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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.

@aeva I wonder if there are good measurements of cost for eg Pleroma

Yesterday I spent an hour researching proxying a PTY/serial console for a 3D printer. I found solutions (passing a proxied PTY into a container doesn't work; but tunneling it over TCP does) but eventually remembered the Prusa Mini has Ethernet, and (unlike when I bought it) now has its own web interface (PrusaLink). And it more than does the job! #3dprinting

@ploum @mntmn I’m trying to wean myself off trackpoints. OTOH, it’s proven useful to prevent me spending loads on mech keyboards

@mms is that an xsetroot background? 😻

@Inquisitive haha! A match made in heaven. I realised that the printers speak serial console, so loads of vintage stuff could theoretically drive them

Has anyone driven their 3d printer from an Amiga? #amiga #3dprinting

@scattershot Which label has the best connotations for you in terms of motivation or identity? Another possible name would be "Laboratory".

@bruces bandcamp “fan subscriptions” sure get the number up. I subscribed to British artist Scanner for a number of years and accumulated hundreds. It’ll take me a long time to listen to them all https://scanner.bandcamp.com/fan-club

I learn that kindle had flash cards with an article about kindle removing flash cards. I wonder if there’s a good flash card app for kobo https://goodereader.com/blog/kindle/amazon-kindle-flashcards-is-being-discontinued

@neil @drandrewv2 is this the kind of thing? Not sure of the dimensions https://www.printables.com/model/162730-cord-toggle

@rek this reads like something Cal Newport would write

@metin @PyDPainter very cool! It reminds me a bit of grafx2, which is very dpaint inspired http://grafx2.chez.com/. I loved dpaint 3 and 4 on my Amiga.

@jaseg @mjg59 I wonder if one could dip-treat a yubikey. Or electro plate it

New blog post: loading (unintended consequences?) https://jmtd.net/log/loading/ #health #music

@fthevenet my entry in this pantheon was a branching spreadsheet where I charted MinMaxing the first "quest" in Frontier: First Encounters: different approaches, timings, etc. I seem to have misplaced it

@fraggle related: this is a palindrome []][

@fraggle ! I didn’t realise that’s what was going on. I’ve had “why does this textbook have mismatched brackets” on my question list for ages

@fraggle in fact I’m aching for a project that would need me to 3d print a PDP case. something Raspberry pi? Modular synth?

Hmm. It doesn’t look *too* hard to DIY this

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