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.
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.
@disaster2life As long as the noise isn’t too loud, playing a video game or opening my terminal on Linux usually does the job for me than blasting music
@werdahias I know of a black hole that traps LLMs when they attempt to scrape a site. Crafted with hate for LLMs by one of our DDs :)
@ravi the fact that nothing happened after this was revealed shows the current state of the country. I think it’s over for us
Book incoming!
I'm currently authoring a book which will be published in a few months if everything goes well! Big thanks to the Debian and Free Software Communities for getting me off the writer's block.
@disaster2life ill never get over why people have a problem with what we eat. Kind of infuriates me how some schools/colleges force vegetarianism onto people. I heard that one of the IIITs in MH fines people for eating meat and the folk over there are malnourished due to barely any protein intake. Prisoners get better food than college students.
Happy 100000th Birthday, Debian!
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/08/msg00006.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/08/msg00006.html
@bagder I was banned from attending their events because I didn’t use a credit card for the payment towards it. We don’t get credit cards like candies in this part of the world as a student.
@werdahias yes I did the same. I still use GitHub to send patches upstream but all of my existing personal work and future work will only be on Codeberg. I’ve had enough with LLMs scraping my work.
Seems like I did a very good thing by ditching GitHub. GitHub is now under an AI team under Microsoft and no longer a separate entity. Would also recommend others to ditch GitHub if you care about your work getting scraped by useless LLMs
Some pictures from Hyderabad release party today.
#Debian #DebianIndia #ReleaseParty #Hyderabad #India
#Debian #DebianIndia #ReleaseParty #Hyderabad #India
@werdahias Interesting... not so long ago I had a research idea that I wanted to work on and it was about EMI. Figured it was way too much for a CompEng Student and left it lol
Microsoft out, free software in
Thanks to the Debian community for making me realise that living a life with free software is very much doable.
Starting today, all of my future work will be hosted on Codeberg. Existing work that I deem useful will be migrated from Github to Codeberg and the rest will be archived.
Microsoft has been bullying me by blocking my accounts for the past 3 weeks due to me working with Debian and I will allow that no more!
Starting today, all of my future work will be hosted on Codeberg. Existing work that I deem useful will be migrated from Github to Codeberg and the rest will be archived.
Microsoft has been bullying me by blocking my accounts for the past 3 weeks due to me working with Debian and I will allow that no more!