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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.

@sean
Vaccines work *because* they don't kill you, and therefore make you stronger...?

@wouter

It was pointed out to me that this post is now quoted on their website, and misinterpreted at that. Roy, since I know you're following this thread: No, I did not say that you deserve to be harassed. Nobody does. When I said "you deserved it", that referred to your continued false accusations in the face of evidence to the contrary.

Also, sorry to spoil your thunder, but quoting Daniel Pocock is not the flex you think it is.

@rnd
You are not wrong. Part of this is because Keith Packard spent a few years at Intel teaching corporate structures how you upstream a driver for Linux into X11 (at the time) and Mesa:

https://keithp.com/keithp/resume/
@ariadne @agowa338

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.

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

@liw
(It's called 'AIStor' these days, presumably to be buzzword compatible ๐Ÿ™„ 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.

i am a:

โ˜ man
โ˜ woman
โ˜’ robot

seeking:

โ˜ men
โ˜ women
โ˜’ DDR5 RAM

@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
Glรผhwein 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.

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (July)

Bitter fight over 2020 Microsoft quantum paper both resolved and unresolved
--The Register, 31 Jul 2025

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