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Jonathan Dowland | @jmtd@pleroma.debian.social

Principal Software Engineer on #OpenJDK #RedHat. #Debian developer (dormant). Computer Science PhD student. Amateur Computing historian (Computer Science and H/W, esp. Commodore Amiga). Guerilla archivist.

My first Minecraft experience probably was very different from yours. The year was 2012, I had no idea what Minecraft was, and a friend invited me to join a "survival server with Industrial Craft" installed. There were about 200 players on the server, and the rules were very simple: PvP allowed, private land not allowed, server map is 4000 by 4000 blocks.

What do you do when you spawn in a world like this? Do you break some wood to make your first pickaxe? Do you scavenge for food? No, no-no-no. You run.

You run as fast as you can, as long as your hunger doesn't start to get you. Mature players won't camp at the spawn point, but angry bitter _poor_ nothing-to-lose kids did.

Moreover, the land was barren. The server didn't do wipes for months. There were no trees in the 1k block radius. No animals. No resources to mine, either.

In this game, the priority was on sustainable survival. Kind of like "skyblock" map, but with cunning PvP players.

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Staying on magazines, I saw this today and couldn't resist
Amiga Addict "Amiga Format" issue

This landed on my doormat today. And it's a *GOOD* one
Electronic Sound Magazine, "Cold War Electronica" issue

I thought I would power through some stuff today on a MacBook Pro but things didn’t go according to plan. Xcode refused to install metal sdk which is mandatory for OpenJDK (I think), and I couldn’t resolve it so ended up ssh’d into my threadripper instead.

@fazalmajid @neil oooh their N100 (8”) is the class of device I’m looking at. Hadn’t heard of them before. Thanks!

@neil I’m on a quest for something a bit like this; the closest I’ve seen in modern stuff is a 7” GPT Pocket clone or something styled similarly. Not a phone though

@mirabilos @harrysintonen this is a pretty widespread behaviour in existing tooling: systemctl and bin/su suffer it as well. It wasn’t thought worthy of a CVE for those. I’m actually surprised OG sudo doesn’t

A wayland bug I keep meaning to debug more but haven’t got around to it: on Debian trixie, with KDE and wayland, it crashes as soon as I press any keyboard key.

@purpleidea @miek @federicomena no expert here either :-) Either way, just checked my /bin/su and it does it too

Today's GIF of the Day is...

@purpleidea @federicomena @miek in front of a computer now. Just checked: it's systemd. If you kill the process before submitting the typed password:

$ systemctl daemon-reload
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.systemd1.reload-daemon ====
Authentication is required to reload the systemd state.
Authenticating as: Jonathan Dowland,,, (jon)
Password: Terminated
$ the password I wrote but did not submit is echoed here

@purpleidea @miek @federicomena I’ve seen that exact same bug somewhere before… either original sudo or systemd. From what I recall it isn’t considered fixable and wasn’t issued a CVE.

Finally had the necessary confirmation: I will graduate in December!

@jwildeboer @_elena I picked mine up about 10 years ago. Mildly modified (sd card storage, rockbox open source software, and recently a replacement battery). Feels really good to be away from the incessant upselling of the Internet

A few months ago I was bemoaning the inablity of my 4k@60 display (LG 27UD58) to do 4k@60 on its HDMI inputs.

Today, quite by accident, it IS doing 4k@60 on one of the inputs.

No idea why, or how, but I'd like to repeat the trick!

@DukeDuke @jwildeboer I love those flasks. Have you ever had to replace the gasket in the lid?

@jwildeboer I drink a lot of tea. 20 cups a day. I’m considering going decaf or at least better understanding whether or how I’m relying on caffeine to regulate myself

re: password manager PSA (keepassxc)
@argv_minus_one @hazelnot I quite like the global/shared menu bar approach that macOS uses, and I think KDE still supports. A bit of the best of both worlds: distinct without costing vertical real estate per window

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