Getting ready to test Debian 12 for release, testing machines ready, USB disks ready, testing images are expected to land in minutes, release should happen in a few hours! We also have a local release dinner, PM me if you can join in Cape Town!

Just wrote a quick blog post with a few photos of my #Librem5 being upgraded to #Mobian / #Debian 12:

https://jonathancarter.org/2023/06/09/phone-upgraded-to-debian-12/

A group I'm on is arguing which card this is. I think it's quite clear. That's, the badger.

As part of our Debian 12 upgrades at work, we're switching over to SSDs for our file servers. This will give a nice speed boost, only thing I don't like is that I have to screw all of these to larger brackets, and they don't have serial numbers printed at the back so I have to make custom labels.

"Everything you don't like is fascism" - FALSE! Fascism is just a subset of all the things I don't like.

TIL the Python "walrus" operator:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-surprising-trick-in-Python-that-you-are-aware-of/answer/Jeffrey-Egbadon

Upstream docs: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#assignment-expressions

TIL Riseproject: seems like the RISC-V equivalent of Linaro:

https://riseproject.dev/

@kdedude Next time I'll let you know and we'll see if we can make a plan!

About to head home, had a great week in Germany! https://jonathancarter.org/2023/05/29/minidebconf-germany-2023/

I'm in Hamburg for day 2 of #MiniDebConf Germany (first day for me, had lots of delays arriving yesterday). After traveling I asked myself "why do I do this!?"... but today I got reminded again, #Debian people are really great to hang out with and for solving problems together!

"Wow, that's an authentic experience" - Nintendo themed restaurant sues you at the end of your meal

https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/nintendo-themed-restaurant-sues-you-at-the-end-of-meal/

@mart_brooks Hang in there!

It appears that I am way too easily entertained.

Terrible UX example of the day... today I tried to do a simple task on GitHub, and unexpectedly this dialog pops up. How to I make it go away so that I can continue with my simple task without being further interrupted?

@znoteer Afrikaans

@znoteer English

This AI generated beer commercial full of 'joyful monstrosities' is probably better than any beer commercial a human have come up with: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/ai-generated-beer-commercial-contains-joyful-monstrosities-goes-viral/

@znoteer Yeah, I did Xhosa as third language in primary school, so learned all the clicks there.

Taking a stab at learning isiXhosa again. Might just be the toughest 'yellow' in any language. :-o