Suspending Debian contribution for now. I got hit with a bad strain of Influenza last week and was entirely bed ridden for the past few days. The virus kind of killed my creativity and ability to take on too much work. I’m gonna focus on fixing my immediate problems in life first and leave Debian contribution for a few months. All of my packages are part of teams so feel free to take up the maintenance while I’m away
@praveen While UPI is not a pain in the ass for me, I still think it exploits people into spending more than they actually need because it chips away the physical element of money. IMPS sounds good. I have bank accounts with banks that aren't mentioned in the wiki yet. I'll try it and update the wiki.
@werdahias yeah, that's probably the only course in my engineering that i was worried about failing.
OpenPrinting News - Google Summer of Code 2025 - The amazing work is going on!
The contributors have passed the midterm evaluations and their projects are taking shape … And we also have some volunteers!
here are new reports of the current state of the art of the projects. Write-ups from the contributors, and also links to contributor's blogs and to GIT repositories with the code.
@werdahias except when you have to deal with signals :( I almost failed in that pre requisite math course where we had Fourier stuff and complex calculus
@werdahias I see. I never got that deep into electronics to do that stuff. The furthest I went into was writing Assembly for Intel 8086 and writing Verilog to simulate combinational circuits.
@werdahias I found this site called SnapEDA which lets you download symbols and schematics. KiCad doesn't come with a lot of boards built into it and this site helped me draw schematics for most of my projects in KiCad.
I gave up on Gears Of War 2 4 years ago at the Skorge boss fight because it was too hard and I eventually sold my Xbox too. I was 80% through the game. I don't have a Xbox now to play and with Microsoft pretty much killing the console brand, I don't think I will be able to continue my progress and finish the game. It's a shame because I was a Xbox fan before M$ dragged it to shit with their "Everything is a Xbox" marketing.
Just launched a new video series called GNUisance to make more people aware of GNU tools and software.
The first video in the series can be found here: https://exquisite.tube/w/2TUaAPBvFhdQVPS7mAYuNA
The first video in the series can be found here: https://exquisite.tube/w/2TUaAPBvFhdQVPS7mAYuNA
30 minutes of writing C in GNU Nano... No LLM bullshit or Electron bloat... Just pure focused work with only my thoughts and approach to writing software... No external libraries... Fixing the errors on my own....
What's more fun than this?
What's more fun than this?
"delete old emails to save water"
how about instead we decommission all AI datacenters to save water
how about instead we decommission all AI datacenters to save water
I thought C was a pointless language during my first days at college but it quickly changed my mind. I’ve never felt this free while writing a piece of software. C is very simple yet powerful enough to do almost anything i want. Python code from 6 years ago may not even run at all but C code absolutely will. Despite it lacking any memory safety, I still feel nothing can replace C in terms of its simplicity. Gonna use C for more of my future projects.
@badrihippo @fossunited I can feel the alignment to #OpenSource ideas instead of #FreeSoftware philosophy in the schedule. This should be a food for thought to #FreeSoftware community.
Are FOSS conferences and organisations really about free software anymore? (3/3)
From my experience, the only places where I've actually seen the free software philosophy being taken seriously is the Free Software Community of India, Debian and Prav.
Debian has been such a pleasure to work with as they've got me addicted to free software.
I feel Prav is a really good free software initiative. It's a messaging service which lets you use XMPP and other protocols.
Check it: https://prav.app/
Debian has been such a pleasure to work with as they've got me addicted to free software.
I feel Prav is a really good free software initiative. It's a messaging service which lets you use XMPP and other protocols.
Check it: https://prav.app/
Are FOSS conferences and organisations really about free software anymore? (2/3)
I don't see a lot of them actually caring about the philosophy anymore. There's a free software org in my region who hasn't done any actual free software work in the past 10 years and now turned into an AI startup that gives fake internships to college students. They've abandoned all of the localisation work and have a website that's like some consultancy that makes web apps rather than supporting free software.
Are FOSS conferences and organisations really about free software anymore? (1/3)
I've been working with free software communities for about a year now. I'm a more work focused person so I'll talk about real work and not events.
I noticed that most FOSS conferences and organisations just use "open source" as a buzzword and use it as a front end to keep their organisations going. I've rarely seen most of these FOSS organisations actually maintain any of the free software projects out there.
I noticed that most FOSS conferences and organisations just use "open source" as a buzzword and use it as a front end to keep their organisations going. I've rarely seen most of these FOSS organisations actually maintain any of the free software projects out there.
Almost 2 months with Debian and it almost replaced Windows for most of my tasks. I’ve distrohopped between dozens of distros in the past, felt a bit comfortable with Linux Mint but then I was ricing and breaking it too often.
Moved from Ubuntu to Debian for packaging work and I’ve never used a Linux Distro this stable and comfortable to use.
Moved from Ubuntu to Debian for packaging work and I’ve never used a Linux Distro this stable and comfortable to use.