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werdahias (tired) | @werdahias@pleroma.debian.social

Debian Developer. EE student.
Likes hiking, reading and free software.
#RightToRepair
"Freiheit ist immer Freiheit des anders Denkenden." - Rosa Luxemburg

Ordered a replacement display for my broken phone, and it arrived cracked... -_-

@jmtd yeah, pulseaudio is garbage IMO. Switchted to pipewire and had 0 audio issues since then. Wondering if I still need the pulseaudio compat thing...

@grillchen @frumble lacht in hard- und softwaredesigner. Hardware resp. Elektronik wird sog. "KI" auch in 50 Jahren nicht können. Ich denke, dass es bei den reinen IT-Berufen aber durchaus (leider) Kürzungen geben wird, weil idiotische Manager glauben, dass man das auch vibecoden kann

Inside every QA tester there are:

- Two wolves
- One wolf
- Zero wolves
- 0.5 wolves
- 2,147,483,648 wolves
- -2 wolves
- Beer wolves
- Two coyotes
- 🐺🐺
- Два волка
- '); DROP TABLE WOLVES;--
- <script>alert('Awooooo')</script>

Handy bilingual mnemonic for tool use. 🪛🔩

"Rightie tightie, leftie loosie" in Spanish is 
"la derecha oprime, la izquierda libera." 

[image of a screw with a curved arrow pointing to the left, another identical screw image with an arrow pointing to the right] 

Meaning: 
"the right oppresses, the left liberates."

#Debian work I did the this month (in no particular order):

- Fixed RC bugs for arduino-ide, rust-graphene, rust-safe-arch, rust-gdk4-sys, arduino-builder and arduino-core-avr
- Fixed a bug in tex-fmt
- Enabled static-built-using for Loupe and glycin
- Uploaded a new version of ani-cli, gnome-podcasts
- Packaged the #treesitter ASM grammar today and uploaded it to NEW

Feeling a bit down given current events, but damn, it's nice to cycle home from work in the sun and overtaking 2 e-bikes and 3 e-scooters just by a muscle-powered bike.

@jmtd yeah, that's unfortunate. I keep also discovering tools that make productive work so much easier; some time ago I switched to #zsh which is just amazing.
Looking back I often wonder how much time I'd have saved. Oh well...

Writing #LaTex in noevim with texlab and vimtex is reaally nice. Side-by-side editing that updates your PDF as soon as you hit :w

And autohints if the code is wrong.
Thanks to the maintainers !

“No computers.” the guard said harshly, holding out a metal box.

I put my phone in the box. He didn’t budge. I took off my smart watch and added it in.

“Are you sure you have no more computers? The detector sends out a brief EMP. It would be a shame to destroy any gadgets. Or injure you." He was staring at the side of my face.

Ah. I removed the Connex from my temple. I’d forgotten it was there.

He ushered me into what looked like an old electronic doorway, then pressed a button. A light flashed.

"You're free to enter. Enjoy." No smile.

I passed through a corridor to desk where a receptionist smiled. "First time?"

"Yes, is it obvious?"

"Don't worry. It's simple. Through the double doors there you'll find the main selection of books, by era and topic. It's colour-coded and easy to follow. You'll need these if you want to touch anything." She put a paper mask and thin laboratory gloves on the desk.

"Behind you is the iffy section, as we call it. Books printed after 2015."

"2015?! I thought AI printed books only appeared in the mid 2020s."

"That's probably true, but we can't be sure. Preserving authentic pre-AI knowledge is our raison d'être. We can't be too safe."

Her look turned serious and I saw the devotion to the cause in her eyes. Since the Big Corruption of '32, no digital files could be trusted to replicate original human knowledge. This library was a time capsule.

"Can books be taken out?"

"No, I'm afraid not. We couldn't let them back in, as they could be fakes."

"So, can I copy things? My phone and Connex were taken away. Do you have a camera to message me chapters?"

"No, we're strictly machine-free. but we have several scribes. They're very good." She was enjoying my puzzled look.

"They can copy down whole pages for you. With pen and paper," she answered my unspoken question.

"Pen and paper?" these were words of tales and myths.

"Come, I'll show."

#devotion #MastoPrompt #microfiction #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

XKCD type cartoon, THE SELF HOSTER

Person 1:
It took all weekend, but now that I have a Mastodon
instance running in Docker behind a reverse proxy
with cloud-provided media storage, I can enjoy
interacting with a federated network of other users
without compromising on privacy or content moderation.

Person 2:
Cool, what kinds of topics does
your network discuss?

Person 3:
Our experiences self-hosting
Mastodon instances, mostly.

@starlabssystems #Debian sid as have a need for current pacakges on my machine, stable for servers + gaming

For over one year I've been harassed, threatened, doxxed, misgendered and abused by Luna the Foxgirl, author of Inochi2D.

Due to her attacks and manipulation of others, I no longer feel safe contributing to Linux GPU drivers, and I will be retiring my current model.

https://asahilina.net/luna-abuse/

On my way back home from #miniDC2025 Hamburg. I had a blast there meeting and talking to fellow #Debian people. I gave a talk about #CLI applications and helped with a very spontaneuos #packaging workshop.
Grateful I had the opportunity to be there.

I wish everyone a very revolutionary and happy 1st of May, Labour Day

@starlabssystems Interest in technology, and privacy concerns.

This guy isn't screwing around. https://idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protection

Happy birthday, Dad. Time to come back now, it’s all gone a bit rubbish without you. ❤️❤️❤️

Sir Terry Pratchett and his daughter, Rhianna, at the launch of Dodger.

some people deserve Extra-Hell

The hell cartoon
the devil at the gates of hell looking at the clipboard: Huh, your name's not on our list
person: Of course not. Because I don't belong here. 

person: I invented blocking of CTRL-V into web form password fields.

The devil puts down the clipboard and and takes the person to the gates of Extra-Hell

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