pleroma.debian.social

pleroma.debian.social

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.

I am in favor of this life tip.

Life hack: Allow yourself 8-12 hours of alone time every morning to prepare for the day.

Probably the last CVE indexed before it goes dark should be CVE-2025-DOGE (critical, local privilege escalation vulnerability that leads to malicious code execution and data exfiltration).

It's confusing I know, but if you have watched ANDOR you may not watch XOR and vice versa

@Diziet @Diziet Thanks -- it hadn't worked in my case. My instance is running Pleroma, rather than Mastodon, which might be why.

@ttyS1 @highvoltage I’ve been meaning to look into that. Do you not use something like rEFInd either?

@davidgerard for the last ten years, in-place upgrades of Debian. I’m due to do it again soon, but I’m considering the method you outline this time to get away from some technical debt. In the general case I’d probably attempt in-place updates for Ubuntu, assuming it hasn’t wandered too far from debian’s legendary stability

Oh, this is interesting (and a little scary)

tl;dr don’t use SSDs for long term, offline storage. The data degrades after as little as two years without the drives being powered up

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/unpowered-ssd-endurance-investigation-finds-severe-data-loss-and-performance-issues-reminds-us-of-the-importance-of-refreshing-backups

Freshrss feature idea: periodic aggregated report on broken feeds, *as* a feed

I wrote a work blog post about using OpenJDK's jlink/jdeps modules tooling to build really small java application containers for OpenShift: https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/04/17/jlink-integration-openshift-tech-preview-release

#openjdk #containers #openshift

@JoshuaACNewman @mcc I have a PO-33, a Korg Monotron Delay and a Kastle v1 doing nothing. I have/had fantasies of designing and 3d-printing an itty-bitty eurorack-style enclosure/stand to house them, and to aid in hacking on them: common power input, expose more controls off the PCBs, etc.; in my head this started to resemble something from Ghost in the Shell

@mcc periodic reminder (to me) to dig out my Kastle (v1) and have some fun

New blog post: submitted https://jmtd.net/log/phd/submitted/ #phd

@david_chisnall @GoblinQuester @jenesuispasgoth @futurebird “the lathe of heaven” is fantastic. “The left hand of darkness” is good, too.

the autoscaling team i'm on at red hat is hiring a new quality engineer. we are starting our search in the Brno area, but if you are passionate about kubernetes and software quality, please check it out.

https://redhat.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Jobs/job/Brno---Tech-Park-Brno---B/Software-Quality-Engineer---OpenShift-Team--Brno-Office-_R-047353-1

Randomly remembering wetrix, an underrated puzzle game from the n64 era. There was a sequel but I’ve never played that.

My toolbox is overflowing, not with tools, but with screws, nails, nuts, rawl plugs, etc.: where do you keep those things? How do you organise them?

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