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  • I’ve been working on switching careers for the last six or so months. Made a lot more progress after the protests and have a final interview on Thursday. Please send prayers and/or good vibes my way. Switching from Marketing to Cybersecurity. One less talented marketing person makes the world a little less cluttered with people buying shit they don’t need.

    Besides that specifically since the protests started I’ve been researching and thinking about learning to play piano. It’s amazing how much time I wasted scrolling endlessly on Reddit.



  • what@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldGood friend
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    1 year ago

    Nix hype has been high the last several months for some reason despite it being around for awhile. I think DevOps guys are just now discovering it or something.

    Disclosure: I haven’t used it. I’ve just watched a few videos and have been following the hype. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.

    My understanding is that it is similar to the idempotency that Terraform brings but on a OS, packages and code level.

    Basically you define (in a file) everything you want on the OS from packages to settings to custom repos and it installs everything so even if something goes sideways and say your server gets hacked, you just start over not from scratch or hopefully a clean fallback image but with everything you need installed out of the gate on a fresh install.

    Can also be super useful for ensuring your whole team is using the same setup. No more reading a manual for this one obscure firewall that some random guy setup. Your firewall (or whatever else) was installed and configured out of the box, plus it is the same org wide.