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pleroma.debian.social

Jonathan Dowland | @jmtd@pleroma.debian.social

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

New blog post: Interzone digital
https://jmtd.net/log/interzone/digital/
An eulogy to Interzone as a paper magazine, and trying to use my ancient iPad mini as an e-magazine reader. #interzone #fiction

@thomasfuchs oh god they’ve broken it? I’m a release behind

New blog post: Bauer Fly30 ice skates
https://jmtd.net/log/fly30/
I bought some new ice skates, they seem amazing but I am suffering from arch pain. #skating

New blog post: Korg Minilogue XD Desktop Module
https://jmtd.net/log/synths/minilogue-xd/module/
I swapped my Korg Minilogue XD synthesizer for a Korg Minilogue XD desktop/modular synthesizer and try to explain why. #musicmaking

@mhoye less money spent on frames, more money available for art.

Today's discovery, charming site "Early Web Links" -- https://earlyweblinks.com/

Someone please buy the Prodigy a different drum machine

Tomorrow marks one year at IBM

@mcc @Rk OG vim has python plugins: task wiki is one example. That eventually annoyed me enough to try re-implementing it (in lua, for neovim). (I haven’t done anything about the LLM situation yet)

another day wrestling systemd :( StopWhenUnneeded= seems really unreliable with cryptsetup units. It can work, but it isn't and I don't know why.

Hm. I trigger some systemd services by plugging in external drives. This used to work by WantedBy=dev-disk-by\x2duuid-<minus-escaped-UUID>.device. But setting up a new one, it seems not to ("added as a dependency to a non-existent unit")

@fraggle @fesshole I am not alone! :-)

New blog post: HeroQuest
https://jmtd.net/log/heroquest/
My youngest daughter discovers the boardgame HeroQuest, and much to my surprise, loves it. #games

@argv_minus_one @algernon Both my servers are Debian, but the old one is on a provider who is more expensive (been with them since 2014, eek) and some of our needs have changed a little so we're shuffling to a different configuration VPS on a different provider.

That said oldVPS is on 11 (oldoldstable) which is a problem.

@algernon @argv_minus_one I’m mid way through migrating off my hopes-and-prayers server (1 year into the project :/) and that’s one reason I haven’t taken the opportunity to redesign the mail setup

@argv_minus_one @algernon I’m very intrigued by rspamd. If I were redesigning my mail setup, I’d definitely give it a look (but I haven’t the spoons for that in the near future). I’ve been incredibly lucky with crm114 for spam classification, it has worked extremely well for me for 20 years or more. But I don’t have SMTP-time rejection which would be nice. Is rspamd resource resource heavy?

A three-panel comic strip. In the top-left panel, a smiling character says, "blow my mind" to a second character. In the top-right panel, the second character puts a hand to their chin, thinking "hmmm..". In the bottom panel, the second character stares wide-eyed and states, "Towns in videogames are beautiful because they're designed around the player's experience rather than a car".

@Orb2069 I’m not sure how they’ve done it. Some folks have tried to reverse engineer without much success.

New blog post: mount namespace for backup jobs (by hand)
https://jmtd.net/log/mount_namespace_backup/
I make a small adjustment to my backup jobs in order to run them all in a separate, dedicated mount namespace. #backups #linux

The sorting hat put me in “team sage”, who seem to be bottom of the league. I’m choosing to believe they’re simply above such trivialities. Go green! #nomanssky

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