pleroma.debian.social

pleroma.debian.social

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.

@mcc I *think* Char is actually (a) Unicode

Briefly looked at procmail (!) replacements today. Was disappointed.

Feeling old… I still routinely ^S/^Q to freeze terminals. I don’t really _need_ to anymore, and the bindings do occasionally cause me problems. So I should probably turn them off.

https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/114354742870242559

@evan citizen sleeper

Same for “atomic habits”

I keep wanting to refresh my memory of GTD and bouncing off its verbosity. I need my own cliff notes for it

Minilogue XD and Zoom R8 blinkenlights

@lightweight @pluralistic @dredmorbius WebKit itself was a fork of KHTML, in the dim and distant

Parallel ./configure (via @lwn@fedi.lwn.net, via pabs)

https://tavianator.com/2025/configure.html#parallel-configure

Games! I’m spending a tiny bit more time playing games now I’ve submitted. I haven’t picked up No Man’s Sky (not enough time left to do the current expedition Imho); but I’ve spent 2 hours in “citizen sleeper” and it’s great

@paulxthompson Plotter-friend replied. AxiDraw creators moved to NYC, and the Bantam Tools ones are the same people with more resources behind them, and the Bantam ones are improvements. He said, A4 is a bit too small (!)

@paulxthompson I've been pointed at some suspiciously cheap things on Ali Express https://www.aliexpress.us/item/1005005763451182.html

@paulxthompson on Fedi, #plotterart seems to be the tag to watch. Nothing much on my instance but e.g. https://mastodon.social/tags/plotterart has some interesting things

@paulxthompson I remember: at the time the AxiDraw looked really good. <https://www.axidraw.com/>. I'll ask for an update from my plotter-using friend.

I was considering a mod to my 3d printer to repurpose it as a plotter.

TIL that Avalon Emerson co-created "Buy Music Club", a place where folks can curate lists of music on bandcamp to buy. Bandcamp playlists is a problem I've faced before so this is interesting to me https://www.buymusic.club/ #music

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

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

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