@andy_warb I’d like to try TPU but I have a stock mini. Should I look at upgrades first?

@MarioTorre I’m sure when they are popular enough we’ll get spam on bsky, threads etc too

@flameeyes RE: eink Tetris. The kobo devices are reportedly very hackable, Linux based and several models have at least two buttons on them. There are FOSS projects that target them already to crib from. I think targeting something like that is more tractable than also building the HW!

New blog post: equivalence problems with StreamGraph https://jmtd.net/log/type_design/equivalence/ #haskell #phd

New blog post: William Basinski, Gateshead, 2022 https://jmtd.net/log/basinski/ #music

New blog post: Talks: why? https://jmtd.net/log/talks/ #software

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