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*Full disclosure* - I'm not here to bash Google and call them evil. I'm simply a person who cares about his privacy and his families privacy and there's less and less privacy nowadays. So if you're in this thread to Google bash please go...

So I swapped NVME drives in my laptop and installed Nix. Holy shit...just amazing. I love Arch but man Nix is cool. Learning curve is up there a little bit but now that I've got my head wrapped around how the config file works it's simply...

I've been a loyal Arch user for years, however recently I've been reading up on NixOS into to better understand it and it's package manager. I think I will be moving to NixOS in the near future. Very cool distro.

Which is exactly why systemd was changing it.... lol

He ran the binary, saw the lag and then investigated by looking at source code and tarballs. With closed source code he most likely would have shrugged his shoulders about the lag and moved on. You have a very high opinion of code review. If...

Obligatory https://xkcd.com/2347/ I feel for this dude, shit situation. I imagine unlocking the "nation state tried to infiltrate my project and wreak untold havoc" achievement is quite a lot to take in.

There's a lot of information about this backdoor that is missing in this thread and it adds a lot to the discussion. Before i get into that though: I don’t understand how anybody sees this backdoor and thinks that open source is insecure. This...