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@thomasfuchs @gloriouscow I think I must never have experienced composite CGA in person. It's a very Apple II look here.

Maaannnn free software maintainer burnout is as old as I am.

https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_01/page/n7/mode/1up

@thomasfuchs Others have talked about Debian LTS and the debian stable/testing distinction. But you will also want to know about Debian Backports.

Debian Backports lets you get targeted packages from debian testing on your debian stable machine, in a minimally disruptive way. This includes kernels so it is akin to Ubuntu's HWE.

"debian-backports-sloppy" lets you get targeted packages from debian testing on your debian "oldstable" machine, at the risk of making upgrades from oldstable to stable not work due to conflicting package versions.

https://backports.debian.org/

Debian Backports provides new packages with new features on supported Debian stable releases:

• trixie-backports provides new packages for Debian 13 (trixie), backported from Debian testing (forky), which will be updated until 1 year after the forky release
• bookworm-backports provides new packages for Debian 12 (bookworm), backported from Debian 13 (trixie), which will be updated until August 9th 2026.
• bookworm-backports-sloppy provides new packages for Debian 12 (bookworm), backported from Debian testing (forky), which will be updated until August 9th 2026.
• All older branches have reached end-of-life and are no longer supported or updated

@thomasfuchs It's also worth noting that the end of backports for bookworm (August 2026) is well before the end of LTS for bookworm (June 2028)

@Fragglemuppet Memory Alpha/Beta doesn't seem to know anything about this.

That sibling comment with the LD dialog seems like it might be winking at some fandom...

Here are some ao3 works that came up. There are quite a few:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/853475 [2013]
https://archiveofourown.org/works/104119 [2010]
https://archiveofourown.org/works/27884 [2009]

He hurriedly made excuses for the two of them to quickly get back on the ship as he noted two things: one, Spock drunk on chocolate was the hottest thing he'd ever seen, and two, chocolate would now definitely be a regular staple on the Enterprise.

@Fragglemuppet

Every day I have the unexplained experience of being conscious in the first place.

@thomasfuchs by "conjectures with no evidence" do you mean philosophy? 😀

I feel like it's a "bite the bullet" consequence of the philosophical position of materialism: mind & conscious experience are a function of macroscopic physical bodies (mostly our brains) and as such in principle can be modeled by computation.

Of course, the computation needed for a full brain model is infeasible, obtaining the full starting conditions for a particular human's living brain is physically improbable, and if anyone uses this line of thinking to claim that LLMs might be conscious, they're making an unjustified leap or trying to sell something.

@whitequark sounds like what I need is an understanding of how to secure podman properly, then.

@whitequark It's great to see this! Many of us have plenty of compute inside our homes, enough to support our own small project CI needs, but it's easy to be intimidated by the setup process, worrying about security if we let people use the runner via pull requests, etc.

I followed some manual steps to set up a runner on a raspberry pi 5 earlier this year.

I have what are probably some very basic questions.

First, does using NixOS provide any extra isolation or security compared to just running forgejo-runner under its own Unix user in a regular Linux install?

Second, would these steps adapt to the ARM-based pi5 or is it specific to x86_64 type machines?

Semi-answering my second question, I see that pi 5 gets "community supported (unverified)" in the NixOS support matrix which is not exactly inspiring... but pi4 is YES. https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/NixOS_on_ARM/Raspberry_Pi

Aurora photos from last night. Near Wildwood Lake State Wildlife Management Area north of Lincoln Nebraska.

#LNK #Aurora #auroraBorealis #northernLights

@xkcd The amazing unix units(1) program has been prepared for this moment!

or how about

I had a brain idea so I made a picture of it. #pride

@ana I heard that sometimes there are whole clusters of so call "cis" people, like a sort of self reinforcing mass delusion? disturbing if true. /s

@whitequark I didn't design the build system but needless to say the project (micropython) cares a lot about cross builds.

@whitequark

checks most recently edited Makefile

well s--- I feel seen right now

@whitequark that's OK, my cmake hot take is I'd rather read GNU make.

I made a #retroComputer terminal with RP2040. It drives a paperwhite VGA display at 60Hz, presenting a 132x53 line text mode. Here's a little video about it. Source code: https://github.com/jepler/cr100

Note: the VO says "7H1" is one of the serial modes, but of course I mis-read "7N1" (7 bits, no parity, 1 stop bit) in my haste. 🤣

#raspberryPiPico #RP2040 #RetroComputing