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Jonathan Dowland | @jmtd@pleroma.debian.social

Principal Software Engineer on #OpenJDK #IBM. #Debian developer. PhD in Computing Science. Amateur historian (Computing Science and H/W, esp. Commodore Amiga). Guerilla archivist.

Launched doom remaster on pc. Realised the arrow keys aren’t bound to turn left/right. Realise you CANNOT bind turn left/right to keyboard keys. Close in disgust.

@zhenech and now I'm sorted. Thanks again!

@rivets 👋

@jamesh @Conan_Kudo @sortova @jzb @popey my recollection (perhaps wrong) is the anti-mono stuff was all in the GTK2 era, disenfranchising devs, which could explain a lack of momentum behind GTK bindings maintenance in the Mono stack (or could just be my idle speculation)

@zhenech ah perfect. Thank you!

Started reading Clifford Simak’s City #scifi classic. A particularly handsome SFBC hardback
Photo of Simak’s novel City

@sortova @Conan_Kudo @jzb @popey that whole anti-mono period was a really dark time

My kids have named it “Vera the vacuum”

I recently “solved” this for my personal mail by buying in Mythic Beasts as a provider. But I haven’t sorted out sending at Debian.org yet so I get lots of mail rejections from Google to my Debian emails, including to mailing lists I think.

This is an interesting point. I hadn’t factored in inflation in my thinking https://mastodon.social/@geerlingguy/112990731064936783

@InterzoneMag this art from 294 would (I think) translate really well to colour eink’s limitations; other art not so much!
Photo of art page from IZ 294

@InterzoneMag so I guess as always, the fiction is the key thing

@InterzoneMag and some of the really cool tricks were things like subtle pagination tweaks or page setting(thinking of a Cécile Cristofafi story I think) that are likely unrepeatable in epub due to technical limitations, colour or not!

@InterzoneMag (sorry this is a really drawn out convo. I’m existing in a weird time frame at the moment)
I think ultimately the colour e-reader stuff is a bit of a gimmick. Thinking back to my historic interzone reading, the stuff which would potentially look good would be full colour interstitial art; but, when it comes to memorable stories, for me, I can’t recall the art. And I read plenty of amazing stories in BW.

How my “negative pressure therapy” machine makes me feel
Still from the movie ExistenZ, with the protagonists prone on a bed plugged into the bio mechanical game

I saw this article hinting at a Mozilla logo rebrand and my immediate thought was how much that must have cost https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/08/mozilla-new-logo

@tomncooper thanks!

@jwildeboer probably both tbh. I feel the same

New blog post: “ouch, https://jmtd.net/log/ouch/2/

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