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.

The internet was not a mistake
Social media was not a mistake

Allowing Corporations to dictate and control both of these things was the mistake.

(1/7) I suppose isn't the place people are discussing . But after 36 hours of deliberating whether to say anything, I feel compelled. This thread will be long,but I start w/ most important part:

It's an “open secret” in the community that in March 2017 my brother murdered our mother. About 3k ppl/year in USA have this experience, so it's a statistical reality that someone else in FOSS experienced similar. If so, you're welcome in my PMs to discuss if you need support…

@liw
They did? Whoa. I must've missed that bit. Damn.

@liw
(It's called 'AIStor' these days, presumably to be buzzword compatible 🙄 but it's really an S3 thing, SDK at https://www.min.io/download/aistor-sdk

@liw
There's an API from min.io that is reasonably complete in multiple languages (dunno what obnam is written in and whether that's provided, of course). I could recommend that? It's mostly tested on their own server implementation of course, but supports any S3 implementation really.

@navi
I mean yes if you're going to be serious about building a binary repository then higher-level tools like reprepro to track packages and their versions in different suites so that you get auto cleanup of old versions and easy metadata signatures are definitely useful, but they're absolutely not required.
@SRAZKVT @dalias @draeath @ska

@navi
A deb/rpm repository isn't much more than that. You dump packages in a directory and run a single command to extract the metadata into an index file. 'createrepo' or its C reimplementation for rpm, 'dpkg-scanpackages' for deb. That's all that's *required*. You then export said directory over http or mount it and you can install these packages with all the dependency tracking.
@dalias @draeath @ska @SRAZKVT

@foone
I must have missed that interview but oh yes I can totally imagine it!
@philpem

@sten
Well, kind of, what totally put me off COBOL though is its verbosity.

No, 'a = b+2'. In COBOL, you say 'ADD 2 TO b GIVING a'.

No, 'a = b', either. Instead, you say 'MOVE b TO an

Etc etc etc, the list goes on. I mean, if I want to write a novel, I'll use English rather than COBOL, thank you.

@bkuhn
I get notifications on my @apps app that's installed on my phone whenever someone replies to (or likes, or boosts) one of my posts...

Not sure which Firefox plugin you use, but this works for me

@evan
Not as religiously (in multiple senses of that word) as some of the people around me, but yes

@hazelweakly
Amen.

The second is a special case of the first though?

@hyc
Glühwein is awesome!
@ElizabethLee

@liw
You can drop the 'personally' part in that last sentence. Not only were you not alone in that, I have yet to find a person who *is* able to tell them apart without looking up the details, myself included.

@NanoRaptor
Took me a while to recognise it as a rabbit. I thought it was a very weird dog, at first 😂

@opticron
😲😶 Okay some things are just stupid.
@bkuhn @kevin @epilepticrabbit

@bagder
So many words when you could have just said '0' 😂

But yeah, cool.
animated GIF saying 'very cool' in an eighties pixelated font with a guy making an 'I'm impressed' face.

@bagder
OOI, how many command line options to curl have ever been removed? If you keep that statistic, of course.

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