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Simon Josefsson on Reproducible Guix Container Images and Iustin Pop Survives Incident
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Simon Josefsson ☛ Reproducible Guix Container Images
The first step was to re-engineer Debian container images with Guix, and I realized these were useful on their own, and warrant a separate project. A more narrowly scoped project makes will hopefully make it easier to keep them working. Now instead of apt-get install guix they use the official Guix guix-install.sh approach. Read more about that effort in the announcement of Debian with Guix.
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Iustin Pop: Yes, still alive!
Yeah, again three months have passed since my last (trivial) post, and I really don’t know where the time has flown.
I suppose the biggest problem was the long summer vacation, which threw me off-track, and then craziness started. Work work work, no time for anything, which kept me fully busy in August, and then “you should travel”.
So mid-September I went on my first business trip since Covid, again to Kirkland, which in itself was awesome. Flew out Sunday, and as I was concerned I was going to lose too much fitness—had a half-marathon planned on the weekend after the return—I ran every morning of the four days I was there. And of course, on the last day, I woke up even earlier (05:30 AM), went out to run before sunrise, intending to do a very simple “run along the road that borders the lake for 2.5K, then back”. And right at the farthest point, a hundred metres before my goal of turning around, I tripped, started falling, and as I was falling, I hit—sideways—a metal pole. I was in a bus station, it was the pole that has the schedule at the top, and I hit it at relatively full speed, right across my left-side ribs. The crash took the entire air out of my lungs, and I don’t remember if I ever felt pain/sensation like that—I was seriously not able to breathe for 20 seconds or so, and I was wondering if I’m going to pass out at this rate.