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SpaciousCoder78 | @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

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@munin yep you’re quite late and some people already started looking into alternatives.

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Was in the process of adopting and updating python-bioframe today but seems like pandas needs some updating. Don’t know how long I’ll have to wait for it.

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We're pleased to announce third set of the speakers for MiniDebConf Navi Mumbai.

Dates- 13th & 14th December
RSVP - https://fossunited.org/c/mumbai/minidebconf2025

#MiniDebConf #NaviMumbai #Debian #India #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Linux
A banner for MiniDebConf Navi Mumbai 2025 scheduled on the 13th and 14th December, with the speaker details for Kashish, presenting a talk on, "FOSS maps, and why you should use them" A banner for MiniDebConf Navi Mumbai 2025 scheduled on the 13th and 14th December, with the speaker details for Pirate Praveen, presenting a talk on, "Contributing Packages to Debian - an Introduction" A banner for MiniDebConf Navi Mumbai 2025 scheduled on the 13th and 14th December, with the speaker details for Kashish, hosting an OpenStreetMap Mapping Party

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@sahil freaky. Welp I think we have a much bigger problem right now.

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@lunr @gnome agreed. I currently have Debian 13 on GNOME on my thinkpad and its such a neat experience. However I'm planning to switch to MacOS soon but will still keep Linux for x64 stuff.

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@gnome GNOME's Modern UI. Looks amazing. Always my go to DE on Linux. Looks better than Win 11 too

Debian India debianindia
We're pleased to announce first set of the speakers for MiniDebConf Navi Mumbai.

Dates- 13th & 14th December
RSVP - https://fossunited.org/c/mumbai/minidebconf2025

#MiniDebConf #NaviMumbai #Debian #India #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Linux
A banner for MiniDebConf Navi Mumbai 2025 scheduled on the 13th and 14th December, with the speaker details for Amogh Lele, presenting "lab@home - Just Host It with Proxmox and Debian" A banner for MiniDebConf Navi Mumbai 2025 scheduled on the 13th and 14th December, with the speaker details for Samyak Jain, presenting "Modern Release Engineering at Scale: Lessons Learned from Shipping Large Linux Distributions" A banner for MiniDebConf Navi Mumbai 2025 scheduled on the 13th and 14th December, with the speaker details for Utkarsh Gupta, presenting "Debian Made Me a Generalist - And Why That is a Good Thing" A banner for MiniDebConf Navi Mumbai 2025 scheduled on the 13th and 14th December, with the speaker details for Aryan Karamtoth, presenting "Free Software in your Native Language! - Software Localisation and Internationalisation"

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@werdahias same here. Brain's bustling with ideas but zero time to implement them :(

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@praveen @prav will do

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Day 3 of peak unproductivity due to a sprained leg. I've barely moved out my bed and the bone fluid doesnt seem to go away. If I don't recover by Dec 12, I have to go to MDC Navi Mumbai in a wheelchair :(

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(2/2) for a challenge I decided to go all in on C by writing software in C (yes in 2025) and it turned out to be an amazing experience to my No-LLM rule. I ended up writing 2 really good software projects without using LLMs in C in the past 6 months and honestly I like C because there’s no package manager that makes things easy for you. You’re your own god, you’re given a compiler and you can build whatever you want with it. Such is the power of C.

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(1/2) I often forget how good I’m at writing code even without LLMs. If anything LLMs make my code 100x worse. Back in 2022 when GPT first came out, I gave into the trap of letting LLMs fix my code and it turned out that I learned nothing from those projects. It wasn’t until 2024 when I completely banned usage of LLMs in my development side of things that I actually realised how I can write code a lot better that’s well documented and perfect. Been writing software since 2020 btw.

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@werdahias GitHub has become too mainstream these days but I’m glad codeberg is catching up

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Law of Studying Engineering: The closer you get to graduation, the less you care about your grades and finals.

papiris🏴🇵🇸 papiris@hachyderm.io

Petition in Germany to recognize unpaid contribution to free and open source software projects as 'society-beneficial volunteering' (ehrenamt)!

This will give volunteering for e.g. @postmarketOS , @freifunk , @kde , @nextcloud , @Mastodon and other libre projects the same legal status as taking care of an elderly family member or volunteering for a youth association, which provides tax benefits and relaxes requirements for receiving unemployment benefits.

Interested people may sign it using one of the two following links.

The petition in german language: https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/anerkennung-von-open-source-arbeit-als-ehrenamt-in-deutschland#petition-main

The petition in english language: https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/recognition-of-work-on-open-source-as-volunteering-in-germany

News article (German): https://www.heise.de/news/Petition-Open-Source-Arbeit-soll-als-Ehrenamt-gelten-11094436.html

News article (English): https://www.heise.de/en/news/Petition-Open-source-work-should-count-as-volunteer-activity-11095357.html

The petition is organized by @webvision.

If you're not a resident of Germany, go ahead and use this thread to organize similar initiatives in your country of residence.

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@fkamiah17 Don't know who came up with the lyrics but they did a really good job. Amazing work!

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@billchenchina sadly StreetComplete isn’t on iOS yet…. Currently using Go Map!! to add data on my phone and the OSM website when I’m on pc

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Remote mapping on OSM is honestly a good time-killer hobby.

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Finally finished making the presentation for my talk at MiniDebConf Navi Mumbai. It's about 50 slides and took me 2 weeks to make. The challenging part is to actually cover all of those 50 slides in 30 minutes.

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@disaster2life The fuck? I have to give TOEFL next year and just noticed that it costs 18K INR :|

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