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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.

New blog post: I'm going to FOSDEM 2024 https://jmtd.net/log/fosdem/2024/ #software #redhat #java

@drandrewv2 it’s faintly like “the alien years” except iirc their motives were inscrutable

@juliank enjoy it? I’m hoping a season 2 materialises

@0x10f @Rush I have fond memories of that moment

New blog post: Reading hack https://jmtd.net/log/reading_hack/ #fiction

New blog post: Two reissued Coil LPs https://jmtd.net/log/coil/2lps/ #cratedigging #music #vinyl

@juliank @vorlon KSR handled this in the Mars trilogy by advanced medicine. But is characters *did* age, so that wasn’t hand waved away

Today’s ruminations: Linux desktops are likely to replace their indexers (tracker etc) with some kind of LLM eventually

A Rotating Spool Hanger, creates interesting effects with multicolour co-extruded filament https://3ddoodle.com/spool-rotator/ #3dprinting

@cks I’m overdue listening to that- I picked up a pressing from our equivalent of a thrift store moons ago, after loving some 7”s from the time. My childhood fave Xmas track is his take on “il dulce jubilo”

@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

@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

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