Re: ftwca paste.debian.net
Am Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 10:48:26PM +0100 schrieb Antoine Le Gonidec:
> Le Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 08:27:23PM +0000, Simon McVittie a écrit :
> > Orthogonal to that enhancement, perhaps a better home for long-term content
> > shared with the world would be a git repo on Salsa, or a project on Salsa
> > with the "Snippets" feature enabled (that's Gitlab's equivalent of Github's
> > "Gist")?
>
> I think the main problem here is that josch was looking for a solution working
> on slow networks and ~old hardware. That takes Salsa/GitLab out of the options.
>
> Sure, there might be ways to interact with Salsa that do not involve its Web UI,
> but I suspect learning to use such tools would be a much bigger investent in
> time and energy than simply running pastebinit from a terminal.
>
> To avoid confusion: I too think we should provide a better option than pastes
> without an expiration date. I just don´t think that Salsa can be that option
> for everyone (especially outside of Western Europe and USA).
I had the stupid idea for a simple snippet service that just renders markdown, text, asciidoc
(basically we could do whatever pandoc does). I gave it a simple try.
https://snippets.snow-crash.org/2026_01_14_announcement/ (if people find that useful it will get
snippets.debian.net or whatever).
just commit your snippet in https://salsa.debian.org/debian/snippets. ensure it ends on .md, .adoc or .txt.
See it happen on https://snippets.snow-crash.org (I use slugify for sanitizing filenames).
https://salsa.debian.org/formorer/snippets.debian.net has the source (please don't look to deep into it).
Alex
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