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.

it would seem obvious to choose 6-key over reverse-T for the arrow region, except you get a weird split spacebar. Pros/cons of that?

Sadly also only double-shot on the ANSI layout. So it goes

If (IF) I were to buy a Tex Shura mech keyboard, the aluminium case would seem to be a no-brainer, but,

Red or black?

https://tex.com.tw/products/shura?variant=42840179409051

#mechanicalkeyboards #hardware #keyboards

made the mistake of re-connecting an old firefox instance to my firefox account and POOF there goes my theme on all my other instances

@Ronflaix i tend to avoid typedefs entirely for structs unless I’m providing an API. I like to know what I’m dealing with.

@dans you’re not exactly a prolific poster. Maybe post a bit more; be more frivolous if that sounds like a burden. And see what happens!

@suetanvil @stevelord good plan yes. I do a monthly rsync to one of a pair of external drives that live out of my house. My setup is (somewhat) documented here fwiw https://jmtd.net/computing/nas/

@suetanvil @stevelord I was super nervous moving from rdiff-backup (kinda similar to rsync + a pile of shell) to Borg, especially the repo complexity, but it was worth it. In particular I can move large file trees around without triggering enormous deltas.

@stevelord @suetanvil i recently learned that the road from Borg 1 to 2 is not straight and put restic in my “to consider” pile when the time comes. But it seems we will keep Borg1 in Debian alongside 2 at least for a while

@Anarcat even that blog post’s solution loses the static part. I hope to retain that but move to some self hosted engine that handles submission, approvals, filtering and perhaps stuff like WebMentions.

@edward thanks for the PSA, even if it’s bad news!

@Anarcat Fascinating idea. I'm planning on ditching Ikiwiki's native comments, but I'm not sure which way I'm going. Top of my list to try is <https://lobste.rs/s/byail8/static_html_comments>.

I've fixed my blog-to-toot workflow. Sorry for some noise.

New blog post: Tex Shinobi first impressions https://jmtd.net/log/tex_shinobi/ #hardware

New blog post: 2022 music discovery: Underworld https://jmtd.net/log/2022_discovery_underworld/ #music

I signed up for the "Bring Back Blogging" project (https://bringback.blog/), verified I was added to their list and… I've dropped off it now, no idea why, no contact from them, and no obvious way to flag it. Shrug. Shame

Today I learned some things about building and testing x86 on amd64. Especially test suites that invoke docker containers, and how that handles (or not) the situation

New blog post: Belfast (David Holmes Remix)

https://jmtd.net/log/belfast/ #music #vinyl
a vinyl record sleeve

I got a “thank you” email today for a toy thing I built and released many years ago. It’s a lovely feeling and I guess doesn’t happen enough. I will pay it forward 2x

They should reissue wetrix on switch. I buy it in a heartbeat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetrix

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