Sebastian Kowalak skowalak

Understanding Nix Inputs

Every Nix derivation produces a Nix store output that has 3 things:

Executables
Libraries
Data

Executables are always exported using the PATH environment variable. This is pretty much automatic.

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus, or, “Looking for the Mouse”

Clay Shirky / April 26, 2008

transcription of a speech [Clay Shirky] gave at the Web 2.0 in 2008, emphasis by @jm3

I was recently reminded of some reading I did in college, way back in the last century, by a British historian arguing that the critical technology, for the early phase of the industrial revolution, was gin.

The transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so wrenching, that the only thing society could do to manage was to drink itself into a stupor for a generation. The stories from that era are amazing-- there were gin pushcarts working their way through the streets of London.

And it wasn't until society woke up from that collective bender that we actually started to get the institutional structures that we associate with the industrial revolution today. Things like public libraries and museums, increasingly broad education for children, elected leaders--a lot of th

	#!/bin/bash

	# export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable because cron hates me
	PID=$(pgrep -u USER gnome-session-b)
	export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=$(grep -z DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS /proc/$PID/environ\|cut -d= -f2-)

	/usr/bin/gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.user-theme name 'Flat-Plat'
	/usr/bin/gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme 'Flat-Plat'
	/usr/bin/gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri 'file://WALLPAPER-PATH'
	/usr/bin/gsettings --schemadir ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected] set org.zzrough.gs-extensions.drop-down-terminal background-color 'rgb(69,90,100)'