@neil great idea. unfortuately reverse-engineering most firmware is hard and there aren't a lot of people working on it afaik. While I don't agree with everything he said Stallman was right about firmware being evil (see the polish train stuff)

@mirabilos italienische winter statt schnee und eis

@mirabilos o.O ich hoffe nicht auch bei mir, keine Lust auf Heuschnupfen schon jetzt

@decathorpe yeah, true. Most were already packaged in Debian (and updated subsequently with gtk-rs) but that's still like 10 new packages for snapshot to build without vendoring.

@MikeDunnAuthor "I was, I am, and I will be"

Just got the #Gstreamer gl-*-sys #Rust crates accepted into #Debian. This is a big step toward getting #Snapshot into #Debian. More to follow ...

man I am tired

@karolherbst @dotstdy that would be truly the year of the linux desktop if oneko and xsnow would work under wayland

@dotstdy @karolherbst hehe. xsnow is tricky iirc because you would need the compositor to implement the snow

@karolherbst still sad that xsnow does not work under sway

@wolf480pl right

@wolf480pl lots of cool stuff. You can build a VCO ( voltage controlled oscillator), a digital-analog converter, a sawtooth/rectangular-wave generator ...

@cstross @froztbyte fwiw, I use OpenRC (Alpines and Gentoos default init) and it's just nice. Supports sysvinit scripts but also its own (which are less cluttered imo) and is very lean. It's dependency based and does parallelization by default, too. For logging I just went with rsyslog.

@marathon looks interesting, thanks, but I prefer "stock" debian. I might try ironbar though

Trying sway and so far I had zero issues with it or "pure" wayland in general. Only #KiCad and #Ghidra need XWayland and it's all idling at smooth 600 Megs of RAM. I will switch the bar probably, waybar is a bit boring imo. It's a bit of a challenge having to script literally everything, but at the end of the day the machine does exactly what I want. Coupled with the (relative) stability of #Debian sid and #OpenRC as init this is a great experience overall. I might do a writeup later.

@wolf480pl @niconiconi "all digital electronic is comprised of analog components

@mawkler @signalapp sad. Even people I know that don't care that much about privacy know that Signal is used for anonymity and they usually are ok switching to it (even if it just for me)

@mawkler @signalapp the snowden quote about free speech and privacy

Railway was accepted into #Debian today ! Thanks to @awai for packaging most of its dependencies. This #GTK - #Rust app allows queuing travel information, for instance from #DB .