Re: (Re-) Designing extractong-downaloder

2022-02-24 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 23.02.22 um 11:52 schrieb pukkamustard: Why use the source from hex.pm at all? While issue 51061 is about the hex.pm importer and the rebar build system, this thread in only about the extracting downloader :-) The hex.pm metadata.config file does not seem to exactly specify the upstream

Re: (Re-) Designing extractong-downaloder

2022-02-24 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 23.02.22 um 13:35 schrieb Maxime Devos: Nevermind, this benefit is probably undone by the extra unpacking. Probably. Anyway, this is worth thinking of, as it would make the additional unpacking part of the source. And thus unpacking would be decoupled from the build-system. (Which was par

Re: Excessively energy-consuming software considered malware?

2022-02-24 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 20.02.22 um 17:52 schrieb Maxime Devos: While it's the user's choice whether they_want_ to mine or not (Guix is not a thought police!), it seems inadvisable to_help_ people with mining and perhaps useful to_stop_ people from mining. +1 Since we are technicians, we have to take your share

Re: Excessively energy-consuming software considered malware?

2022-02-24 Thread Hartmut Goebel
CW: politics below Am 20.02.22 um 21:39 schrieb Martin Becze: But undermining the governments ability to raise tax and therefor to wage war or not expending energy to prevent government theft is the ‘controversial morality’ that I am sure can be agreed to death and which probably doesn't belon

Re: Excessively energy-consuming software considered malware?

2022-02-24 Thread Attila Lendvai
i'm not sure everybody is aware in this discussion: mining Bitcoin is only profitable using special hardware, and nowadays it needs to be deployed next to powerplants and oil wells to use their waste energy/gas, or next to renewable sources like geothermal. the standard bitcoin tools are not re

Re: Excessively energy-consuming software considered malware?

2022-02-24 Thread Martin Becze
My point to here is not to argue a "libertarian" viewpoint (I'm not one), but to argue that there or other consideration to mining crypto and that it is outside the realm of the free software movement from which Guix's package inclusion policy is derived. You or I might not like or agree with t

Accusation of breach of CoC (Was: [minor patch] Amend CoC)

2022-02-24 Thread Taylan Kammer
On 23.02.2022 12:38, Blake Shaw wrote: > Oliver Propst writes: > > [...] I would add that at this point, now that two women who > are active in this community have come forward with reasonable requests > to not accept the patch and politely asked us to "get back to hacking", > yet the committer h

Re: Accusation of breach of CoC (Was: [minor patch] Amend CoC)

2022-02-24 Thread Ekaitz Zarraga
> I suspect you haven't properly read any of my mails and jumped to conclusions > based on a quick skim, or something like that. Well, I've been reading them and some people told you to stop and you still continue. People already told you were bothering them. Even if your tone was respectful (i

Re: Accusation of breach of CoC (Was: [minor patch] Amend CoC)

2022-02-24 Thread Taylan Kammer
On 24.02.2022 14:21, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote: > >> I suspect you haven't properly read any of my mails and jumped to conclusions >> based on a quick skim, or something like that. > > Well, I've been reading them and some people told you to stop and you still > continue. People already told you were

Re: announcement of minimal binary boot (mb2) with indirection table forth

2022-02-24 Thread Tobias Platen
On Wed, 2022-02-23 at 22:54 +0100, Stefan Karrmann wrote: > for octal keyboard input on x86: 32 octets (!) >   - for octal uninitialized serial input on x86: 34 octets >   - for octal initialized serial input on x86:   41 octets >   - for octal linux input on x86:    48 octe

Update CoC adapted from upstream 2.1 (instead of 1.4)

2022-02-24 Thread zimoun
Hi, The current Guix CoC is adapted from v1.4 [1] and this upstream version contains: regardless of age, body size, disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, perso

Re: Update CoC adapted from upstream 2.1 (instead of 1.4)

2022-02-24 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi, On 2022-02-25 1:05, zimoun wrote: So, since we are at it, let give a look at the most recent version v2.1 [3]. :-) I propose to adopt their extended list: regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expre

Re: Excessively energy-consuming software considered malware?

2022-02-24 Thread Christine Lemmer-Webber
I am all for these conversations; they are good to have as a society, to examine our social foundations in earnest dialogue. But I think they've approached a point on here where they're no longer about Guix development, in particular, so probably should be moved off-list. Martin Becze writes: >

About mate 1.26

2022-02-24 Thread tumashu
Hello: mate 1.26 (https://mate-desktop.org/blog/2021-08-08-mate-1-26-released/) has been released in 2021-08-08. has anybode work to update? Thanks.

Re: Update CoC adapted from upstream 2.1 (instead of 1.4)

2022-02-24 Thread Tissevert
Hi, And, how exactly can "sex characteristics" be involved in the kind of interactions we're having in this community ? In particular, as this has already been explained patiently enough, how are "sex characteristics" any different from "gender identity" from its perspective ? If someone here is a

setting open files limit for daemon processes

2022-02-24 Thread Attila Lendvai
dear Guix'ers, "The per-process limit is inherited by each process from its parent", and Shepherd is the init process. when it spawns a daemon, it inherits its open files limit. i have successfully set the limit for the daemon user using: (pam-limits-service (list (pam-limits-entry "*" '