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pleroma.debian.social

Wouter Verhelst | @wouter@pleroma.debian.social

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

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

@rk
So I see now that my second message may make the first message not look sarcastic. This was not the intent.

Writing code to spew out BER/DER is every bit the nightmare you would think it is.

The fact that I somehow did that while managing to not make me want to go get high or drunk (or both) to forget my troubles should not in any way or form be construed as me thinking BER is great.

At least it wasn't XER 😅

@georgetakei
... or a fascist themselves at heart

@rk
Honestly, I made it look quite elegant if you only looked at the file that *used* the functions and ignored derencode.c

https://github.com/Fedict/eid-test-ca/blob/master/fromcard.c

@rk
I dunno, I wrote something to spew out some BER code once and it was not a nightmare.

Not at all.

@RichiH
I suspect it's to do with the local format license plate having mounting holes in locations where you can't drive screws in the car. Would that be an accurate assessment?
@H4ndy

@zhenech
And perl.

I've recently bought myself a Bluetooth keyboard so I can do some hacking on my tablet on an upcoming 20 hour red eye flight...
@algernon

@katemorley
Belgium is boring, everything is metric.

Except, of course, for air traffic, because there we do try to be compatible with those weird American feet. But hey.

Listen, it’s very simple: In Britain we use the metric system, except for beer and milk, which come in pints. But not plant milk — that comes in litres.

Oh, and distances are in miles. But only if they’re too far to walk — if you can walk it it’s in metres. If you’re driving then your fuel efficiency is in miles-per-gallon, but petrol is sold in litres.

Oh, and your height is in feet and inches. If you don’t care much about your weight it’s in stone (but not pounds — no-one can remember how many pounds are in a stone and it’s hard to read the little tick marks on analogue scales). If you do care about your weight then your digital scales tell you it in kilograms.

Oh, and if there’s a heatwave then tabloids will forecast a “100°F scorcher”. But if it’s cold then it’s an “arctic blast” with “widespread temperatures below 0°C”.

I hope this clears things up.

@cmconseils
I'm 47 and I say, wait 10 more years before you do 😂

I wanna record an audiobook that's 8 hours of breathing and page turning.

Then just "Oh, you mean out loud?" right at the end.

@pare
There is a 'general' pseudo package which, if used, ends up on the debian-devel mailing list where it is then triaged.

However, it tends to attract the type of bug report that goes "it doesn't work" which is not actionable and better served through other support channels. This is why reportbug encourages you to try those first instead of the general package.

In this case though, it is warranted to use general. You know the bug, just not the package.
@liw

@pare
No stress. Venting is an important part of keeping your head on straight 😉
@liw

@amd
Link to the book?

I've been self hosting my own email too, for decades, but it's never a bad idea to learn from others!
@mwl

Debian 13 ("trixie") released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1033134/

Debian 13 "trixie" has been released, thanks to everyone involved! "trixie" images are available for download at https://www.debian.org/distrib/ or you can run apt full-upgrade as always ;-)

@pare
The first step to get that done is, use 'reportbug' to make people aware.

Both seem like things that should be fixed, IMO.
@liw

The release process has begun! FTP masters are setting up the supporting suites for a stable release in preparation for the main stable suite: the Debian Archive Kit (dak) being reconfigured to map stable/oldstable/oldoldstable and security suites down one rank.

@mirabilos
Extrepo requires a new merge request and then an 'extrepo update' by the user. There is still some room for improvement there, though.

@mirabilos
Can you send in an MR for extrepo-data please? 😉

I suppose the alliterations probably have something to do with it.

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