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pleroma.debian.social

SpaciousKarter78 | @SpaciousCoder78@pleroma.debian.social

Debian Maintainer | A Computer Nerd who also happens to be a Debian Packager.

I support free software and open standards. Outside of the computer world, I'm a STEM Major who likes inventing things.

I also port third-party software to FreeBSD. Also a mapper for OpenStreetMap.

I’m also a hobbyist graphic designers who mostly designs posters and media content for Debian India

Wanted to wrap up the packaging of raylib before I left for my trip and I did just that. Me and merkys packaged raylib into debian and it's now available in debian unstable!

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/raylib

@disaster2life it had a i3 2100 chip and it only had 7gb of free space on the internal drive. It only had two functional IO ports and Shit would stop working if I disconnect the keyboard. It was a miracle as to how I got my bootable usb out of that broken computer

I had to wait for 2 hours to board my train so I pulled up KOTOR1, a game that I had to abandon 3 years ago due to corrupted save files.

Bye Chennai!

This day only keeps getting more weird as I progress. It’s almost as if it wants me to put through trouble just to teach me what I can do on my own.

You know you fucked up when you gotta make a Linux bootable usb using a broken hotel lobby computer while on a trip

"The dumbest person you know is being told 'you are absolutely right' by an AI right now."

Installed FreeBSD on my laptop but at what cost? I can't use wifi because my pc crashes the moment i try to enable wifi. My wifi card is supported though. Atleast I got to learn some new stuff yesterday.

We’ve published the second monthly report (March 2026) for the Cyber Resilience Act Readiness project, part of our ongoing 2026 effort to prepare the FreeBSD community for the European Union’s cybersecurity regulation.

Read the March report: https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/all-projects/blob/main/Cyber%20Resilience%20Act%20Readiness/monthly-updates/2026-03.md

I will never understand why we looked at modern programming, saw that there is a good bit, which is programming, and a bad bit, which is code review… and decided to automate the good bit at the expense of having to do a lot more of the bad bit.

Gearing up for a baremetal FreeBSD install soon. Turns out that my ThinkPad's realtek network card is now supported by freebsd which is good news because if something like a network card is supported then it's very likely that the other drivers are too!

@niyabits which org?

How embarrassing, successful socialism…

The author tries hard, but she is having to bite her tongue.

Nothing is perfect, but communitarianism, a rejection of Hindu nationalism and relatively low levels of corruption seem to have helped.

https://archive.is/20260404161435/https://www.thetimes.com/world/asia/article/kerala-marxist-communism-election-poverty-5qpt3z6zk

From the linked article, a photograph os a kid with a communist arty flag and the text ‘the miracle marxists state, how Kerala cut poverty and defied the odds’ Texts from the article

After decades of communist rule, and against all conventional economic wisdom, Kerala is hailed as a mysterious development miracle.
The state has boasted a literacy rate of more than 90 per cent for 35 years. It has a robust healthcare system, with infant mortality rates of just 5 per 1,000 live births. The US average is 5.6 and the Indian national average is 25.
It enjoys strong food security and is — perhaps paradoxically –— the easiest state in India in which to do business, according to the Ministry for Commerce and Industry.

@niyabits you got into outreachy?

I managed to nuke my entire DE while trying to uninstall sway. In the process of reinstalling the whole OS. I should block r/unixporn at this point, those sway/hyprland setups are too tempting....

@sounddrill You mean Homebrew for Switch? Yeah there is, sort of but for the Switch Lite you gotta solder a physical mod chip to hack the console to load the exploits. Afaik, the OG Switch had it easier.

Homebrew kinda ruins the fun for me because it takes the fun out of buying and finishing games so I never modded any of my consoles in the past.

Back in the late 2000s, it was incredibly hard to find someone with a PSP in India. Only the rich kids used to have it.

Here I am almost 17 years later, finally having a handheld console. I never got the PSP back then but at least I have a switch which is the modern equivalent of it.

@rahulporuri Agreed. The best time I had with programming was when I kept the slop machines away. Undo-ing the slop machine damage on your brain takes a while but it’s worth it

Building and “shipping” software projects is easy with LLMs now - but there is little to no satisfaction of building things anymore

And respect peoples time - there are humans on the other side of these FOSS projects. Fork and make changes in your own projects if you have the interest, but dont push slop upstream.

I think I should be spending more time with engines rather than computers. A random shower thought.

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