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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.

@cks @vjon @nev that list definition hurts Haskell as well fwiw

Bad joke sorry

School says “ofsted outstanding”… turns out they meant “overdue”

Intended to write an LLM position statement on my blog but didn’t get around to it today

@neal @CmykStudent was that on the mega cd, or a later port?

I'm further convinced (I was already pretty decided) that auto-closing issues/PRs is a bad idea. Searching for closed issues on a particular project, which auto-closes "stale" issues, and the search results are overwhelmed with issues which were closed without resolution. In this case they're at least labelled as such; but it's still a mess.

Kids buy an old plasma , but there’s something haunted burned in, everything they watch is tainted

Someone should write a ring-like movie that uses screen burn in as a plot device

Hypnospace Outlaw really captures the aesthetic of late-90s web

i enjoy this flowchart explaining how bash decides whether to use .bashrc or .bash_profile https://blog.flowblok.id.au/2013-02/shell-startup-scripts.html, mostly because it makes me understand better why I could never understand how the 2 config files worked when I used bash

@mirabilos @venthur @Ganneff @wouter be gentle with Planet, folks. It’s been going for over twenty years!

Instead of storing my data in the cloud, I just store it in the bush. It's the same thing, only palette-swapped. More accessible, too.

A pair of Super Mario Brothers screenshots showing that the art for the clouds and the bushes is the same, just different colors and the bottom of the bush isn't displayed.

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 :-)

You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose

The recent court documents showed that Google's internal testing demonstrated that significantly worse search results would not harm their business operations. This apparent immunity to quality concerns stems from the company's dominant market position, which the recent federal court ruling
addressed. "Since Google doesn't have any real competition, it can make the best information hard to find, forcing users to stay on Google for longer and interact with more ads," Papadimitriou said. "This is dangerous for consumers, most of whom think the best results
appear first."
The strategy appears to be working from a business perspective. The study suggests that poor organic search results actually benefit Google's bottom line in two ways: they make paid advertisements more valuable to users seeking accurate information, and they force users to refine their searches multiple
times, exposing them to more advertising in the process.

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