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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.

I’ve got plans to refresh our VPS. The motivation wasn’t divesting from the US but that’s a good point, I should accelerate my plans

https://mstdn.social/@vaurora/114459325617187800

In this cartoon set in Edo-era Japan, a swordsman in red approaches a swordsman in blue. Red says you're that famous swordsman, aren't you? Blue, who is seated and enjoying a cup of tea, says "I don't want to fight." Red puts his hand on his sword and begins to bluster, and Blue draws his own sword, still seated, with a resounding SLICE. In the final panel, we see that Blue has sliced the panel itself in two, leaving Red isolated on the other side of the gap and complaining hey, you can't do that, get back here!

A bit different post as casual, but with our lives increasingly becoming more and more digital, would like to stress the importance of organising the access to your accounts and passwords in case something happens to you.

- who gets access when something happens "just" with you
- who gets access when something happens with your family (e.g. plane to holiday destination)

It doesn't matter if you have your passwords written down in a small black book or a fancy offline/online password manager. Talk to people who you trust with the access, let them know how they can get access (and show it to them).

Your loved ones will be very thankful. They will be having other things on their minds in those situations than having to hack into accounts or sending death certificates all over the place to get access.

Do not put it on your to-do list for maybe next year. Please get it sorted on the short term.

Hi everyone! 👋 We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice#Security – So if you see someone recommending it, please inform them about the risks – but also that there are actively maintained successor projects (like LibreOffice).

@fraggle sycamore gap? In my back yard!

People who code for a living: how much of the code you've written in your career has ended up getting thrown away before anyone used it?

(Boost for reach, if you'd be so kind)

Left: Poison Ivy and Mr Freeze. Right: Batman. Caption: He was trying to cool the planet and she was regrowing the forests. And they wanted us to root for... the trust fund billionaire. 

There’s a .new TLD but no .old

Too tired to be useful tonight

@cstross @mrintergalactickeyboard @lauren @vvandinsky yes the 10” was much more practical. (You remind me about the tail end of that subsequent ultrabook era, the Samsung “ultrabook” fridge). I saw a GPT pocket 3 last FOSDEM and it was highly desirable!

@cstross @mrintergalactickeyboard @lauren @vvandinsky nightmares of that cramped keyboard

@mu yeah for papers I think printing and scribbling are still best for me too. Remarkable2 too small to comfortably do that for traditional journal layouts. Where it shined for me was reviewing my own thesis chapters, over and over

The Remarkable2 was incredibly useful whilst I was doing my PhD. Now I don’t really need it. So of course I’m looking at the remarkable pro…

tfw researching a topic you turn up a question you asked and have forgotten about for 15 years… https://exim-users.exim.narkive.com/BSnc11jb/smtp-time-spam-filtering-with-crm114-best-approach

@aeva I’d love your opinion on JACK. Signed: embarrassed, who has yet to get his synth to be audible from his Linux machine

…and I did it again, time to disable!

Sigh, Prusa Mini failed to print a simple trapezoid. I'm having a lot of failures since input shaping was added. #3dprinting

@StefanEJones who’s the poor guy in the lion suit?

Free Software needs to get better at, and less scared of, doing politics. Blog post, by me.

https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/19879.html

@mark @mcc my supervisor has a habit of writing out “alpha”, “beta” etc for type variables. I struggled a lot with that

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