@malwareminigun the two big DE, KDE and GNOME have a half-yearly release schedule (iirc) and that usually alignes with Debian releasing ~ every two years. This allows shipping the latest stable release (usually) so users still have a somewhat current system until the next release. Like I said, you have to make a tradeoff somewhere. Reinventing package formats when rpm and dpkg have been battle-tested and around for more than 30 years seems like waste to me

@malwareminigun @drewdevault stable exists for a reason; if you want new stuff use debian sid or testing. Simple as that.

@malwareminigun @drewdevault ask distro maintainers to backport the fix (which debian does btw for CVEs and other security fixes; even regyalr backports exist) or use a newer system. There's always gonna be a tradeoff between stability and new features.

Nice, elogind 254 will come out soon and unbreak alternative inits on debian (and other distros too. Sad that it has come to this.

@malwareminigun @drewdevault upstream shouldn't need to ship anything, if it's a good and free software people will distribute it.

@drewdevault @malwareminigun sure did, as distro maintainer myself I agree.

@malwareminigun @drewdevault ~80 % of the packages in ubuntu are based on the debian ones which are maintained by unpaid volunteers for the most part. I don't know how the numbers are for fedora, but I imagine it's similar. Imho distro packages are the superior in many ways, and I'd rather compile from source than use a flatpak or curl | sh tbh. Most applications I use are distro packages anyway. I think reinventing package formats isn't gonna improve linux itself

It's bad enough that someone would bomb a refugee camp killing 100s of civilians, but that so many people all over the world gleefully support that, makes it so much worse.

@skye this is true. The moment I installed #debian I became a package maintainer /s

@mirabilos just opted for a quick supper; maybe I'll cook tomorrow then

I should start writing about my packaging and general #debian work on a blog. But I feel that'd use up time I don't have :(

tmw you want to make some food but are too tired to do so.

Just got #Obfuscate accepted into #Debian, for all your image-censoring needs.

It's a really nice program to censor e.g. bank statements when you need to send those somewhere.

#Debian #GTK #Rust

@grillchen drum reih dich ein in die Arbeitereinheitsfront

@lakoja code:geass is pretty good; same for One Punch Man. Though not strictly anime, I can recommend avatar and the legend of korra, too. Yesterday I started Pluto and it's suspenseful and interesting so far.

@fuchsi @llewelly @codefolio @jeffc @futurebird no idea. You can simulate complex circuits with multiple Ls and Cs in parallel and /or series and the total impedance just "adds" up. Stuff gets funky at high frequencies when even resistors start exhibiting a capacitive / inductive behavior.

@alice matrix moment

@decathorpe yeah, agreed. It's often a long and tedious process but we ship binaries to the users they can trust and are reproducible.

@decathorpe Sylvestre has packaged sudo- and ntpd-rs, and liushiyu rustup (for which I packaged some dependencies). I got a lot done for magic-wormhole-rs, but still missing crates

@futurebird EE student here. The need for complex numbers is to encode the phase angle of the voltage. The absolute value equals the reactance (i.e. the value) and the phase angle shows the "offset" caused by the reactance. This is relevant for amplifiers for instance. As to why we use imaginary numbers, no idea.