I'm here today to talk to you about
diffoscope

and how you can use it as a better diff

or for Quality Assurance, etc., things
like that.

Moin!

Apparently that's like a north german
thing to say "welcome".

North german, north Denmark, Scandinavia,
that kind of thing, I'm told.

People are shaking their head, so I'm
going to assume that's true.

This is my first PC, an IBM 5155.

Sometimes, when you rebooted it, it would
launch into, it would somehow revert

from booting from the hard disk to booting
from a basic ROM,

as in the programming language ROM.

It was on my motherboard for some reason.

So, randomly, you just get a chance to
program in basic and then,

sometimes you wouldn't, I don't know why,
but… yeah.

It's quite fun with this kind of clicky
keyboard, and that folded in

and it was this kind of big desk thing.

Anyway…

This is my first Debian.

At the time it was already old.

What's this one? Is this Slink? 2.2?
Yeah.

And this is when we had US and non-US,
so that's really dating if you remember that.

This is my first contribution to Debian,
19th December 2006,

sending a patch to lillypond which is kind
of interesting

and the response was "Oh yeah, rock on,
many thanks. I'll upload this and

it'll be landing to Etch".

And this was super motivating because
Etch was just coming out and it was like

"Great, I've got let one line of tiny patch
in a release. This is super cool."

Thomas' response was super motivating.

So, after that, like that Christmas
basically spent ???

Debian webpages and stuff.

Very well timed.