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Nix vs Guix

These are notes to the stream: https://youtu.be/S9V-pcTrdL8

Some notes

• We are not aware of a lot of GNU software available to us.
• Seems that Guix more hacker-friendly/explorable.

General comparsion

Description

Nix

Guix

Comment

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gpg explained

Plan for today

• Brief introduction
• Managing keys
• gpg key instead of ssh and gpg-agent instead of ssh-agent
• hardware tokens

Disclaimer

• I’m not a security expert.

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Stateless Operating System

Problems of undesired statefulness

https://i.stack.imgur.com/JG9yA.png

Problems

• Reasoning hugely increase congnitive load.
• Not aware of what happens.

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Plans for 2021

What we do today?

Plans for the future.

Recap

Done (roughtly)

• Installed a system and all user configurations in few commands.