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phf

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I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊

I am not actually a musician and that's very frustrating sometimes. 🎹 I do look like my profile picture though ... except for the leather jacket maybe? 🤔

And since we're in Germany, I'll mostly shut the fuck up about politics and world affairs. 🤫 Mostly...

I tend to post in both German 🇩🇪 and English 🇺🇸.

OpenArena? Beat me!

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@phf@mastodon.de avatar phf , to random

Do I know anyone in Germany who desperately needs 2GB and 4GB DDR3 SODIMM RAM suitable for 2012-2014 (or so) ThinkPads (and probably other laptops)?

Back of the SODIMM modules.

Back of the SODIMM modules.
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@osnews@mstdn.social avatar osnews Bot , to random

Debian to add hard Rust dependency to APT

It seems like a number of Debian ports are going to face difficult times over the coming months. Debian developer Julian Andres Klode has sent a message to the Debian mailing lists that APT will very soon start requiring Rust.

I plan to introduce hard Rust dependencies and Rust code into APT, no earlier than May 2026. This extends at first to the Rus

https://www.osnews.com/story/143696/debian-to-add-hard-rust-dependency-to-apt/

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@osnews Unless they apply additional Micro$oft tactics here, the existing APT tooling should keep working with the existing repos. If they apply additional Micro$oft tactics over this, well, then Debian as a project deserves to burn in hell. 🤷

@phf@mastodon.de avatar phf , to random

The MIDI standard was introduced in 1983 and it's still in use today. Think about THAT when you design your next protocol. The MIDI standard allows digital musical instruments from different manufacturers to work together, doesn't matter if one is from 1985 and the other is from 2025. Think about THAT when someone tells you to force obsolescence in your product or to violate standards in the name of "innovation" as it were.

Now granted, most big musical instrument companies have been sabotaging MIDI quite a bit in recent years. They've mostly done this by neglecting the requirement for comprehensive documentation of their MIDI implementations. That's terrible, but it's still possible to reverse engineer their shit. At a huge and completely unnecessary cost, but hey, that's what we get.

Most importantly so far no company has dared to release a commercial digital instrument (that I know of) that explicitly does NOT support MIDI. (Although some seem to have only USB MIDI anymore?) Seems like a victory for standards and digital longevity to me.

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@aeva Thank you for that pointer! I never really considered any of their stuff so I guess that was off my radar. But I am not surprised.

@Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de avatar Codeberg , to random

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@Codeberg Just for reference, I'd understand it if you decided to go "members only" with a public site that only lets unregistered accounts generate a very limited amount of traffic before blocking them.