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@untrusted

Only through @thanosapollo I learned about https://github.com/mierenhoop/picomemo

It seems to be a pretty small #OMEMO library in C, supporting both "oldmemo" and "newmemo". Nice!

Will package it for #Debian:

https://bugs.debian.org/1132530

#Jabber #XMPP #Emacs

@stefanpfeiffer.blog

Im Grunde bin ich auch in einem System gefangen. Nur daß es #Linux statt Apple ist 😉

Alle PCs, privat und auf der Arbeit: #Debian

Servers und Cloud: Debian

Telefon: #Mobian von @mobian, d.h. — Debian

Router: #OpenWRT (Linux)

Nur meine NotSo#Smartwatch sticht heraus: #SensorWatchPro von @joeycastillo, #OpenHardware mit #FreeSoftware, aber immerhin kein Linux 🙂

PS: Signal ist ein #walledGarden auf AWS. Lieber was föderiertes! Z.B. #Jabber/#XMPP.

Based on Debian 13 (Trixie), Apertis v2026 delivers updated system libraries, development tools, compilers, and core services, alongside a new default Wayland compositor, a reworked SDK, and smarter packaging pipelines.

https://col.la/apertisv2026

#Apertis #EmbeddedLinux #Debian #Trixie #OpenSource

@gajim

Should be in #Debian unstable now, and in #forky #overmorrow.

#Gajim #Jabber #XMPP

Lucas Nussbaum announced the availability of debaudit, a new service which verifies the integrity and reproducibility of Debian source packages and complements the work of the Reproducible Builds project. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/03/msg00004.html #debian #reproducible-builds #03

@doomchild

If you are on Ubuntu, why not just switch to #Debian? Or one of its other downstreams like Mint?

Disclosure: I'm a Debian developer and my only #gaming routine is #Emacs.

Ugh.

I moved fully over to #kubuntu at the end of last year, getting rid of my Windows 11 install, and I'm really glad I did. But now it seems like Ubuntu is doubling down even harder on Snaps (which are just plain bad), and with some other stuff coming down the line (like the age attestation stuff), I'm starting to wonder if I should move to another distro.

I've used stuff based on #debian for so long that I honestly don't know how I'd manage on anything else. But it sort of feels like pretty much everything there is going in a similar direction, so I've started wondering where else I should go.

I don't understand why anybody in their right mind would use a rolling release model, so that rules out pretty much anything based on #arch (also, any system that fetishizes installing from the command line like it's 1999 has a priority matrix that I don't think I intersect with pretty much anywhere).

I could do #fedora as I ran that for a while back in the early 00's, but I suspect Red Hat's going to wind up doing the same thing Canonical is on some level.

All I want is to be able to game well on my desktop. For my file server and second desktop, I'm not really as worried, because I'm not trying to play Doom Eternal or whatever on them.

Bleh.

@jackwilliambell

You might like to take a look into #Movim by @movim, if you are interested in the combination of secure chat, public chats, blogging, A/V calls etc.

I looked at Briar some years ago, because I was interested in packaging it for #Debian. IIRC, the protocol wasn't formally documented, so that people could implement it in the programming language of choice, like it is for #XMPP, Matrix etc. Only a Java reference implementation to copy from. I hope, it's better nowadays.

#Jabber

@Jerry @zash

If @xmpp_providers are using #Debian stable, they have to upgrade #ejabberd to 24.12-3+deb13u2. It has the relevant patch by @holger to ignore the certificate purpose. It's currently in "proposed-updates" (yeah, Debian lingo).

#Jabber #XMPP

@josch

For me, it's very similar:

#orgmode ⇒ 🪄 M-x org-latex-export-to-pdf 🪄 ⇒ PDF

If #SILE and/or #Typst ever make into #Debian, the magic step might change, but input and output formats remain.

Anway, I have to play with #TeXLaTeX a lot to get exactly what I want.

Debian is present at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2026, in Chemnitz, Germany, this weekend. Visit our booth! You can also participate in a workshop, Debian Pakete bauen und Fehler beheben, organized by Andreas Tille, the current Debian Project Leader https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2026/en/programm/beitrag/142 #debian #03

Updated Debian 13: 13.4 released https://www.debian.org/News/2026/20260314 #debian #trixie #03

MiniDebConf Kanpur starts tomorrow at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Full schedule is available here: https://kanpur2026.mini.debconf.org/schedule/ Please note that there will be no video streaming of the talks. #debian #DebianIndia #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfKanpur #03

Come see edge AI in action on the Toradex Aquila AM69, in a containerized ML model deployment on Torizon.

Booth 4-404 | Embedded World 2026

#EdgeComputing #AIatTheEdge #Toradex #MachineLearning #Debian

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#Debian #DebianIndia #Kanpur #MiniDebConf

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Attendance costs ₹200. Attendance + shared campus Accommodation can be booked at ₹950. Make payment on https://kanpur2026.mini.debconf.org/about/registration/ and proceed to registrations page!

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Debian thanks all the contributors building and nurturing the FOSS ecosystem and wishes everyone a very happy "I Love Free Software Day" https://fsfe.org/activities/ilovefs/ #debian #ilovefs #02