pleroma.debian.social

New blog post: Tex Shura https://jmtd.net/log/tex_shura/ #hardware https://jmtd.net/log/tex_shura/shura.jpg

@srtcd424 @ben I've memorized mine, but I learned the hard way, and spent ~12 months on occasional contracts paying NI to the wrong number.

@pmidden no problems so far! I haven’t used it for calls or video.

New blog post: The scourge of Electron, the nostalgia of Pidgin https://jmtd.net/log/pidgin/ #software https://jmtd.net/log/pidgin/pidgin_discord.png

I miss PMPs running rockbox. I've got an ipod video w/ rockbox in my bag today. I think I'll listen on the way home

https://pleroma.debian.social/notice/AcYk3cm1rwxO2hRKIy

A sad prediction: Firefox on the brink?

The Big Three may effectively be down to a Big Two, and right quick.

https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2023/11/firefox-brink/

@neil @gytis @gytis yeah I appreciate your point; I’ve gone off on a tangent

@gytis @gytis @neil thinking further; you could auto-fold/collapse sections of the text corresponding to the bits of video that are irrelevant: “hit like, subscribe, here’s a word from our sponsor” etc

@neil @gytis @gytis I ponder this as a frustrated person living in a video dominated world. Has anyone written an auto “unroller”? If you wrote out the closed captions to a web page, interspersed with screen grabs, linking to time offsets in the original video… there could be some smart work to choose good key frames. I’d find that very useful

@neil @gytis @gytis why do people prefer making, or (if they do) consuming videos? Two theories I’ve heard (neither of which seem to fit with FOSS projects) are illiteracy, and monetisation

@Guenther_Amanita @musaoruc seconded. The Kobos are great. I blogged about plato, alternative reading software, recently: https://jmtd.net/log/plato/

New blog post: Useful vim plugins: AnsiEsc https://jmtd.net/log/vim_plugins/AnsiEsc/ #software #unix

@juliank apparently the MBA will thermal throttle much more quickly than the MBP (which might have active cooling, not sure), which might be important for some people/workloads. I recently set up an M2 MBA and a M1 Max MBP, very different feeling machines

New blog post: Dockerfile ARG footgun https://jmtd.net/log/dockerfile_arg_footgun/ #containers

New blog post: bndcmpr https://jmtd.net/log/halloween_playlist_2022/bndcmpr/ #music

@rwaddilove @weirdwriter my saved web-app version of twitter/X dates from before the rename so another upshot is it is still twitter for me

Stuff I’ve enjoyed on the radio: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001sljn?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile doctor who; the wilderness years

Could someone please patch out the blue shell https://sunbeam.city/@tty/111460856643824729

New blog post: HLedger, regex matches and field assignments https://jmtd.net/log/hledger/matchers/ #personalfinance #software