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.

@d0pefish I just did a week in Portland. Used max size cabin luggage and 0 hold way out, with a fold-out bag for hold on way back

@d0pefish I hope you left space in your luggage for goodies!

@mjg59 I once had one of those hella-thick programming books from the early 00’s “Linux programming interface” which was clearly a hastily rewritten old UNIX book. Lots of STREAMS. (But also the relevant stuff, sockets, FIFOs, etc). The cover had a shot of the two authors wearing suits and ties. That should have been a red flag 🚩

@eriol thanks! Might be today

@d0pefish awesome! I’m sure you’ll have a great time. Travelling around much?

@d0pefish how long are you out there for?

@numbertheory @molly0xfff have they done anything to historic tweets?

Historic pleroma URIs seem ok

I can’t claim to be a digital native, so perhaps I’m a digital migrant.

@timbray one thing I’ve found (using such a thing in an email signature) is there can often be disagreement about how wide the resulting glyph should be. Luckily not always important

Cat survived reconstructive surgery. Haven’t seen pics yet. He’ll be in for a few more nights.

@brennen @mhoye this year, the old-school can opener on mine has been a life saver

@mhoye don’t rip the leaves out of spiral-bound note books and date every page

Emma Barnett's last Woman's Hour before maternity leave and she's left blood on the floor and walls after interviewing health minister Helen Whately

And quite rightly too: not accepting that parrot point "Steve Barclay's door is open" nonsense

Cat in for surgery. Nerve-wracking

@noodles @K_REY_C @liw is Brother the oft-recommended brand in this space? I’ve been meaning to take a longer look at Lexmark (the yocto-using ones)

Death penalty
@fraggle cool I’ve just got back from Oregon!

@b0rk I once removed the (pseudo) randomness from doom and… interesting things happened https://jmtd.net/log/deterministic_doom/

@edward wise choice. If I go to fosdem next year I’ll be taking Eurostar too (as well as NCL->KGX). Not sure what class though

@lxo I’m just pointing out that by implying someone made a death threat when they didn’t, quite apart from it undermining whatever argument you are trying to make, it also says a lot about your credibility

@lxo @mjg59 “fatal consequences” is an invention here

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