New blog post: Orbital https://jmtd.net/log/orbital/ #music

Actually - and this isn’t hyperbole - it’s worse. Instead of wrangling one app you now need at least three. One of which is Activity Monitor because you are required to terminate a bunch of processes beginning ams* from time to time.

can I report that syncing stuff onto ipods with Finder is JUST as awful as it was with iTunes.

@edwinb @plragde you’re making me want to play on my synth now

Today I took out an old pair of Bose on-ear headphones. The Bluetooth functionality is shot, possibly just the battery, but they work fine passively. I forgot how great they sounded. Bose don’t make them anymore and I haven’t seen any modern ones of this style. I think I’ll try to replace the battery.

@werdahias I recently completed a large LaTeX document. I had bound ',m' to rebuild my thesis (called Make which called make in a sub-process and watched it from a small split, and the make called latexmk, etc. etc., it was a hairy ball of glue) and that was really nice 90% of the time and a pain to fix the other 10%. I keep reading about LaTeX tools, packages etc that would have made my life easier after I'm done :-)

@tizmic @guyjantic @david_chisnall @nixCraft @mwl pragmatic programmers? No starch press?

Uh oh https://www.gearnews.com/esi-xsynth-synth/

@jpmens I've done similar before and am not aware of a better way. You could try a cheaper checksum (MD5 or worse) to speed it up, if you were happy with that.

@pwaring I side-stepped this problem by having my containers be first-class citizens on the host machine's network. Then instead of connecting to "host:bignumport" I can connect to "somecontainer.local" directly. Might be worth considering: https://jmtd.net/log/podman_network/

@sxa @fred yeah, this appears to be a known issue. I wonder if Pleroma is still actively developed? https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/-/issues/2975

@fred @sxa It would seem so. This reply is from the Pleroma web UI on my laptop, rather than phone app. I couldn't find any setting for language, either in the web app preferences or the compose form as I write this.

@fred @sxa mastodon iOS app. It seems to think I’ve selected English

@fred @sxa thanks for investigating! I might be able to set a user preference for my language, I’ll take a look

@algernon thank you!

@algernon hi! What httpd would you recommend these days? Last time I made a decision (well over 10 years ago, and driven by how awkward FCGI was with apache) I chose lighttpd which doesn’t look sensible today. Back to apache? Or nginx? I’m asking you because I figured you may have spent some time configuring them for scraper defence. Thanks!

@sxa weird. I’ll poke at it tomorrow!

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