hallettj

Huh, I hadn't heard about any of this. I guess that's because I use Google Voice, and none of the features going into the Messages app have made it over to the Voice app.

It's about a Fintech startup, not the game. But still interesting!

Very interesting! I didn't know about the antecedents of Arch, Gentoo, and SUSE. Well I've heard of Slackware, but I didn't know it was related to SUSE.

Now I'm curious what NixOS and Void branched from.

It looks like it's made by the same team that made Journey

No, but I've now heard it recommended enough times that I think I'll check it out. It looks like it's a free download for the Switch. Are there micro transactions, or subscriptions, or some such thing?

I also use Obsidian, and I use Todoist. I use lots of daily notes when I want to jot things down. Facts and ideas go into basically a Zettelkasten system. I also keep a GTD-style directory structure for reference material - stuff like tax forms, info for kids' schools, etc. I make a lot of use of the Folder Note plugin for that.

For todos I use a GTD system with action priorities. So I have lots of projects which mostly have one or two actions each. I mix some ideas from GTD, and from one of my wife's favorite books, How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life by Alan Lakein. I have a view that collects all actions in one place, but only shows actions that are prioritized, and aren't due yet, and aren't labeled as blocked.

For a while I used Obsidian for todos using the Dataview plugin to collect, sort, and filter todos. I used the Quickadd plugin to capture todos. What I liked about that system was it made reviews easy: I had a document with headings for each project with next actions for each. The reason I switched is that I wasn't looking at my next actions list often enough, and I didn't have a way to show notifications when something should be done at a specific time. Even when I thought about checking my todos, and I had a home screen shortcut to my next actions document, opening Obsidian on Android is slow enough to add friction. Todoist helps with a home screen widget, notifications, and by opening faster.

I'm finding this mess interesting: the MAGAs vote and debate like a third party, which kinda gives us a House with no majority party which is something we usually don't get to see in America. And we're getting the deadlocks that come from a chamber that isn't willing to form a coalition - or at least not a reliable one.

I just hope the next speaker candidate doesn't try for the same Republican-MAGA coalition. Although I'm prepared to be disappointed. Do you think there's any chance a Republican would offer to sideline the MAGAs to get support from Democrats?

Under this analysis the Democrats have a plurality. How does that tend to work out in governments with more than two parties?

If you've got a whole bag it means you haven't let any out

But Flatpak has its fancy "portals" to connect each app with the specific resource it needs which you don't get with Docker.

Also if the goal is to limit access of apps you don't want to fully trust, I think Docker doesn't have the appropriate security properties. Here's a quote from the readme for Bubblewrap (the sandboxing tool that Flatpak and Nixpak use),

Many container runtime tools like systemd-nspawn, docker, etc. focus on providing infrastructure for system administrators and orchestration tools (e.g. Kubernetes) to run containers.

These tools are not suitable to give to unprivileged users, because it is trivial to turn such access into a fully privileged root shell on the host.

I've seen NixPak which I think would be just what you want, except that it's for Nix instead of Gentoo. But Nix has the same features that you say you like in Gentoo.

Thanks for the tip about nu_scripts, those look handy!

The expand command is nice. I don't see how to use it to my mv command work. But that's not a huge deal.

So maybe this is too much of a kludge, but I happened to see that you can define custom sub-commands to extend existing commands. You can use that to reproduce your familiar command:

def "ls -lrt" [] {
  ls | sort-by modified | reverse
}

Of course this does not capture the usual composability of those switches.