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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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tempting

https://orbital.tmstor.es/product/Radio-Sessions-1993

#music

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@Diziet @Diziet Thanks -- it hadn't worked in my case. My instance is running Pleroma, rather than Mastodon, which might be why.

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@ttyS1 @highvoltage I’ve been meaning to look into that. Do you not use something like rEFInd either?

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@davidgerard for the last ten years, in-place upgrades of Debian. I’m due to do it again soon, but I’m considering the method you outline this time to get away from some technical debt. In the general case I’d probably attempt in-place updates for Ubuntu, assuming it hasn’t wandered too far from debian’s legendary stability

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https://github.com/joe-warren/opencascade-hs

#Haskell library for CAD / #3dprinting

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(this occured to me due to https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/issues/7514 )

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Freshrss feature idea: periodic aggregated report on broken feeds, *as* a feed

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I wrote a work blog post about using OpenJDK's jlink/jdeps modules tooling to build really small java application containers for OpenShift: https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/04/17/jlink-integration-openshift-tech-preview-release

#openjdk #containers #openshift

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@JoshuaACNewman @mcc I have a PO-33, a Korg Monotron Delay and a Kastle v1 doing nothing. I have/had fantasies of designing and 3d-printing an itty-bitty eurorack-style enclosure/stand to house them, and to aid in hacking on them: common power input, expose more controls off the PCBs, etc.; in my head this started to resemble something from Ghost in the Shell

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New blog post: Hledger UI themes https://jmtd.net/log/hledger/ui/ #personalfinance #software

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@mcc periodic reminder (to me) to dig out my Kastle (v1) and have some fun

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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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