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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.

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New blog post: submitted https://jmtd.net/log/phd/submitted/ #phd

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@david_chisnall @GoblinQuester @jenesuispasgoth @futurebird “the lathe of heaven” is fantastic. “The left hand of darkness” is good, too.

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Randomly remembering wetrix, an underrated puzzle game from the n64 era. There was a sequel but I’ve never played that.

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My toolbox is overflowing, not with tools, but with screws, nails, nuts, rawl plugs, etc.: where do you keep those things? How do you organise them?

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Just git bisecting my thesis. Totally normal.

I can't wait to be done with LaTeX's glossaries package.

Stefanie Kogler stefko@mastodon.social

Mastodon 🚀

Ever wondered what keeps federated platforms like Mastodon thriving?
My thesis is now officially available: Sustaining Decentralised Social Platforms – Analysing User Activity and Governance Structures on Mastodon. If you're curious, give it a read!
🔗 https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/detail/o:2118817

Huge thanks to everyone who participated in the survey – your voices truly shaped this work.
Special thanks as well to my supervisor @cypherhippie for the guidance throughout.

I hope it inspires you!

Honora NiwlCraft NiwlCraft@mastodon.art

Hello

I'm a painter and game-developer. My dream is to make a gallery show and complete my first indie game. In the meantime, illustration is how I pay the bills.

If you want world-building illustrations or design sketches for games, tabletop RPGs, I can help bring your world to life. 🫡

Artic landscape digital painting of a glacier and mountains Digital painting of an ecological resistance allegory symbolic green hand crushing oil brands Digital painting of a beautiful city attacked by magical artillery from the sky Digital painting of a sorcerer commanding a spectral army

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@hyperreal I’ve not played it but I was struck by how similar it looked to No Man’s Sky. I expect the similarity is mostly surface level but the optics of that (billion dollar studio ripping off beloved indie) put me off it at launch time.

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@jwz not on your list, but “allow signal to [insert thing here]” -> No -> “we’ll ask you again later” is still a thing.

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@stilgherrian web forms not accepting ‘+’ is still a problem even today. Worse, companies whose sites accept it one day and reject it later on (after you’ve signed up)

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Is it time to buy the dip yet?

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@algernon there is such a list, apparently. John Gruber blogged recently whinging about being on it

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I continue to believe that Bitwarden's recent UI changes are objectively worse and I'm still grumpy about it.

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@metacosm I should add that I was off sick for a long time last year, and my team-mates clubbed together and got me a voucher which paid for the Korg Minilogue XD. My team is awesome. IBM are lucky to be getting us.

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@metacosm oh that's cool. The smaller one, the microfreak, was on my shortlist (https://jmtd.net/log/synths/microfreak/) — I might still pick it up one day, as it can be used portably with a powerbank

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@revk Oh! I didn't notice (and I can't see the tag right now, in my client) — tagging is, I think, sufficient, so thank you.

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@dneary @evan FWIW I don't personally believe WW2 started with Pearl Harbor, but I believe that many do.

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@bencc @beasts that’s a good innings. I think mine is at about 12 years old. Still older than my flesh children!

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@evan no option for Pearl Harbor?

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@revk its convention to spoiler-tag toots like this “uspol”. Would you consider that in future please?

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