valhalla @valhalla@mastodon.social

... for those who are surprised by the removal of jessie-updates from the #Debian archives: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/03/msg00006.html

I swear sometimes I feel like when I use Free / Libre Open Source Software it's like getting a hug from an entire community.

social.gl-como.it/photos/lifo/…

#Debian #SnowCamp

After a bit more than one year since I finished, I finally posted the pattern and instructions for my backpack.

This was my first big #MYOG project, and I've been using it almost daily as my “handbag”. www.trueelena.org/clothing/pro… #sewing

The next DIY #MiniDebCamp starts in two weeks in Laveno, Italy https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/it/2019/SnowCamp #SnowCamp

Debian SnowCamp in Laveno 28 Feb / 3 Mar 2019 https://social.gl-como.it/display/3e3ce0df-175c-5b4d-6c50-9c4971126279

whatever you clever web kids are doing lately to break such esoteric browser features as "the arrow keys make the page go up and down" and "the Home and End keys work", i wish you would kindly reconsider.

Please don't use doodle.com. Just don't. Ever!

Instead, for example use the "dudle" (since doodle is a TM I think?) by the technical university of Dresden: http://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/

Apart from being a lot more privacy oriented, it has a tonne more features such as non-date polls, the ability to GPG sign votes, etc...

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random PSA apropos nothing:

it is entirely possible for someone to have been in a shitty situation with toxic people and for that person to also be a toxic person

there is no wrong in getting the fuck away from them

@clacke As I get older I feel more strongly that one should not idolize people, regardless of how great they seem. Idols seem to always disppoint. Also, it's unfair to require humans to be super-humanly good in every way, just because they're good in one way.

If someone does something excellent, appreciate them for that, but don't assume they're excellent in every other way. If they happen to also do, or have done, something bad, condemn that, in a proportional and just amount.

It has finally happened! packages.debian.org/sid/valent… I've been using valentina to draft #sewingPatterns for a while, using the upstream packages inside a virtual machine, and I can recommend it to other people who want to draft their own patterns from measurements (and not just because there are afaik no other free software alternatives).

I've been planning to try and package it for debian for a long time, but ended up spending my #sewing time on sewing-in-a-hurry instead of working on the tools, so I'm quite happy that somebody else had time to do it.

We're halfway between the Year 2000 bug and the Year 2038 bug.

(Happy New Year everyone!)

Conservancy makes a choice to be non-creepy, despite the overwhelming piles of spam from non-profit strategists, digital marketing experts and sales pitches for creepy lists. Instead? We rely on YOU to spread the word. https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/dec/28/nicerthings/