Trixie nearly ready for release! Have look at the announcement from the Release Team https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/07/msg00003.html
Imagine a Divorced Amplifier. She takes half the channels in the divorce and you have to go from being OPA2323 to OPA323 that's so fucked up!
A lot of people don't know this, but the original Unix was called nix. But rather than the 1.0, 2.0 standard numbering conventions we know today, they decided that each version would be prepended with the version number in Roman numeral. So it wasInixIInixIIInixIVnix
When they were going to release the 5th release, an intern didn't understand the naming convention, misread V as U, nobody in Q/A realized the typo, so it accidentally released as Unix.
Everyone kinda liked the idea of poking fun at the intern's mistake, so they just stopped incrementing the name after that and left it called Unix for the mainline release.
Others still kept releasing their own forks and reimplementation of Unix after, so we had IXnix and XVIIInix. There was much laughter about XXXnix, but it never gained much adoption outside of a very specific userbase. Someone decided to make nix 101 as a reference to an intro level course number in US universities, so it got the name MInix. The next popular release was nix 51, so LInix.
This one wasn't created and blessed by the owners of the nix trademark, and they didn't like this upstart beginning to take some users from Unix (it has become corporate owned by that point, not a Bell Labs hobby project). A long nasty spat went back and forth for a while, before just to settle the case, LInix renamed itself the Linux we know today.
#DebConf out of context
@zacchiro wrote:
> “I'm not the most qualified person to answer this question, the camera operator on your left is.”
Frankly, this does not need context for anyone who “gets” #FOSS to see what this is about:
In true FOSS communities like @debian , everyone pitches. The person running the camera, or serving the food, or cleaning the kitchen may well be the developer who packaged or even wrote your favorite program.
Sorry to not be there with you all in Brest.
So ARPANET had a famous "Flag Day" where they switched over to TCP/IP in 1983; it required a simultaneous switchover of all host machines to the new protocol. And I know that "flag day" has since referred to big changes like that in networked systems. I assumed the name referred to some bitwise flags set in packet headers. Turns out, the term comes from Multics, when similar coordination was required for an encoding change. It happened on actual US Flag Day 1966!
gerpol
the socdems:
we're looking into this idea of a UBI
me:
sounds nice but I don't trust you fucks as far as I can spit
the socdems:
we've developed a new model and we're calling it a solidary basic income
me:
uh-huh
the socdems:
it's for everyone who can prove they have a job
me:
I saw this coming
the socdems:
now we finally have a justification to abolish every other form of benefits
me:
I am going to brutally murder every last one of you bastards
Low effort meme listing the possible solutions for #debian sbuild wontfix bug https://bugs.debian.org/1033626 thanks to @ch2500
Embedded software tip.
when programming an IC, It is a good idea to connect it to the same computer that you are programming it from, and not another one with a similar environment.
