conversation is great and I'm really glad we're having it as a community. Taylan, please don't be embarrassed you started it, the number of replies is witness to the interest it sparked. It didn't blow up, it bloomed : ) I find it all the more interestin

Fixing python-notmuch2

2022-02-21 Thread Tanguy LE CARROUR
Hi Guix! python-notmuch2 is broken [1] since the upgrade of notmuch to version 0.35 (fb3508bb36). Looks like a Python file is supposed to be generated by the configure phase [2], but python-notmuch2 uses the python-build-system which, I guess, does not run configure. [1]: https://ci.guix.gnu.org/

Re: Excessively energy-consuming software considered malware?

2022-02-21 Thread Attila Lendvai
> (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/54068). At least for bitcoin, mining is > known to consume an absurd amount of energy (the footprint of a whole > country, and 1 Bitcoin transaction is said to be equivalent to 735121 the moral argument has been spelled out nicely already. let me add, though, that a

Re: Dropping gzip-compressed substitutes

2022-02-21 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Maxim Cournoyer writes: > This week, I'd like to try the following to see if we could get past > this: > > 1. Do the experiment again, now a 'rootdelay=20' kernel parameter was > added to Berlin's config. This may well be enough. > > 2. In case mounting the RAID 10 Btrfs root partition still f

Re: Excessively energy-consuming software considered malware?

2022-02-21 Thread Maxime Devos
Attila Lendvai schreef op ma 21-02-2022 om 09:29 [+]: > let me add, though, that a more apples-to-apples comparison here would be to > compare Bitcoin to the FED, and PoW to the costs of enforcing the PetroDollar > system on the entire world. Here PetroDollar = US dollar and FED=US Federal Gov

Re: [minor patch] Amend CoC

2022-02-21 Thread Christine Lemmer-Webber
Taylan Kammer writes: > On 20.02.2022 19:05, Liliana Marie Prikler wrote: >>> Note: The upstream Contributor Covenant wouldn't want to include it >>> because the author seems to have a peculiar world-view where they >>> don't acknowledge that humans actually have a sex. I hope the Guix >>> maint

Re: [minor patch] Amend CoC

2022-02-21 Thread Christine Lemmer-Webber
Taylan Kammer writes: > On 20.02.2022 22:37, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote: >> >> Taylan Kammer writes: >> >>> Just one remark for them: most women I know would think twice before >>> spending time trying to get into a community whose rules intentionally >>> don't acknowledge sex-based discrimin

Re: Excessively energy-consuming software considered malware?

2022-02-21 Thread raingloom
On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 14:06:07 +0100 Maxime Devos wrote: > Attila Lendvai schreef op ma 21-02-2022 om 09:29 [+]: > > let me add, though, that a more apples-to-apples comparison here > > would be to compare Bitcoin to the FED, and PoW to the costs of > > enforcing the PetroDollar system on the e

Re: Documentation of what is appropriate for #guix?

2022-02-21 Thread raingloom
On Sun, 20 Feb 2022 11:41:23 +0900 Yasuaki Kudo wrote: > Or even better, create an alternative community of practitioners who > don't give a damn (for their purposes)...   Let me know if other > people also want to create a corruption-admitted-community as well > 😁.  We can work together.  -Yasu

Re: Dropping gzip-compressed substitutes

2022-02-21 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello, Ricardo Wurmus ezt írta (időpont: 2022. febr. 21., H 12:34): > > Maxim Cournoyer writes: > > > This week, I'd like to try the following to see if we could get past > > this: > > > > 1. Do the experiment again, now a 'rootdelay=20' kernel parameter was > > added to Berlin's config. This

Re: How to run a command before shutdown.

2022-02-21 Thread jbranso
February 20, 2022 5:53 AM, "tumashu" wrote: > Hello: > > I want to run "rmmod mt7921e" before shutdown, how to setup in guix system? > > Thanks! I recommend you ask this question in "help-g...@gnu.org". You'll probably find more help there! Thanks! Joshua

Re: [minor patch] Amend CoC

2022-02-21 Thread Liliana Marie Prikler
Hi, Am Sonntag, dem 20.02.2022 um 23:45 +0100 schrieb Taylan Kammer: > On 20.02.2022 22:02, Liliana Marie Prikler wrote: > > > > "Sex is distinct from gender" is a common transphobic talking point. > > > > Like I said I don't actually want to argue, but I really feel the need > to point out th

Re: [minor patch] Amend CoC

2022-02-21 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
On 2022-02-21 22:03, Liliana Marie Prikler wrote: let's look at some other ways of defining sex, shall we? Let's not! This is guix-devel, not trans-discuss. Any relevance to Guix or its CoC is long lost. (Regarding that: flawed as it indubitably is, I don't think the current CoC should be

Re: Documentation of what is appropriate for #guix?

2022-02-21 Thread Paul Jewell
> On 21 Feb 2022, at 19:10, raingloom > By the way, I think it's kind of silly that that is completely banned > from discussion. When I wanted help on getting my GPU to work, I > mentioned for reference purposes that I tried the proprietary driver > from The Forbidden Channel - and was subseq

Re: Excessively energy-consuming software considered malware?

2022-02-21 Thread Attila Lendvai
> Here PetroDollar = US dollar and FED=US Federal Government? FED = Federal Reserve, the (private) central bank that issues the US Dollar for about a century now. interesting tidbit: originally 'a US Dollar' meant a specific amount of silver. and the 'petrodollar' is a unique keyword that you

[bug]: xfce4: xfpm-power-backlight-helper alway let me input password.

2022-02-21 Thread tumashu
Hello: When I update my guix system today, I have found that run xfce4: xfpm-power-backlight-helper alway let me input password, how to avoid input password? Thanks

Re: better error messages through assertions

2022-02-21 Thread Arun Isaac
Hi Ricardo, I too would like to see much better error checking for our services, though I don't know what the best way to achieve that is. Type checking alone may not be sufficient. All types in a configuration record could be valid, but some combination of field values in the record may not be

Re:Re: [bug]: xfce4: xfpm-power-backlight-helper alway let me input password.

2022-02-21 Thread tumashu
At 2022-02-22 15:04:22, "宋文武" wrote: >tumashu writes: > >> Hello: >> >> When I update my guix system today, I have found that run xfce4: >> xfpm-power-backlight-helper alway let me input password, how to avoid input >> password? > >No answer yet, my understand is that: > >1. xf

Re:Re:Re: [bug]: xfce4: xfpm-power-backlight-helper alway let me input password.

2022-02-21 Thread tumashu
>At 2022-02-22 15:04:22, "宋文武" wrote: > >>tumashu writes: >> >>> Hello: >>> >>> When I update my guix system today, I have found that run xfce4: >>> xfpm-power-backlight-helper alway let me input password, how to avoid >>> input password? >> >>No answer yet, my understand is that: >> >>1. x

Re: [bug]: xfce4: xfpm-power-backlight-helper alway let me input password.

2022-02-21 Thread 宋文武
tumashu writes: > Hello: > > When I update my guix system today, I have found that run xfce4: > xfpm-power-backlight-helper alway let me input password, how to avoid input > password? No answer yet, my understand is that: 1. xfpm-power-backlight-helper need to run with 'pkexec'. 2. 'pkexec