pleroma.debian.social

pleroma.debian.social

Wouter Verhelst | @wouter@pleroma.debian.social

Debian Developer. husband. ex-FOSDEM organizer. Tennis lover. Amateur musician.

If it ain't fun, you're not doing it right.

@mirabilos
You are aware that there's a rust frontend to GCC in progress, right?

https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs
@xgranade

Shooting my shot!

A screenshot of a chat between the sender and their crush. 

Aug 14th
Sender: Would you like to hang out in my bunker?
Crush: lol, no. Maybe when WW3 starts.

Today
Sender: Hey!

(First time meme)
GEN Z, FREAKING OUT ABOUT NUCLEAR WAR

GEN X…. First time?

I misread something just now as "enshitticanoe" but I think maybe I'll keep it.

An apparent North Korean worker was caught visibly stumped during a remote job interview when asked to insult the country's leader. https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/06/watch-this-video-of-how-a-job-interviewer-exposes-a-north-korean-fake-it-worker/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

@Karlitschek
Is nextcloud actively engaging with governments to try and promote what you do? If so is there anything public on that that I can read?

@tiikerikani
Oh my.

In my case the problem was "your prepaid data bundle was supposed to be activated but it wasn't and now my 50-something megabytes of data usage was charged by the megabyte which cost me nearly 30 euros".

It took only a few minutes to get an actual human on the line, then a further few minutes for her to confirm and fix on their side and refund me 30 euros, so at least there was *some* competence there...

@vagrantc
Yeah, there isn't a packages.debian.org equivalent, indeed extrepo search is your best bet.
@radicle

@vagrantc
*Gently nudges extrepo*
@radicle

Rockets are alright, but if you really want to impress people give them healthcare, education, childcare and affordable housing.

Brutal.

When Microsoft acquired GitHub.

@hedders
An Android tablet that you then root and run a normal Linux on? You can do this with some models, though unfortunately not all.

There are also some laptops that have detachable screens which then essentially turn into tablets.

@taylorlorenz
You can't do that without @cwebber at least

@scottwilson
Switch to PPP over infrared.

It's the least reliable Internet connection I've ever had but it can't be worse than this...

@scottwilson
I think that statement made the person who said that, whoever it is, be the person who looks bad, and you sir are far too kind a human being for not publicly naming and shaming them 🙂

@tiikerikani
+1. Soooo agree.

I had a bot yesterday going 'if this answered your question, you can just hang up', which I thought implied I'd get an actual human on the line afterwards if I stuck around, but no! The bot just hung up on me.

So I had to call back and choose a random different option in the menu. At least that did give me a human and the problem was resolved...

@zhenech
Yes, it could've been worse indeed

@meluzzy
You can also buy laptops with Linux installed from major laptop manufacturers these days. Dell and Lenovo, at least.

When you do, it works well.

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