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I learned a fair amount about reprepro today. It's been 15 years since someone requested the feature to have multiple versions of a package in their repo. Patches to implement that feature arrived more than 10 years ago. I believe it was in an official release 6 years ago. It's still not in Debian stable, testing, nor sid. It is available in the EXPERIMENTAL repo and it worked great. Just can't seem to get the new version into testing, sadly. It mirrors (ha, pun intended!) my experience with trying to get a patchlevel bug fix into pamu2f. I spent a year submitting pull requests, following up on the tickets and pull request, tracking down people and emailinb them, finding people on IRC, trying to get a mentor so I could become a volunteer contributor... and in the end all that work died on the vine. Eventually someone got a minor version update and put it into testing directly. That's the power of having an @debian.org email address. If you don't have that, you can't really contribute to the project.

LOL at people suggesting AI is going to leave people behind if they can't afford to pay for the tools. If that's true, then open source (including the training data) is vital to innovation. There'd be only megacorporatons making software, no open source because no AI gatekeeper is going to allow someone to create a free and open source alternative to what they make. It'd undermine their income stream. And if you think AI can't make AI tools, then you are acknowledging a huge limitation of so-called AI. They can't make anything new. It can only remix and combine things it's seen before. So if you create anything novel, you needn't worry about being left behind.

Yoy can shit at home and do like absolutely nothing and your name goes through like 17 computers a day. 1984? You're right, man! That's a typo. Orwell is here and now and he's livin' large We have no names, man. No names. We are nameless!

Nobody: whatcha doin'? Me: cross compiling Nobody: whatcha cross compilin'? Me: well, for starters, a compiler. 😑

Steak & Shake is a nice treat and way to test out my self-hosted lightning node all at once. And I'm racking up inbound liquidity like other people rack up the credit card reward points. Also, I don't have any channels directly to any large providers. Just individuals that I found through #nostr I realize there may be a huge nide clearing my transactions, and I'm cool with that, but I'm also cool with the possibility that it could potentially be plebs only someday.

Well, Plebeian market is dead. Can't say the word "password" on there, no replies to my bug request, no comments on my merge request, no notifications when someone makes a purchase, other than some JSON that goes to the store npub instead of my personal one. Too bad too. It LOOKS nice, but not being functional ia a dealbreaker for me.

Is bitchat like Briar, where you can have encrypted chat over bluetooth or wifi with no internet?

Framed out the roof of the new shed today. 12' x 10' It was 32°C (39°C with the heat index). Did it it three small chunks. No injuries.

Was SETI @ Home a waste of energy? What did it accomplish? Is the internet worth the environmental cost? "according to Ethic (2024), if the Internet were a country, it would be the sixth most polluting country in the world in terms of emissions." Source: https://mayfirst.coop/files/justicia-ambiental-infra.en.pdf If these things were not a waste of energy, what is the basis fort claiming AI is environmentally wasteful? I have very concrete answers to this, but I want to inspire people to think critically and come up with a consistent way of thinking about what is "wasted" or "worth it".

"AI will replace all information security professionals"... ..."AI vibe coded apps and systems introduce host of security vulnerabilities." Well why don't they get the AI to look at the AI and check to see if the AI is AI-certified secure? 🤣🤣🤣 Via

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"AI will replace all information security professionals"... ..."AI vibe coded apps and systems introduce host of security vulnerabilities." Well ...