pleroma.debian.social

pleroma.debian.social

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.

And my killfile grows another line longer.

The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.

A crashed Cybertruck, upside down by the road

@neil In fact if you’re curious it’s Debian-uk, seeing as you’re both a Debian user and UK based, you might feel at home

@neil I’m still active in one channel and it’s a lovely tonic for all the crap happening elsewhere

ai;dr

@algernon on the basis of the penultimate toot, I’d recommend looking at crm114. But it likely fails the criteria in the toot I’m replying to

@dx @Lazarou @cstross what really put me off that book was it avoided referencing any SF exploration of the problem space

THe plot thickens: I need to add "PortAudio" to the mix (and: https://github.com/PortAudio/portaudio/issues/425)

@derf Just kidding. I voted accordingly (403). My Hetzner VM is in Finland FWIW

@derf -bash: curl: command not found

Worried I’ll leave mic open and someone will hear something inspired by the imperial March

Tempted to write a theme tune for each of the dramatis personae in team meetings

Things I’ve used my synth for in 2025 so far: debugging Linux audio

@atoponce I’m fairly sure only humans get the credit for this

@metacosm @fred a long time ago my first manager at redhat worked really hard every year on a summit keynote. How times have changed

@metacosm @fred I wonder if any of our BU is present or visible at summit?

@fred @metacosm could develop a drinking problem

Are Google IO and red hat summit really happening at the same time?

Did a nasty reverse proxy hack as part of a server migration (for acme). Proud

A story as old as time


Let’s outsource our $THINGs to $VENDOR!

Geez we’re spending a lot at $VENDOR

migrating away from $VENDOR is prohibitively expensive

Let’s “archive” half our $THINGs!

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