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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

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Massive respect to his efforts so far. 🙏

DID YOU KNOW? In 2000, Steve Jobs offered Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, a position at Apple on the condition that he discontinue his work on Linux. Torvalds declined the offer, citing his dislike for the macOS kernel and his commitment to open-source development; he continues to actively lead the Linux project to this day. FOLLOW US IT’S FOSS

खूबसूरतインサーン khubsuratinsaan@en.osm.town

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Anonymous

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Took me an hour to type it but I finally posted about my Mumbai trip on my blog, The entire trip could be summed up as surviving a Final Destination movie

https://arklixs.in/pages/posts/dec2025/mdcmumbai.html

Bill Bernard berniework@infosec.exchange

@Em0nM4stodon
I'm a firm believer of bi-directional surveillance: if you get to watch me like that I get to watch you too, and I'm better at planting cameras and digging up search histories than you are.

(If that's a threat then maybe surveillance is a threat, full stop)

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@sounddrill @wesleyote @fluoriteByte my accent depends on how much of undisturbed sleep I get the previous night. Ranges all the way from speaking like someone from not in India to barely getting any words out of my mouth.

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@werdahias all this time I thought you had signature on XD I used to do that too but felt it’s more convenient to use signatures in thunderbird

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@disaster2life @sahil his presentation was funny as hell lmao. Lots of jokes. Definitely the best talk of MDC Navi Mumbai.

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@cjwatson @cjwatson @cjwatson happy Hanukkah Colin

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New semester starting in about a day and there’s plenty of ITPs, learning new packaging workflows, adopting some pending packages, pinging upstream to fix some bugs left to be done. One step at a time I guess.

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@proprietedusage @thelinuxEXP nice so librewolf is an option. However I’m a little hesitant to move away from Firefox after all these years of using it. I didn’t expect that they’d go to this level :/

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@sahil * SpaciousCoder78 attempts to read this with his broken Hindi skills

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@proprietedusage @thelinuxEXP I’ve ditched chrome and it’s chromium based browsers 5 years ago. I could switch to librewolf or any gecko browser but does it sync my stuff using my Mozilla account such as passwords bookmarks? It’s one of the reasons why I kept using Firefox

Pirate Praveen praveen@social.masto.host

service at poddery.com will be shut down after we ran it for 12 years. Joe Bivins ran it before we took over maintenance in 2013. It was one of the earliest diaspora pods.

https://codema.in/d/Cg3RqOWk/shutting-down-poddery-s-diaspora-service-on-15th-jan-2026

Both and services, which shared the diaspora accounts will continue operating for now.

Thanks to everyone who helped maintain it till now. Even though diaspora failed to get the adoption we hoped for, is continuing the fight for social media.

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Me a confused Firefox user after noticing that Mozilla wants to introduce AI slop into Firefox:

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@thelinuxEXP being a Firefox fan, I’m kinda confused which browser to use now. Maybe I’ll just stick to Firefox and disable the slop.

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@disaster2life umm aren’t you forgetting this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:091108-F-8594F-797_(4100783730).jpg

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And that's a wrap for MiniDebConf Navi Mumbai 2025. Thanks FOSS United Mumbai and Remiges Technologies Pvt Ltd for all the support <3.

See you in the next one (ie MiniDebConf Kanpur, 14th-15th March, 2026).

#MiniDebConf #NaviMumbai #Debian #India #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Linux
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TikTok sold to Oracle!

https://joinloops.org/why-loops-matters

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tiktok-divestment_l_69448648e4b039c32babc75d

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Found an old Sony Viao laptop from 2012 thats still alive and kicking (just needs a display and battery replacement). Crazy how a laptop from 2012 still works but a HP laptop of mine from 2020 broke down and became e-waste in just a year. They don't make them like they used to these days.

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Having a lot of sleep debt sucks :(

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