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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.

@elmiko I've got Steam on my work machine(s) but I think I might benefit from a mobile machine. 16" MBP on my laptop on sofa a little cumbersome :)

@masek @lproven I mediate my interaction with it via a libpurple/pidgin plugin. That might get me banned if they notice, apparently, but it hides all the Suck

@ttyS1 thanks. I actually already have a switch that I don’t play! My kids do though. Perhaps I should try out some of my switch backlog before I commit any more money

I need to learn how to relax. I don’t currently play computer games. I’m thinking of taking the plunge on a steam deck. WDYT? The LCD models have refurbished stock in the UK at the moment, but I’m thinking the OLED model may be better for me. Or perhaps they’re both a waste of money!

How can one engage in algorithmic sabotage to poison "AI" scrapers looking for images when one is running a static website? Thanks to @pengfold, I've implemented a quick and easy way for my own blog:

https://tzovar.as/algorithmic-sabotage-ii/

Also thanks to @rostro & @asrg for the pointers and discussion!

Writing writing writing… <2 weeks to go!

@fraggle some of my absolute favourite movies in the recent decades buck the trend (inception. Might rewatch “the creator”). Also I’m thinking of the atrocious rebel moon and how it’s both an “original IP” but also has all the problems of a Star Wars sequel

“The sky was the color of television tuned to a dead channel”

80s meaning: grey
90s meaning: blue
Today: full of ads from the smart tv vendor

What's the story about "Nicole" then, I'm out of the loop

Now I’ve settled on a font, today I absolutely won’t be tweaking the glossary-link styling. No, I’ll be writing instead.

@pwaring palatino worked out very nice. Thanks!

@pwaring I think I'll give Palatino a try (in my next yak shave interval. I need to get back to writing :))

@Conan_Kudo @neil Argh it's clearly quite a personal thing. Also whether it's going to be printed or not. (This will, but nobody will be reading it printed). I might try some different serif fonts. I prefer *that* sans font, but I think serif might be a better choice for the final document.

Thanks both for your feedback!

@pwaring entertaining, thank you :) we have a couple of similar classes that circulate amongst students in NCL.

@pwaring that shouldn't be times new roman… it should be "latin modern roman" https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/latinmodernroman/

Exhibits A & B
sample thesis page in serif sample thesis page in sans-serif

Real talk: serif or sans-serif font for a thesis?

@metacosm distributed stream processing with purely functional programming

About 3 weeks to my thesis deadline. Head down, but light at the end of the tunnel

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