Founder of Gemini Protocol (Solderpunk) Has Noticed Deterioration in the Debian Project
Solderpunk's Phlog (Gopher Log) and Solderpunk's Gemlog (Gemini Log, equivalent of "Weblog") are going through changes, which he explained last night [1, 2]. He has been in Finland lately, but we assume he's German and visits Sweden a lot (a lot of Swedes are ethnically German, going generations back) and he seems to be trying to consolidate his digital life to lower costs - same thing we did a year ago... before finally (years belatedly) putting everything on one Debian 12 server.
Solderpunk recently spoke about Gemini Protocol, which had he started, turning 5. Now he moans about Debian's departure from Computer Science or, as he puts it in his own words: "This has been my first encounter with Debian 12 (I still haven't bothered doing my ThinkPad yet). Apparently we're not allowed to use `pip` to install Python stuff like a normal person anymore. Modern dependency management is such a ridiculous edifice, but whatever, it's genuinely not worth the energy to rant about it. I still have one more bit of server wrangling planned for this year, combining a personal webserver and a personal mail server running on separate VPSes to one, as part of my "Blazing Star" to reduce my computing footprint and costs[2]. I'm not looking forward to it, but want it done, so I'll have to bite the bullet soon."
Our Gemini capsules always ran from Debian (for a little while Tux Machines had its capsule running on Alpine) and they're generally coping OK*, but the project is being sabotaged by Microsofters who insult the victims and say they'd code for "sexual favours". It's hardly surprising that many of them lack professional training/formal education in software development. They viciously attack those who merely point this out. █
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* 65,000+ Gemini requests since 1AM (a few hours ago).