You’re badly misinformed.

Nix is a language, a package manager (the biggest in the world), a dev environment scaffolding, a systemd orchestration tool, a full Linux distribution, and pretty much anything that you can describe infrastructure-as-code as. You can literally do almost anything with Nix. You can even build entire OCI/Docker images with just one Nix file.

Use Nix. It is MUCH more deterministic and capable than silly Docker. It can even be used to deterministically create docker images if you really need them.

I wish this were true. But then we have winner take all elections in the US so any third party is virtually impossible. It’s private party A run by billionaires or private party B run by billionaires. The sooner we all know this for a fact (and it is a fact), we can start figuring out a way out. But talking in circles about an impossible scenario is counterproductive.

Since you’re such a big fan of Monero, it seems inconsistent with your ethos that you’d choose Piefed (which if it isn’t built directly by Feds) is basically a codified love letter to them.

Since you’re such a big fan of Monero, it seems inconsistent with your ethos that you’d choose Piefed (which if it isn’t built directly by Feds) is basically a codified love letter to them.

At least I’m not clumsily implying that for some odd reason, we suddenly need to go act as world police as a response to what amounts to our own outrage-farming bullshit. Hilarious that you (or whoever you’re an unwitting or paid dupe for) think anyone would fall for this at all.

Now that’s A+ gaslighting. It ABSOLUTELY says what I say it says.

We shoot a hole in a bucket then decades later engage in handwringing with gullible libs that would believe ANYTHING about why we need to intervene to shore up the leaks we caused in the first place.

Did your conversation also cover the fact that the CIA/MI5/the Mossad intentionally put those Islamic radicals in power?

On Aug. 19, 2013, the CIA publicly admitted for the first time its involvement in the 1953 coup against Iran’s elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh.

The documents provided details of the CIA’s plan at the time, which was led by senior officer Kermit Roosevelt Jr., the grandson of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. Over the course of four days in August 1953, Roosevelt would orchestrate not one, but two attempts to destabilize the government of Iran, forever changing the relationship between the country and the U.S.

Mohammad Mossadegh was a beloved figure in Iran. During his tenure, he introduced a range of social and economic policies, the most significant being the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry. Great Britain had controlled Iran’s oil for decades through the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. After months of talks the prime minister broke off negotiations and denied the British any further involvement in Iran’s oil industry. Britain then appealed to the United States for help, which eventually led the CIA to orchestrate the overthrow of Mossadegh and restore power to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran.

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690363402/how-the-cia-overthrew-irans-democracy-in-four-days

Very real protests, everyone. Protesters can be seen with signs in perfect English that read, “please save us, oh righteous Israeli Mossad.”