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Friendly

A beginner-friendly REPL that combines

Usage

Multi user nix installation

Each section should be run as the user or as root, pay attention to which one!

Install nix single user

As $USER

curl https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

Give me back my sanity

One of the many things I do for my group at work is to take care of automating as many things as possible. It usually brings me a lot of satisfaction, mostly because I get a kick out of making people's lives easier.

But sometimes, maybe too often, I end up in drawn-out struggles with machines and programs. And sometimes, these struggles bring me to the edge of despair, so much so that I regularly consider living on a computer-less island growing vegetables for a living.

This is the story of how I had to install Pandoc in a CentOS 6 Docker container. But more generally, this is the story of how I think computing is inherently broken, how programmers (myself included) tend to think that their way is the way, how we're ultimately replicating what most of us think is wrong with society, building upon layers and layers of (best-case scenario) obscure and/or weak foundations.

*I would like to extend my gratitude to Google, StackOverflow, GitHub issues but mostly, the people who make the

	There appears to be a string encoded in the binary payload:
	https://gist.github.com/q3k/af3d93b6a1f399de28fe194add452d01#file-hashes-txt-L115

	Which functions as a killswitch:

	https://piaille.fr/@zeno/112185928685603910

	Thus, one workaround for affected systems might be to add this to `/etc/environment`:

	```

	0810 b' from '
	0678 b' ssh2'
	00d8 b'%.48s:%.48s():%d (pid=%ld)\x00'
	0708 b'%s'
	0108 b'/usr/sbin/sshd\x00'
	0870 b'Accepted password for '
	01a0 b'Accepted publickey for '
	0c40 b'BN_bin2bn\x00'
	06d0 b'BN_bn2bin\x00'
	0958 b'BN_dup\x00'

	```shell
	# install graalVM 11
	$ brew install --cask graalvm/tap/graalvm-ce-java11

	# show installed versions
	$ /usr/libexec/java_home -v 11 -V
	Matching Java Virtual Machines (2):
	11.0.9.1 (x86_64) "AdoptOpenJDK" - "AdoptOpenJDK 11" /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-11.jdk/Contents/Home
	11.0.9 (x86_64) "GraalVM Community" - "GraalVM CE 20.3.0" /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/graalvm-ce-java11-20.3.0/Contents/Home
	/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-11.jdk/Contents/Home

	#!/bin/bash

	JAVA_HOME=${1-text}
	[ $# -eq 0 ] && { echo "Usage: sudo $0 \$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v '1.8*')" ; exit 1; }

	KEYSTORE=$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/cacerts

	wget https://letsencrypt.org/certs/isrgrootx1.pem
	wget https://letsencrypt.org/certs/lets-encrypt-x3-cross-signed.der
	wget https://letsencrypt.org/certs/lets-encrypt-x4-cross-signed.der

	(ns x.y
	(:use [plumbing.core]) ;; Just for the map-vals
	(:require [clojure.walk :refer [postwalk prewalk prewalk-demo postwalk-demo]]
	[clojure.core.match :refer [match]]
	[schema.utils :refer [named-error-explain validation-error-explain]]
	[schema.core :as s])
	(:import (schema.utils NamedError ValidationError)))

	;; Partially FROM:
	;; https://github.com/puppetlabs/clj-schema-tools

	(ns deep-merge-spec
	(:require [midje.sweet :refer :all]
	[util :as u]))

	(fact (u/deep-merge {:one 1 :two 2}
	{:one 1 :two {}})
	=> {:one 1 :two {}})

	(fact (u/deep-merge {:one 1 :two {:three 3 :four {:five 5}}}
	{:two {:three {:test true}}})