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.