#nix
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Nix and Lix patch local root privilege-escalation flaws
The Nix and Lix projects have jointly disclosed a set of vulnerabilities that allow escalation to root on systems running the Nix or Lix daemons. Fixed releases are already available.
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A Nix binary cache is just three functions — which means anything can be one
Farid Zakaria shows that to play the part of a Nix binary cache, all you need to do is answer three HTTP requests — and he proves it by turning GitHub Pages, npm, and even DNS into substituters.
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trynix.dev: any Nix package right in your browser
Farid Zakaria has launched a Linux virtual machine that runs entirely in the browser via WebAssembly — and it can load any Nix package from the past 13 years.
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trynix: Any Nix Package Running Right in Your Browser
Farid Zakaria has unveiled trynix — a service that boots a Linux machine in a browser tab and lets you run any of more than 310,000 versions of nixpkgs packages without a single install on the host.