Achievement unlocked: dual citizenship. Apparently I have been Belgian since Monday, but I only got the letter today

My FOSS activity in May: https://www.decadent.org.uk/ben/blog/2026/06/02/foss-activity-in-may-2026.html

Me: A cup of tea is cosy and welcoming An artist in Tienen:

As a responsible web citizen (/s), Meta documents the names of its bots and what you should put in robots.txt to limit them. But in reality: * They don't seem to properly support path filters in robots.txt. For example "Disallow: /gitweb/?" didn't work. * When I disallowed the crawler […]

[Alcohol] Ah, a fine vintage #debian

Could everyone just calm the fuck down for a week or two? https://fedi.lwn.net/@lwn/116535169774717465

I think I fixed a bunch of weird boot crashes: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/[email protected]/T/ #linux

On my way to MiniDebConf Hamburg. #debconf

My FOSS activity in April: https://www.decadent.org.uk/ben/blog/2026/05/02/foss-activity-in-april-2026.html

[food, vegan] Making Thai green curry

In the woods today: the Leuven Marathon. First runners reached this point, between 20 and 21 km, about 1:09 after the start. No idea why there was a smoke machine here

I walked in the woods for an hour this afternoon. There's usually a fair amount of birdsong there, but I don't recognise many birds by sound. This time I tried running whoBIRD, which identified a few different species - over 80% confidence for robin, common chiffchaff, blue tit, nuthatch […]

I finally have accommodation and travel booked for next month's MiniDebConf in Hamburg #debconf #debian

Uploaded Linux 7.0 to #debian experimental

[Eupol] European conservatives, hand in hand with the far right, looked at ICE raids and said "we want that here": https://mastodon.social/@euobserver/116379533632857614

Surprisingly, Belgium is not eating enough potatoes: https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2026/04/08/burgemeester-herstappe-marlutje-jackers-overschot-aardappelen/

Building only arch:any/all Debian packages: * dpkg-buildpackage: -B/-A * pbuilder: --binary-arch/--binary-indep * sbuild: --no-arch-all/--no-arch-any * apt build-dep: --arch-only/--indep-only Of course I can't remember all 4 of those pairs so I have to have to look at the man page […]

[Food, vegan] Making budae jjigae (army base stew)

Today we honour the holy poop of our resurrected rabbit god by eating chocolate "eggs"

[UK pol] Posted my ballot for the Gorton and Denton by-election. Now to wait and see if I made a tactical error.

From today's Guardian cryptic: Tablet cover shows Internet identification (2,7)

@jon VRT is reporting what seems like wishful thinking from an Antwerp councillor about train service to London: https://vrtnws.be/p.0YKj0RGQe

Here in Flanders, they're building a pumped storage system, reportedly with a capacity of 1 MWh. This would be by far the smallest such system in the world (current smallest is 13 MWh according to Wikipedia). Since we don't have any mountains, they're trucking in 900,000 tons of earth to build […]

I do not understand toiletry branding

In news that will shock no-one, quite a few fedi users care about Linux and trains. https://tech.lgbt/@bwh/115650870976050285

[Deutsche Bahn vs Linux] I have had difficulty making a purchase from #deutschebahn over the past week or so. The BahnCard is only sold online, and at the payment step I always landed on an error page, with code 751. (On int.bahn.de the error page says it's a 404, but the URL includes […]

Got my COVID and flu vaccinations today. Also got my 2nd measles vaccination last week, because 1970s UK considered 1 dose sufficient

If you're using #debian unstable and GNOME, you should probably delay upgrading for a day or two to avoid https://bugs.debian.org/1119809

Marched in Brussels. Did not get teargassed. https://abvv.be/14-oktober-2025 https://vrtnws.be/p.ewjPo4Bm9