pleroma.debian.social

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.

@ravi
If you want to improve your language, don't focus on the subtitles, focus on the audio, and use the subtitles only when you're not sure of the audio.

@lanodan
From that page:

> from a minimal number of binary seeds

QED.
@whynothugo @mirabilos

@icedquinn
And yet, since 2000, Debian has never had less than 6 ports, and for much of that time the counter was at 11.

Looks like it will be 8 for forky...
@whynothugo @lanodan @navi @mirabilos

@lanodan
End result is that you have several years worth of build logs on buildd.debian.org that you can go and audit, as well as binaries on snapshot.debian.org.

And also the core packages are all reproducible, so you can verify independently.
@mirabilos @navi @whynothugo

@lanodan
- the build daemons churn away at building unstable constantly, both to prove that the hardware can keep up and that the toolchain is not riddled with bugs
- after a few years of this, the architecture is added to the official archive. packages from ports are used to build a minimal chroot
- the build system is configured to recompile those packages
- now they build the rest of unstable
@mirabilos @navi @whynothugo

@lanodan
If you dig deep enough, there's always a binary that was used for bootstrapping that isn't available anymore.

How far you need to go for that is what matters, IMO. Debian's process for adding a new port to the archive is:
- someone builds the initial chroot using cross compilers or vendor binaries or something.
- these are used to start the port on ports.debian.net
@whynothugo @navi @mirabilos

@ElizabethLee
I use a wi-fi remote which I can then control with my home assistant setup (but you can also use their phone app if you prefer).

Specifically, mine is a broadlink RM4 mini.

This is more flexible than a universal remote, as it can record the messages from your original remote and that way you can program whatever functionality you need.

Dunno whether that's something you'd consider, but thought I'd mention it.

Don't reply with what you hope, reply with what you expect.

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@bagder
That's only 1.x, right? No plans to get rid of more modern ones?

(Don't expect you to, but it's been my experience that it's better to ask than to indirectly assume all will be fine...)

@fl
Very welcome! Glad you find it useful ๐Ÿ˜Š

@cR0w
(I was at first going to say 'BLE stuff', but that's arguably also computers)

@cR0w
We have a string of led-based Christmas lights that are powered by two of them.

@bagder
Dear Earthling.

This thing came flying on our house. The house collapsed because of it.

We took it apart to figure out where it came from. Imagine our surprise when we discovered it was from Earth.

Please take your crap off our house.

Yours,

The Martian.
(The green type, not the Matt Damon type)

@bagder
Given the amount of emails you get from people seeing your name in legal notices, I'm sure if there are actual martians you'll be the first to find out!

@b0rk
That there is a command 'git rebase -i --autosquash' which you can combine with 'git commit --fixup' to do pretty effing advanced history editing.

I only learned about that after more than a decade of using git. Thanks Stefano!

@ShovelTrouble
Correct, but

(a) the ends do not justify the means, and
(b) deport first then ask questions is not justice.
@eff

@GyrosGeier
Still, if needing extra VRAM may be a reasonable price to pay for some if it means they can move to something more modern without leaving their UI behind.
@ignaloidas

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