So the mayor of Neuilly-sur-Marne wants to increase policing instead of addressing any actual root causes of the rioting. What a fuckwit.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66092431

@juliank I've also wondered why we don't even have basements in South Africa. It makes so much sense. And also, lots of the heating you do in the basement in the winter will move up to the ground floor, so it seems to make sense in both warm and cold conditions. Perhaps people are concerned with flooding?

GMail's web interface is getting worse by the day. I'm so thankful that I don't have to use this for my main e-mail.

@TofuTheSquirrel @neil Facebook is nothing but bad for the Internet, and for humanity

@neil This used to be possible, but Facebook blocked this off during the early days of Google+

I wanted to delete my dog's Facebook profile (he can move to the Fediverse too). Facebook straight up just disables the submit button now if you want to delete your account. This should really be illegal.

Registration for DebConf23 (September in Kochi, India) is now open!

https://debconf23.debconf.org/

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.