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AWS & NixOS S3 Partnership Continues - Year 4!First Grenoble, France Nix meetup, Sep 11th 4pmDraft proposal for grant program and purpose-bound fundingSC minutes 2026-08-12SC minutes 2026-08-19Incoming release manager: @ScrumplexNixpkgs emacs 31.1NixCon 2026 schedule is liveSecretspec 0.20

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Nix Vegas 2026
#162
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Nix Vegas 2026Nix Vegas 2026 Invite episodeAlex Decious - Composable Systems with NixOS MicroVMs - YouTubeJared - Everything is Nix when you squint hard enough - YouTubeFarid Zakaria - How to piss off your Nix friends - YouTubeCalyx Institute

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Nix Freaks 45
#161
Last Wednesday at 5:17 AM

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Latest Bump episode with links to SC minutesOmacom Foundation launches with $8 million — Omarchy NewsDHH quote on Nix

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#160
08/24/2026

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Kubernetes meets Nix workshop Helsinki Sep 2nd 5pmBay Area Nix Meetup September 4th 6PM26.11 Call for Release Manager and EditorSC minutes 2026-06-24SC minutes 2026-07-15: NixCon 2026 sponsors approvedfail2ban: use systemd socket activation

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NixCI with Tom Sydney Kerckhove
#159
08/21/2026

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NixCINixCI PricingNixCI ConfigurationNixCI DocumentationNorfairKing/sydtestNorfairKing/pure-impure-nixNix Async Post-build hookNixCI Your First FlakeNorfairKing/nix-ci-evalpsyclyx/fix: Fast nIX language evaluatorMutation Testing in HaskellNixOS Tests episodeNixOS Tests nspawn containers episodeNixCI Demo

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Nix Freaks 44
#158
08/18/2026

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Results for the second Nix Steering Committee election 2025NixCon 2026PlanetNix 2026Add a decision process and team charter rules by tfc ¡ Pull Requestnixpkgs-core: disband team by emilazy ¡ Pull Request #277The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded - Announcements / Nixpkgs Core TeamThe SC's role in the disbandment of the Nixpkgs core team

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#157
08/17/2026

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Nix Camp 2026New York Nix Meetup - Sept 3rd 5pmNix-flake-lock 0.1SecretSpec 0.19: Moving and importing secrets between providersNix v2.35.2NixOS Denver GroupNixNL meetup, Sep 8th, 6:30pmAsk GitHub Actions to add a NixOS runnerDynamic Derivation Working Group - Meeting Notes #1nixos/userborn: import legacy /var/lib/nixos state on first runnixos/forgejo-runner: init

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Nix Freaks 43
#156
08/12/2026

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finixsystemd-logind.serviceConsoleKit2r0chd.pl/sessiondsessiond-uaccess: init at 0.1.0systemd/zram-generator (rust)Nix CampCooklang – Recipe Markup LanguageDeterminate Systems episodePodcast metricsThe Molybdenum Software ShowGrowing Gourmet and Medicinal MushroomsGut SupportFecal Transplant to Treat C. Diff - SOUTH PARK - YouTube

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#155
08/10/2026

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SecretSpec 0.18: Secret lifecycle, four new providers, and SwiftTracking: End‐to‐end NixOS boot securityhome-assistant: 2026.7.4 -> 2026.8.0nixos/nix: Support local-only storeDynamic Derivations: next stepsNix-archive 0.1Nixpkgs core team disbandedNixpkgs-multiverseNix-derivation 0.1Faster & easier x86_64 linux builder on Apple Silicon

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Nix Freaks 42
#154
08/04/2026

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BornHack 2026The Molybdenum Software Showblaggacao/frappix: Frappe on NixFull Time Nix | Determinate Systems with Graham and Eelco

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#153
08/04/2026

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devenv v2.2Flox looking for software engineer experienced with Nixpkgs and securityhome-manager launchd waitForNixStore agent optionRootless Nix DaemonFlakeAudit, CLI for evaluating CycloneDX SBOMs against custom policiesNix meetup Helsinki, Aug 10th 6pmAnonymous startup startup seeking Nix engineers, USA only

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Determinate Systems with Graham and Eelco
#152
08/03/2026

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Determinate Systems2025 Community Survey ResultsDeterminate NixApril Fools episodeFlakeHubDeterminate Secure PackagesFIPS General Information | NISTFlakeHub now has FedRAMP High AuthorizationCNSA 2.0RFC: Hybrid post-quantum (Ed25519+ML-DSA-65) narinfo signatures

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Nix Freaks 41
#151
07/31/2026

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nix.giftsProject EkalaNix Is Right. Its Cost Is Not. | nrdxp

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#150
07/27/2026

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Secrets Don’t Belong in ConfigLinux System Engineer, Reifenhäuser NEXT, Cologne, Germanyxdg-desktop-portal: remove broken NIX_XDG_DESKTOP_PORTAL_DIR patchnixos/qemu-firmware: initnixos/noctalia: init moduleSecretSpec 0.17

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Nix Freaks 40
#149
07/24/2026

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applicative-systems/vzvm: Faster linux-builder for macOSNix Is Right. Its Cost Is Not. | nrdxp

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SaltSprint 2026 with Dean Eckert
#148
07/22/2026

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SaltSprintNix Usergroup Hannover Braunschweig WolfsburgMicrosoft IntuneRed Oak Consulting & Services for IT GmbH & Co. KGHimmelblaufix(nix module): allowed AF_INET and AF_INET6 to systemd sandbox by eeedeanfix(nix): added CacheDirectory and added it to ReadWritePaths by eeedeanFlying Circus[Tracking Issue] Sunset scripted initrd and scripted networking"Functional identities" - an alternative to teams with external membership...


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#147
07/21/2026

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DMV Meetup July 25, 10amNix 2.35.0nixos/nordvpn: init modulePortland, OR happy hour with Determinate Systems, July 27 5:30pmFlakeHub has FedRAMP High AuthorizationVienna UG Aug 14 6pmJob @ LumiGuide, Nieuwegein, the Netherlands

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Nix Freaks 39
#146
07/14/2026

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Taco Sprint
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NixOS Tests nspawn containers with Jeremy Fleischman
#145
07/14/2026

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Episode about NixOS Tests in generalThe pull requestSystem requirements sectionuid-range in settingsauto-allocate-uids sectionvirtualsquare/vde-2Universal TUN/TAP device driver — LinuxGPU access in the sandbox by SomeoneSergedrop /dev/net/tun requirement for vm container communication

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#144
07/13/2026

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SC minutes: 2026-06-17nixfmt v1.4.0 with disable commentsNix talks at Systems Programming Ghent Jul 29 7 PM2025 NixOS Community Survey Report2026-07-08 documentation meetingFund documentation improvementswatt: init at 1.2.0RFC: Hybrid post-quantum (Ed25519+ML-DSA-65) narinfo signatures

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Nix Freaks 38
#143
07/07/2026

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26.05 release highlights (system.nix)pkgs.nixos | Nooglenpins, NixOS configs — nix.devsingle pkgs instance · mightyiam/infra@ba77664nixos-facter issues by mightyiamNixOS facter modules DHCP

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07/07/2026

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[WIP] Deprecation warnings for maintainerless leaf packagesNew York Nix Meetup - July 21st, 5pmNH 4.4.0Nix Automation/AI policyNix 2.34.8Summer of Nix 2026 participants announced

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Nix Freaks 37
#141
06/30/2026

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Nix VegasNixCon 2026PCBWay & JLCPCB@kenz_tobias_artDesign rule checking - WikipediamoltbookBump 2026-06-29Nix job @ Revel (Marina del Rey or San Francisco)NixOS TrademarkMaking devenv start fast, and the whole nixpkgs with itNix needs relocatable binaries | Farid Zakaria’s Bloghome-manager [Feature Request] nixpkgs.pkgsglibc: read a per-DSO resolution-cache note (stat-storm #481620)Stable linking wi...


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#140
06/29/2026

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nixos/run0: options for persistent authenticationhome-manager zsh fastSyntaxHighlightingVanilla Mobile NixosCompound licenses in Nixpkgsservices.mysql insecure authentication by default when mysql or percona-serverflameshot: 13.3.0 -> 14.0.0home-manager launchd agent domain optionnixos/avahi-daemon: disable the full mDNS NSS module by defaultClan 26.05NixOS Hispano: A space for the Spanish-speakingnixos/fuse: disable by default“Functional identities” - an alternative to teamstesters.modularServiceComplianceNixOS TrademarkMaking devenv start fast, and the whole nixpkgs with itNix job @ Revel (Marina del Rey or San Francisco)Nix Meetup in Vienna, Austria, July 2nd 6pm



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Nix Freaks 36
#139
06/24/2026

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ibizaman/selfhostblocksAutheliaJellyfinmolybdenum.softwareNLnetmisoIHPhledger

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#138
06/23/2026

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Nixpkgs now has VLM based screenshot checksNix-why - why does this option have this value?nixos/system-path: don’t link /etc/xdg/ uncoditionally by Atemunixos/hardware.printers: add ensureClasses optionNew York Nix Meetup - June 30thdevenv added to home-managertop-level: add error for x86_64-darwin deprecationExa is hiring Nix infra engineers

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Nix Freaks 35
#137
06/16/2026

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Kintex 7 FPGAscosmic-utils/stellarshoticedeguiNix Vegas[WIP] Deprecation warnings for maintainerless leaf packagesChief Mouser to the Cabinet OfficeSecurity Team | Nix & NixOSInfo-ZIP Home Pagecrertel/nix-factsTenstorrent

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#136
06/15/2026

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Send in your Nix + AWS usage storiesDocumentation meetings revivednixos/systemd/user: migrate to RFC 42-style settingslib/systems: move kernel configuration out of the platform structurenixos/polkit: modernize, make pkexec wrapper opt-inA Nix related talk at Melbourne Compose, June 18 6pmFirst ever Nix meetup in Barcelona June 22Bay Area Nix Meetup July 3 6pmNoisebridge Nix Night June 17 7pmvote: Home Manager official NixOS project

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Nix Freaks 34
#135
06/14/2026

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NixCIQuartoSlurm Workload ManagerSnakemakeLustreext4: check fast symlink for ea_inode correctly ¡ torvalds/linux@b4cc4a4421anon/pointy

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2026 NBA Champions
#134
06/14/2026

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Dependabot Nix Support
#133
06/10/2026

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DependabotGreenkeeperNix flake support ¡ Issue #7340 ¡ dependabot/dependabot-coreDependabot version updates now support the Nix ecosystem - GitHub ChangelogNixCon 2025 - Supply Chain Security Panel Discussion - YouTubeTrivy Security incident 2026-03-19utdemir/nix-tree

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#132
06/08/2026

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Flox is Growing - 5 New Roles - Jobs - NixOS Discoursehome-manager zsh: improve startup env and plugin fpath handlingNixOS Reinstate boot countinghome-managers sshAuthSock: set in systemdMeetup Cologne June 2426.05 release retrospective

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Nix Freaks 33
#131
06/08/2026

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Midstall/heimdall: Post-silicon hardware verification suite for FPGA’s and CPU’swriters.writeNu: check using nushell’s nu-check built-in by mightyiam · Pull Request #526412 · NixOS/nixpkgsDisable screensharing screen selection and preview on Wayland to avoid unnecessary permission prompts. [40811977] - ChromiumSystem extensions in macOS - Apple SupportDaVinci Resolve | Blackmagic Design5 jobs at Floxstylix blocking 26.06

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Nix Vegas 2026 Invite
#130
06/02/2026

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#129
06/01/2026

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Nest: declarative framework for multi-node NixOS infrastructure
Dnzl - Small Actor System for Pure Nix over stateful streams
Selector4nix: Nix substituter proxy with parallel cache queries and latency-aware selection
stdenv: PURL fetcher introduction
requireFile: set unfree license by default
Selector4nix: Nix substituter proxy with parallel cache queries & latency-aware selection
Garnix is shutting down
NixHostForge: prebuild NixOS hosts and warm local caches before deploying
@monyarm looking for a job
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Nix Freaks 32
#128
05/28/2026

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Nix-cache-beacon - mDNS discovery for Nix binary caches
One portal for NixOS documentation: the docs team vision
modules: allow config.flake to be undefined by MattSturgeon ¡ Pull Request #4311 ¡ nix-community/nixvim
Gabriella439/nix-diff: Explain why two Nix derivations differ
Contracts for file backups by ibizaman
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#127
05/26/2026

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Call for Volunteers: Standing Election Committee
home-manager: ssh: add RFC 42 settings option
Portland (Oregon) Nix happy hour with Determinate Systems May 26
avahi: Handle 5 security findings + 1 NixOS mitigation
Bay Area Nix Meetup June 5th 6PM
Nix-cache-beacon
release-26.05 has been branched off! 🎉
SC minutes
One portal for NixOS documentation: the docs team vision
Nix Meetup Cologne May 27


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Nix Freaks 31
#126
05/19/2026

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Build orchestrationbuild failure cachingrealization purity(not) checking in .envrc filessecrets

Experimental Local Overlay Store
GitHub Actions job concurrency limits
GitHub Actions storage limits

LLM/VLM for NixOS VM test screenshot analysis
Native Nix Support in Artifactory

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#125
05/18/2026

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Nixpkgs core team update 2026-05-11
LLM/VLM for NixOS VM test screenshot analysis
Yurii Melnychenko (@vimjoyer) looking for job
nixos/network-interfaces: remove network-setup [v2]
NixOS 26.05 delayed
NixOS meetup at GPN24 in Karlsruhe, Germany
NixOS Meetup Darmstadt - 2026-06-01


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nix-effects with Mika Bohinen
#124
05/16/2026

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Just published an episode about nix-effects: A pure Nix toolkit for effectful programs, typed validation, verified boundaries, and description-backed DSLs. If you were trying to understand what this means then we’re on the same boat. during the episode I have asked the author of nix-effects, Mika Bohinen, all of the dumbest questions and, who knows, ma...