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Current thoughts on Mastodon

The majority of posts on Mastodon right now are about how to get started, discussions about various features or making fun of the dumpster fire that is the birdsite. This is mostly unavoidable as new people sign up, but I've tried to keep using Mastodon as an actual social network…

Debian firmware GR vote

My #Debian firmware GR vote is 6437215. In order of preference: Amend the Social Contract to allow for non-free firmware in installers. Have a installer w/ non-free firmware next to the fully free one. None of the above Have only a non-free installer OR status quo, the installer w/ non-free…

Rocket 0.5-rc.2

The next #Rocket release candidate is out: https://rocket.rs/v0.5-rc/news/2022-05-09-version-0.5-rc.2/Updated all of my projects in ~40 minutes, best part of #Rust is that if it compiles, it'll just work!